Entre Fantasmas Today

In her critical work Entre héroes, fantasmas y apocalípticos (Between Heroes, Ghosts, and Apocalyptics), Anadeli Bencomo examines how the Mexican chronicle uses these archetypes to describe a landscape of social and political crisis.

: In this framework, "fantasmas" represent the marginalized populations and the "disappeared." The city itself becomes a spectral archive where the writer must find the "witnesses" among the ruins of the Mexican landscape. Socio-Political Haunting in the Spanish Context Entre Fantasmas

In the context of Valeria Luiselli's novel Los ingrávidos (Faces in the Crowd), the idea of living "entre fantasmas" serves as a central poetic of memory . Luiselli uses the "ghost" not as a supernatural element, but as a structural device to link different timelines and geographies—specifically contemporary New York and the Mexico City of the past. In her critical work Entre héroes, fantasmas y