scholarly journals José María Merino: teoría y práctica del microrrelato

Monteagudo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Ángel Basanta
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
The Third ◽  
Narrative Mode ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Sobre Todo

El microrrelato ha alcanzado un extraordinario auge en las últimas décadas. Se define por su acusada brevedad y su intensa narratividad, su extrema concentración y economía expresiva sustentadas en la elipsis y el arte de sugerir. Aunque ha habido microrrelatos desde las primeras manifestaciones de la literatura, este cuarto género narrativo nace como tal a partir del Romanticismo y, sobre todo, en el modernismo, alcanza su pleno desarrollo a lo largo del siglo XX, a partir de J. R. Jiménez y R. Gómez de la serna, en españa, y, más aún, en Hispanoamérica, con maestros como Borges, A. monterroso y J. Cortázar; y se consolida como el cuarto género narrativo a finales del XX y comienzos del XXI. José Mª merino es uno de los escritores españoles que más y mejor ha contribuido a la construcción de la teoría del microrrelato y está considerado como uno de los maestros indiscutibles en la creación de minificciones representativas de esta modalidad narrativa. Reunió sus microrrelatos por primera vez en La glorieta de los fugitivos. Minificción completa (2007). A ellos hay que añadir los intercalados después entre los cuentos de El libro de las horas contadas (2011) y los agrupados en la tercera parte de La trama oculta (cuentos de los dos lados con una silva mínima) (2014). The short short-story is flourishing in recent decades. It is defined by its acute brevity and its intense narrativity, its concentrated form and expressive economy underpinned by its elliptical and suggestive nature. Although there have been instances of short short-stories since the beginnings of the literary form, this narrative genre begins to take shapre in the Romantic and modernist periods, and develops fully in the twentieth century, in the writings of J. R. Jiménez and R. Gómez de la serna in spain and, in latin America, in those of Borges, A. monterroso y J. Cortázar. It becomes consolidated as the fourth narrative genre at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. José María Merino is one of the spanish writers who has done most to contribute to the development of the theory of the short short-story and is widely considered one of the best creators of the mini-fictions representative of this narrative mode. His first collection of short short-stories is La glorieta de los fugitivos. Minificción completa (2007), to which he has since added others to be found amongst the short stories of El libro de las horas contadas (2011) and those grouped in the third part of La trama oculta (cuentos de los dos lados con una silva mínima) (2014).

INTERVIEW WITH PETINA GAPPAH

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Faith Mkwesha
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
First Language ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
Book Award ◽  
The University ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
University Of Zimbabwe

This interview was conducted on 16 May 2009 at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek, Cape Town, South Africa. Petina Gappah is the third generation of Zimbabwean writers writing from the diaspora. She was born in 1971 in Zambia, and grew up in Zimbabwe during the transitional moment from colonial Rhodesia to independence. She has law degrees from the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Graz. She writes in English and also draws on Shona, her first language. She has published a short story collection An Elegy for Easterly (2009), first novel The Book of Memory (2015), and another collection of short stories, Rotten Row (2016).  Gappah’s collection of short stories An Elegy for Easterly (2009) was awarded The Guardian First Book Award in 2009, and was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the richest prize for the short story form. Gappah was working on her novel The Book of Memory at the time of this interview.

scholarly journals Condemnation of Religious Concepts: An Examination of Chubak's "An Afternoon in Late Autumn" through Bakhtin's Theory of Grotesque Realism

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Sayed Mohammad Anoosheh ◽  
Muhammad Hussein Oroskhan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Lower Section ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Late Autumn ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Style Of Writing ◽  
A Site

