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Full-Text Articles in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Cutting Off Cardiologists: The Disappeared In “Puro Corazón” By Luisa Valenzuela, Diane E. Marting
Cutting Off Cardiologists: The Disappeared In “Puro Corazón” By Luisa Valenzuela, Diane E. Marting
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Luisa Valenzuela’s neglected short story “Puro corazón” ('All Heart') uses surreal imagery and plot to write about the increasing violence in Buenos Aires during the time immediately prior to the Dirty War (la Guerra Sucia). By mimicking a police report, Valenzuela’s story manages to reproduce the experience of censorship and repression that denied the fate of the disappeared. This article shows how the story forges ludic connections between the human body (especially hearts, blood, and cardiologists), the censorship and repression in the early 1970s in Argentina, and the discourse that marked the official response to los desaparecidos, …
Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies Of Identity In El Hombre Del Acordeón, Julie A. Sellers
Nebulous Boundaries: Geographies Of Identity In El Hombre Del Acordeón, Julie A. Sellers
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Boundaries are never as definitive as they appear at first glance, for they create a broader zone, the borderlands, where the people, practices, and products from both sides comingle. Despite boundaries' demarcating intent, the borderlands they cross are a syncretic blend of the lands on each side. The borderland as fictional setting draws our attention not to the fixedness of boundaries, but rather to their flexibility. Set in the Dominican-Haitian borderland, Marcio Veloz Maggiolo's El hombre del acordeón ('The Accordion Man') draws upon the dynamism of that geopolitical border to call into question other apparently definitive boundaries, thus challenging official …
How To Listen To Pachamama’S Testimonio: Lessons From Indigenous Voices, Luis I. Prádanos, Leonardo Esteban Figueroa Helland
How To Listen To Pachamama’S Testimonio: Lessons From Indigenous Voices, Luis I. Prádanos, Leonardo Esteban Figueroa Helland
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This article analyzes the collective, open-access, and modifiable publication El Vivir Bien como respuesta a la Crisis Global as a posthumanist testimonio or ecotestimonio intending to give voice to the biotic community of the Andes. Written by Quechua and Aymara people and presented to the United Nations by the Plurinational State of Bolivia, this document targets the global ecological, financial, and social crises from the perspective of Indigenous knowledges. This document also exemplifies the worldwide reemergence of Indigenous voices that are confronting the global ecological crisis and its environmental injustices through the revitalization of Indigenous worldviews and practices. This ecotestimonio …
Abraham Acosta. Thresholds Of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, And The Crisis Of Resistance. New York: Fordham Up, 2014. Xiv + 276 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Abraham Acosta. Thresholds Of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, And The Crisis Of Resistance. New York: Fordham Up, 2014. Xiv + 276 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Abraham Acosta. Thresholds of Illiteracy: Theory, Latin America, and the Crisis of Resistance. New York: Fordham UP, 2014. xiv + 276 pp.
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, 2012. xv + 314 pp.
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Putting Environmental Injustice On The Map: Ecotestimonies From The Global South, Erin S. Finzer
Putting Environmental Injustice On The Map: Ecotestimonies From The Global South, Erin S. Finzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This introductory essay to STTCL 39.2 discusses the importance of testimony as a flexible literary genre that can tell the stories of environmental injustice in the Global South, which is disproportionately affected by environmental violence and less represented in the growing global environmental movement.
Nona Fernández's Mapocho: Spirits In A Material Wasteland, Resha S. Cardone
Nona Fernández's Mapocho: Spirits In A Material Wasteland, Resha S. Cardone
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This analysis of Mapocho (2002), a novel by Chilean writer and performer Nona Fernández, explores the significance of the author’s environmentalist representation of Chilean history as the accumulation of spiritual and material contaminants—ghosts and trash—that the victorious from throughout the country’s history have attempted to erase to further various economic and political agendas, particularly the neoliberal model installed during the Pinochet dictatorship. Fernández’s depiction of Chile as an ecological and spiritual wasteland in which the female protagonist (re)collects, recycles and reuses the specters and detritus of past conflicts represents the author’s own literary project of advocating for human rights and …
Testimonial Ecology In Gioconda Belli’S El País De Las Mujeres, Joel Postema
Testimonial Ecology In Gioconda Belli’S El País De Las Mujeres, Joel Postema
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This article provides an analysis of the intersection between testimonial literature, ecological commentary, and feminist ideology as presented in Gioconda Belli’s 2010 novel El país de las mujeres.
Bleeding Mud: The Testimonial Poetry Of Hurricane Mitch In Nicaragua, Erin S. Finzer
Bleeding Mud: The Testimonial Poetry Of Hurricane Mitch In Nicaragua, Erin S. Finzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Beginning with Rubén Darío, Nicaragua has long prided itself in being a country of poets. During the Sandinista Revolution, popular poetry workshops dispatched by Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal taught peasants and soldiers to write poetry about everyday life and to use poetry as a way to work through trauma from the civil war. When Hurricane Mitch--one of the first superstorms that heralded climate change--brought extreme flooding to Nicaragua in 1998, poetry again served as a way for victims to process the devastation. Examining testimonial poetry from Hurricane Mitch, this article shows how the mud and despair of this environmental …
Teaching “Global Learning” Through The Ecotestimonio: Ojos Negros By Eduardo Sguiglia In Class, Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Teaching “Global Learning” Through The Ecotestimonio: Ojos Negros By Eduardo Sguiglia In Class, Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay uses Eduardo Sguiglia’s Ojos negros (‘Black Eyes,’ 2010), a border-crossing, transnational ecotestimonial novel, to demonstrate step-by-step how instructors can effectively use ecotestimonial narratives in teaching undergraduate students to achieve global learning outcomes. Ecotestimonial texts prompt readers, and especially those readers removed from problems depicted, to confront the multiple facets of wicked problems of environmental degradation and to become aware of how the representation (or lack of representation) of those problems in different contexts shapes social responses to them. By moving students intentionally from comprehension of narrative and context to a focus on higher order thinking and on the …
English Translation Of Selection From Ojos Negros ('Black Eyes') By Eduardo Sguiglia, Erin S. Finzer
English Translation Of Selection From Ojos Negros ('Black Eyes') By Eduardo Sguiglia, Erin S. Finzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This is an English translation of a pivotal segment of Eduardo Sguiglia's novel, Ojos negros ('Black Eyes').