SUMMARY NENA, NENA DE MI CORAZN by BENITO PASTORIZA IYODO This section includes a very brief overview of Nena, nena de mi corazn in both Spanish and English. For further information on Benito Pastoriza Iyodo, his biography, publications and prizes, please see the link related to the author page. Nena, nena de mi corazn es un texto del desplazamiento latino por el mundo. Descentramiento que se manifiesta en movimiento, traslado y sustitucin. Los personajes principales circulan y circunnavegan por multiples espacios geogrficos, polticos, histricos y sociales, propios de la realidad hispnica cambiante. De aqu que el relato se apropie de la crnica, la memoria, el comentario socio-poltico, la vieta, la epstola, el canto popular para narrar las circunstancias desorbitadas de unos sujetos que han fragmentado las fronteras, han destrozado las utopas nacionales para vislumbrarse enteramente dentro de unos ordenes a veces distorsionados, otras veces canjeados por inherencias trocadas o reinventadas que les permitan ubicarse en el orden o en el caos de la nueva visin mundial. La figura femenina resulta ser el eje central donde se busca definir y redefinir la esencialidad telrica, mstica y espiritual humana. En este sentido, el libro representa un dilogo exterior e interior con su antecesor Cuestin de hombres, donde la figura masculina indagaba y cuestionaba prembulos absurdos que insistan en constreir el ncleo de su ser. Nena, nena de mi corazn retoma un dilogo abierto cuyo fin ulterior es rastrear el motivo, el fundamento, la razn que lleva al ser humano a la transitividad de su existencia. Nena, nena de mi corazn (Beloved, Beloved of My Heart) is an account of Latino displacement throughout theworld; decentralization manifested in movement, transference and substitution. The principle characters circulate and circumnavigate within multiple geographic, political, historical and social spheres pertaining to the ever-changing Hispanic reality. For this reason the narrative appropriates the chronicle, the memoir, the socio-political commentary, the vignette, the epistle or the popular song to recount the maddening circumstance of these individuals who have fragmented all boundaries and destroyed national utopias to see themselves completely within frameworks, at times distorted and at others changed by an altered or reinvented fundamental nature, that permit them to be placed within the order or chaos of their new world vision. The feminine figure is the central axis that seeks to define and redefine the earthly, mystic and spiritual human essence. In this sense, the book represents an exterior and interior dialogue with its predecessor Cuestion de hombres (A Matter of Men), where the masculine figure delved into and questioned the absurd preambles that insist on constraining the core of man's being. Nena, nena de mi corazn (Beloved, Beloved of my Heart) takes up an open dialogue with the ultimate goal of encountering the motive, the foundation, the reason that leads human beings to the transitive nature of their existence.