HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/hir.2022.0000
M. Abeyta
{"title":"The Allegory of the Meat Market in Amores perros: Cannibalism, Consumption, and Money","authors":"M. Abeyta","doi":"10.1353/hir.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that the allusions to cannibalism through snippets of text that appear on screen and the insistent representation of commodity and monetary exchange through visual associations, montage, framing, and dialogue establish an undeniable cause–effect, social relationship between money and violence. This indictment is bolstered by a complex network of interweaving stories and multilayered imagery that comprises an allegory of cannibalistic capitalism in Mexico on the eve of the twenty-first century. In this light, the figure of the neoliberal cannibal, the entrepreneur engaged in the commodification of violence, profiting from murder and the spectacle of violence, personifies this allegorical critique of neoliberalism. This interpretation of the film's complex allegory centered on the image of a meat market as a metaphor for cannibalistic capitalism includes a preliminary discussion of the interrelationship between violence, neoliberalism, and cannibalism, followed by a close analysis of the visual language and dialogue.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"90 1","pages":"1 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47282485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/hir.2022.0004
S. Dowd
{"title":"Anarchaeologies: Reading as Misreading by Erin Graff Zivin (review)","authors":"S. Dowd","doi":"10.1353/hir.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"us, is aimed at students and scholars “who may not read Portuguese, and who therefore cannot benefit from the extensive body of criticism that exists in that language” (11). Building bridges between the Anglophone reader and the vast and most often uncharted territory of the lit er a tures of peripheral countries like Brazil is a noble mission and a muchneeded initiative. Along with the translation of more works by Brazilian writers and scholars alike, books like Machado de Assis and Narrative Theory pave the way for the reception of literary works that, other wise, remain regrettably off the radar even among many in academia.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"90 1","pages":"135 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44576289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/hir.2022.0007
Alberto Carpio Jiménez
{"title":"E agora? Lembra-me: Una genealogía de las películas del VIH desde la supervivencia","authors":"Alberto Carpio Jiménez","doi":"10.1353/hir.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:¿Cómo puede una película enfrentarse a la muerte de quien la está realizando? Esta cuestión fue especialmente clave en el cine de la década del 90, producido por cineastas homosexuales con el VIH. Sin embargo, a mediados de la década, los nuevos tratamientos evitan la identificación del VIH con una muerte segura, y estas películas desaparecieron. En E agora? Lembra-me (Portugal, 2013), Joaquim Pinto, como un superviviente con el VIH, recupera esta tradición del cine en primera persona que confronta la propia muerte. En este artículo trazo una redefinición de qué es sobrevivir en la película de Pinto, a través de su propia genealogía en tres películas de los noventa. Pinto aporta una nueva idea de supervivencia, más allá de la autobiografía individual, criticando el concepto darwinista asociado a la evolución y el progreso. Su experiencia con el VIH le permite reconceptualizar su modo de comprender la enfermedad y la vida desde la supervivencia.Abstract:How can a movie deal with the death of the person who is making it? This question was especially crucial in the cinema of the 1990s made by gay people with AIDS. Nevertheless, at mid-decade, the new approaches avoid the identification of AIDS with sure death, and these movies disappeared. In E agora? Lembra-me (Portugal, 2013), Joaquim Pinto, as a survivor with AIDS, recovered this tradition of first-person movies that confront one's own death. In this article I trace the redefinition of survival in Pinto's film, through its own genealogy in three first-person movies from the nineties. Pinto provides a new idea of survival, beyond individual autobiography, by criticizing the Darwinist concept associated with evolution and progress. His experience of AIDS allows him to reconceptualize his way of understanding illness and life from survival.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"90 1","pages":"41 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44158768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1353/hir.2022.0005
Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas
{"title":"Ficciones de verdad: archivo y narrativas de vida by Patricia López-Gay (review)","authors":"Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas","doi":"10.1353/hir.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"90 1","pages":"138 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43875609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1353/hir.2021.0027
E. Gerli
{"title":"In Toletum daemones: el deán de Santiago, don Yllán de Toledo y la ética de la sapiencia","authors":"E. Gerli","doi":"10.1353/hir.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN:El exemplo XI del Libro del Conde Lucanor, además de constituir una admonición contra la ingratitud, revela una distinción ideológica clave en la obra, que marca la tensión entre el pujante mundo intelectual seglar del llamado “largo siglo XIII” y la Iglesia, justamente en el momento en que los conflictos entre ellos se debatían por los escolásticos en las aulas de las universidades y los studia generalia a lo largo de la cristiandad. En él se desvela una de las bases culturales fundamentales del ideario del libro que refleja su íntimo discernimiento de la lucha por el control y la vigilancia ética del conocimiento que siguió aun después de la muerte de santo Tomás de Aquino (1274), para quien la sapiencia debería regirse por una filosofía moral—una deontología—que disciplina y ordena las pasiones. De esta manera, el exemplo XI capta un momento decisivo en la socialización y secularización éticas del saber justamente cuando este se va perfilando como una forma extraordinaria del poder.Abstract:In addition to comprising an admonition against ingratitude (the traditional interpretation), Exemplum XI of the Libro del Conde Lucanor reveals a key ideological distinction in the book. It reveals a pronounced tension between the emerging world of lay intellectuals, the science of the so-called “Long Thirteenth Century,” and the Church, just when the conflict between them was being contested in universities and studia generalia throughout Christendom. When read in this larger cultural context, the exemplum discloses an awareness of the power of knowledge, and the struggle for its vigilance and ethical control, a theme disputed well beyond the death of Thomas Aquinas (1274), for whom knowledge should be regulated by a moral philosophy—a code of ethics or a deontology—that orders and disciplines the passions. In this fashion, Exemplum XI captures a decisive moment in the ethical socialization and secularization of knowledge, just as knowledge is recognized as a formidable instrument for good and evil.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"375 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48618597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1353/hir.2021.0029
