{"title":"The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture by Toby Miller (review)","authors":"Ligia S. Aldana","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Bloch, Ernst. The Principle of Hope, Volume One. Trans. Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice, and Paul Knight. Cambridge, MA: The MIT P, 1986. Brown, Wendy. “Resisting Left Melancholia.” Loss: The Politics of Mourning. Ed. David L. Eng and David Kazanjian. Los Angeles: U of California P, 2003. pp. 458-466. De Castro, Juan E. Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt UP, 2019. Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2005. Tocqueville, Alexis de. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1896. Williams, Raymond. Marxism and Literature. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131816546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"It Would Be Insane to Love a Dead Woman\": Jorge Semprún's Maternal Crypt","authors":"Ofelia Ferrán","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Employing the psychoanalytic concepts of the crypt and the cryptonym as developed by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok, I argue that various recollections of his late mother can be analyzed as examples of the maternal crypt in the writing of Jorge Semprún. The crypt, as a space in which a subject incorporates into the self a lost love object that could not be appropriately mourned, becomes the site for the veiled expression of contradictory drives that juxtapose life and death, possession and loss in an erotically charged manner. Cryptonyms are textual clues that allow one to decipher the presence of the crypt in a text. I analyze how various cryptonyms echo each other in Semprún's 1976 screenplay Une femme à sa fenêtre (written with the director, Pierre Granier-Deferre), his 1981 novel La algarabía, and his 1998 memoir Adiós, luz de veranos…, establishing the maternal crypt as a sustained reflection on the loss of his mother at an early age and a foundational trauma underlying all later losses in the author's life. I connect this analysis to Laura Mulvey's study of the filmic gaze as a mechanism for the satisfaction of male desire, which underscores the patriarchal undertones of Semprún's maternal crypt.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114638109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fascist Elements in Dr. Atl's Short Fiction","authors":"Brian Gollnick","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that the fiction work of Gerardo Murillo (Mexico, 1875-1964), best known by his artistic name of Dr. Atl, should be read in relation to his support for fascism in the period before and during the Second World War. For the past forty years, Dr. Atl has been one of Mexico's most celebrated and recognizable painters. His work is rightly understood as having modernized landscape painting in Mexico, often in distinction to the socially focused work of the muralist painters. However, Dr. Atl was also a prolific writer. For many years during the mid-twentieth century, his books were considered important. He was especially praised for the three volumes of short stories he published, all under the title Cuentos de todos colores (1933, 1936, 1941), which critics understood as a meaningful advance for regional or costumbrista fiction. In the same years, Dr. Atl produced many political tracts praising Mussolini and Hitler and advocating for the Axis powers in the buildup to the Second World War. This article argues that, if Dr. Atl's literary works are read alongside his political writings from the same period, it is possible to identify fascist elements overdetermining his fictional representations of Mexican life.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122059353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World ed. by Vania Barraza and Carl Fischer (review)","authors":"L. DiGiovanni","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128756549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to Bolaño by Juan E. De Castro (review)","authors":"Gavin Arnall","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"For its engaging exploration of how Chilean cinema has evolved and navigated global currents and local concerns, this anthology is an essential book for Latin American Cinema scholars, and it would be a discussion-producing companion text for courses on Global Cinema and Film Theory. It offers a wealth of information on contemporary Chilean cinema and also raises thought-provoking questions that extend well beyond Chile.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126992156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Apresar sin hacer daño: el buen gobierno en Ingermina o la hija de Calamar","authors":"Gloria Johana Morales Osorio","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Several literary critics have determined that Juan José Nieto Gil’s Ingermina o la hija de Calamar (1844) was the first Colombian novel (Arango Ferrer, Curcio Altamar, Zapata Olivella). Nieto Gil, whose status as Afro-Colombian author is singular, is also unique as Colombia’s only Afro-descendant president to date. The novel narrates a love story between a Spaniard conqueror and an Indigenous princess, while also depicting the conquest of Cartagena’s territory and the subjugation of the native population. In this article, the concept of good governance functions to reinterpret the first Colombian novel as a discussion about power, miscegenation, and hegemony. By closely reading the novel, I define good governance as a political force that controls people without hurting them, and I analyze how the novel features Manichaean masculine characters who discuss how to administer power, while defending mestizaje as a whitening tool for a prosperous nation. However, Ingermina’s tension about what good governance is also allows Nieto to create an Indigenous rebel voice that challenges the hegemonic logic of such benevolence. The concept of good governance and the invisibility of Nieto’s legacy in Colombia trigger historical discussions about race, political fragmentation, and governance in the country from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"220 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122396033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuban New Media Literature, Database Aesthetics, and the Novela-Paquete in Jorge E. Lage’s Archivo","authors":"Yairamaren Roman Maldonado","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article focuses on how Jorge E. Lage represents the tension between Cuban national archives and everyday memory as it relates to digital practices in his novel Archivo (2015). I analyze how digital practices mediate several forms of citizenship and unveil Cuban subjectivities that remain at the margins of the nation. I also use Lage’s work to theorize key concepts of contemporary Caribbean literary and new media studies such as the novela-paquete and new media literature. In this way, I propose new vocabulary for both disciplines applicable to contexts outside of the US digital hegemony. I see the intersection of the two disciplines as a site for generating anti-colonial knowledge in Caribbean cultural studies. I conclude that, by dialoguing with online and offline Cuban alternative archives, Lage suggests that national archives can be scrutinized and altered via fiction that engages with new media as an experimental literary form in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"384 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133714348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Space of Disappearance. A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror by Karen Elizabeth Bishop (review)","authors":"Carolina Rocha","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121473623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All Buzzed Off: The Ambiguities of Black Masculinity in Pelo malo (2013) and La playa D.C. (2012)","authors":"Nicolás Ramos Flores","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that hair modification by Black males in Latin America is both a resistance and reinscription of white cultural hegemony. Using the films Pelo malo (2013), by Mariana Rondón, and La playa D.C. (2012), by Juan Andrés Arango García, I demonstrate how socially constructed notions of race and masculinity imposed on Black males are both reproduced and resisted as natural survival mechanisms. While Pelo malo’s Junior is ultimately defeated by social expectations that subjugate Blackness, La playa D.C.’s Tomás triumphs in socially oppressive systems and becomes a barber through his hair. By evaluating the two films together, this article shows how hair for Black males can be both an object of oppression and a source of pride. In this examination, we see how Black males straddle an in-between existential reality that pushes against the one-dimensional subjectivity often imposed by hegemonic identity rhetoric. In the end, this analysis exposes how Black men use hair to dismantle racially imposed subjugations and masculinist definitions in order to decolonize toxic constructs of Blackness and manhood.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122567959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Caribbean Migration. The Legacies of Colonialism ed. by Anke Birkenmaier (review)","authors":"Ingrid Robyn","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115674660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}