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This cluster of papers explores the cultural representation of drug trafficking, violence, and narcoculture in Latin American literature. It delves into the themes of gender, neoliberalism, urban culture, and the impact of drug trafficking on society. The papers also analyze testimonies, the portrayal of violence, and the intersection of literature with social and political issues.

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Drug Trafficking; Cultural Representation; Latin American Literature; Narcoculture; Violence; Testimonio; Gender Studies; Neoliberalism; Urban Culture; Literary Criticism

Public Opinion in New Democracies: Latin America’s Smiling Mask

1997-07-01

Marta Lagos

Public Opinion in New DemocraciesLatin America’s Smiling Mask Marta Lagos (bio) In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the way in which democracy has become rooted in Latin America, … Public Opinion in New DemocraciesLatin America’s Smiling Mask Marta Lagos (bio) In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the way in which democracy has become rooted in Latin America, one must consider not only the formal and institutional bases of politics, but also the nonrational or prerational cultural traits that form such an important part of the region’s soul. During the last half-century in particular, writers from Mexico’s Octavio Paz and Colombia’s Gabriel García Márquez to Argentina’s Julio Cortázar and Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa have sought to describe this soul. Their works offer insights into the deeper attitudes toward life and society that lie beneath political beliefs and behavior. In The Labyrinth of Solitude, Paz described the Mexican soul and in the process touched on problems that affect the whole region and underlie the process of democratic consolidation in Latin America today: The North Americans are credulous and we are believers; they love fairy tales and detective stories and we love myths and legends. The Mexican tells lies because he delights in fantasy, or because he is desperate, or because he wants to rise above the sordid facts of his life; the North American does not tell lies, but he substitutes social truth for the real truth, which is always disagreeable. We get drunk in order to confess; they get drunk in order to forget. They are optimists and we are nihilists. . . . We are suspicious and they are trusting. We are sorrowful and sarcastic and they are happy and full of jokes. North Americans want to understand and we want to contemplate. They are activists and we are quietists; we enjoy our wounds and they enjoy their inventions. . . . What is the origin of such contradictory attitudes? It seems to me that North Americans consider the world to be something that can be perfected, and that we consider it to be something that can be redeemed. 1 [End Page 125] Given the history of the region, with its legacy of Spanish (as well as Portuguese) colonialism followed by the rule of large landowners and the prevalence of poverty and authoritarianism, it is not surprising to recognize the origin of the common tendencies that Latin Americans have developed as a consequence: to remain silent regarding their true feelings and intentions, and to emphasize appearances. Silence and appearance—the twin progeny of distrust—have historically been crucial tools for survival. The habits of keeping silent and maintaining appearances underlie the attitudes, opinions, and behaviors that are at the center of the Latin American soul. Paz describes this attitude as a “smiling mask.” 2 The data presented below will show that deeply rooted sociocultural traits remain highly relevant to democracy in Latin America. The region has many a democracy that belies social-science generalizations about the prerequisites necessary for that form of government. One could say that in some cases, democracy itself is a kind of smiling mask that has learned to survive through silence about lingering authoritarian institutions and practices (as in Chile), or through the appearance of a party system with effectively one party, as in Mexico. Latin American democracies have had to come to grips with myriad institutional and political problems: the organization of parties, the recruitment of younger generations into key elites, the fostering of stable, nonpatrimonialist public administration, and the like. Brazil and Venezuela have weathered corruption scandals serious enough to have brought down presidents. More recently, Ecuador has worked its way through a constitutional crisis in which Congress deposed a populist president, Abdalá Bucaram, who was leading the country into deep political and economic turmoil. More than a few Latin American democracies have had to grapple with grave economic problems left behind by outgoing military regimes. Acting against a background of excessive public spending, inefficient systems of taxation, and cumbersome state structures, many newly democratizing or redemocratizing countries have turned to economic reform, privatizing state-run companies and making the government more of a regulator than an owner. Along with privatization, Latin American democracies have embraced market liberalization and the elimination of commercial barriers in their quest to achieve higher economic growth and lower inflation. In...

La verdad de las Mentiras

2007-01-01

Mario Vargas Llosa

Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana

1982-01-01

Manuel Alvar , Luis Íñigo Madrigal

Reckoning: the ends of war in Guatemala

2010-03-01

Diane M. Nelson

Pref/face. Little Did I Know xiii AcKNOWLEDGEmeants xxxiii Chapter One. Under the Sign of the Virgen de Transito 1 Intertext One. Those who Are Transformed 31 Chapter Two. The Postwar … Pref/face. Little Did I Know xiii AcKNOWLEDGEmeants xxxiii Chapter One. Under the Sign of the Virgen de Transito 1 Intertext One. Those who Are Transformed 31 Chapter Two. The Postwar Milieu: Means, Ends, and Identi-ties 39 Intertext Two. Co-memoration and Co-laboration: Screening and Screaming 73 Chapter Three. Horror's Special Effects 86 Intertext Three. Confidence Games 115 Chapter Four. Indian Giver or Nobel Savage?: Rigoberta Menchu Tum's Stoll/en Past 126 Intertext Four. Welcome to Bamboozled! A Modern-Day Minstrel Show 156 Chapter Five. Anthropologist Discovers Legendary Two-Faced Indian 165 Intertext Five. Look Out! Step Right Up! Paranoia and Other Entertainmeants 197 Chapter Six. Hidden Powers, Duplicitous State/s 208 Intertext Six. Counterscience in Colonial Laboratories 242 Chapter Seven. Life during Wartime 252 Intertext Seven. How Do You Get Someone to Give You Her Purse? 280 Chapter Eight. Accounting for the Postwar, Balancing the Book/s 290 Chapter Nine. The Ends 322 Notes 327 Works Cited 361 Index 387

Foucault, Borges, Heterotopia: Producing Knowledge in Other Spaces

2010-09-01

Robert Topinka

Arguably the most famous heterotopia that appears in Foucault’s work is the Chinese encyclopedia, which originates in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. Drawing on this citation of Borges, this … Arguably the most famous heterotopia that appears in Foucault’s work is the Chinese encyclopedia, which originates in the fiction of Jorge Luis Borges. Drawing on this citation of Borges, this article examines Foucault’s notion of the heterotopia as it relates to order and knowledge production. Frequently, heterotopias are understood as sites of resistance. This article argues that shifting the focus from resistance to order and knowledge production reveals how heterotopias make the spatiality of order legible. By juxtaposing and combining many spaces in one site, heterotopias problematize received knowledge by destabilizing the ground on which knowledge is built. Yet heterotopias always remain connected to the dominant order; thus as heterotopias clash with dominant orders, they simultaneously produce new ways of knowing. This article first explores the tensions between Foucault’s two definitions of heterotopias before connecting these definitions to Foucault’s distinctly spatial understanding of knowledge as emerging from a clash of forces. Finally, the paper ends by returning to the relationship between Foucault, Borges, and heterotopias.

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La nueva novela hispanoamericana

1970-01-01

George R. McMurray , Carlos Fuentes

The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning

2002-05-01

Raymond Williams , Idelber Avelar

The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy … The Untimely Present examines the fiction produced in the aftermath of the recent Latin American dictatorships, particularly those in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Idelber Avelar argues that through their legacy of social trauma and obliteration of history, these military regimes gave rise to unique and revealing practices of mourning that pervade the literature of this region. The theory of postdictatorial writing developed here is informed by a rereading of the links between mourning and mimesis in Plato, Nietzsche’s notion of the untimely, Benjamin’s theory of allegory, and psychoanalytic / deconstructive conceptions of mourning. Avelar starts by offering new readings of works produced before the dictatorship era, in what is often considered the boom of Latin American fiction. Distancing himself from previous celebratory interpretations, he understands the boom as a manifestation of mourning for literature’s declining aura. Against this background, Avelar offers a reassessment of testimonial forms, social scientific theories of authoritarianism, current transformations undergone by the university, and an analysis of a number of novels by some of today’s foremost Latin American writers—such as Ricardo Piglia, Silviano Santiago, Diamela Eltit, Joao Gilberto Noll, and Tununa Mercado. Avelar shows how the ‘untimely’ quality of these narratives is related to the position of literature itself, a mode of expression threatened with obsolescence. This book will appeal to scholars and students of Latin American literature and politics, cultural studies, and comparative literature, as well as to all those interested in the role of literature in postmodernity.

