DOCSLIB.ORG

Una Mirada Hacia El Canon Literario Del Siglo XIX En La Nueva Escuela Secundaria

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Una Mirada Hacia El Canon Literario Del Siglo XIX En La Nueva Escuela Secundaria Notas y reflexiones didácticas en torno a dos experiencias de escritura electrónica TIPO DE ARTÍCULO: Experiencias de aula Una mirada hacia el canon literario del siglo XIX en la nueva escuela secundaria A view to 19th century literary canon in the new high school Páginas 68-76 Vanina Reinoso Marilina Aibar Cátedra Literatura Argentina I [email protected] Departamento Letras [email protected] Facultad de Humanidades Universidad Nacional de Catamarca Letralia. Revista del Departamento Letras Dirección de Publicaciones Facultad de Humanidades Universidad Nacional de Catamarca Año 3 | N° 3 Volumen 2 Fecha de recepción: 25.jul.2014 ISSN 2545-8515 Fecha de aceptación: 18.mar.2015 Septiembre de 2017 Letralia. Revista del Departamento Letras N°3. Volumen 2 Página 68 Septiembre de 2017 | págs. 68-76 ISSN 2545-8515 Vanina Reinoso | Marilina Aibar El artículo se plantea una reflexión sobre el canon de la literatura argentina, que se The article raises a reflection on the inicia en la Historia de la literatura Resumen canon of Argentine literature, which argentina de Ricardo Rojas, compilación begins in the Historia de la Literatura ambiciosa que ha gozado de Argentina by Ricardo Rojas, an reconocimiento y aceptación por parte ambitious compilation that has enjoyed de la crítica. Nos preguntamos si este recognition and acceptance by critics. canon aún prevalece en nuestro tiempo y We wonder if this canon still prevails in cómo se refleja, de ser así, en las our time and how it is reflected, if so, in propuestas de enseñanza de la literatura the teaching proposals of Argentine argentina en la Nueva Escuela literature in New High School. The Secundaria. El propósito es examinar la purpose is to examine the presence or presencia o la ausencia de tal canon en absence of such a canon in the las instituciones educativas de la ciudad educational institutions of the city of de San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca. In En una primera parte, reflexionamos the first part, we reflect on the concept acerca del concepto de canon literario. of literary canon. Then, we analyze the Luego, analizamos los documentos current curricular documents in the curriculares vigentes en la búsqueda de search for answers to the initial respuestas a las preguntas iniciales. questions. Palabras-clave: Abstract Canon literario. Literatura Argentina. Key words: Nueva Escuela Secundaria. Canon literary. Literature Argentina. New High School. Letralia. Revista del Departamento Letras N°3. Volumen 2 Página 69 Septiembre de 2017 | págs. 68-76 ISSN 2545-8515 Una mirada hacia el canon literario del siglo XIX en la nueva escuela secundaria Introducción conformación. Uno de esos criterios ve en los propios escritores, en su talento artístico Cada época histórica tiene sus personal y en el mérito objetivo de sus obras, peculiaridades. Estas influyen tanto en la el verdadero motor de la máquina de valor y sociedad, como en la cultura. La educación, de prestigio por la que llega a definirse un canon. El otro criterio, en cambio, postula una y particularmente la enseñanza de la serie de mediaciones institucionales: diversas Literatura Argentina, no son ajenas a estos instancias de valoración que definen centros y cambios e influencias. periferias, inclusiones y exclusiones, más allá Hace un siglo que Ricardo Rojas escribió de lo que pueda estar al alcance de los propios Historia de la literatura argentina. Allí se escritores o del poder que sus obras tendrían engendró el primer canon de nuestra para imponerse por sí mismas (Kohan, 2013: literatura y, a través de los años, aquella 3). ambiciosa compilación ha gozado de reconocimiento y aceptación por parte de Por otra parte, el teórico considera que: la crítica. Ante este panorama nos preguntamos: ¿El canon de Ricardo Rojas La temática del canon literario toca un aspecto aún prevalece en nuestro tiempo? Y de ser fundamental del trabajo de los docentes (pero así, ¿cómo se refleja en la enseñanza de la también del trabajo de los escritores, los críticos, los periodistas culturales, los Nueva Escuela Secundaria? bibliotecarios, los