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Preliminares

. . — 2025-09-03

Presentación

Jorge Monteleone — 2025-05-14

En defensa del agravio. Homenaje a Beatriz Sarlo

Jimena Néspolo — 2025-05-14

A la memoria de Enrique Dussel

Julia Levi — 2025-05-14

Literaturas indígenas contemporáneas: descolonizar caminos en la apertura del espacio literario

Violeta Percia — 2025-05-14

This paper presents an overview of the transformations in the conditions of enunciation that have made possible, in recent years, the inclusion of Indigenous literatures under conditions of knowledge equality within the corpus of national literatures. In this regard, certain theoretical debates are revisited in order to define decolonizing perspectives that enable a critical approach to the ways these literatures are produced, read, and thought about.

Impact of the decree on freedom of the press of the Cortes of Cádiz on the New Spain periodical press (1810-1820)

Esther Martínez Luna — 2025-05-14

This article analyzes some debates and critical positions of certain newspapers in the second decade of the nineteenth century in relation to the decree of freedom of the press of the Cortes de Cádiz, enacted in November 1810. It also shows the different discursive strategies and literate positionings (both of publicists, editors and contributors) adopted by some newspapers in Mexico City to question and explain to their readers the unprecedented situation that was being experienced. The newspapers' reading proposals on freedom of printing reveal key issues about the change of meaning of the concept of the American homeland and, specifically, of political sovereignty. It is observed that the American periodical press, and especially the New Spain press in Mexico City, acted as a source of reflection and modulation of a moment of political cleavage that was taking place in a context of fragmentation of the Spanish monarchy.

El The rhythm of time in Pablo de Rokha's autobiography

Gabriel Cortiñas — 2025-05-14

The purpose of the following article is to analyze The Stone Friend (the posthumous autobiography of Pablo de Rokha), in a comparative way with other areas of his poetry, as an example of certain characteristics of the author's poetic rhythm; such as exuberance, an aspect that in his autobiography is territorialized with emphasis through the abusive use of the present tense. Both the current state of Rokhian studies and the critical instability that his work produces (an aspect that we can also trace in The Stone Friend), as well as the rhythm (from the Meschoniquian theory) and its link with American poetic creation will be the transversal axes of this work.

Translation and Poetics in La imaginación pública (2015) by Cristina Rivera Garza

Andrés Olaizola — 2025-05-14

Since her emergence in the literary sphere, Cristina Rivera Garza (Tamaulipas, 1964) has been the subject of study in a myriad of essays, academic articles, theses, critical compilations, interviews, journalistic articles, etc. However, it must be emphasized that, in comparison with her narrative production, Cristina Rivera Garza's poetry does not elicit equivalent critical attention. Therefore, we will propose an analysis focused on the reflections on literature and writing practice that unfold in the collection of poems La imaginación pública (2015). Ten years after the publication of La imaginación pública, we propose a reading that focuses on aspects of Rivera Garza's poetics that we observe in this book, especially how translation is one of the most evident procedures employed in the collection.

Overflows. Ethnographic Fictions in the Narrative of Chejfec and Bizzio

Silvina Sánchez — 2025-05-14

The article examines Boca de lobo by Sergio Chejfec and Rabia by Sergio Bizzio, and proposes a shift in reading protocols that typically prioritize the issue of realism, instead placing other questions at the center: what populations does fiction summon and what relationships of inclusion or exclusion does it establish? How does it address social, economic, and cultural differences? How does it shape relationships of domination and bodily, symbolic, and verbal violence? The article argues that the novels reactivate the constitutive transformation of modern fiction (Rancière) and shift towards the margins, embracing minor and inconsequential subjects, individuals who occupy a subordinate position in power relations. In doing so, the fictions reconfigure the territory of the visible and the sayable, constructing a symbolic topography that problematizes the forms of perception and knowledge of subjects marked by differences. Additionally, the article considers both novels as “ethnographic fictions”, which explore relationships with social and cultural others as a cognitive endeavor, and in this direction, it analyzes how they appropriate the figure of the ethnographer and reveal the risks, difficulties, and limitations of that ethnographic task.

El The Challenge of Caribbean Literatures to University Education in the Digital Era

Graciela Salto — 2025-05-14

Latin American literary studies are experiencing inevitable changes produced by digital transformation and generative artificial intelligence. One problem that intersects several of these changes is the imbalance between the impact of technological advances in recent years on the production and circulation of literature and their lack of visibility in university programs. First, I identify some recent means of circulation and dissemination of Latin American literature in digital environments, with special attention to Caribbean literatures, since in this case, the randomness characteristic of networks renews traditional ways of experiencing these practices. Second, I describe features of these circuits that promote reading experiences limited to brevity, multimodality, and fragmentation. The conciseness and fleeting nature of these forms would connect practices as diverse as excerpts intended for mass cultural consumption, avant-garde experiments, and current hyperlinks. Finally, I present some indications of the changes that are coming in the formation of teaching and research corpora on Latin American literatures, especially Caribbean ones.

Experiencia y escritura ante el roce de la muerte. Acerca de la crónica latinoamericana como vehículo de sensación

Clelia Moure — 2025-05-14

Presentación

María Virginia González — 2025-05-14

Tremors and Alliances: Reimagining a Present Future from Ana Portnoy's Notebook Que tiemble

Eylin Lombard — 2025-05-14

This article analyzes the representations of natural phenomena such as hurricanes and earthquakes in the notebook Que tiemble by Puerto Rican author Ana Portnoy, published by La Impresora in 2023, and how these events are reinterpreted as opportunities for collective resistance in a society marginalized by systemic colonialism. Drawing from Raúl Zibechi's concept of “metaphors of chaotic transitions”, Josefina Ludmer's notion of “the performative as profanation”, and Henri Lefebvre's ideas on public and private spaces, I explore how Portnoy redefines the movements of nature as tools for collective action and political change, emphasizing community networks and acts of solidarity.

