12 articles in this issue
José Antonio Paniagua García
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Eliana Urrego Arango
The Colombian writer Manuel Mejía Vallejo published between 1973 and 1987 a series of urban novels about the image of his city: Medellín. This paper analyzes the narration of urban space around three central motifs: progress, uprooting and nostalgia. It a... see more
Cristina Pérez Múgica
This paper presents the analysis of the novel Boarding Home (1987) and the short stories collection Trilogía sucia de La Habana (1998), respectively written by the Cuban writers Guillermo Rosales and Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. These works s... see more
Lía Sabrina Noguera
In the present article we propose to perform an analysis of various rewrites that from Latin America have been made from the text Antigone by Sophocles, taking as corpus of analysis: Antigone Velez (1951-Argentina) by Leopoldo Marechal... see more
Jonatán Martín Gómez
The aim of this article is to present the novel Los topos and the book of short stories 76 by Félix Bruzzone as the texts that initiate a new public narrative space where the generation of the children of the disappeared articulate the... see more
Pedro Mármol Ávila
This article presents a study about violence in the novel Bioy (2012), by Diego Trelles Paz, by means of two axes: time and narrative voices. Both structure a narration characterised by its narrative multiplicity, correlated with the complexity ... see more
Raquel Crespo-Vila
Taking into account the different interpretative frameworks that have been proposed for a critical approach to the emergence of the historical fiction in the latest Latin-American narrative, the following article proposes a set of reading keys for the nov... see more
Marta Pascua Canelo
The sense of sight has been established as the preferred cognitive model in our culture; however, ¿what happens when the visual order seems to be fallible?, ¿what implications and meanings acquires the presence of some eye diseases that generate defective... see more
Pilar María Cimadevilla
The article explores how the column that Roberto Arlt configured in 1937, after his trip as a correspondent throughout Spain and Africa, works within El Mundo as a kind of "hinge" wich connects the cable section’s information material (which was focused o... see more
Oskar Torres Gutierrez Garay
This article analyzes the book Tierra y tiempo by Uruguayan Juan José Morosoli, by identifying elements of narrative construction from what is remembered and what is forgotten that lay the supports of the fictional apparatus that uses rurality t... see more
Guido Herzovich
Tradition has been a key problem for artistic practices and theory since the beginning of Modernity. That means, by the same token, that it has been a vastly productive one. In the 1960s, the iconoclastic avant-gardes of the interwar period were reframed ... see more
Dina Lisel Rivera
The thirty years between the 1972 publication of Rosario Ferré’s short story “La muñeca menor” and Pedro Cabiya’s 2003 novella “Relato del piloto que dijo adiós con la mano” span the cultural, political, and economic “shift” from a “regulatory state” to a... see more