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Social and Imaginary Space in Writings by Chicanas
Series:
Portada Hispánica, Volume: 15
Of interest to informed readers responsive to combined textual and cultural approaches to Chicano/a literature and literature in general, Battleground and Crossroads weaves in various critical and theoretical threads to inquire into the relationship between intimate and public spaces in Chicana literature. Without claiming the borderlands as exclusive of the Chicana/o imagination, this book acknowledges the importance of this metaphor for bringing to view a more intercultural United States, allowing it to become inflected with the particularity of each text. The analyses of Chicana fiction, drama, and autobiography explore the construction of identity through the representation of social space and the transformation of literary space. For discussion of a diacritical territory this volume draws on a interdisciplinary practice that facilitates the journey from the most intimate spaces to the most public spaces of modernity, so that the aesthetic text yields its knowledge of the contingent historical circumstances of its production in material and existential terms. The apparent regionalism and localism of this literature is nothing but a reflection of the relationship between the local and the global, the private and the public, the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the ideological, the subversive and the mainstream. Each text stands by itself while it also reaches out to the sociopolitical imaginary for interpretation through an interdisciplinary methodology that is indispensable to do justice to a politicized aesthetics.
Social and Imaginary Space in Writings by Chicanas
Series:
Portada Hispánica, Volume: 15
Of interest to informed readers responsive to combined textual and cultural approaches to Chicano/a literature and literature in general, Battleground and Crossroads weaves in various critical and theoretical threads to inquire into the relationship between intimate and public spaces in Chicana literature. Without claiming the borderlands as exclusive of the Chicana/o imagination, this book acknowledges the importance of this metaphor for bringing to view a more intercultural United States, allowing it to become inflected with the particularity of each text. The analyses of Chicana fiction, drama, and autobiography explore the construction of identity through the representation of social space and the transformation of literary space. For discussion of a diacritical territory this volume draws on a interdisciplinary practice that facilitates the journey from the most intimate spaces to the most public spaces of modernity, so that the aesthetic text yields its knowledge of the contingent historical circumstances of its production in material and existential terms. The apparent regionalism and localism of this literature is nothing but a reflection of the relationship between the local and the global, the private and the public, the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the ideological, the subversive and the mainstream. Each text stands by itself while it also reaches out to the sociopolitical imaginary for interpretation through an interdisciplinary methodology that is indispensable to do justice to a politicized aesthetics.
Delmira Agustini y la estética finisecular de la fragmentación
Delmira Agustini nace y publica en un período de crisis de valores que extiende las inquietudes del final de siglo XIX a las primeras décadas del XX. Su condición de mujer complica e ilustra al mismo tiempo la multiplicidad del fenómeno del modernismo hispánico. El presente volumen propone nuevas alternativas de aproximación al modernismo a través del análisis de la obra de Delmira Agustini, una autora integrada a los valores fetichistas de su época al tiempo que los amplia y supera con un virtuosismo sin precedentes.
La implicación estética de Agustini en el modernismo y la modernidad convive, por lo tanto, con la relativización de esos mismos conceptos al presentarse el objeto tradicional femenino como sujeto hablante susceptible de univocidad y trascendencia. Así sucede en la utilización e implícita corrección de ciertos mitos como Pigmalión, Salomé, Leda y el cisne, mitos que la autora personaliza y subvierte al articularlos desde una voz lírica que explicita su condición deseante de mujer. Con su propuesta transgresora, Delmira Agustini plantea una modernidad discrepante de las nociones del poder que resultan ineficaces al abordar la problemática de la escritora latinoamericana.
“Salomé decapitada” remite entonces a la ex-centricidad de una autora que se atrevió a formular su visión poética, convirtiéndola en una de las voces más poderosas y singulares de la literatura iberoamericana.
La implicación estética de Agustini en el modernismo y la modernidad convive, por lo tanto, con la relativización de esos mismos conceptos al presentarse el objeto tradicional femenino como sujeto hablante susceptible de univocidad y trascendencia. Así sucede en la utilización e implícita corrección de ciertos mitos como Pigmalión, Salomé, Leda y el cisne, mitos que la autora personaliza y subvierte al articularlos desde una voz lírica que explicita su condición deseante de mujer. Con su propuesta transgresora, Delmira Agustini plantea una modernidad discrepante de las nociones del poder que resultan ineficaces al abordar la problemática de la escritora latinoamericana.
