This paper analyzes the relationship that existed between Latin American writers, the Venezuelan Teresa de la Parra (1889-1936) and the Chilean Gabriela Mistral (1889- 1957). From a historical perspective, revealer an intellectual and emotional relationship, as well as literary, social and personal interests: through a series of scattered…[Read more]

The period from 1948 to 1958, relating to the so called ” military decade ” in Venezuela, has been portrayed by the traditional historiography, as the big works of ” I make concrete armed “, of pursuit and political violence. Slightly certain. But staying of side, several emptinesses, lagoons, for explaining and to understand in his just…[Read more]

This paper analyses the study and discussion of the concept of “unconventional warfare” in different Chilean military reviews between 1960 and 1970, with a view to clarifying the military thought of this period in Chile. Research has shown that the Chilean military discussed variants of this type of conflict, such as “revolutionary war” at the str…[Read more]

This paper analyzes the military action response of the Chilean Army during and after the Earthquake of Valdivia of May 21th, 1960 and their impact on the armed institution and civil-military relations. After the strong earthquake, the government of Jorge Alessandri decreed “Emergency Zone” and authorizing the direct deployment of the army, und…[Read more]

This essay argues that the changes that occurred in the form, function, material and internal decorative schemes of the Great House before 1660 was less of a transformation and more of a slow evolution. The popularity of plasterwork in the Great House from the Tudors to the Restoration, demonstrates its importance in the evolution of such…[Read more]

This dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.

This paper analyses two closely related but different concepts, digitization and digitalization, first discussed in an encyclopedia article by Brennen and Kreiss in 2016. Digital Humanities mainly uses the first term, whereas business and economics tend to use the second to praise the process of the digitalization of society. But digitalization…[Read more]

This chapter examines the process by which Puerto Rican nationalists engaged with the Olympic Movement in their struggle for decolonization. Sotomayor shows not only shifting meanings of colonial Olympic sport for nationalists, but, more generally, that the Olympic Movement has been used and serves as a platform to negotiate nationalism and…[Read more]

Program of the Sensory Histories of Place workshop, organized by me and Elvan Baştürk Cobb, at ANAMED in 2015.

I analyze the strategies used in Patricio Guzman’s Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la luz 2010), Enrique Buchichio’s Behind the Truth (Zanahoria 2014) and Nicolas Pereda’s Summer of Goliath (Verano de Goliath 2010) to expose the political uses of landscape images in concealing and reconstructing forced disappearances and the violence surro…[Read more]

Con “After the Nation: Postnational Satire in the Works of Carlos Fuentes and Thomas Pynchon”, Pedro García-Caro lleva a cabo una serie de intervenciones críticas necesarias para la articulación de un espacio hemisférico de indagación en lo postnacional. Es particularmente valiosa su reconstrucción del marco histórico del que surgen las sátira…[Read more]

In an essay on Latin American freaks, Susan Antebi warns, “The question of freakishness and freaks in Latin American contexts is fraught from the beginning by its decontextualized and translated quality; it is an imposition, even when embraced. To study freakishness in Latin America, or just to pay attention to it, necessarily involves an a…[Read more]

Tras el análisis de las tres novelas que Carlos Gardini publica en este siglo, se observa que la característica formal más notable es una trama concebida para conducir a un instante de revelación plena sobre el mundo, re-conocido ahora en un momento de luminosa anagnórisis. Esta anagnórisis consiste en la comprensión por parte de un protag…[Read more]

En el caso de cierta CF escrita en México, hay una doble invasión: espacial y temporal. Ocurre así, por ejemplo, en La destrucción de todas las cosas (1992), de Hugo Hiriart, y en “La catástrofe” (1984), recogido en La sangre de Medusa de José Emilio Pacheco.211 En estos textos, se emplea un género que se percibe como ajeno para abordar la disloca…[Read more]

No sólo la calidad une Trafalgar y Kalpa Imperial, o el hecho de que cierren un primer periodo de la obra de Gorodischer. En ambos libros la fi gura central es un narrador que relata aventuras y acontecimientos en lo que es, explícita o implícitamente, otro planeta, muchos en Trafalgar, uno solo en Kalpa Imperial. Estos planetas y estos ac…[Read more]

En el capítulo 1 se ofrece un modelo del funcionamiento del género de la ciencia ficción construido desde una cierta mirada del latinoamericanista. El capítulo 2 examina la práctica de la ciencia ficción en América Latina.

La ciencia ficción latinoamericana es, ante todo, ficción latinoamericana. Participa íntegramente de las corrientes culturales y artísticas que nutren la literatura de América Latina, al tiempo que constituye un específi co punto de articulación de éstas. Englobable en la literatura de lo insólito, la ciencia ficción (CF a partir de ahora) es…[Read more]