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A Never Ending Journey: The Impossibilities Of Home In Sirena Selena Vestida De Pena And Flores De Otro Mundo, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Irune Gabiola

Reconsiderations of home have been crucially examined in Caribbean cultural productions. As Jamil Khader argues in her article on “Subaltern Cosmopolitanism: Community and Transnational Mobility in Caribbean Postcolonial Feminist Writings,” Caribbean feminists are faced with the task of challenging a conventional idea of home that has historically located women and other marginal subjects under conditions of oppression and exploitation. In focusing on the narratives by Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales and Esmeralda Santiago, she points out the infinite sense of homelessness that invades, in particular, these Puerto Rican individuals who need to find more productive manners to articulate “home” while …

Al Niño Y La Voz A Ti Debida: Dos Realidades Ideales, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Irune Gabiola

PEDRO Salinas es el poeta moderno del amor influido tanto por el gusto renacentista, con alusiones implicitas a Jorge Manrique y Garcilaso, como por el gusto romintico -Espronceda o Becquer-. Su obra poetica se enmarca en tres fases claramente diferenciadas por Juan Marichal en Tres Voces de Pedro Salinas. "La primera que corresponde alas dos d6cadas 1913-1933, es la fase de lo que podrfamos denominar fase de encentraci6nl;a segunda, de 1933-1936, es la fase de lo que podrfamos denominar de descentracio6enn el th de la amada, y la tercera, de 1936 a 1951, es la fase final de sobre-centracioe6nn el …

Comparative Cultural Perspectives For The Study Of The Americas: New Work By Imbert And Mcclennen And Fitz, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Irune Gabiola

This review article covers two new volumes of scholarship dedicated to the comparative study of the Americas: Patrick Imbert's Trajectoires culturelles transaméricaines (Ottawa: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa, 2004) and the edited volume by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz, Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2004). The latter volume is the revised and updated book form version of the thematic issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Latin America, edited by Sophia A. McClennen and Earl E. Fitz in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 4.2 (2002): ). These books represent a new wave of innovative …

Civilizando El Carnaval: La Retórica Del Progreso En Las Obras De Lola Rodríguez De Tío, Irune Del Rio Gabiola

Irune Gabiola

La escritora puertorriqueña Lola Rodríguez de Tió (1843–1924) contribuyó a la cultura puertorriqueña mediante sus escritos a favor de la independencia de la isla, su inserción en terreno político y su participación en los diagnósticos nacionales. Desgraciadamente, la crítica apenas se ha acercado a la obra de esta prolífica escritora decimonónica que además reivindicó la presencia femenina en las artes, lo social y cultural. Tomando como punto de partida la representación narrativa del carnaval de Caracas y de Puerto Rico, mi acercamiento a su obra se encuadra en un análisis de la modernidad y en cómo esta tendencia eurocéntrica anula …

Every Good Heart Is A Telescope: Early Poems., Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Katherine Hedeen

Katherine Hedeen

Review Of Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture By Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz, Alicia Munoz

Alicia Muñoz

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La Quintrala’S Confessions: The Contesting Of Female Agency And Indigeneity In Two Popular Chilean Visual Narratives, Alicia Munoz

Alicia Muñoz

No abstract provided.

To Kill A General: The Fragmentation Of Women’S Political Violence In Fiction And Journalism, Alicia Munoz

Alicia Muñoz

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Visualizing A State Of Debt: Sergio Chejfec’S Art Of Landscapes And Loans, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This paper examines two novels by the Argentine author Sergio Chejfec: Boca de lobo (2000) and La experiencia dramática (2012). By examining their relationship to Jorge Luis Borges' short story "El Zahir," I examine the ways in which the structures and obligations of loans and debt (or contemporary forms of abstract money more generally) are materialized into understandable and interpretable aesthetic forms in the novel. I suggest that Chejfec's interest in literary form and economic form in these novels present key complications to the concept of posthegemony as it is elaborated by John Beasley-Murray.

Shantytown Vistas And Immigrant Voices: Bernardo Verbitsky, Guaraní Language And The Art Of Overcoming Peronism, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This was an invited presentation at a conference of Indiana professors who specialize in research on Latin America. The conference was hosted by the Minority Languages and Literature program at Indiana University, Bloomington. I gave a version of what was then a forthcoming paper on Bernardo Verbitsky's novel Villa Miseria también es América. The entire essay can be read at the following link: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/revista_de_estudios_hispanicos/v047/47.2.buttes.html