“Salomé decapitada” remite entonces a la ex-centricidad de una autora que se atrevió a formular su visión poética, convirtiéndola en una de las voces más poderosas y singulares de la literatura iberoamericana.
Delmira Agustini y la estética finisecular de la fragmentación
Delmira Agustini nace y publica en un período de crisis de valores que extiende las inquietudes del final de siglo XIX a las primeras décadas del XX. Su condición de mujer complica e ilustra al mismo tiempo la multiplicidad del fenómeno del modernismo hispánico. El presente volumen propone nuevas alternativas de aproximación al modernismo a través del análisis de la obra de Delmira Agustini, una autora integrada a los valores fetichistas de su época al tiempo que los amplia y supera con un virtuosismo sin precedentes.
La implicación estética de Agustini en el modernismo y la modernidad convive, por lo tanto, con la relativización de esos mismos conceptos al presentarse el objeto tradicional femenino como sujeto hablante susceptible de univocidad y trascendencia. Así sucede en la utilización e implícita corrección de ciertos mitos como Pigmalión, Salomé, Leda y el cisne, mitos que la autora personaliza y subvierte al articularlos desde una voz lírica que explicita su condición deseante de mujer. Con su propuesta transgresora, Delmira Agustini plantea una modernidad discrepante de las nociones del poder que resultan ineficaces al abordar la problemática de la escritora latinoamericana.
“Salomé decapitada” remite entonces a la ex-centricidad de una autora que se atrevió a formular su visión poética, convirtiéndola en una de las voces más poderosas y singulares de la literatura iberoamericana.
La implicación estética de Agustini en el modernismo y la modernidad convive, por lo tanto, con la relativización de esos mismos conceptos al presentarse el objeto tradicional femenino como sujeto hablante susceptible de univocidad y trascendencia. Así sucede en la utilización e implícita corrección de ciertos mitos como Pigmalión, Salomé, Leda y el cisne, mitos que la autora personaliza y subvierte al articularlos desde una voz lírica que explicita su condición deseante de mujer. Con su propuesta transgresora, Delmira Agustini plantea una modernidad discrepante de las nociones del poder que resultan ineficaces al abordar la problemática de la escritora latinoamericana.
“Salomé decapitada” remite entonces a la ex-centricidad de una autora que se atrevió a formular su visión poética, convirtiéndola en una de las voces más poderosas y singulares de la literatura iberoamericana.
Volume Editor:
The first essays in this volume locate Latin America within the postmodernism debate by addressing both its position in the theory of the postmodern and the peripheral existence of the continent in light of the globalizing practices of the contemporary world. The next essays focus on the Caribbean and elements of the formation of identity and culture in a group of societies belonging to the same geographic region but confronted with the idiosyncrasies of their colonial histories, the problematics of race and language, and their relation to the politics and cultures of metropolitan powers. There are three essays concerned with re-readings of the first encounters between Europe and America and discussions of more recent fictional representations of the past which attempt to recover the lost Amerindian Other of the Conquest and Colonization and to reveal the constructedness of History. Finally, preceded by two texts on ways of reading and writing in Latin America, the final four essays are concerned with challenges to the discourses of power by Latin American women who re-define the subject and counter the established hegemonies of religion, culture, and social structure both in their writing and political actions. As a collection of essays, this volume will appeal to readers who are interested in Post-modernism as a global phenomenon and in understanding the different forms it takes and the issues it addresses in different cultural environments.
Series:
Postmodern Studies, Volume: 22
Volume Editor:
The first essays in this volume locate Latin America within the postmodernism debate by addressing both its position in the theory of the postmodern and the peripheral existence of the continent in light of the globalizing practices of the contemporary world. The next essays focus on the Caribbean and elements of the formation of identity and culture in a group of societies belonging to the same geographic region but confronted with the idiosyncrasies of their colonial histories, the problematics of race and language, and their relation to the politics and cultures of metropolitan powers. There are three essays concerned with re-readings of the first encounters between Europe and America and discussions of more recent fictional representations of the past which attempt to recover the lost Amerindian Other of the Conquest and Colonization and to reveal the constructedness of History. Finally, preceded by two texts on ways of reading and writing in Latin America, the final four essays are concerned with challenges to the discourses of power by Latin American women who re-define the subject and counter the established hegemonies of religion, culture, and social structure both in their writing and political actions. As a collection of essays, this volume will appeal to readers who are interested in Post-modernism as a global phenomenon and in understanding the different forms it takes and the issues it addresses in different cultural environments.