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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 aims to conduct a reflection on the new reality that has occurred in the context of the present discipline of the Classical Tradition: the emergence of Reception Studies, in order to rereading Greek and Latin Classics over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the topics of the discourse about decadence, a discourse which, as it is known, can be traced in many ancient and modern historical, philosophical and literary sources. Our investigation, which takes as its starting point the works of Edwards 2002, Freund 1984, Le Goff 1991, Lovejoy-Boas 1997, Momigliano 1984 and Starn 1975, contends that 'decadence' is not a process that actually operates in human reality, but a metaphor used to interpret historical change. We will thus not attempt to describe a supposedly existing 'decadence', but the various ways in which discourses about decadence have been used to interpret historical, social or literary phenomena. [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]