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This essay studies the cultural consequences that the spread of paper money had in late nineteenth-century Brazil. First, I examine how these tensions are called into question through the analysis of a political scandal that took place in Rio de Janeiro, in 1900, concerning a two thousand reales banknote. Second, I offer a close reading of Machado de Assis' "Anedota pecuniária", a short-story included in Histórias sem data (1884). My goal is to interrogate the relation between paper money and the economy of credit work, and the narrative devices of literary fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Towards the end of the colonial period the east coasts of the General Captaincy of Venezuela were the setting of an intense movement of ideas, papers and people, as well as of conspiracies and confrontments (both armed and unarmed). In that context emerged the figure of Francisco Isnardi, who would soon be imprisoned for alleged intentions to conspire. The study of this case of treason, especially of the suspect's library, which was confiscated, allows us to present a set of problems regarding the diffusion of enlightened values in Tierra Firme during that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The centrality of opera in the system of 19th century music genres gave impulse to the circulation of a repertoire of plots, characters and melodies that permeated the imaginaries of Hispanic American literate elites. Romantic, positivist, decadent and modernist novels refer to the musical education of their characters, describe opera performances and, in some cases, include human types linked to its professional sphere (the prima donna, the tenor, the businessman). This paper traces the uses of opera erotic imaginaries and the representations of its sociability in four novels written by women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper rescues the forgotten Mexican poet Concha Urquiza (1910-1945) from three keys: the peripheral place that women occupied in the dominant literary circles during the interwar period; the use of religiosity as dissidence in the face of the crisis of the historical avant-gardes and the advent of the postmodern paradigm; and the construction of women's genealogies as a feminist strategy. This analysis reinterprets, through these keys, the profound meaning of her poetry as a modern appropriation of the mystical tradition. Also, two recoveries of Urquiza as mater: Cristina Rivera Garza's feminist reading; and Roberto Bolaño's affirmation of the modern as resistance, as shown in Los detectives salvajes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking into account the long-distance bonding of two Peruvian women activists with the discourses and collectives of the First International Feminine Congress of Buenos Aires, the article focuses on the advances and setbacks of their emancipatory projects. A counterpoint reading between Alvarado's novel Nuevas Cumbres and the papers she and Dora Mayer presented at the 1910 Buenos Aires congress, as well as other non-fiction texts, reveals the problems they faced in forging the interclass alliances needed for the development of feminism in their country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies a set of profiles of women written by Marta Brunet for the Chilean magazine Ecran between 1935 and 1936, published in her column "Alrededor de una mujer" (Around a Woman). This column was an important space for the divulgation and appraisal of artistic and intellectual activities of Latin American women of the period. The profiles are analyzed considering the medium in which they circulated. In this sense, I maintain that, unlike the female models that Ecran publicized on its pages, in Brunet s column the qualities of modern women were highlighted, with trajectories where work, travel and self-training were decisive for carrying out a personal and original project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article outlines a reading of the novel Sexto sueño (2007), by the Puerto Rican writer Marta Aponte Alsina. This paper's objective is to analyze the way in which a unique space of enunciation is articulated through two performativities: one legal and another literary. It involves a journey that takes us through places like the U.S. and Puerto Rico, in which bodies in transit are crossed, not only by legal and biopolitical practices, but also by various instances of experimentalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper attempts to call attention to the notorious influence that the work of the Spanish nun sor María de Jesús de Ágreda (1602-1665) exerted over the work of sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), particularly over the Primero Sueño. Through the work of sor María, especially in her book Mística Ciudad de Dios, a bond can be stablished between the master piece of the Mexican nun and one of her minor and less known texts: Ejerciciosde la Encarnación. In the texts above, there is an element in common: The soul of a woman is favored with a vision of totality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of a corpus of Argentinian academic crime fiction writers (which includes authors such as Ricardo Piglia and Guillermo Martínez), in this paper I propose an approach to this sub-genre based on the novel Filosofía y Letras (1998) by Pablo De Santis. I thus show and analyze three substantive issues of this novel: the representation of academics as crazy and miserable subjects, the construction of a crime fiction plot lacking the presence of a strong detective figure and the representation of the building of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (building that finally becomes the protagonist of the novel). