{"title":"El Paraíso occidental y el ascetismo de Marina de la Cruz","authors":"H. Ramírez","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3930","url":null,"abstract":"Al comparar la variada fortuna critica de la que han gozado las obras de Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora (1645-1700), es notorio que escritos como el Alboroto y motin de los indios de Mexico (1692), los Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez (1690) o el Teatro de las virtudes politicas (1680) han disfrutado de un mayor favor entre los estudiosos. Tal vez esta fortuna diversa se deba a que dichas obras ofrecen mayores elementos para la comprension y el analisis de las tensiones sociales presentadas en el Mexico del siglo XVII, o quiza porque dan mejor cuenta de las caracteristicas de la produccion literaria novohispana. El hecho es que la recurrencia critica sobre esos trabajos tiene como consecuencia que otras obras, tal vez de menor prestigio, pero no por ello menos interesantes, han sido progresivamente relegadas del analisis critico. Entre las obras menos estudiadas de Siguenza y Gongora se encuentra el Paraiso Occidental (Mexico 1684).1 Este texto fue encargado por las superioras del convento de Jesus Maria al sabio mexicano, gracias, posiblemente, a que Lutgarda, hermana de Siguenza, vivia alli.2 Para la elaboracion de su obra Siguenza se sirvio, segun el lo manifiesta, de los testimonios escritos por algunos biografos e historiadores de su epoca tales como los de Gil Gonzalez de Avila en su Theatro eclesiastico de la Santa Iglesia de Mexico y los de Juan Diaz de Arce en su Proximo evangelico (Paraiso 47), de los testimonios de algunas monjas vinculadas a ese u otro convento como Ines de la Cruz, Mariana de la Encarnacion y Catalina de Cristo (Paraiso 46), de las informaciones de algunos de los curas directores espirituales de las monjas como el licenciado Pedro de la Mota y Escobar (Paraiso 115) e, incluso, del examen de “diversas voces” que dieron cuenta de las vidas de unas monjas. Con los materiales recogidos, Siguenza presenta la historia de la fundacion del Real convento de Jesus Maria de la Ciudad de Mexico, Luego informa sobre la vida de la monja Marina de la Cruz y, finalmente, ofrece un significativo grupo de biografias de monjas de clausura vinculadas a instituciones religiosas mexicanas. La vida de Marina de la Cruz, segun la version que nos ofrece Siguenza, esta marcada por las visiones, las disciplinas y en general una serie de practicas religiosas que rayan con lo extremo. Este trabajo tiene como proposito explorar las caracteristicas del ascetismo practicado por Marina de la Cruz intentando destacar el contraste entre la ortodoxia religiosa y esa suerte de heterodoxia de Marina y al mismo tiempo recuperar una obra del sabio mexicano que ha sido descuidada por la critica literaria.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"217 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124421761","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":"Siclaco, Serapio y Calandraco: una caracterización del teatro breve en la Provincia de Costarrica","authors":"L. S. Dobles","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3926","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133491334","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":"REPRESENTACIONES E IMAGINARIOS DE LA CIUDAD COLONIAL Y METROPOLITANA EN LA PROSA HISPANO-AMERICANA (SIGLOS XVI AL XVIII)","authors":"M. Meléndez","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3938","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128474314","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 función de la poesía en El desierto prodigioso y prodigio del desierto de Pedro de Solís y Valenzuela","authors":"Arbey Atehortúa Atehortúa","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3929","url":null,"abstract":"Resumen: El desierto prodigioso y prodigio del desierto incluye a lo largo de sus veintidos capitulos un considerable numero de sonetos, quintillas, cuartetas, sextinas, canciones, romances, silvas y decimas. En este articulo pretendemos explora el papel que cumple tan profusa citacion de poemas en la obra, plantear la funcion de los mismos y como a traves de ellos se sustenta el proyecto cristiano de la oba, que parte de una serie de reflexiones de los personajes sobre el sentido, funcion y quehacer de la poesia.","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134594109","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":"Dos loas novohispanas para la representación de El Escondido y la Tapada , de Pedro Calderón de la Barca","authors":"Dalmacio Rodríguez Hernández","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V9I0.3927","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127577505","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":"Migration and Mobility in Rachid Nini’s Diario de un ilegal","authors":"N. Shepherd","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3923","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125093008","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":"The Immigrant as/in Crisis: the Citation and Appropriation of Lavapiés in Narratives of Progress in Contemporary Madrid","authors":"Jodi A. Eisenberg","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114372875","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":"Tonight We’re Not Whores. Tonight We’re Princesses. Sex Work and Immigration in Spain: Fernando León de Aranoa’s Princesas","authors":"Chad Montuori","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"322 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114804241","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":"España Transfetana: Writing the Protectorate and the Patria in La llamada del Almuédano and El tiempo entre costuras","authors":"Mahan L. Ellison","doi":"10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15695/VEJLHS.V8I0.3680","url":null,"abstract":"Beginning in the 1950s, the Spanish African Empire slowly began to dismantle. Spain and France recognized Moroccan independence and returned their protectorates in 1956 (minus the enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Ifni); Equatorial Guinea was granted independence in 1968; Ifni was returned to Morocco in 1969, and Spain withdrew from the Spanish Sahara in 1975. In the few decades between the Spanish Civil War and the relinquishment of the colonies, there was significant migration from Spain to Africa. A census of the Spanish Sahara shows that in 1950 there were 1,320 Europeans in the colony; by 1974 that number had risen to 20,126. In Equatorial Guinea the European population grew from 3,937 in 1950 to 9,137 in 1966. The Spanish Protectorate of Morocco experienced the highest European population; between 1935 and 1955 the expatriate population doubled from 44,379 to 90,939 (Gozálvez Pérez). From the very end of the nineteenth century, with the loss of the American colonies, Spain’s renewed focus on Africa brought about almost seventy-five years of intense interaction with and colonization of the Spanish African territories. Long before the frenetic immigration of the twentieth century, from as far back as the Moorish invasion in 711 ACE, Spain has defined itself both through and against its relationship with Africa. The almost eight centuries of convivencia2 on the Peninsula left enduring architectural legacies on the countryside and psychic impressions on Spanish collective memory. Indeed, Isabel la Católica was not content with ending the Reconquista in Granada, but hoped that her successors would continue “la conquista de África” across the Strait (28). In 1860, Antonio Canovas del Castillo, invoking the Roman legacy, affirmed that “[e]n el Atlas está nuestra frontera natural, que no en el canal estrecho que junta al Mediterráneo con el Atlántico; es lección de la antigua Romana” (77), and in 1884, José de Carvajal y Hué expressed that “[m]írandonos en Africa percibimos nuestra imagen como en clarísimo espejo” (119). Spain’s expansion into North Africa, therefore, was not simply a colonizing move to compete with other European powers; Heriberto Cairo explains that","PeriodicalId":428595,"journal":{"name":"Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129778902","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}