Fractal Académico
"Exile and Montage: Josep Renau's reckoning with community and self" by Claire-Lise Bénaud & Suzanne Schadi, U of New Mexico
Sinopsis: This paper examines Spanish photomontagist, Josep Renau’s artistic progression through two exiles (the first in Mexico and the second in East Germany) as an example in which an individual defines his cultural identity first in the context of community, a collective leftist-socialist identity, and then as Stuart Hall points out in terms of “difference.” When history reveals to Renau his separation from the community, he has no choice but to find himself in an expression of difference – not from the home he makes for himself in Mexico so much as from the neighbor he must criticize in order to earn his space among Mexican artists. Ironically Renau cannot express that difference until he leaves Mexico, and reintegrates back into a community, at least with ties to the one he initially lost in a communist European setting.
Claire-Lise Bénaud, Associate Director of the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) at the University Libraries at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Suzanne M. Schadl, Coordinator of Inter-American Studies also at the University Libraries, work extensively with the Latin American collections at UNM. Claire-Lise and Suzanne are excited to explore in this paper some of Spanish artist, Josep Renau's pieces. Two of these pieces are included within a recent acquisition of Mexican film posters at UNM while another resides in the well established collection of Sam L. Slick Posters also in the CSWR.
"La literatura de los pueblos originarios contemporáneos a la luz de la crítica poscolonial: luchando por un espacio propio" de Herlinda Flores-Badillo, U of Florida
Sinopsis: La discusión sobre la importancia que las corrientes indigenistas han tenido en el marco de la formación de estado-nación es muy variada. Se pensaba que el escritor mestizo estaba empoderado para hablar por el indígena. Es de esa manera que los autores indigenistas comienzan con una serie de representaciones en donde siempre se trata la injusticia en la que vive el “indio”, sin embargo la nación se formó sin escritores de los pueblos originarios. Es hasta 1980, antes de que llegue el bicentenario de la formación de México como nación, que los escritores de los pueblos originarios retoman la palabra. El análisis de la literatura actual de los pueblos originarios, nos lleva a remitirnos, a la época prehispánica. El presente trabajo tiene como propósito ver bajo qué corrientes pueden o deben analizarse las obras escritas por los autores que pertenecen a los pueblos originarios.
Herlinda Flores-Badillo es estudiante de doctorado (ABD) en la Universidad de la Florida, Gainesville, y profesora de base de la Universidad Veracruzana. Hizo su maestría en el Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras en West Virginia University (2004) y ha presentado en varias conferencias. Entre sus ponencias están “Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo y lo Mexicano”, presentada en University of Central Florida y “ De Balún Canán y Oficio de Tinieblas a la interculturalidad de los Siglos XX y XXI en México”, dada en University of Carlifornia, Irvine. También publicó el artículo “Entre la palabra y el punto: Carlos Montemayor” en La jornada en México.
“La ciudad como identidad” de Cynthia Meléndrez, U of New México
Sinopsis: Women authors in Spain and Mexico have redesigned the detective narrative by subverting the narrative schemes of detective novels written by men. Alicia Giménez Bartlett and Cristina Rivera Garza both follow the norms of the detective genre and fragment them. These writers reveal a conscience of the social decadence of urban life. Moreover, Giménez Bartlett and Rivera Garza break with established patterns by crossing genres, and subverting traditional forms of linguistics and notions of time and space. Aiming to grasp a more complete understanding of these changes in detective narrative, I analyze the representation of spaces in Día de perros by Alicia Giménez Bartlett and La muerte me da by Cristina Rivera Garza. The cities in the novels represent a space that cannot withstand more violence; the authors hack into pieces the aforementioned cities showing a social reality that bleeds and hurts its inhabitants. The authors’ narratives expose various degrees of marginalization and fragmentation of the city’s space. Furthermore, these authors construct a contemporary space for the detective genre which portrays the attrition of national identities, and gives emphasis to the disconcerting presence of an extremely violent society.
Cynthia Odette Meléndrez nació en la ciudad de Mexicali BC en México. En el 2006 se graduó de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego, campus externo, en la ciudad de Calexico, California con una licenciatura en Literatura Peninsular. Después realizó estudios de maestría en la Universidad de San Diego (main campus) y en el año 2009 obtuvo una maestría en Literatura Peninsular. En estos momentos está en la Universidad de Nuevo México en el programa doctoral de Español y Portugués. Sus intereses son literatura femenina fronteriza y chicana siglo 20, estudios de género, estudios queer, estudios culturales y estudios de cine.
