Romance Notes
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description: Founded in 1959 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Romance Notes is published three times per year. The journal welcomes the submission of innovative, interdisciplinary articles on Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian literature and culture. We highly encourage submissions that present original approaches to the study of gender and feminism, historical memory, literary history and theory, popular culture, film, colonialism and postcoloniality, postnationalism and globalization. Note: I want to thank you for your patience with the technical issues we have encountered on this platform. While we work on solving this issues, I ask that you fill out this form if you are unable to sign in or upload a document on your account. If you are experiencing issues and you wish to upload a document for Hispanófila please fill out this Hispanófila OJS submission form. Our team will contact you with your credentials and-or upload your document. Please email romlpub@unc.edu and copy ljdaniel@unc.edu with other OJS issues. If you wish to sign up and/or submit a proposal to Romance Notes, please fill out this Romance Notes OJS submission form. Our team will contact you with your credentials. Please email romlpub@unc.edu and copy etatterb@unc.edu with other OJS issues.
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items: “CI SARÀ ALLEGRIA, ANCHE IN AGONIAâ€: LA COSTRUZIONE DISCORSIVA DEL BALKANISMO NEI BLOG DI VIAGGI ITALIANI
items: PLATONIC LOVE, ERASED DESIRES: REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN SOR ISABEL DE VILLENA’S VITA CHRISTI
items: On the Transmission of Blanco White’s Famous Sonnet: A Lost Link
items: Aranjuez en verso
items: Crónicas contra el olvido: el argumento de la preservación de la memoria en la historiografía española de los siglos XVI y XVII
items: Complicit Forgetting: The Politics of Memory in Kcho's Installations and Balseros (2002)
items: Mujeres indígenas en la 'Cuarta y Quinta parte de La Araucana' de Diego Santisteban Osorio, 1597
items: TECNOLOGÃA EN LOS TOLDOS: LOS AUTÓMATAS DE BEBER EN JUAN MOREIRA
items: Tropicalismo: patología y remedio en Palés Matos y De Diego
items: “Nunca másâ€: la (re)construcción de la memoria colectiva en Argentina, 1985 (2022)
items: SENSIBILIZAÇÃO INTERCULTURAL NO ENSINO DE LINGUACULTURA BRASILEIRA PARA ESTRANGEIROS (LCBE)
items: Entre burlas y veras: el suicidio en la obra de Palacio Valdés
items: A NEW MANUSCRIPT OF THE GESTA RODERICI CAMPIDOCTI VEL HISTORIA RODERICI
items: RETRATO DEL «PUEBLOÂ» EN PENSAMIENTO ÚNICO (2008) DE NELSON GARRIDO
items: El podcast narrativo de no-ficción
items: “AMBITION AND THE BLEAK LEGACY OF LIBERAL THOUGHT IN BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS’ LA FONTANA DE ORO (1871)â€
items: The interjection olé: origins in Caló (Andalusian para-Romani)
items: COMPOSITIONAL CONVERGENCE IN WHITMAN AND BORGES
items: Paternity and the Promise of the Good Life in Diego Vega's Octubre
items: PERVERSIÓN FAMILIAR EN LA TÃA TULA
items: The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Maria Chapdelaine
items: CUANDO LATINOAMÉRICA LLEGÃ“ A PUERTO RICO
items: del cigne firent messager: Swan as llatai in Marie de France’s Milun
items: Staging a Demonic Possession: Calderón's auto sacramental El diablo mudo
items: Las raíces históricas de la degradación del indígena mexicano en el pensamiento de José María Luis Mora e Ignacio Ramírez
items: Do Androids Dream of Care Labor? Rosa Montero's Bruna Husky Trilogy and Its Lessons for Cyborg Feminism
items: Decadenza nazionale nella ricezione fin-de-siècle dell'Intermezzo di Rime di d'Annunzio
items: Le Clézio’s “Monster island:â€ The Derridean “Monstrosity of the Unrecognizableâ€
items: HAUNTOLOGICAL MEMORY AND GENDER PERFORMATIVITY IN EDUARDO MACHADO’S KISSING FIDEL
items: Cuerpo, vulnerabilidad y resistencia en Clavícula, de Marta Sanz

“CI SARÀ ALLEGRIA, ANCHE IN AGONIAâ€: LA COSTRUZIONE DISCORSIVA DEL BALKANISMO NEI BLOG DI VIAGGI ITALIANI
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description: In linea con il quadro teorico del Balkanismo elaborato da Maria Todorova, per illustrare come i Balcani tendano a essere percepiti come l'"Altro" d'Europa, in questo articolo esaminiamo come vari elementi di questa narrazione siano riprodotti nel discorso dei blog di viaggi italiani. Per analizzare come si costruisce il discorso sui Balcani, utilizziamo l'analisi del discorso, in particolare l'approccio della psicologia discorsiva. I risultati indicano che nei blog si sovrappongono vari elementi spesso contraddittori del Balkanismo: l'immagine esotica e romanticizzata di un ponte tra il mondo orientale e occidentale si intreccia con l'immagine dei Balcani visti come la parte oscura e inconscia d'Europa, dominata da istinti primitivi e irrazionali. Inoltre emerge che le diversità multi-etniche e multiculturali dei Balcani, agli occhi dei viaggiatori italiani, non sono percepite come un difetto ma come un valore aggiunto. Quest'idea si contrappone al discorso delle ideologie nazionalistiche prevalenti nella penisola balcanica. Parole chiave: Balkanismo; Altro; Post-colonialismo; Blog di viaggi italiani; Analisi del discorso.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: balkanismo
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subject: altro
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subject: post-colonialismo
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subject: blog di viaggi italiani
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subject: analisi del discorso
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creator: Nataša VuÄenoviÄ‡
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

