{"title":"The Estridentistas and Contemporáneos Reimagined: Debating the Legacy of the Mexican Literary Avant-Garde","authors":"Ann Warner-Ault","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The article discusses how prominent Latin American authors have reimagined the two Mexican avant-garde groups—the Contemporáneos and Estridentistas—in novels published between 1992-2011. It is obvious that the authors pay tribute to the Mexican avant-garde by casting members of the Contemporáneos and Estridentistas as lead characters in their novels. What is less obvious is the way in which the later authors stylistically borrow from the earlier avant-garde authors. Although critical tradition has tended to separate the Estridentistas from the Contemporáneos, a side-by-side reading of their 1920s prose both argues against this division and lays claim for a more prominent position for the Mexican avant-garde in Latin American letters. Between 1921 and 1929, both Estridentistas and Contemporáneos obsessively produced experimental literary self-portraits. These fragmented, pseudo-autobiographical texts serve as models for the later works from the 1990s to early 2000s, all of which paint portraits of Mexican intellectuals amidst turmoil while using literary devices that simultaneously undermine questions of authorship and the possibility of telling a coherent story. Both sets of experimental autobiographies (those from the 1920s and more recent versions) deeply question the meaning of being an intellectual in Mexico, both then and now. Considering the Estridentistas and Contemporáneos in tandem not only reveals a fuller picture of the 1920s literary scene in Mexico, but allows us to see an organic style that emerged in Mexico and influenced authors and artists throughout the Americas from the 1920s until the current day.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"194 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42899453","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":"Familiar Estrangements: Toward a Genre Theory of Latin American Speculative Fiction","authors":"Alexandra R. Brown","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The past several years has seen an increase in Latin American literary texts that embrace multiple genres. In response, the term \"speculative fiction\" has gained traction as a tool for talking about them. However, a majority of the existing critical analysis on speculative fiction has been developed through readings of anglophone science fiction. This presents two hurdles as the term grows in popularity among scholars of Latin American literature. The first is the need to adapt theories of speculative fiction to the Latin American literary tradition, and the second is to ensure that this theory registers the broad array of genres under the speculative fiction umbrella. This article moves towards a theory of Latin American speculative fiction by drawing out a thread that runs through several of those genres. I argue that the slipstream phenomenon, previously ascribed in the Latin American tradition only to science fiction, is a defining feature of Latin American speculative fiction more broadly. Taking as a case study Horacio Castellanos Moya's Baile con serpientes, I examine the shifts in genre that occur when speculative forms slip into an otherwise realist Central American noir novel. I conclude that various non-realist genres represented by the umbrella term \"Latin American speculative fiction\" use slipstream as a tool to recast genre boundaries. The essay moves towards a theory of Latin American speculative fiction that recognizes the shared patterns of impact created by diverse non-realist genres on the landscape of Latin American literature.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"121 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46939791","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":"Estilo: lo sublime y la violencia neoliberal en la poesía de Dolores Dorantes","authors":"Ezequiel Zaidenwerg","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Estilo is a collection of prose poems written in exile by poet, journalist and activist Dolores Dorantes, after the author suffered an attack by organized crime for her work with Documentación y Estudios de Mujeres A.C., a grassroots organization that collected testimonies of women affected by the so-called \"war on drugs\". This paper analyzes Dorantes' critical appropriation of an average Mexican style (Luis Felipe Fabre), which under the ahistorical guise of the sublime reproduces sexism, elitism and corporatism. I argue that this appropriation of the sublime, both in its rhetorical (Pseudo-Longinus) and aesthetic (Burke, Kant and his followers, etc.) meanings, aims to visibilize the intertwining between the public discourse on drug trafficking and the diffuse violence of the narco-machine (Rosanna Reguillo), especially against women.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"77 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49233476","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":"This Ghostly Poetry: History and Memory of Exiled Spanish Republican Poets by Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza (review)","authors":"J. Labanyi","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"110 - 112"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43574824","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":"Modernidad de bolsillo: imágenes, consumo e imperio en el viaje a Italia de Clorinda Matto de Turner","authors":"Vanesa Miseres","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes the travel account of Clorinda Matto in Italy in 1908, which is part of her posthumous publication, Viaje de recreo. The analysis of her stay in Italy focuses on Matto's combination of text and image, since the narration of her travel experience is accompanied by numerous engravings acquired as postcards by the author. This combination will be analyzed in two basic dimensions. First, in the use and consumption of photographs and postcards as a practice of modern tourism. Second, the essay investigates Viaje de recreo's practices of looking that replicate the aesthetics of both the museum's gallery and the photographic albums and scrapbooks. Finally, the article discusses the ideological dimension of the images' reproduction and selection, what I call here a \"pocket modernity.