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{"title":"Coetzee versus Menard, or the Making of a Writer","authors":"Fernando Galván","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950361","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay investigates the origins and development of the influence of Borges on J.M. Coetzee, focusing particularly on the formative period of Coetzee in the United States (1965–1971) and on the writing and form of his first novel, Dusklands (1974). The period coincided with the dissemination of Borges’s work in North America, and ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’ was one of the key Borges texts whose trace can be found in the writing of Dusklands, among other novels. Allusions and references to stories by Borges, as well as Coetzee’s 1998 review of his Collected Fictions, are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"175 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44655798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Turning the Tables on Aristotle: A Pierre Menardian Reading of ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’","authors":"Patricia E. Reagan","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950358","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article undertakes an in-depth analysis of Borges’s use, or rather misuse, of Aristotelian rhetoric and style in ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’. The narrator of ‘Pierre Menard’ creates a series of contradictions by overturning traditional modes of persuasion in order to guide the reader to an understanding of a preferred type of reader, namely one who subjects the text to a Pierre Menardian reading. While the notion of engaging in a Pierre Menardian reading of Borges’s landmark text may appear to be absurd and ironic, in a quintessentially Borgesian fashion, it is this very element that leads the reader to a more profound understanding of the text. A Pierre Menardian reading requires the reader to contemplate both Cervantes’s immortal Quijote in its appropriate socio-cultural conditions and Menard’s Quijote of the 20th century, as well as the narrator’s contradictions that we read in his essay/story and the version by Madame Henri Bachelier that he undermines in his account. Only through intertextual analysis can the reader achieve a heightened understanding of any number of elements, including the characters, the narrator, the author, the reader, the text itself, authorial intent, the construction of a text, the function of fiction, literary criticism, literary theory, and the role of time, history, and tradition.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"126 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42451527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Madness and Heroism: In Search of Truth and Identity","authors":"M. Martin","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950356","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Borges’s life-long commitment to idealism, displayed in the current story, has implications for literary theory by stressing the reader’s role through what he calls ‘Berkeley’s aesthetics,’ i.e., subjecting literary texts to the esse est percipi principle. Keeping in mind the type of dialectics adopted in ‘Nueva refutación del tiempo’, and considering the pivotal role of irony in ‘Pierre Menard’, I take Borges’s scepticism and idealism as major guidelines for my reflections in this essay. How does ‘Pierre Menard’ portray identity in relation to Borges’s adherence to idealism? The epistemological implications regarding truth, time and identity are revealed when brought under the spotlight of Berkeley, Hume and Schopenhauer. Taking epistemology as a starting point and with reference to those philosophers, this article calls into question assumptions regarding the possibility of definitive readings of both a given text or reality.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"97 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41660800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’: Contexts, Antecedents, Lines of Enquiry","authors":"R. Fiddian","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1950354","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1950354","url":null,"abstract":"‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’ has displayed remarkable creative and critical resilience since making its first appearance in May 1939, in the Buenos Aires cultural review, Sur (number 56). Clearly one of Borges’s favourites, and regarded by many as his first fully-fledged ficción, the story was reprinted without changes in the collection El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941) and in Ficciones (1944), where it would occupy second place in the table of contents, after the no less canonical, but subsequent ‘Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’—published in Sur in March 1940. The dedication of a special number of the house-journal, Variaciones Borges, to the latter in 2003 set a precedent for the monographic study of a single ficción by Borges, providing a template for the current volume and a stimulus to other groups of scholars to follow suit. A glance at the existing bibliography on ‘Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote’ (hereafter and normally, ‘Pierre Menard’) confirms the story’s multidisciplinary variety and appeal. Literary history and literary theory including questions of authorship and reading; the study of language and of translation across boundaries of time and space; philosophy (especially, epistemology and aesthetics), are foremost amongst the disciplines that frame the witty and iconoclastic pages of ‘Pierre Menard’ and supply the vocabulary and frames of reference for some of the most learned and insightful readings of Borges’s story. The Cervantine novel, literary interpretation, and the contemporary French cultural milieu are just a few of the topics that, if expanded on, might provide the basis for an exhaustive list of subjects dealt with in ‘Pierre Menard’. The trouble with such an exercise is that it would likely run the risk of replicating the laborious catalogue of the ‘visible’ work of Menard articulated in the third paragraph of Borges’s story. Taking a different path, this introduction opts, first, for a selective review of the most important contexts surrounding the writing and the aftermath of publication of ‘Pierre Menard’; thereafter, it traces some antecedents of ‘Pierre Menard’ in Borges’s prose output of the nineteen thirties; and, it reviews some of the lines of critical enquiry that have shaped understanding of ‘Pierre Menard’, thereby providing some context for the essays that make up this special number of Romance Studies.