Carvalho, Jorge Manuel dos Santos Vaz deMartínez Márquez, Rogelio Iyari2019-02-282018-05-292018http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/27030The present work explores the function of the literary works as sociological and anthopological documents within the Culture Studies field. By the analysis of three short stories written by Latin-American authors, from the XXth century, this paper aims to show how Europe, and particularly Paris, is perceived as an exotic landscape, hardly interpreted by the Latin-American characters that appear in each story, and, at the same time, this distance between the heros and the city will result in a redefintion of their own identity. Within the three documents used in this work, the city and the otherness appear to stablish a relationship with the heros, providing the necessary elements to confront their knowledge of the world against those habits in the new space where the action takes place, creating a sense of opposition between safe-unknown and also as savage-civilized.engmaster thesis202178838