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Research paper thumbnail of Julia Kushigian The Resilient Apocalypse Introduction

The Resilient Apocalypse. Narrating the End from Early Spanish Visualizations to Twenty-First Century Latin American Articulations, 2024

. Julia A. Kushigian Portraits of good battling evil come in many forms in the Hispanic World. ... more . Julia A. Kushigian
Portraits of good battling evil come in many forms in the Hispanic World. In traditional apocalyptic scenarios that signal “the end of the world as we know it,” chaos, deprivation, powerlessness, social and environmental upheavals, poverty, cultural turmoil, taxation, revenge, hatred and fear are recurring features. The Apocalypse threatens all, regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, historical period or origin. The “enemy,” may come from without or generate hostilities and corruption from within. In this classic construction, the formula and End are already proscribed. When the politics of the End do not truly commit to an ending, however, but a prolongation of conflict into the future, the poetics of resistance overwhelms the narrative of the End and pushes it beyond closure. Resistance rallies a mindful strategy of listening to and keeping the enemy “in sight and in mind.” It presents a formula for grappling with and engaging difference and problematizing the definitive End by postponing and blending it with a search for liberating qualities. The resilient Apocalypse simultaneously and paradoxically performs as an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance), according to its narrative impulse. The Hispanic World as a cultural study offers myriad examples from the Middle Ages through the present of how chaos morphs and shifts to the political, economic, social, environmental and religious crisis of the moment.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing Childhood: Strategies of Reading for Culture and Gender in the Spanish American Bildungsroman

Hispania, Sep 1, 2005

... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima ... more ... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima Robert Ignacio Dfaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature Mario Santana, Foreigners in the Homeland: The Latin American New Novel in ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Orientalism and Self-Orientalism in a South-South Dialogue: Revisiting Hispanic Orientalism from Said to Sarduy

Iberoamericana Vervuert eBooks, Dec 31, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Crónicas orientalistas y autorrealizadas: entrevistas con Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy y Mario Vargas Llosa

Research paper thumbnail of El rechazamiento de la modernidad en los textos de Colón

... El rechazamiento de la modernidad en los textos de Colón. Autores: Julia A. Kushigian; Locali... more ... El rechazamiento de la modernidad en los textos de Colón. Autores: Julia A. Kushigian; Localización: Actas del XXIX congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Barcelona 15-19 de junio de 1992 / coord. por Joaquín Marco Revilla, Vol. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing childhood: El cuarto mundo and Vaca sagrada as Bildungsromane and gendered

La torre (Río Piedras), 2005

Research paper thumbnail of International Studies in the Next Millennium: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization

Introduction by Julia A. Kushigian The Academy and International Studies Mustering the Conceptual... more Introduction by Julia A. Kushigian The Academy and International Studies Mustering the Conceptual Resources to Grasp a World in Flux by Tu Wei-ming The Liberal Arts Role: Cultivating a Common Ethic of Care by Peter S. Thacher Tossed into a New Frame: Learning before Teaching by Claire L. Gaudiani Synthesis and Tension: Creating an International Studies Program by Robert E. Proctor Dynamic Models: Pedagogy and Programs Beyond the Area Studies Wars by Neil Waters and David Macey Reaching Moral and Cultural Maturity through International Studies by Julia A. Kushigian The All-University Curriculum: A Team-Teaching, Interdisciplinary, and Inter-College Approach by Joan O'Mara et al. Weaving International Perspectives into the Fabric of a College Community by Kathleen Mahnke, Kathleen Rupright, and Bonnie Tangalos Language Proficiency Revisited Beyond Accidental Tourism: The Case for a Junior Year Abroad by Denise Rochat and Margaret Skiles Zelljadt Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum at Home and Abroad by Merle Krueger Breaking with Tradition: New Context, New Approaches From Serendipity to Strategy: International Education Across the Curriculum by Michael Kline and Neil Weissman A Global Liberal Arts Approach: The International Studies Major and the Next Millennium by Nanette S. Levinson International Studies as a Growth Strategy for a Small Liberal Arts College by Jane Tyler Ward and James J. Ward Mainstreaming International Studies in a Community College by David C. Prejsnar and Alison Tasch A Transnational Model for Internationalizing the Curriculum by Takehiko Kawase et al. Appendix A: A Sample Syllabus: Cultural Encounters, Conquest, Colonialism, Travel, and the Writing Culture Appendix B: Federal Funding Opportunities in Foreign Languages, Area Studies, and International Studies Appendix C: Metropolitan D.C., Potential Sources for Internships, 1996-1997: Associations and Agencies with International Contacts/Services/Divisions Selected Bibliography Index

