During a year as a Latin American studies university student in Bogota, Colombia, the author grapples with the unexpected news of a family member's sudden death, while observing landscapes in post-Pinochet Chile, post-dictatorship Guatemala, and Shining Path-troubled Peru.
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{"title":"Yuma","authors":"Oscar Gabriel Chaidez","doi":"10.26824/lalr.325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.325","url":null,"abstract":"Father-son road-trip story (creative non-fiction)","PeriodicalId":333470,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Literary Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129622082","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}
These 3 sonnets explore the lives of pop-star Irene Cara, author and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, and soccer legend Diego Maradona. Though one major sonnet form from literary history has included iambic pentameter, the sonnets here drop the iambic part, but keep the pentameter. In the history of the sonnet, there traditionally have been rhyme schemes. There is no particular rhyme scheme in these 3 sonnets. They are written with a mixture of free verse and rhyming. The poems span across Latin America -- from Mexico to Argentina and from Cuba to Puerto Rico -- and they celebrate the rich musical, literary, and sporting worlds of three icons and legends. The 3 sonnets employ ordinary language to describe extraordinary people, so that everyone and all readers can be inspired to be creative and to enjoy, shape, and impact the world.
{"title":"\"Listen to Irene Cara\", \"Octavio Paz and the Nobel\", \"The Goals of Diego Maradona\"","authors":"S. Blackman","doi":"10.26824/lalr.333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.333","url":null,"abstract":"These 3 sonnets explore the lives of pop-star Irene Cara, author and Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz, and soccer legend Diego Maradona. Though one major sonnet form from literary history has included iambic pentameter, the sonnets here drop the iambic part, but keep the pentameter. In the history of the sonnet, there traditionally have been rhyme schemes. There is no particular rhyme scheme in these 3 sonnets. They are written with a mixture of free verse and rhyming. The poems span across Latin America -- from Mexico to Argentina and from Cuba to Puerto Rico -- and they celebrate the rich musical, literary, and sporting worlds of three icons and legends. The 3 sonnets employ ordinary language to describe extraordinary people, so that everyone and all readers can be inspired to be creative and to enjoy, shape, and impact the world.","PeriodicalId":333470,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Literary Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130175612","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}
In Rita Indiana’s novel, Tentacle, the future of the Dominic Republic is postulated as bleak and dystopian: a nuclear ecological disaster has nearly ruined the ocean, colorism and racism are pervasive, Haitians are indiscriminately executed due to an unnamed “virus” (Indiana 3), and historical class divisions, as well as wealth inequalities, are maintained. The various issues that Indiana’s future-oriented Dominican Republic is facing emerge from political contingencies: they are the result of clear choices facilitated by the political leaders of the Dominican Republic. Yet, while the text renders historical reality as contingent and liable to change, it also explicitly points out the limits of individual agency and action. Tentacle demonstrates the politico-ontological dismissal of subjects that is enacted through necropolitics. The text also recognizes the contingent nature of political formation and necropolitics, and by doing so, implicitly contests the essentialization of formerly colonized countries such as the Dominican Republic. Ultimately, I argue that the precarity of the political subject and the material-political-reality are not depicted in Tentacle as necessary or inevitable parts of some dialectic process of progression, but rather as potentially preventable or intervenable processes that evade individual agency.