editores, los traductores, Nuestro propósito es examinar la vigencia los sociólogos, etc.): en la definición del canon o ausencia de tal canon en establecimientos se dirimen centralidades y periferias, valores de la ciudad de San Fernando del Valle de y disvalores literarios, consagraciones y Catamarca. postergaciones, pedestales y olvidos; también Hablar de canon, de su determinación y se determina qué literatura va a ser leída y qué límites ha resultado siempre complejo pues literatura no va a ser leída, y de qué manera va “el del canon es un problema dependiente a ser leída la que sea leída (dentro de qué de contextos académicos muy precisos” tradición, con qué categorías, con qué (Pozuelo, 2006: 18) y, entre otros factores, sentidos); en la definición del canon literario se dirime también una manera de concebir de los modos en que las instituciones una identidad (aquella a la que una culturales otorgan un lugar de privilegio a determinada literatura puede interpelar; ya ciertas obras en detrimento de otras. Ya en sea por ejemplo la literatura latinoamericana, 1994, Harol Bloom en The Western Canon o la literatura judía, o la literatura argentina, o abordaba dicha problemática; a grandes la literatura universal. (Kohan, 2013: 2). rasgos, defendía la concepción individual del artista y de su producción. Sostenía, en En vistas a determinar la posible este sentido, que la inclusión de un autor persistencia del criterio de Rojas en el dentro del canon obedece al impacto estado actual, tanto del campo literario estético de su obra, a su posición social como del pedagógico, creímos conveniente privilegiada dentro del campo cultural y a en primer lugar, indagar – mediante otros elementos presentes en el sistema encuestas– a un grupo de veinte literario de la época1. educadores que se desempeñan en En torno al canon, Martín Kohan plantea establecimientos educativos de la capital que: catamarqueña, tanto en el Ciclo Básico Común como en el Orientado.2 Un gran Existen al menos dos modos de concebir lo porcentaje trabaja en los dos últimos años que es el canon literario, dos criterios, que del Ciclo Orientado y un porcentaje menor, más que complementarse se oponen, acerca en los primeros años de este ciclo. Esto de la manera en que un canon se integra a permitió determinar no sólo el grado de través del proceso histórico de su permanencia de los nombres ya señalados 1 Según este criterio, la producción del escritor 2 Los sondeos se llevaron a cabo en siete reviste un carácter personal que nada tiene que ver establecimientos educativos. Fueron entrevistados con la representación de una clase o de un grupo docentes de ambos sexos. Las edades oscilaron, para social determinado, tal como lo defendían los los hombres entre 21 y 26 años y para las mujeres, Estudios Culturales. entre 37 y 53 años. Vanina Reinoso | Marilina Aibar por Rojas en los planes de estudio, sino del estudio y la consideración de obras también observar el conocimiento que los emblemáticas para una imagen de la educadores tienen sobre el señalado canon cultura argentina. Respecto de lo cual, el fundacional. El relevamiento, en segundo mismo Rojas decía: “El estudio de la lugar, posibilitó enmarcar la reflexión literatura argentina, omitido hasta acerca de cómo se configura el canon entonces […] es una asignatura cuya literario en la sociedad actual y de qué fundación se hacía necesaria para manera se implementa en nuestra Escuela completar el conocimiento de nuestra Secundaria. formación nacional” (Rojas, 1948: 25). La idea de una idiosincrasia nacional se sustenta, pues, desde un conjunto de obras Desarrollo de la reflexión que, tanto en el plano del contenido como en el de la forma, reflejan, por así decirlo, Para encuadrar más claramente los datos una manera de ser argentina. El criterio con extraídos a partir de los sondeos, es que Rojas organizó la clasificación de los conveniente trazar algunas generalidades textos parece obedecer no solo a factores acerca de los elementos que juegan un estéticos sino al contenido que suscita en el papel importante en los procesos de lector valores patrióticos o nacionalistas. canonización de los textos. Al tratarse de Atestigua lo que estamos señalando, la una problemática constituida por selección que presenta: da la impresión de numerosas aristas no pretendemos