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the premise that, for Beatriz Sarlo, a link with the present is the center of a radical critical experience, in this paper we locate, map and interpret the series of texts and interventions in which the intensity of this condition is redistributed, around the year 2007, as a turning point. Our hypothesis is that it is in this redistribution of writings and writing practices (synthesized in the volume Escritos de literatura argentina and in the journalistic articles published in the newspaper Perfil, and later gathered in Ficciones argentinas), and not necessarily in what can be considered as its first programmatic formulation of 1987 (literature written in the present as a critique of the present), that we must read in Beatriz Sarlo's work a (critical) theory of the present. This crossover of experiences with time (experiences of clashes, of ends, of re-establishments) also and above all shows that what has changed for Sarlo after these twenty years (1987-2007), together with the place and value of the present in literature (the subject of a formal elaboration/content to be represented), is the place and the very function of criticism in relation to the present of this literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main characteristic of Sarlo's reading of Saer is a peculiar type of formalism. Her reading impulse lies in this articulation: the focus on the artistic technique (poetic, narrative), considered semantically functional, recoverable, and subject to a decision-making process; the relationship between that poetic of the form and an intertextual program whose center is Borges, with Saer's corresponding place in the history of Argentinian literary history, and, as a consequence of the unifying force of that formal and intertextual approach, a judgement about the highest value of Saer's work arises, which Sarlo describes as "perfect." At the same time, our paper develops approximations to a potential blind spot in that reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a critical reading of Viajes. De la Amazonia a las Malvinas which focuses on the evaluation of Beatriz Sarlo's autobiographical rhetoric, the ways in which her testimonial writing articulates narration and essay, personal experience and knowledge. On the one hand, it reconstructs the strategies of self-figuration that aim to sustain the image of the author as a moralist who exercises criticism of contemporary customs (those of tourism as a practice of mass culture, in general, and those of "ideological tourism" that young Latin Americans practiced towards the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, in specific). On the other hand, it evaluates the success of the means by which Sarlo is able to transcend the narcissism typical of autobiographical remembrance: the theoretical framework (centered on the concept-value of "programme leap"), the essayistic experimentation with the styles of presentation (those of travel narratives and those of ideological criticism) and the search for a nuanced tone, able to transmit the coexistence of heterogeneous affections without inhibiting the possibility of a return to the past in the present as a process still in progress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has selected Beatriz Sarlo's more than eighty articles, reviews and debate interventions published in Punto de Vista magazine as a text corpus for analysis. In order to organize said corpus, we have divided it into four sections: 1) Argentinian literature: The past; 2) Argentinian literature: The present; 3) intellectuals; 4) literary theory, cultural theory. All the sections comprise reviews of the articles and seek to propose, for each case, a set of interpretative hypotheses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper departs from the dominant trend that presents the Colombian writer Tomás González as a novelist, to highlight his poetic work. The series Manglares, which consists so far by three different editions of the same book of poems, is analyzed as an unstable text that, at times, nourishes the narrative corpus. The analysis focuses on how this poetry collection puts into question the memory conceived as a consolidated and solid personal archive. By contrast, the memory displayed in Manglares is permanently reconfigured and constitutes therefore the basis of an unsteady self which is constantly updated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a theoretical discussion with a transfeminist perspective and a sociocultural analysis of prosthetic femininity as a contemporary occupation. For this purpose, the article compares images of Kim Kardashian, Mexican buchonas, Pixee Fox -a Swedish model-, Valeria Kuckyanova and RealDolls, the new generation of sex dolls by an American company to show how they embody and share the same prototype of a hypersexualized body that represents a business itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La Crónica (1883-1886), a morning paper from Buenos Aires, based its distance from party fights both on its title and on its editorial structure. It had