{"title":"Faith, Liberation, and Revolution in Fire From the Mountain by Omar Cabezas","authors":"J. Mantero","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.446","url":null,"abstract":"Publicado en 1982, el testimonio La montaña es más que una inmensa estepa verde (La montaña) de Omar Cabezas sigue generando interés en el campo de la literatura latinoamericana, particularmente entre la crítica que se dedica al testimonio y el posttestimonio. Reconocida como una de las obras fundamentales del testimonio contemporáneo, La montaña describe el despertar político e ideológico de Cabezas antes de la revolución sandinista (1977-1979) en Nicaragua, los orígenes de su relación con el Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional y sus esfuerzos en la lucha contra la dictadura de Anastasio Somoza. A lo largo del texto hay frecuentes referencias a la propia fe del narrador, el catolicismo y Dios a la vez que llega a comprender la realidad del pueblo nicaragüense y considera la autoridad moral de la revolución al intentar destituir a Somoza. Nuestra intención es demostrar que, en La montaña, Cabezas implícitamente considera la influencia de su fe, el catolicismo y Dios en la lucha revolucionaria. Primero contextualizaremos nuestro estudio dentro de las discusiones sobre el testimonio latinoamericano y procederemos a aproximarnos a La montaña desde una perspectiva liberacional que emplea la teología de la liberación como punto de referencia teórico.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"221-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49043726","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":"El testamento literario de un antipoeta","authors":"Juan Manuel Leal Funes","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.425","url":null,"abstract":"The book After-dinner Declarations published in 2006 is a selection of five speeches pronounced by Nicanor Parra between 1991 and 1997. This article set out into reading those texts as the Literary Testament of his author and the antipoetic response to “canonization” process it would symbolise the awards and ceremonies they were conceived for. In order to it, this study considers a corpus beyond the one established by the edition of 2006 and analyses Literary Testament as a traditional writing whose older samples go back into and old tradition.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"249-282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43999905","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 Poetic of Beauty: Nature, Memory and Resilience in El Botón de Nacar/The Pearl Button (2015)","authors":"M. Melgarejo","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.421","url":null,"abstract":"One of the pillars of the history of Latin American documentary filmmaking is undoubtedly the Chilean director Patricio Guzman. During more than five decades of film production, he has given an account of Chile's political history, specifically dealing with the meaning of the Chilean dictatorship for the country's past, present and future, as well as its relevance in the Latin American context. His films undoubtedly represent one of the most relevant testimonies to the continent's history in the 20th century, with hundreds of hours of footage of the high points in the violent transition process between the Allende and Pinochet governments. His film proposal will take a radical turn in his last two productions : Nostalgia de la Luz ([2010] 2011) and El Boton de Nacar (2015), which are part of a trilogy - the latter film is currently in production. Its aesthetic proposal is revolutionary in the sense that it resignifies the relationship between memory and history by establishing a connection between nature, cosmology and historical memory. In this trilogy he deals separately in each film with the desert, the sea and the mountain, leading the viewer to a reflection that, through poetic language and a meditative tone, proposes a new look at history and memory. In this essay I analyze three elements that define his film El Boton de Nacar and that open the possibilities for a new type of theoretical reflection on the documentary genre: the relationship between nature, narration and history, history understood as genealogical memory and the new type of visual aesthetic that the director is proposing, which I call \"poetry of beauty\".","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"143-163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47140862","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":"Invenciones de Caliban: cultura, humanismo y posoccidentalismo en Roberto Fernández Retamar","authors":"C. Aguirre","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.424","url":null,"abstract":"Este trabajo analiza diferentes dimensiones críticas de la escritura de Roberto Fernández Retamar. La hipótesis que nos guía es que en los textos anticoloniales del poeta cubano se intuye una lectura heterogénea y no esencialista de la cultura latinoamericana, la cual se imbrica con una elaboración del concepto-metáfora de Caliban capaz de desorganizar las dicotomías culturales de la modernidad colonial. En la primera parte constatamos cómo la particularidad de su “Caliban” consiste en su capacidad de resistir a cualquier derivación cultural y escritural unilineal, logrando discurrir en sintonía con lo que Jacques Derrida define como la différance. Después reflexionamos sobre el humanismo tejido por Fernández Retamar con el mentado tropo: un humanismo anticolonial ideado desde una relación de agresividad entre lo “propio” y lo “ajeno”. Finalmente analizamos el impacto de la noción de “posoccidentalismo” propuesta por el cubano en los principales resortes críticos del poscolonialismo latinoamericano. Concluimos cómo Caliban, en tanto símbolo, no es una autoridad de lo absoluto. Por el contrario, es una herramienta que busca deshacer los modos escriturales y epistemológicos ofrecidos por la cultura occidental, y que toma forma, dentro de la obra de Fernández Retamar, en un humanismo anticolonial y posoccidental aún en ciernes.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"1-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42772060","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":"Exilios impropios y peregrinación profana: Juan José Saer y Witold Gombrowicz","authors":"Carolina Maranguello","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.393","url":null,"abstract":"After having moved to France in 1968 and having written a large part of his work abroad, Juan José Saer begins to periodically return to Argentina from the eighties, and writes a series of texts on the subject of return and of exile in which he alludes to the figure of Witold Gombrowicz. In this work we will investigate the links, correspondences and differences between the two writers. As we will see, Saer places Gombrowicz in two series of travelers and intellectuals. On the one hand, an anachronistic and timeless series that connects him with travelers from dissimilar times and which highlights his unique perception of the national landscape; on the other, a historical series that returns the Polish writer to the literary rivalries of his time (Borges, Caillois and the Sur group). Each of these inscriptions opens a suggestive contemporaneity between the poetics and the improper exiles of Saer and Gombrowicz. The latter's “outside perspective” will allow Saer to radicalize an exiled and eccentric writer figure capable of resisting both the “infallible” values of Europe and the duties of national identification; and also configure disruptive ways of perceiving the zona’s landscape on his returns to the country.