aquí ser cronológica pero –si nos fijamos bien– agotar o esclarecer el asunto, sino intentar no es tan así. Se pueden encontrar una aproximación crítica y exploratoria del escritores separados por el tiempo, pero tema. unidos por filiaciones estéticas, ideológicas Acercarnos a un canon histórico como el de y políticas. Por ejemplo, Echeverría es un Rojas ha implicado, en primer lugar, escritor que pertenece a “Los Proscriptos”; colocarnos frente a una norma sin embargo, La Cautiva tiene las cuidadosamente fijada para un período características de los textos que determinado de las letras argentinas y, en corresponden a “Los Gauchescos”. En segundo lugar, observar ‘la centralidad’ de relación a esto, Ricardo Rojas ironiza sobre unos textos en relación a otros, pues, esta cuestión cuando se refiere a algunos se ubican en un lugar de privilegio Sarmiento: dentro del campo cultural. ¿Qué mecanismos incidieron para que éstos Tentado estuve, cuando escribía “Los ocuparan tal posición? gauchescos” de incluir a Sarmiento en aquella Es innegable que el valor estético juega un serie, aunque desdeñó tanto a los gauchos. papel fundamental a la hora de su Pero su Facundo es una descripción de la consideración. Libros como La cautiva, pampa y la vida pastora, y tal habría sido la justificación, para hablar de él en la misma Facundo, Martín Fierro por ejemplo, parte donde he hablado de […] Echeverría por presentan un elaborado trabajo de estilo y La Cautiva, el poema del desierto argentino expresión.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Argentine 1960S
    The Argentine 1960s David William Foster It was the time of the Beatles, of high school studies, of “flower power,” of social ist revolution, of a new French movie house, of poetry, of Sartre and Fanon, of Simone de Beauvoir, of Salinger and Kerouac, of Marx and Lenin. It was all of that together. It was also the time of the Cuban Revolution, which opened our hearts, and it was the time of a country, Argentina, which took the first steps to ward vio lence that was to define our future (Fingueret 20-21). El cine es una institución que se ha modificado tanto que ya perdió su carácter de “región moral”. Las salas de cine hasta los primeros años de la década del sesen- ta eran lugares de reunión social donde la gente iba a estar como en un centro de reunión social, un club o un café del que se era habitué....Las antiguas salas tenían personalidad propia y algunas cum plían otras funciones que aquellas para las que habían sido creadas; en tiempo de represión sexual, eran frecuen- tadas por parejas heterosexuales que se besaban y mas- turbaban. Los homosexuales tenían su espaci en cier- tas salas llamadas “populares” no frecuentadas por familias, y en mu chos casos sus espectadores eran varones solos. “Hacer el ajedrez” se decia en el argot de los habitués, en esos cines, a cambiarse cons - tantemente de butaca en busca de la compañía ade- cuada (Sebreli 344).1 In Argentina, it was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.
    [Show full text]
  • Benito Lynch: the New Interpreter of the Pampa
    WNW-O LYNCH: THE NEW iNT-ERPRETER OF THE -PAMPA~-.. Thesis for the Dogma a? M. A. M‘ICHEGoAN STATE UNIVERSITY Richard Dwight Pawers E964 THIS” LIBRARY Michigan State University BENITO LYNCH: THE NEW INTERPRETER OF THE PAMPA I By Richard Dwight Powers A THESIS Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department of Foreign Languages Spanish 196“ -.. _ o.» .J wordemphd a J. HZUMPLm ;.Hm h mowmeo \( U) Ss.h C w “out.” 06 )movxmh I. O\Ci‘hOEW/IIW any \l/ L 3H éomo . .... J ._ --K|-’ .16...» “ I to).‘1 .. OSPCDE HUDSUmapV wo+c_e 6 m ? UOQQ®.:U mopfiw- p. mahfiwa P. ’I'J‘I II)...- .'<I.ll\‘-U.IIJI ‘ 4f! LP...» . ... C(C .rrlur. C HEEL?» .3) .Q o:rL.C EEC... I O O O O .... .1 V1!..l)|_1.J.\. ..IA than. ......(CFHC a. O O O O 0 0 ””8 ....n1 EH} 9;“ .(O (.-.... 8 3) Z.) x. .. _ .L .21 «4 rk( n5 1w_.r4. v mOCeflyirLr. In.) 1‘. .1....4_.J ..Zfl. [Pk ....-(r/ a -.(.C.. ...,L 00.,1 ‘J. A. 11.74-47 .a. 1H] 0 .1 .K. F ...... U. .. frkrr LLL. L fl) mo...‘ ..JJ..‘I.... v1 . .DFrP_I...(-fi I. .q .d‘C'ol JuJ.‘ J ‘IOOI‘. .14.. r . Lark r. .U. ..(?! (‘ H. .k [ml F LIH mpwuusaonb on7_o .wo -.a-r-m as o:.nqu “VFW Lo MCQEmHm d .H . 20H-u.momem .1 hmwraxm INTRODUCTION many epithets have been placed after the name of Benito Lynch.
