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Abstract: Amores perros (2000) is a cinematic work meant to be read, not merely watched. Twenty years after its release, Alejandro González Iñárritu's first feature-length film still stirs audiences with its hard-edged social commentary and its searing critique of the ethics of neoliberalism. This article argues that the allusions to cannibalism through snippets of text that appear on screen and the insistent representation of commodity and monetary exchange through visual associations, montage, framing, and dialogue, establish an undeniable cause–effect social relationship between money and violence. This indictment is bolstered by a complex network of interweaving stories and multilayered imagery that comprises an ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: El 15 de noviembre de 1931, La Lanterne Sourde, un grupo literario de vanguardia fundado en Bruselas, celebró su décimo y último aniversario rindiendo homenaje a toda una elite de escritores y poetas españoles e hispanoamericanos, así como a algunos representantes de las letras portuguesas. Al final de este evento, en el que participaron más de cien invitados, el poeta belga Paul Vanderborght anunció la fundación de un nuevo grupo literario de orientación vanguardista cuyo objetivo sería promover los vínculos entre los poetas francófonos y los poetas de lengua hispana "en un espíritu de paz y humanismo moderno" (Amitiés, ML 07741/0001). Este grupo se llamó Amistades Hispano-Belga-Americanas (1932–1936) y jugó un ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Las distintas maneras en que nos entretenemos constituyen una de las principales bases para la formación de la identidad individual. Mediante los pasatiempos y diversiones establecemos relaciones de afinidad o antipatía con los demás, nos afiliamos a grupos y organizaciones sociales, y descubrimos cómo nos posicionamos dentro de la sociedad no solo en cuanto a gustos y aficiones, sino incluso en cuanto al estatus socioeconómico y la clase social. En la sociedad moderna, en la que las múltiples formas de entretenimiento son parte de una verdadera industria cultural, su papel como intermediario entre la conciencia individual y el engranaje social, político y económico se ha hecho cada vez más patente. En esto, como ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Several literary critics and readers—both in Brazil and elsewhere—have lamented Brazilian writer Machado de Assis's limited presence in world literature. Susan Sontag, for instance, in a widely known and debated statement, deems Machado "the greatest author ever produced in Latin America" and goes on to regret the fact that he is largely ignored beyond the Lusophone world (102).1 The marginality of the Portuguese language, the peripheral position of Brazilian literature, and the scarcity of translations may have all been part of the problem. In recent years, however, new publications, mainly in English, are gradually offering a wider window into Machado's oeuvre. It is only too predictable that, as Machado's works ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading embraces "reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability in works of philosophy and art" (11). What comes out of such a practice of reading' Author Erin Graff Zivin answers this question, ultimately offering a new perspective on reading after the proclaimed death of literature. The book is lucidly argued and anchored in Argentine literature and visual arts over the last 50 years. Graff Zivin analyzes the works of authors Jorge Luis Borges, Ricardo Piglia, Juan José Saer, and César Aira; filmmaker Albertina Carri; and art-activist group Internacional Errorista. But she also finds space to discuss non-Argentines such as Leonard Cohen, George Orwell ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Patricia López-Gay's first book, Ficciones de verdad, represents an insightful contribution to the field of Peninsular Studies. The manuscript is a renewed meditation on the condition of the archive, bringing uncommon theoretical robustness and an innovative perspective. The author establishes an interdisciplinary dialogue with areas other than literature, such as photography, graphic arts, and performance, which provides a reliable conceptual apparatus around a trope: autoficción. This trope, which offers an alternative to the biographical genre within the world of nonfiction literature, can be of huge benefit in future discussions of Hispanism and current expressions of literature. Simultaneously, the work ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Ross Chambers, en Facing it, se pregunta qué sentido puede guardar escribir un diario cuando se está cerca de la muerte, en la fase sintomática del VIH (VII). Esta pregunta fue especialmente acuciante en el cine no comercial sobre el VIH a inicios de los 90 y puede replantearse en estos términos: ¿cómo se encara la grabación y el montaje de una película cuando se está a punto de morir' Sin embargo, a mediados de los 90, en los países más industrializados, el VIH empieza a dejar de ser una sentencia de muerte segura gracias al llamado cóctel, denominación problemática porque sugiere connotaciones festivas. Las películas de personas que intentan sobrevivir al VIH disminuyen y se dejan de lado estas cuestiones. En E ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In 1932, socialist writer and politician José Mancisidor published the novel La ciudad roja: novela proletaria, part of an emerging collective project of "proletarian literature" in postrevolutionary Mexico that defended socialist realism as a revolutionary literary strategy. Born in the state of Veracruz, proletarian literature was one of the various artistic groups, collectives, and discipline-specific unions organized by politically engaged avant-garde artists throughout the 1930s. These groups, as John Lear explains in Picturing the Proletariat, radicalized their position following the cultural directives of the Stalinist USSR, "claimed close affinity with the urban working class . . . [and] presented ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "How many ways we have of speaking to our dogs and they of replying to us."Miguel de Cervantes, like many of his contemporaries, found animals to be productive, if polyvalent, mirrors through which humanity could understand its place in the natural order. While the specular role of animals in human attempts at self-definition in the early modern period might seem at odds with the goals of Animal Studies today, there is great value in properly assessing Cervantine theriophily. Until recently, it was assumed by critics that animals in the early modern period held a fixed and subservient position in the natural order vis-à-vis humans. More recent scholarship has identified an intellectual current in early modern ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Wonderfully written, compellingly argued, and richly documented, Lorraine Leu's Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro is a decisive contribution to understanding how race and spatiality were strongly intertwined in the making of Rio de Janeiro's urban reforms in the early decades of the twentieth century.As she traces her debt to the multidisciplinary methodologies of cultural studies, Leu creatively posits connections between race, spatial usage, urban reforms, national imaginaries, and cultural practices, emphasizing thatthe challenge of this book has been to unpack how race makes space in a country with one of the largest populations of color in the world, but where race has been ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-03T00:00:00-05:00
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