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Desde Hernández Hasta Haraway: Gaucho Y Caballo Como Companion Species, Elisabetta Rodio
Desde Hernández Hasta Haraway: Gaucho Y Caballo Como Companion Species, Elisabetta Rodio
Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture
La siguiente investigación pretende cuestionar el análisis tradicional de la figura del gaucho, desde siempre considerado como un “tipo humano”, para apoyar la idea de que este personaje es una entidad constituida por las intra-acciones entre su esencia humana, y lo no-humano: el caballo, su fiel compañero. Tomando como bases de análisis el Martín Fierro de José Hernández y El Payador de Leopoldo Lugones, el trabajo se enfoca en las relaciones extra-humanas que el hombre-gaucho desarrolla en el entorno de la Pampa, para demostrar que la identidad gauchesca es, finalmente, una esencia posthumana. Más específicamente, el enfoque será puesto en …
Outperformed: Exploration And Comparison Of The Tongue-And-Cheek Tragedies Of Women-Animal Relationships In Selected Short Stories By Samanta Schweblin And In Apichatpong Weerasethakul’S Film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Sawnie Smith
Vernacular: New Connections in Language, Literature, & Culture
The unsettling short stories that comprise Samanta Schweblin’s 2008 collection Pájaros en la boca are textured and populated by the flesh of not only humans, but also the skins of species that belong to a wider zoological and mythical scope. Those creatures in Schweblin’s literary output who possess scales, feathers, and wings find themselves variously rubbing up against, crushed under, and orally engulfed by human dermis. This essay seeks to explore the charge of gender politics that courses through interactions between human women and (demi-) animals in two short stories from this collection: “El hombre sirena” and “Olingiris”—animal contact with …