"The intertwining of Exile, Identity and Memory"de Elisa Modolo, U of Pensilvannia
Sinopsis: This paper focuses on the topic of exile as it is presented in Satrapi and Paronnaud’s movie “Persepolis”. Specifically, I analyze how the themes of exile, identity and memory are woven together in relation to the protagonist, Marjane. I address the topic by explaining why Marjane’s experiences abroad should be considered instances of exile and by distinguishing between the two kinds of exile presented in the movie through an examination of the reasons that make them different. I also consider the stylistic features that shape the exilic theme. Throughout the paper, I compare the protagonist’s experience to the categories characteristic of exilic filmmaking by using Hamid Naficy’s essay “An Accented Cinema”. A great part of my paper is dedicated to develop a correlation between exile and identity, in which I consider the intertwining of the protagonist’s different identities (Iranian and “foreign/immigrant”) and their evolution. I will also explore the protagonist’s quest for identity in light of the bildungsroman structure and of the issue of cosmopolitanism versus statelessness. Finally I will explore the role of the memory in shaping identity, proposing that Satrapi responds to the typical issues raised by the exilic attitude through a recourse to an active and significant preservation of memory.
Born in Venice, Italy, Elisa Modolo is currently pursuing studies toward a Phd in Italian Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Masters degree in Philology and Italian literature and a Bachelors in Italian Literature from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Both her two theses were centered on the rediscovery of a rarely-studied woman writer of the 17th century, Margherita Costa, especially focusing on her theatrical (La Flora feconda, Festa reale per balletto a cavallo, Gli amori della Luna) and poetic (La Selva di Diana) works. Overall, Elisa’s interests mainly concentrate on female literary production, the 17th century, and theatrical literature.
“Reivindicación y reapropiación de la dialéctica de 'la Soledad del mexicano' en la novela epistolar Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela de Elena Poniatowska” de Andrea Villa, U of South Florida
Sinopsis: Este ensayo propone que los conceptos de soledad e identidad propuestos por Paz en El Laberinto de la Soledad cobran vida en la obra Querido Diego te abraza Quiela de Elena Poniatowska. Esta dinámica se logra mediante el diálogo de la protagonista consigo misma y con el otro-Diego Rivera- como mecanismo central para sobreponerse a su soledad y posteriormente afianzar su identidad tanto individual como social. Para analizar la adquisición progresiva de conciencia e identidad de Quiela en la obra de Poniatowska como reinterpretación de la dialéctica propuesta por Paz, se tomarán tres aspectos a considerar: el uso del género epistolar como mecanismo de apropiación del discurso de soledad y emancipación de la misma; la construcción de identidad del personaje a partir de la conciencia de soledad y el ser –distinto-; y la relación personaje/autor en relación a la búsqueda de identidad –mexicana- expuesta por Paz.
After graduating from a Master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of South Florida in May, 2008, Andrea Villa is currently a Spanish teacher assistant at the same university, while pursuing a Master's degree in Spanish.
"Sewell, pluriculturalidad y resistencia de un Company Town chileno" de Alicia Mercado-Harvey, U of Florida
Sinopsis: Sewell was a sort of state within a state that has been studied with regard to its architecture, social upheavals, and the mining culture in Chile, but nothing has been said about the fact that it was built as an American-style company town, a model derived from Christian Industrialism. In this paper, I intend to show that this mining city was designed according to that model and that, through a complex cultural process, instead of producing acculturation or transculturation, it generated a process of pluriculturalism. In this manner, the Chilean workers never assimilated the foreign customs, but rather used the models imposed by the company to resist and to practice their own culture.
Alicia Mercado-Harvey es estudiante de doctorado en el programa de español y portugués en la Universidad de la Florida; trabaja para su tesis una comparación de la literatura policial en Brasil, Chile y España. En 1997, obtuvo una licenciatura en historia en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y en 2008 se graduó de la Universidad del Sur de la Florida con una maestría en español. Ha presentado trabajos en diversas conferencias en Florida, Nueva York y Carolina del Norte. Ha publicado “Pugilatos literarios y parricidios frustrados en el realismo posvanguardista del Cono Sur”en la edición especial monográfica: “Nueva Narrativa Latinoamericana/New Latin American Narrative” en Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura (CIEHL), Primavera 2010.
