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Violencia, Memoria Y Empatía Reflexiva En El Ruido De Las Cosas Al Caer De Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Global Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this article, I show how Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s novel El ruido de las cosas al caer (The Sound of Things Falling, 2011) proposes an articulation of the works of memory and affects that can be ethically relevant within the context of the war on drugs in Colombia. I link this analysis with an interpretation of the novel that discusses the role of literature in debates about systemic violence in the global war on drugs. I propose that The noise of things falling, thanks to its affirmation of what I call reflexive empathy, questions the geopolitical designs that articulate that …

Humanitarismo Literario Y Migración Forzada: Un Estudio De Las Tierras Arrasadas De Emiliano Monge, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Global Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Las tierras arrasadas (2015) de Emiliano Monge se encuentra entre el creciente corpus de novelas y películas sobre los migrantes centroamericanos y los diferentes tipos de violencia que afrontan. Monge aborda en esta obra los efectos de la militarización en la política migratoria de México, impulsada por la guerra contra el narco que comenzó en 2006. Esta novela lleva a cabo un desmonte crítico del humanitarismo literario al tiempo que enfatiza la vulnerabilidad de los migrantes y su agencia. En tal sentido, se explora la forma en la que, en cuanto ficción posthumanitaria, la novela encarna las diferentes formas en …

The Strategies And Risks Of Performing Citizenship And Rights Through Music, Carolin Mueller

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

My work explores the capacity of cultural producers to perform “insurgent citizenship,” a term theorized by James Holsten (2008) to describe how the peripheries of social organization can propel alternative modes of civic participation, through music. I utilize Engin Isin’s performative dimension of citizenship (2017) to investigate such forms of insurgent citizenship as they evolve in social and cultural peripheries of the contemporary arts and culture industry in the city of Dresden, Germany to identify the pathways they open to socio-political participation and autonomy for refugees.

While Germany understands itself as a nation of culture, cultural policy unevenly addresses the …

Derechos Humanos Y Corporeidad En Los Ejércitos De Evelio Rosero, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Global Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

La novela Los ejércitos (2007) del escritor colombiano Evelio Rosero (1958) ha conseguido un amplio público lector en el mercado internacional, gracias en parte a un conjunto importante de premios, entre los cuales se cuentan el Tusquets 2006, el Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2009, el Aloa del Danish Center for Culture and Development 2011. Antonia Byatt, miembro del jurado del Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, afirmó sobre la novela: "A book that not only tells us about how life is torn apart in a country wrought by war, but also adds to our understanding of the human condition" (cit. en Flood …

Una Relectura De La Violencia En Los Papeles Del Infierno De Enrique Buenaventura, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Global Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

En este ensayo se lleva a cabo un análisis de la violencia en tres obras del ciclo Los papeles del infierno de Enrique Buenaventura. Con ese propósito se aplican las categorías de violencia propuestas por S. Žižek y los análisis sobre la violencia en el teatro latinoamericano de ese periodo llevados a cabo por Severino Albuquerque (1991) y Diana Taylor (1991). Concluyo que este ciclo es un conjunto de obras que da testimonio de la violencia sistémica y simbólica en Colombia durante los años 50 y 60, y que las obras de Buenaventura hacen visible la violencia objetiva por medio …

Los Papeles Del Infierno, Enrique Buenaventura, Carlos Gardeazábal Bravo

Global Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications and Presentations

Enrique Buenaventura (1925-2003) hizo parte de la generación de artistas que conectó al país con la modernidad estética mediante un lenguaje propio, vinculando su trabajo con el de los grandes creadores de las vanguardias teatrales. Buenaventura impulsó la renovación del teatro colombiano junto a otros dramaturgos como Santiago García y Carlos José Reyes. Una de las mejores muestras de la producción de ese periodo es Los papeles del infierno, un ciclo de piezas en un acto compuesto originalmente por La maestra, La tortura, La autopsia, La audiencia, La requisa, El menú y El entierro -junto a La orgía, la cual …

Cover And Front Matter, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Review

Cover, table of contents, author biographies

Cover And Front Matter, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Review

Cover, table of contents

Heinrich Bölls Gruppenbild Mit Dame Als Frohe Botschaft Der Weltverbruderung, Ingenborg L. Carlson

University of Dayton Review

Böll erhielt 1972 den Nobelpreis für Literatur für diesen Roman, den die Stockholmer Nobelpreis-Jury als “Meisterwerk” bezeichnete. Die deutsche Literaturkritik stimmt diesem Urteil nicht zu und sieht in Böll höchstens, nach Günter Grass, “den zweitbesten deutschen Schriftsteller.” Das internationale Echo folgte entsprechend. Die abfällige Sichtung läßt die Frage als begründet erscheinen, “Nobel Prize for Böll: A Literary or Moral Award?” welche für die Jahreskonferenz der RMMLA zum Thema eines Böll-Colloquiums gewählt wurde.