Postmemory Cinema and the Future of the past in Albertina Carri'sLos Rubios

2005-12-01

Gabriela Nouzeilles

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Idelber Avelar, Alberto Moreiras and Nelly Richard have made important and insightful contributions to the exploration of memory in … Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Idelber Avelar, Alberto Moreiras and Nelly Richard have made important and insightful contributions to the exploration of memory in dialogue with such approaches. For a critical reading of the limitations of the Holocaust model, see Casullo (2004 Casullo, Nicolás. 2004. Pensar entre épocas: Memoria, sujetos y crítica cultural, Buenos Aires: Norma. [Google Scholar]) and Vezzetti (2002 Vezzetti, Hugo. 2002. Pasado y presente: Guerra, dictadura y sociedad en Argentina, Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI. [Google Scholar]). 2 Besides Los rubios, Carri has directed No quiero volver a casa (2000), Barbie también puede estar triste (2001), and Géminis (2005). 3 Historias cotidianas (2000) by Andrés Habegger and Papá Iván (2000) by María Inés Roqué are two documentaries by young directors whose parents are also missing. One could also include in this group the fiction short film In absentia (2003), by Lucía Cedrón, daughter of film director Jorge Cedrón, assassinated in 1980. 4 Textual examples of Montonero memory are El presidente que no fue (1997) and Diario de un clandestino (2000) by Miguel Bonasso, and the three volumes of La voluntad (1997, 1998) by Eduardo Anguita and Martín Caparrós. Jelin and Kaufman (2000 Jelin, Elizabeth and Sussana G, Kaufman. 2000. “Layers of memories: Twenty years after in Argentina”. In Politics of War Memory, Edited by: Dawson, Graham. Florence, KY: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) offer a detailed analysis of how memory is produced and reconstructed in Argentina 20 years after the end of the dictatorship. 5 A long article by writer and cultural critic Martín Kohan Kohan, Martín. 2004. La apariencia celebrada. Punto de Vista, XXVII(78) [Google Scholar], entitled ‘La apariencia celeda’, appeared in the Argentine journal Punto de Vista in 2003. The article praised the formal sophistication of Carri's documentary but had many harsh words for the young director, whom Kohan accuses of narcissistic excess, of disrespect toward her parents and of holding a post-political, superficial view of Argentina's social and political past (and present). The journal published a response by Cecilia Macón Macón, Cecilia. 2004. Los rubios o del trauma como presencia Punto de vista, XXVII(80): 206–9. [Google Scholar], who criticizes Kohan's prescriptive reading of the movie, and praises Carri for underscoring the conflictive nature of memory. Although, to my knowledge, this is the only published evidence of unease elicited by the documentary, it was not an isolated case. In the interview she gave to the electronic site devoted to film La Pochoclera, Carri herself acknowledges other disapproving reactions to her film. 6 About the different modes of the documentary genre, see Nichols (2001: 32–75). 7 In fact, the openness endorsed by the movie has its limits. Although there is at least one interview in which a working-class woman echoes the official discourse of the dictatorship against 1970s leftist militants, the selection of views does not include a direct presentation of the perspective of the regime's supporters – an option that for many is unacceptable, and even obscene. 8 For an interesting analysis of performative films, see Bruzzi (2000 Bruzzi, Stella. 2000. New documentary: A critical introduction, London and New York: Routledge. [Google Scholar]), especially Chap. 6. 9 On the distinction between time-images and movement-images, see Deleuze (1989 Deleuze, Gilles. 1989. Cinema 2. The time-image, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Google Scholar]). 10 The resort to narrative patterns coming from mass culture in order to make sense of the disappearance of their parents seems to have been a common response among the children of the disappeared, when they were kids. The testimonies included in Habegger's movie make reference to this phenomenon. 11 The testament letter appears in many productions by children of disappeared parents. See, for example, the film Papá Iván by Ana María Roqué, and the testimony by Ana, included in Juan Gelman (1997: 47). 12 According to Ana Amado, genealogical and mimetic interpellation between parents and children are central to the visual and cinematographic production by the children of the disappeared. On the daughter's challenge to the militant father's political interpellation in the visual productions of Carri, Quieto and Roqué, see Amado's two outstanding critical pieces (Amado, 2004 Amado, Ana. 2004. Ceremonias secretas (los círculos familiares como tramas subjetivas de la historia). Revista de Crítica Cultural, : 14–21. No. 28 [Google Scholar], Amado and Dominguez, 2004 Amado, Ana and Nora, Domínguez, eds. 2004. Lazos de familia. Herencias, cuerpos, ficciones, Buenos Aires: Paidós. [Google Scholar]). 13 The DNA performance draws from two heuristic systems, the biological and the performative, and is based on forms of transmission that refuse surrogation (see Taylor, 2003 Taylor, Diana. 2003. The archive and the repertoire: Performing cultural memory in the Americas, Durham and London: Duke University Press. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]: 173, 175). 14 For a list of the common features in Latin American political cinema, between 1967 and 1977, see Getino and Vellegia (2002 Getino, Octavio and Susana, Velleggia. 2002. El cine de las historias de la revolución. Aproximación a las teorías y prácticas del cine político en América latina. 1967–1977, Buenos Aires: GEA. [Google Scholar]: 18). Bernini Bernini, Emilio. 2004. Politics and the documentary film in Argentina during the 1960s. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 13(2): 155–70. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] (2004) provides a cultural historical analysis of Argentine political cinema. 15 Christian Gunerman (2004) sees a similar intertextual dialogue between Alejandro Agresti's Buenos Aires viceversa (1996), and the political cinema of the 1960s. 16 The opposition between lower and middle class is inherent to the politics of memory of the HIJOS, whose members belong almost entirely to the middle class. Silvia, a member of the association, suggests that in industrial cities like Córdoba militant workers are the unacknowledged disappeared, whose children do not know much about their fathers' activism and who have not organized themselves like the relatives of the students and militants of political organizations did (see Gelman, 1997: 136–7). 17 The Institute later awarded a grant to the project, which is acknowledged in the film. 18 On Benjamin's concept of pantomime as the index of mourning, see Butler (2003 Butler, Judith. 2003. “Afterword. After loss, what then?”. In Loss: The politics of mourning, University of California Press. edited by David L. Eng & David Kazanjian [Google Scholar]: 467). Diana Taylor also calls attention to HIJOS's joyful rituals of mourning and the carnivalesque nature of their performative escraches (2003: 181–2).

Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women, Nation, and Literary Culture in Modern Argentina

1993-09-01

Myron I. Lichtblau , Francine Masiello

Masiello's book 'sheds light on a relatively little-known group of extremely interesting women in the formative period of a major literature...[It] breaks new ground and will be a standard reference … Masiello's book 'sheds light on a relatively little-known group of extremely interesting women in the formative period of a major literature...[It] breaks new ground and will be a standard reference for the subject' - Margaret Sayers Peden. Evoking the famous watchwords of Argentine president Domingo Sarmiento (1868-74), Between Civilization and Barbarism explores the positioning of women within the Argentine nation and argues that women neither sought alliance with the 'civilizing' agenda of leading statesmen nor found identity in the extreme poses of 'barbarism', to which some intellectuals had condemned them. Instead, women used literary and political texts to surpass the tightly outlined roles assigned to them. Beginning with literary and journalistic texts written by and about women from the time of Sarmiento, Francine Masiello traces strategic shifts in the discourse on gender at moments of national crisis.She considers not only novels and guides to female behavior written by and for privileged women but also newspapers and political tracts produced by women of the working class. Extending her study into the urban expansion and modernization of the 1920s, Masiello explores the nature of gender relations posited in treatises on crime and public disorder and in the texts of avant-garde and social-realist writers. In addressing such representations of women, as well as the effects of ideology and history on writing, Masiello offers bold new insights into the development of Latin American women's literature and illuminates the role of women in forming the culture of present-day Argentina. Francine Masiello is an associate professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Lenguaje e ideologia: las escuelas argentinas de vanguardia (1986) and coauthor of Women, Culture, and Politics in Latin America (1990).

Lenguaje, subjetividad y experiencias de violencia

2007-07-01

Myriam Jimeno

I guess that the communication of suffering experiences –violence experiences– makes possible an emotional community, which encourages the personal recovering and becomes a cultural and political recomposition vehicle. I propose … I guess that the communication of suffering experiences –violence experiences– makes possible an emotional community, which encourages the personal recovering and becomes a cultural and political recomposition vehicle. I propose that the process of overcoming of victim condition puts up with the recomposition of person like a emotional being, through the clear and shared expression of his experience. I use the Veena Das' discussion about of reduccionist shapes of "the act of witnessing" about of violence, and the interview realized by Johanna Wahanik to starring of the film La noche de los lápices.