Research paper thumbnail of Naturaleza amena, naturaleza agreste en un estudio ecofeminista de La Isla de la Pasión (1989) de Laura Restrepo

Revista estudios, Feb 1, 2019

Especial: Naturaleza amena y naturaleza agreste en las letras hispánicas La Revista Estudios es e... more Especial: Naturaleza amena y naturaleza agreste en las letras hispánicas La Revista Estudios es editada por la Universidad de Costa Rica y se distribuye bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Costa Rica. Para más información envíe un mensaje a

Research paper thumbnail of La economía de las palabras: Disipador del miedo inefable en Borges y Silvina Bullrich

Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica, 1989

Research paper thumbnail of The New Face of the Apocalypse in Mexican Orientalism: From Sánchez Echenique’s El ombligo del dragón to Rivera Garza’s Verde Shanghai

Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2018

While Orientalism, the representation, has been under attack for its critical approach since the ... more While Orientalism, the representation, has been under attack for its critical approach since the eighteenth century, its survival as field of study and narrative strategy to the present day speaks to its potentiality, diversity and openness. This article argues that Hispanic Orientalism, in general, and Mexican Orientalism, in particular, persist because of their interplay of political, cultural and symbolic landscapes framed by the Apocalypse. In this light, narratives of the end of time, new beginnings and cyclical events interact across cultural boundaries and competing traditions. Multiplicities survive over the power of a singular Western story because they blur the logics of identity, and displace chaos and disruptive end points by engaging dialog as an opening to a new beginning. This article analyzes two Mexican novels of the twenty-first century, Ximena Sánchez Echenique's El ombligo del dragón (2007) and Cristina Rivera Garza's Verde Shanghai (2011). These works fulfill a self-Orientalist model that reopens taboo subjects of race, illness, and mental stability in apocalyptic transformations that simultaneously engage, engross, reject and adapt to the Other. Both novels redeploy Chinese culture, mythological figures, life philosophies and science from within Mexican culture, ultimately providing a mirror to the fears and hopes of the society in which they are generated. In effect, these uniquely Mexican narratives establish a dialog on the creation of civilization, the final judgment, and the future foretold that supplants geographic, environmental, national and disciplinary boundaries.

Research paper thumbnail of Culturas híbridas y análisis de las razas enYo el Supremode Augusto Roa Bastos

Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Jun 1, 2006

... El olvido resulta ser la capacidad de olvidarse de las diferencias por razones a veces contra... more ... El olvido resulta ser la capacidad de olvidarse de las diferencias por razones a veces contraintuitivas también.18 18 En una entrevista Roa Bastos dice: 'No creo que los ... Mi raza es la constelación que debo situar, medir, conocer en sus menores secretos, para poder conducirla ...

Research paper thumbnail of Transgresión de la autobiografía y el "Bildungsroman" en "Hasta no verte, Jesús mío

Revista Iberoamericana, Sep 22, 1987

Research paper thumbnail of Rios en la noche: fluyen los jardines": Orientalism in the Work of Octavio Paz

Hispania, Dec 1, 1987

... "Concierto en el jardin" and "Lo id6ntico" demonstrate th... more ... "Concierto en el jardin" and "Lo id6ntico" demonstrate the fusion of opposites com-monly found in Tantric and Mahayana Bud-dhism. ... El hindu oscila siempre entre estos dos polos (Corriente alterna 109). Both Hin-duism and Buddhism, at least in their tantric ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing childhood: strategies of reading for culture and gender in the Spanish American bildungsroman

Choice Reviews Online, Oct 1, 2003

... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima ... more ... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima Robert Ignacio Dfaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature Mario Santana, Foreigners in the Homeland: The Latin American New Novel in ...

Research paper thumbnail of Crossing orientalist borders: transculturation, resistance and self-orientalism in Cristina Garcia's Monkey hunting after Edward Said

Magriberia: revista anual de investigaciones ibéricas e iberoamericanas, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Orientalism in the Hispanic literary tradition: in dialogue with Borges, Paz, and Sarduy

Choice Reviews Online, Jun 1, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Crónicas orientalistas y autorrealizadas: entrevistas con Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy y Mario Vargas Llosa by Julia A. Kushigian

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Orientalism and Self-Orientalism in a South-South Dialogue: Revisiting Hispanic Orientalism from Said to Sarduy

Research paper thumbnail of Democracy is a Discussion Handbook part

Research paper thumbnail of Democracy is a Discussion Handbook part

Research paper thumbnail of Julia Kushigian The Resilient Apocalypse Introduction

The Resilient Apocalypse. Narrating the End from Early Spanish Visualizations to Twenty-First Century Latin American Articulations, 2024

