1. Más allá de la luz: revolución y crisis perceptiva en El águila y la serpiente.
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Abreu Mendoza, Carlos
- Abstract
This essay proposes to reconsider Martín Luis Guzmán’s El águila y la serpiente (1928) through the lens of perception, sensory studies, and affect. To do so, I examine the ways in which Guzmán reproduces and problematizes the aesthetic-political ideology of the Ateneo de la Juventud and its ocularcentric metaphors. By implicitly questioning the epistemological limits established by hegemonic culture, the Mexican Revolution inaugurates a sensorium that interrogates established perceptions and sensibilities. As a text in which Guzmán inscribes his immersion in the Revolution’s sensorium, El águila y la serpiente relies on the body and affects to produce knowledge about the profound social changes and ideological dilemmas that the conflict brings forth. Following an approach that emphasizes the perceptive order and acoustemology that emerges in the novel’s nocturnal landscapes, I explore those instances in which Guzmán questions the enlightened beliefs of his generation by appealing to an alternative sensorium to confront the uncontainable strength of the revolt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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