{"title":"Maldito “Jarabe gatuno”: Poéticas de la censura inquisitorial en la Nueva España","authors":"Elena Deanda Camacho","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4208","url":null,"abstract":"Un analisis a la censura inquisitorial que persiguio la cancion o ‘son de la tierra’ llamado “Jarabe gatuno” o “Pan de jarabe” en la Nueva Espana del siglo dieciocho desvela una doble dinamica de reproduccion del discurso en la cual, por un lado, el discurso considerado ‘obsceno’ contamina el discurso legal y se ve preservado, mientras que, por otro lado, el discurso legal se mimetiza con lo ‘obsceno’ replicandolo, citandolo, en una continua reverberacion. En esta dinamica de apropiacion, contaminacion o invasion discursiva es posible dilucidar una poetica de la censura en la cual el discurso legal responde con las mismas estrategias discursivas que expone el discurso que condena.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122709043","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":"“Ensayo en la noche”: Políticas de la restitución en Diario de una princesa montonera -110% verdad - de Mariana Eva Perez","authors":"María Guadalupe Arenillas","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4210","url":null,"abstract":"En Diario de una princesa montonera -110% verdad - (2012) Mariana Eva Perez, hija de desaparecidos, dramaturga, licenciada en ciencia politica, y nieta de dos figuras prominentes de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo crea un lenguaje propio para narrar las contradicciones que producen algunos de los tabus, silencios y esloganes de la memoria. El nudo de conflicto que analizo en este ensayo se centra en la incomoda relacion de la protagonista con su hermano, apropiado luego de nacer en la Escuela de Mecanica de la Armada y restituido cuando ella tenia veinte anos. Lejos de las metaforas tranquilizadoras de la reparacion, la restitucion y la reconstruccion, que para la autora producen otra clase de olvidos, Diario construye una poetica ludica y sagaz que critica el uso de estos terminos y el silencio de historias como la suya, opuestas al final feliz de la reunificacion familiar. En este sentido, Diario abre una reflexion necesaria y nuevos interrogantes sobre uno de los temas mas dificiles en las politicas de memoria de la Argentina actual.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115345144","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":"From Honor to Dignity: Criminal Libel, Press Freedom, and Racist Speech in Brazil and the United States","authors":"J. H. French","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4206","url":null,"abstract":"Reports on violence against journalists in Brazil have captured the concern of international human rights organizations. This article discusses a case involving another such concern: the use of criminal defamation laws in Brazil to punish journalists for criticizing public officials. At the same time, Brazilian media sources regularly report on crimes of racism, which most often involve derogatory name-calling and hate speech. By examining the intersection of these apparently contradictory concerns, this article sheds new light on speech rights in Brazil and the United States and argues that a comparative perspective is crucial to contextualizing and harmonizing free speech and its limitations under modern democratic constitutions. By considering the infusion of traditional notions of honor and status with post-World War II views of dignity, this article argues for a comparative consideration of how best to combat racism and whether hate speech regulation in the U.S. should be reconsidered. As such, the type of law often used to protect the powerful in Brazil could come to be used to protect the vulnerable in the United States and opens the possibility that the irony of free speech could become more than just a scholarly debate.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130953652","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":"Courting Wisdom: Silence, Solitude and Friendship in Eighteenth-Century Spain","authors":"M. Raillard","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4213","url":null,"abstract":"Friendship as an ideal and a social institution has long been associated with the eighteenth century, and viewed as essential to the betterment of society since it promoted sociability and relationships. This essay explores how the notions of silence and solitude, seemingly antithetical to friendship and sociability, were in fact complimentary activities which interfaced with the idea of amistad. In Spanish authors such as Forner, Moratin, Jovellanos and Melendez Valdes, silence and solitude were represented as positive, necessary components, alongside friendship, in the acquisition of wisdom. I argue that these works articulate a brand of neo-Pythagoreanism, which romanticizes the archetype of the silent master and the contemplative ideal of the solitary thinker.