PLATONIC LOVE, ERASED DESIRES: REPRESENTATIONS OF MASCULINITY IN SOR ISABEL DE VILLENA’S VITA CHRISTI
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description: Sor Isabel de Villena wrote her major work, Vita Christi, in 1497. The intended readership of her book were the nuns of her convent, and as such, the themes of Vita Christi revolve around the role of women within religious dogma/Christianity. Although there have been numerous studies focused on the role of women in Sor Isabel de Villena’s Vita Christi and on its proto-feminist themes, there have been few studies dedicated to representations of masculinity and how these representations play a role in Villena’s efforts to claim an equal place for women within Christianity. This article will analyze the figure of Joseph based not only on the popular and dogmatic beliefs surrounding his role as Mary’s husband, but also on the conventions dictated by courtly and platonic love that can be appreciated in Villena’s rendition of Mary’s life and her relationship with Joseph. The representation of Joseph in Villena’s Vita Christi is contextualized within the backdrop of 15th century Valencian religious art, focusing especially on the visual representations of Joseph as companion to Mary in works such as Retaule dels Set Gojos de la Verge and Retaule de la Mare de Déu de la Llet.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: convent literature
  topic: keywords
subject: proto-feminism
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subject: medieval art
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subject: medieval literature
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subject: masculinity
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subject: courtly love
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subject: platonic love
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creator: Electra Gamón Fielding
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

On the Transmission of Blanco White’s Famous Sonnet: A Lost Link
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description: This essay revisits and expands the fascinating history of “Night and Deathâ€, a most celebrated religious sonnet written by anglicized Spaniard José María Blanco White. As previous research highlights, this English poem has produced a remarkable number of Spanish translations since it first appeared in 1828. However, there exist some rather important versions that have not yet been identified. Namely, Gaspar Núñez de Arce’s “Luz y vidaâ€, which was written in 1873 and later included in his seminal 1875 book Gritos del combate. Although “Luz y vidaâ€ makes no reference to any source text whatsoever, I argue that there is enough internal evidence to categorize it as an imitation of Blanco White’s sonnet, and I make my case through a comparative analysis. The new data allows me to conclude that “Night and Deathâ€ had a bigger impact on nineteenth-century Spain than it was previously thought, and to position Núñez de Arce as one of the first Spanish speaking authors who productively engaged with it.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: José María Blanco White
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subject: Night and Death
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subject: Gaspar Núñez de Arce
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subject: Luz y vida
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subject: Gritos del combate
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subject: History of Translation
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subject: Imitation
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subject: History of Literature
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subject: Anglo-Iberian Studies
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subject: Nineteenth-century Literature
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creator: Ãñigo Huércanos Esparza
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

Aranjuez en verso
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description: Entre mediados del siglo XVI y las últimas décadas del XVII floreció en España un nuevo tipo de poesía dedicado a la descripción y alabanza de jardines. Vinculado estrechamente al elogio de las residencias que reyes, aristócratas y altos dignatarios de la Iglesia edificaron en sus dominios campestres y urbanos, este nuevo género poético se convirtió pronto, sin embargo, en un importante vehículo para ensalzar de forma indirecta las facultades descriptivas del poeta y su capacidad para dar a conocer a través de ellas espacios solamente accesibles para una minoría. Este uso indirecto del poema jardín como instrumento válido para el autoencomio y la divulgación resulta patente, como discuto en mi trabajo, en la composición que inaugura en España esta nueva modalidad poética, la “Égloga pastoril en la que se describe el bosque de Aranjuez y el nacimiento de la serenísima infanta Doña Isabel de España.â€ En este poema, inserto en el Libro de la montería de Alfonso XI que el humanista sevillano Gonzalo Argote de Molina reeditó en 1582, la descripción del Real Sitio de Aranjuez aparece salpicada de referencias a las destrezas verbales del poeta y a su poder para internar por medio de ellas al lector en uno de los lugares de recreo favoritos de Felipe II.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Poema jardín
  topic: keywords
subject: Aranjuez
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subject: poesía epidíctica
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subject: poesía descriptiva
  topic: keywords
subject: divulgación
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subject: Luis Gómez de Tapia
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creator: Javier Lorenzo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

Crónicas contra el olvido: el argumento de la preservación de la memoria en la historiografía española de los siglos XVI y XVII
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description: Este estudio analiza el uso del argumento de preservación de la memoria y evitar el olvido de la historia en los distintos reinos españoles de los siglos XVI y XVII. Primero, se contextualiza el concepto y uso que se tenían de la historia en aquella época. Posteriormente, se analiza el argumento referido dentro de cuatro contextos retóricos, a saber: primero, la constatación general de falta de historias; segundo, una crítica hacia los autores de pasado y presente del propio territorio por haber descuidado la historia; tercero, críticas hacia cronista de otras naciones por haber dejado una imagen de España o algún reino español particular que no le hace justicia; y, finalmente, el argumento lingüístico según el cual las obras existentes no se conocen por estar escritas en una lengua poca difundida. Se analizan también las posibles diferencias entre los autores de los distintos territorios españoles en cada una de las categorías señaladas.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Early Modern Spain
  topic: keywords
subject: Chronicles
  topic: keywords
subject: Use of History
  topic: keywords
creator: Matthias Gloël
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