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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

1984-04-01

Edwin Williamson , Gabriel García Márquez , Giovanni Pontiero

Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been described as the greatest writer in Spanish since Cervantes, and El coronel no tiene quien le escriba is considered to be one of his best … Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been described as the greatest writer in Spanish since Cervantes, and El coronel no tiene quien le escriba is considered to be one of his best works. This reflective and atmospheric novel is set in a small Colombian town where the frustrated and stubborn Colonel, a veteran of the 'War of a Thousand Days', is still, after thirty years, waiting for the letter authorising payment of his war pension. The old soldier and his wife mourn the brutal killing of their only son, and the story of their struggle against poverty and sickness culminates in the Colonel's defiant refusal to part with his cherished fighting cock, however serious the consequences. The moving narrative pays tribute to the resilience of human nature and man's will to survive in the face of heavy odds. The novel also throws light on the turbulent religious and political troubles in Latin America. Now revised to include an updated chronology and bibliography, Giovanni Pontiero's acclaimed critical edition provides English-speaking students with an introduction to, and notes on the text, and a selected vocabulary.

The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America

1998-01-01

Edward Waters Hood , Georg M. Gugelberger

Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonised, and the oppressed, has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's … Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonised, and the oppressed, has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. In the political battles that have taken place around the formation of the canon, the testimonio holds a special place: no other single genre of literature has taken up such a large part of current debate. Initially hailed in the 1970s as a genuine form of resistance literature, testimonio has since undergone a significant change in its critical reception. The essays in The 'Real' Thing analyse the testimonio, its history, and its place in contemporary consciousness. Although the literature of testimony arose on the margins of institutional power and its ends were in large part political change, the canonisation of testimonio by the academic Left has moved it from margin to centre, ironically bringing about the institutionalisation of its transgressive and counter-hegemonic qualities. Discussing Latin American works ranging from Salvadorian writer Roque Dalton's Miguel Marmol to I...Rigoberta Menchu, a work that earned its author a Nobel Prize, this collection explores how critical writing about testimonio has turned into discourse about the institution of academia, the canon, postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of Latin American studies generally. The 'Real' Thing provides a view of a particularly revealing moment in contemporary literary history and a perspective on the place of the intellectual within the academic institution. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Latin American studies, postcolonial studies, anthropology, and comparative literature. Contributors: John Beverley, Santiago Colas, Georg M. Gugelberger, Barbara Harlow, Fredric Jameson, Alberto Moreiras, Margaret Randall, Javier Sanjines, Elzbieta Sklodowska, Doris Sommer, Gareth Williams, George Yudice, and Marc Zimmerman.

My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary: Reflections of a Former Guerrillera

2006-07-21

Mary Roldán

Maria Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo’s ethnographic exorcism of the ghosts from her clandestine past, and her struggle to uncover the early experiences that shaped her decision to take up arms, are … Maria Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo’s ethnographic exorcism of the ghosts from her clandestine past, and her struggle to uncover the early experiences that shaped her decision to take up arms, are riveting. Although relatively few others of her generation took the radical step of becoming revolutionaries, Vásquez Perdomo’s life is nonetheless broadly representative of the experiences, desires, and frustrations of a generation of Colombians (and Latin Americans more generally) who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. I tested this assumption at a recent dinner with two Colombian friends, reading to them the author’s assertion that “In the 1970s, Marxism as a tool for analysis and research was the order of the day . . . we began in the first semester with Professor Vasco’s course on historical materialism, in which we read Lenin’s . . . ,” and before I could finish, my friends in unison supplied not only the title of Lenin’s work, but that of every other author on the list (among them Marx and Engels and Mao) and a few omitted ones they insisted had also been obligatory reading. Marxism never attained the kind of institutional legitimacy and omnipresence in U.S. university curriculums and intellectual circles that until recently reigned not only in Latin America but also throughout much of Europe. Nevertheless, the experiences at the heart of this book are likely to resonate with all those who once dreamed of participating in the collective cause of building a different and better world but awoke one day to find that years had passed and their once-youthful ideals had fizzled or been crushed by the grinding realities of an indifferent world.This winner of the Colombian National Prize for Testimonial Literature in 1998 is a notable example of an emerging genre within Latin American studies: autobiographical accounts of revolutionary experiences told from a gendered perspective. Like other testimonial writers, Vásquez Perdomo struggles with basic issues of identity and meaning. How did an average teenager fond of miniskirts, Ana y Jaime Mercedes Sosa, dancing, and theater end up in prison for rebellion and sedition? How did a happy-go-lucky student radical wielding a spray-paint gun, dodging tear gas, and distributing flyers for tumultuous student-led assemblies against the university administration evolve into a gun-toting commander of covert operations? At yet another level, this book is also an ethnography of modern Colombia, and its fractured and tragic political trajectory, over the last half century. This reader could not help but feel at times like she was trapped inside one of those dreams that begin innocently enough but escalate almost imperceptibly into a nightmare, in which easily averted tragedies relentlessly unfold. But the tone of this book is not solemn or maudlin, and it renders in realistic and compelling terms the appeal of abstract ideals and how these were transformed into concrete lived experience. Indeed, the author’s experience as an amateur actress appears to have endowed her with a fine and lively sense of timing that keeps the reader steadily engaged throughout the text. The account offers some particularly vivid and humane portraits of M-19 leaders such as Jaime Bateman, Alvaro Fayad, and Carlos Pizarro, making it evident why they became popular heroes even for Colombians who never endorsed armed rebellion. The author poignantly renders the gendered inequalities and contradictions that persisted even within “progressive” political movements and also illuminates how student movements and incipient guerrilla organizations both within Colombia and across Latin America (including the Southern Cone) influenced one another and even in certain instances spawned sporadic collaborations. The importance of the Cuban Revolution and of Cuban inspiration and support (particularly as a place of refuge during times of severe repression such as during the 1978 – 82 Turbay administration) is a theme that runs through the book.The brief but exceedingly balanced and thoughtful introduction to modern Colombian history by Arthur Schmidt provides an excellent contextual framework for the account. Translator Lorena Terando has also done a commendable job of rendering difficult colloquial Spanish into a lively and well-paced narrative that retains the author’s sense of humor and personal voice. This book will be a welcome addition to undergraduate courses on modern Latin America, seminars devoted to the study of life histories or testimonial literature, and, for different reasons, just as useful as a text in graduate courses on radicalism and revolution, gender and politics, and contemporary Latin American political history.

Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America

1992-08-01

John Charles Chasteen

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Memory and modernity - popular culture in Latin America

1991-07-30

José Norberto Soares

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Beyond the fantastic: contemporary art criticism from Latin America

1996-11-01

Gerardo Mosquera , Néstor García Canclini , Andrea Giunta +7 more

Mosquera offers his selection of 22 essays as an introduction to the ongoing critical debates within and without Latin America about Latin American art. The selections, Mosquera notes, are characteristic … Mosquera offers his selection of 22 essays as an introduction to the ongoing critical debates within and without Latin America about Latin American art. The selections, Mosquera notes, are characteristic of newer theories since the 1980s, representing a shift away from the key concepts of the criticism of the 1960s, such as “resistance” and “revolution,” towards those like “hybridisation” and “appropriation” which share features with North American-style multiculturalism and mass culture. Brief biographical notes on the authors. Glossary, 2 p. Circa 290 bibl. ref.

The Politics of the Possible

1987-01-01

Kumkum Sangari

he nonmimetic narrative modes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie inhabit a social and conceptual space in which the problems of ascertaining meaning assume a political dimension qualitatively different … he nonmimetic narrative modes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie inhabit a social and conceptual space in which the problems of ascertaining meaning assume a political dimension qualitatively different from the current postmodern skepticism about meaning in Europe and America. Yet such nonmimetic, non-western modes also seem to lay themselves open to the academized procedures of a peculiarly western, historically singular, postmodern epistemology that universalizes the self-conscious dissolution of the bourgeois subject, with its now characteristic stance of self-irony, across both space and time. The expansive forms of the moder and the postmodern novel appear to stand in ever-polite readiness to recycle and accommodate other cultural content, whether Latin American or Indian. The ease with which a reader may be persuaded to traverse the path between such non-western modes and western postmodernism-broadly defined here as the specific preoccupations and sensibility of both contemporary fiction and of poststructuralist critical discourse may

The Voice of the Masters: Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature

1986-01-01

Malva E. Filer , Roberto González Echevarría

A History of Peruvian Literature

1989-07-01

Steven Boldy , JAMES HIGGINS

La batalla de Guatemala

1956-05-01

R. C. Padden

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Reading North by South: on Latin American literature, culture, and politics

1996-06-01

Neil Larsen

Part 1 Occupation texts: teaching Caribbean texts - outline for a counterhegemonizing pedagogy people without history - central America in the literary imagination of the metropolis. Part 2 Sui generis: … Part 1 Occupation texts: teaching Caribbean texts - outline for a counterhegemonizing pedagogy people without history - central America in the literary imagination of the metropolis. Part 2 Sui generis: narrating the trujillato Boom novel and the Cold War in Latin Part 3 Uncivil society: sport as civil society - Argentina's generals play championship soccer hegemony or idelogy? observations on Brazilian fascism and the criticism of Roberto Schwarz. Part 4 Recolonizations: aesthetics and the question of colonial discourse phenomenology and colony - Edmundo O'Gorman's The Invention of America. part 5 Culture and nation: split nationalities indigenism, cultural nationalism, and the problem of universality nation and narratin in Latin America - critical reflections. Part 6 Postmodernity: latin America and postmodernism - a brief theoretical inquiry postmodernism and imperialism - theory and politics in Latin Part 7 Cultural studies: the cultural studies movement and Latin America - an overview transcultural/subpolitical - pitfalls of hybridity Brazilian critical theory and the question of cultural studies.

