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This paper deals with El samurái de la Graflex, by Daniel Salinas Basave. The analysis focuses on the representation of a historical character of Japanese origin: Kingo Nonaka, whose figure represents the irruption of a culture that contrasts with the attitudes and ideosyncrasy of revolutionary Mexico. Non-aka concentrates elements that form the image of a Japan in transition towards modernity. Between meditation as a method for diving and fluency with a camera, Salinas Basave follows Nonaka in his wanderings and allows the reader to appreciate details of the history of the first half of the twentieth century from a perspective "alien" to the Mexican one, while building a space for reflection on writing and memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a few central themes of the rhetoric of Isocrates that should be taken into consideration in a detailed study of the rhetorical theory in which his pedagogy was based. First, Isocrates' thoughts about his own discipline are examined, as well as the probable existence of a theoretical manual of his; then, his pragmatic idea of the language and purpose of rhetoric are taken into consideration. The paper concludes with the presentation of other important themes: invention, genres of rhetoric, principles, memory, and rhetorical action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper attempts to illuminate the neglected relationship between man, time and memory in the thought of the sophists Gorgias and Protagoras. As much in Gorgias' On not-Being as in the discourse that Plato attributes to Protagoras in Theaetetus is presented a theory that establishes that man is a mere conglomerate who doesn't imply an identifying pole hence man is as fragmented synchronically as diachronically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The structure of Cristina Rivera Garzas novel Nadie me verá llorar is organized with real documents taken from some patients' clinical stories at the mental hospital, La Castañeda, which was opened in 1910 to celebrate the Mexican Independence centenary. This paper explores the way in which the concepts of memory and archive are put in play to create a relationship between the historical and fictional discourses. The intersection of both discourses and its function in the level of the narrative construction and sense, bring, in the end, a particular idea of history as discipline and the question of its truth as an official discourse by the authority in power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the dialogue that the novel Península, península (2008) by Hernán Lara Zavala engages with nineteenth-century literary tradition, in particular with the work of Justo Sierra O'Reilly. It studies the "absorption" of the literary and historical tradition of the nineteenth century in the mexican peninsula, that the novel thematizes. It identifies some of the intertexts of the novel, which show the archival work behind it. The analysis takes the concept of "pastiche" into consideration, as the way this intertextuality is structured. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]