The analysis of the cultural Cold War in Latin America has experienced a growing interest from disciplinary fields such as cultural history or literary studies. In this line of work, and with the aim ...of contributing to a transatlantic approach to the problem, the special issue "Cultural ties of socialist and transatlantic friendship: Latin American writers and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War" emphasizes the study of the interrelationships between Latin American literature and various European socialist countries. For this, it attends to a corpus of a plural nature: from fictional texts or analysis of periodicals to, above all, non-fiction texts that authors of diverse origins (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Cuba or Mexico) produced after passing through nations located beyond the Iron Curtain.
The Cold War motivated the international cultural field to replicate the geopolitical tensions and affinities that gripped the world.The positive side of this process contributed to the expansion of ...national literatures in environments where traditionally they had not found great resonance. However, the perverse effects were translated into various exclusions and dogmatic impositions that undermined the autonomy of writers. Latin American literature experienced, in this context, a process of globalization. The aim of this text is to testify to the complexities inherent to the reception of this literature in socialist Romania, for which a remarkable set of periodicals is analyzed, especially from 1964 to 1971.The translation, edition and physical reception of the Latin American authors themselves it was produced according to changing structural determinations, which show the evolution of the Romanian political-cultural field itself, but also thanks to individual gatekeepers who brought Latin American literature closer to the Romanian public.
En los estudios especializados en flamenco, sobresale, por su presencia y notoriedad, una línea de investigación circunscrita a la traducción e intersección de códigos estéticos entre literatura, ...música y artes escénicas. En este sentido, el análisis técnico a la luz del comparatismo interdisciplinar resulta un vehículo metodológico óptimo para comprender las múltiples aristas que tan complejo objeto de estudio poliédrico y reticular atesora. Por tales razones, los avances y aportes epistemológicos y gnoseológicos que se ofrecen en el presente monográfico, respecto al estado de la cuestión, arrojan luz, en fin, sobre nuevos caminos y senderos no hollados a efectos de perspectivas críticas.
Esta contribución se acerca a las relaciones entre narrativa y flamenco en sendas novelas escritas por autores latinoamericanos en el primer tercio del siglo XX (Santa, 1903, del mexicano Federico ...Gamboa, y El embrujo de Sevilla, 1922, del uruguayo Carlos Reyles). De este modo, se atiende al uso del flamenco como marcador de la identidad andaluza y como recurso propiciador del diálogo transatlántico entre España y América Latina. Específicamente, en el caso de Gamboa se prioriza la reflexión sobre las relaciones entre masculinidad andaluza y flamenco; mientras que en el de Reyles se profundiza en las conexiones entre flamenco y religión. En fin, ambos textos se insertan y dialogan con una dilatada tradición literaria que recurre a Andalucía como cornucopia creativa, como acicate de la imaginación, al tiempo que patentizan el contemporáneo trasiego cultural entre España y América Latina, que ha tenido como puente de unión el flamenco y los flamencos.
This paper stands up for the defence of writing as a hugely valuable resource for teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language or a Second Language. Specifically, it pursues two general targets: a) to ...highlight the importance of considering writing into the classroom of Spanish as a Foreign Language as a process that has to be constantly coached and developed; b) to emphasise how this way of teaching provides pedagogical benefits that go further the development of the writing ability itself, since it has an impact on other students’ general cognitive features. Methodologically, this text begins with a literature review that theoretically underpins the proposed targets, and, subsequently, our didactic proposal is exemplifiedby the use of a specific type of text (the match report). Then, a practical teaching resource is obtained as final result, which is supported by the recent literature on this issue. Finally, this contribution aspires to be implemented in different educative contexts by teachers of Spanish as a Foreign Language.
