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Caminos Y Puentes, Raúl Dorantes

Revista Surco Sur

Durante varios meses viví en las camas que en de los hoteles de lujo de Milwaukee. Me dedicaba a lo que es mi naturaleza: chupar poco a poco la sangre de los hombres. Un día de primavera conocí a María Luisa, quien entonces se hacía acompañar de un tipo al que llamaba sin ternura “Señor comisionado”... Ya en el verano abandoné el Hilton y me fui con ella en su neceser. Así, en cuestión de días, vine a saber del ingeniero. Ahora tengo acceso a la memoria del ingeniero. Entre otras cosas sé que después de pasar su última tarde …

Cabrera Infante: La Colmena Y El Laberinto, Luis Álvarez Álvarez

Revista Surco Sur

En Sobre los pasos del cronista (El quehacer intelectual de Guillermo Cabrero Infante en Cuba hasta 1965), sus autores, Elizabeth Mirabal y Carlos Velazco, dan muestra tangible de una capacidad investigadora cabal, esa que se atreve con graves desafíos y los vence, no por la fuerza o el detonante verbal, sino por la inteligencia y la eficacia en la estructura del discurso ensayístico, pero, sobre todo, por una comprensión crítica valerosa y amante

Entre El Fuego De Dos Siglos. Criticar La Crítica, Miguel Ángel Fraga

Revista Surco Sur

La Crítica Literaria Cubana entre el Fuego de dos Siglos (Ediciones Matanzas, 2010), de José Antonio Michelena, es un libro actual y necesario, no sólo por su valor crítico sino por el seguimiento y balance que hace de esta disciplina en el transcurso de treinta años. ¿Qué ha sucedido? ¿Sigue estando la crítica cubana en lamentable estado como la consideró Juan Marinello en 1969? Profesores universitarios, narradores, poetas, ensayistas, críticos y editores expresan sin cortapisas –poniendo el dedo en la yaga– opiniones divergentes para polemizar sobre una asignatura pendiente en nuestra arena cultural, juicios que tienen lugar en dos momentos …

Princesas, Un Filme De Fernando León De Aranoa, Elvira Siurana

Revista Surco Sur

La película narra una historia de amistad entre dos mujeres que ejercen la prostitución callejera en Madrid. La española Caye (Candela Peña) y la inmigrante dominicana Zulema (Micaela Nevárez). En principio expone el conflicto xenófobo y racista que invade también el submundo en el que se mueven las mujeres prostituidas. El rechazo de las españolas frente a las recién llegadas que son más guapas y más necesitadas y que por ello rebajan precios y les hunden el mercado.

Hablando De Sábato, Nanci María Vilalta

Revista Surco Sur

Desde la irrupción editorial de la figura de Roberto Bolaño en los 90, se ha hablado de la literatura mexicana, española y chilena de este autor. Sin embargo, quiero proponer que su literatura es el producto de un escritor transnacional, quien definía su patria como su biblioteca. Mi propósito en estas líneas es utilizar el término de Stephen Clingman de literatura transnacional en la obra de Bolaño. A diferencia del concepto de literatura globalizada que pondera la relación de centro-periferia o que homogeniza realidades, el concepto de una literatura que problematiza los términos de la identidad parece más apropiado para …

La Construcción De Una Po(Ética): Desterritorialización, Colectivización Y Politización En El Discurso Daltoniano, Juana M. Ramos

Revista Surco Sur

Hablar de Roque Dalton requiere sumergirnos en la historia de El Salvador, en los conflictos entre la oligarquía y la clase obrera, las injusticias y desigualdad social, en una generación de poetas cuyo propósito fue ofrecer al lector la realidad socio-política salvadoreña: una generación de poetas comprometidos. En este ensayo, me interesa hacer un breve análisis de la construcción de una (po)ética daltoniana desde la noción de “literatura menor” desarrollada por Deleuze y Guattari, en tanto que cumple con las tres características que la definen: desterritorialización, colectivización y politización del discurso

Cruzando Fronteras: La Literatura Transnacional De Roberto Bolaño, Alicia Mercado-Harvey

Revista Surco Sur

Desde la irrupción editorial de la figura de Roberto Bolaño en los 90, se ha hablado de la literatura mexicana, española y chilena de este autor. Sin embargo, quiero proponer que su literatura es el producto de un escritor transnacional, quien definía su patria como su biblioteca. Mi propósito en estas líneas es utilizar el término de Stephen Clingman de literatura transnacional en la obra de Bolaño. A diferencia del concepto de literatura globalizada que pondera la relación de centro-periferia o que homogeniza realidades, el concepto de una literatura que problematiza los términos de la identidad parece más apropiado para …

Langsam, Isel Rivero

Revista Surco Sur

No abstract provided.