Complicit Forgetting: The Politics of Memory in Kcho's Installations and Balseros (2002)
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description: The Rafter Crisis in 1994 was the most critical moment of the Cuban Special Period following the collapse of the socialist bloc. More than 30 000 Cubans left the country in makeshift rafts toward the United States after the Revolution’s leader Fidel Castro opened up the nation’s maritime borders. Castro’s decision sought to alleviate internal pressures which had resulted in the biggest social outbreak that the island had seen for more than three decades. However, the political dimension of the crisis has been undermined or obliterated by the ambiguous memory work carried out through different media. In this paper I explore, following Barbie Zelizer’s discussions on common practices of public forgetting, two of the most mediatic commemorations of the Rafter Crisis: Cuban plastic artist Alexis Leyva Machado (Kcho)’s installations, which have engaged with the theme of Cuban illegal migration since his 1994 pieces Obras Escogidas and La Regata; and the documentary Balseros (2002) by Catalonians Carles Bosch and Josep Domenech, based on the testimonies of seven Cuban rafters. I argue that both the documentary and the installations might be understood as instances where ambivalent processes of memorialization have worked to depoliticize collective memory. Particularly, I examine how their different systems of mediation adhere to hegemonic imaginaries that understand the Rafter Crisis mainly as an economic and ultimately, as an affective phenomenon, easily “re-placeableâ€ within a broader global context. This, I sustain, has allowed collective memory to accommodate the trauma of the rafters in a more comfortable manner.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Cuban Special Period
  topic: keywords
subject: Rafter Crisis
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subject: Visual Works
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subject: Collective Memory
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subject: Forgetting
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subject: Depoliticization
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creator: Jacqueline Garcia Suarez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

Mujeres indígenas en la 'Cuarta y Quinta parte de La Araucana' de Diego Santisteban Osorio, 1597
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description: El presente artículo reflexiona en torno a las mujeres indígenas de la Cuarta y Quinta parte de La Araucana, de Diego Santisteban Osorio, de 1597. Su epopeya es una secuela literaria de la obra original de Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, que continúa y enmienda a través de 32 cantos nuevos que exaltan la derrota y dolor de los de Arauco. Todas las mujeres indígenas que participan de la narración, Brancolda, Gualda, Guarponda e Hipalca, son heroínas activas y pasionales que asisten a la guerra para vengar a sus esposos muertos en batalla, en calidad de mártires bélicas, descritas a partir de los modelos literarios de la tradición clásica latina y la poesía renacentista.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: mujeres indígenas
  topic: keywords
subject: guerra de Arauco
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subject: Diego Santisteban Osorio
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subject: epopeyas del siglo XVI
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subject: recreaciones de La Araucana
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creator: Rodrigo Faúndez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

TECNOLOGÃA EN LOS TOLDOS: LOS AUTÓMATAS DE BEBER EN JUAN MOREIRA
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description: Juan Moreira (1879-80) de Eduardo Gutiérrez gozaba de una alta popularidad en la cultura rioplatense a los fines del siglo XIX y generaría muchas adaptaciones. Este artículo examina y contextualiza dos apelaciones a la tecnología en un capítulo clave de la novela: “El último asiloâ€. El capítulo trata de la estancia de Moreira en los toldos del “indio amigoâ€ Simón Coliqueo, y emplea las imágenes del autómata y de la electrocución para representar a los hábitos y acciones de los indígenas. Propongamos que estas representaciones, más allá de su clara función deshumanizadora, reflejan una preocupación con la mecanización y electrificación en la sociedad porteña y que también desvelan cómo la sociedad urbana concibió los sujetos fronterizos subalternos. Después de un breve repaso de la imagen del autómata en el pensamiento europeo, analizamos el cuento “Horacio Kalibang o los autómatasâ€ (1879) de Eduardo L. Holmberg para entender mejor la inquietud con la modernización tecnológica en aquella sociedad. Sostenemos que el cuento busca producir un afecto inquietante en el lector a través un narrador que, en el giro final, se revela ser autómata. Así cómo los autómatas en “Horacio Kalibangâ€ colapsa la diferencia ontológica entre lo humana y la máquina, los sujetos fronterizos subalternos en Juan Moreira no se distinguen fácilmente de sus pares urbanos, desplomándose el binomio civilización/barbarie de Sarmiento. Así “El último asiloâ€ de Juan Moreira muestra que los toldos no ofrecen amparo ni de la ley ni de modernidad electromecánica.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Autómata
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subject: Juan Moreira
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subject: alcoholismo
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subject: Argentina Siglo XIX
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subject: literatura gauchesca
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creator: Braden Clinger
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

