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Testimonio y literatura. Algunas reflexiones y tres realizaciones en la narrativa argentina: Walsh, Urondo, Cortázar (1957-1974)
2015
Resumen: El estudio de la relación entre testimonio yliteratura reviste la complejidad que conlleva lasiempre discutida definición de lo literario. En efecto,la discusión sobre qué había de ser la literatura, en unaAmérica Latina cuyo proceso revolucionario se veía enmarcha, posibilitó la institucionalización el testimoniocomo género literario en el comienzo de la década de1970. El presente artículo se inserta dentro de dichadiscusión, presentsando el fenómeno de la literaturatestimonial desde el punto de vista de susimplicaciones teóricas y mostrando los criteriosconceptuales que sustentan, en nuestro enfoque, laconstrucción de un corpus de literatura testimonial.De acuerdo a dichos criter…
Icarus and Daedalus in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"
2012
In Song of Solomon Toni Morrison rewrites the legend of the Flying Africans and the Myth of Icarus to create her own Myth. Her depiction of the black hero’s search for identity has strong mythical overtones. Morrison rescues those elements of mythology black culture which are still relevant to blacks and fuses them with evident allusions to Greek mythology. She reinterprets old images and myths of flight, the main mythical motif in the story. Her Icarus engages on an archetypical journey to the South, to his family past, led by his Daedalic guide, on which he finally recovers his ancestral ability to fly. His flight signals a spiritual epiphany in the hero’s quest for self-definition in the…
Cosas, pruebas, indicios : los restos del conflicto armado en el Salvador
2020
A partir del contexto de impunidad y olvido que se determinó en El Salvador después de la guerra civil (1980-1992), el presente trabajo investiga la presentación y la re-presentación de los restos materiales en el ámbito de la noción de huella como presentificación material de una historia transcurrida pero vigente. Se hace referencia a unos restos (huesos, prendas de vestir, juguetes) que son pruebas procesuales, pero a esta función se añade otra, que implica el nivel afectivo, el trabajo del duelo, la reparación. El trabajo empieza con una breve y necesaria reseña histórica que enlaza la represión de 1932 con la estrategia de la tierra arrasada realizada por las fuerzas armadas en los 80,…
Shifting perspectives. Representations of the Maya in modern Mexican and Guatemalan narrative
2020
The aim of this article is to examine the dominant literary tendencies in the 20 th and 21 st century Mexican and Guatemalan narrative, which depict the Maya in their social and cultural environment. From indigenismo , through a hybrid genre known as testimonio , to indigenous literature, the Maya have been present over the last century in literary production, in which several important changes in narrative voice and perspective can be observed. Initially represented by the paternalistic indigenista narrative, which is compliant with the government-endorsed ideology, the Maya have gradually regained their own unmediated literary voice, which enables them to speak for themselves rather than …
Todo proceso creativo no es más que una pregunta."Nosotras, territorio que habla" : madres ante la impunidad y los crímenes de estado en Colombia
2019
“Nosotras. Territorio que habla” es la materialización creativa de la necesidad de denunciar, de testimoniar, de reflexionar desde la propia voz de tres madres, Luz Marina Bernal, María Ubilerma Sanabria y Lucero Carmona, cuyos hijos fueron ejecutados por el ejército colombiano entre el 2007 y el 2008. En este libro ellas comparten su experiencia de tantos años de injusticia. El relato de tan cruento capítulo en la historia de la violencia de un país, lo contamos a través del archivo personal de estas mujeres, de la necesidad de saber y de reclamar justicia, de la investigación, la denuncia, el posicionamiento político y el análisis común. Queremos compartir cómo está siendo esta experienci…
Developing a new approach to managing and mediating conflicts
2017
Generally speaking, words can be elusive and they need to be carefully selected when conveying messages, ideas and proposals between parties. This is all the more evident in mediation process as language has to be neutral and mediators should avoid expressions directing parties. In this regard, recent theoretical developments in postmodern social theory and the social constructionist movement in the social sciences and humanities have provided the field of alternative dispute resolution with a new approach to managing and mediating conflicts. These developments are organized around the ‘narrative approach’ which helps us to see how the language we use to describe and understand our conflict…
Between memory, didacticism and the Jewish revival: the Holocaust in Italian comic books
2018
The aim of this article is to trace the development of the theme of the Holocaust in Italian comic books, attempting to frame it in the more general national memory culture. I look at both educatio...
When Venus stays awake, Minerva sleeps: a narrative of female sanctity in eighteenth-century Spain
2021
Written records of confession provide exceptional insight into private histories of women and the gender dynamics that shaped them. The sacrament of confession entailed an implicit inequality between men and women, given that the priest was considered to be shrouded in divine power while the penitent had to submit herself to his moral authority. Nevertheless, confession also offered women the opportunity to express themselves and to discuss and understand their spiritual concerns. Some hoped their confessors would recognize their religious charisma, which would involve an affirmation of individuality, autonomy and personal power. In Spain, we find key information about interactions between …
The Saving Narratives of Daša Drndić
2018
The starting point for this paper is the assumption that by obsessive revisiting the events of World War II, the Croatian writer Dasa Drndic attempts to influence indirectly the present. It parallels her narrators’ declarations who—with a great dose of probability—can be simultaneously read as her alter egos. Hence, the article investigates and describes the strategy whose main aim is to retain memory about the past. In Drndic’s texts this function is achieved through the acts of archiving, writing down, and grouping. These acts constitute non-standard ways to enhance the literary text with, for example, whole pages filled with the victims’ names (integrated within the text or acting as a p…
The dialogics of metaphor and simile in Elizabeth Bowen’s The Last September
2013
Metaphors and similes characterise Elizabeth Bowen’s writing. Despite frequent claims that this contributes to the lexical, grammatical and syntactic irregularities of her style and hence makes her writing difficult to understand, I show that her metaphors, similes and literal descriptions in a selected passage from The Last September function within conventional linguistic structures. While my analysis of metaphors and similes is conducted with reference to Bakhtin’s essay “Discourse in the Novel”, I use Martin and Rose’s model of Discourse Analysis (2007) and Steen’s study of metaphor in literature (1999) as practical tools for my analysis of the text. I discuss how ‘dialogic’ linguistic …