8 articles in this issue
Megan Corbin
Abstract: There exists a constant within the trajectory of Diamela Eltit’s contributions to New Chilean Fiction: the turn to the body’s revelatory capacity as a corporal archive of human existence. Simultaneously exploring and rejecting the confines of th... see more
Analía Isabel Gerbaudo
Taking Lecturas críticas. Revista de Investigación y Teorías Literarias as a starting point, this article describes different forms of intellectual engagement in relation to literature, literary theory and criticism in Argentina during the 1976-1983... see more
Jennifer Linda Monti
Two classic works of Argentine literature develop extensively the much-worked dichotomy of civilization/barbarism. However, the story "El matadero" by Esteban Echeverría and "Facundo": civilization and barbarism by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento present this ... see more
Carmen Martin
The essay “Monstruos y poder en El obsceno pájaro de la noche” studies the figure of the monster in the novel El obsceno pájaro de la noche by Chilean author José Donoso. Based on Michel Foucault’s definition of the monster developed in his work Los anorm... see more
Rachel Newland
Physical and symbolic violencie represent one of the most contoversial themes of present-day Mexico, with its most poignant reflection found in contemporary literary production. This displacement of both physical and discursive space reflects this v... see more
Alba Solà Garcia
Due to the horrors witnessed and experienced during the XXth century, evil has fallen into an ontological void which makes it unintelligible: the semantic hollowness of its language and the atrophy of its obsolete formulas deny the possibility of building... see more
Maria Catalina Rincon-Chavarro
In this analisis of De fronteras, the collection of short stories by the Salvadorian writer Claudia Hernández, I study how the writer, through the use of a grotesque aesthtic, critiques the way violence has become normalized in a &... see more
Carolina Gainza
In this paper I aim to discuss the electronic novel “Tierra de extracción” from Doménico Chiappe and Andreas Meier in relation to aesthetic-political practices derived from the process of appropriation of new technologies in the space of literary creation... see more