Tropicalismo: patología y remedio en Palés Matos y De Diego
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description: Las copiosas figuraciones del paisaje tropical puertorriqueño cuentan con una genealogía letrada que entreteje una contradictoria naturaleza. En diálogo con este paisaje, Luis Palés Matos y José de Diego conceptualizan un estilo verbal y performativo en un intercambio de artículos publicado en el periódico El mundo en 1932. Ambos sostienen posiciones disímiles sobre el rol de dicho estilo, “el tropicalismo,â€ en la formación de una expresión nacional. Anclados en el arielismo antiimperialista, los miembros de la llamada generación del treinta, entre los que se encuentran De Diego y Palés Matos, identificaban al colonialismo estadounidense con la metáfora de la enfermedad. Partiendo de esta discusión, analizo cómo el tropicalismo, también considerado un posible agente patológico, remediaría al síntoma, es decir, la falta de una expresión nacional sólida, cuya conformación se consideraba interrumpida tras la invasión estadounidense. Propongo dilucidar la trayectoria que lleva a que el agente patológico identificado por los letrados del treinta no solo sea el colonialismo estadounidense, sino también una endemia identificada en la naturaleza tropical que, irónicamente, proveería también la solución.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: tropicalismo
  topic: keywords
subject: enfermedad
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subject: Luis Palés Matos
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subject: José de Diego
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subject: colonialismo
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creator: Giselle Román Medina
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

“Nunca másâ€: la (re)construcción de la memoria colectiva en Argentina, 1985 (2022)
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description: El 22 de abril de 1985 empiezan los juicios contra la junta militar de Jorge Rafael Videla y con ello Argentina empieza a sanar las heridas (sociales, políticas, económicas y culturales) infligidas por el Plan Cóndor, la Guerra Fría y la propia dictadura. La película Argentina, 1985, estrenada en 2022 y dirigida por Santiago Mitre, recrea en formato biopic las memorias del equipo fiscal —formado por Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo y otros diez jóvenes universitarios. Este artículo explora el empleo de la memoria como aparato de interpelación a través del testimonio oral en el famoso Juicio a las Juntas ficcionalizado en el filme. Mediante la teoría de la identidad cultural de Stuart Hall (1996) y las ya clásicas teorías de la memoria de Halbwachs (1968) y Jenlin (2002), nos preguntamos cómo la recreación de los medios de comunicación reformula los testimonios originales. También estudiamos si la circulación de dichos testimonios en el filme discierne de la realidad. Para ello, este ensayo analiza varias escenas de la película que sitúan las voces testimoniales (víctimas y verdugos) dentro de marcos político-sociales recreados/adaptados a partir de archivo.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: memoria colectiva
  topic: keywords
subject: Argentina
  topic: keywords
subject: testimonio
  topic: keywords
subject: biopic
  topic: keywords
subject: Videla
  topic: keywords
subject: prensa
  topic: keywords
creator: Alexandra Mira Alonso
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

SENSIBILIZAÇÃO INTERCULTURAL NO ENSINO DE LINGUACULTURA BRASILEIRA PARA ESTRANGEIROS (LCBE)
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description: Este artigo reflete o trabalho desenvolvido no curso aqui referido como TCEPLE, ofertado em uma Instituição de Ensino Superior Federal no Brasil, com o intuito de promover formação complementar a discentes de graduação com interesse em atuar no ensino de português para estrangeiros. Objetivamos discutir e compreender três questões cruciais suscitadas ao longo da disciplina: o que os licenciandos entendem por aulas interculturalmente sensíveis; qual importância atribuem ao desenvolvimento desse tipo de aula no ensino de PLE; e que papéis julgam necessário o professor desempenhar em tais aulas. Para isso, adotaremos como fundamentação teórica os trabalhos de Kramsch, Byram e Bennett, dentre outros. Em termos metodológicos, descreveremos os momentos mais importantes do mencionado curso: a. recensão teórica sobre sensibilização, cultura e interculturalidade e b. elaboração de planos de aulas, desenvolvimento de microaulas e produção escrita dos licenciandos, cujos resultados, colhidos por meio de questionários, são aqui analisados e comentados. Preliminarmente, antecipamos que os licenciandos, futuros docentes, entendem que as aulas interculturalmente sensíveis abrangem uma ampla gama de comportamentos, atitudes e conhecimentos.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sensibilização
  topic: keywords
subject: Interculturalidade
  topic: keywords
subject: Linguacultura brasileira
  topic: keywords
subject: Português para estrangeiros
  topic: keywords
subject: Ensino de línguas estrangeiras
  topic: keywords
creator: Marcelo da Silva Amorim
creator: Ricardo Alexandre Peixoto Barbosa
creator: Dayana Bento Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