The first traces of modernism in Iranian society can be found in the second decade of twentieth century which was deeply embedded with religious concepts. With regard to Persian literature, short story was developed as a new genre and a sign of modernism of that period by prominent Iranian writers such as Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951), Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh (1892-1997) and Sadegh Chubak (1916-1998). In this way a cultural clash was broken out between the traditional religious concepts and the new modern ideas. Among these writers, Chubak was more influenced by the doctrine of modernism. He expressed his message colloquially through his short stories to instigate the lower part of society. His naturalistic style of writing delved into the most gruesome details of people's life with the aim of shocking his reader in experiencing a new perspective previously ignored. To highlight Chubak's style of writing attempt is made to explore one of the highly praised short stories entitled "An Afternoon in Late Autumn" on the ground of the Bakhtin's theory of grotesque realism cited in Rabelais and His World. Grotesque realism is a site upon which religious and social hierarchies can be subverted and renewed. This study tries to reveal that Chubak followed the Bakhtin's grotesque realism to evoke a new outlook particularly in the lower section of society.

Culture, detention and exile

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Jorge Musto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
The Way

Among the exodus of Uruguayan artists and intellectuals described by Hortensia Campanella (p 29) is Jorge Musto. whose short story ‘Pale Browns and Yellows’ we published in Index on Censorship 2/1981. As actor, theatre director and journalist, Jorge Musto was associated with the two best-known standard bearers of the rich cultural movement which blossomed in Uruguay before the 1973 military coup: the El Galpón theatre company (Index on Censorship 2/1977 and 2/1979) and the weekly magazine Marcha (4/1974 and 2/1979). He has published several novels and short stories, and now works as a translator in Paris, having fallen victim in 1972 to the repression which paved the way for the final military takeover. It was in Paris that the following interview was carried out in February 1981 by Index on Censorship's Latin America researcher. Our apologies for having held it over for so long, for reasons entirely of space. The interview is translated from Spanish.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Inductive Model in the Learning of Finding Religious Values in Short Stories "Robohnya Surau Kami" by A.A. Navis

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 161
Author(s):  
Nendah Siti Nurfuadah
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Inductive Learning ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Learning Models ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Average Value ◽  
The Third ◽  
Group Cooperation

This article reveals the effectiveness of using inductive learning models to find religious values in the short story. The method used in the study is PTK. The experiment was conducted in three cycles, each cycle consists of two meetings. The study was conducted in grade XI MAN Cianjur. The results showed that inductive models can enhance the learning process, especially the attention of students in learning and students cooperation in group discussions. In the first cycle, in terms of students attention, from 44 students there are 29 students (65.90%) paid attention, and in terms of cooperation of the students in group discussions, there were 27 students (61.36%) are cooperative. In the second cycle, from 44 students there were 33 students (75%) who paid attention, and regarding the cooperation of the group, there are 30 students (68.18%) who are cooperative. In the third cycle, from 44 students there are 38 students (86.36%) who paid attention, and regarding group cooperation there are 39 students (88.64%)who are cooperative. The student’ results in the first cycle obtained an average value of 68.64, in the second cycle the average value was 77.16, and in the third cycle the average value was 91.82. Therefore, it is concluded that the implementation of inductive learning model on learning of finding religious values on the short story in class XI MAN Cianjur can enhance the learning process and student learning outcomes.Keywords: religious value, inductive models, processes and outcomes

scholarly journals Social Themes in Saudi Women Short Stories: Making the voice of Women Heard

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub Hezam
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Saudi Women ◽  
Arabic Speakers ◽  
The Social

Few studies in English have been carried out to explore the realm of Saudi short stories in general and women writers' works in particular. The aim of this paper is to examine how Saudi women short story writers used a western literary form to depict the realities of their country. It also delineates the magnificent representation of social themes through storytelling and provides non-Arabic speakers with an insight into the writings of Saudi female writers. It tries to present a vivid picture of how these stories reflect the social reality in Saudi Arabia in the last few decades of the 20th century and the challenges facing women in this transitional period. Moreover, the study tries to examine how women writers participated in the contentious debates regarding women that dominated the Saudi society especially on questions like marriage, divorce and women education. The present study is basically a text-based research that involves an analysis of major primary sources chosen. Selected short stories written by Saudi women writers are examined from a thematic perspective to reveal the ways in which women writers incited social change by defining notions of gender and social space and how they give voice to the Saudi women.

