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New York 1987, Tyler Fisher

Tyler Fisher

Price, Brian L., César A. Salgado, And John Pedro Schwartz, Eds. Translatin Joyce: Global Transmissions In Ibero-American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014., Ana Rodríguez Navas

Ana Rodríguez Navas

No abstract provided.

Posthumous Voices In The Antología De La Literatura Fantástica: Santiago Dabove, Horacio Quiroga, And Edgar Allan Poe, Jose J. Alvarez

Jose Alvarez

Este artículo reconstruye el concepto de lo fantástico esbozado en el prólogo de Adolfo Bioy Casares a la Antología de la literatura fantástica y examina algunas de las inclusiones y omisiones más representativas de la colección. Debido a que Bioy incurre en imprecisiones y contradicciones al teorizar lo fantástico, este trabajo parte del análisis de un ejemplo concreto, “Ser polvo”, de Santiago Dabove. Aunque Dabove emplea varias de las estrategias que Bioy condena y recurre a fuentes que la Antología no admite, su narración es ejemplar, especialmente cuando se compara con “Más allá”, de Horacio Quiroga. El análisis de las …

“La Modernización Y Sus Fantasmas: Violencia, Exceso Y Ritual En ‘La Gata De Mi Madre’ De Carlos Fuentes, Jose J. Alvarez

Jose Alvarez

Carlos Fuentes ha observado que la literatura mexicana entr6 en un acelerado proceso de renovaci6n durante la decada de los 50. La publicaci6n de El laberinto de la soledad de Octavio Paz marca-afirmaba Fuentes en 1971-el salto de la literatura mexicana mas alla de sus fronteras geograficas (Tiempo 85-6). Pero este novelista no es solo un te6rico de dichos cambios, sino tambien, uno de sus mas conspicuos artifices. Aludiendo a su rol en dicho proceso, Georgina Garcia-Gutierrez afirma que "en 1958, [Fuentes] y su primera novela [La region mds transparente] inauguraron una epoca literaria identificada con la modernidad ... la …

Stranger In A Strange Land: The Discourse Of Alienation In Gómez De Avellaneda's Abolitionist Novel Sab, Stacey Schlau

Stacey Schlau

No abstract provided.

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 …

Extra-Textual, Intra-Textual, And Neo-Baroque Constructions Of Violent Space In Three Women Writers From The Southern Cone, Gail Bulman

Gail A. Bulman

The purpose of this dissertation is to use feminist theories, semiotics, and current theories on the Neo-Baroque, to analyze the way in which three 1970's and 1980's Latin American women writers from the Southern Cone configure artistic space, in order to reveal how their representations of space reflect the poly-dimensional nature of violence. In each of the texts presented, (Informacion para extranjeros by Argentine Griselda Gambaro, Una pasion prohibida by Uruguayan Cristina Peri Rossi, and Por la patria by Chilean Diamela Eltit), the intra-textual space carries extra-textual signification in its representation of the local political and cultural violence of the …

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

Katherine Hedeen

Exploring Gloria Anzaldúa’S Methodology In Borderlands/La Frontera—The New Mestiza, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Jorge Capetillo-Ponce

Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera--The New Mestiza does not fit into the usual critical categories simply because she follows inclination of interest, as opposed to working at achieving systematization. Not only does she shift continually from analysis to meditation, and refuse to recognize disciplinary barriers, but she speaks poetically even when dealing with cultural, political, and social issues. Indeed her method, like Simmel's, is more akin to "style" in art than it is to "analysis" or "inquiry" in the social sciences. A critic proclaims her/his own incompetence, however, if the mere fact that a text has a certain interdisciplinary quality scares …

Distance And Control: An Analysis Of Narrative Voice In The Picaresque Novels Lazarillo De Tormes And La Vida Del Buscón , Carolyn Nadeau, Jessica Beringer, '15

Carolyn A Nadeau

No abstract provided.

