El océano oral: apuntes sobre la poesía beduina en el Sahara Occidental

The following paper intends to draw an incomplete map of some possible routes to guide an approach to the poetry written by Saharawis, an ancient Bedouin community who currently lives divided between the Western Sahara’s Liberated Territories, the territories occupied by Morocco and the refugee camps in southwest Argelia. This text seeks to emphasize the priority role that the Saharawi people have given to poetry as part of their daily work, and how it is inseparable from their vital relationship with memory, conceived not as a steady acquis, but as an endless fountain that flows and renews the arteries of life. Hence, the legacy of these nomadic poets is not limited only to their written traces: in the languages of gestures, as well, there is a po-ethic to be discovered, an ethic of patience and lightness to safeguard our future steps.

El derecho a la palabra en El libro centroamericano de los muertos y Cartas a la primavera. Escuchar el voseo del sur

This text is an approach to the concept of “right to speak” that has been used from various disciplines and at various levels of analysis, particularly in the political context of Latin America. Once the concept is understood, its use is illustrated in El libro centroamericano de los muertos, by Balam Rodrigo, and Cartas a la primavera, by Shantí Vera. In both books the voices that come from the south of the country are heard.

Yo el Supremo, de Roa Bastos. Sobre el poder y el derecho en el mito del Doctor Francia

The importance of the relationship between literature and law, in general, is highlighted; and it is pointed out through examples set by some novels and their treatment of Rights. The text is dedicated, especially, to show how the law is manifested in Roa Bastos’s Yo el supremo, a masterpiece of Latin American letters. The famous and enigmatic Doctor Francia —theologian and jurist—, in his Perpetual Dictatorship in Paraguay, dictates and practices the Law. It expresses what the novel says about the Law and offers historic data that support what is said.

Violaciones a los derechos humanos de las mujeres en conflictos armados internos. Abordajes desde la literatura

In the last years of the 20th century, many countries in Latin America experienced internal armed conflicts in which violations of women’s human rights were a constant, especially those related to sexuality, reproduction and motherhood. This type of violence has been addressed in various literary works and this article will focus on three of them, the novels La hora azul, by the Peruvian writer Alonso Cueto; Los ejércitos, by the Colombian writer Evelio Rosero, and Roza tumba quema, by the Salvadoran writer Claudia Hernández. Based on the ideas of Rita Segato and Adriana Cavarero, I will analyze the way in which violations of women’s human rights have been fictionalized in the context of three internal armed conflicts.

El imaginario mítico del Fausto de Goethe

This article vindicates the mythical character of the Faustian tragedy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by relating its plot configuration with the hero’s symbolic itinerary. For this, the mythical structures predetermined by Gilbert Durand, Lévi-Strauss and Joseph Campbell are taken as a basis. In the first two sections Faust is diachronically compared with the mythical figure of the hero, and in the next two sections, each part of the work is related in a synchronic and specific way to the proper mythemes of the hero myth.

El exilio y la ocupación foránea las dirime el verso. Selección de poesía. Nota preliminar Verso que germina en el exilio: miradas al tiempo en la poesía de Bahia Mahmud Awah

This note introduces the selection of poems by the poet Bahia Mahmud Awah presented here. The intention is to raise the spatial aspects that the experience of exile imprints on the poet’s conception of the political role of poetry in other geographic latitudes, and also to note the temporal aspects of the history of the Saharawi people which motivate, in his poetry, an interpretation of the past, the present and the future.