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Biutiful: En Los Márgenes De La Cosmópolis Neoliberal, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas
Biutiful: En Los Márgenes De La Cosmópolis Neoliberal, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas
Modern Languages & Literature
In Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful, the city operates as a sort of anti-model exposing the dark side of neoliberal economies in larger fashionable cities, with an emphasis in precarization and exclusion and dynamics of violence against migrant populations. To this end, he uses an aesthetics of incongruence and a focus over a motley society, in permanent tension and negotiation between variegated groups. These strategies coexist with two other themes: exclusion represented as a form of expulsion or excrecence, and the appeal to memory as an ethical imperative that disrupts the logic of monetary calculus in which the main characters …
Review: Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts Of Community: Strange Fraternity, John A. Merchant
Review: Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts Of Community: Strange Fraternity, John A. Merchant
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
A review of Kaoru Yamamoto, Rethinking Joseph Conrad's Concepts of Community: Strange Fraternity
‘Chismes De La Ciudad Letrada’: Nostalgia, Exilio Y La Construcción Del Canon Cubano En La Ensayística De Cabrera Infante, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas
‘Chismes De La Ciudad Letrada’: Nostalgia, Exilio Y La Construcción Del Canon Cubano En La Ensayística De Cabrera Infante, Ana B. Rodriguez Navas
Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Rafael Rojas afirma que Guillermo Cabrera Infante estetiza “los rumores y chismes de la ciudad letrada”. A propósito de la crítica reciente sobre el chisme y del trabajo de Svetlana Boym sobre la nostalgia, planteo que Cabrera aprovecha el placer ilícito del chisme para recircular historias suprimidas y reintroducirse en el canon cubano. Sus chismes se convierten así en saber aceptado, que preservan la memoria de numerosos intelectuales cubanos y consolidan el propio estado de Cabrera en el canon. El autor valida el chisme como acto nostálgico y demuestra su potencial como estrategia narrativa eficaz y no solo como creación …
La Voz 2022, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department
La Voz 2022, Loyola Marymount University, Modern Languages & Literatures Department
La Voz Student Journal
LA VOZ is published by the Modern Languages & Literatures Department, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.