Let’S Talk About Sex: Promiscuity, Social Critique, And Tragedy In La Celestina , Carolyn Nadeau, Nathan Douglas, '15

Carolyn A Nadeau

No abstract provided.

“Some Creatures Were Born To Live”: A Psychosocial Analysis Of Nada (1944), Carmela Ferradans, Nathan Douglas, '15

Carmela Ferradans

No abstract provided.

Entre La Efervescencia Y La Ruptura De Un Espacio De Placer En Salón De Belleza De Mario Bellatin, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio

Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio, Ph.D

Towards An Art Of Landscapes And Loans: Sergio Chejfec And The Politics Of Literary Form, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

This essay argues that Sergio Chejfec’s 2012 novel La experiencia dramática maps out a form for understanding the global function of debt by narrating a series of mundane everyday experiences (e.g. trivial conversations, inconsequential purchases, personal anecdotes, the use of Google Maps to navigate a city). Chejfec makes these everyday experiences available as representations of the global credit system not by explicitly linking them to debt obligations but rather through his development of a specifically literary form of writing, one that insists on a separation between aesthetic representation and lived experience. This project of separation is made possible through a …

“Cómo Representar La Violencia: Sobre Los Ejércitos De Evelio Rosero” (How To Represent Violence: A Review Of The Armies By Evelio Rosero), Andrés Henao Castro

Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro

No abstract provided.

Una Mirada Histórica Y Cultural Del Movimiento Lgbttti Mexicano, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio

Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio, Ph.D

No abstract provided.

“My Life With My Cell Phone”: Creating A Magical Realist Story, Dan Gleason

Dan Gleason

In this lesson students are introduced to the basic elements of magical realism, a genre that combines fantastical events with the mundane normalcy of life. Students examine Octavio Paz’s short story “My Life with the Wave” as an example of the genre. In the story, the narrator travels to the ocean and falls in love with a wave, whom he bottles and takes home with him; the two go on to both cherish each other and fight terribly. After discussing the story, students create, in groups, plot sketches for their own adaptations. Students might imagine relationships with cell phones, the …

Bibliography For Work In Digital Humanities And (Inter)Mediality Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven & Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven

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Pégame Pero No Me Dejes: La Disputa Entre El Espacio Buga Y El Gay En Quizás No Entendí (1997) De Gerardo Guiza Lemus, Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio

Juan Carlos Rocha Osornio, Ph.D

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

Alicia Muñoz

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Huaso Romance As Neoliberal Reform In Sebastián Silva's La Nana, Stephen Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

Building on the work of recent critics, this essay asserts that the narrative of illness and recovery at the center of Sebastián Silva's film La nana (2009) can be understood as allegorically working through the contradictions between economy and culture in contemporary Chile. Diverging from these critics, however, the essay argues that the film operates its critique by mobilizing the narrative structures that characterized Chilean criollista novels, and in particular the huaso romance narrative. Far from arguing that the film represents a nationalist or folkloric take on contemporary Chile, the essay asserts that Silva reconfigures the huaso romance to construct …

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

No abstract provided.

La Ciudad Como Espectáculo: Santo Domingo Ante La Mirada De Los Primeros Turistas, Medar Serrata

Medar Serrata

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Noticias De Cosmópolis: La Ciudad De Santo Domingo Entre Las Ruinas Y La Modernidad, Medar Serrata

Medar Serrata

Este trabajo estudia el tratamiento del espacio público en las novelas Guanuma (1914), de Federico García Godoy, y La sangre: Una vida bajo la tiranía (1913), de Tulio Manuel Cestero. El ensayo sugiere que en las imágenes captadas por los personajes de ambas novelas durante sus recorridos por las calles de la ciudad las formas generadas por la irrupción de la modernidad se superpone a las de las ruinas del pasado colonial. El resultado es una interpretación ambivalente de la realidad nacional, a través de la cual se puede percibir la ansiedad que despertaba en los intelectuales dominicanos la creciente …

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