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"178 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114426694","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":"“Lo aceptó, pero con indiferencia”: Silencio, indiferencia y rebelión en Tristana de Pérez Galdós","authors":"Sara Muñoz Muriana","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4212","url":null,"abstract":"A partir de la emergencia de un inusitado numero de sujetos femeninos que configuran su subjetividad en la narrativa espanola de finales del XIX a traves del lenguaje, el presente articulo explora el papel del silencio como acto de enunciacion en Tristana (1892) de Benito Perez Galdos, una novela repleta de elipsis, discontinuidades y omisiones en la que el silencio juega un papel fundamental. En su periplo narrativo, el personaje femenino desarrolla una habilidad linguistica excepcional estrechamente relacionada con la elaboracion de un discurso feminista y el deseo de vivir “libre y honrada”. Pero tras la amputacion de una pierna que la dejara mutilada e inmovil, el personaje se refugia en una actitud de indiferencia, expresion maxima del silencio que domina la novela. Dicha indiferencia responde sin duda a una tecnica aleccionadora para restaurar el orden alterado por el espiritu feminista del personaje. Sin embargo, propongo leerla como una forma de resistencia y un acto de poder a partir del cual cuestionar estructuras basicas del orden vigente y anular viejos valores tales como el matrimonio, el ideal de belleza femenina o las diferencias sexuales, todo ello en el marco de las transformaciones que consolidan la modernidad espanola.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116913941","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":"Film Censorship in Argentina: 1958-1976","authors":"C. Rocha","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4207","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I trace the emergence and impact of legislation that regulated film in Argentina from 1957-1976—a tumultuous period given that military governments continually interrupted democratic administrations. Contrary to what has been long held that censorship began during the revolucion libertadora, I make the case that censorship legislation was first passed during the democratic government of Arturo Frondizi (term of office 1958-1962). This legislation prioritized the projection of a poster-image of the nation, the protection of Catholic values, and the promotion of shared national beliefs. This early legislation paved the way for the instauration of film censorship in 1968—as well as the regulations on censorship approved up until March 1976, when a new dictatorship took over—, but was met with antagonism from several different social actors at that time. Several resonant cases illustrate the dynamic censorship-freedom of expression that characterized the 1958-1976 period.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115231631","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":"O poeta desfolha a bandeira: Literatura e resistência em Torquato Neto","authors":"M. Brasileiro","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4209","url":null,"abstract":"Torquato Neto (1944 – 1972) –poeta, jornalista e cineasta—foi um dos participantes da Tropicalia, “movimento” artistico e cultural que ocorreu no Brasil na segunda metade da decada de 1960. A poesia de Torquato Neto foi marcada por um gesto de rebeldia que, ao mesmo tempo que apontava para uma mudanca radical das mentalidades dos jovens em relacao aos modelos de comportamento social e familiar, colocava uma forte resistencia politica e ideologica ao modelo autoritario que a ditadura militar implantara no Brasil. Neste trabalho, a relacao entre linguagem e resistencia sera discutida a partir dos poemas de Torquato Neto. Pensar esta relacao traz a consciencia para leitores contemporâneos alguns modelos de subjetivacao presentes na cultura brasileira e os gestos discursivos utilizados por artisticas para desconstruir formacoes ideologicas autoritarias.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"116 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120996062","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":"Décimas a la censura de Carmen Aristegui","authors":"Guillermo Velázquez Benavidez","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127951974","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":"Silencio, subjetividad y ficción en los testimonios de mujeres sobrevivientes","authors":"Karín Davidovich","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V10I0.4211","url":null,"abstract":"Este articulo analiza la produccion testimonial de ex detenidas desaparecidas de la ultima dictadura militar en Argentina (1978-1983), poniendo de relieve la presencia de los silencios existentes en estos relatos. Los relatos testimoniales de las sobrevivientes Graciela Fainstein, Graciela Lo Prete, Nora Strejilevich y Alicia Partnoy, entre otros, ponen en evidencia las dificultades a las que se enfrenta todo sobreviviente del horror, en tanto debe narrar aquello que dada su naturaleza traumatica desafia cualquier tipo de representacion. Frente a esta dificultad, las sobrevivientes buscan en la articulacion entre lo dicho y lo no dicho, entre la palabra y el silencio, desafiar las limitaciones del lenguaje frente al horror, construyendo un relato que incorpora lo difuso y llama a la imaginacion. Estos testimonios presentan rasgos particulares que los diferencian de los testimonios masculinos, tales como la posicion subjetiva desde la cual las narradoras cuentan su historia, la multiplicidad de perspectivas, el quiebre de una narracion lineal dentro de estos testimonios, asi como tambien el uso del silencio como herramienta a traves de la cual comunicar el horror y cuestionar las limitaciones del lenguaje. Este tipo de testimonio se convierte asi en documento de la experiencia traumatica, que dada su naturaleza, no puede sino estar constituido por interrupciones, huecos y silencios.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"331 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116455560","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}