Bowen, The Bell, and the Late-Modernist Short Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Elke D'hoker
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Irish Woman ◽  
Fiction Writer

This essay looks at Elizabeth Bowen's presence in The Bell during the war years. She contributed an essay, a short story, two pieces of memoir, two obituaries, and a few other, smaller pieces to the magazine, but also featured in an interview, several reviews, and O'Faoláin's editorials and critical essays. Yet, as a Protestant, Anglo-Irish woman writer living in England, Bowen was in many ways an odd presence in The Bell, which squarely focused on Irish life and Irish writing. While O'Faoláin's mission to present an inclusive view of Ireland may explain his publication of Bowen's autobiographical essays, her prominence as a fiction writer can better be accounted for through her achievements in the modern short story, the genre O'Faoláin sought to promote as a central Irish literary form in The Bell. Indeed, although Bowen's short stories have been classified as ‘modernist’ and O'Faoláin's as ‘realist’, their aesthetics of the short story are remarkably similar. Still, The Bell’s championing of Bowen's short fiction as a model to follow was undermined by its framing of Bowen as an ‘aristocratic’ writer whose literary snapshots of Irish life had a peculiarly dated and blinkered quality.

Indigenous Intellectuals in Contemporary Ecuador: Encounters with “Seven Erroneous Theses about Latin America”

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blanca Soledad Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Analytical Term ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Indigenous Movement ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Siglo Xx

The indigenous intellectuals who were part of the foundation of the Ecuadorean indigenous movement of the 1980s contributed to the theoretical and political grounding of the concept of the plurinational state that is now recognized in the country’s new constitution. This concept constitutes a critique of the idea of nationhood that developed in Latin America throughout the twentieth century. A comparative reading of these intellectuals’ work on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Rodolfo Stavenhagen’s “Seven Erroneous Theses about Latin America” reveals two themes: colonial continuity and historical continuity. Both can be seen as a “settling of scores” with colonialism understood both as a historical period and as an analytical term for understanding the social reality of Latin America. Los intelectuales indígenas que formaron parte de la fundación del movimiento indígena ecuatoriano hacia la década de 1980 contribuyeron a la fundamentación teórica y política de la noción de Estado plurinacional, hoy reconocida por la nueva constitución del Ecuador. Sus principales antecedentes se encuentran en la elaboración de una crítica a la idea de nación tributaria de la corriente de pensamiento que se forjó en Nuestramérica a lo largo del siglo XX. Una lectura comparada de las obras escritas por estos intelectuales indígenas ecuatorianos en el marco de la conmemoración de los cincuenta años de la publicación de las “Siete tesis equivocadas sobre América Latina,” de Rodolfo Stavenhagen, revela dos elementos que aparecen reiteradamente a lo largo de su producción escritural: la idea de “continuidad colonial” y la idea de “continuidad histórica.” Ambas nociones remiten a un tema específico que se relaciona con cierto “ajuste de cuentas” con el colonialismo en tanto hecho histórico y en tanto categoría para el análisis de la realidad social en América Latina.

scholarly journals KAJIAN PRONOMINA PERSONA DALAM CERPEN KESETIAAN ITU DAN IMPLIKASINYA BAGI PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA DI SMP/ANALYTIS OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS IN KESETIAAN ITU SHORT STORY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LEARNING INDONESIAN LANGUAGE AT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Aksara ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-311
Author(s):  
Asep Muhyidin
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
The Third ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Literary Learning

