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Introduction
No full textNegotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on identity.* Explores the various instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day.* This volume is singularly wide in its breadth, covering sixteenth-century Aztec heraldry and Sahagún's Universal History of the Things of New Spain, to eighteenth-century notions of culture, nineteenth-century theatre, turn-of-the-century degeneration theory, and contemporary literature and culture.* The book's interdisciplinary approach combines literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropology.* A broad geographical scope covers Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and the United States.* The book makes an important theoretical contribution to the debates on identity through its innovative approaches, maintaining a fine balance between theoretical argument and empirical study.* The essays are written by specialists of different nationalities based in the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway and Argentina, providing an international cutting-edge scholarship
Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World:From Conquest to Globalisation
No full textNegotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on identity.Explores the various instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day.This volume is singularly wide in its breadth, covering sixteenth-century Aztec heraldry and Sahagún's Universal History of the Things of New Spain, to eighteenth-century notions of culture, nineteenth-century theatre, turn-of-the-century degeneration theory, and contemporary literature and culture.The book’s interdisciplinary approach combines literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropologyA broad geographical scope covers Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and the United States.The book makes an important theoretical contribution to the debates on identity through its innovative approaches, maintaining a fine balance between theoretical argument and empirical study.The essays are written by specialists of different nationalities based in the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway and Argentina, providing an international cutting-edge scholarship
Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World:From Conquest to Globalisation
No full textNegotiating Difference in the Hispanic World invites us to rethink the complex dialogical process of identity formation and self-definition in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day. Essays from an international scholarship provide an important theoretical contribution to debates on identity.Explores the various instances of cultural encounters in Latin America from the Conquest to the present day.This volume is singularly wide in its breadth, covering sixteenth-century Aztec heraldry and Sahagún's Universal History of the Things of New Spain, to eighteenth-century notions of culture, nineteenth-century theatre, turn-of-the-century degeneration theory, and contemporary literature and culture.The book’s interdisciplinary approach combines literary and cultural studies, cultural history, art history, translation studies and cultural anthropologyA broad geographical scope covers Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and the United States.The book makes an important theoretical contribution to the debates on identity through its innovative approaches, maintaining a fine balance between theoretical argument and empirical study.The essays are written by specialists of different nationalities based in the United Kingdom, the United States, Norway and Argentina, providing an international cutting-edge scholarship
Dialogues of historicity and horizontalism in post-Crisis Argentine narratives
Full text linkThis doctoral thesis examines how historicity and horizontalidad emerged as the pre-eminent cultural discourses in the period following the 2001 economic crisis in Argentina, reflecting a sea-change in individual and collective attitudes to the past, present and future. It analyses the dialogic relation between these two discourses through their cultural articulations in a range of texts, from literary fiction, journalism, documentary and feature films to television drama.
The thesis begins with an exploration of the crisis itself and the denaturalizing effect it wrought upon Argentine society, rupturing the boundaries of the possible in both socio-political and cultural terms. Chapter One explores the theoretical specificities of historicity and horizontalidad within the Argentine context. It also analyses a selection of journalistic narratives from Mu, a monthly magazine produced by the autonomous media collective lavaca.
Chapter Two explores hauntology as the dominant mode of historicity in the 2004 novel El cantor de tango and interrogates the limits of any historicist endeavour that does not encode the potential for radical change in the future. Chapter Three examines spatial iterations of historicity and horizontalidad in the suburban hinterland of greater Buenos Aires, in the 2011 documentary La multitud and the 2012 feature film Elefante blanco. Chapter Four focuses upon the haptic materiality of the historicist narratives which feature in the 2010 television mini-series Lo que el tiempo nos dejó, a drama that privileges the everyday people and places of the past. In Chapter Five, the ludic historicity of Las aventuras de los bustos de Eva Peron and the horizontalist impulse of its grotesque narrative modality is investigated. Finally, the Epilogue reflects upon the evolving relationship between historicity and horizontalidad in the years since the 2001 Crisis and posits the findings of this thesis alongside some suggestions for their implementation in future analysis of contemporary Argentine culture
The Zapatista discursive war : literary subversion in Subcomandante Marcos' writings (1994-2017)
No full textThis doctoral thesis argues that Subcomandante Marcos’ appropriations of existing
textual material, whether they take the form of quotations, allusions, parodies or remixes,
are key to the discursive war waged in the communiqués. Through these textual
manipulations, Marcos simultaneously promotes inter-epistemic dialogues and questions
colonial knowledge to favour the Zapatistas’ anti-neoliberal and decolonial political
agenda.
The thesis begins by contextualising the emergence of the EZLN within the
history of Chiapas since the nineteenth century, providing background information on
Marcos’ communiqués, and engaging with relevant scholarship. The subsequent literary
analyses uncover some of the textual strategies which contribute to the Zapatistas’
transcultural communication on the one hand, and their subversive political message on
the other. It argues that Marcos recuperates Jorge Luis Borges’ translation strategies and
his irreverent approach towards authorship to challenge the Mexican political class and
colonial cultural hierarchies through intertextual allusions to the Western literary
tradition. Simultaneously, Marcos creates bridges between Maya and Western
epistemological systems. To do so, he relies on certain motifs prevalent in both Maya
culture and idealist philosophy. In addition to being deployed as a bridging element,
idealist philosophy, alongside postmodernity, is recuperated by Marcos for its inherent
scepticism, which is redirected towards the narratives supporting the Mexican
government and its neoliberal policies. Moreover, the staging of cynical voices in
Marcos’ writings is understood as a rhetorical device which places the Zapatistas in moral
opposition to the Mexican government. Finally, it is argued that Marcos’ recent digital
turn mirrors the Zapatistas’ interest for digital activism and their ambiguous appropriation
of Western technology, simultaneously perceived as a site of colonial oppression and a
subversive space. These findings highlight Marcos’ discursive intervention in the global
cultural fabric, afforded by his deliberate displacement of specific texts and the cultural
contexts they embody
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Direct orient:poems
No full textwinner of the State Poetry Prize of the Republic of Cyprus (2025)winner of Academy of Athens G. Athanas Poetry Award (2025
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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