Historia de la literatura hispanoamericana

1995-01-01

José Miguel Oviedo

A Turbulent Decade Remembered

2007-08-17

Diana Sorensen

A Turbulent Decade Remembered studies the 1960s—the continental moment that marked Latin America's full entry into both modernity and post-modernity in the international arena. Delving into scenes of importance for … A Turbulent Decade Remembered studies the 1960s—the continental moment that marked Latin America's full entry into both modernity and post-modernity in the international arena. Delving into scenes of importance for the intersection of aesthetics and politics, the book addresses the impact of the Cuban Revolution on the imagination of the decade, the student movements of 1968 in their international context, and the tragic events of Tlatelolco, memorialized in different ways by Mexico's greatest intellectuals. In examining the construction of the great novels usually identified as the "Boom," the book revises the critical tradition established since the late sixties, rethinking the oft-cited "magical realism," while considering the role of the press, prizes, gendered networks of solidarity and competition, and the emergence of a literary star system. The implications of all these forces of the republic of letters are set in dialogue with an analysis of the major novels of the decade, with particular attention to their literary craft, their manipulation of space, voice, and varied readerships.

The street is my home: youth and violence in Caracas

2000-01-01

Literary cultures of Latin America: a comparative history

2005-02-01

Maddening States

2003-10-01

Begoña Aretxaga

▪ Abstract Despite transformations in the character of the state in an age of globalization, news of its demise is certainly exaggerated. Even as operations of state (or state-like) power … ▪ Abstract Despite transformations in the character of the state in an age of globalization, news of its demise is certainly exaggerated. Even as operations of state (or state-like) power exceed the boundaries of the nation-state to be deployed by actors such as transnational nongovernmental organizations, private corporations, guerrilla groups, or narcotraffickers, the state form shows remarkable tenacity and adaptability. Invested with a kind of meta-capital, the state remains a crucial presence, a screen for political desires and identifications as well as fears. This review addresses recent academic reflection on the field of knowledge we call the state. It asks how the state becomes a social subject in everyday life, examining the subjective experience of state power and tracing its effects on territories, populations, and bodies. Finally, it considers the ways violence, sexuality, and desire work in the intimate spaces of state power. Begoña Aretxaga's essay was left among her papers in an almost complete form at the time of her untimely death. A collective, consisting of James Brow, Charles Hale, Yael Navaro-Yahsin, Geeta Patel, Brandt Peterson, and Pauline Strong, worked to fill in citations, answer questions Begoña posed to herself, which were unresolved, and to lightly edit the final form of this essay. This piece has not been changed substantially. In an effort to keep to the form and spirit of Begoña's interrogations the essay stands as it was, without a literal conclusion. Perhaps a conclusion can be supplied by readers engaged in an ongoing analysis of contemporary political situations, to which Begoña's work speaks profoundly, as a legacy that this essay and her extended oeuvre bequeathed to us.

A Brief History of Seven Killings

2016-07-02

Hugh Hodges

"A Brief History of Seven Killings." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 49(1-2), pp. 222–223 "A Brief History of Seven Killings." Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, 49(1-2), pp. 222–223

Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History

2010-07-05

Ronald Bogue

The concept of fabulation makes a late appearance in Deleuze's career and in only limited detail, but by tracing its connections to other concepts and situating them within Deleuze's general … The concept of fabulation makes a late appearance in Deleuze's career and in only limited detail, but by tracing its connections to other concepts and situating them within Deleuze's general aesthetics, Ronald Bogue develops a theory of fabulation which he proposes as the guiding principle of a Deleuzian approach to literary narrative. Fabulation, he argues, entails becoming-other, experimenting on the real, legending, and inventing a people to come, as well as an understanding of time informed by Deleuze's Chronos/Aion distinction and his theory of the three passive syntheses of time. In close readings of contemporary novels by Zakes Mda, Arundhati Roy, Roberto Bolaño, Assia Djebar and Richard Flanagan, he demonstrates the usefulness of fabulation as a critical tool, while exploring the problematic relationship between history and story-telling which all five novelists adopt as a central thematic concern. This is an original and exciting project by a highly respected specialist in the field.

Perón o muerte : los fundamentos discursivos del fenómeno peronista

2003-01-01

Silvia Sigal , Éliséo Véron

Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America

2003-01-01

Kenneth Maxwell , Susana Rotker

Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 million people die violently each year, and … Citizens in Latin American cities live in constant fear, amidst some of the most dangerous conditions on earth. In that vast region, 140 million people die violently each year, and one out of three citizens have been directly or indirectly victimized by violence. In Venezuela, adults are on average targets of crime seventeen crimes in their lifetimes, four of which are violent. In Mexico, 97 percent of all reported crimes go unpunished. Crime, in effect, is an undeclared war. Citizens of Fear, in part, assembles survey results of social scientists who document the pervasiveness of violence. But the numbers tell only part of the story. Other contributors present moving testimonials by the victimized and by journalists covering the scene. A third group of essayists explores the implications of the resulting fear for both thought and behavior. As Susana Rotker writes, The city has been transformed into a space of vulnerability and danger...What I am interested in narrating here is...the generalized sensation of insecurity that taints the Latin American capitals, the sensation that has changed the ways people relate to urban space, to other human beings, to the state, and to the very concept of citizenship.

Nightwatch: the politics of protest in the Andes

2000-03-01

Orin Starn

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Origin Stories 2. Nightwatch 3. Nightcourt 4. Women and the Rondas 5. The Rondas in the Age of the NGO 6. Leaders and Followers Epilogue Notes Bibliography … Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Origin Stories 2. Nightwatch 3. Nightcourt 4. Women and the Rondas 5. The Rondas in the Age of the NGO 6. Leaders and Followers Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Through the kaleidoscope: the experience of modernity in Latin America

2001-10-01

Vivian Schelling , Lorraine Leu

Through the Kaleidoscope gathers together some of the best writers on the region: Nestor Canclini and Ruben Oliven unravel the legacy of slavery, the ambivalent relationship towards development progress, the … Through the Kaleidoscope gathers together some of the best writers on the region: Nestor Canclini and Ruben Oliven unravel the legacy of slavery, the ambivalent relationship towards development progress, the impact of globalization, that gives rise to a characteristically hybrid modernity; Beatriz Sarlo and Nicolau Sevcenko writes about Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo; Renato Ortiz and Ana Lopez look at how television and cinema have shaped modernity; Jose Jorge de Carvalho, Jose de Souza Martins and Nelson Manrique address questions of religion, politics, ideology and social movements; and Gwendolyn Kirkpatrick and Beatriz Rezende explore the intricacies of artistic and literary modernism.