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan mengkaji penggunaan pronomina persona dalam cerpen Kesetiaan Itu  karya Hamsad Rangkuti. Data penelitian berupa satuan lingual berupa kalimat-kalimat yang mengandung pronomina persona. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini berupa sumber data tertulis berupa paragraf-paragraf yang terdapat pada cerpen. Metode yang digunakan untuk mengumpulkan data pada penelitian ini adalah metode dokumentasi dan metode catat. Penelitian ini menggunakan validitas semantik yaitu data mengenai pemarkah pronomina persona sebagai sarana kohesi hubungan antarkalimat dalam wacana cerpen dapat dimaknai sesuai dengan konteksnya. Instrumen penelitian berupa kartu data. Analisis data dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode agih. Hasil penelitian ditemukan sebanyak 173 pronomina persona pertama, 65 pronomina persona kedua, dan 192 pronomina persona ketiga. Semua pronomina persona yang ditemukan bersifat takrif. Pronomina persona yang paling banyak ditemukan berwujud aku, -mu dan -nya. Hasil penelitian dapat diimplikasikan dalam pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia di SMP karena teks cerpen merupakan medium pembelajaran sastra. Siswa diharapkan dapat memahami penggunaan pronomina persona dalam teks cerpen. Karakter tokoh dalam cerpen tersebut dapat diteladani siswa dalam menjalani kehidupan nyata di masyarakat.  Untuk itu, guru harus mampu membuat skenario pembelajaran di kelas.Kata kunci: pronomina persona, cerpen, pembelajaran bahasa IndonesiaAbstractThis study aims to describe the use of personal pronouns  in Kesetiaan Itu short story by Hamsad Rangkuti. The data were lingual units in the form of sentences with personal pronouns. The data sources were paragraphs in the short story. The data were collected through documentation and note. They were analyzed by the distributive method. The findings show that there are 173  the first personal pronouns,  65 the second personal pronouns, and 192 the third personal pronouns. All personal pronouns were found are definitive. The most pronounced personal pronouns is aku, -mu, and -nya. The findings can be utilized in the Indonesian language learning at junior high schools because short stories are a medium of literary learning. Students are expected to understand use of personal pronouns in short stories. The characters in the short story can be emulated by students  life in the community.  For this reason, teachers must be able to create learning scenarios. Keywords: personal pronouns, short story, Indonesian language learning

scholarly journals Arquitectura y tapiz de Le Corbusier. La trama y la urdimbre de la casa nómada

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoni Gelabert Amengual
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Sobre Todo

Resumen: Durante la primera mitad del siglo XX Le Corbusier tuvo sus primeras experiencias con los tapices de la mano de la galerista Marie Cuttoli y, sobre todo, de Pierre Baudouin, profesor de Aubusson. El arquitecto no dudó en colocar su producción de cartones para tapices a la altura del resto de su creación artística, como ya hicieran antes Leger o Picasso. Comenzó entonces una reflexión sobre las propiedades tanto plásticas como acústicas de los tapices que tuvo oportunidad de experimentar en obras tan importantes como Chandigarh o el Hospital de Venecia. Todas las consideraciones al respecto fueron recogidas después en varios capítulos de sus Obras Completas. Pero fue en la vivienda donde Le Corbusier reconoció el mayor potencial para el tapiz. Fue en el espacio doméstico donde sus experiencias con el tejido adquirieron su máxima trascendencia, llegando a elaborar un discurso que entronca directamente con las disquisiciones de Semper y Loos sobre la potencia espacial del tapiz, al que otorgaba la capacidad de generar la casa para el hombre que la década de los 60 está moldeando. Abstract: During the first half of the twentieth century Le Corbusier had his very first experiences with tapestries thanks to the gallery director Marie Cuttoli and especially the teacher at Aubusson, Pierre Baudouin. The architect had no doubt in putting his production of tapestry cartoons at the same level of the rest of his artistic creations, as Leger or Picasso did before. Then he began a reflection on both plastic and acoustic properties of the tapestries, which he experienced in such important works as Chandigarh or the Venice Hospital. All considerations in this regard were collected in several chapters of his Complete Works. But it is in the home where Le Corbusier recognized the greatest potential for the tapestry. It is in the domestic space where his experiences with tissue acquired their utmost importance. He elaborated a discourse that connects directly with the disquisitions of Semper and Loos on the spatial power of tapestry, and that gives it the ability to generate the home for the man that the 60s decade is molding.  Palabras clave: Tejido; tapiz; Semper; casa; nómada; contingencia. Keywords: Tissue; tapestry; Semper ; home; nomad ; contingency. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.669

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