Sinopsis: This paper examines Spanish photomontagist, Josep Renau’s artistic progression through two exiles (the first in Mexico and the second in East Germany) as an example in which an individual defines his cultural identity first in the context of community, a collective leftist-socialist identity, and then as Stuart Hall points out in terms of “difference.” When history reveals to Renau his separation from the community, he has no choice but to find himself in an expression of difference – not from the home he makes for himself in Mexico so much as from the neighbor he must criticize in order to earn his space among Mexican artists. Ironically Renau cannot express that difference until he leaves Mexico, and reintegrates back into a community, at least with ties to the one he initially lost in a communist European setting.
Claire-Lise Bénaud, Associate Director of the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) at the University Libraries at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Suzanne M. Schadl, Coordinator of Inter-American Studies also at the University Libraries, work extensively with the Latin American collections at UNM. Claire-Lise and Suzanne are excited to explore in this paper some of Spanish artist, Josep Renau's pieces. Two of these pieces are included within a recent acquisition of Mexican film posters at UNM while another resides in the well established collection of Sam L. Slick Posters also in the CSWR.
"La literatura de los pueblos originarios contemporáneos a la luz de la crítica poscolonial: luchando por un espacio propio" de Herlinda Flores-Badillo, U of Florida
Sinopsis: La discusión sobre la importancia que las corrientes indigenistas han tenido en el marco de la formación de estado-nación es muy variada. Se pensaba que el escritor mestizo estaba empoderado para hablar por el indígena. Es de esa manera que los autores indigenistas comienzan con una serie de representaciones en donde siempre se trata la injusticia en la que vive el “indio”, sin embargo la nación se formó sin escritores de los pueblos originarios. Es hasta 1980, antes de que llegue el bicentenario de la formación de México como nación, que los escritores de los pueblos originarios retoman la palabra. El análisis de la literatura actual de los pueblos originarios, nos lleva a remitirnos, a la época prehispánica. El presente trabajo tiene como propósito ver bajo qué corrientes pueden o deben analizarse las obras escritas por los autores que pertenecen a los pueblos originarios.
Herlinda Flores-Badillo es estudiante de doctorado (ABD) en la Universidad de la Florida, Gainesville, y profesora de base de la Universidad Veracruzana. Hizo su maestría en el Departamento de Lenguas Extranjeras en West Virginia University (2004) y ha presentado en varias conferencias. Entre sus ponencias están “Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo y lo Mexicano”, presentada en University of Central Florida y “ De Balún Canán y Oficio de Tinieblas a la interculturalidad de los Siglos XX y XXI en México”, dada en University of Carlifornia, Irvine. También publicó el artículo “Entre la palabra y el punto: Carlos Montemayor” en La jornada en México.
“La ciudad como identidad” de Cynthia Meléndrez, U of New México
Sinopsis: Women authors in Spain and Mexico have redesigned the detective narrative by subverting the narrative schemes of detective novels written by men. Alicia Giménez Bartlett and Cristina Rivera Garza both follow the norms of the detective genre and fragment them. These writers reveal a conscience of the social decadence of urban life. Moreover, Giménez Bartlett and Rivera Garza break with established patterns by crossing genres, and subverting traditional forms of linguistics and notions of time and space. Aiming to grasp a more complete understanding of these changes in detective narrative, I analyze the representation of spaces in Día de perros by Alicia Giménez Bartlett and La muerte me da by Cristina Rivera Garza. The cities in the novels represent a space that cannot withstand more violence; the authors hack into pieces the aforementioned cities showing a social reality that bleeds and hurts its inhabitants. The authors’ narratives expose various degrees of marginalization and fragmentation of the city’s space. Furthermore, these authors construct a contemporary space for the detective genre which portrays the attrition of national identities, and gives emphasis to the disconcerting presence of an extremely violent society.
Cynthia Odette Meléndrez nació en la ciudad de Mexicali BC en México. En el 2006 se graduó de la Universidad Estatal de San Diego, campus externo, en la ciudad de Calexico, California con una licenciatura en Literatura Peninsular. Después realizó estudios de maestría en la Universidad de San Diego (main campus) y en el año 2009 obtuvo una maestría en Literatura Peninsular. En estos momentos está en la Universidad de Nuevo México en el programa doctoral de Español y Portugués. Sus intereses son literatura femenina fronteriza y chicana siglo 20, estudios de género, estudios queer, estudios culturales y estudios de cine.
