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Victoria Ocampo And Alfonso Reyes: Ulysses's Malady , Doris Meyer
Victoria Ocampo And Alfonso Reyes: Ulysses's Malady , Doris Meyer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Ocampo (Argentina, 1890-1979) and Reyes (Mexico, 1889-1959) were arguably Latin America's most influential writers and cultural catalysts in the first half of the twentieth century. They met in Argentina in 1927 and their friendship and correspondence lasted until Reyes's death. Over three decades of private and public discourse, they articulated a similar vision of Latin American identity and its future potential. Because they were both internationally known—Ocampo as founder and director of the literary review SUR, and Reyes as a diplomat and intellectual leader—their ideas found resonance in the Americas and Europe. Two dramatic works they wrote before meeting, Ifigenia …
Maria Vargas Llosa's El Hablador As A Discourse Of Conquest , José Castro Urioste
Maria Vargas Llosa's El Hablador As A Discourse Of Conquest , José Castro Urioste
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In this article I study how Mario Vargas Llosa's El hablador proposes to deconstruct indigenist narrative and promotes the assimilation of Indian cultures under the model of modernity. In this sense, the novel El hablador is written as a discourse of conquest in which the construction of the self—through the evocation of various oppositions—represents an allegory of modern nation. I begin my article with the analysis of the notion of discourse of conquest, as well as one of its most reiterated images of power, the "civilization-barbarism" dichotomy. I follow this with an analysis of the oppositions through which the representation …