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Volume 4 Number 7 Year 2016

17 articles in this issue 

Graciela Montaldo

This essay is focused on an early case of Transnational Hispanism: the figure of the Spanish writer Vicente Blasco-Ibáñez, who traveled through Argentina in 1909, wrote a novel with Argentine characters (The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, 1916) and was inte... see more

Pags. 13 - 32  

Margarita Ana Cristina Martínez

As many cities in Latin America, during the 1990s Buenos Aires City was the scene of various dizzyng changes associated, with greater or lesser emphasis, to the imperative of entering on a global stage. Some areas that decades ago were the reason of the m... see more

Pags. 33 - 57  

Anayvelyse Allen-Mossman

Understanding the relationship between the project of modernity and urbanism has been key to understanding the city of Buenos Aires’ material transformations throughout the 20th century. This paper considers how thinking about the issues of modernity and ... see more

Pags. 58 - 84  

Marcos Del Cogliano

In the particular context of the Argentine political and cultural field, the centrality of labor during the first half of the twentieth century has its own specific consequences. In Buenos Aires, such decades were witness to an intense period of industria... see more

Pags. 85 - 113  

Osdany Morales

When the Cuban Revolution triumphed and the Rebel Army made its entrance into Havana, in early January 1959, the urban space of the capital was transformed into a stage unprecedented in national history. In this paper I will try to discuss and interpret t... see more

Pags. 114 - 125  

Gabriel Giorgi

Some of the most significant investigations in contemporary literature and art from Brazil and the Southern Cone revolve around the question of memory, the threshold between the living and the dead and the ways in which conflicting temporalities and&... see more

Pags. 126 - 141  

Thania Muñoz Davaslioglu

The title of the short-story collection, La frontera más distante (2008) is a point of departure for the Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza to distance the reader from the already known and proximate; each of the short stories distinguishes itself by th... see more

Pags. 142 - 177  

Germán Garrido

This essay examines the role played by what I call a queer exoticism in the poetry of Néstor Perlongher. This queer exoticism derives from a poetic search for strange, unfamiliar spaces with the potentiality to harbor or give rise to alternative... see more

Pags. 178 - 212  

Daniela Alcívar Bellolio

In Sergio Chejfec’s La experiencia dramática (2012), there are some geographic imaginaries in which afections, technologies and several regimes of the gaze find a common ground. This article poses an examination of the image of the city in this novel, wit... see more

Pags. 213 - 241  

Olga Cristina Rodriguez-Ulloa

Domingo de Ramos’s poetry has been primarily interpreted as the voice of the migrant, associated with the rural, non-Spanish, non-literary. I change the focus and inquire into the literary criticism that identifies de Ramos’s poetry with his biography, wh... see more

Pags. 242 - 269  

Karina del Carmen García Albadiz

The following paper analyzes Zoé Valdés' novel La nada cotidiana under the assumption that this investigation may contribute to connecting this cultural product to the literary tradition it belongs to by reconstructing the context from which it has been r... see more

Pags. 270 - 317  

Ana Carolina Ochoa Roa

The purpose of this analysis is to demonstrate the way in which the Neogranadian author Hernando Domínguez Camargo deconstructs, through the use of the ottava rima, the war vision which exalts the Spanish conquest, by means of a meticulous exam of some oc... see more

Pags. 318 - 338  

Luis Alfonso Barragán

Think the place of indigenous literature in the context of the Colombian Literature, as well as within the aesthetic moments of poetry in the present century, it is a critical exercise that poses a major challenge, as it involves re-trace our cultural map... see more

Pags. 339 - 361