Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2164660
Santiago Acosta
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2164664
Marta Pérez-Carbonell
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2164659
Micah Mckay
Abstract In this essay, I propose a reading of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s novel El Rey de La Habana (1999) as a critique of the reduction of political life to what philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls “bare life.” The novel, written during the período especial highlights the state of emergency and economic crisis that overwhelmed Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. My analysis centers on Reynaldo, the novel’s protagonist, and the various ways he embodies the thresholds or zones of indistinction that constitute bare life. In Agamben’s terms, Reynaldo exhibits the traits of homo sacer, the sacred man whose exclusion from political life is constitutive of modern sovereign power. In this sense, my biopolitical reading contemplates the central role of excessive corporeality in the novel as an index of the violence of sovereign power during Cuba’s Special Period.
摘要在这篇文章中，我建议阅读佩德罗·胡安·古铁雷斯（Pedro Juan Gutiérrez）的小说《哈瓦那国王》（El Rey de La Habana，1999），作为对政治生活减少到哲学家乔治·阿甘本（Giorgio Agamben）所说的“裸生活”的批判，在秘鲁期间写的这本书特别强调了柏林墙倒塌和苏联解体后古巴陷入的紧急状态和经济危机。我的分析集中在小说的主人公雷纳尔多身上，以及他以各种方式体现构成裸露生活的界限或模糊地带。用阿甘本的话来说，雷纳尔多表现出了同一个圣人的特征，他被排除在政治生活之外是现代主权的组成部分。从这个意义上说，我的传记政治阅读思考了小说中过度物质化的核心作用，将其作为古巴特殊时期主权权力暴力的指标。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2149078
Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon
{"title":"Staging Lives in Latin American Theater","authors":"Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2149078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2149078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"76 1","pages":"247 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42288395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2149068
Christiane Baier
Abstract This article offers a comparative reading of “Ein Hungerkünstler” and “In der Strafkolonie,” combining the topic of incomprehension and miscommunication with the motif of the body. It analyzes how meaning and signification are conceptualized within the two stories, how problems of misunderstanding are framed and possible solutions explored. In an attempt to overcome the limitations of speaking and writing, each story proposes a form of somacentric signification: the hunger artist turns his whole body into a sign, and the torture apparatus in the penal colony inscribes its sentence directly onto the delinquent’s skin. Using Charles Sanders Peirce’s triadic concept of the sign, Friedrich Nietzsche’s principle of the conventional nature of meaning, and Jacques Derrida’s critique of Western metaphysics, I analyze mechanisms and limitations of somacentric signification. Exploring the reasons for its ultimate failure leads me to consider the social foundation of meaning as depicted within the two stories, addressing the question under which circumstances understanding and communication are possible in the works of Franz Kafka.
摘要本文对《Ein Hungerkünstler》和《In der Strafkolonie》进行了比较阅读，将不理解和沟通错误的主题与身体主题相结合。它分析了在这两个故事中意义和意义是如何概念化的，误解问题是如何被框架化的，以及可能的解决方案是如何探索的。为了克服口语和写作的局限性，每个故事都提出了一种以身体为中心的意义：饥饿艺术家把他的整个身体变成一个标志，劳改营中的刑具直接把它的句子刻在罪犯的皮肤上。运用查尔斯·桑德斯·皮尔斯的符号三元概念、弗里德里希·尼采的意义的传统性原则和雅克·德里达对西方形而上学的批判，分析了身体中心意义的机制和局限性。探究其最终失败的原因，使我思考了两个故事中所描绘的意义的社会基础，并解决了在弗朗茨·卡夫卡的作品中，在何种情况下理解和交流是可能的问题。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2149079
M. Vargas
{"title":"Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film","authors":"M. Vargas","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2149079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2149079","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"76 1","pages":"250 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45316787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2149070
Stephanie R. Gates
Abstract The juxtaposition of dream narratives from Spanish surrealist writer José María Hinojosa’s La flor de Californía (1928) and artist Joaquín Peinado’s four drawings found interspersed throughout the collection demonstrates a symbiotic relationship between the artist and writer’s creative purposes, in true surrealist fashion creating an “image-text.” Thus, the present article argues that Peinado’s drawings represent a key element for understanding La flor de Californía and should be considered an integral part of the dream texts. Julia Kristeva’s ideas on signification and the interplay of the symbolic and the semiotic orders present in poetic creation prove useful in understanding this interplay of image and word. Hinojosa’s texts, along with Peinado’s drawings, attempt to re-create this process of signification, in which the text, although tied down by the symbolic order—that is, systems and realism—, constantly pushes to evade logic and allow the semiotic to emerge through genotexts. Hinojosa and Peinado’s combined creation of drawings and writings are examples of one such attempt to obliterate the social constraints of the symbolic order and allow the reader/viewer to witness indirectly the semiotic processes of the pre-Oedipal phase.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2149073
Pablo Ancos
{"title":"Nunca mayor sobervia comidió Luçifer”. Límites del conocimiento y cultura claustral en el Libro de Alexandre","authors":"Pablo Ancos","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2022.2149073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2022.2149073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":"76 1","pages":"241 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47979678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2149069
Marla Epp
Abstract Christine Montalbetti’s novel Mon ancêtre Poisson (2019) is teeming with descriptions of living things, perhaps not surprisingly given its subject, the life of her great-great-grandfather, the botanist Jules Poisson. In this essay, I argue that the focus on living beings becomes a way of fleshing out her account of this distant ancestor, whose life story she can only piece together from archival documents. As I demonstrate, the narrator, a version of Montalbetti, turns to shared experiences of the physical world as a way of imagining her great-great-grandfather, picturing them walking in the same garden and experiencing similar physiological sensations. The narrator draws attention to the corporeality of both herself and Jules, emphasizing their physicality and carefully positioning them as breathing bodies, part of a complex network of living beings. Ultimately, I show that, for the narrator, the world of living things is a source of both joy and melancholy. Her research into her great-great-grandfather becomes part of a larger process of reconciling the joy of engaging with the abundance of living and growing things around her with the sorrow of accepting the fundamental and inescapable fragility of living bodies, be they animal, plant, or human.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00397709.2022.2149074
Ana L. Méndez-Oliver
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