"The intertwining of Exile, Identity and Memory"de Elisa Modolo, U of Pensilvannia
Sinopsis: This paper focuses on the topic of exile as it is presented in Satrapi and Paronnaud’s movie “Persepolis”. Specifically, I analyze how the themes of exile, identity and memory are woven together in relation to the protagonist, Marjane. I address the topic by explaining why Marjane’s experiences abroad should be considered instances of exile and by distinguishing between the two kinds of exile presented in the movie through an examination of the reasons that make them different. I also consider the stylistic features that shape the exilic theme. Throughout the paper, I compare the protagonist’s experience to the categories characteristic of exilic filmmaking by using Hamid Naficy’s essay “An Accented Cinema”. A great part of my paper is dedicated to develop a correlation between exile and identity, in which I consider the intertwining of the protagonist’s different identities (Iranian and “foreign/immigrant”) and their evolution. I will also explore the protagonist’s quest for identity in light of the bildungsroman structure and of the issue of cosmopolitanism versus statelessness. Finally I will explore the role of the memory in shaping identity, proposing that Satrapi responds to the typical issues raised by the exilic attitude through a recourse to an active and significant preservation of memory.
Born in Venice, Italy, Elisa Modolo is currently pursuing studies toward a Phd in Italian Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a Masters degree in Philology and Italian literature and a Bachelors in Italian Literature from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Both her two theses were centered on the rediscovery of a rarely-studied woman writer of the 17th century, Margherita Costa, especially focusing on her theatrical (La Flora feconda, Festa reale per balletto a cavallo, Gli amori della Luna) and poetic (La Selva di Diana) works. Overall, Elisa’s interests mainly concentrate on female literary production, the 17th century, and theatrical literature.
“Reivindicación y reapropiación de la dialéctica de 'la Soledad del mexicano' en la novela epistolar Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela de Elena Poniatowska” de Andrea Villa, U of South Florida
Sinopsis: Este ensayo propone que los conceptos de soledad e identidad propuestos por Paz en El Laberinto de la Soledad cobran vida en la obra Querido Diego te abraza Quiela de Elena Poniatowska. Esta dinámica se logra mediante el diálogo de la protagonista consigo misma y con el otro-Diego Rivera- como mecanismo central para sobreponerse a su soledad y posteriormente afianzar su identidad tanto individual como social. Para analizar la adquisición progresiva de conciencia e identidad de Quiela en la obra de Poniatowska como reinterpretación de la dialéctica propuesta por Paz, se tomarán tres aspectos a considerar: el uso del género epistolar como mecanismo de apropiación del discurso de soledad y emancipación de la misma; la construcción de identidad del personaje a partir de la conciencia de soledad y el ser –distinto-; y la relación personaje/autor en relación a la búsqueda de identidad –mexicana- expuesta por Paz.
After graduating from a Master's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of South Florida in May, 2008, Andrea Villa is currently a Spanish teacher assistant at the same university, while pursuing a Master's degree in Spanish.
"Sewell, pluriculturalidad y resistencia de un Company Town chileno" de Alicia Mercado-Harvey, U of Florida
Sinopsis: Sewell was a sort of state within a state that has been studied with regard to its architecture, social upheavals, and the mining culture in Chile, but nothing has been said about the fact that it was built as an American-style company town, a model derived from Christian Industrialism. In this paper, I intend to show that this mining city was designed according to that model and that, through a complex cultural process, instead of producing acculturation or transculturation, it generated a process of pluriculturalism. In this manner, the Chilean workers never assimilated the foreign customs, but rather used the models imposed by the company to resist and to practice their own culture.
Alicia Mercado-Harvey es estudiante de doctorado en el programa de español y portugués en la Universidad de la Florida; trabaja para su tesis una comparación de la literatura policial en Brasil, Chile y España. En 1997, obtuvo una licenciatura en historia en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile y en 2008 se graduó de la Universidad del Sur de la Florida con una maestría en español. Ha presentado trabajos en diversas conferencias en Florida, Nueva York y Carolina del Norte. Ha publicado “Pugilatos literarios y parricidios frustrados en el realismo posvanguardista del Cono Sur”en la edición especial monográfica: “Nueva Narrativa Latinoamericana/New Latin American Narrative” en Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura (CIEHL), Primavera 2010.
