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In 1969, Miguel Ángel Asturias and Pablo Neruda jointly signed that curious literary-gastronomic experiment that is Comiendo en Hungría, a summary of their trip to the Hungarian country, which is also one of the least known texts of both authors. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the unrepeatable exceptionality of this text, which involves a sum of international efforts of socialist sign (including a Spanish and a Hungarian publisher) that, despite its apparent triviality, is of marked interest for the understanding of the relationship of literary forces in the cultural Cold War, at a moment as special as it was, in addition, the boom of Latin American narrative. The conditions of its production, the relationship with previous works of the two authors and the ideological elements present in the text are analyzed. This is intended to contribute to the understanding of the cultural strategies of real socialism in the Hispanic sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several studies on anthropogonic myths and on the origins of patriarchy agree in pointing out that the myth of Adam and Eve is one of the most influential in shaping the identity and destiny of women in Western civilization. This paper analyzes a corpus of literary works from the 20th and 21st century written by Spanish and Latin American women writers that offer a female vision of the myth. By transferring the voice to Eve, they rewrite the plot and redefine the characters. The article focuses on the analysis of two of the modifications that these works, manifestly hypertextual, introduce with respect to the hypotext: Eve's perspective and voice, and the transformation of the story of the creation of the primordial couple. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a literary-historical analysis of the reception of Latin American literature in the literary magazines Polja and Delo during the Cold War. These magazines, published in Serbia, had an important place in the literary life of the former Yugoslavia. The aim of the paper is to show how Latin American literature entered Yugoslav magazines, and which writers and literary ideas were most represented. The first part of the article is dedicated to presenting the political and literary situation in former Yugoslavia and, more precisely, the way Yugoslav culture opened up to Latin America. The central part of the article analyses translations, critical texts, and essays published in Polja magazine and then those published in Delo magazine. It highlights how, although they lacked a systematic approach, Yugoslav periodicals and publishers have been closely linked, and together they have contributed to building new cultural ties between the former Yugoslavia and Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the contributions of Peruvian theorist and critic Antonio Cornejo Polar on narrative heterogeneity, this paper proposes an interpretation of Valeria Luiselli's most recent novel, Desierto sonoro (2019). In this text I postulate that, without undermining the explicit sources which the novel alludes to and recovers, it is possible to link it to a deeply rooted narrative tradition in Latin America: that which represents sociocultural otherness. The tensions between the referent (the Chiricahua tribes of the 19th century and the children who cross the border into the United States in the 21st century) and the narrative perspectives that present the events involve different displacements (of characters, knowledge, diegetic levels, and narrative points of view) oriented to the representation of a harmonious encounter between two opposing sociocultural groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a reading of the Brazilian baroque from a Latin American perspective. With that purpose, the paper analyses Ana Miranda's novel Boca do Inferno and initially contrasts it with O sequestro do Barroco na Formação da literatura brasileira: o caso Gregório de Matos by Haroldo de Campos. Based on the figure of Gregório de Matos, the study highlights the need to correlate the Bahian poet, Matos, with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. The paper puts forward the hypothesis that Sor Juana was "kidnapped" in the Brazilian baroque because she had defied Father Vieira (another central character in Miranda's novel) and consequently, that it would be impossible to define the baroque in Latin America without including Sor Juana. The paper highlights the need to integrate Brazil literature more organically into Latin American literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literature has the ability to function as a reflection of the self and its reality. The objective of this paper is to illuminate this capacity through a parallel reading of the Divine Comedy of the florentine poet and the Adán Buenosayres of the argentine writer Leopoldo Marechal. The reason for choosing these works is the ease with which they give an account of the life and spirit of their writers. By analyzing Virgil's original journey on the one hand and Marechal's reinterpretation of it in the descent to Cacodelphia on the other, we will be able to discover both Dante and Marechal spiritual quest, their vision of the human intellect and their current concern for their country. Through these similarities we will give a renewed look at the capabilities of literature and at the same time we will allow ourselves to deepen into the effects that the florentine poet had on universal literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study of El traductor [The Translator] focuses the relationship between Latin American neoliberalism and literature. Nevertheless, neoliberalism as the main economic and political hegemonic system in the region since 1940's, it has not been studied in connection with literature. In