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"66 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47590772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mito, historia y testimonio: Tragedia de la perra vida (1960), de María de la O Lejárraga","authors":"Inmaculada Plaza-Agudo","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1923968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923968","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Here we study Tragedia de la perra vida, a play which María de la O Lejárraga wrote in 1954, during her exile in Buenos Aires (Argentina), where she arrived in her old age and where she deve-loped several strategies in order to survive financially: mainly translations and collaborations in the press and in Radio Nacional. In our analysis of the play, which was published, along with other works, in the volume Fiesta en el Olimpo y otras diversiones menos olímpicas (1960), we investigate its testimonial value as it is based on a mythological and symbolic background and has an universal dimension. In the work, the author draws on the biography of her contemporary Spanish and European citizens, whose lives took place under shared circumstances, with special focus on the war. While writing her generational story, Lejárraga pays attention to certain key issues in her career not only as a playwright but also as a feminist and socialist activist: childhood as a critical period in identity formation, her opposition to social and gender inequalities, changes in women’ roles during the 20s and 30s.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"21 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923968","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43795556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spanish and Italian newcomers and the Argentinian Scene (1930-1976): A gendered perspective","authors":"E. Houvenaghel, Luisa García-Manso, M. Jansen, M. Urban","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1923966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923966","url":null,"abstract":"In this third and final part of the special issues Spanish Exile and Italian Immigration in Argentina: Gender, Politics and Culture, the spotlight is on theatre, dramatists’ narrative production, and TV drama that captures the transnational experience of Spanish and Italian newcomers in Argentina (1930–1976). In line with the series’ focus on gender, this final issue gives protagonism to women playwrights, their self-construal in autobiographical and testimonial writings, and the representation of women’s experiences in dramatic and TV productions. Theatre is an artistic field that requires the cooperation of many artists and engages in direct dialogue with the audience. It is therefore fertile soil for transnational connections. Let us take a closer look at the influences exerted by dramatists and television directors of Spanish or Italian origin and by a multicultural audience on the Argentinian scene. By the end of the 1920s and the early 1930s, Buenos Aires had an excellent reputation as a centre of culture in the Americas. This image was created partly thanks to the increasing European, especially Spanish and Italian, immigration to Argentina at the end of the 19 century. The immigrants enriched Buenos Aires’ ‘landscape of modernity with their cultural and linguistic variation’ (Sarlo 2000, 110). Buenos Aires’ residents formed a multicultural audience, eager to attend spectacles, plays and other forms of entertainment. By the middle of the 20 century, Buenos Aires had tens of theatres, most of them founded before the 1930s (Llanes 1968, 17–20). The image of Buenos Aires as a centre of culture in the Americas caught the attention of the greatest Spanish and Italian dramatists of the time, such as Federico García Lorca and Luigi Pirandello. The memory of García Lorca’s six-month stay in Buenos Aires (1933–1934), remains alive today. His plays were strongly applauded and were on stage for months at the Teatro Avenida. His visit to Buenos Aires had a positive impact on the artistic trajectory of the writer, who was welcomed as a celebrity by the porteño cultural community. On the Italian side, Luigi Pirandello travelled to Buenos Aires in 1927 on a tour with his theatre company Teatro d’Arte di Roma and did so again in 1933 when he chose Buenos Aires for the world premiere of his play Quando si è qualcuno (When One Is a Somebody) (Aldama 2015, 57). The influence of Pirandello’s work—his novels, plays, and ideas on aesthetics and philosophy—on the cultural life of the Argentina of the 1930s was reinforced by his Nobel Prize in 1934. The presence of famous Italian and Spanish","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"1 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923966","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48546698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conflictos bélicos desde una perspectiva transnacional: Testimonio y compromiso de una exiliada, María Teresa León","authors":"Francisca Vilches-de Frutos","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1923967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923967","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN En su largo exilio en Buenos Aires (1940–1963), donde llegó tras el final de la guerra civil española, la dramaturga, directora de escena, guionista, activista y escritora María Teresa León dedicó varias creaciones a recordar algunos acontecimientos significativos de este conflicto. Desde su conocimiento de la práctica escénica, derivada de su condición de directora de escena, concibe Contra viento y marea (1941) y Juego limpio (1959), dos obras narrativas con estructuras integradas por breves escenas, monólogos y diálogos que las acercan al drama. Las referencias a otros conflictos políticos y bélicos surgidos en la constitución de las nuevas naciones del continente americano constituyen para la escritora un camino transnacional idóneo para reivindicar raíces e intereses comunes y entroncar con las sociedades de acogida en su exilio. Su deseo de visibilizar los lazos existentes entre España y América se vislumbra también en algunas de sus charlas emitidas entre 1942 y 1943 para Radio el Mundo, de Buenos Aires. En la siguiente fase de su exilio en Roma (1963–1977), escribió Memoria de la melancolía (1970), un libro clave para entender los dilemas del destierro, donde se recuerda otro conflicto bélico, la Segunda Guerra Mundial, detrás del cual vislumbró, desde una perspectiva transnacional, la lucha en favor de la libertad, como en el caso de la guerra civil española.