three sections: a literary, a scientific and a journalistic one, so politics was out of the focus in the traditional way. It main genre was "alta crónica", which focused both in local characters and places. These "reportajes" allowed their chroniclers to find out and to experience several features of the genre which will endure for long time. Thereby, it offers a counterpoint to development of the chronicle genre and a different look both at literary and journalistic modernization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the multiple relations between the cinema and the contemporary argentine literature from the sociocultural point of view and from the aesthetics that emerge, in a broad sense, between both spaces. This text warns that actions in the field tend to constitute a common territory, in which, progressively, disarms the idea of the passage, the presence of the writer in the process of writing, and the obligatory direction literature/films. On the aesthetic level, the bond between both is more complex and paradoxical. The relationship is affirmed as the literature and the cinema work complementing each other, crossing each other and incorporating improper elements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reviews Forrahue. Matanza de 1912, written by the Mapuche writer Bernardo Colipán and co-authored with the Forrahue indigenous community located in Southern Chile. The book is a testimonial text that acts as a legal document and seeks to restore the truth in the context of Chile's historical account and collective memory. This text includes diagrams, photos and fragments in various types of handwriting, which we consider relevant in the reading and interpretation of this cultural artifact. From a symbolic perspective, the book is the place where the unburied bodies rest, allowing both the Chilean and Mapuche communities to mourn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a reading of El pentágono, the first novel by the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto. This reading tries to overcome the generic classifications that are divided between literary realism and the fantasy genre. But it also discusses the purely antirealistic interpretation of the novel. To this end, it uses the concept of imagination and proposes a hypothesis that intends to be generalizable across the rest of the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an understanding of Juan Goytisolo's novel El sitio de los sitios as a cultural response to the crisis of traditional Western models of rationality. The article focuses on the study of the dynamics of global social decomposition and the emergence of marginal figures seeking to recover their transgressive capacity through their bodies and the appropriation of urban space. By bringing memoricide and ethnic cleansing in the novel as negative expressions of modernity, Goytisolo questions the role of the reader, the author and the novel itself as essential elements in the literary representation of reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an analysis of the configuration of cannibalism as a metaphor central to the development of political and artistic movements in the twentieth century of Brazil. Based on the presentation made in the "Manifesto cannibal" by Oswald de Andrade are analyzed dialogues and influences and nuances that emerged in both literary and musical performances. Also the paper highlights the role of cannibalism in the search for a national identity immersed in processes, which confronted divergent perspectives of thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies narratives strategies used by a fair part of Latin-American intellectuals in order to defy the rapid changes taking place in urban society in the late nineteenth century. Furthermore, the paper explores the rhetoric models men of letters used to qualify the limits of the notion of democracy, with the hope that these discursive interventions would limit the access to places of influence where new social actors struggled to enter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper offers a brief overview of the main studies on Latin-American chronicles from the point of view of literary and cultural studies, with the purpose of setting some bases for its study in the twenty-first century. The objective is thus to make a contribution for the elaboration of a more complete genealogy of Latin-American chronicles. The second part of the paper discusses the role of chronicles in Latin-American culture and the way in which new perspectives can be opened in its study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the present paper is to question the presence of twentieth-century vanguards in current critic and literary production. Starting with the re-emergence of references, principles and working guidelines belonging to that period in the works of widely influential authors, such as César Aira, the paper reviews the main values of the vanguards and some existing narratives about them. It then states that in order to understand the phenomenon a reflection on temporary notions and the possibility of a different relationship towards historic an aesthetic chronology must be included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper examines three contemporary Latin- American novels with a Chinese theme: Una novela china (1987) by César Aira, Los impostores (2002) by Santiago Gamboa, and Un chino en bicicleta (2007) by