Escribir A La Sombra De Otro Idioma: Escritores Latinoamericanos Mantienen El Español En Los Estados Unidos, Johanny Vázquez Paz

Revista Surco Sur

Emigrar es buscar un nuevo espacio donde vivir, dejar lo conocido por voluntad propia para empezar una nueva vida en otra parte del mundo. Entonces, ¿por qué no despedirse también del idioma y adoptar la lengua que ahora nos rodea? Y si se es escritor, ¿por qué insistir en escribir en un idioma que limita al tratar de publicar en el país donde se reside?, ¿por qué escribir en español cuando se vive en Estados Unidos? Éstas son algunas de las preguntas que exploraré en este ensayo desde varias perspectivas descritas por algunos escritores reconocidos, proponiendo posibles causas y motivos …

El Asunto Espinoso De Una Antología De Escritoras, Liliana V. Blumm

Revista Surco Sur

Como en muchas otras antologías, en Óyeme con los ojos. De Sor Juana al siglo XXI. 21 escritoras mexicanas revolucionarias, de Patricia Rosas Lopátegui (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2010) encontramos textos que varían ampliamente en contenido, tono, contextos, estrategias narrativas, y poéticas. Hay humor, melancolía, contemplaciones, tristeza y violencia. Colectivamente el libro no representa ningún ismo literario ni propone una filosofía o punto de vista sobre nada. Se trata de una muestra mínima del trabajo de 21 mujeres, unas vivitas y coleando, otras no. En todos los textos encontramos, eso sí, el elemento Sherezada: la urgencia de contar. Lo …

Obituario Para Un Poeta: Julio Joaquín Sánchez Chang, Delio Orozco González

Revista Surco Sur

Todos los días mueren seres humanos, pero no todos los días muere un poeta. Escribir poesía no es suficiente mérito para trascender, hace falta -además-, haber obrado bien, y Julio Joaquín Sáchez Chang, presidente de la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), en el Manzanillo cubano, logró combinar ambas cualidades, obró lo mejor que pudo e hizo poesía.

Hédi Bouraoui Et Les Limites De La Théorie Postcoloniale : Approche Transpoétique Et Nomadique, Éric Touya De Marenne

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

A priori, Hedi Bouraoui’s thought lies within the scope of a postcolonial perspective. However, the concept of “transpoétique” to which he alludes is based on the notion of “nomaditude” which asserts the blurring of cultural and identity borders. That is why beyond the “infernal binary” thought that he rejects (ruler / dominated, colonizer / colonized), the Tunisian and Canadian author puts in question the postcolonial approach. In this context, the aim of this study is to understand better how trans-poetics can allow us to conceive differently the theoretical foundations of francophone literary criticism.

Comparative Literature In Chinese And An Interview With Yue, Hui Zhang, Daiyun Yue

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Comparative Literature in Chinese and an Interview with Daiyun Yue" Hui Zhang and Daiyun Yue present a review of the discipline of comparative literature based on an interview with Yue (2010). Because Yue's work with comparative literature is intertwined with her personal journey, the interview sheds light on other Chinese scholars and their work who would not be known audiences outside China. The interview also touches on the academic and political reasons why the joint dualisms of "ancient/modern" and "Chinese/foreign" continue to be major structuring principles of the discipline in China, as well as how the development …

Psychology, Science, Feminisms, And Cultural Studies: A Book Review Article Of New Books By Bell And Hardin, Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.