\" Clorinda Matto reconstructs, from the engravings and from her reflections on them, an image of the Roman empire that not only refers to the foundations of Western civilization but also traces direct ties with the American empires, that of the Incas specifically. Just as at the intersection of text and image offers a new approach to women's travel writing in Latin America, in the parallels established between two civilizations, the Inca and the Roman, we can also read Clorinda Matto's views of modernity, between Europe and America.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"40 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43099984","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":"In (Dis)Use of Reason: Abjection Poetics and Macrocephalic Modernity in El Techo de la Ballena","authors":"Olivia Lott","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article studies the poetry by the Venezuelan neo-avant-garde collective, El Techo de la Ballena (1961-1969). Inspired by the Cuban Revolution and in opposition to local social-political conditions, the balleneros developed a radical aesthetic project meant to transfigure the avant-garde into an actual weapon for revolutionary struggle. While most scholarship focuses on the group's visual arts, the predominant theory linking El Techo's poetics and politics remains Ángel Rama's \"el terrorismo en las artes\" (1966), which highlights provocation, aggressivity, and reader ambush. In this essay, I offer a new approach to ballenero poetry. In considering two key works, Juan Calzadilla's Dictado por la jauría (1962) and Caupolicán Ovalles's En uso de razón (1963), I examine what I call \"abjection poetics\"—the deliberate cultivation of slippage between imposed social limits through abject imagery and expression and the resulting political ramifications. I argue that abjection serves as the primary means through which the poets endeavor to destabilize the matrices of power that characterized early 1960s Venezuela, a moment of \"macrocephalic\" modernity—the physical and rhetorical execution of rapid, uneven modernization and the strategic ordering of the body politic. Calzadilla's and Ovalles's poetry drive the abject into the innerworkings of the developmentalist agenda in order to disrupt its visual, performative, and discursive execution and, in turn, demystify its claims to reason.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"22 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44673655","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 Angrily Bored Condition of Exile in Caribbean Literature at the Turn of the Millennium","authors":"Judith Sierra-Rivera","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay discusses the relationship between anger, boredom, and exile in Caribbean literature published in the wake of the nineties, a decade profoundly marked by a change in sensibility, by analyzing Ena Lucía Portela's El pájaro: pincel y tinta china (1999) and Rafael Franco Steeves's El peor de mis amigos (2007). Specifically, in both texts, I detect a fluidity between the concepts of time, water, and a need to disappear. Disappearance as a heterotopic state seems to be connected to a need to destabilize single-authored discourses, functioning as mandates on how to live. This essay, then, argues that disappearance is the most radical effect of subjectivities that operate as, what I call, \"angrily bored exiles,\" a political imagination that challenges the boundaries between subject and object as well as between body, space, and time. If neoliberalism imposes an anxiety about being bored, the exiled position inhabits boredom angrily to enunciate alternate ways of existing. The essay turns this literature into an evaluation of this emotional literary position within a broader context. I propose that the angrily bored mood from the nineties tempered the blind fervor of the sixties and has given contemporary Caribbean subjects a more complicated perspective on their options when imagining utopic representations.","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"60 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42445847","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":"Pintando al converso: la imagen del morisco en le península ibérica (1492–1614) by Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco J. Moreno Diaz del Campo (review)","authors":"Leyla Rouhi","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"112 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47137480","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 Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East and the Transpacific West by Ricardo Padrón (review)","authors":"E. Horodowich","doi":"10.1353/rhm.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rhm.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44636,"journal":{"name":"Revista Hispanica Moderna","volume":"75 1","pages":"107 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45289802","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}