This article proposes the relationship between the concepts of chronotope, by the Russian theorist Bakhtin, and territoriality—from a decolonial perspective—to analyze Latin American audiovisual fiction, focusing on power relations. These reveal themselves discursively, among other ways, in spatio-temporal clues that, in turn, dialogue with extradiegetic social contexts. In urban representations, this article highlights the tension between public and private, while in natural environments there is a tension between nature, merged with the man represented by the native inhabitants, and civilization, represented by the colonizing white man.

This article proposes the relationship between the concepts of chronotope, by the Russian theorist Bakhtin, and territoriality (from a decolonial perspective) to analyze Latin American audiovisual fiction, focusing on power relations. These reveal themselves discursively, among other ways, in spatio-temporal clues that, in turn, dialogue with extradiegetic social contexts. In urban representations, we highlight the tension between public and private, while in natural environments there is a tension between nature (merged with the man represented by the native inhabitants) and civilization (represented by the colonizing white man).

This article proposes the relationship between the concepts of chronotope, by the Russian theorist Bakhtin, and territoriality—from a decolonial perspective—to analyze Latin American audiovisual fiction, focusing on power relations. These reveal themselves discursively, among other ways, in spatio-temporal clues that, in turn, dialogue with extradiegetic social contexts. In urban representations, this article highlights the tension between public and private, while in natural environments there is a tension between nature, merged with the man represented by the native inhabitants, and civilization, represented by the colonizing white man.