this paper, the History of neoliberalism reforms are considered where it has been criticized their ideological support. At the same time, it is exposed the patterns presented in Benesdra work related to Latin American neoliberalism. The result is an approach of how the author represented the power of neoliberalism in different scopes like social frameworks, labour sphere, emotional scenarios, and political and cultural contexts. Additionally, it is outlining Brenesda's critical view of neoliberalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a literary-historical analysis of the reception of Latin American literature in the literary magazines Polja and Delo during the Cold War. These magazines, published in Serbia, had an important place in the literary life of the former Yugoslavia. The aim of the paper is to show how Latin American literature entered Yugoslav magazines, and which writers and literary ideas were most represented. The first part of the article is dedicated to presenting the political and literary situation in former Yugoslavia and, more precisely, the way Yugoslav culture opened up to Latin America. The central part of the article analyses translations, critical texts, and essays published in Polja magazine and then those published in Delo magazine. It highlights how, although they lacked a systematic approach, Yugoslav periodicals and publishers have been closely linked, and together they have contributed to building new cultural ties between the former Yugoslavia and Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the framework of a broader investigation into the imaginaries of the afterworld in present-day Argentine literature, this paper aims at addressing the ways in which Carlos Ríos's Cuaderno de Pripyat (2012) narrates the afterworld of an identifiable historical event, the Chernobyl disaster, creating further tension between the crisis itself and the possibility of a post-apocalyptic setting that brings a radical and immeasurable interruption into play. First, we analyze the ways in which this multiplication of temporalities affects the presentation of the testimonies collected in the story. Next, the paper focuses on the collage as a possible explicative key to the fragmentary composition of the story based on the tension between the rationality of that which remains and that of referential oversaturation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we focus on significant examples of the dialogue between the uruguayan poet Ida Vitale and the Roman World. We explore her reception of Rome through Latin Language and Roman Literature, Religion, Society, History and Archaeology. These elements are linked to the search of an accurate expression. The lack of studies on Ida Vitale, especially on Classical tradition, and the contextualization in her Poetics justify our contribution itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes Rodrigo Rosa's novel El material humano (2009), especially its representation of violence as seen through the author's research on Guatemalan 20th century History. In the novel, the main character searches into the causes of violence in his country, trying to understand the origin of the conflict. However, his work ends in a triple failure: a cognitive, an aesthetic and an ethical one. That failure, as this paper proposes, represents a whole series of stories about the tragedy of historical memory in Latin America and Spain. [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]

Antonio Di Benedetto (1922-1986), one of the most important Argentinean writers of the twentieth century, published in 1953 Mundo Animal, a volume of short stories in which the animal figure becomes fundamental, as its title makes explicit. Within vinthe fictional universe of the work, this figure is incarnated in the human and vice versa, suggesting that humanity, beyond its exclusive attributes-reason and language-, shares a broad common substratum with other living beings. This existential configuration not only provokes hesitations in the reader, but has also ontological implications, that is, it leads to questioning about meaning schemes and the human condition in these fantasticallegorical stories. The purpose of this paper is then to investigate and interpret Di Benedetto's fictionalization of these encounters and borders between the animal and the human, analyzing different textual manifestations of this question: the quid pro quo procedure, the non-human narrators, the animality of children, the relationship with psychic pathologies, the ontological proximity between the two worlds, the metaphor of the mirror, and the corporality. [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 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]

This paper dscribes the website dedicated to Inca Garcilaso within the virtual library “Miguel de Cervantes". We will review its contents, materials and tools available for teaching of and research on the topic of this author, and present the results of its diffusion over the last three years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literary works of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega are a conscious historiographical program wi th a clear model, in our opinión: the Roman historian Tacitus. In this paper, I approach this hypothesis with three evidences: the classical studies of the Inca, the rhetoric, and the parallelism between Tacitus's and Garcilaso's historical works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies Jorge Edwards's La muerte de Montaigne as an attempt to translate the skeptical tone present in Montaigne's Essays into a political project bearing a democratic intent. In its frst part the paper focuses on the history of the reception of Montaigne in Latin American literature and politics. In the second part it analyzes La muerte de Montaigne as an