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"88-119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49016318","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 escucha (en la) crónica de Juan Villoro","authors":"Julieta Viú Adagio","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.422","url":null,"abstract":"Juan Villoro, consecrated in Latin American Literature as a fiction narrator and prominent author in the Children's Literature publishing market, has developed in parallel a remarkable chronological production that has received little critical attention. The reading of these chronicles in conjunction with interviews given by the author allowed us to notice a self-representation as a chronicler versed in the art of listening. Theme that is the excuse to review part of his production with the focus on his ear attentive to the expressions and manifestations of mass culture. It is interesting to approach chronic listening, a characteristic aspect of its aesthetics, from analyzing the priority place of the voice of the soccer announcer Ángel Fernández, the links with the Mexican counterculture and the construction of a myth of origin that draws on mass culture.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"164-184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49038874","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":"Utopía distópica. La “falsa calma” de las ciudades fantasma de la Patagonia.","authors":"Mirko Covacevich Pérez","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.413","url":null,"abstract":"Falsa calma is a denunciation of the dystopia in which the Patagonian utopia of hydrocarbons of the mid-twentieth century became. The same oil camps that populated Patagonia in such a short time under the slogan of development, today succumb to the lack of opportunities. Half-done villages, abandoned by the State, whose inhabitants barely survive in an adverse environment. But it is no longer about the hostility of the \"wild\" nature, which the narratives of the 19th century portrayed: it is the decadence of civilization itself that corrupts the foundations of society.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76174344","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":"Reseña. Marina Garone Gravier y María Andrea Giovine Yáñez (eds.) Bibliología e iconotextualidad. Estudios interdisciplinarios sobre las relaciones entre textos e imágenes. Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de México, 2019","authors":"María de los Ángeles Mascioto","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.444","url":null,"abstract":"Review. Marina Garone Gravier y Maria Andrea Giovine Yanez (eds.) Bibliologia e iconotextualidad. Estudios interdisciplinarios sobre las relaciones entre textos e imagenes . Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Mexico, 2019","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"307-310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45644423","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":"“Deutsches Requiem”, de Borges. El ascetismo del sujeto fascista","authors":"Luis J. Bautista","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.392","url":null,"abstract":"The critics that have analyzed Jorge Luis Borges’ “Deutsches Requiem” (1946) have usually focused on the moral inconsistencies committed by its protagonist and narrator, a Nazi officer: Otto Dietrich zur Linde. Otto explicitly states that the goal of Nazism was the destruction of Judeo-Christian values, but he is apparently unable to think outside them. All his autobiography is told through the ascetic ideal, which would make his last message incongruous. The asceticism of Otto, of the \"fascist subject\", is not to my view a deliberate incongruity of Borges's text. I show in this article that Otto’s deeply ascetic nature is the ultimate result of the model of subjectivity developed by western philosophy.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"27-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45558772","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":"Sobre los inicios de un revisionismo filosófico en Argentina y sus derivas políticas: Homero Guglielmini, Saúl Taborda y Carlos Astrada","authors":"Lucas Domínguez Rubio","doi":"10.5195/ct/2020.420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5195/ct/2020.420","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the theoretical and ideological interests of the first philosophical essays in Argentina from an intellectual-history perspective. Saúl Taborda (1885-1943), Homero Guglielmini (1903-1968) and Carlos Astrada (1894-1971) had similar theoretical and political trajectories. From the 1920s, when they were in charge of incipient philosophical and avant-garde magazines, they were influenced by the writings of Nietzsche and Sorel. Later, they were interested in German romanticism and Heidegger's work, in the moment when Astrada and Guglielmini became two of the most important intellectuals of Juan Domingo Perón's government. While the so-called historical revisionism has received a remarkable attention, we only have a few works on this philosophical revisionism in Argentina. It is necessary, thus, to differentiate these early revisionist writings from their counterparts dedicated to history. The philosophers did not react to the continuous waves of immigration but rather to liberal political innovations taken as \"foreign ideas\". They focused especially on the figure of the gaucho and proposed a non-Catholic reading of Hispanicism. In a nutshell, they argued against individualism and forth theoretical tools to think a collective subject. Therefore, this work describes a theoretical trajectory that is well known at the European level, ranging from vitalist and aestheticist irrationalism to nationalist and strongly anti-individualist organisationalist positions.","PeriodicalId":40660,"journal":{"name":"Catedral Tomada-Revista de Critica Literaria Latinoamericana-Journal of Latin American Literary Criticism","volume":"8 1","pages":"60-87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41437148","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}