Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana

The friendship between Rubén Darío and Eduardo Talero

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We reconstruct the friendship between Rubén Darío and the Columbian-Argentine lawyer and poet Eduardo Talero, during the years 1897-1916, and we add five little-known letters, one from Talero to Darío, and four from Darío to Talero.

El espacio autopoético en la literatura hispanoamericana del cambio de siglo

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El espacio autopoético en la literatura hispanoamericana del cambio de siglo

Theatre philosophy, events, autopoiesis and infrascience: the thinking of Mauricio Kartun and Javier Daultehe

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The article develops the concept of autopoiesis as conceived by the Philosophy of Theater in relation to the theatrical event. In one of its main lines (the Philosophy of Artistic Praxis, production of knowledge in/from/for theatrical practices), two notable Argentine artist-researchers (Mauricio Kartun and Javier Daulte) reflect on autopoiesis from the self-observation of their dramaturgical and scenic work. An appreciation and analysis of the literature of artist-researchers (vast-volume literature in Latin America, which is beginning to be studied) are proposed as a contribution to Theatrology.

en] Fables of the real. Politics of the self to narrate in times of desolation

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The article analyzes textual mechanisms focused on different forms of the representation “autofictional” – the “authorial” image. The interest that this procedure has generated in critics in recent years is partly explained by its presence in the works of some of the most significant authors of the present. My hypothesis thinks autofiction as a space where, in its articulation between the textual and the referential, the link between politics and aesthetics are knotted. This essay considers several Latin American writers of recent generations and focuses especially on the work of Nona Fernández, La dimensión desconocida.

Literary subjects and figurations: the deviant autofiction of Dalia Rosetti

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This article sets out to think about the forms of construction of the discursive and fictional subject in the narrative of Dalia Rosetti, narrative heteronym of the Argentine poet Fernanda Laguna. In a sort of socioliterary revision of the death of the Author, Rosetti's novels exemplify the return of the authorial self in current narrative, seeking to resolve in the concrete the inequalities that the traditional concept of authorship, based on the idea of the modern subject, entailed, and that had not been compensated by the abstraction that its dissolution implied. But the returning author in Rosetti's novels deactivates, from many fronts, her alliance with the idea of the self that literature in general (and autofiction in particular) has promoted. The mismatches between the empirical author, the fictional author, the narrator and the characters make these novels an example of deviant autofiction, in which the self gradually fills its initial indefinition with everything that surrounds it, thus making possible the collectivization of the first person, which incorporates into its own narrative event subjectivities and experiences that are literarily underrepresented.

The autopoetics of Cristina Rivera Garza: a writing project

2025-12-18T11:11:56+00:00

Numerous writers have recently published essays in which they reflect on their literary work and writing practices. Among them is Cristina Rivera Garza, who has two fundamental books for Latin American literature in which she develops an aesthetic proposal that dialogues with her own literary work and with contemporary literature. In this sense, based on the concept of "autopoetics" and its specific methodology, we will study Los muertos indóciles. Necroescrituras y desapropiación and Escrituras geológicas as part of a personal writing project and, consequently, of an "authorial project" that the writer has been consolidating in the contemporary literary scene.

The unsaid, the unauthorised and the non-place in Raúl Zurita. A reflection between philology, poetics and archive

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In this article we want trace a brief genealogy of the notion of “poetics”, its singularization in relation to the archive and its implementation in literary studies, especially by authors such as Rocío Badía Fumaz, with the aim of placing it in the context of the new revisions of philology, but above all as a possible and timely tool for scenarios of complex, expanded, tense languages, such as the work of the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita and in particular his essays not published in books nor largely reviewed by the criticism such as Literature, language and society (1973-1983) (1983) and “My testimony” (1985) from which a kind of bioeschatology was founded early on that will cross all of his work to the present.