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"7 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923967","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45942111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Penelopes Left Behind: Griselda Gambaro’s El mar que nos trajo (2001)","authors":"trajo, E. Houvenaghel, Griselda Gambaro","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1923969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923969","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The novel El mar que nos trajo (The Sea that brought us, 2001), by playwright Griselda Gambaro (Argentina °1928), daughter of Italian immigrants, treats migration from a women-centred perspective. The novel is set both in Italy and Argentina during the late 19th and early 20th-century wave of Italian and Spanish labour migration to Argentina. Gambaro brings together depictions of three Italian and Italian-Argentinian women who are left behind by their husband, lover, father, respectively. She thus shifts the focus away from those who migrate to those who stay behind. This study connects the novel with the Heroides, or Letters of Heroines, in which Ovid gives voice to Penelope and other Greek and Roman women, such as Medea, Dido, or Ariadne, all of whom were abandoned by their husband or lover. Reading Gambaro’s novel in dialogue with Ovid’s Heroides illuminates the novel’s gender dimension and dramatic structure. The spectrum of abandoned women depicted by Gambaro differs from the series of female portraits included in the Heroides in that it comprises two generations of women who cope with abandonment in different ways. The first generation is similar to Ovid’s heroines who struggle, at a turning point in their lives, with their feelings of love, anxiety, and uncertainty about what may have kept their beloved from returning. The second generation, however, develops practices more similar to Penelope’s plan to regain control, or even to Medea’s cruel revenge intentions. This generation works out strategies to put an end to their situation of dependence and abandonment.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"35 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923969","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43859457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vientos de agua (2006): melodrama, posmemoria y nostalgia en la representación de la experiencia migratoria hispano-argentina","authors":"J. C. Puerta","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2021.1923970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923970","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN La serie de televisión, Vientos de Agua (2006), dirigida por Juan José Campanella, ofrece una mirada sobre el tema de la emigración hispano-argentina, dentro del marco temporal comprendido entre 1934–2006. Por una parte, Vientos de agua puede ser considerada un melodrama, pues se sirve de las estrategias recurrentes de un género que privilegia la atención a la esfera afectiva de los personajes —familia, amores, amistades—, y propicia una lectura en clave moral de los conflictos. Por otra, se evoca un contexto histórico y se da cuenta de algunas transformaciones sociales, lo que permite también una lectura de esta serie de ficción como medio para representar la memoria colectiva. Por último, dado que la peripecia de los personajes nos ofrece casi todos los motivos recurrentes del exilio — la mitificación de la tierra prometida, la añoranza del paraíso perdido, las angustias de la travesía en barco, el cruce de fronteras, la pérdida de vínculos con las comunidades de origen y las dificultades para encontrar nuevas comunidades de acogida — incluido el retorno al hogar, considero oportuno revisar si los conceptos de nostalgia reflexiva y de posmemoria son productivos para el análisis de la serie y su representación de la identidad individual y colectiva.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"48 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2021.1923970","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41979281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entre liderazgo comunitario y participación política en la sociedad de recepción: ¿qué papel jugaron las élites inmigrantes italianas y españolas en la Argentina (1940-1960)?","authors":"F. Bertagna","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1859787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1859787","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay aims to analyse the forms and mechanisms of leadership within the Italian and Spanish collectivities in Argentina between 1940 and 1960, studying in particular the action of two groups of political exiles: the Spanish Republicans, who arrived in the South American country mainly from 1939-1940; and the Italian fascists who arrived after 1946. First and foremost, the different political contexts at the time of arrival are compared (conservative governments vs. military government and then first government of Juan Domingo Perón). Secondly, the analysis focuses dynamically on two aspects: 1) the performance of both groups within the associations of the respective communities and the attempts to impose their own agenda within them; 2) the eventual political commitment within the receiving society. Finally, the factors that determined the greater or lesser success of each within and outside their communities of belonging are studied.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"175 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1859787","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48825091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}