Latin Chronicle: evolution of a protein genre for day-to-day narration

Abstract

The Latin chronicle introduces a new form of narrating the everyday apart from the classic news story, which differs not only by stylistic and aesthetic features, but also by certain conception about the same journalistic discourse and production routines. In recent years, the "transgressive" character that has this narrative form to deviate from the hegemonic representations of subaltern groups and addressing emerging social tensions by warning the conflict. This is a journalism genre in the margins and interstices - as Walter Benjamin believed the key to account those realities that are often socially invisible by chronic classical spaces. This article presents a critical review of the literature relevant to the subject is made and, to that end, some of the texts considered flagship for valuable theoretical contributions are discussed, whether by approaches that promote or discussions.