attempt to transplant to Latin America the literary and political implications of the skepticism that pervades the Essays. [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 describes the predominant tendencies in the definition of the cultural corpus that is understood as Baroque of the Indias in Latin American literary criticism, through a review of the most important criticism that surrounds the study of Baroque and the Latin American neo-Barroque. I then propose an argument on the critical Latin Americanist corpus in order to ask why the Indian and black textualities remain outside the cultural corpus that is traditionally defined as Baroque of the Indias. I analyze a carol of Sor Juana’s as a counterpoint to this critical discourse, in order to read from a 17th century text the contradictions that permeate the mode in which American Baroque is articulated. The paper concludes proposing a redefinition of this cultural and artistic corpus known as the Baroque of the Indias, so that it responds to a decolonizing agenda in the field of colonial and Latin American studies. [TRANSLATION]

This paper aims to initially describe and interpret the mechanisms of work and author's literary canonization in a specific cultural community, Latin America. The case studied is that of Argentine writer Manuel Puig and his work. The interactive relationship among cultural context, social institutions and systems of social and evaluation meaning allows a description and attempted explanation of the imbued meaning relations in the constitution of the canonized literary repertoires (Even Zohar), their selection criteria, ideological nature and the way in which social practices associated with this process are formed by a variable number of discursive practices. To do this, we analyze an illustrative set of communicative events and their textual instances, through which the literary canon and cultural effects are articulated: positioning, aesthetic appreciation, author and discourse iconisation, and professional influence, critical and academic thematization, among others. Thus, we study a case of canonical integration by the Argentine writer Manuel Puig into Hispanic and universal literary canon at the end of the century, and set up an interaction with the parameters of canonical construction from the previous generation, the so-called "Latin American literary boom". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the literary letters written by a man who was a part of intellectual networks that created the Latin American intellectual scene in the first 25 years of the twentieth century. It is true that Federico García Godoy may well be considered a minor character, nevertheless, in his time, he was one of the best known and credited writers from República Dominicana. A major part of his literary prestige was built due to his prolific epistolary exchanges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper ventures to understand some complex cultural relationsships that were arose by the editors of Mito (Bogotá 1955-1962); attempting to throw light on various affiliations and breaking points. The discussion examines the fact that standing in favor or against Ortega y Gasset and Alfonso Reyes, who are two of the most well known twentieth century intellectuals, was significant in that it showed a stance in favor of a particular notion of literature. [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]

So far the study of the first Latin American lexicography after it's independence from Spain has neglected the close relationship between the first dictionaries, referred as "provincialism dictionaries", and the socio-historical context in which they were elaborated. The process of nation-building, especially in relation to the creation of a state policy and its impact in Latin American societies, is an element that makes clear the nature of the works in question, so that we can talk about a decisive political imprint on them. This paper proposes a renewed study of the foundational works of Spanish American lexicography from this perspective and exemplified with reading and comparison of the two most representative dictionaries, the Zorobabel Rodríguez's Diccionario de chilenismos (1875) and the Juan de Arona's Diccionario de peruanismos. Ensayo filológico (1883-1884), especially in relation to the notion of republicanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some studies made on Colombian literary periodical publications. Its content is presented in terms of the scientific problems that are raised and outlined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Why should we ask ourselves about Baroque's meaning? In fact, ¿can we define it? During the 20th century -and specially for the last thirty years- Baroque has been one of the most studied and discussed issues. It remains an inevitable topic when thinking about Latin-American literary and critical history. Two questions have driven, mainly but unequally, its interest: one referred to its concept, the other to its corpus. Thus, the relations between concept and corpus -be they understated or self-evident- remain frequently unattended or implicit. This paper aims to reexamine and clarify the concept of Baroque following its critical drifts, specially the literary ones and mostly for Latin America. It also aims to thoughtfully analyze several excerpts from the work of sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico, 1648-1695) and from Juan de Espinosa Medrano (Peru, ¿1630?-1688) that makes it possible to properly analyze the relationship between concept and corpus. Finally, it aims to clarify this relationship and the critical conditions in which it emerged in order to think a possible distinction between the seventeenth Baroque and the twentieth (Neo)Baroque. