13 articles in this issue
Laura Scarabelli
Introduction
Patricia Espinosa Hernández
In 1993, cultural critic Nelly Richards published a polemic article called “Does Writing Have a Sex?”. From this text I aim, on the one hand, to discuss the question that gives her article a name by stating that no, writing does not have a sex; it has a g... see more
Lorena Amaro
The world is living times of social and political unrest and the feminist demands have gained strength and vigour in different spheres of life, including the literary and cultural world. This article echoes this moment and explores the female authorial co... see more
Teresa Basile
In this article,will examine a specific moment in the trajectories of both women's testimony and militancy, which have traced very powerful and certainly varied paths in recent decades in Argentina and Latin America, beginning at the beginning of democrac... see more
Mirian Pino
The literature of the children of forced disappeared victims, including that of Raquel Robles and Josefina Giglio, who went through the traumatic experience of the last Argentine civic-military ecclesial business dictatorship in 1976, has been the subject... see more
Mónica Barrientos
Nona Fernández's work has been catalogued within what is known as the "generation of the children" to refer to those narrations by authors who were children during the Chilean dictatorship. The work of the Chilean writer Nona Fernández will be analyzed to... see more
Candelaria Perez Berazadi
Contrary to the 19th century’s modernist chronicles – such as Ruben Darios's or José Martí's– in which the “self” of the subject was defended (Rotker, 1992), in Leila Guerriero's narrative journalism, the subjectivity is expressed by the ways of telling c... see more
Andre Rezende Benatti,Alcione Rafael Candido
The aim of this work is to analyze racism from the perspective of the main character —a child, black and orphaned— from the novel Cartas para minha mãe, by contemporary Cuban writer Teresa Cárdenas. The narrative develops around a character who did n... see more
Federico Cantoni
In the heterogeneous corpus of works published by sons of Argentinean desaparecidos one of the most interesting and original contribution are the texts written by Félix Bruzzone. The aim of this article is to outline the main characteristics of ... see more
Isabelle Wentworth
This article explores an interaction between posthumanist and cognitive discourses through the work of award winning Mexican author, Guadalupe Nettel. I focus on her 2014 anthology, Natural Histories, rereading the central motif of the narrative, that ani... see more
Simón Henao,Alba L. Delgado
In this paper we propose to study the banana by problematizing the exoticism, mythification, fetishization and scientism of the colonial view. To do this, we approach the work Musa paradisiaca, a video installation by the artist José Alejandro Restre... see more
Virginia Paola Forace
In 1771 and 1772 Alonso Carrió de la Vandera (1715?-1783) made an extensive trip to describe and evaluate the path of posts between Buenos Aires and Lima. His multifaceted journey was narrated in detail in El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes, a text th... see more
David Oubiña
Victoria Ocampo meets Sergei Eisenstein in New York, in 1930. He is on his way to Hollywood where he plans to make a film and she is there to meet Waldo Frank and discuss the project of the journal Sur. Ocampo invites the filmmaker to come to Argenti... see more