The Generation Gap A Century Ago: The Father-Son Conflict In Theodor Storm's Novellen, Eva Merrett Friedman

University of Dayton Review

Since antiquity writers have been fascinated by the pathos, tragedy, and the comedy of the “generation gap.” Sophocles tells the pathetic story of Oedipus, who murdered his father. In the Clouds Aristophanes focuses his humor on the permissive Athenian father beaten by his ungrateful son, who has been trained too well in Sophistry. In the Hildebrandslied father and son are pitted against each other in battle. In modern times Mark Twain has summarized the generation gap wittily and succinctly: “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man …

Introduction, Robert C. Conard

University of Dayton Review

The papers of the first Böll Seminar (1972) sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America were published in the pages of the UDR in the fall issue of 1973 (UDR, 10, No. 2). At that time the hope was expressed that if the Böll Seminar were renewed, the UDR would be pleased to publish the continuing Böll research. Thus with the co-operation of Erhard Friedrichsmeyer of the University of Cincinnati, organizer of the 1973 seminar, the participants: Professors Margareta Deschner of Southern Methodist University, Klaus Jeziorkowski of the University of Frankfurt, Gertrud Pickar of the University of Houston …

The American Reviews Of Heinrich Böll: A Note On The Problems Of The Compassionate Novelist, Keith Stewart

University of Dayton Review

It would not be difficult to arrange a rhetorical battle—or at least a series of skirmishes—among certain of those reviewers of Heinrich Böll’s novels who have taken positions since the appearance in America of Acquainted with the Night in 1954. W. J. Schwartz, reviewing Children are Civilians Too for the Saturday Review, could field his opinion that Böll is essentially a writer of short stories against D. J. Enright’s in The New York Review of Books that both that volume and 18 Stories suggest a writer who needs “more elbow room than the genre affords him.” Or those who find …

Böll's "Lady": A New Eve, Margareta Deschner

University of Dayton Review

“What kind of a young woman is this ... ?” cries the author and rechercheur of Heinrich Böll’s Group Portrait with Lady (Gruppenbild mit Dame) when confronted with Leni Pfeiffer, née Gruyten, the central figure of the portrait and the recent Nobel Prize-winning novel. The reader, echoing this question, is so intrigued by the search for the real Leni, set up in a cunning way by Böll himself, that he takes at face value the author’s amazement, willing to forget that Leni is the embodiment of Böll’s own dream of the real woman, his long-planned creation of a new Eve.

The Impact Of Narrative Perspective On Character Portrayal In Three Novels Of Heinrich Böll: Billard Um Halbzehn, Ansichten Eines Clowns, And Gruppenbild Mit Dame, Gertrud B. Pickar

University of Dayton Review

During the last fifteen years, Böll has published a prodigious number of novels and long narratives, employing a variety of narrative approaches. His most recent novels, Billard um halbzehn (published in 1959), Ansichten eines Clowns (1963), and Gruppenbild mit Dame (1971), reveal his experimentation in narrative form and present strikingly different alternatives for narrative expression. This paper is concerned with one particular aspect of such presentation, the impact of narrative perspective on character portrayal.

Heinrich Böll Als Politischer Autor, Klaus Jeziorkowski

University of Dayton Review

Heinrich Böll selbst wiirde sich energisch gegen einen Analyse-Versuch wehren, der etwa folgendes konstatierte: Böll zerfiillt in einen dichterischen und in einen kritischen Böll, in einen engagierten und einen reinen Böll, in einen politischen und in einen belletristischen Böll. Einen solchen zerfallenden Böll will der Titel meiner Bemerkungen nicht vorfiihren.

Die Ironie Des Zufalls Bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Bodo Fritzen

University of Dayton Review

Obwohl Friedrich Dürrenmatt “im Munde aller Theaterbesucher und vieler Theaterfreunde” allgemein als einer der begabtesten Theatraliker unter den heutigen deutschsprachigen Dramatikern gilt, wird seine .ästhetische Klassifizierung und literarische Einordnung heftig umstritten. "Man hezichtigt ihn aller möglichen -ismen, yom Kommunismus über den Nihilismus bis zum Konservatismus." Friedrich Dürrenmatt selbst hat mit seinen freigebigen Interviews, Randnotizen und Anmerkungen zu dieser Unstimmigkeit und Verwirrung beträchtlich beigetragen. Dass der Schriftsteller die bisher anscheinend vergeblichen Klassifikationsversuche der Literaturkritiker als nutzlose Reflexionen betrachtet, kommt in den Theaterproblemen deutlich zum Ausdruck: “Dann möchte ich bitten, in mir nicht einen Vertreter einer bestimrnten drama tisch en Richtung, einer …

Goethe And The Threnody, Dennis Mccort

University of Dayton Review

Literary criticism has perennially subjected the threnody in particular and occasional verse in general to the harshest negative evaluation. Numberless reams of poor threnodic verse have warranted much of this criticism, even inspiring on occasion such parodic gems as Johann von Besser's dirge, "Über den Tod Wachtelchens, seiner kurfürstlichen Durchlaucht schönes Hündchen." It seems, however, that serious criticism has made too much too often of inferior specimens, to the aspersion of countless threnodies of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that are of high quality. Opitz, Dach, Günther and Goethe, to name only a few poets, composed funerary lyrics which far …