Ariel Magnus. A comparative analysis of their mechanisms of 'exocization' and 'orientalization' of Chinese culture allows us to understand these works within a new trend of transpacific imagination that expresses anxieties directly related to the uncertainties created by cultural globalisation. In dialogue with the work of Edward Said and Fredric Jameson, the paper offers an exercise in theoretical speculation on the cultural transformations that the consolidation of a transnational literary community could bring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we analyze the processes of cultural translation, appropriation, and transculturation of European Romanticism - particularly the French - in the essays of Esteban Echeverría. In his writings, there is an intimate relationship between romanticism, liberalism, and modernity. The author appropriates certain elements of romance, such as the concept of modernity and the principles of the French Revolution, but rejects others such as the aesthetic revolution, the radical formulation of the modern subject, popular culture as the basis of national culture, and the emancipation of women. The eclectic appropriation of romanticism not only serves to entitle the voice of the literate and its social function, but also to legitimize the liberal project of spiritual and cultural independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper analyses Dolores (1869), a short novel by Colombian writer Soledad Acosta de Samper, who undertook intense and extensive intellectual activity during her prolonged lifetime. This paper discusses the implicit relationship between the woman as an intellectual subject and her ill body as the allegory of a type of subjectivity uncomfortable for the community of learned men, through which such dissonance is retransformed into a metaphor of the pathological body (in this case, a leprous body that disintegrates in a monstrous way) as a synonym of the learned woman. In this way the writing of such a body can also infect others through a style of writing which transgresses the cannon; thus the epistolary genre, intimate, infecting the generic integrity of the republic of literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies a canonical text in Argentinean literature, the Martín Fierro (1872-1878), by José Hernández. The objective is to explore, based on a debate on masculinity and nation, the sentimental side of criollo culture. Although Hernández's gaucho is usually thought of as the archetype of a stoic masculinity that represses its emotions in order to fight wars at the border, this paper will show how that predominating notion undermines the tearful affective excesses constantly taking place in the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the emergence of the notion of cosmopolitism in different moments in Hispano-American literature. Identifying its relationship with situations of massive displacements, the paper studies Cosmópolis (1908) by Argentinean writer Ricardo Rojas, as a starting point for comparative study involving other notions of cosmopolitism developed during the twentieth century. Relation between cosmopolitism and globalisation are discussed regarding the works Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño, and Cuban writer Ena Lucía Portela. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper offers an approach to the different ways in which the figure of writer and politician Rómulo Gallegos has been used in Venezuela. It looks at political rivalries regarding national legacies within the context of the Bolivarian Revolution, and the positions taken by the political and academic fields. The purpose of which, as the paper will show, is the appropriation of some of his legacies, especially in relation to nationalistic and identity-related narratives in the beginning of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While Adolfo Bioy Casares is unanimously recognized as an important narrator, his novel Diario de la guerra del cerdo (1969) has not attracted the critical attention as other of their fictions has. This paper postulates the existence of an allegorical tradition in argentine modern literature and consider this novel one of the central fictions of that stream, because, although it's far from realism, could not be read as a fantastic narration. To prove this statement, this essay exposed a political reading of the novel to show how it explore a unique construction of barbarism located in Peronism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article questions the tendency of the critics to fragment the works of Mariategui, focusing on their multifaceted, yet integrated nature. The proposed reading in this paper shows the extraordinary ability of the author to build bridges where many others failed to do so. This is based on a review of his coverage of national and international political events and his examination of historical and sociological processes; as well as his art and literary critics, his profiles of scholars, artists, and political figures; and his reflections on religion, culture, and revolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the role of local and global publishers within current Latin-American cultural production. The paper focuses on the editorial success of Cuban writer Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, as an example of global distribution of a dirty bestseller, and on the status achieved by cult Colombian writer Rubén Vélez, in order to examine the most significant tendencies in the local and global Latin-American publishing industry. Furthermore, it offers a reflection on the promotion and distribution of these authors through the houses that publish them: Anagrama (Barcelona) and Babilonia (Bogotá). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines a group of Latin American texts and films from the last two decades which show growing social, political and economic inequality in the continent, together with cultural practices and experiences, from an urban perspective. With the configuration of space in the Latin American city as the central theme, the paper explores the way in which these narratives reformulate classic notions of urban design with the scope of presenting, in their place, a distinct space, with specific codes that act as alternative forms of avoiding the influence of globalisation and neoliberal policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies two novels in the Yucatec language: X-Teya, u puksi'ik'al ko'olel (‘Teya, the Heart of a Woman') (2009) by Marisol Ceh Moo, and U yóok´otilo´ob áak´ab (‘The Dances of the Night') (2010), by Issac Esaú Carillo Can. In Ceh Moo's novel, the narrative is realistic and political, with limited references to ethnicity. Carrillo Can's seems to be a fantastical legend set in the atmosphere of a dream. Despite the fact that they seem to point to two apparently diverging tendencies, this paper argues that these texts complement each other. The first novel emphasizes the genealogy of political struggle from the nineteenth century to the present. The second emphasizes a written and ritualistic tradition that explains contemporary decolonial assertions. In this way, both texts oppose heteronormative machismo by articulating mixraced contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines power relationships in the classroom. Using the concepts of rhizome, schizophrenia and deterritorialisation of Deleuze and Guattari, a semesterlong ethnographic work was conducted in the course Sex, Culture and Society at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá. The course studies discourses on sex, gender and sexuality in order to deconstruct heteronormative formations of identity. A feministic pedagogic approach allows relationships within the classroom to develop through traditional university learning methodologies. The paper explores this nontraditional approach and its results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows relations and theoretical influence between several social sciences and the most important theatrical theories of the twentieth century. From this point of view, and from a diacronic perspective, can be seen the influence of psychology and psychoanalysis in Stanislavsky's system; the influence of sociology and Marxism in Brecht's; and anthropology in Eugenio Barba's. Finally, the paper underlines the need for holistic and interdisciplinary thinking where science and art are complementary ways of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From David Viñas' Cayó sobre su rostro (1955) and Los dueños de la tierra (1958), this paper investigates correlated configurations between the conquest of the Patagonian territory and the imposition of a specific sexual, racial and familiar form. Both novels, so, draw a necessary relationship between the violent appropriation and biopolitical orderings that emerge from this process. Thus, Viñas involved in the political and cultural discussion of late 1950s and put into question the legitimacy of a project that collapsed with Peronism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the novel El tiempo principia en Xibalbá (1985) of Mayan Kaqchikel writer Luis de Lion (1939-184), considered to be the first novel written by a Mayan writer in Guatemala. Read as one of the first epistemological and political displays of the so-called Mayan Movement in Guatemala, we argue in this paper that the works of Lion demystify and take apart traditional and stereotypical constructs of the indigenous world in the indigenist discourse (literature on indigenous people by nonindigenous authors). Lion counters this indigenist idea by proposing Mayan nationalism as a discourse of freedom and a political alternative for an anticolonial and antiracist struggle for the Maya, and the indigenous world in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the relationship of Julio Cortázar with Nicaragua and the Sandinista revolution. This relationship is based on Cortázar's modernist/ vanguardist position. Therefore, his political engagement is linked to an aesthetic radicalism that can be found in his entire oeuvre. Furthermore, the paper argues that in Cortázar's engagement with the Sandinista revolution the figures of traveler, political tourist and engaged intellectual are intertwined. Along the travel of Cortázar through the tropics, his modernist/ vanguardist project undergoes a transformation related to the reflection on Nicaraguan territorial sovereignty. To show this change some parts of his book Nicaragua tan violentamente dulce are analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In many Malvinas' War tales, monster apparitions like inhuman beasts, ghosts, zombies, exhausted bodies, etc, are frequent. Commonly they are told in a grotesque way, it means in a mix of comic and tragic but mainly tragic way. So the grotesque becomes in sinister. Even