    [Show full text]
  • Romancing the Masses: Puig, Perón and Argentine Intellectuals at the Fin De Siècle
    Romancing the Masses: Puig, Perón and Argentine Intellectuals at the Fin de Siècle Dr. Silvia Tandeciarz DePaul University Prepared for delivery at the 1997 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Continental Plaza Hotel, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 17-19, 1997. 2 I’d like to begin by situating my intervention here in two contexts: that of my work as a cultural critic in the American Academy and that of my work on Peronism. My comments emerge from questions I have been asking myself regarding the meaning and place of intellectual work, questions that have been overdetermined by polemics central to both, Peronist discourse and the relatively new field of Cultural Studies. My immersion in Cultural Studies has pressed me to ask what it means to be an intellectual in what we might call the age of postmodernism; what are the new challenges that face us, given the new ways in which culture is disseminated, given the new technologies we have to contend with, given the literary permutations they’ve inspired in traditional genres and the transformations of the publishing world, etc.? What is our role? Are we still, in some way, gatekeepers, determining, as Daniel James has written, “notions of social and cultural legitimacy--what Pierre Bourdieu has defined as ‘cultural and symbolic’ capital”?1 Are we secretly activists trying to convert students into militant subversives? What kinds of culture will we promote? What will we teach in “culture and civilization” classes and to what ends? What does it mean to form part of institutions that
    [Show full text]
  • Argentine Literature As Part of the Latin-American: Debates, Characteristics and Dialogues
    INTERLITTERARIA 2020, 25/2: 359–366 359 Argentine Literature as Part of the Latin-American: Debates, Characteristics and Dialogues Argentine Literature as Part of the Latin-American: Debates, Characteristics and Dialogues LUCÍA CAMINADA ROSSETTI Abstract. The article will suggest that the texts and ways of reaching some materials and perspectives in Argentina, remains at a national level. It is important to notice that in order to read criticism and theory regarding Latin American literature, Spanish from Río de la Plata separates at some point the fields. In that regard, one of the greatest assets and achievements of Argentinian literary research concerns the relationship between politics and fiction. In connection with this it might be asked how we can think of Argentinian literature without linking it to the social discourse? How can we think of the comparative field of Latin-American and Argentinian literature as one academic area of studies? In our view, comparatism seems to be one of the loneliest areas of studies in terms of the fields of theory, fiction and criticism. We thus suggest that in Argentina, literary research and criticism in general are strictly concerned with only one option: the national culture. Thus, exclusively, western theoretical frames are chosen to read literature and comparative perspectives are mostly applied to European studies. That is why I insist on the fact that comparative literary research is not represented institutionally at all. Keywords: Latin America; Argentine literature; comparative literature; cultural studies Introduction How do we think of the comparative field of Latin-American and Argentinian literature as one and the same academic area of studies? In our view, comparative literature in Latin America seems to be one of the loneliest areas of study in terms of theory, fiction and criti-cism.