. Julia A. Kushigian Portraits of good battling evil come in many forms in the Hispanic World. ... more . Julia A. Kushigian
Portraits of good battling evil come in many forms in the Hispanic World. In traditional apocalyptic scenarios that signal “the end of the world as we know it,” chaos, deprivation, powerlessness, social and environmental upheavals, poverty, cultural turmoil, taxation, revenge, hatred and fear are recurring features. The Apocalypse threatens all, regardless of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, historical period or origin. The “enemy,” may come from without or generate hostilities and corruption from within. In this classic construction, the formula and End are already proscribed. When the politics of the End do not truly commit to an ending, however, but a prolongation of conflict into the future, the poetics of resistance overwhelms the narrative of the End and pushes it beyond closure. Resistance rallies a mindful strategy of listening to and keeping the enemy “in sight and in mind.” It presents a formula for grappling with and engaging difference and problematizing the definitive End by postponing and blending it with a search for liberating qualities. The resilient Apocalypse simultaneously and paradoxically performs as an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance), according to its narrative impulse. The Hispanic World as a cultural study offers myriad examples from the Middle Ages through the present of how chaos morphs and shifts to the political, economic, social, environmental and religious crisis of the moment.

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing Childhood: Strategies of Reading for Culture and Gender in the Spanish American Bildungsroman

Hispania, Sep 1, 2005

... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima ... more ... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima Robert Ignacio Dfaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature Mario Santana, Foreigners in the Homeland: The Latin American New Novel in ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Orientalism and Self-Orientalism in a South-South Dialogue: Revisiting Hispanic Orientalism from Said to Sarduy

Iberoamericana Vervuert eBooks, Dec 31, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Crónicas orientalistas y autorrealizadas: entrevistas con Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy y Mario Vargas Llosa

Research paper thumbnail of El rechazamiento de la modernidad en los textos de Colón

... El rechazamiento de la modernidad en los textos de Colón. Autores: Julia A. Kushigian; Locali... more ... El rechazamiento de la modernidad en los textos de Colón. Autores: Julia A. Kushigian; Localización: Actas del XXIX congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Barcelona 15-19 de junio de 1992 / coord. por Joaquín Marco Revilla, Vol. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing childhood: El cuarto mundo and Vaca sagrada as Bildungsromane and gendered

La torre (Río Piedras), 2005

Research paper thumbnail of International Studies in the Next Millennium: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization

Introduction by Julia A. Kushigian The Academy and International Studies Mustering the Conceptual... more Introduction by Julia A. Kushigian The Academy and International Studies Mustering the Conceptual Resources to Grasp a World in Flux by Tu Wei-ming The Liberal Arts Role: Cultivating a Common Ethic of Care by Peter S. Thacher Tossed into a New Frame: Learning before Teaching by Claire L. Gaudiani Synthesis and Tension: Creating an International Studies Program by Robert E. Proctor Dynamic Models: Pedagogy and Programs Beyond the Area Studies Wars by Neil Waters and David Macey Reaching Moral and Cultural Maturity through International Studies by Julia A. Kushigian The All-University Curriculum: A Team-Teaching, Interdisciplinary, and Inter-College Approach by Joan O'Mara et al. Weaving International Perspectives into the Fabric of a College Community by Kathleen Mahnke, Kathleen Rupright, and Bonnie Tangalos Language Proficiency Revisited Beyond Accidental Tourism: The Case for a Junior Year Abroad by Denise Rochat and Margaret Skiles Zelljadt Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum at Home and Abroad by Merle Krueger Breaking with Tradition: New Context, New Approaches From Serendipity to Strategy: International Education Across the Curriculum by Michael Kline and Neil Weissman A Global Liberal Arts Approach: The International Studies Major and the Next Millennium by Nanette S. Levinson International Studies as a Growth Strategy for a Small Liberal Arts College by Jane Tyler Ward and James J. Ward Mainstreaming International Studies in a Community College by David C. Prejsnar and Alison Tasch A Transnational Model for Internationalizing the Curriculum by Takehiko Kawase et al. Appendix A: A Sample Syllabus: Cultural Encounters, Conquest, Colonialism, Travel, and the Writing Culture Appendix B: Federal Funding Opportunities in Foreign Languages, Area Studies, and International Studies Appendix C: Metropolitan D.C., Potential Sources for Internships, 1996-1997: Associations and Agencies with International Contacts/Services/Divisions Selected Bibliography Index

Research paper thumbnail of Naturaleza amena, naturaleza agreste en un estudio ecofeminista de La Isla de la Pasión (1989) de Laura Restrepo