T. McEnaney
{"title":"Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America by Karen Benezra (review)","authors":"T. McEnaney","doi":"10.1353/hir.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"507 - 511"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66430876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1353/hir.2021.0030
I. Russell
{"title":"Sticky Affections: María Zambrano’s “La Cuba secreta” and Transatlantic Relationality","authors":"I. Russell","doi":"10.1353/hir.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:“La Cuba Secreta” (1948) has been a germinal text for the study of exiled Spanish writer María Zambrano’s work on national, poetic, and subjective identity formation. In this essay, I focus specifically on the apego (attachment) she feels for Cuba in order to explore how affective relations, for Zambrano, could potentially avoid the violent hierarchies imposed by Enlightenment values. I analyze the sites where apego signals an intersubjective immersion as a mode of radically anti-Enlightenment relationality. However, while the sticky relation between Zambrano and the island might avoid Rationalism’s destructive subject–object boundaries, it is also tethered to the destruction of subjectivity occasioned by the island’s racial and colonial traumas. Ultimately, I suggest that Zambrano’s apego is a compelling example of relations for the field of Transatlantic Studies that wishes to avoid the hierarchies of modernity while still bringing to the surface the traumas and violence of racism and colonialism.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"441 - 463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47078871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1353/hir.2021.0032
Antonio Sáez Delgado
{"title":"Madrid, meridiano intelectual ibérico (la polémica peninsular de La Gaceta Literaria)","authors":"Antonio Sáez Delgado","doi":"10.1353/hir.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN:En 1927, la revista española La Gaceta Literaria publicó el conocido editorial titulado “Madrid, meridiano intelectual de Hispanoamérica”, en el que se defendía la necesidad de que Madrid fuera el referente intelectual de esa región. Esa misma postura, con una profunda carga ideológica, estuvo también presente en la base de otra polémica menos conocida pero también de gran importancia, la que mantuvo en la península ibérica con Portugal y Cataluña, territorios a los que la publicación dirigida por Ernesto Giménez Caballero se acercó con el interés de sumarlos a la causa de una política cultural centralista con sede irrenunciable en Madrid. A través del acercamiento a Cataluña, mediante una supuesta estrategia de defensa de la pluralidad peninsular, se tejía en realidad una orquestada campaña basada en la unidad inquebrantable de España, cuya cultura sería ofrecida—aunque con resultados igualmente negativos—en Portugal e Hispanoamérica, como una posibilidad real de oposición a la hegemonía internacional francesa.Abstract:In 1927, the Spanish magazine La Gaceta Literaria published the well-known editorial entitled “Madrid, meridiano intelectual de Hispanoamérica,” which defended the need for Madrid to be the intellectual point of reference for Latin America. This same position, with a deep ideological charge, was also present at the base of another, lesser known but also very important, debate, the one promoted in the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal and Catalonia, territories which this publication directed by Ernesto Giménez Caballero approached with the interest of adding them to the cause of a centralist cultural policy with an inevitable seat in Madrid. Through the approach to Catalonia, by means of a supposed strategy of defense of the peninsular plurality, an orchestrated campaign was actually mounted based on the unbreakable unity of Spain, whose culture would be presented—although with equally negative results—to Portugal and Latin America, as a real possibility for opposing French international hegemony.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"490 - 505"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66430905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1353/hir.2021.0031
V. Ryjik
{"title":"Adapting Diana of Belflor: The Dog in the Manger’s Soviet Adventures","authors":"V. Ryjik","doi":"10.1353/hir.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Before Pilar Miro’s famous filmic adaptation of The Dog in the Manger, Lope de Vega’s masterpiece had been successfully brought to the small screen in Soviet Russia. The Leningrad director Yan Frid’s 1977 musical comedy Sobaka na Sene (The Dog on the Hay), while almost unknown in the West, is considered a classic of Soviet cinema. This article explores the reasons behind the extraordinary popularity of this television film in relation to the Russian Lopean performance canon, as well as to the specific sociocultural conditions of the Stagnation era. I argue that, by prioritizing the issue of gender relations over the conflict of honor, Sobaka na sene managed to inscribe new cultural meanings in the story of the Countess of Belflor and her secretary and, therefore, to bring Lope’s play closer to the Soviet viewers of the late 1970s.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"465 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48813662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HISPANIC REVIEWPub Date : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1353/hir.2021.0020
Rachel Robinson
{"title":"“Printed Matter”: Rodrigo Lira’s Visual Antipoetics","authors":"Rachel Robinson","doi":"10.1353/hir.2021.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hir.2021.0020","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Known as a “manipulador del lenguaje” by his contemporaries, the Chilean poet Rodrigo Lira (1949–1981) has barely made it onto the international poetry stage for his biting and striking antipoetics. While his poetry has especially been recognized for his semantic wit in his almost sardonic parodies of his predecessors and contemporaries, Lira’s antipoetic work, I propose, gathers force with his attention to the visual aspects of language on the page that both informs and is informed by language’s materiality. I argue that it is through Lira’s manipulation of language and poetry’s visual qualities that his commitment to social critique comes to the fore. The reader can interact with Lira’s poems as physical objects not only intellectually, but also by engaging multiple senses. Through close readings of exemplary poems, I consider how his manipulation of the letter, the word, the line, and the page itself contributes to his antipoetics.","PeriodicalId":44625,"journal":{"name":"HISPANIC REVIEW","volume":"89 1","pages":"265 - 291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49397749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}