{"title":"United States of Banana. A Graphic Novel by Giannina Braschi and Joakim Lindengren (review)","authors":"Nuria Morgado","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122531063","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":"Por un lenguaje inclusivo: Estudios y reflexiones sobre estrategias no sexistas en la lengua española by Tina Escaja y María Natalia Prunes (review)","authors":"Emilia Alonso-Marks","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122034357","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":"Cuba: emociones y ficciones políticas. Culturas emocionales en clave literaria, femenina y sexológica dentro del Periodo Especial by Laura V. Sández (review)","authors":"Grethel Domenech Hernández","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132036526","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":"Bioficciones fílmicas de amor, enfermedad y muerte: Horacio Quiroga y la ilusión necrográfica","authors":"Carlos Abreu Mendoza","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Resumen:La recepción de Horacio Quiroga estableció, desde sus inicios, una relación causal entre las muertes de sus ficciones y las tragedias que marcaron la vida del autor uruguayo. Partiendo de la crítica de Pierre Bourdieu a la biografía como género marcado por la ilusión de un progreso, este ensayo examina la problemática relación entre vida y ficción en las representaciones populares de la vida de Quiroga. Mediante una yuxtaposición del análisis sociológico de Bourdieu con la narratología y el concepto de bioficción, mostraré cómo el caso de Quiroga cuestiona la biografía entendida como narración de vida que sigue un orden cronológico. Mi estudio se enfoca en tres producciones televisivas sobre Quiroga que no han merecido atención crítica hasta el momento, pero cuyas estrategias audiovisuales y mecanismos narrativos recontextualizan--y, a veces, subvierten––la ilusión necrográfica que domina la tradición biografista sobre Horacio Quiroga.Abstract:Horacio Quiroga's readers are often inclined to link the deaths plaguing his fiction with the tragedies that haunted his life. Borrowing from Pierre Bourdieu's critique of biography as a genre marked by the illusion of progress, this essay examines the problematic relationship between life and fiction in popular representations of Quiroga's life. By juxtaposing Bourdieu's sociological analysis with narratology and the concept of biofiction, I will show how Quiroga's case confronts us with a peculiar subversion of biography as an account of life that follows a chronological order. My essay focuses on three television films that have yet to receive critical attention, but whose audiovisual strategies and narrative mechanisms recontextualize––and, at times, subvert--the necrographical illusion that haunts Horacio Quiroga's biographical tradition.","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125255365","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 jaula de oro: The Border Crossing Journey as Dream and Reality","authors":"C. Sandberg, G. Mejía","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Diego Quemada-Díez's La jaula de oro (2013) follows undocumented young migrants on their way from their native Guatemala through Mexico with the intention to cross into the United States. The picture belongs to a large corpus of border-crossing films which explore reasons and desires that make people risk their lives for a place that they know only from hearsay. This article undertakes an intersectional analysis of La jaula de oro, while probing its connection to Latin American socio-critical film and the road movie genre. Images that document complex social and historical realities and which determine power relations along the axis of age, gender and race, are juxtaposed by a visual terminology that has utopian quality. Picturing conditions and limitations of female and Indigenous protagonists who are subject to repression from within the migration group, border authorities, and organized crime groups, La jaula de oro presents the border crossing journey to be lined with danger and violence where the wide horizon keeps holding the promise of a dignified life.Resumen:La jaula de oro (2013) de Diego Quemada-Díez sigue el viaje de unos jóvenes migrantes indocumentadxs desde su país natal, Guatemala, vía México hasta los Estados Unidos. Esta película explora las razones por las que se llega a arriesgar la vida por un lugar que solo se conoce de oídas. El artículo analiza interseccionalmente La jaula de oro, al mismo tiempo que explora conexiones usando la crítica de cine social latinoamericano y del género de road movie. Las imágenes documentan realidades sociales e históricas complejas que determinan las relaciones de poder a lo largo de los ejes de edad, género y raza, y su terminología visual hace eco de una cualidad utópica. Retratando las condiciones y limitaciones de la protagonista femenina y el personaje indígena quienes son sujetos a la represión tanto desde el interior del grupo migratorio como desde las autoridades fronterizas y de los grupos del crimen organizado, este filme relata como el camino hacia el cruce fronterizo presenta peligro y violencia, aunque el amplio horizonte retenga la promesa de una vida digna.","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126636073","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":"En el nombre del padre: Crónica de la España de Franco a la América de Trump by Fernando Operé (review)","authors":"R. Buchanan","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115777669","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 Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan by Araceli Tinajero (review)","authors":"David I. Saldaña Moncada","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132048597","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":"Chiapas Cycle Blues: Rosario Castellanos's Fictional Prose as Affective Mapping","authors":"Julia R. Brown","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Rosario Castellanos published three works of fiction set in Chiapas, Mexico: Balún Canán (1957), Ciudad Real (1960), and Oficio de tinieblas (1962). This article contends that each exhibits affective mapping, a term coined by Jonathan Flatley to describe the application of affect, emotion, and feeling to a space or time to confront a problem. In Castellanos' own words, the problem is the misery with which she perceives Chiapas to be imbued, especially in Maya Tzotzil and Tzeltal communities. From the mid 1960s nearly until her death, Castellanos voiced dismay in epistolary, essays, and op-eds at the inability of Official Indigenismo—Mexican state policy designed to improve the conditions for Indigenous peoples—to resolve this misery. Crafting complexly emotional fictional characters and dialogues allowed Castellanos to map affect and trace the misery which so troubled her back to prevailing systems of social inequality in a Chiapas dominated by ladinos—the state's wealthy non-Indigenous landowners. It is ladino affects;—anger, rage, fear, and anxiety—which Castellanos' fiction cites as the point of origin for the Chiapas status quo. This article argues for an affect studies approach to Castellanos' works as a productive means of both broadening and deepening readings of her corpus.Resumen:Rosario Castellanos redactó tres obras de ficción escenificadas en Chiapas, México: Balún Canán (1957), Ciudad Real (1960) y Oficio de tinieblas (1962). El presente estudio las considera ejercicios de cartografía afectiva, o la aplicación de afectos, emociones y sentimientos a un espacio o tiempo para enfrentarse a alguna problemática. Según la misma Castellanos, esta problemática se trata de las condiciones de miseria y pobreza de los maya tzotzil y tzeltal. Desde los años sesenta hasta su muerte, Castellanos articulaba en su epístola y en sus ensayos una consternación ante la incapacidad del indigenismo oficial—política del estado mexicano intencionado a mejorar las condiciones de pueblos indígenas—a solucionar esta problemática. Al elaborar personajes y diálogos de gran complejidad emocional, Castellanos ejerce la cartografía afectiva en la que sigue el hilo de la miseria hasta su origen en una sociedad chiapaneca estratificada y dominada por los ladinos—adinerados terratenientes chiapanecos. Son afectos ladinos;—la cólera, la rabia, el miedo y la ansiedad—a las cuales la ficción de Castellanos apunta como origen del estatus quo. Así, este estudio propone acercarse a la obra de Castellanos mediante los estudios de afecto, para ampliar y profundizar productivamente el análisis de su obra.","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132420660","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":"About the Artist: Robin Savage","authors":"Romy Cerón Canché","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132178319","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":"Visiones panorámicas al cine mexicano. Teoría, historia y análisis by Lauro Zavala (review)","authors":"O. Delgado","doi":"10.1353/hcs.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hcs.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":366492,"journal":{"name":"Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132248081","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}