{"title":"Politics of Dismissal and Death: Tentacle, Necropolitics, and the Political Subject","authors":"Teddy Duncan","doi":"10.26824/lalr.343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.343","url":null,"abstract":"In Rita Indiana’s novel, Tentacle, the future of the Dominic Republic is postulated as bleak and dystopian: a nuclear ecological disaster has nearly ruined the ocean, colorism and racism are pervasive, Haitians are indiscriminately executed due to an unnamed “virus” (Indiana 3), and historical class divisions, as well as wealth inequalities, are maintained. The various issues that Indiana’s future-oriented Dominican Republic is facing emerge from political contingencies: they are the result of clear choices facilitated by the political leaders of the Dominican Republic. Yet, while the text renders historical reality as contingent and liable to change, it also explicitly points out the limits of individual agency and action. Tentacle demonstrates the politico-ontological dismissal of subjects that is enacted through necropolitics. The text also recognizes the contingent nature of political formation and necropolitics, and by doing so, implicitly contests the essentialization of formerly colonized countries such as the Dominican Republic. Ultimately, I argue that the precarity of the political subject and the material-political-reality are not depicted in Tentacle as necessary or inevitable parts of some dialectic process of progression, but rather as potentially preventable or intervenable processes that evade individual agency.","PeriodicalId":333470,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Literary Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125505835","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}
This essay scrutinizes the 2015 debut novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, written by Cuban American writer Jennine Capó Crucet. Through the methodology of textual analysis, it aims to critically examine and demonstrate how this novel center on the process of shaping and re-shaping one’s constructed identity in its intersections with a complex web of traditions, history, immigration, politics, power struggles, place and displacement, socio economic and class determinants. Guided by J. Butler and J. Blocker’s ideas on performativity, the essay posits that Cuban “exiles” occupy their exile “as a discursive position” to create and stage an identity. It examines the intersectional performativity of being Cuban in the United States, and the power/identitarian struggles of claiming Cubanness, as presented by Capó Crucet in her excellent first novel.
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Most of the literary criticism has pointed out the importance of inscribing the voices of others or giving voice to others in Rodolfo Walsh’s writing. However, the material and technological conditions under which those voices appear in his texts have been scarcely addressed. In this essay I delve into sound studies to explore the uses of the tape recorder in the writing of ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? (1969). I propose the notion of a phonoautographic writing to refer to a textual practice conceived as a transcription of voices. The article analyzes the phonoautographic writing in ¿Quién mató a Rosendo? and explores how the tape recorder allowed Walsh to incorporate and manipulate the voices of his working-class characters. My argument is that Walsh used the tape recorder to register the workers’ voices in order to rearticulate in a personal way the sonic legacy of Peronism in the late 60s, a moment of crisis in the representation of the Argentine labor movement.
大多数文学批评都指出，在鲁道夫·沃尔什的写作中，铭刻他人的声音或给予他人声音的重要性。然而，这些声音出现在他的文本中的物质和技术条件却几乎没有提到。在这篇文章中，我深入研究了声音研究，以探索录音机在《quisamin mató a Rosendo?》(1969)。我提出留声机写作的概念，指的是一种被认为是声音转录的文本实践。本文分析了《quisamin mató a Rosendo?》中的留声机写作。并探讨了录音机如何让沃尔什融入和操纵他的工人阶级角色的声音。我的观点是，沃尔什用录音机记录工人的声音，以便以个人的方式重新阐明60年代末庇隆主义的声音遗产，这是阿根廷劳工运动代表的危机时刻。
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{"title":"Two short stories: \"Espera\" and \"Risco\"","authors":"Esteban Córdoba","doi":"10.26824/lalr.319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.319","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>n/a</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":333470,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Literary Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122117225","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}
Reseña de Nuevos fantasmas recorren México. Lo espectral en la literatura mexicana del siglo XXI. Por Carolyn Wolfenzon. Iberoamericana -Vervuert, 2020. 338 páginas.
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{"title":"The Decay of the Angel","authors":"Alexander Ramirez","doi":"10.26824/lalr.327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26824/lalr.327","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>n/a</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":333470,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Literary Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121632810","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}
This is short creative work I wrote in Spanish for a creative writing workshop at UT Austin. Written in small fragments that intermingle scenes from childhood with present-day reflections about life and literature, this piece details my experience with anxiety and trauma as a young girl; it addresses the difficulties that children often face when articulating emotional distress, particularly in relation to anxiety disorders. This piece also explores the power of literature as an affective space that can articulate our own emotional pain in a way that can provide solace; I speak of my experience reading Swann's Way for the first time, describing how, in the first few chapters of this novel, Proust gave words to my emotional trauma and vulnerability; reading about Marcel's struggles to fall asleep without his mother's kiss allowed me to better face and understand my own past.
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