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Decolonizing Democracy in Mexico? Questions of Gender, Violence and Representation in Elena Poniatowska’s Early Testimonio
No full textElena Poniatowska has long been celebrated for her testimonial narratives that construct alternatives to the authoritarian discourses of the Mexican post-Revolutionary state. This article takes as its focus her testimonio that has proven most controversial in critical scholarship – Hasta no verte, Jesús mío (1967) [Here’s to You, Jesusa! 2002] –, celebrated by some for its progressive feminism, dismissed by others as a failure both as a literary narrative and as a political act. My argument is that the narrative weaknesses and ideological contradictions of this testimonio, in fact, reveal deeper faultlines that provide answers to eminently contemporary questions about representation, violence and subjectivity that have been asked by postcolonial scholars since the 1980s; questions about what democracy might mean in a country like Mexico, still marked by the wounds of racism, classism and sexism
Peter Frei & Thomas Hunkeler, Une poétique d’intervention. Autour d’Éric Chauvier, Éditions des Crépuscules, Paris 2023
Full text linkImre József Balász, Rețele avangardiste, afilieri multiple, Tracus Arte, București 2023
Full text linkNorman Manea, L’ombra in esilio, traduzione di Roberto Merlo e Barbara Pavetto, il Saggiatore, Milano 2023
Full text linkDov Lerner, Berel. Human-Divine Interactions in the Hebrew Scriptures: Covenants and Cross-Purposes. London and New York: Routledge. 2024. 150 pp.
Full text linkRappresentazioni della violenza incestuosa nella storia della figlia di Micerino in Erodoto, Storie II, 129-132 e possibili paralleli folklorici: proposte per una lettura comparativa
Full text linkThis article explores the implications of Lloyd and Luraghi’s hypothesis that the story of the daughter of Mycerinus, who committed suicide after being raped by her father, was conceived to explain the origin of a monument. Following Lloyd’s suggestion to cross-reference the story with incest in folklore, I provide an illustration of how this Herodotean passage anticipates recurrent narrative patterns in modern folktales, proposing an alternative reading in relation to the macro-theme of foundation sacrifice
Mitologie della trasparenza: il problema del linguaggio nel dialogo arabo-giudaico tra Moncef Chelli e Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi
Full text linkThis paper aims to examine the Arab-Jewish dialogue through the intellectual exchange that took place in the 1980s-1990s between the Franco-Israeli philosopher and psychoanalyst Éliane Amado Lévy-Valensi and the Franco-Tunisian philosopher and mathematician Moncef Chelli. The primary objective is to highlight the singularity of this intellectual encounter, which is characterized by the ability of both authors to challenge and question the mediating role often played by the West in such a confrontation. The central aspect of their engagement is the issue of language: while the West has come to regard language as an entirely external and transparent tool, losing sight of its arbitrariness, the Semitic languages, by contrast, have maintained a more substantial awareness of their creative and transformative nature, offering a more critical understanding of their arbitrariness to their speaking subjects. While Hebrew and Arabic possess the potential to reveal the hidden implications of Western languages, both Chelli and Amado also call attention to their own implicit assumptions, their own blind spots, and the totalizing tendencies that emerge when their reflections on language intersect with theological discourse. Only in this mutual clarification do they finally manage to define their position between East and West with precision and more fully adhere to their identity