Critical Passions: Selected Essays

2000-07-01

Jean Franco

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Committed Critic / Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman 1 1 Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism 9 2 Mass and Popular Culture 133 3 Latin … Acknowledgments vii Introduction: The Committed Critic / Mary Louise Pratt and Kathleen Newman 1 1 Feminism and the Critique of Authoritarianism 9 2 Mass and Popular Culture 133 3 Latin American Literature: The Boom and Beyond 233 4 Mexico 429 Afterword: The Twighlight of the Vanguard and the Rise of Criticism (1994-1995) 503 Biographical Note 517 Index 519

The Exhaustion of Difference: The Politics of Latin American Cultural Studies

2002-01-01

Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste , Alberto Moreiras

The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the … The conditions for thinking about Latin America as a regional unit in transnational academic discourse have shifted over the past decades. In The Exhaustion of Difference Alberto Moreiras ponders the ramifications of this shift and draws on deconstruction, Marxian theory, philosophy, political economy, subaltern studies, literary criticism, and postcolonial studies to interrogate the minimal conditions for an effective critique of knowledge given the recent transformations of the contemporary world. What, asks Moreiras, is the function of critical reason in the present moment? What is regionalistic knowledge in the face of globalization? Can regionalistic knowledge be an effective tool for a critique of contemporary reason? What is the specificity of Latin Americanist reflection and how is it situated to deal with these questions? Through examinations of critical regionalism, restitutional excess, the historical genealogy of Latin American subalternism, testimonio literature, and the cultural politics of magical realism, Moreiras argues that while cultural studies is increasingly institutionalized and in danger of reproducing the dominant ideologies of late capitalism, it is also ripe for giving way to projects of theoretical reformulation. Ultimately, he claims, critical reason must abandon its allegiance to aesthetic-historicist projects and the destructive binaries upon which all cultural theories of modernity have been constructed. The Exhaustion of Difference makes a significant contribution to the rethinking of Latin American cultural studies.

Contemporary Latin American cinema: breaking into the global market

2007-11-01

Deborah Anne Shaw

Introduction: Latin Amercan Cinema Today: A Qualified Success Story Chapter 1: Los diarios de motocicleta as Pan-American Travelogue Chapter 2: So What's Mexico Really Like?: Framing the Local, Negotiating the … Introduction: Latin Amercan Cinema Today: A Qualified Success Story Chapter 1: Los diarios de motocicleta as Pan-American Travelogue Chapter 2: So What's Mexico Really Like?: Framing the Local, Negotiating the Global in Alfonso Cuaron's Y tu mama tambien Chapter 3: Cidade de Deus: Challenges to Hollywood, Steps to The Constant Gardener Chapter 4: Playing Hollywood at Its Own Game? Bielinski's Nueve reinas Chapter 5: Afro-Brazilian Identity, Malandragem and Homosexuality in Madame Sata Chapter 6: Family Romance and Pathetic Rhetoric in Marcelo Pineyro's Kamchatka Chapter 7: Soapsuds and Histrionics: Media, History, and Nation in Bolivar soy yo Chapter 8: Killing Time in Cuba: Juan Carlos Tabio's Lista de espera Chapter 9: The Power of Looking: Politics and the Gaze in Salvador Carrasco's La Otra Conquista Chapter 10: Peruvian Cinema and the Struggle for International Recognition: Case Study on El Destino no tiene favoritos

Writing in the Aftermath of War: Literature and Disenchantment in Postwar Central America

2025-06-25

Nanci Buiza | TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World

This article examines the challenges faced by Central American writers during a period of profound cultural, political, and economic change, as Central America transitioned from an era of civil war … This article examines the challenges faced by Central American writers during a period of profound cultural, political, and economic change, as Central America transitioned from an era of civil war and revolutionary struggle to one of peace, democracy, and neoliberal state-building, spanning from the 1990s to the 2010s. At the core of this change was a pervasive sense of disenchantment, understood not merely as disillusionment with the failures of the peacebuilding process but as a hollowing out of society’s capacity to envision Central American reality on a broader and more meaningful scale. This deeper, more intractable aspect of disenchantment and its implications for the literary enterprise are the focus of this article. I argue that the forces shaping Central America’s postwar modernity have profoundly undermined the groundwork of affectivity, imagination, and memory that literature’s humanizing potential depends on. As a result, Central American writers face the paradoxical task of upholding their literary vocation when literature’s power to produce aesthetic and emancipatory experiences is in decline.

Campisi, Nicolás. The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024. Pp. 272

2025-06-25

Daniel Runnels | TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World

Las Aspirantes: mujeres (in)visibles de Malvinas

2025-06-24

Pablo Francisco Gullino , Melisa Antonella D'Alessandro | Malvinas en Cuestión

Interview conducted in May 2024 with Gretel Suárez, director of the documentary Las Aspirantes (2017), and Nancy Susana Stancato, one of its protagonists. In the documentary, Gretel narrates the experience … Interview conducted in May 2024 with Gretel Suárez, director of the documentary Las Aspirantes (2017), and Nancy Susana Stancato, one of its protagonists. In the documentary, Gretel narrates the experience of a group of naval nursing trainees during the Malvinas War. Most of them, minors, in addition to assisting the wounded and providing care during the conflict, faced abuse and mistreatment by military authorities. Nancy, one of the trainees in the Naval Nursing program, provides a comprehensive testimony that allows for a sensitive approach to the history of the women of the Malvinas War.

El paseo de los amores. Amor, desamor y cursilería, de Alicia Sianes

2025-06-23

J. Pérez | Revista Internacional de Educación y Análisis Social Crítico Mañé Ferrer & Swartz

En este breve escrito hacemos una reseña del libro de la Doctora Alicia Sianes Bautista, que lleva por título Amor, desamor y cursilería, publicado por la Editorial Talón de Aquiles, … En este breve escrito hacemos una reseña del libro de la Doctora Alicia Sianes Bautista, que lleva por título Amor, desamor y cursilería, publicado por la Editorial Talón de Aquiles, la casa de la poesía. Con el título El paseo de los amores, hacemos una reflexión sobre las impresiones que esta poética obra nos ha causado.

DIABLO (1996)

2025-06-19

René Bauer , Beat Suter | transcript Verlag eBooks

Las descripciones de los espacios habitados en las canciones de rock latinoamericano: un análisis literario del espacio en la canción

2025-06-19

David Boza Méndez | Repertorio Americano

This article studies the depictions of the different spaces and settings inhabited in the lyrics of the songs of Latin American rock. The musicians from the region describe spaces such … This article studies the depictions of the different spaces and settings inhabited in the lyrics of the songs of Latin American rock. The musicians from the region describe spaces such as the city, the streets, the office or space for work, and the home as literary elements which play a significant role in the narratives in the songs. This study aims to show that the space influences to a great extent in the subjects, this influence being of negative nature. In this sense, the songs included in this study constitute critical texts about the human condition; many of these focus on the relation between subjects and these spaces. Also, this article uses semantic and literary analysis to draw conclusions about the subject.

Edson Faúndez. "Deseo y realidad. Las novelas de Alberto Blest Gana"

2025-06-18

Pablo Fuentes Retamal | Anales de Literatura Chilena

Sin resumen Sin resumen

Las formas de poder en la novela La muerte de Artemio Cruz de Carlos Fuentes

2025-06-18

M. A. Gil Olarte , Niel Palomino Gonzales | Syntagmas.

La finalidad del presente artículo es interpretar la naturaleza del poder y explicar las formas de poder en la novela La muerte de Artemio Cruz del literato mexicano Carlos Fuentes. … La finalidad del presente artículo es interpretar la naturaleza del poder y explicar las formas de poder en la novela La muerte de Artemio Cruz del literato mexicano Carlos Fuentes. Para ello, recurrimos, como herramienta de análisis, a la famosa clasificación de las formas de poder de Thomas Hobbes y de French y Raven. En la mencionada novela se ha detectado las siguientes formas de poder: contar con súbditos, gozar de buena reputación, ser referente, ser rico, tener éxito, actuar con prudencia, tener elocuencia, ser cortés, tener conocimiento, dar recompensa, ejercer la coerción y ser autoridad. Asimismo, se ha llegado a la conclusión que el poder es efímero, conmensurable deseo nunca satisfecho que termina con la muerte y cuanto más rango y alcance tiene, más invisible se halla. El poder no es de alguien, alguien es del poder. Aun así, se manifiesta en su diversidad en el ascenso al poder del protagonista principal de la novela: Artemio Cruz.

El El círculo perfecto de la muerte

2025-06-18

Edward Álvarez Yucra | Syntagmas.

La siguiente reseña aborda la última novela del narrador arequipeño Yuri Vásquez, cuya trayectoria lo ha consolidado como un escritor destacable en la narrativa peruana contemporánea, aproximadamente, de los 90 … La siguiente reseña aborda la última novela del narrador arequipeño Yuri Vásquez, cuya trayectoria lo ha consolidado como un escritor destacable en la narrativa peruana contemporánea, aproximadamente, de los 90 hacia adelante. Asimismo, considerando que esta nueva obra incursiona en un género novelesco no antes visto a cabalidad en su producción, resulta imperioso brindar los datos necesarios para comprender su distintivos y reparar en los detalles que confluyen en su composición, pues se trata de un relato policial desenvuelto con aciertos y deslices.