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper intervenes on the debates on the transnational circulation of Latin American literature in the contemporary context of globalisation. Taking into account the wide transnational circulation of certain genres of creative writing in previous periods (Yolanda Vargas Dulché's comic, Mauricio Magdaleno's film script, both supported by the Mexican cultural industry), proposes to problematize the terms of the debate in terms of the timeframe of globalisation and the conceptualisation of the notion of literature in globalised spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The philology of zero, says Werner Hamacher, is the origo of philosophy, and what this paper aims to do is to study the possibility of a sort of Latin American arch-philology, in which literary history would be the struggle of all discursive experiences, what Carl Einstein called invented spaces. Reading Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade, a canonical vanguard text, or the forgotten early detective novels of Medeiros de Albuquerque, which did not make it into the canon, the question rises about what the canon is, keeping in mind that it is impossible to return to things past, but only to things in the past which have a place in the future. In other words, through anamnesic and heterological means, arch-philology looks in the future for that which is missing in the past in order to reopen the file. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the aesthetic and ideological project of Transculturalisation in Latin America we find Juan Rulfo. This paper aims at showing how Rulfo's novel Pedro Páramo (1995), deals with perspectives from contemporary Latin American narrative and encompasses a social memory. By means of metaphor, Pedro Páramo represents the history of populations in a Latin American context whose culture has been silenced and which slowly started becoming conscious of that history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work expounds upon the connection and distinction between the works of W.H. Hudson and Jose María Arguedas, using the rhizomatic theory of Deleuze and Guattari to evaluate the power of a landscape to evoke and create memories, while at the same time instilling a sense of "being." This article explores the cognitive affect experience of shamanic culture, a theme somewhat more present in the work of Arguedas. Hudson, rather, focuses on a projection of self into nature on an individual level, as opposed to the cultural and individual dual focus of Arguedas. This paper is grounded in the idea that different states of consciousness are essential to understanding realities and immersing ourselves in a state of "being," which is poignantly shaped by the settings described by Arguedas and Hudson. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reinaldo Arenas's novel, El mundo alucinante (1966), shapes a complex fiction, history and autobiography scheme. Criticism often highlights the connection between life and work as a distinctive feature in Arenas's production, focusing on the striking coincidence between the contents of this early novel and the subsequent facts in the writer's life. Considering this idea as a starting point, the article proposes that El mundo alucinante builds up a dissident place in its own narrative scheme instead of containing signs about the novelist's future. This paper first reinstates the publication scene of the book, and then analyses some narrative textual aspects in detail, especially those that add to the representation strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view of the concealed discussion between the antagonistic literary morals that distinguish Sur's literary supremacy in its first period, this work analyses the crossing of readings that Kafka and Chesterton's works and figures produce in Mallea and Borges. Resembling Victoria Ocampo, Mallea resorts to spiritual values with the aim of legitimising literary practice. Mallea believes in language original purity that makes literature become a manifestation of human beings' spiritual unity which is the direct expression of the writer's qualities and intimate conflicts. Against this humanist literary moral, Borges emphasises not only the artificial nature of literature but also the impersonality of literary subjects. The crossing of readings that this paper proposes allows for describing the confrontation that exists between both authors as well as reconsidering Borges's controversial position in the magazine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The debate about the definition of some concepts such as 'popular' and 'mass' culture and the value judgments passed on them has been present throughout the Twentieth Century and has occupied mainly the intellectual thought. It seemed as if the cultivated people of the times perceived those terms as threatening manifestations to their traditional universe. With the purpose of giving a brief account of the landmarks in the history of this cultural phenomenon and attempting to define some delimitative categories to establish constellations of sense, the present work will center upon Ana María Amar Sánchez's thesis (2000). According to her, a corpus of texts belonging to Latin American literature proceeded to the appropriation of mass cultural aspects, while in that very same operation, it separated from it. According to Amar Sánchez, this double-sided effect would have politicized those 'mass' elements and resulted in a type of atypical literature. Our paper intends to expand the corpus of authors studied by Amar Sánchez as well as the genres included in her analysis, bringing in exponents from science fiction, especially Angélica Gorodischer's works. Moreover, we will study how this storyteller from Rosario politicizes those mass contributions by crossing them with gender issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]