Revista estudios, Feb 1, 2019

Especial: Naturaleza amena y naturaleza agreste en las letras hispánicas La Revista Estudios es e... more Especial: Naturaleza amena y naturaleza agreste en las letras hispánicas La Revista Estudios es editada por la Universidad de Costa Rica y se distribuye bajo una Licencia Creative Commons Atribución-NoComercial-CompartirIgual 3.0 Costa Rica. Para más información envíe un mensaje a

Research paper thumbnail of La economía de las palabras: Disipador del miedo inefable en Borges y Silvina Bullrich

Inti: Revista de literatura hispánica, 1989

Research paper thumbnail of The New Face of the Apocalypse in Mexican Orientalism: From Sánchez Echenique’s El ombligo del dragón to Rivera Garza’s Verde Shanghai

Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 2018

While Orientalism, the representation, has been under attack for its critical approach since the ... more While Orientalism, the representation, has been under attack for its critical approach since the eighteenth century, its survival as field of study and narrative strategy to the present day speaks to its potentiality, diversity and openness. This article argues that Hispanic Orientalism, in general, and Mexican Orientalism, in particular, persist because of their interplay of political, cultural and symbolic landscapes framed by the Apocalypse. In this light, narratives of the end of time, new beginnings and cyclical events interact across cultural boundaries and competing traditions. Multiplicities survive over the power of a singular Western story because they blur the logics of identity, and displace chaos and disruptive end points by engaging dialog as an opening to a new beginning. This article analyzes two Mexican novels of the twenty-first century, Ximena Sánchez Echenique's El ombligo del dragón (2007) and Cristina Rivera Garza's Verde Shanghai (2011). These works fulfill a self-Orientalist model that reopens taboo subjects of race, illness, and mental stability in apocalyptic transformations that simultaneously engage, engross, reject and adapt to the Other. Both novels redeploy Chinese culture, mythological figures, life philosophies and science from within Mexican culture, ultimately providing a mirror to the fears and hopes of the society in which they are generated. In effect, these uniquely Mexican narratives establish a dialog on the creation of civilization, the final judgment, and the future foretold that supplants geographic, environmental, national and disciplinary boundaries.

Research paper thumbnail of Culturas híbridas y análisis de las razas enYo el Supremode Augusto Roa Bastos

Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Jun 1, 2006

... El olvido resulta ser la capacidad de olvidarse de las diferencias por razones a veces contra... more ... El olvido resulta ser la capacidad de olvidarse de las diferencias por razones a veces contraintuitivas también.18 18 En una entrevista Roa Bastos dice: 'No creo que los ... Mi raza es la constelación que debo situar, medir, conocer en sus menores secretos, para poder conducirla ...

Research paper thumbnail of Transgresión de la autobiografía y el "Bildungsroman" en "Hasta no verte, Jesús mío

Revista Iberoamericana, Sep 22, 1987

Research paper thumbnail of Rios en la noche: fluyen los jardines": Orientalism in the Work of Octavio Paz

Hispania, Dec 1, 1987

... "Concierto en el jardin" and "Lo id6ntico" demonstrate th... more ... "Concierto en el jardin" and "Lo id6ntico" demonstrate the fusion of opposites com-monly found in Tantric and Mahayana Bud-dhism. ... El hindu oscila siempre entre estos dos polos (Corriente alterna 109). Both Hin-duism and Buddhism, at least in their tantric ...

Research paper thumbnail of Reconstructing childhood: strategies of reading for culture and gender in the Spanish American bildungsroman

Choice Reviews Online, Oct 1, 2003

... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima ... more ... Titles in Series Cesar Augusto Salgado, From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lez-ama Lima Robert Ignacio Dfaz, Unhomely Rooms: Foreign Tongues and Spanish American Literature Mario Santana, Foreigners in the Homeland: The Latin American New Novel in ...

Research paper thumbnail of Crossing orientalist borders: transculturation, resistance and self-orientalism in Cristina Garcia's Monkey hunting after Edward Said

Magriberia: revista anual de investigaciones ibéricas e iberoamericanas, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Orientalism in the Hispanic literary tradition: in dialogue with Borges, Paz, and Sarduy

Choice Reviews Online, Jun 1, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of Crónicas orientalistas y autorrealizadas: entrevistas con Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Elena Poniatowska, Severo Sarduy y Mario Vargas Llosa by Julia A. Kushigian

Research paper thumbnail of The Politics of Orientalism and Self-Orientalism in a South-South Dialogue: Revisiting Hispanic Orientalism from Said to Sarduy

Research paper thumbnail of Democracy is a Discussion Handbook part

Research paper thumbnail of Democracy is a Discussion Handbook part