About Society: A Book Review Article Of Work On Roth And Kundera By Shostak And Ivanova, Gustavo Sánchez-Canales

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The Writing And Reading Of Fan Fiction And Transformation Theory, Veerle Van Steenhuyse

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In her article "The Writing and Reading of Fan Fiction and Transformation Theory" Veerle Van Steenhuyse discusses the experience of immersive reading fan fiction offers to fans based on her analysis of fan fiction about the television series House, M.D. (2004-). Van Steenhuyse postulates that a text is immersive when it evokes a mental construct with the presence of a text-independent reality. In the case of fan fiction, this reality is a "transformed universe" that builds on and deviates from particular primary texts. Following the work of Marie-Laure Ryan and Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, Van Steenhuyse argues that readers feel immersed when …

Commodity And Waste As National Allegory In Recent South African And Post-Soviet Fiction, Alla Ivanchikova

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In her article "Commodity and Waste as National Allegory in Recent South African and Post-Soviet Fiction" Alla Ivanchikova analyzes the issue of commodity in its relation to identity. The article contains a reading of two novels: The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K. Sello Duiker and Dukhless. Povest o nenastoiaschem cheloveke (Douh-Less: The Tale of an Unreal Person) by Sergey Minaev. Rapid political changes, both in South Africa and the former Soviet Bloc were accompanied both by rapid changes in the practices of consumption and also by often inconsistent cultural efforts to establish the meaning of these practices. Ivanchikova …

Fernández And Cinematic Propaganda In The U.S. And Mexico, Renae L. Mitchell

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In her article "Fernández and Cinematic Propaganda in the U.S. and Mexico" Renae L. Mitchell discusses the competing ideologies on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. As one of the foremost filmmakers of the Mexican Golden Age of cinema, Emilio Fernández established what would is recognized as "Mexicanness" by means of Indigenous characters in his films, most apparent in the film María Candelaria. RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures, as the principal purveyor of US-American propagandist cinema, led Hollywood into the cinematic market of Mexico revealing its intentions by means of the RKO film The Falcon in Mexico. Fernández sought to …

Inanimate Speech From Lovecraft To Žižek, Apple Z. Igrek

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In his article "Inanimate Speech from Lovecraft to Žižek" Apple Z. Igrek explores an influential line of reasoning associated with our contemporary loss of the Real. The argument describes how the contingencies and nuances of social life have been reduced to an operational, friction-free, and homogeneous realm of signs. Slavoj Žižek contends that our inherently traumatic relationship with the Other is being foreclosed and replaced by an omnipresent technological screen of virtual communication. The danger of this shift, identified as the "digital break," is that it facilitates an extraordinary form of divine violence which strikes back at the social system …

Dante's Linguistic Detail In Shelley's Triumph Of Life, Anita O'Connell

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In her article "Dante's Linguistic Detail in Shelley's Triumph of Life" Anita O'Connell analyzes Shelley's attention to detail in Dante's poetic style and presents a close textual analysis of the ways Shelley draws on the beauty of Dante's texts. When Dante's Divine Comedy re-emerged into the public sphere in Britain through Henry Cary's 1814 translation, his reputation was as a stern, dark, Medieval poet and readers and writers alike shared a love of the perceived gothicism particularly of The Inferno. Shelley, however, differed from this general view of Dante: despite the grotesque descriptions in his Triumph of Life …

Comparative Literature In Chinese, Xiaolu Wang, Yan Liu

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In their article "Comparative Literature in Chinese" Xiaolu Wang and Yan Liu describe the development of comparative poetics in Chinese by sketching major publications and the general institutional situation of the discipline. Wang and Liu suggest that comparative work remains impulsive while at the same time dynamic. Like other fields in the humanities, the study of poetics — comparative or other — in Chinese is no longer traditional in terms of discursive form but copied from the West. Although the scholarly achievements in the field within the past thirty years are considerable, problems remain including the issue of translation of …

The Tartu School And Catalan Scholarship: A Book Review Article Of New Work In Reception And Communication Studie, Christopher Larkosh

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No abstract provided.