Entre burlas y veras: el suicidio en la obra de Palacio Valdés
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description: Este ensayo analiza cómo las representaciones del suicidio en la obra de Armando Palacio Valdés reflejan algunos de los cambios en la concepción de la muerte por mano propia en el siglo XIX y conllevan ciertas implicaciones ideológicas que pueden sorprender en un escritor católico, sin alcanzar, sin embargo, el nivel de modernidad y profundidad filosófica de las de otros escritores coetáneos, tanto en el XIX como a principios del XX. En clave realista (cuando no costumbrista), dichas representaciones son solidarias del efectivo incremento de las muertes autoinfligidas en la segunda mitad de la centuria, mostrando la vinculación entre suicidio y pobreza, su relación con las enfermedades mentales o el surgimiento de enclaves habituales para la ejecución de suicidios. En el plano ideológico, vemos que el autor prescinde casi por completo del tono edificante, evitando el enjuiciamiento moral de los suicidas y tan solo haciéndose eco en muy contadas ocasiones de la repulsa social que tales prácticas suscitaban; es más, en algún caso utilizará el suicidio como instrumento al servicio de la crítica social, mostrando al suicida como una víctima de los excesos del amarillismo periodístico. En consonancia con esa actitud tolerante con la muerte voluntaria, llegará incluso a pintar situaciones en las que esta se presenta como deseable. Encontramos igualmente, en clave folletinesca, un uso melodramático del suicidio, bastante complaciente y poco original, que contrasta con la burla y parodia de este, como manifestación por antonomasia del individualismo y el tormento del alma romántica, también presentes en su obra.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Suicidio
  topic: keywords
subject: Armando Palacio Valdés
  topic: keywords
subject: Representaciones literarias del suicidio
  topic: keywords
subject: Realismo
  topic: keywords
subject: Costumbrismo
  topic: keywords
subject: Folletín
  topic: keywords
creator: Catalina Quesada-Gómez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

A NEW MANUSCRIPT OF THE GESTA RODERICI CAMPIDOCTI VEL HISTORIA RODERICI
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description: The Gesta Roderici Campidocti (Gesta), also known as the Historia Roderici, is a significant and uniquely compelling text in the fields of medieval Spanish historiography and literature. It has been preserved in three manuscripts, known as mss. I, S, and M. Mss. I and S are independent copies of a now lost original, while M is a copy of I. The purpose of the present study is to introduce and describe a fourth copy of the manuscript text uncovered while I was engaged in archival research at the Biblioteca Colombina and Capitular in Seville, Spain. It is a sixteenth century copy of manuscript S. The article also reviews scholarship on the Gesta and suggests avenues of inquiry into its literary dimension. Select examples of copyist intervention provide insight into the sixteenth-century reception of the narrative, which in turn supports the call for additional studies on the narrative as a literary construction. A link to the transcribed text is appended to the article.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Gesta Roderici Campidocti
  topic: keywords
subject: Historia Roderici
  topic: keywords
subject: Manuscript
  topic: keywords
subject: Rodrigo
  topic: keywords
subject: Campidoctus
  topic: keywords
subject: Conde de Barcelona
  topic: keywords
creator: Matthew Bailey
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

RETRATO DEL «PUEBLOÂ» EN PENSAMIENTO ÚNICO (2008) DE NELSON GARRIDO
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description: La serie fotográfica Pensamiento único (2008) fue realizada por Nelson Garrido poco después de la campaña a favor del SÃ­ para el referéndum consultivo de 2007. Una lectura de esta propuesta fotográfica plantea una denuncia ante una suerte de instrumentalización del pueblo, en tanto masa, a fin de respaldar al líder de un partido (y de la campaña), en lugar de dirigir estos esfuerzos a promover las ideas del proyecto político en disputa en aquel momento. Garrido se rebela ante el ‘pensamiento único’ movilizado en la campaña del SÃ­ utilizando restos de la propaganda política para mostrar un ideario de personajes y conceptos, como ‘la familia’ y ‘el partido’, que evidencian los límites y las fugas de estos mecanismos en la contienda política. En este trabajo se articulan las ideas de Didi-Huberman sobre la exposición del pueblo en las imágenes y los postulados de Laclau sobre la identidad de la masa y su uso en democracia para preguntar: más allá de la máscara de los sujetos fotografiados, ¿qué oculta y revela este dispositivo?
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: fotografía
  topic: keywords
subject: pueblo
  topic: keywords
subject: Venezuela
  topic: keywords
subject: chavismo
  topic: keywords
subject: referendo
  topic: keywords
creator: Oriana Mejias Martinez
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21

El podcast narrativo de no-ficción
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description: En este artículo se discuten las principales características del podcast narrativo de no-ficción producido en América Latina y España como un medio en actual y vertiginoso crecimiento. Además, se discuten cómo estas características lo convierten en un medio único de aproximación a las realidades culturales, históricas y sociales de sus regiones geográficas, a través de relatos que combinan la contextualización histórica y cultural como la experiencia de individuos particulares. Finalmente, y teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, se plantea este tipo de narrativa en audio como una herramienta idónea para el proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje de la lengua y la cultura.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: podcast
  topic: keywords
subject: narrativas
  topic: keywords
subject: no-ficción
  topic: keywords
subject: enseñanza
  topic: keywords
subject: aprendizaje
  topic: keywords
creator: Paola Cadena Pardo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

“AMBITION AND THE BLEAK LEGACY OF LIBERAL THOUGHT IN BENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS’ LA FONTANA DE ORO (1871)â€
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description: Abstract: This essay takes a look back at Benito Pérez Galdós’ first published novel in the context of the recent centenary of the Canarian writer’s death in 2020. Re-reading La Fontana de Oro as an archive of resentments directed at Church and monarchic hegemony in nineteenth-century Spain, I examine the defeat of the protagonist’s political ambitions during the Liberal Triennium (1820-1823). Moving away from previous scholarship that reads the text as a lesson in moderation, I focus on Lázaro’s expulsion from the world of politics and the negative affects that surface as a result of his defeat in either of the novel’s conclusions. I also place La Fontana de Oro within a Western tradition of “literary liberalismâ€ that acknowledges the contradictions between progressive politics and a “bleakâ€ vision of a society unable to assimilate them fully (Anderson 48). Accordingly, I engage what Javier Moscoso, in another context, has described as “la pasión insatisfechaâ€ to interrogate the emergence of a new sentimental regime in the West in the wake of the French Revolution (23). Focusing on ambition as a nascent experience for young men such as Lázaro who dream of toppling the pillars of the Ancien Régime, I point to the ambivalence underpinning the novel and its ambiguous take on the present and future of liberal thought in modern Spain.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Benito Pérez Galdós
  topic: keywords
subject: La Fontana de Oro
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subject: liberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: affect
  topic: keywords
subject: Realism
  topic: keywords
subject: ambition
  topic: keywords
creator: Bryan Cameron
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