Split and misplaced identities: a reading of Two Women (2011) by Magali Alabau and Three Beautiful Cubans (2022) by Nara Mansur

María Lucía Puppo — 2025-05-14

In this paper we propose a comparative reading of two books of poetry by contemporary Cuban women authors who reside outside the island. Living in the United States since the late sixties, Magali Alabau (Cienfuegos, 1945) is a poet, actress and theater director. In Dos mujeres (2011) she explores the dialogue between two faces of the same protagonist who fight each other in torn scenes of departure, return and new farewells. For her part, Nara Mansur (Havana, 1969) is a poet, playwright and theater critic; since 2007 she has lived in Buenos Aires. In Tres lindas cubanas (2022) she investigates the bond between nomadic subjectivities, permeated by circumstances of love, displacement, transvestism and motherhood. Intertextuality plays a central role in both texts, since Alabau's book -like other collections of her poems- resorts to scenes from classical mythology, while Mansur's volume emerged from the theatrical rewriting of Chapter 6 of the novel Orlando, by Virginia Woolf. After a review of the category of post-exile, the analysis will delve into the configuration of fragmentary and queer identities, which are theatrically projected in multiple doubles and which record the experience of living at the intersection of territories and discourses.

Disenchanted Images: Haiti and Haitian Women in Two Stories by Edwidge Danticat

María Luz Revelli — 2025-05-14

Images elude and challenge us. Concrete and abstract, they percolate in our ways of interpreting the world. Constructing and constructed from our understanding of the contextual, they appear in a presumed innocence sustained in a mimetic conception of the image. However, in the tensions between what is built and what is given, the social permeates the visual and the visual the social and in these interstices there is the possibility to reflect upon regimes of (in)visibility (Reguillo, 2023).

The images of Haiti that the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat constructs in her narratives bring into play stereotypical geopolitical notions while addressing gender issues. From a reading anchored in the power of images (Mirzoeff, 2011; Didi-Huberman, 2015) and the intersectionality of oppression (Hill-Collins, 1990/2000), a possible reading of “Hot-Air Balloons” and “The Port-au-Prince Marriage Special” is offered, both texts published in an anthology of stories by Edwidge Danticat entitled Everything Inside (2019). In the narratives, the alleged dichotomies between past and present, paradise and destruction, local and migrant, oppressor and oppressed are blurred and interwoven, enabling new ways of seeing.

El The universe of the feminine and the literature of the Colombian Caribbean, a look at In December the breezes arrived by Marvel Moreno

Luisa María Cardozo — 2025-05-14

The article now presented addresses the construction of the feminine in Marvel Moreno's novel En diciembre llegaban las brisas focusing on the stereotypes that limit women's identities from fulfilling uniformly established and naturalized social roles. It is agreed that such representations are not neutral expressions, but rather constructions that have been precisely legitimized, to the point of being believed to be inherent to the feminine condition. All these ideas were based on the assertion that construction is consistent with the premises that gender grants to performative practice, that is, those reiterations of the discipline of each social norm of morality that creates subjectivities. This logic, developed by authors such as Judith Butler, is articulated within the framework of a critical analysis of colonialism, understood not only as a historical fact, but as a remnant power structure that continues to shape ways of life, thought, and social interaction in Latin America. From this perspective, we propose a reading of the story that captures its subversive power. In this reading, Marvel Moreno reveals the mechanisms of control over women's bodies and voices in a society that has attempted to narrate their silence and has reduced them to just that, that is, to not being or being these voices that have forced them to submit to stereotypes.

Purloined Letters. Some Notes on the Unpublished Correspondence of Eunice Odio

Denise León — 2025-05-14

This article aims to shed light on the correspondence of the wandering poet Eunice Odio with one of her most important interlocutors, the Venezuelan poet and journalist Juan Liscano Veluntini, by invoking a confronting reading with a single unpublished letter that the North American researcher Anthony Robb found in the “Liscano collection” at the National Library of Venezuela. The letter is unpublished not only because it was not included in the correspondence published in the Obras completas of the poet, but also because it was not edited by Liscano, who took charge of intervening in the rest of Odio’s correspondence that he published in his Anthology shortly after her death. The confronting reading between this material and the edited versions of the rest of her correspondence raises some concerns about the silences and the tears in the archives of women writers inserted in the intellectual networks of Central America and the rest of the continent during the twentieth century.

Región, paisaje y ambiente: revisiones críticas de los estudios literarios latinoamericanos bajo otro clima

Mónica Bernabé — 2025-05-14

Escribir y leer ante la censura. Entrevista con Leonardo Padura

Xianjie Deng — 2025-05-14

Darío Canton: “en pie de guerra con y por la poesía”

Álvaro Miranda — 2025-05-14

La temporalidad después del fin (sobre Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Hispanic World. After Apocalypse de Ariadna García-Bryce)

Guillermo Vitali — 2025-05-14

La América biográfica: narrar vidas para forjar la nación (sobre Vidas americanas: los usos de la biografía en Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Juan Bautista Alberdi y Juan María Gutiérrez de Patricio Fontana)

Lucas Petersen — 2025-05-14

Escritos en los márgenes (sobre Silvina Ocampo marginal. De labores menores y lecturas oblicuas de María Julia Rossi)

Adriana Mancini — 2025-05-14

La dimensión del horror (sobre Narrar la ausencia. Escrituras de Hijos e Hijas de militantes argentinos de los 70 de Andrea Cobas Carral)

Adriana Amante — 2025-05-14

Colaboradores

María Laura Romano — 2025-05-14