scholarly journals El peso de la identidad nacional: lengua, nación y tradición de los escritores translingües

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (80) ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
Daniela Dorfman
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Identidad Nacional

En un tiempo en que la globalización pone en cuestión las categorías nacionales de la tradición literaria, la decisión de ciertos escritores de cambiar de lengua para escribir cobra especial importancia. Este trabajo estudia los casos de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938), keniano que abandona el inglés para escribir en gîkûyû; Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (1919-1978), argentino que renuncia al español y escribe en italiano; y Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), polaco que escribe en inglés sobre África; interroga las transacciones del pasaje a una lengua otra y analiza la constitución de sus obras en «zonas de contacto» entre culturas.

Reading Ngũgĩ Reading Conrad

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-80
Author(s):  
Mark Wollaeger
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Postcolonial Criticism ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Center Periphery

This chapter considers points of intersection between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Joseph Conrad. By Ngũgĩ’s own account, his rewriting of Conrad’s Under Western Eyes (1911) as A Grain of Wheat (1967) triggered a crisis of audience that ultimately led him to abandon English for his native Gikuyu. To further complicate the question of influence, Wollaeger also examines the relationship between two works of nonfiction: Conrad’s A Personal Record (1912) and Ngũgĩ’s Decolonizing the Mind (1986). At the heart of Ngũgĩ’s attempt to fashion premodern tribalism into a utopian space are two problems that still animate critical discussion. What is the status of the local and the indigenous? Does attention to influence reinstate a center-periphery model in postcolonial criticism? This chapter shows the extent to which Conrad and Ngũgĩ both anticipate and generate theoretical models later used to articulate modernism and postcolonialism as fields of inquiry.

THE DOUBLE VISION OF JOSEPH CONRAD: „HEART OF DARKNESS“, A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS

Lipar ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol XXI (73) ◽  
pp. 113-131
Author(s):  
Mirko Šešlak ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Chinua Achebe ◽  
Double Vision ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The Subject

This article aims to explore the background of the dispute started by Chinua Achebe in his famous essay “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”. The novel in ques- tion has become the subject of the dispute on whether it is deserving of being considered a great work of art. The reasons behind Achebe’s claim that it is not are the dehumanization of Africans found in various scenes throughout the novel, as well as the depiction of Africa itself as the barbaric and hostile other to civilized Europe. As in any such claim, while some support it, others find it faulty. There are those such as Achebe who would judge Conrad for the same reasons others, such as Bratlinger, Said, Mnthali, or Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, see him as the product of his time. This article will attempt to explore some of these claims and, if possible, determine the extent of their validity.

Joseph Conrad

1978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Berthoud
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad

diplomacia pública mexicana de cara al futuro

InterNaciones ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Manuel Bañuelos Castro
Keyword(s):  
Identidad Nacional

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo el análisis de la diplomacia pública que México desde su surgimiento como Estado independiente en la escena internacional ha desarrollado como herramienta estratégica para la construcción de sólidos vínculos que le han permitido proyectar su cultura e identidad nacional alrededor del mundo de forma positiva; el trabajo también analizará la crisis de imagen que México atraviesa y la respuesta que el Estado ha desarrollado para combatirla en el extranjero, y finalmente a manera de conclusiones se presentan los retos a los que se enfrenta la diplomacia pública mexicana en el futuro y se plantea una propuesta para afrontarlos.

Modernism, Space and the City

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Thacker
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Blaise Cendrars ◽  
Stephen Spender ◽  
Christopher Isherwood ◽  
The City

This innovative book examines the development of modernism in four European cities: London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. Focusing upon how literary and cultural outsiders represented various spaces in these cities, it draws upon contemporary theories of affect, mood, and literary geography to offer an original account of the geographical emotions of modernism. It considers three broad features of urban modernism: the built environment of the particular cities, such as cafés or transport systems; the cultural institutions of publishing that underpinned the development of modernism in these locations; and the complex perceptions of writers and artists who were outsiders to the four cities. Particular attention is thus given to the transnational qualities of modernism by examining figures whose view of the cities considered is that of migrants, exiles, or strangers. The writers and artists discussed include Mulk Raj Anand, Gwendolyn Bennett, Bryher, Blaise Cendrars, Joseph Conrad, T. S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Hope Mirlees, Noami Mitchison, Jean Rhys, Sam Selon, and Stephen Spender.

Echohistoricism: Aristotle, Dryden, Montgomery, Conrad

Romanticism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-293
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
Lecture Series ◽  
Narrative Frame ◽  
Definition Of

The contingencies of military decisions and their outcomes have always shaped the course of literary history, determining even the languages in which it has been conducted. But modern literature takes a new bearing on its determinant military contingencies. This paper describes a modern literary scene that self-reflexively attributes to literature the potential to suspend these determining military events, and so to communicate the unactualised possibilities contained in past contingencies, even those that have been violently foreclosed. It is a scene of interested observers, adrift in a boat, who listen for the sounds of a distant naval battle. Having first located this scene's classical antecedents in Aristotle, I then track it through three pivotal and distinctively modern moments of literary self-periodization. In each instance, the scene is differently configured, articulating a specific conjuncture of war, textuality and literary self-definition. It appears in John Dryden as the setting of a modern critical dialogue on theatre, with James Montgomery as a Romantic definition of the poetry of sound in a lecture series on literature, and with Joseph Conrad as the narrative frame of a modernist tale within a tale. But the same scene re-echoes in all three – the scene of literary inscription as one in which, contingently, a war neither did nor did not take place, a battle was and was not fought.

: Joseph Conrad: Giant in Exile . Leo Gurko.

1962 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-295
Author(s):  
Lawrence Graver
Keyword(s):  
Joseph Conrad
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