The interjection olé: origins in Caló (Andalusian para-Romani)
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description: The Spanish exclamation olé is traced to Caló and is one result of the interaction of the paradigms of demonstrative pronouns, personal pronouns, and locative adverbs, when Common Romani was confronted with Andalusian Spanish. Not a compliment or hortatory exclamation directed at the flamenco performer or bull-fighter, it was initially an ostensive deictic comment addressed to other members of the public and meant "(look at/listen to) that person (artist) over yonder" and thus promoted community pride and cohesion.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Romani, Caló, pronouns, adverbs, flamenco
  topic: keywords
creator: William Sayers
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

COMPOSITIONAL CONVERGENCE IN WHITMAN AND BORGES
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description: Jorge Luis Borges’s interest in and admiration for Walt Whitman has been well-documented and studied. However, there has been no consideration of the overlaps in their writing practices. In this paper, I place two early manuscripts, one by Whitman (1855) and another by Borges (c. 1929), in conversation as a way to highlight their shared compositional methods. In particular, I show how their conception of physical books exhibits what I call compositional convergence, or the independent evolution of similar ways of thinking about the structure of books in different moments in time.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Jorge Luis Borges
  topic: keywords
subject: Walt Whitman
  topic: keywords
subject: manuscripts
  topic: keywords
subject: composition
  topic: keywords
subject: bibliography
  topic: keywords
creator: Nora Benedict
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

Paternity and the Promise of the Good Life in Diego Vega's Octubre
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description: This article is a critical analysis of the representations of fatherhood in Diego Vega’s Octubre. I argue that this film frames male caregiving as a path to redemption by allow the protagonist to reposition himself within a less toxic form of masculinity. In this context, Octubre reinstates traditional views on masculinity as women relinquish their reproductive roles and men not only take charge of the domestic sphere but use it to show the importance of their work beyond reproductive labor. This study engages with Berlant’s concept of cruel optimism as a means to understand male-led care motivations and pursuits and observe both the tension between public and private spheres and its implications for ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ labor. It also uses Hannah Hamad’s concepts of postfeminist fatherhood and postfeminist melancholia to explain the contradictions inherent to films like Octubre, which appear to eschew toxic masculinity but inadvertently reinforce it through the erasure of maternal figures and the devaluing of reproductive labor.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: paternity;
  topic: keywords
subject: melancholia;
  topic: keywords
subject: care
  topic: keywords
subject: cruel
  topic: keywords
subject: optimism
  topic: keywords
creator: Marcelo Carosi
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21

PERVERSIÓN FAMILIAR EN LA TÃA TULA
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description: El presente trabajo traza lecturas discordantes sobre cómo interpretar a la protagonista de La tía Tula de Unamuno (1921). Empleando la adaptación fílmica por Picazo (1964) como contrapunto, el ensayo plantea que el foco de mayor tensión, tanto en la novela como en la película, es aquello mismo que supuestamente hace irreconciliable las categorías de virgen y madre que Tula superpone: la sexualidad. Al crear un modelo híbrido de virgen-madre y un espacio anómalo de convento-hogar que desliga la virginidad de su asociación con la iglesia y la mujer solterona, y la maternidad de su asociación con el matrimonio y el sexo, Tula se establece como un ser monstruoso y perverso, en su sentido más complejo. La inestabilidad que produce Tula, desplazando y reconciliando sistemas binarios que circunscriben al género femenino, transgrediendo los límites de lo ‘natural,’ la convierte en una figura subversiva capaz de provocar simultáneamente admiración y repulsión.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: virgen-madre
  topic: keywords
subject: perversión
  topic: keywords
subject: monstruosidad
  topic: keywords
subject: sexualidad
  topic: keywords
subject: Unamuno
  topic: keywords
creator: Elizabeth Lagresa-Gonzalez
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21

The Parable of the Prodigal Son in Maria Chapdelaine
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description: Religion plays a significant role in Louis Hémon’s Maria Chapdelaine. This article scrutinizes the Parable of the Prodigal Son as an underlying feature of the novel that governs the lives of Maria’s three suitors: François Paradis, Lorenzo Surprenant and Eutrope Gagnon. Focusing on the motifs of departure from and staying home, the essay will show that François, Maria’s preferred suitor, and Lorenzo, her second choice, are variants of the Prodigal. While the Prodigal in the Biblical text returns home and seeks redemption, in Maria François dies and Lorenzo vows not to return to settle in Quebec. The message of the voices Maria hears is essentially the Parable. Maria, then, rejects the prodigal life outside Quebec and decides to marry Eutrope who resembles the elder son in the Parable. With its emphasis on staying in the province, the novel captures the pulse of the Quebec society in the early twentieth century.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Louis Hémon
  topic: keywords
subject: Maria Chapdelaine
  topic: keywords
subject: Prodigal Son
  topic: keywords
creator: Sudarsan Rangarajan
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