though in a former sight the monsters are characterized by their difference, according to the Freudian conception the sinister is produced because of the coming back of something familiar that became strange in the repression process. Into this frame, in this paper we intend to analize some Malvinas' War tales in order to understand what becomes familiar --and then terrifying-- their monsters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the reemergence of Charrua ethnicity in Uruguay, a country that has imagined itself, since de second half of the eighteenth century, as one without indigenous inhabitants. In a relatively recent framework of decolonization that has made possible the advancement of indigenous political and social agendas, the activists of the reemergent groups constitute a serious challenge to the predominant Uruguayan national narratives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a poem by Carlos Pellicer that includes an encrypted love message, it is examined in this paper a series of poetic and romantic ties to the Mexican group Los Contemporáneos (including some surrounding figures like the Honduran Rafael Heliodorus Valle). The article focuses on the communication of "secrets" of homosexual love, that once become poetic motifs, move from private to public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the construction of the "nation" was linked to narratives of identity (novels and essays). The first narrative identities that produced important metaphors, such as the one about ideal crossbreeding, jealously controlled the social climb of indigenous people. After regimenting the native people under the tough Tamayo's notion of national pedagogy, Sanjinés proceeds to deterritorialize the idealized mestizo identity from three new versions that give fluidity to the social metaphor: the metaphor of the river, the one about an avalanche of the plebs and another about a cultural amphibian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the construction of the "nation" was linked to narratives of identity (novels and essays). The first narrative identities that produced important metaphors, such as the one about ideal crossbreeding, jealously controlled the social climb of indigenous people. After regimenting the native people under the tough Tamayo's notion of national pedagogy, Sanjinés proceeds to deterritorialize the idealized mestizo identity from three new versions that give fluidity to the social metaphor: the metaphor of the river, the one about an avalanche of the plebs and another about a cultural amphibian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a reflection on modernity and its implications, this paper proposes a reading one's own aesthetic and social architecture of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Also a literature review art-deco which is often outside the modernist canon but that sustained dialogue with the modernist movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies Diamela Eltit's Lumpérica (1983) as an artistic postmodern instance of historical criticism by way of a restitution of all public symbols of protest in a city invaded by fear and silence. This critical attitude towards all kinds of totalitarianism is voiced by the tatterdemalions of the 'lumpenry', by a woman with multiple faces, by subversive writing methods, by collective sceneries dismantled by vigilance and terror. The notion of active marginality, and furthermore, the notion of marginality triggers the creation of a neo-vanguard writing that radically alters the principles of novel-writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper intends to draw a theoretical line between in-the-closet (homo) sexuality and translation, using the experiences in translation of those who worked for the twentieth-century Argentinean literary magazine called Sur: José Bianco, Enrique Pezzoni, Victoria Ocampo and H.A. Murena. Through a critical reading of explicit of partially veiled discourses on homosexuality in works written and translated in this period, particularly in the context of discourses on translation theory, gender and sexuality, a question inevitably arises in relation to current debates: is translation a closet? And, if so: how and when? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper studies the vindication of what is human in the thought of Mariano Picón Salas (1901-1965), particularly regarding the author's ideas in the texts Regreso de tres mundos, Literatura y sociedad, Cultura y soseigo and Vicisitudes en el arte de historiar. In these texts, the search for Picón Salas' ideals works as a transversal reading which reveals two central ideas according to which the author favours: 1) an aesthetics of the work of art, based on the picture of human condition that only be offered by literature, and 2) the construction of an ethics of reading, a form of interpretation that allows us to see the humane dimension in man's greatest searches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper offers a few notes on the impact of North-American films in Latin American society in the 1920's and 1930s, based on Latin- American stories produced during that period. The analysis will be guided mainly by the notions of mimetic desire (Girard) and cinema situation (Mauerhofer), as well as by the updated motif of the double (and its "realist" substitute, the doublé), in such a context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]