    [Show full text]
  • Representative Gaucho Poetry and Fiction of Argentina
    REPRESENTATIVE GAUCHO POETRY AND FICTION OF ARGENTINA APPROVED Major g£6f££sor Ml^afor Professor d 1V1.: • Director of ;he epartm %Foreig n Languages v^Ly Dean of the Graduate School / IDSPKBSSNTATIV2 GAUCHO ?OE'J?KX AMD FICTION OF AEGi^XINA THS3IS Presented to the Graduate Council of tr.3. North Texas Stnte 'J;iI\"or,slty in I-n Fulfillment: oi -the Heauirevents ?cr the .Degree of r f ^ t r«T ^ ^ a t> rnr* r tn, ^ 4 i \ ul i \ f„ jt By :i.ltar Gava, B, i: I>en tOi11 0" ax-i«? v *'• .L") f'j 2 -1, -," O 3LB OF COiOC.-^T* Chapter Pace I. THE GAUCHC ?RC!I A HISTORICAL ?SKSPEO?lVlS . .1 II. TJJS GAUGED IM J-OZZrCS. Mffi 7ICTI0N . 22 III. SAMTOS VHGA Br KILARIO ASCASUBI. c"i . IV. FAU3TG BX Sa'J&JJISIAO DSL CAHPO *K> V, CL G-AUCflO KART1N FIERRu riX JOSS HERNAJJDSZ. ... 49 VI, JUAJ IICHE IRA BY 3DMDO GUTIERREZ64 VII. SL CAZAMIZLi'TO D3ri L^CCHA BX ROBERTO J. PAXRQ. * » ?6 VIII, DOJi SEGCIOO SOi''BRA BX RICARDO G'JIRALDISS, . „ 8,5 IX. EL ROKAI-!OS DE Ul4 GAUCHC BX BSlilTO I^IICK. ...» $>9 X, CONCLUSION . , ....... 10* r tr OH tc-pv * * * , * i.J*^ /r, CI i:'~v*R X •IHS GAUCfcO FRCK A HISTORICAL PJHSPE'JS'.rjE In ordsr to pursue &r». intelligent study of the gaucho, as depicted ""la several literary contributions of Argentine literature, one should first view him from a historical, per- spective* U nfoi'tunately, too roanv of the works concerning the gauche reflect personal end biased opinions, rather than a trae account of his life* Sorse have portrayed the g a v.
    [Show full text]
  • A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror
    Review The space of disappearance: A narrative commons in the ruins of Argentine state terror Karen Elizabeth Bishop SUNY Press, New York, 2020, 258 pp., ISBN: 978-1-4384-7851-7 Contemporary Political Theory (2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00479-9 In the The Space of Disappearance. A Narrative Commons in the Ruins of Argentine State Terror, Karen Elizabeth Bishop examines four novels by three contemporary Argentine writers: Rodolfo Walsh’s Variaciones en rojo (Variations in Red), Julio Corta´zar’s Fantomas contra los vampiros multinacionales (Fantomas against the Multinational Vampires), and Toma´s Eloy Martinez’s La novela de Pero´n and Santa Evita. Her reading of novels written both before and after the last Argentine dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 leads her to posit what may be the core hypothesis of the book: disappearance, the privileged technique through which the Juntas’ generals disap- peared political opposition to the neoliberal model they were implementing, is also a literary device by which the authors studied proposed ‘divided, refracted and embedded ontologies’ (p. 11). Drawing on deconstructionist analysis of voids and absences as an ‘active hermeneutic agent at work in literature’ (p. 15), Bishop reads Walsh, Cortazar, and Martinez’s works not only as denouncing neoliberalism and engaging in politics, nor as national dramas refracting the agitated recent Argentine history, but rather as ‘anticipatory fictions’ (p. 154) that foresee the dissimulations, doublings, displace- ments, and suspensions that were later implemented by the dictatorship. This anticipatory potential is neither confined to Argentina nor to Walsh’s invention of the non-fiction novel – an invention that is typically (mis)attributed to Truman Capote, especially in the ‘Global North’ (p.
