Voluntary Exiles, New Identities, and the Emergence of a Postnational Sensibility in Contemporary Latin American Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Brignole
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Transition Point ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Mario Vargas Llosa ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Interstitial Position ◽  
Contemporary Latin American Literature ◽  
New Generation

Brignole explores the question of postnational identity by proposing a reading of three novels that signal a transition point in the literature of exile and displacement in Latin America. The characters portrayed in El síndrome de Ulises (2005) by Santiago Gamboa, Travesuras de la niña mala(2006) by Mario Vargas Llosa, and El exilio voluntario (2009) by Claudio Ferrufino-Coqueugniot are the fictional counterparts of a new generation of voluntary exiles that has started to replace, in diachronic progression, the traditional figures of leftist revolutionaries and political exiles. The typical voluntary exile is not fixated on an attempt to recover a lost identity, like the traditional exile, nor does he attempt to assimilate into the cultural make-up of the new countries he inhabits, like the immigrant. Instead, he remains in an indefinite state of “foreignness” by adopting an interstitial position, located somewhere between those of the exile and the immigrant. Instead of assigning unwarranted importance to a nation, an ideology, or a race, the protagonists of these novels project a new postnational sensibility. They emphasize the shared experience of all exiles, draw attention to the futility of borders, and forge productive fraternal bonds with individuals coming from different cultural heritages.

The Latin American Publishing Circuit in the 21st Century: Following the Trajectory of César Aira

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 056-064
Author(s):  
María Belén Riveiro ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
César Aira ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Cesar Aira ◽  
The 1960S

This essay poses a question about the identity of Latin American literature in the 21st century. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Latin America Boom received recognition both locally and internationally, becoming the dominant means of defining Latin American literature up to the present. This essay explores new ways to understand this notion of Latin America in the literary scene. The case of the Argentine writer César Aira is relevant for analyzing alternative publishing circuits that connect various points of the region. These publishing houses foster a defiant way of establishing the value of literature.

scholarly journals The late 19th century archive in contemporary Latin American literature

Anclajes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Irina Garbatzky ◽  
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Julieta Viú Adagio ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Contemporary Latin American Literature

Late 20th and early 21st century Latin American literature rereads and problematizes late 19th-century Latin American Modernism. This article examines some of these genealogies in order to analyze the significance of this literary dialogue in our present time.

scholarly journals As narrativas do tambor como práticas decoloniais

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (50) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliam Ramos Da Silva ◽  
Richard Serraria
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Black People ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Community Associations ◽  
America Latina ◽  
The Haitian Revolution

Resumo: O presente artigo reflete sobre a proposta das pedagogias decoloniais (Catherine Walsh) como práticas pedagógicas a partir dos estudos do tambor na América Latina. As práticas e narrativas ancestrais do povo negro permitiram sua sobrevivência em espaços colonizados, mas tais sabedorias não foram incorporadas aos currículos eurocentrados das universidades. Pensando na decolonização da universidade (Restrepo) e na aceitação de epistemologias do sul (Boaventura Santos) como formadoras de um conhecimento amplo, heterogêneo e agregador, serão apresentadas duas atividades desenvolvidas a partir da/fora da academia: a oficina O mito de Mackandal, que oferece a escolas e associações comunitárias atividade para contar a história da Revolução Haitiana e a Pedagogia do Sopapo, encontros no Ponto de Cultura Quilombo do Sopapo, na cidade de Porto Alegre. Entende-se que a proposta decolonial propõe questionamentos do profundo eurocentrismo que desqualificou o pensamento dos sujeitos coloniais e permite que se pensem novas formas de (re)contar a história agregando valores e conhecimentos do povo negro, invisibilizado na construção epistemológica da América Latina.Palavras-chave: Literatura Afro-latino-americana. Pensamento Decolonial. Ancestralidade negra. O mito de Mackandal. Pedagogia do Sopapo.  This article reflects on the proposal of decolonial pedagogies (Catherine Walsh) as pedagogical practices from the studies of the drum in Latin America. The ancestral practices and narratives of the black people allowed their survival in colonized spaces, but such wisdoms have not been incorporated into the Eurocentric curricula of the universities. Thinking about the decolonization of the university (Restrepo) and the acceptance of southern epistemologies (Boaventura Santos) as generators of broad, heterogeneous and aggregating knowledge, two activities will be presented from / outside the academy: (1) Mackandal's Myth workshop, which offers schools and community associations an activity to tell the story of the Haitian Revolution;  and the (2) Sopapo Pedagogy meetings at the Quilombo Culture Point in Sopapo, in the city of Porto Alegre. It is understood that the decolonial proposal challenges the profound Eurocentrism that disqualified the way the colonial subjects thought and, on the orher hand, allows to think of new ways of (re) telling the history adding values and knowledge of the black people, which are invisible in the epistemological construction of Latin America. Key-works: Afro-Latin-American Literature. Decolonial perspective. Black ancestry. Mackandal Myth. Sopapo Pedagogy.

scholarly journals Latin America through the Literary Looking-Glass, And What Bolaño Found There

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-74
Author(s):  
Arnoldas Stramskas
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Latin American Literature ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Roberto Bolano

Abstract This article provides a broad overview of social, economic, and cultural politics in Latin America, especially concentrating on what became known as the Latin American literary “boom” in the 1960s and 1970s, and the region’s political context - colonial past, neocolonial/neoliberal present, the role of intellectuals within the state and cultural affairs. The second part focuses on Roberto Bolaño - the writer who put Latin American literature on the world map which has not been seen since the boom years - and his novel The Savage Detectives. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that literature not only shares common elements and possible intentions with social and political critique, but that it can also be an effective form of social and political criticism. In such a case, Bolaño’s work may be read not as inferior fictional account but as a complex, intersectional investigation of socioeconomic as well as ontological condition in Latin America that other modes of inquiry may overlook.

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