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Cuadernos De Literatura, Jan 6, 2012
This essay explores the new representational challenges facing contemporary writers. The crisis e... more This essay explores the new representational challenges facing contemporary writers. The crisis engendered by the traumas of recent history, the inevitable failures of memory, and the so-called waning of affect that defines neoliberal times are often answered in literary form through a focus on the immediate present, leading to singular moments in which the somatic effects of the encounter between individual and world gain prominence and encourage to ethical choices. The essay begins with a broad overview of the ways in which this somatic universe enters literary discourse in Latin American writing and then focuses on the present-bound moments of contemporary Argentine poetry, especially the work of Fabián Casas.
Chasqui, 1994
... Women writers, such as Juana Manuela Gorriti, Lola Larrosa de Ansaldo, and Emma de la Barra, ... more ... Women writers, such as Juana Manuela Gorriti, Lola Larrosa de Ansaldo, and Emma de la Barra, ques? tioned the significance of politics and money and challenged the dominant discourse of positivist science that pursued the exploitation of women and their bodies. ...
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2000
Latin American Research Review
Todo genuino movimiento literario, todo amanecer, toda ruptura, ha tenido indefectiblemente su pr... more Todo genuino movimiento literario, todo amanecer, toda ruptura, ha tenido indefectiblemente su primera exteriorización en las hojas provocativas de una revista. La revista descubre, polemiza; el escritor de revistas anticipa, es el guerrillero madrugado, el pionero que zampa terrenos intactos. La revista es vitrina y es cartel. El libro ya es en cierto modo un ataúd, quizás más duradero y más perfecto, pero menos jugoso y vital.
Latin American Research Review
Writers from Jorge Luis Borges to Alejo Carpentier have celebrated the role of literary journalis... more Writers from Jorge Luis Borges to Alejo Carpentier have celebrated the role of literary journalism in Latin American cultural life. The periodical press mediates between author and public, between the heavy sea of tradition and the rising tide of the new, between the institutions that sustain convention and the spontaneous, vibrant eruptions that give life to the avant-garde. Literary journalism thus traces the struggles of writers against the canon while revealing their engagement in the political and aesthetic events of the day. But as one might expect, literary journalism also unravels the neat boundaries of the finished work or the book in the ongoing dialogue with contemporary publications and multifaceted speculations on culture. In this way, the pastiche of materials found in the modern review exposes the vivid heterogeneity of the intellectual field.
Revista De Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2012
... in any terms that could lead to a general understanding of "we." The collec... more ... in any terms that could lead to a general understanding of "we." The collective was set ... are signed with intentionally ridiculous pseudonym: as an example, Pepita Gherra or Luisa Violeta are the ... The work of contemporary visual artist, the Chilean Catalina Parra, gives a different ...
Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2021
High modernism works through the secret. The midpoint between intelligibility and blankness, it i... more High modernism works through the secret. The midpoint between intelligibility and blankness, it is part of the strategy of "difficult" writing that elevates the value of the modernist puzzle and perpetuates its claims on institutional power. The trope of the secret, I wish to claim here, also works as a swivel or hinge to balance the relationship between those in the know and those who remain on the margins. This private flow of information is not without purposeful leaks. On the one hand, the secret rubs salt in the eyes of those who fail to perceive what is apparent; it reminds us of our exclusion or blindness. On the other, it sustains a will toward concealment, erecting among its owners a barrier against public intrusion; it creates an insider community against the menacing outside world. These conditions suggest a determined opaqueness, a plot to silence what might otherwise be heard, an effort to withdraw a private truth from wider circulation. The secret thus render...
The Art of Transition, 2001
The Art of Transition, 2001
Cuadernos De Literatura, Jan 6, 2012
This essay explores the new representational challenges facing contemporary writers. The crisis e... more This essay explores the new representational challenges facing contemporary writers. The crisis engendered by the traumas of recent history, the inevitable failures of memory, and the so-called waning of affect that defines neoliberal times are often answered in literary form through a focus on the immediate present, leading to singular moments in which the somatic effects of the encounter between individual and world gain prominence and encourage to ethical choices. The essay begins with a broad overview of the ways in which this somatic universe enters literary discourse in Latin American writing and then focuses on the present-bound moments of contemporary Argentine poetry, especially the work of Fabián Casas.
Chasqui, 1994
... Women writers, such as Juana Manuela Gorriti, Lola Larrosa de Ansaldo, and Emma de la Barra, ... more ... Women writers, such as Juana Manuela Gorriti, Lola Larrosa de Ansaldo, and Emma de la Barra, ques? tioned the significance of politics and money and challenged the dominant discourse of positivist science that pursued the exploitation of women and their bodies. ...
Revista Estudos Feministas, 2000
Latin American Research Review
Todo genuino movimiento literario, todo amanecer, toda ruptura, ha tenido indefectiblemente su pr... more Todo genuino movimiento literario, todo amanecer, toda ruptura, ha tenido indefectiblemente su primera exteriorización en las hojas provocativas de una revista. La revista descubre, polemiza; el escritor de revistas anticipa, es el guerrillero madrugado, el pionero que zampa terrenos intactos. La revista es vitrina y es cartel. El libro ya es en cierto modo un ataúd, quizás más duradero y más perfecto, pero menos jugoso y vital.
Latin American Research Review
Writers from Jorge Luis Borges to Alejo Carpentier have celebrated the role of literary journalis... more Writers from Jorge Luis Borges to Alejo Carpentier have celebrated the role of literary journalism in Latin American cultural life. The periodical press mediates between author and public, between the heavy sea of tradition and the rising tide of the new, between the institutions that sustain convention and the spontaneous, vibrant eruptions that give life to the avant-garde. Literary journalism thus traces the struggles of writers against the canon while revealing their engagement in the political and aesthetic events of the day. But as one might expect, literary journalism also unravels the neat boundaries of the finished work or the book in the ongoing dialogue with contemporary publications and multifaceted speculations on culture. In this way, the pastiche of materials found in the modern review exposes the vivid heterogeneity of the intellectual field.
Revista De Critica Literaria Latinoamericana, 2012
... in any terms that could lead to a general understanding of "we." The collec... more ... in any terms that could lead to a general understanding of "we." The collective was set ... are signed with intentionally ridiculous pseudonym: as an example, Pepita Gherra or Luisa Violeta are the ... The work of contemporary visual artist, the Chilean Catalina Parra, gives a different ...
Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2021
High modernism works through the secret. The midpoint between intelligibility and blankness, it i... more High modernism works through the secret. The midpoint between intelligibility and blankness, it is part of the strategy of "difficult" writing that elevates the value of the modernist puzzle and perpetuates its claims on institutional power. The trope of the secret, I wish to claim here, also works as a swivel or hinge to balance the relationship between those in the know and those who remain on the margins. This private flow of information is not without purposeful leaks. On the one hand, the secret rubs salt in the eyes of those who fail to perceive what is apparent; it reminds us of our exclusion or blindness. On the other, it sustains a will toward concealment, erecting among its owners a barrier against public intrusion; it creates an insider community against the menacing outside world. These conditions suggest a determined opaqueness, a plot to silence what might otherwise be heard, an effort to withdraw a private truth from wider circulation. The secret thus render...
The Art of Transition, 2001
The Art of Transition, 2001