Exodus and Immigration in Las voces del Estrecho

Abstract

The current social reality of Spain marked among other major phenomena by the massive attempts of African people to get Spanish coasts contributes to enrich the Spanish contemporary literary works that most often try to reflect the outcome, mostly tragic, of those migration attempts. In this aim of reproduction of the phenomenon, a lot of Spanish writers including Andrés Sorel use cultural texts ―popular or religious ones― to reflect this dramatic reality. This purpose of this article is to analyze the presence of one of these cultural texts, the biblical narrative of the Exodus, in Las voces del Estrecho, one of the better written Spanish literary texts about African immigration to Spain.