17 articles in this issue
Francisco Marguch
Presentation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Constanza Ternicier
Review of Andrea Jeftanovic
Fabian Dario Mosquera
Review of María Auxiliadora Balladares
Eduardo Santa Cruz
Review of Marina Alvarado