    [Show full text]
  • CREACIÓN E IDENTIDAD DE LA UNR Criação E Identidade Da UNR UNR’S Creation and Identity
    1 Plan de Internacionalización de la UNR 2015-2019 Secretaría de Relaciones Internacionales Universidad Nacional de Rosario Secretario, Méd. Vet. Mariano Gárate Diseño, Téc. Univ. Rosana Vasta Corrección, Aux. en Letras Ruth Maiorana Traducción al portugués, Trad. Flavio Caporale, Lic. María Emilia Vico Traducción al inglés, Cuerpo de Traductores UNR www.unr.edu.ar @Universidad Nacional de Rosario @UNRosario Universidadnacionalros Universidad Nacional de Rosario Radio Universidad 103.3 ÍNDICE ÍNDICE INDEX LA UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO A UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ROSARIO Mensaje del señor Rector 8 Mensagem do Senhor Reitor 8 Message from the Rector 9 Ubicación Geográfica 10 Localização Geográfica 10 Location 10 Creación e Identidad 12 Criação e Identidade 12 Creation and Identity 13 Doctores Honoris Causa 13 Doutores Honoris Causa 13 Honoris Causa Doctor’s Degree Holders 13 Números de la UNR 14 A UNR em números 14 UNR Figures 14 Autoridades 16 Autoridades 16 Authorities 16 UNIDADES ACADÉMICAS 17 UNIDADES ACADÊMICAS 17 ACADEMIC UNITS 17 Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño 18 Arquitetura, Planejamento e Desenho 19 Architecture, Planning and Design 20 Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales 21 Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais 22 Political Science and International Relations 24 Ciencias Agrarias 25 Ciências Agrárias 26 Agricultural Sciences 26 Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas 28 Ciências Farmacêuticas e Bioquímica 28 Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences 30 Ciencias Económicas y Estadística
    [Show full text]
  • Argentine "Dirty War" : Human Rights Law and Literature Alexander H
    Golden Gate University School of Law GGU Law Digital Commons Theses and Dissertations Student Scholarship 1997 Argentine "Dirty War" : Human Rights Law and Literature Alexander H. Lubarsky Golden Gate University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/theses Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, Latin American History Commons, Modern Literature Commons, and the Political History Commons Recommended Citation Lubarsky, Alexander H., "Argentine "Dirty War" : Human Rights Law and Literature" (1997). Theses and Dissertations. Paper 35. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at GGU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of GGU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Argentine "Dirty War" : Human Rights Law and Literature By: Alexander H. Lubarsky LL.M Thesis 1997 • • • • • • • • • Golden liote lniuer-sity School of LoUJ LL.M in I nternotioonol Legal Studies Pr-ofessor- Sompong Suchor-itkul a a a a a a a a "Everyone who has worked for the struggle for human rights knows that the real enemy is silence. II - William Barkerl INTRODUCTION In 1973 Gen. Juan Domingo Peron was voted into office as President of Argentina after an 18 year exile. He died the following year in 1974 when his second wife, Isabella Peron, served as his successor. In 1976 the military overthrew Isabella Peron as part of their "calling" to restore law and order to a chaotic Argentina. To do so, the military declared an all out war on any sectors of life which could be viewed as a threat to the maintenance of military rule.
    [Show full text]
  • Caught Between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art'
    H-Nationalism Greenwald on Riobó, 'Caught between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art' Review published on Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Carlos Riobó. Caught between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art. New Hispanisms Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. Illustrations. 198 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4962-0552-0. Reviewed by Hannah Greenwald (Yale University)Published on H-Nationalism (June, 2021) Commissioned by Evan C. Rothera (University of Arkansas - Fort Smith) Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56311 From sixteenth-century Spanish colonial tales of the frontier, to the twentieth-century writings of Jorge Luis Borges, and into the present day, literature from the Río de la Plata region has frequently featured the figure of the captive. Argentine captivity narratives have often served as a way for writers to explore broader societal anxieties about transculturation, mestizaje (miscegenation), and the construction of the national community. These narratives have often been characterized by hybridity and fluidity, not just in subject matter but also in form; they have straddled the boundaries between history and fiction, between memoir and myth, making them fundamentally ambiguous texts that invite retellings and reinterpretations in different historical moments. InCaught between the Lines: Captives, Frontiers, and National Identity in Argentine Literature and Art, Carlos Riobó probes the construction of Argentina’s national myth of racial purity by examining the figure of the white, female, Christian captive in Argentine literary and visual culture over nearly five centuries. Riobó’s analysis reveals the centrality of the captive figure within constructions of Argentine national identity, as well as the shifting meanings of the captive in different historical moments up to and including the present day.
    [Show full text]
  • American and Argentine Literary Traditions in the Writing of Borges’ “El Sur”
    AMERICAN AND ARGENTINE LITERARY TRADITIONS IN THE WRITING OF BORGES’ “EL SUR” w Ariel de la Fuente l Sur”, Borges said in 1956, “es acaso mi mejor cuento”, and, we can add now, one of the most widely read “E pieces of his repertoire. Borges also said in several occa- sions that the story could be read in more than one way, which ex- plains, in part, the variety of comments that it is has generated. Efraín Kristal has suggested that to write “El Sur” Borges could have been inspired by Thomas Mann’s “The Wardrobe” (133). For John T. Irwin the story is “a figurative account of Borges’ career as a [south- ern] writer” and it could also be “an oblique evocation” of Edgar Alan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (171, 175). On his part, Juan José Saer (287-8) understands the story is an anti-epic ac- count (the protagonist dies in a bed) that reflects Borges critical posi- tion against the novel whose narrative strategy seems to follow Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” and Ernest Hemingway’s “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”.1 Ricardo Piglia, in turn, sees in the story the tension between two contradictory tendencies 1 Saer actually cites the French film based on Bierce’s famous story; Kristal suggests Bierce’s story could be the source of “El Milagro Secreto”, 132-33. Variaciones Borges 19 (2005) 42 ARIEL DE LA FUENTE in Borges’s inner life: the world of culture and the world of the “elementary and simple life”; and he also indicates that the origin of the story is in Borges’ account and reflection on Nathaniel Haw- thorne’s death contained in his essay on the American author (Crítica 151; Formas 123-124).