The filiation narratives and its Hispano-American avatars

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One of the neuralgic issue of the debates around the lyrical genre in the last decades has been the problematic relationship between the empirical author, his textual correlate and the subject who enunciates it. The elusive "I" is an ambiguous entity, which opens up successive relational spaces, especially when the name of the author and verifiable biographical data are inscribed in the poem. A polemical tension is opened between the autobiographical tradition and the new autofiction, both of which are much studied for prose, but with little theoretical development in poetry. These archi-genres strive to colonize the enigmatic space of the autopoetic poem with the testimonial force of the anthroponym.

“We are made of glorious material”: Interview with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara about Las niñas del naranjel (2023)

2025-12-18T11:11:40+00:00

We talk with Gabriela Cabezón Cámara about Las niñas del naranjel (2023), her latest novel about the figure of the Nun Ensign and their relationship with the American world.

Hans Staden and his True History. Captivity, Cannibalism and “Conversion”: from Harquebusier to Prophet

2025-12-18T11:11:52+00:00

This article addresses a fundamental text in the history of the Discovery of Brazil, the earliest account of the Tupí Indians: Warhaftige historia und beschreibung eyner landtschafft der Wilnen Nacketen Grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen Newenwelt America…(True History and Description of a Country of Naked Savages, Ferocious and Cannibals set in the New World America), by Hans Staden (1557). In order to propose a contemporary Reading of the text and the engravings of this story, this paper analyze the rol of ritual, corporality and God in this first story of captivity in Brazil. Mercenary, harquebusier, captive, prophet. The experience lived among the Tupí Indians not only offers him an anecdote to tell about theses devourers, it not only allows him to discover the ritual in its war-cultural meaning, but it also offers itself as an instance of self-discovery. Staden finds God and his divine force operating on his people (that is, on him) and preventing his death for almost ten months. Cannibalism results an experience that means both who practice it and those, like this German captive, who observe it, who witness it and who almost suffer it.

The Voices of the Phonograph: Poetry and New Technologies at the Turn of the Century in Latin America

2025-12-18T11:11:47+00:00

The phonograph, together with the daguerreotype, represent two of the earliest modern artifacts, capable of offering a mechanical reproduction of reality. Even though the phonograph – and its derivative, the gramophone – currently retain a mainly historical and even archaeological interest, given the discontinuation and obsolescence of both technologies, their impact on the culture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was vast; and its legacy survives in the present, through the recording devices that have subsequently replaced them. This work focuses on examining this impact in the context of the intellectual debates around the phonograph that generated in Latin America at the turn of the century. In an intellectual context dominated by modernist aesthetics and the denunciation of “Nordomania” and technological utilitarianism promoted from the North, the debate around the introduction of the phonograph and its potential as a tool to aid creation was extremely tense and contradictory, even among representatives of the same school of thought. The cases of José Martí and Rubén Darío clearly illustrate these antipodes regarding the creative potential of new information technologies, such as the phonograph. The present work explores this ideological rupture between representatives of modernism, late romanticism, and realism at the end of the century, as well as its European counterparts in the symbolist and naturalist schools. Finally, I argue in favor of the need to establish a historical evolutionary line that connects the information technology innovations of the 19th century with the most recent innovations in the sphere of computational culture and contemporary media studies in other to better understand its reach.

The Hispanidad in the Filipino Soul

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In our article we aim to delve into the meaning and scope of the Hispanidad in the Philippines. We will see how Hispanidad, a concept full of meaning, lives within the Filipino soul, deeply marking its identity. Although it is not our intention to address in detail the historical process of its formation, we cannot forget that said term was developed during the first decades of the 20th century, a time in which Filipino literature in Spanish flourished in the archipelago, becoming the Golden Age of Philippine Letters, a period that to date has not been equaled, and whose thematic axis was the Filipino Hispanidad. That literature was not alien to the spirit that generated such a concept, so in this article we will try to explain what Hispanidad was, what its essence is, its relevance and its incomparable contribution to the cultures of Spain and Latin America and, from this, refer to its presence, development and settlement in the Philippines. The idea of Hispanidad has attached the notions of Humanism and Catholicity, aspects without which the essence of this concept cannot be conceived in depth. Almost 80% of the Filipino population is Christian, so that within its culture the characteristics of the Hispanidad-Catholicism-Humanity trilogy are very visible, which are seen inseparably enrooted in their popular idiosyncrasy to the present.