“El duelo es el fin de la soledad” Muerte y lengua en Los muertos indóciles (2019) de Cristina Rivera Garza

2025-06-17

Lucila Navarrete Turrent | Revista Sarance

En este trabajo, examino los aportes teóricos que la escritora mexicana Cristina Rivera Garza desarrolla en Los muertos indóciles. Necroescrituras y deseapropiación (2019), en particular los que atañen a la … En este trabajo, examino los aportes teóricos que la escritora mexicana Cristina Rivera Garza desarrolla en Los muertos indóciles. Necroescrituras y deseapropiación (2019), en particular los que atañen a la relación entre escritura y muerte, a las nociones de “autor” y “desapropiación”, ideas que proponen otras formas de escritura, otra lengua incluso, que responde a una realidad de sumo violenta. Para ello, primero reparo en la relevancia de un pensamiento oscilante entre el ámbito periodístico y el espíritu ensayístico en este proyecto teórico de Rivera Garza, especialmente en términos de una toma de postura con respecto a la palabra. En segundo lugar, exploro los cuestionamientos que ponen en crisis las nociones de “autor” y “literatura”, para colocar el acento en escrituras que resisten a entornos deshumanizadores. Por último, defiendo la idea de que, en diálogo con la pensadora norteamericana Judith Butler, así como otros autores provenientes de la tradición crítica, Rivera Garza apuesta por la articulación de una lengua otra desde y para los muertos, una lengua para procesar el duelo y colectivizar la palabra.

«Lo destrozó con una ráfaga»: la desaparición del otro a través de la ficción en Víbora (2009), de Andrzej Sapkowski

2025-06-17

Francisco David García Martín , María Fernández Rodríguez | Anuario de Estudios Filológicos

En este artículo se plantea una reflexión sobre el desgarrador proceso de deshumanización y de privación de la individualidad que, lamentablemente, ocurre en todo escenario bélico, tanto en la realidad … En este artículo se plantea una reflexión sobre el desgarrador proceso de deshumanización y de privación de la individualidad que, lamentablemente, ocurre en todo escenario bélico, tanto en la realidad como en la ficción. Asimismo, de manera breve, se apuntará también cómo en la narrativa fantástica este proceso se pone de relieve de manera mucho más patente y esclarecedora, y se ofrecerá un análisis del poder de sugerencia que la literatura ejerce sobre el lector. Para concretar la propuesta, se ha escogido la novela Víbora (2009), de Andrzej Sapkowski, cuyo argumento transcurre durante la Guerra afgano-soviética (1978-1992) en un territorio mitificado y llevado a la leyenda. Siguiendo las ideas de otros estudios sobre la despersonalización del otro, especialmente la de aquel que procede de culturas orientales, así como de trabajos propios y previos sobre el autor estudiado, el presente artículo hace hincapié en la inevitable deshumanización que opera en todo proceso de otredad, sobre todo en los conflictos bélicos, y en cómo la literatura no necesariamente es un bálsamo escapista. Al contrario, la ficción de Sapkowski pretende desnudar las flaquezas de una sociedad débil ante el sufrimiento ajeno. Para ello, y al igual que el autor polaco, analizaremos de manera global cómo las perspectivas occidentales condicionan nuestra percepción del 'enemigo' oriental, al mismo tiempo que ilustraremos estas conclusiones con pasajes de la novela.

Escobar’s Narcos and whiteness: Fantasising of the American dream by fetishising Latinx and Latin Americans

2025-06-16

Diego Mauricio Cortés | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies

Reseña del libro: Emilio José Ocampos Palomar y Dolores Romero López (eds.) (2024). El feminismo en la literatura de la Edad de Plata

2025-06-16

A Sastre | Anales de Literatura Española

Emilio José Ocampos Palomar y Dolores Romero López (eds.) (2024). El feminismo en la literatura de la Edad de Plata. Madrid/Sevilla: Ediciones Complutense/Editorial Renacimiento, ISBN: 978-84-669-3852-5 / 978-84-1014-848-2, 286 pp. Emilio José Ocampos Palomar y Dolores Romero López (eds.) (2024). El feminismo en la literatura de la Edad de Plata. Madrid/Sevilla: Ediciones Complutense/Editorial Renacimiento, ISBN: 978-84-669-3852-5 / 978-84-1014-848-2, 286 pp.

"Carto(corpo)grafías. Nuevo reparto de las voces en la narrativa de autoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI", de Fernanda Bustamante Escalona, Lorena Amaro Castro (eds.)

2025-06-13

Elena Gil González | Pasavento Revista de Estudios Hispánicos

Reseña Reseña

El problema de la verdad en "Perro muerto en tintorería: los fuertes" (2007) de Angélica Liddell

2025-06-13

Miguel Aguirre-Bernal | Pasavento Revista de Estudios Hispánicos

Esta investigación parte de la hipótesis de que, en Perro muerto en tintorería: Los fuertes (2007), Angélica Liddell plantea un problema sobre la producción de la verdad, para lo cual … Esta investigación parte de la hipótesis de que, en Perro muerto en tintorería: Los fuertes (2007), Angélica Liddell plantea un problema sobre la producción de la verdad, para lo cual toma como referencia los trabajos de Michel Foucault. Para comprobarlo, se hace uso del concepto de régimen de verdad y, a partir de él, se revisan los mecanismos de veridicción que operan en la obra bajo la forma de lo “Incompatible”. Así, se descubre que en esta pieza teatral la construcción de lo real funciona a través de actos de fe —encarnados ficcionalmente por Combeferre— y se indica el modo en que este mecanismo se articula con un régimen político-jurídico que recupera las ideas sobre la delincuencia, la sospecha y el panóptico presentes en Vigilar y castigar (1975). A continuación, se revisa la manera en que las pruebas materiales ponen en crisis este modelo y se señala la emergencia del cuerpo y de lo concreto como productores de verdad alternativos. Sin embargo, cuando el poder demuestra su versatilidad al crear un régimen de verdad basado en el cuerpo y, por consiguiente, apropiándose y neutralizando la amenaza, la locura se convierte en la única vía de escape. De esta manera, se muestra el modo en que el delirio les sirve a los personajes para encontrar un camino de libertad: el suicidio. Liddell, por tanto, termina deslindándose de las teorías foucaultianas para proponer el sacrificio de sí mismo como un contra-rito que hace del cuerpo un espacio de resistencia.

This Moment is Special: A Día de Muertos Story by John Parra (review)

2025-06-13

Amanda Toledo | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Márgenes, límites, periferias y prácticas artísticas. Tres eventos que han transitado por estos conceptos: Dokumenta Fifteen, BIAU XII, Manifesta 15

2025-06-02

Ramón Parramon Arimany | Arte individuo y sociedad

Este artículo examina los conceptos de márgenes, límites y periferias en el contexto de las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas, subrayando su presencia recurrente en proyectos transdisciplinares y eventos culturales. Se analiza … Este artículo examina los conceptos de márgenes, límites y periferias en el contexto de las prácticas artísticas contemporáneas, subrayando su presencia recurrente en proyectos transdisciplinares y eventos culturales. Se analiza cómo la transgresión de los límites constituye un objetivo frecuente en la creación artística, al tiempo que su definición resulta fundamental para delimitar los campos de acción crítica. Los márgenes, concebidos tanto como fronteras simbólicas como espacios periféricos, han sido históricamente considerados territorios fértiles para la exploración creativa. A partir de esta premisa, el texto interroga si la expansión constante de los márgenes en el arte contemporáneo reproduce lógicas coloniales y dinámicas de extractivismo simbólico, alineadas con el paradigma capitalista del crecimiento incesante, o si, por el contrario, responde a la necesidad de reconfigurar narrativas críticas socialmente comprometidas, con capacidad de articularse como espacios de resistencia y transformación en contextos locales. Esta problemática se enmarca en el análisis de eventos culturales globales que, desde perspectivas curatoriales diversas, buscan visibilizar discursos disidentes y articular nuevas centralidades desde los márgenes. El artículo se estructura en dos secciones principales: la primera explora la relación entre márgenes, límites y periferias en el ámbito artístico; la segunda examina las líneas programáticas de tres eventos internacionales — Documenta Fifteen, BIAU XII y Manifesta 15— que integran estos conceptos y tratan de dotarles un espacio de centralidad.

Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel and the Allegory of the Island: From Skin Ego to Screen Ego

2025-05-31

Junga Shin , Yong Ho Choi | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Literature Studies

Crossing Power Borders in a Tight Silk Suit: Loci of Power in A troche y moche by Gustavo Sainz

2025-05-29

Victoria Carpenter | Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos

This study considers how the fluidity of power loci, in terms of text ownership, replaces the static nature of hegemonic relationships between the protagonist and the characters in Gustavo Sainz’s … This study considers how the fluidity of power loci, in terms of text ownership, replaces the static nature of hegemonic relationships between the protagonist and the characters in Gustavo Sainz’s novel A troche y moche (2002). The key aspect of this study of power loci and power border crossing is the analysis of the complexity of the dominance/subordination dichotomy. Using the theories of hegemonic masculinity and posthegemony, the essay examines the fluid nature of borders between the power loci of the writer-protagonist, his associates, and his kidnappers.

Writing Cumbia Villera: Intermediality, Performance, and Neoliberalism in Washington Cucurto and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

2025-05-29

Charlie D. Hankin | Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos

Following the 2001 crisis in Argentina, cumbia villera emerged as a national music. Writers such as Washington Cucurto and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara incorporated the genre in their novels to reevaluate … Following the 2001 crisis in Argentina, cumbia villera emerged as a national music. Writers such as Washington Cucurto and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara incorporated the genre in their novels to reevaluate the political function of art in a neoliberal context. This article has two objectives: to consider the intermediality between cumbia and literature in two post-crisis novels; and to analyze how this intermediality engages with and reconfigures notions of neoliberalism. I propose to read cumbia-literature as an expression of what Verónica Gago calls a “neoliberalism from below,” which, in its most utopian iterations, wields the possibility of renewing democratic dissensus.

La ausencia y la pérdida en La buena letra (1992) de Rafael Chirbes

2025-05-29

Sonia Zarco-Real | Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos

Este ensayo examina la memoria en La buena letra (1992) mediante el análisis de las ausencias y pérdidas. Se arguye que la novela busca articular una narrativa del recuerdo, pero … Este ensayo examina la memoria en La buena letra (1992) mediante el análisis de las ausencias y pérdidas. Se arguye que la novela busca articular una narrativa del recuerdo, pero también cuestionarla. Por un lado, el acto de recordar de la protagonista se ve imbuido por un sentido de vacío y melancolía. Por otro lado, la reflexión postmoderna y metalingüística evidencia el carácter contingente de la escritura y la memoria. Este artículo concluye que, en su intento por construir una memoria, La buena letra nos conduce a una aporía.

EUGENIO C. DI STEFANO. The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era. Austin: U of Texas P, 2018. 185 pp.

2025-05-29

Mario Boido | Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos

Reseña de The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era de Eugenio C. Di Stefano. Reseña de The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era de Eugenio C. Di Stefano.

Ricardo Ananía (1944-2018)

2025-05-29

Horacio Faella | Revista Argentina de Cardiología

Ángel Vilanova, Motivo clásico y novela latinoamericana (El "Viaje al Averno" en Adán Buenosayres, Pedro Páramo y Cubagua). Mérida (Venezuela), Solar, 1993

2025-05-28

Marta Garelli | Argos

Análisis de la novela Mandíbula de Mónica Ojeda: horror, trauma y adolescencia femenina

2025-05-26

Jhomara Roxana Pilco Paredes , Tania Esthefania Jaramillo Cantos , Sandra Lupe León Quispe +3 more

La novela Mandíbula (2018) de Mónica Ojeda se erige como una de las obras más Este artículo analiza la novela Mandíbula (2018) de Mónica Ojeda desde una perspectiva literaria y … La novela Mandíbula (2018) de Mónica Ojeda se erige como una de las obras más Este artículo analiza la novela Mandíbula (2018) de Mónica Ojeda desde una perspectiva literaria y simbólica, centrándose en tres ejes principales: el horror, el trauma y la adolescencia femenina. La autora ecuatoriana propone una narrativa que combina el gótico latinoamericano con una profunda exploración psicológica, enmarcando la experiencia adolescente femenina en contextos de represión institucional, familiar y religiosa. A través del análisis textual y la revisión crítica, se identifican símbolos clave como la boca, el grito y la mandíbula, que representan tanto el sufrimiento como las formas de resistencia de las jóvenes protagonistas. Este estudio concluye que Mandíbula ofrece una mirada disruptiva sobre la construcción del miedo en lo femenino, convirtiéndolo en herramienta de reapropiación y denuncia. También se examina cómo la violencia estructural y simbólica propia del contexto andino configura una estética del exceso que subvierte los discursos hegemónicos.

mundo (re)visto

2025-05-26

Lúcia Ramos Monteiro , Pablo Gonçalo , Marcelo Rodrigues Souza Ribeiro

Como mostram, em seu conjunto, os artigos que compõem o dossiê, os sonhos, as disputas e as negociações em torno do que pode ser aquilo que frequentemente denominamos a ordem … Como mostram, em seu conjunto, os artigos que compõem o dossiê, os sonhos, as disputas e as negociações em torno do que pode ser aquilo que frequentemente denominamos a ordem mundial são inseparáveis de maneiras de organização temporal das experiências cinematográficas e audiovisuais. Enquanto o ordenamento de um mundo envolve divisões territoriais que procuram conter essas experiências em escalas variáveis de delimitação do comum (o nacional, o estatal, o étnico e inúmeras outras classificações), a temporalidade dessas experiências é frequentemente contida por meio de periodizações e modos de arquivamento. Em ambos os casos, os artigos evidenciam a importância de perturbar os modos de ordenamento e organização do espaço e do tempo que definem nosso entendimento do cinema e do audiovisual.

blues del perdedor.

2025-05-22

Luis Pérez Valero

REVIEW REVIEW

Clicas: Gender, sexuality, and struggle in Latina/o/x gang literature and film

2025-05-20

Regina Marie Mills

ETERNIDAD Y GLORIA A EVA PERÓN, DE CARMEM AGUER, À LUZ DOS ESTUDOS ÉPICOS

2025-05-17

Christina Ramalho , EB Menezes

O livro Eternidad y gloria a Eva Perón (1997), de Carmem Aguer (1917- 2003), se trata de um poema longo que discorre sobre a figura de Eva Perón, ex-primeira dama … O livro Eternidad y gloria a Eva Perón (1997), de Carmem Aguer (1917- 2003), se trata de um poema longo que discorre sobre a figura de Eva Perón, ex-primeira dama argentina, englobando desde seu nascimento na cidade de Los toldos, Argentina, em 1919, até seu falecimento em 1952, em Buenos Aires. A obra leva em conta aspectos históricos e míticos relacionados a Eva Perón, a Evita, cuja origem pobre, atuação política, empatia com o povo e morte precoce, cercada de circunstâncias perversas, levaram-na a alcançar o status de heroína. Nesta abordagem, apontamos como alguns aspectos épicos se fazem presentes na obra, com destaque para a matéria épica e suas duasdimensões: a histórica e a mítica. Para isso, nos debruçamos em estudos épicos, de modo a fundamentar o objetivo principal de reconhecer Eternidad y gloria a Eva Perón como uma produção épico-lírica. Além disso, também nos pautamos em informações biográficas extraídas de livros e artigos. A metodologia utilizada, portanto, foi bibliográfica e qualitativa. Espera-se, com este estudo, contribuir para o conhecimento da obra no Brasil assim como realçar a força histórico-mítica da imagem de Evita.

Fernanda Bustamante Escalona y Lorena Amaro Castro (editado por), Carto(corpo)grafías. Nuevo reparto de las voces en la narrativa de autoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI (Madrid-Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2024, 412 pp. ISBN 978-84-9192

2025-05-17

Macarena Cortés Correa

Fernanda Bustamante Escalona y Lorena Amaro Castro (editado por), Carto(corpo)grafías. Nuevo reparto de las voces en la narrativa de autoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI (Madrid-Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2024, 412 … Fernanda Bustamante Escalona y Lorena Amaro Castro (editado por), Carto(corpo)grafías. Nuevo reparto de las voces en la narrativa de autoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI (Madrid-Frankfurt am Main, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2024, 412 pp. ISBN 978-84-9192-406-7; 978-3-96869-533-4) por Macarena Cortés Correa

Hermenéutica de la imagen vacía. El sentido de la ausencia en la obra de Mario Bellatin

2025-05-16

Diego Alonso

Este ensayo se interroga sobre las formas y funciones de la ausencia en el ars narrativa de Bellatin. Tomando como eje la categoría de la imagen, el análisis distingue entre … Este ensayo se interroga sobre las formas y funciones de la ausencia en el ars narrativa de Bellatin. Tomando como eje la categoría de la imagen, el análisis distingue entre dos tipos de ausencia: la ausencia de algo definido que al ser representado delata su no-presencia (lo propio de la imagen), y una ausencia primordial e inefable relacionada a la mística del hecho estético. Este tipo de ausencia resulta constitutivo del sujeto al conferirle un dinamismo y una fuerza creativa que no se materializa en una representación o mímesis ostensiva. Contrariamente a la muerte del autor proclamada por el estructuralismo, la literatura de Bellatin somete a este a una experiencia ontológica de la ausencia.