    [Show full text]
  • Universidad Del Salvador
    UNIVERSIDAD DEL SALVADOR ACADEMIC UNIT: Facultad de Filosofía, Letras y Estudios Orientales MAJOR: Letters CONTACT HOURS: 54 SCHEDULE: AFTERNOON ACADEMIC OBLIGATION: ARGENTINE LITERATURE DURATION: CUATRIMESTRAL HOURS: 3 TITULAR PROFESSOR / SUPERVISOR: Dra. Alicia Lidia Sisca Mag. Leonardo Graná CLASS OBJECTIVES Student should be able to: • Comprehend the values of Argentine literature from the NINETEENTH and TWENTIETH centuries and highlight their antecedents, predominantly taken from the Hispanic period. • Recognize in it, and value, the Argentine national ethos. • Understand the importance of historical, political and social reality in literature, through the study of some representative works. • Define and frame the processes of creation of national identity, through literary texts. • Study literary works to appreciate them aesthetically and to redeem the inviolable sense of the human person. • Establish relationships between the peculiarities of Argentine literature and those of Ibero-American and European literature. 1- THEMATIC UNITS I - Argentine literature during the 19th and 20th century: Introduction. Historical-literary panorama since the Hispanic period. Distinctive features of Argentine literature from the 19th and 20th centuries. Gradual incorporation of the political-social reality in some representative works of the Romantic movement, of the gaucho genre, of the generation of 1880, of the centenary and of the Vanguard. II - The Romantic. 1) The founding of a national literature: Romanticism and the establishment of a literary system. Argentine romanticism: Characters, development, European influences and original contributions. The politicization of literature. The 1837 generation as a starting point. 2) Esteban Echeverría: Bio-bibliographical review. Theoretical basis of his literary writings. La Cautiva as fulfillment of his program. 3) Domingo Faustino Sarmiento: Bio-bibliographical Review.
    [Show full text]
  • THE JEWS and PERÓN: COMMUNAL POLITICS and NATIONAL IDENTITY in PERONIST ARGENTINA, 1946-1955 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial
    THE JEWS AND PERÓN: COMMUNAL POLITICS AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN PERONIST ARGENTINA, 1946-1955 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of History of The Ohio State University by Lawrence D. Bell, M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 2002 Dissertation Committee: Approved by: Professor Kenneth J. Andrien, Adviser Professor Donna J. Guy ________________________ Professor Matt Goldish Adviser Department of History ABSTRACT This dissertation focuses on the question of Jewish ethnic politics in Argentina under the Peronist regime from 1946-1955. Despite the claims of Perón’s detractors in the United States and elsewhere that he was anti-Semitic and in sympathy with European fascism, Perón in fact demonstrated a considerable amount of pragmatism in his dealings with Argentina’s 250,000 strong Jewish population. Like other Latin American populists, Perón combined a corporatist conception of the state with ideals of popular democracy and widespread social mobilization throughout most of his first two terms as President of Argentina. As such, his regime attempted to integrate a number of traditionally excluded groups, including Jews, into its socially and politically inclusive national vision. In February 1947, Perón officially endorsed the creation of a “Jewish wing” of the Peronist Party, the Organización Israelita Argentina (OIA), in effort to court Jewish voters and promote Peronist ideology within the country’s Jewish community. In doing so, he also granted the OIA considerable powers as the final intermediary between the Jewish community and the state. Yet, unlike many other communities, the Jews of Argentina generally resisted the encroachments of Peronism and the OIA, and instead struggled to forge a compromise relationship with the state.
    [Show full text]