Violencia y diásporas en tres generaciones: Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, Guillermo Arreola y Geney Beltrán

The objective of this chapter is to determine how the interaction between violence, representation of space and writing appears in Contrabando (2008) by Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, La venganza de los pájaros (2006) by Guillermo Arre- ola, and Adiós, Tomasa (2019) by Geney Beltrán, three novels whose stories take place in small towns of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northwestern Mexico. Through the analysis of each of the texts, we have found that the stories coincide in a common point: The phenomenon of violence is the origin of a destination, which consists of forced migration to urban centers and to the northern border. Santa Rosa de Uruáchic (Chihuahua), Tayoltita (Durango) and Chapotán (Du- rango) are small towns whose representation is deepened by the stories that givethem particular features. Most of the protagonists become migrants who end up carrying their own stories of displaced families or individuals who have suffered violence at unimaginable levels. We have found that the narrative material of this literature is largely linked to the predominantly tragic reality of the environment, which forces survivors to live amidst the logic imposed by the drug-trafficking economy and its technologies of violence, but also forces many of them to form part of the diasporas that have defined the patterns of migration in northern Mexico.