MESTERPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5070/m3481041902
Juan José Espinal-Palacio
{"title":"Contraviniendo el relato hegemónico: mito y manumisión de los esclavizados en Medellín-Colombia durante las primeras décadas de formación del Estado republicano","authors":"Juan José Espinal-Palacio","doi":"10.5070/m3481041902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m3481041902","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Espinal-Palacio, Juan Jose | Abstract: El presente articulo busca replantear, a traves de un estudio comparativo de fuentes primarias de archivo y fuentes bibliograficas, el supuesto historiografico que posiciona a Antioquia (en este caso, la ciudad de Medellin) como un hito en lo que a manumision de esclavizados durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX se refiere. Se trata, en definitiva, de ofrecer al lector una serie de herramientas y recursos que posibiliten la contravencion del relato historico escrito desde arriba, especialmente en el siglo XX, segun el cual el proceso de emancipacion de esclavos y abolicion gradual de la esclavitud en Antioquia se llevo a cabo con total apego a lo dictaminado tempranamente por la Ley de Partos del ano 1814.","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70755293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MESTERPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5070/m3481043686
L. F. Sierra
{"title":"Crisis del capitalismo y potencias de lo común. Expresiones gráficas, universidad y movimientos estudiantiles en Bogotá – Colombia","authors":"L. F. Sierra","doi":"10.5070/m3481043686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m3481043686","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): SIERRA, LUIS FERNANDO | Abstract: En este articulo reflexionare a partir de las expresiones graficas de los estudiantes universitarios producidas en la movilizacion del 2018 a proposito de la des financiacion de la educacion superior publica en Colombia. Me interesa pensar la potencia de lo comun de cara a la crisis social, economica y politica en relacion directa a las universidades. Las claves de interpretacion de los fenomenos y de las piezas graficas producidas durante estas movilizaciones (grafitis y pancartas) seran las siguientes: despojo, proteccion de lo comun y resistencias. Para esto: primero, hablare la crisis y la manera como esta afecta a la universidad y la sociedad; segundo, pensare, con las expresiones graficas, la proteccion de lo comun en relacion directa a las resistencias al despojo en su forma de privatizacion; por ultimo, avanzare en la reflexion sobre el lugar de la universidad para actuar, intervenir e investigar","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70755363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MESTERPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5070/m3481045661
J. Espinal
{"title":"La memoria de lo perdido y de lo que nunca fue. Notas sobre la nostalgia en La muerte de Artemio Cruz","authors":"J. Espinal","doi":"10.5070/m3481045661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m3481045661","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): ESPINAL, JULIANA | Abstract: Ha corrido mucha tinta sobre la complejidad narrativa o el ingenio con el que Carlos Fuentes trata la historia politica mexicana en su novela La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962). Hay, sin embargo, un tema que aun requiere ser estudiado con mayor profundidad: el caracter nostalgico de la novela. En el presente articulo sostengo que hay dos tipos especificos de nostalgia en la obra; una asociada a la voz del Tu y otra en la voz del El. La nostalgia del Tu surge muy temprano en el proceso de concientizacion del Artemio moribundo y, por lo tanto, esta aun muy unida a la vision que el viejo Artemio tiene de si mismo para ese momento. La nostalgia del El se despierta cuando el proceso de concientizacion ha avanzado, Artemio esta mas cerca de la muerte y, simultaneamente, esta mas cerca de su origen. Asi, mientras la primera nostalgia separa a Artemio de su ser mas intimo, la segunda lo lleva de regreso a ese momento primero en el que Artemio era la posibilidad infinita de todos los hombres.","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70755022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MESTERPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5070/m3481045281
Ernesto Arciniega
{"title":"“El binomio hombre/mujer es tan insistente como insuficiente”; Una entrevista a Brad Epps","authors":"Ernesto Arciniega","doi":"10.5070/m3481045281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m3481045281","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Arciniega, Ernesto | Abstract: Introduccion y preguntas de entrevista por Ernesto Arciniega, estudiante de doctorado de la Universidad de California, Los Angeles","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70755405","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MESTERPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.5070/m3481042146
Alison Posey
{"title":"Rhetorical Self-Fashioning in Aramburu: A Contemporary Take on Cervantine Techniques","authors":"Alison Posey","doi":"10.5070/m3481042146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/m3481042146","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Posey, Alison | Abstract: In Cervantes’ Don Quijote (1605), Dulcinea does not participate in any dialogue, and yet still appears a vivid character as real as the other female characters who do speak in the novel. Dulcinea, a figment of others’ imaginations, forms a sharp contrast with the character of Marcela, who fashions an authoritative self through dialogue with other characters. Marcela’s self, like Dulcinea’s, is relational to others’; however, her self-fashioning frees her from the objectification of Dulcineism and instead Marcela makes herself a character that transgresses conventional narratives, both cultural and literary. Likewise, a similar rejection of Dulcineism and a desire to craft her life story through her dialectical exchanges with the rest of the characters enables Miren, a principal female character in Aramburu’s Patria (2016), to fashion a self that actively contravenes the general perspective of her son’s supposed crimes as an etarra. In this analysis, I consider the Cervantine technique of rhetorical self-fashioning in characters such as Marcela and I trace this technique in the development of the character of Miren in Aramburu’s contemporary novel, Patria. Cervantes’ Marcela inaugurates the self-fashioning character in Western fiction, which is expanded by Aramburu four-hundred years later with his female character, Miren. Like Marcela, Miren must fashion herself against a polyphony of voices, frequently male, that provide a variety of narratives shaping the events of her life. I argue that Aramburu’s character, like Cervantes’, is empowered to author her own narrative to contravene an undesired outcome. Furthermore, both female characters use dialogue to reject the common literary tendency towards Dulcineism and, through relational rhetoric, disregard conventional narratives in favor of creating their own: a remarkable choice for female characters, both then and now.","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70755430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MESTERPub Date : 2017-01-01DOI: 10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim140160520
D. Cooper
{"title":"Patrick Iber. Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America","authors":"D. Cooper","doi":"10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim140160520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/2468-1733_shafr_sim140160520","url":null,"abstract":"Book review of PATRICK IBER. Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2015. 336 pp.","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64416534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MESTERPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.5860/choice.50-6648
D. Z. Hough-Snee
{"title":"More, Anna. Baroque Sovereignty. Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora and the Creole Archive of Colonial Mexico","authors":"D. Z. Hough-Snee","doi":"10.5860/choice.50-6648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.50-6648","url":null,"abstract":"Author(s): Zavalza Hough-Snee, Dexter | Abstract: Review of Anna More's Baroque Sovereignty","PeriodicalId":40833,"journal":{"name":"MESTER","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71142262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}