La Guerra Fría ha sido leída tradicionalmente a partir de las confrontaciones (bélicas, ideológicas, económicas, etc.) que implicó, dividiendo gran parte del orbe en bloques antagónicos. No obstante, ...este conflicto global también debe ser entendido como un factor clave para propiciar el acercamiento entre naciones que históricamente no habían mantenido contactos particularmente estrechos. En este sentido, resulta paradigmática la plétora de intercambios de diversa índole que la Cuba revolucionaria tejió, desde bien temprano, con los distintos países europeos. Pero, además, las tensiones geopolíticas espolearon la visión del intelectual o del artista como un agente cultural comprometido, hermanado con luchas que adquirieron proyección mundial o, cuando menos, internacional. Este monográfico persigue contar estas y otras historias que han sido aún poco transitadas por la crítica y que necesitan, por tanto, de empeños colectivos que nos permitan entender a cabalidad un fenómeno complejo, donde el campo cultural colude permanentemente con las esferas políticas e ideológicas, y donde el enfoque transnacional supone, más que una virtud, una necesidad.
After having announced the statistically significant observation (5.6σ) of the new exotic πK atom, the DIRAC experiment at the CERN proton synchrotron presents the measurement of the corresponding ...atom lifetime, based on the full πK data sample: τ=(5.5−2.8+5.0)×10−15 s. By means of a precise relation (≈1%) between atom lifetime and scattering length, the following value for the S-wave isospin-odd πK scattering length a0−=13(a1/2−a3/2) has been derived: |a0−|=(0.072−0.020+0.031)Mπ−1.
The observation of hydrogenlike πK atoms, consisting of π^{-}K^{+} or π^{+}K^{-} mesons, is presented. The atoms are produced by 24 GeV/c protons from the CERN PS accelerator, interacting with ...platinum or nickel foil targets. The breakup (ionization) of πK atoms in the same targets yields characteristic πK pairs, called "atomic pairs," with small relative momenta Q in the pair center-of-mass system. The upgraded DIRAC experiment observed 349±62 such atomic πK pairs, corresponding to a signal of 5.6 standard deviations. This is the first statistically significant observation of the strange dimesonic πK atom.
The adapted DIRAC experiment at the CERN PS accelerator observed for the first time long-lived hydrogenlike π^{+}π^{-} atoms, produced by protons hitting a beryllium target. A part of these atoms ...crossed the gap of 96 mm between the target and a 2.1 μm thick platinum foil, in which most of them dissociated. Analyzing the observed number of atomic pairs, n_{A}^{L}=436_{-61}^{+157}|_{tot}, the lifetime of the 2p state is found to be τ_{2p}=(0.45_{-0.30}^{+1.08}|_{tot})×10^{-11} s, not contradicting the corresponding QED 2p state lifetime τ_{2p}^{QED}=1.17×10^{-11} s. This lifetime value is three orders of magnitude larger than our previously measured value of the π^{+}π^{-} atom ground state lifetime τ=(3.15_{-0.26}^{+0.28}|_{tot})×10^{-15} s. Further studies of long-lived π^{+}π^{-} atoms will allow us to measure energy differences between p and s atomic states and so to discriminate between the isoscalar and isotensor ππ scattering lengths with the aim to check QCD predictions.
This special issue-'Indigenismo on Stage: Artistic Expression and the Inter-American Indigenista Movement in the Mid-Twentieth Century'-aims to present the staging of indigenismo by analyzing its ...'indianizing' side. The process we call 'indianization' consists of promoting the recognition of indigenous cultural and especially artistic 'specificities', as determined by the inter-American indigenismo that consolidated in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, starting with the first Inter-American Conference on Indian Life in 1940. Concretely, this special issue addresses the staging of indigenist indianization in two crucial domains: 1) 'indigenous' artistic expression as it was promoted by indigenismo; and 2) the abstraction/generalization of 'indigeneity' and 'indigenous people' that operationalized and successfully spread this indigenismo. These two concerns bring together the contributions to this issue (articles, a review essay, and a collective dialogue), which explicitly adopt a transnational perspective or, when they focus on specific countries, consider their indigenist connections to the rest of the Americas. Grounded on the analysis of a notable variety of objects of study (statuary, music, handicrafts, photography, engraving, and theatre), this special issue follows an itinerary that runs from the early twentieth century to the present.
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