{"title":"Esa soy yo: un recorrido por la intimidad en Teoría de la gravedad de Leila Guerriero","authors":"Candelaria Perez Berazadi","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.506","url":null,"abstract":"Contrary to the 19th century’s modernist chronicles – such as Ruben Darios's or José Martí's– in which the “self” of the subject was defended (Rotker, 1992), in Leila Guerriero's narrative journalism, the subjectivity is expressed by the ways of telling chosen by her; i.e., in each process that form her writing practice, more than what is grammatically expressed. In Teoría de la gravedad (2018), the speech is codified through a particularly poetic use of the language. In these self-referential–chronicles (or profile-short story), the author recalls her childhood, her youth and her writing days from a perspective that intends to question her own privacy, through a precise dynamic of “looking” and “telling”. She represents herself in the narrative space as a limit-subject (at times, blurred) between a subjective interior and a tellable exterior, with the final purpose of finding another writing-place that can shelter her in the process of becoming more than in that of being.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82209372","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":"Embodiment and the Animal in Guadalupe Nettel’s El matrimonio de los peces rojos","authors":"Isabelle Wentworth","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.493","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores an interaction between posthumanist and cognitive discourses through the work of award winning Mexican author, Guadalupe Nettel. I focus on her 2014 anthology, Natural Histories, rereading the central motif of the narrative, that animals ‘are like a mirror that reflects submerged emotions or behaviours that we don’t dare to see’ (Nettel, 9). This ‘reflection’ is not simply the image of the human reflected off the opaque surface of the animal, but rather the humans themselves act as a mirror, simulating the behaviour of the animals with which they cohabit. This can be read as a literary representation of a neurophysiological phenomenon — embodied simulation, an internal mimicry, either perceptible or imperceptible, performed when watching others completing certain tasks, movements or expressions (Gazzola et al. 2007; Uithol et al. 2011; Iacoboni 2009). In particular, the first story, ‘El matrimonio de los peces rojos’, depicts a profound human-nonhuman embodied resonance that moves between linguistic, narratological and characterological levels. A cognitive critical approach to the mirroring between animals and humans in the stories reveals the particular intersection between new paradigms in cognitive science, animal studies, and posthumanism that the anthology develops, each of its narratives intertwining mind, body and nonhuman other in a non-hierarchical network.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85979324","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":"Testimonios y militancias de mujeres en Argentina: Revolución, Derechos Humanos y Feminismo","authors":"Teresa Basile","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.511","url":null,"abstract":"In this article,will examine a specific moment in the trajectories of both women's testimony and militancy, which have traced very powerful and certainly varied paths in recent decades in Argentina and Latin America, beginning at the beginning of democracy, after the Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), with women's testimonies on the sexual crimes suffered in clandestine detention centers (CCD). They are part of a second wave within the literary and cultural tradition of Latin American testimony. In a first movement, the testimony of revolutionary matrix, which includes ethnographic, guerrilla and journalistic testimony, was institutionalized in 1970 by Casa de las Américas under the revolutionary model that spread throughout the continent from Cuba. In order to approach the corpus of women's testimonies on sexual terrorism, we consider it appropriate to point out the articulation of three matrixes that have permeated both testimonial texts and political practices: the revolutionary narrative, the humanitarian narrative and the feminist discourse.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"46 6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83406808","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":"Carreras de la memoria: corporalidad, dinamismo y performatividad en Campo de Mayo de Félix Bruzzone","authors":"Federico Cantoni","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.492","url":null,"abstract":"In the heterogeneous corpus of works published by sons of Argentinean desaparecidos one of the most interesting and original contribution are the texts written by Félix Bruzzone. The aim of this article is to outline the main characteristics of the author’s style and then to analyse his last novel Campo de Mayo (2019). The novel actually originates as another type of text, a performance, so first of all, the peculiarities of this textuality will be identified, in order to reflect on the mechanisms that intervene when a performance is transposed into a novel. It will be demonstrated that the novel keeps many elements of the performance, all linked to the theme of the search for disappeared parents, that ensure that the dynamic corporeal characteristic of the hipotext is kept in its novelisation, in order to create a discourse that through the body of the protagonist displays all the contradictions and paradoxes that this impossible search implies, using de textual image of the moving body to give an account of the complex dynamics of identity definition concerning sons of desaparecidos.