Eliot's The Waste Land And Surging Nationalisms, Pouneh Saeedi

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In her article "Eliot's The Waste Land and Surging Nationalisms" Pouneh Saeedi analyzes T.S. Eliot's poem in the context of the impact of World War I and the emergence of nationalisms. In the midst of the ruins of both his personal life and Europe, Eliot expresses the loss of a universal understanding delineated in the fragmentation of language and a disassociation of sensibility. In The Waste Land, the West and the East — represented in their respective canonical texts — commingle and cohere to present an image of oneness that goes beyond oppositional binaries and leads the egotistical self …

A Case Study In Discourse Analysis Of "Community Arts" In Cultural Policy And The Press, An De Bisschop, Kris Rutten, Ronald Soetaert

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In their article "A Case Study in Discourse Analysis of 'Community Arts' in Cultural Policy and the Press" An De bisschop, Kris Rutten, and Ronald Soetaert explore theoretical and applied aspects of the phenomenon of community arts. Community arts in Flanders have developed into a professional practice during the past few years and have received increased recognition from policy makers, scholars, and critics. This attention has caused a growing need to define the nature of a practice diverse in form, goal, and process. De bisschop, Rutten, and Soetaert discuss the problematics of community arts projects in comparative discourse analysis in …

About The Human Condition In The Works Of Dickens And Marx, Ami E. Stearns, Thomas J. Burns

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In their article "About the Human Condition in the Works of Dickens and Marx" Ami E. Stearns and Thomas J. Burns contribute to the study of Charles Dickens's Industrial Revolution-era fiction by examining his novels in relation to Karl Marx's social philosophy. Stearns and Burns postulate that Dickens relies on Marxist concepts of class consciousness, sacrifice, revolution, social antitheses, and social injustice to weave his narratives and compare and discuss six of Dickens' novels: A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Great Expectations with three works of Marx: Grundrisse, The Communist Manifesto, …

Academic Discourse And Literacy Narratives As "Equipment For Living", Kris Rutten

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In his article "Academic Discourse and Narratives of Literacy as 'Equipment for Living'" Kris Rutten discusses practices of academic discourse and argues that students entering higher education have to become part of a specific community of institutional discourse. Rutten claims that narratives of and about literacy — narratives that revolve around issues dealing with language and the acquisition of literacy — "dramatize" the tension of moving from one discourse community to another. By charting situations of "type," fictional literacy narratives can be used by students as "equipment for living" in order to reflect on confrontations and difficulties they experience in …

Latino Identity In Allende's Historical Novels, Olga Ries

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In her article "Latino Identity in Allende's Historical Novels" Olga Ries analyzes the concept of individual and group identity found in five historical novels by Isabel Allende. Ries argues that while Allende's protagonists come from different backgrounds and different epochs, they share a process of psychological transformation and that affects their identity formation. The result is the formation of a transnational "Hispanic" identity, group as well as individual. In Ries's reading of Allende's texts, transnational Hispanic identity is based simultaneously on the Mexican/Hispanic concept of mestizaje and on the US-American concepts of the "melting pot" and the "American Dream."

Autoethnography And Garcia's Dreaming In Cuban, Samantha L. Mcauliffe

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In her article "Authoethnography and Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban" Samantha L. McAuliffe positions Cristina Garcia's novel as a text of self-discovery and cultural reconciliation. McAuliffe examines multilingualism and hybridity in Dreaming in Cuban and postulates that the novel represents what Marie Louise Pratt calls the "contact zone" where cultures meet and clash. As autoethnography, Dreaming in Cuban allows an insider view of what being Cuban American really means. The reader is able to experience the conflict those with a hybrid identity experience through the eyes of one in the midst of that conflict. Further, McAuliffe suggests in her analysis …

Mohaennanji & Fatima Sadiqi (Eds.) Gender And Violence In The Middle East. London/New York: Routledge. 2011., Mahesh Sharma

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Edited Collections: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Chris Perkins

Journal of International and Global Studies

Review essay on:

• J. Snyder, (Ed.). Religion and International Relations Theory. New York: Columbia University Press. 2011.
• G.Tameme, W. T. Bagatelas, D.Reichardt, and B. S. Sergi. Studies in Contemporary International Relations and Politics. Leverkusen Opladen: Budrich UniPress Ltd. 2010.