{"title":"Audible Geographies in Latin America: Sounds of Race and Place by Dylon Robbins (review)","authors":"T. McEnaney","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"explorado. González-Espitia decidió organizar su estudio en dos volúmenes que le permitiera estudiar un corpus extenso del período que antecede a los movimientos independentistas hispanoamericanos del siglo XIX. Los autores y textos que se estudian aquí son de ambos lados del Atlántico. Algunos forman parte del canon en sus respectivas tradiciones textuales (Feijóo, Meléndez Valdés, Fernández de Moratín, Fernández de Lizardi, Goya), otros no. Ambos grupos textuales subvierten la idea una cultura hispana homogénea del siglo XVIII y descubren la necesidad de aproximarnos a la cultura como una construcción orgánica que escapa las categorizaciones estrictas. El objetivo de una crítica literaria y cultural como la que ofrece GonzálezEspitia aquí está en línea con esta comprensión orgánica de los textos y fenómenos sociales así como la pregunta por nuevos significados de obras canónicas y periféricas del siglo XVIII. De esta manera, el autor propone revisar las limitaciones tradicionalmente impuestas (y sus respectivas agendas) al examen de temas tabú que han sido relegados por la crítica. Este tipo de reflexión cuestiona los modelos de pensar acerca del pasado—y el presente—y revela, entre otras cosas, la naturaleza fluctuante de aquello que solemos considerar estático y único.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129502673","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":"Otros. Ricardo Piglia y la literatura mundial by Ana Gallego Cuiñas (review)","authors":"Denise Kripper","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127288966","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":"Sifilografía. A History of the Writerly Pox in the Eighteenth-Century Hispanic World by Juan Carlos González-Espitia (review)","authors":"Rocío Quispe-Agnoli","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132878013","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":"Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity by Nicolás Fernández-Medina (review)","authors":"K. Murphy","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"America (2015), Luis Correa-Díaz and Scott Weintraub’s Poesía y Poéticas Digitales (2016), and Hilda Chacón’s Online Activism in Latin America (2018). All of these are useful additions to the various histories of DH. This new genealogy, however well-intended, manages to erase a host of vibrant work developed both before and after the 2015 symposium that jump-started this collection. These unfortunate omissions in the editors’ introduction and coda give the false impression that Latin American and Latinx DH are still unrealized, when it is that very work in which an engagement of DH with cultural issues of inequality, power differentials, hegemony, identity, infrastructure, and activism in the digital realm has taken place. Further, this is work that has been done from within the Digital Humanities as well as from within Latin American and Latinx Studies. Just in the US academy, the main perspective of the collection, projects such as the Bracero Archive, the Latin American Cartonera Publishers Database, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, PR Mapathon, Separados/Torn Apart, Global Networks of Cultural Production in Latin America, Mapping Indigenous LA, and Borderlands Archives Cartography, to mention only a few, engage with and enact the questions asked by Fernández L’Hoeste and Rodríguez. These and many more projects are proof that the intersectionalities of the digital and the humanities sought by the editors are not just possible, but have already been put into practice, and have expanded the fields that inform them. When readers finish reading the articles in this collection, my advice is to also explore any or all of the projects mentioned above.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124828483","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":"La construcción neocolonial de lo indígena en la conciencia feminista de Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer y Laureana Wright de Kleinhans","authors":"Sonia Zarco-Real","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay analyzes the transatlantic resignifying process of the pre-Hispanic Mexican past in Civilización de los antiguos pueblos mexicanos (1890) by Concepción Gimeno de Flaquer and Mujeres notables mexicanas (1910) by Laureana Wright de Kleinhans. I argue that these two indianista texts carry out a negotiation and destabilization of normative dichotomies (irrational/Indigenous vs. rational/white race) in order to subvert them and construct the superiority of pre-Columbian civilizations. This narrative strategy enables not only the restoration of the Nahua episteme based on the complementarity of opposite sexes, but also the legitimization of the transoceanic proto-feminist project with which these two authors, halfway between Spain and Mexico, are responding to the symbolic violence that excludes them from their own modern national projects. My analysis concludes that the resemantization of the Indigenous past and gender relations develops an alternative symbolic order across the Atlantic or, as Walter Mignolo calls it, an \"act of liberation,\" \"a project of de-linking\" from the colonial matrix of thinking the sexes as hierarchical and binary (\"Delinking\").","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128241038","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":"Nation and Theater in Crisis: The Intermedial Revolution of Electra Garrigó","authors":"Gustavo Herrera Díaz","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the representation of Cubanness in Virgilio Piñera's play Electra Garrigó by analyzing the disruptive presence of different media and technologies onstage. While most critics have explained Cubanness in Electra Garrigó through the use of popular elements and the mixture of different theatrical traditions, less attention has been paid to its revolutionary intermediality. My reading argues that the encounter of different media in the play disrupts the representation and definition of Cuban identity by challenging the stability of the theatrical space. After situating Electra Garrigó in relation to Piñera's poetry and previous debates about Cubanness, I examine how different forms of mediatization such as radio and cinema, among others, problematize not only the specificity of theater in this play, but also conceptions of race, power, and national identity. The final part of the article focuses on the heroine's uncanny metamorphosis into different material elements including domestic objects, fluids, and sounds. With respect to these mutations, I argue that the protagonist herself becomes a complex, failed medium that epitomizes the crisis of theater and Cubanness at the end of the performance.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115570819","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}
Karen Benezra, John T. Cull, Daniela Flesler, Gustavo Herrera Díaz, Rocío Ortuño Casanova, E. Fernández, Denise Kripper, Tom McEnaney, A. Merino, Gonzalo Montero, Katharine Murphy, Élika Ortega, R. Quispe-Agnoli, J. Slater, Irina Troconis, Sonia Zarco-Real
{"title":"Arguedas: Capital y conversión","authors":"Karen Benezra, John T. Cull, Daniela Flesler, Gustavo Herrera Díaz, Rocío Ortuño Casanova, E. Fernández, Denise Kripper, Tom McEnaney, A. Merino, Gonzalo Montero, Katharine Murphy, Élika Ortega, R. Quispe-Agnoli, J. Slater, Irina Troconis, Sonia Zarco-Real","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In José María Arguedas's anthropological studies of Peru's southern central highlands, transculturation codes the historical logic of capital. The present essay takes, as its point of departure, Latin American subalternist critics who, in the 1990s and 2000s, identified the supposedly homogenizing logic of capital with that of transculturation or mestizaje as state ideology. By contrast, more recent interventions in postcolonial and Marxist theory suggest that what was at stake for Andean society and culture was not its wholesale destruction or incorporation into the nation-state, but rather the expedience of its preservation for the accumulation of capital. Arguedas's treatment of transculturation as a question of the so-called total conversion of the subject of highland property into a bourgeois individual mirrors the kind of anthropological transformation that Marx posited as part of the historical arc of capitalism's development and supposedly imminent demise. By underscoring the moment of total conversion as a semblance necessary for capturing non-capitalist ways of life, Arguedas's studies provide a space for considering the subjective effects of capital beyond teleological or reductive understandings of its historical unfolding.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126040049","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":"Signos vitales, procreación e imagen en la narrativa áurea by Enrique García Santo-Tomás (review)","authors":"Enrique Fernández","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128553804","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":"Lecturas del cuerpo. Fisiognomía y literatura en la España áurea by Folke Gernert (review)","authors":"J. Slater","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124483405","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":"A mí no hable en emblemas: The Function of Emblematics in the Plays of Juan Pérez de Montalbán","authors":"John T. Cull","doi":"10.1353/rvs.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rvs.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In his miscellany Para todos: Exemplos morales, hvmanos, y divinos. En qve se tratan diversas ciencias, materias y facvltades (1632), the Spanish dramatist Juan Pérez de Montalbán inserted a rather lengthy treatise with the title, \"Discurso del predicador\" (ff. 192r-215r), in which he elaborates a lengthy list of books useful to the preacher for the embellishment of his sermons. This exhaustive catalogue of books both secular and divine includes many Renaissance and Baroque collections of emblems and imprese. What is more, Pérez de Montalbán contributed a poem to Vincencio Carducho's Diálogos de la pintura (1633) that describes an emblematic engraving of La Pintura (f. 162r). In view of the dramatist's clear familiarity with this phenomenon of combining words and symbolic images, this study explores the presence and function of emblematic influence in the dramatic works of Juan Pérez de Montalbán, the friend and disciple of Lope de Vega.","PeriodicalId":281386,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Hispánicos","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120982534","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}