La intertextualidad posmoderna en el relato “Las dos américas” de Carlos Fuentes

In this paper we question the elements of postmodern intertextuality in “Two Americas”, the last story of The orange and the circles of the time, by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. According to the theory of intertextuality, every literary work is a reaction to other texts, fictional or not, which engages in a dialogue. In this dialogue the meaning of the texts used as citation or a reference is being changed in a new context. Intertextuality is a postmodern strategy on which the questioning of the relations between the history and the fiction is based on. Historiographic metafiction is characterized by a desire to fill the gaps of history and bridge the gap between the past and the present of the reader and also a desire to re-write the past in the new context.