CUANDO LATINOAMÉRICA LLEGÃ“ A PUERTO RICO
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description: Este artículo examina la posicionalidad de la clase alta puertorriqueña que observamos en Memoria, el último trabajo literario de la reconocida escritora puertorriqueña Rosario Ferré. Argüimos que Ferré y su familia, quien a su vez representan a la nobleza isleña en la obra, se debaten entre tres ejes culturales, lingüísticos y políticos. Por una parte, Europa y Estados Unidos, considerados como máximos exponentes de cultura y modernidad respectivamente; por la otra, Latinoamérica, que es sistemáticamente relegada a la categoría de la no modernidad y por lo tanto de lo no relevante. La tensión que se observa en Memoria entre estos tres ejes nos ofrece las claves para analizar las muchas maneras en las que se revela la colonialidad en la élite puertorriqueña y cómo interacciona con los ejes mencionados anteriormente. Proponemos así una lectura de Memoria como una indagación en la psique de la clase alta isleña quien, habiendo interiorizado preceptos hegemónicos occidentales, despliega una suerte de discriminación interiorizada que redunda en la exaltación, casi fetichización, de occidente y en el menosprecio de Latinoamérica, un área geopolítica de la que también forma parte.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Posicionalidad Latinoamérica Puerto Rico Colonialidad Colonialismo
  topic: keywords
creator: Silvia M. Roca-Martinez
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21

del cigne firent messager: Swan as llatai in Marie de France’s Milun
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description: This article revisits the swan love-messenger in Marie de France’s Milun—a topic of much critical attention—to posit a new analogue and consider its implications. While scholars have widely praised the uniqueness of Marie’s swan, they have overlooked a similar cygnine envoy in the fourteenth-century Welsh poem Yr Alarch (“The Swanâ€) and generally ignored the broader Welsh llatai (“love-messengerâ€) tradition. Since Marie frequently claims to have drawn on Breton tales for Lais, we will explore the possibility that she might have adopted her love-messenger from Brittonic sources that reach their pinnacle with Dafydd ap Gwilym.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Marie de France
  topic: keywords
subject: Milun
  topic: keywords
subject: love-messenger
  topic: keywords
subject: Wales
  topic: keywords
subject: cultural interplay
  topic: keywords
subject: medieval
  topic: keywords
subject: Anglo-Norman
  topic: keywords
creator: L. A. Brannelly
creator: Jennifer Lopatin
creator: A. Joseph McMullen
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21

Staging a Demonic Possession: Calderón's auto sacramental El diablo mudo
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description: Abstract This essay examines Calderón’s El diablo mudo, an auto sacramental in which the Spanish playwright stages a unique and extraordinary interpretation of demonic possession by defying the Gospel tales on this subject. The essay opens with a brief analysis of demonic characters in Calderón’s autos in the light of Calderón’s complex view of history and allegory. It thus offers a brief analysis of some of Calderón’s other autos. Subsequently, it discusses the early-modern interest in exorcisms as public spectacles and their most common fictional representations on stage. Finally, the essay brings to the fore the multilayered relevance of Calderón’s auto and highlights its uniqueness in the field of early-modern theater.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Armando Maggi
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

Las raíces históricas de la degradación del indígena mexicano en el pensamiento de José María Luis Mora e Ignacio Ramírez
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description: Este artículo propone reevaluar el statu quo en torno a la figura de Ignacio Ramírez y su relación con los indígenas mexicanos. Ramírez es tradicionalmente conocido como férreo defensor de la causa indígena en el siglo XIX. Pese a lo anterior, su producción intelectual con referencia al indígena y sus vicisitudes es una que debe ser repensada en el siglo XXI. Con ello en mente, este artículo examina la manera en que Ramírez instrumentaliza a la población indígena para servir como punta de lanza de su proyecto de refundación nacional. Este proceso, que se ha asumido como benéfico y noble en los estudios mexicanos por encomiar a los indígenas y su potencial humano, falla en separarse del discurso eurocéntrico y colonial de los predecesores de Ramírez, que se critica en aproximaciones contemporáneas a los estudios literarios y la historiografía mexicana.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Ignacio Ramirez
  topic: keywords
subject: Jose Maria Luis Mora
  topic: keywords
subject: Siglo XIX
  topic: keywords
subject: Indigenas
  topic: keywords
subject: Mexico
  topic: keywords
creator: Alexis Ortiz
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

Do Androids Dream of Care Labor? Rosa Montero's Bruna Husky Trilogy and Its Lessons for Cyborg Feminism
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description: Bruna Husky, the android protagonist of Spanish author Rosa Montero’s Science Fiction trilogy, is often celebrated for her seeming alignment with Donna Haraway’s cyborg feminism. While Montero’s trilogy and Haraway’s Manifesto are both deserving of celebration, in this essay, I explore Bruna’s ‘failures’ rather than her ‘successes’ as a cyborg subject, as these offer valuable insight to feminist thought. Specifically, Bruna refuses to perform the sort of coalition-building political care labor that Haraway emphasizes as the key for resisting domination, and in doing so, invites us to reconsider models of feminist thought that place the burden of creating a better world on the shoulders of marginalized individuals.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
creator: Brittany Frodge
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21

