Sarli E. Mercado & Lori DiPrete Brown The 4W Women in Translation circle (4W WIT) is an engaged research effort that explores the meaning and practice of collective translation, It is inspired by experiences of collaboration related to literature and the arts, gender and wellbeing, and also community, urban sustainability and the environment, in particular, …
Jorge Santander Existe en los estudios medievales una tendencia orientada hacia el estudio de los objetos y de las cosas (thing theory) y la materialidad. Dichos estudios consideran que los objetos y las cosas no son exclusivamente símbolos o significantes, sino que tienen la capacidad de actuar por sí mismos. Sostienen que los objetos pueden …
Renata Pontes In this paper I analyze embodied experiences of Afro-Spiritual knowledge in Sirena Selena vestida de pena (Santos-Febres, 2000) and La mucama de Omicunlé (Indiana, 2015). Affirming the body and its potential, these literary works participate in “Black Atlantic” cultures and political economies—in transoceanic networks prompted by practices that claim African American traditions. Applying …
Ksenija Bilbija Some twenty years ago, in 2003, a student in one of my undergraduate classes brought to my attention a strange 14-page long book that looked like something his grade school sister could have made at home (hand painted cover included!) and asked me if he could write a final class paper about it. …
Beatriz L. Botero En mi trabajo más reciente publicado en el libro The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2022), hago una revisión de la literatura latinoamericana a partir de cuatro conceptos del psicoanálisis: voyeurismo, exhibicionismo, sadismo y masoquismo. Todos estos conceptos referidos al dolor y al cuerpo. ¿Quién mira y disfruta del dolor? ¿Quién …
Chris Schulenburg In the end of her startling testimony The Inferno: A Story of Terror and Survival in Chile, Luz Arce converses with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission lawyer Carlos Fresno about the possibility of forgiving her past government captors. Years after absorbing torture, and ultimately collaborating with, Chile’s secret police (DINA), Arce certainly found …
Joseph Wager Perhaps the most widely studied case of disappearances is that of the last cívico-militar dictatorship in Argentina. The number of disappearances is generally recognized as 30,000. Resistance to this regime of terror has been influential domestically and internationally, from the human-rights report Nunca Más to the Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Today, the …
Arturo Ruiz-Mautino The question of the border as a question of genre is no new affair for the examination of the symbolic and discursive affordances of the former. Already in 1987, Gloria Anzaldúa turned to ethno-poetics as a field that was capable of refining the relationship between literary discursivity and her theorization of the border. …
Juan Miguel Martínez Martínez Cuando pensamos en las formas en que la memoria histórica se articula en la literatura, o en el arte en general, no siempre imaginamos que esta se pueda presentar a través de lo fantástico. Esta separación entre la memoria y lo fantástico respondería a los objetivos que parte del arte memorialista …
Oana Alexan Katz En Otras cartas a Milena (2003), la escritora cubana Reina María Rodríguez retrata una constelación de intensidades emocionales, sensoriales y corporales emblemáticas de la nostalgia. Más allá de narrativizar la nostalgia en términos afectivos, se incorpora al registro afectivo en sus propias lecturas de otros textos para guiar la experiencia de sus …