Desafíos, Diferencias y Deformaciones de la Ciudadanía

This analysis shows that Reinaldo Arenas' work is one of exile and alienation. Arenas, as a human being as well as an author, suffered all forms of exile, and these influence the structure of his work. In his literary work, as well as in his life, all the definitions of exile given by sociology are present; that of inner exile, to which Arenas added a new characteristic, and that of territorial exile as well. His work represents the vision of the marginated, imprisoned, persecuted, rejected. The purpose of his novels and poetry is to reveal, from a historical reconstruction, the explanation...

RESUMEN: Análisis del poema «Gesso» de Manuel Bandeira desde la perspectiva compa- ratista. Relación con la poética de las ruinas que se desarrolla en la literatura europea e iberoamericana desde los clásicos a la actualidad. Palabras clave: «Gesso»; Manuel Bandeira; perspectiva comparatista. RESUMO: Análisis del poema «Gesso» de Manuel Bandeira desde la perspectiva compa- ratista. Relación con la poética de las ruinas que se desarrolla en la literatura europea e iberoamericana desde los clásicos a la actualidad. Palavras-chave: «Gesso»; Manuel Bandeira; perspectiva...

Among the multiple approaches to be taken on an author as multifaceted and prolific as the recent Nobel Laureate Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Guadalupe Mart�-Pe�a has chosen to look at the novelist as an illusionist. She studies this land of fantasies and daydreams, that seemingly harmless battlefield where literature, theatre, and painting contend and join together with the writer, the dreamer, and the illusionist to oust reality. Focusing on Elogio de la madrastra and Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, and the effect of illusion on the reading process, she argues that by referring...

How Far is America From Here? approaches American nations and cultures from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. It is very much at the heart of this comparative agenda that “America” be considered as a hemispheric and global matter. It discusses American identities relationally, whether the relations under discussion operate within the borders of the United States, throughout the Americas, and/or worldwide. The various articles here gathered interrogate the very notion of “America”: which, whose America, when, why now, how? What is meant by “far”—distance,...