Decadenza nazionale nella ricezione fin-de-siècle dell'Intermezzo di Rime di d'Annunzio
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description: L’articolo propone una riconsiderazione della ricezione immediata della raccolta di versi Intermezzo di Rime (1883) di Gabriele d’Annunzio. Rifacendosi alle teorie sull’ethos autoriale, il saggio mette in luce l’effetto di framing esercitato dal contesto storico-culturale sulla ricezione dell’opera. Il dibattito critico intorno all’opera risente infatti della riflessione sulla funzione della letteratura nell’Italia unita e della denigrazione cui sono soggetti gli italiani a livello europeo. L’influenza di questi aspetti sulla ricezione dell’opera dà luogo all’ethos decadente con cui d’Annunzio dovrà fare i conti lungo tutta la sua carriera.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: d'Annunzio
  topic: keywords
subject: Intermezzo di Rime
  topic: keywords
subject: decadenza
  topic: keywords
subject: ethos
  topic: keywords
subject: orientalizzazione
  topic: keywords
creator: Guylian Nemegeer
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2024-09-09
publication date: 2024-09-09

Le Clézio’s “Monster island:â€ The Derridean “Monstrosity of the Unrecognizableâ€
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description: This essay delves into monster theory and Derrida’s late environmental philosophy in order to probe the philosophical, linguistic, and ethical implications of the metaphor of other-than-human monstrosity in Le Clézio’s Voyages de l’autre côté. In this early narrative, the symbolism of the “monster islandâ€ deconstructs the oppositional thinking undergirding our representations of the world and our place in it. Overcoming his initial fright when confronted with an entity that is unrepresentable within our dichotomous thought systems, the unnamed old sailor begins to communicate with this “wholly otherâ€ which he realizes is a “fellowâ€ semiotic, sentient being. This epiphany leads to a radical biocentric paradigm shift resulting in the creation of a new cognitive structure that is more capable of understanding the cosmos and our relationship to it in non-dualistic terms.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Jacques Derrida
  topic: keywords
subject: J.M.G. Le Clézio
  topic: keywords
subject: Monster Studies
  topic: keywords
subject: Biocentrism
  topic: keywords
creator: Keith Moser
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21

HAUNTOLOGICAL MEMORY AND GENDER PERFORMATIVITY IN EDUARDO MACHADO’S KISSING FIDEL
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description: Kissing Fidel by Eduardo Machado stages the contentious relationship between Oscar Marques and his extended family, stemming from his desire to return to Cuba and embrace Fidel Castro in a reconciliatory kiss aimed at harmonizing Cuban-American relations. Set in a Miami funeral home after midnight on the fourteenth of August 1994, Kissing Fidel brings to the surface the repressed memories and trauma wrought from the experiences of exile and that influence the familial and interpersonal relationships of the Marques family. This study proposes a reading of Kissing Fidel through the intersecting theories of hauntology and gender performativity to examine the ways in which repression, exile, and trauma influence a dialogic negotiation that works towards the resolution of individual conflicts, secrets, and desires. Using Judith Butler’s theories of gender performativity, we further analyze how gender roles are reinforced within the family dynamic and how ideological notions of heteronormativity and masculinity are passed down through generations. In turning to a greater narrative on Cuban-American relations and queer liberation, it becomes clear that Machado’s staging of these gendered conflicts creates a queer space in which fluidity and perversity work against heteropatriarchial hegemony.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Hauntology
  topic: keywords
subject: Kissing Fidel
  topic: keywords
subject: Eduardo Machado
  topic: keywords
subject: Queer Theory
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender Performativity
  topic: keywords
creator: Anthony Pasero
creator: Rachel Gronberg
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Romance Notes
date: 2025-01-09
publication date: 2025-01-09

Cuerpo, vulnerabilidad y resistencia en Clavícula, de Marta Sanz
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description: Marta Sanz visita de nuevo en Clavícula (2017) las narraciones del yo para reflexionar acerca de la escritura autobiográfica y del papel de la literatura en la sociedad. El punto de partida de la obra es la presencia de un dolor en el pecho que sume a la narradora en la angustia derivada de la fragilidad y la vulnerabilidad del cuerpo. La necesidad de nombrar el cuerpo se convierte en esta novela en búsqueda incesante por explicitar la experiencia del cambio físico o incluso el deterioro del cuerpo. El dolor y la crisis física y vital que experimenta la narradora proporcionan la excusa para exponer el androcentrismo de la ciencia y la medicina que ha conducido a una excesiva medicalización y patologización del cuerpo femenino. Asimismo, la experiencia traumática de la narradora sirve como motivo para combatir los desajustes generados por el mercado y poder hegemónico así como para expresar el malestar frente a las consecuencias de la crisis económica y social.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Marta Sanz
  topic: keywords
subject: Clavícula
  topic: keywords
subject: autoficción
  topic: keywords
subject: vulnerabilidad
  topic: keywords
subject: cuerpo
  topic: keywords
creator: Carolina Suárez Hernán
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Romance Notes
date: 2024-01-21
publication date: 2024-01-21