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La identidad en juego: un acercamiento autoficcional a La casa en Mango Street
2020
Este artículo explica la construcción autoficcional de La casa en Mango Street, obra de la chicana Sandra Cisneros. Parte de la base teórica que considera la autoficción como un género no subordinado a otros, siguiendo la posición de Vera Toro, y elabora un estudio de las claves poéticas de la obra, así como de las condiciones sociohistóricas en que ha sido escrita. Analiza también cómo es el espacio el elemento narrativo fundamental que permite establecer una relación entre la creación literaria, la creación de identidad del pueblo chicano y la de la mujer-narradora de la obra. En este estudio no perdemos tampoco de vista el fuerte carácter crítico del texto: por un lado, observaremos la i…
New ways of looking into handwritten miscellanies of the seventeenth century: the case of “Spes Altera”
2020
A large number of copies of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 circulated in handwritten miscellanies from the second quarter of the Seventeenth Century. Eleven of those copies have significant variant readings that have led critics to put forward different hypotheses regarding their nature and quality. Most critics, taking into account stylometric analyses, have regarded them as early drafts of Shakespeare’s printed version, and have agreed on their poor quality.By paying due attention to the text’s context of production and reception, we have reached a different conclusion regarding both the nature and quality of the handwritten versions of Sonnet 2. In our view, they are the product of a conscious r…
Impuesto a la carne. El cuerpo-testigo y el contagio de lo común
2016
Resumen: Ya desde el mismo polifacetico titulo, que alude a una obligacion y a una deuda, con la novela Impuesto a la carne (2010), Diamela Eltit indaga la historia chilena (y latinoamericana) a traves de la figuracion de un poderoso hospital que ‘contiene’ una serie de cuadros historicos.El presente trabajo se propone los siguientes objetivos: 1) analizar la pareja protagonica y su funcion meta-testimonial; 2) indagar la peculiar relacion de las dos mujeres con el espacio que las alberga; 3) examinar las peculiares formas de resistencia de las dos mujeres y su anhelo de evasion. Gracias a la expropiacion y donacion -concepto de munus-, a la perdida y ruptura del sujeto, la madre-hija consi…
Una Poètica Dialògica: Atlas de Pere Salinas i Joan Navarro
2012
Pere Salinas and Joan Navarro initiated with Atlas (Correspondencia 2005-2007) a dialogue between painting and poetry. The book starts with a painting by Pere Salinas, which provokes a poem by Joan Navarro, which in turn provokes a painting. It continues this way until getting to 46 images and 46 poems. The concept of dialogism allows analyzing how alterity, the orientation towards a nonverbal answer, determines poetical writing. The poet, in his dialogue with each pictorial text, searches for new ways of expression that privilege the showing, from deictics to images, and this search leads to an experimentation that alters the entire poetical system. Time and space are not opposed. Painting…
Ethnobotanical research in Cava de' Tirreni area, Southern Italy
2019
Abstract Background To best of our knowledge, this is the first quantitative ethnobotanical study with the aim of documenting the local knowledge and practices of using plants for curing diseases in the Cava de’ Tirreni area, Salerno Province, Campania Region, Italy. The present ethnobotanical field study, carried out during 2016–2017, documents the local uses of 119 plant species for medicinal, food and domestic purposes. Methods Ethnobotanical data were documented from 70 informants: field data were collected and information on the uses of plants was gathered through semi-structured and structured interviews with persons who still retain traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. Documented da…
National days between commemoration and celebration: remembering 1947 and 1960 in Madagascar
2013
Today Madagascar officially celebrates two national holidays. 29 March is dedicated to the memory of anticolonial resistance in 1947, the commemoration of the dead and the decoration of surviving combatants. 26 June in contrast is celebrated as Madagascar's return to independence in 1960 with parades, cultural performances, singing and dancing. But consecutive governments have altered state politics of commemoration and non-state actors have influenced the way in which 1947 and 1960 are remembered.This study of national days in Madagascar offers an interpretation of the different ways the two key events of national history have been remembered within the fifty years since Independence. Look…
Un gesto de escucha. De Rigoberta de Menchú a 'Las que limpian los hoteles' : aplicaciones y límites de la subalternidad en el cambio de siglo. Una c…
2019
Este documento se propone como un gesto de escucha hacia la India y América Latina, pues abre la posibilidad de continuar sus conversaciones y trasladarlas a una realidad diferente, siempre desde el autocuestionamiento y la reflexión pausada. Hay elementos en el debate latinoamericano y poscolonial en torno a la subalternidad que permiten visibilizar contradicciones y problemáticas que los debates europeos y los conceptos producidos por la teoría occidental no permiten ver. Es por ello que, escuchando sus diálogos, nace nuestra conversación. Teniendo presente la diferencia abismal entre un contexto colonizador y un contexto colonizado, y las diferentes aplicaciones que la noción de subalter…
Medicinal and useful plants in the tradition of Rotonda, Pollino National Park, Southern Italy.
2013
Abstract Background This paper reports an ethnobotanical survey of the traditional uses of medicinal and useful plants in an area of the Pollino National Park, Basilicata, Southern Italy. The study, conducted between 2009 and 2010, gathered information on the medicinal plants traditionally used in the neighbourhood of town of Rotonda, in the Pollino National Park, that appears have very rich and interesting ethnopharmacological traditions. Methods In all, we interviewed 120 key informants, whose age ranged between 50 and 95 years. Results The research resulted to the identification of 78 medicinal plants belonging to 46 families. Among the species reported, 59 are used in human medicine, 18…
Oppressive Faces of Whiteness in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress
2018
Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress contributes significantly to the literary debate on the definition of whiteness. The socio-historical construction of whiteness emerging from the novel is amplified by white imagery dovetailing with the claims made about white people directly. For the African American first person narrator, Easy Rawlins, living in post-World War II Los Angeles, whiteness mostly spells terror. The oppressive faces of whiteness consist in the following trajectories: property relations, economic exploitation, labour relations, the legal system, different miens of oppressive white masculinity denigrating blackness, spatial dynamics of post-World War II Los Angeles and the w…
Wild food plants of popular use in Sicily
2007
Abstract In the present work the authors report the result of their food ethnobotanical researches, which have been carried out in Sicily during the last thirty years. Data concerning 188 wild species used in the traditional Sicilian cuisine are reported. The authors underline those species that are partially or completely unknown for their culinary use and they illustrate other species that local inhabitants suggested in the prevention or treatment of symptomatologies caused by a refined diet, poor in vegetables. These data want to contribute to avoid the loss of traditional knowledge on uses and recipes concerning wild food botanicals, and to encourage further studies for those species th…