A escrita de um obituário em “Los claveles de Jennifer” de Iván Monalisa Ojeda

2025-05-15

Luiz Henrique Moreira Soares , Cláudia Maria Ceneviva Nigro

Baseado na narrativa “Los claveles de Jennifer”, apresentado na coletânea Las biuty queens (2019), do multiartista transgênero de dois espíritos Iván Monalisa Ojeda, este texto analisa como a narradora engendra … Baseado na narrativa “Los claveles de Jennifer”, apresentado na coletânea Las biuty queens (2019), do multiartista transgênero de dois espíritos Iván Monalisa Ojeda, este texto analisa como a narradora engendra um obituário sobre a personagem Jennifer – travesti- loca e prostituta hondurenha , assassinada em quarto de hotel em Nova York, no inverno de 1997. Nesse quadro, as articulações linguísticas e imagéticas apresentadas por Monalisa Ojeda inscrevem um personagem na esfera da palavra e da existência legítima do discurso, de modo a estabelecer questionamentos em torno da construção política do “humano” a corpos dissidentes de sexualidade e gênero. Para tanto, partimos do conceito de “obituário”, de Judith Butler (2004), a partir de uma perspectiva e leitura decoloniais do texto literário.

Estéticas de la desidentificación en tiempos de biosociabilidad: sobre las nuevas escrituras travesti-trans en América Latina

2025-05-15

Daniel Gonzalez

En este trabajo busco elaborar una cartografía de la narrativa de y sobre travestis-trans en América Latina para detectar los vasos comunicantes que existen en los primeros cuentos y novelas … En este trabajo busco elaborar una cartografía de la narrativa de y sobre travestis-trans en América Latina para detectar los vasos comunicantes que existen en los primeros cuentos y novelas sobre el tema, y las nuevas voces en América Latina. Revisaré los debates en torno a la aparición de les cuerpos trans como problema para el discurso biologista y dimórfico, y cómo desde la filosofía de las ciencias y los feminismos materialistas se ha cuestionado su veracidad. La propuesta de la filósofa y neurocientífica Lu Ciccia sobre el desmontaje del cerebro dimórfico y el privilegio de la posibilidad plástica del mismo me ayudará a encontrar vías de análisis de las nuevas escrituras travesti-trans en Latinoamérica. Así, me enfocaré en de dos novelas publicadas en 2023: Inacabada , de la chilena Ariel Florencia Richards, y Tapizado corazón de orquídeas negras , de la mexicana Évolet Aceves, a partir de las categorías de desidentificación y biosociabilidad . Mi objetivo será revelar las técnicas que ambas escritoras utilizan para pensar el cuerpo propio y comprobar que le otorgan un papel fundamental a sus universos afectivos. Buscaré demostrar que existe una paradoja inevitable en sus despliegues estéticos que acepta, por una parte, discursos heteronormativos, y por otro lado, niegan el encasillamiento de sus cuerpos en los sistemas de verdad del paradigma científico moderno. Finalmente, destacaré los simbolismos alternativos por medio de los cuales intentan dar sentido a sus existencias mediante nuevos marcos hermenéuticos que funcionen para sus subjetividades.

Resurgimiento queer: resistencia política y cultural en las representaciones artísticas y literarias latinoamericanas

2025-05-15

W. Netzy Hernández Díaz

En este estudio analizaré en profundidad los orígenes del continuo acoso al queer, comenzaré repasando los aspectos históricos de las diversas luchas feministas que impulsaron la lucha del movimiento queer. … En este estudio analizaré en profundidad los orígenes del continuo acoso al queer, comenzaré repasando los aspectos históricos de las diversas luchas feministas que impulsaron la lucha del movimiento queer. Haré énfasis en las instancias de violencia que existen hacia el queer en Latinoamérica y el origen de su repudio. Finalizaré proponiendo cómo las obras de distintos artistas mexicanos y latinoamericanos proponen, a través de la escritura y las letras, un posible cambio progresista en las estructuras sociales. Igualmente me apoyaré en los conceptos teóricos propuestos por Michel Foucault y Judith Butler, esto para más fácil entender la realidad que afectan a las minorías sexuales y cómo estas teorías desatienden o ignoran las realidades latinoamericanas. Mi entendimiento de los conceptos teóricos se ejemplificará a través de distintas producciones literarias y cinematográficas de autores y cineastas latinoamericanos. Argumento que los movimientos sociales requieren de un análisis introspectivo que permitan vislumbrar los errores de la sociedad y encontrar posibles soluciones. Por lo que, es a través del análisis de las representaciones literarias, culturales y artísticas se puede ejemplificar y hacer hincapié a situaciones cotidianas que amenazan la vida y libertad de los sujetos queer. Propongo que como sociedad crítica entremos en un proceso de autoexploración que ayude a entender las actitudes negativas que existen hacia las emergentes expresiones de género.

New by Niña Mata (review)

2025-05-14

Danica Ronquillo

Uruguayan Women’S Cinema And The Wilful WOman In Beatriz Flores Silva’S En La Puta Vida

2025-05-13

Carolina Rocha

Colapso y repetición: la crisis de la imaginación histórica y el extractivismo temporal

2025-05-12

Andreu Ballús Santacana

En el contexto de la crisis climática y una modernidad exhausta, este ensayo explora la crisis de la imaginación histórica como un fenómeno en el que el tiempo se convierte … En el contexto de la crisis climática y una modernidad exhausta, este ensayo explora la crisis de la imaginación histórica como un fenómeno en el que el tiempo se convierte en una trampa circular. La lógica del extractivismo temporal impone una visión del pasado como una secuencia de colapsos y renacimientos utilitarios al servicio de las estructuras actuales de poder, reflejando el agotamiento de nuestra capacidad para concebir alternativas al presente hegemónico. Las narrativas históricas dominantes seleccionan y simplifican solo aquellos elementos del pasado que confirman una visión lineal del progreso. EN respuesta, se analizan pasados sin papeles y modelos históricos alternativos como las sociedades descentralizadas de la Edad de Bronce, las culturas indígenas y las estructuras comunales medievales, los cuales abren el tiempo a una pluralidad de posibilidades y desafían la clausura ideológica del futuro. Este enfoque invita a reimaginar la historia no como una herramienta justificativa, sino como una práctica ética que, al liberar la memoria de esta explotación temporal, redescubre un tiempo lleno de potencialidades colectivas para repensar el presente y sus futuros.

Franz Kafka, Roberto Bolaño, and the “Artificial Intelligence” of Posthumous Authorship

2025-05-09

Ian Ellison

This article undertakes a comparative reading of the lives and legacies of Franz Kafka and Roberto Bolaño in order to explore the nature of their authorship after their deaths. To … This article undertakes a comparative reading of the lives and legacies of Franz Kafka and Roberto Bolaño in order to explore the nature of their authorship after their deaths. To this end, this article considers the implications for the construction of posthumous authorship as a category of reception and production if it were viewed metaphorically as a form of artificial intelligence. This article then proceeds to undertakes a critical act of fabulation in reading “Josefine die Sängerin; oder das Volk der Mäuse” (“Josefine the Singer; or the Mouse People”) and Bolaño’s short story “Policía de las ratas” (“Police Rat”), a posthumously published sequel-of-sorts to Kafka’s tale, as one combined metatextual and metaphorical commentary on the condition of posthumous authorship and the forms of referentiality that may be discerned between literary works by deceased writers.

Visualising Lithium Extraction as the Decapitation of Mother Salt in Cartier and Longo's En el nombre del litio (2021)

2025-05-08

Barbara Galindo

The feature documentary En el nombre del litio ( In the Name of Lithium , 2021), directed by Argentine filmmakers Tian Cartier and Martin Longo, portrays the resistance of the … The feature documentary En el nombre del litio ( In the Name of Lithium , 2021), directed by Argentine filmmakers Tian Cartier and Martin Longo, portrays the resistance of the Kolla and Atakama Indigenous communities against lithium mining in northwest Argentina. The film evaluates the mining project through a Pachacentric ethical lens, serving as an example of what this article defines as cosmocentric cinema . It exposes the lithium enterprise as a form of ecosocial torture , which can lead to the destruction of the salt flats, symbolically resulting in the ‘decapitation’ of Mother Salt .

Intermedial Turn, Expanded Arts, and Politics in Latin America

2025-05-08

Claudia Kozak