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91381240","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":"Introducción. Armar la palabra y los afectos: apuntes para una nueva genealogía textual de signo femenino","authors":"L. Scarabelli","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.521","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"85 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78154813","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":"Cartas para minha mãe, de Teresa Cárdenas: racismo e resistência na voz de uma literata negra","authors":"Andre Rezende Benatti, Alcione Rafael Candido","doi":"10.5195/ct/2021.459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2021.459","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this work is to analyze racism from the perspective of the main character —a child, black and orphaned— from the novel Cartas para minha mãe, by contemporary Cuban writer Teresa Cárdenas. The narrative develops around a character who did not have what we call childhood today, and who thus enters adolescence. However, our focus will be on the black condition of the narrator, who at all times suffers from the most diverse types of prejudices, in addition to having to deal with a difficult phase: the transition from childhood to puberty. In this way, this work intends to discuss the issues involving childhood surrounded by prejudices of the main character of Cárdenas' novel, while we will observe the reactions and perceptions of the child in face of racism. For the analysis of the novel, the narrator's childhood, the historical contextualization of the colonization process in Latin America and the psychosocial process of the feeling of inferiority of blacks and of superiority of white, we will use the texts of the following scholars: Cabo Aseguinolaza (2001); Ariès (1981); Fanon (2008); Gates (2014) and Souza (2015), among other theoretical texts. In the end, we realized that in the novel by Teresa Cárdenas the weight of racism leads the narrator to seek help in the letters she writes to her dead mother. The racism present in the text builds as a sample of what several people go through every day of their lives.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"94 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70729027","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":"Afectividades y desplazamientos escriturales en la obra de Nona Fernández","authors":"Mónica Barrientos","doi":"10.5195/ct/2021.513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2021.513","url":null,"abstract":"Nona Fernández's work has been catalogued within what is known as the \"generation of the children\" to refer to those narrations by authors who were children during the Chilean dictatorship. The work of the Chilean writer Nona Fernández will be analyzed to understand how the writing process, its relationship with the event and the processes of subjectivation of the characters, from a narrative perspective towards the autobiographical and autofictional genres, have been crossed by fiction to question the constructed certainties and the failures of memory. We will focus mainly on two works which have a thread of narratological and historical continuity, such as Space Invader (2013) and La dimensión desconocida (2016). Both works are related by the terrible events that happened during the Chilean dictatorship. Everything narrated in a cyclical time, like an unknown dimension, living in the present the horrors that we thought were past.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70729037","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":"Las instancias narrativas en El Lazarillo De Ciegos Caminantes: Alonso Carrió de la Vandera, alias Concolorcorvo","authors":"V. P. Forace","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.500","url":null,"abstract":"In 1771 and 1772 Alonso Carrió de la Vandera (1715?-1783) made an extensive trip to describe and evaluate the path of posts between Buenos Aires and Lima. His multifaceted journey was narrated in detail in El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes, a text that presents a scriptural awareness and an unusual plot development for its context. In this article we will deal in particular with the construction of an apocryphal author, Don Calixto Bustamante Carlos Inca, alias Concolorcorvo, to reflect on the problem of the attribution of the speeches and the proper name, and the condition of existence of the subject who signs and of the empirical author, since we affirm that Carrió de la Vandera becomes a paper being by entering the fictions he erects and interrelating on the same diegetic level with his creations.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91105279","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 estado de resistencia: la reciente narrativa hispanoamericana de mujeres","authors":"Lorena Amaro","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.518","url":null,"abstract":"The world is living times of social and political unrest and the feminist demands have gained strength and vigour in different spheres of life, including the literary and cultural world. This article echoes this moment and explores the female authorial constructions, from concepts as communalism (according to the ideas of Cristina Rivera Garza), sisterhood and genealogy. To that end, the article gathers some proposals from the anthologiesTsunami —name under which the publishing house Sexto Piso published in México (2018 and 2020) and then in Spain (2019) the three compilations— and Avisa cuando llegues (2018), Chilean anthology that compiles writings related to the proliferation of women on the public space.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81072547","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":"¿Tiene género la escritura?","authors":"Patricia Espinosa Hernández","doi":"10.5195/CT/2021.512","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/CT/2021.512","url":null,"abstract":"In 1993, cultural critic Nelly Richards published a polemic article called “Does Writing Have a Sex?”. From this text I aim, on the one hand, to discuss the question that gives her article a name by stating that no, writing does not have a sex; it has a gender. On the other hand, I am interested in addressing Richards’ non-separatist perspective, which refers to the consideration of female writing as counter-hegemonic, a fact shared with male writings. For Richards, being male is not decisive in the appraisal of writing. Moreover, she points out that feminism is at risk of becoming a ghetto if it does not include writing from counter-hegemonic males. From my vision, while it is true that there are different counter-hegemonic writings, it is not possible to de-gender writing; much less to put female and male writings in the same territory, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, and even less, to catalogue their productions under “female writing”.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76932252","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}