Mass Media, “Realismo Villero” And “El Sueño Argentino”: The Return To Literature In Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’S La Virgen Cabeza (2009), Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This paper begins by developing the concept of "de-fictionalization," which the Argentine author Roberto Arlt develops in his newspaper columns about the Paraná Delta region of Argentina. Bringing this concept to bear on Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's recent novel La virgen cabeza, which narrates the story of contemporary Delta residents living in a villa miseria or shantytown near San Isidro, I suggest that the notion of de-fictionalization is crucial to the primary critical reception of the novel, which has highlighted an interest in biopolitics. These biopolitical approaches tend to foreground what they understand as the novel's postmodernist techniques such as pastiche, …

El Pelado Y ‘La Desnudez De México:’ Reading Urban Poverty With Salvador Novo And Agustín Yáñez, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

The paper examines the role that urban poor played in discourses of national identity in the post-revolutionary period in Mexico (1920-1950). As Mexico emphasized its indigenous, rural past while at the same time becoming increasingly urban during its process of modernization, the underpinnings of a “proper” or “autochthonous” national identity were also necessarily questioned. These tensions are perhaps best exemplified in what Guillermo Sheridan has called the “dilemma” of “formative” and “speculative” models of the “national soul” (57). While the former saw itself as prescriptive, this “speculative” model of national identity, in which “la nacionalidad se convierte … en una …

De Sombras Y Umbrales: Ansiedad Geográfica En Boca De Lobo, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This work examines the relationship between geography, the body, memory and aesthetics in the representation of urban poverty and the global economic processes of neoliberalism in the novel Boca de lobo (2000) by Argentine author Sergio Chejfec.

Shantytown Vistas And Immigrant Voices: Bernardo Verbitsky, Kenneth Kemble And The Art Of Overcoming Peronism, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

Este ensayo propone leer Villa Miseria también es América (1957) de Bernardo Verbitsky como una propuesta para superar el binario político-afectivo de la revolución anti-peronista de la década del 1950. En primer lugar, se argumenta que el personaje José Rodríguez, estudiante de izquierda torturado por el régimen peronista, puede entenderse como un retrato del artista comprometido. Luego, se establecen conexiones entre los intereses estéticos de este personaje y los del movimiento de vanguardia informalista, haciendo hincapié en la serie de collages Paisajes suburbanos (1958–61) de Kenneth Kemble. Al comparar los materiales que componen los paisajes villeros que produce Kemble y …

Thaw/Deshielos, Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Katherine Hedeen, Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Katherine Hedeen

Katherine Hedeen

Thaw/Deshielos, Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Katherine Hedeen

Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

La Vida Incesante Y Otros Poemas, Katherine Hedeen, Victor Rodríguez Núñez, Mark Strand

Katherine Hedeen

Selected Poems, Katherine Hedeen, Victor Rodríguez Núñez, José Emilio Pacheco

Katherine Hedeen

América, Katherine Hedeen, Victor Rodríguez Núñez, John Kinsella

Katherine Hedeen

Cuarto De Desahogo: Antología Poética, Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Arturo Arango

Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Every Good Heart Is A Telescope: Early Poems., Victor Rodríguez-Núñez, Katherine Hedeen

Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Journeys To Self And Lessons Of Other: Carlos Castaneda, Indigenismo, And The Politics Of A New Age, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

During the 1960s and 1970s, Carlos Castaneda’s work on shamanism introduced a large international readership to Mexico at a time when the Americas saw pronounced socio-political and cultural changes: mounting social unrest, political instability, civil rights movements, the counterculture, and the sexual and other revolutions. While heavily criticized by contemporary scholars, Castaneda's work became instrumental in the construction of an imagined Mexico, which, in addition to drawing counterculture tourists, featured new ways of conceptualizing race and gender. Seeking to understand the Castaneda phenomenon within a larger transnational context, the study sheds light on how new conceptions of indigenous identity informed …

Translation, With An Introduction, Of Imagined Globalization, George Yudice, Néstor García Canclini

George Yúdice

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Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Sacrificio, Violencia Y Nación En Lituma En Los Andes De Mario Vargas Llosa, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

This paper addresses gender, nation and sacrifice as central elements in Lituma en los Andes (1993), a novel published by Mario Vargas Llosa after he ran unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency. The book presents a number of masculine models that are either inadequate, romanticized or brutal and sets them against a backdrop of a Peru deep in the economic and physical violence of war against the Maoist guerrillas of Sendero Luminoso, a Peru forced to live in a “superstitious and obscurantist cultural fog” because of its indigenous past. My study shows how the narrow worldview of the protagonist is challenged …

Carmen Naranjo, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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The Latin American Novel, Cesar Valverde

Cesar Valverde

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Une Étrange Odeur De Monde/ Con Raro Olor A Mundo, Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Tareas, Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Reversos, Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Victor Rodríguez-Núñez