Este estudio examina el discurso que producen, bajo los efectos de la inspiración sobrenatural, los personajes visionarios en la narrativa de Moacyr Scliar. El cuento “Os profetas de Benjamim Bok” y ...la novela A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes presentan diversas manifestaciones del habla inspirada, mezclando las convenciones de la literatura profética y apocalíptica con elementos provenientes de otras épocas y culturas. En la ingeniosa novela A mulher que escreveu a Bíblia, se aprecia una fusión de la creencia tradicional en la escritura revelada con algunos conceptos típicos del feminismo de la segunda parte del siglo XX, en torno a la mujer, su cuerpo y su escritura.
Over the course of his lengthy career, Dorfman (1942) has pursued a transnational intellectual path, participating in Spanish American social criticism, cultural analysis, and literature while also ...becoming increasingly a part of English-language U.S. culture. Until well into middle age, he refrained from discussing his Jewish family background and current identity, attempting to remain within an ethnically unmarked tradition of progressive social thought. In the latter part of the 1990s he grew more forthcoming on these topics and his work and person began to circulate in intellectual venues marked as Jewish. While Dorfman’s ability to move in and out of diverse cultural spaces is impressive, it has not been unlimited. As the author observes, his plan to end his exile and reintegrate himself into Chilean cultural life following the end of the military dictatorship in 1990 met with frustration. Though he maintains a residence in Chile and visits the country, Dorfman’s English-language career has continued to outpace the more limited success of his recent work in Spanish American countries. Dorfman has only inserted himself into Jewish intellectual life to a modest extent, apparently by choice, since his custom is to discuss matters of which he possesses significant knowledge, particularly expertise gained through first-hand experience.
The world discovered Latin American literature in the twentieth century, but the roots of this rich literary tradition reach back beyond Columbus's discovery of the New World. The great pre-Hispanic ...civilizations composed narrative accounts of the acts of gods and kings. Conquistadors and friars, as well as their Amerindian subjects, recorded the clash of cultures that followed the Spanish conquest. Three hundred years of colonization and the struggle for independence gave rise to a diverse body of literature-including the novel, which flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century.
To give everyone interested in contemporary Spanish American fiction a broad understanding of its literary antecedents, this book offers an authoritative survey of four centuries of Spanish American narrative. Naomi Lindstrom begins with Amerindian narratives and moves forward chronologically through the conquest and colonial eras, the wars for independence, and the nineteenth century. She focuses on the trends and movements that characterized the development of prose narrative in Spanish America, with incisive discussions of representative works from each era. Her inclusion of women and Amerindian authors who have been downplayed in other survey works, as well as her overview of recent critical assessments of early Spanish American narratives, makes this book especially useful for college students and professors.
Of the numerous traditions that the Mexican writer Esther Seligsonadapts in La morada en el tiempo (1981), which spans Jewish history fromthe creation to the second part of the twentieth century, the ...present analysisfocuses on prophetic communication. This study puts forward a readingthat shows that many passages in Morada could be considered examples ofprophetic discourse. Not only does Morada include modified versions of theprophets’ stories, the central speaker also constitutes an updated figure ofthe prophet. At the same time, the speaker examines the meaning of silencein human-divine communications.Keywords: poetic prose, Esther Seligson, prophetic literature, Mexicanliterature, Spanish American Jewish writers
De las tradiciones que adapta la escritora mexicana Esther Seligson enLa morada en el tiempo (1981), que abarca la historia judía desde la creaciónhasta la segunda parte del siglo XX, el presente análisis se enfoca enla comunicación profética. Según la lectura que se propone en este estudio,muchos pasajes de Morada se podrían considerar como ejemplos del discursoprofético. No sólo aparecen versiones modificadas de las historias delos profetas, sino que el hablante central constituye una figura renovada delprofeta. Al mismo tiempo, este hablante examina el significado del silencioen las comunicaciones humano-divinas.Palabras clave: prosa poética, Esther Seligson, literatura profética,literatura mexicana, autores judíos hispanoamericanos
This response paper explores the significance of Judit Bokser Liwerant, not just as an individual researcher and theorist, but as a highly collaborative intellectual who is able to bring together ...scholars from the social sciences, history, and the humanities. Literary and cultural critics would benefit from Liwerant's guidance to move away from ingrained "methodological nationalism" and to take into account the increasingly transnational flow of creative people, cultural products, and ideas. I sketch out some avenues of research that might be pursued by applying Liwerant's concepts to the study of Jewish Latin American literary and cultural phenomena.
De las tradiciones que adapta la escritora mexicana Esther Seligson en La morada en el tiempo (1981), que abarca la historia judía desde la creación hasta la segunda parte del siglo XX, el presente ...análisis se enfoca en la comunicación profética. Según la lectura que se propone en este estudio, muchos pasajes de Morada se podrían considerar como ejemplos del discurso profético. No sólo aparecen versiones modificadas de las historias de los profetas, sino que el hablante central constituye una figura renovada del profeta. Al mismo tiempo, este hablante examina el significado del silencio en las comunicaciones humano-divinas.
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