Una lectura del movimiento en la estructura de La casa verde (1966) de Mario Vargas Llosa

2025-12-18T11:11:51+00:00

En este artículo analizo la existencia y las funciones del movimiento en La casa verde (1966) de Mario Vargas Llosa. Dicho de otro modo, persigo un análisis a la estructura de la novela, y la propongo como una de carácter “líquido”. Así, planteo cuatro dimensiones (o sistemas primarios) relacionados entre sí: la religión, el comercio, los indígenas y el ejército. Estos representan los aspectos que más han influenciado en la Amazonía tanto histórica como novelescamente. Por ello, la intersección de estos microcosmos o dimensiones es propuesto en este ensayo como la Amazonía misma. En ese sentido, simbólicamente, defiendo que ésta se constituye por los flujos de poder entre las cuatro dimensiones y entre las relaciones complejas que se recrean en cada uno de ellos. Esto, ya que dentro de cada dimensión encuentro otros subconjuntos al que denomino “sistema interno”. Los personajes son como engranajes que se movilizan de modos complejos permitiendo entender a La casa verde como un sistema que se mueve dentro de otro. Así, el objetivo no es solo trascender los estudios de la estructura de esta novela, sino demostrar que para pensar la Amazonía en su complejidad es necesario entenderla como la confluencia entre distintos actores y contextos.

Autofiction in Octavio Paz's Pasado en claro

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This paper aims to classify the long poem Pasado en claro by Octavio Paz as autofiction, a literary genre that oscillates between autobiography and fiction. In order to conduct this research, several theories of autofiction are considered and, in addition, theories of semiotics and hermeneutics, which serve as a complement. Then the analysis is divided into three sections according to the thematic development of the poem: the essence of memory, the autobiographic references and the end, and the conclusion indicates that autofiction emerges as a consequence of certain rhetoric strategies, which are identified in the analysis of the essence of memory, and of a choice by the reader between psychobiography (empirical interpretation) and autofiction (aesthetic interpretation). Finally, the aesthetic interpretation of Pasado en claro, which characterizes it as autofiction, is favored by refuting the intentional fallacy of psychobiography.

Bustamante Escalona, Fernanda y Lorena Amaro Castro. Carto(corpo)grafías. Nuevo reparto de las voces en la narrativa de autoras latinoamericanas del siglo XXI. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2024.

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Hortensia Calvo y Beatriz Colombi (eds.), Cartas de Lysi: la mecenas de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz en correspondencia inédita. Por Vanina M. Teglia

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Hope Pérez, Ashley. Deformative Fictions. Cruelty and Narrative Ethics in Twentieth-century Latin American Literature. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2024.

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Gómez Madrid, Benito. El fenómeno de la escritura como autoterapia en la literatura latinoamericana. Madrid: Pliegos, 2021.

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Licata, Nicolás, Yanna Hadatty Mora y Kristine Vanden Berghe (eds.). Tradición y transgresión. Ensayos críticos sobre la obra de Guadalupe Nettel. Liège: Presses Université de Liège, 2023.

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Ferreira, César (Ed.): Miguel Hernández. César Vallejo. Versos en convergencia. Colección Diálogos con Miguel Hernández. Madrid: Instituto Cervantes y Diputación de Jaén, Fundación Legado Literario Miguel Hernández, 2023.

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Larrazabal Cárdenas, Hilda. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: de reliquia histórica a texto vivo. Madrid/Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2023.

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Saldaña Sagredo, Alfredo. Romper el límite. La poesía de Roberto Juarroz. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2022.

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The Film Screenplays by Aurora Correa: her Screenwriting in El pajareador

2025-12-18T11:11:46+00:00

The Spanish-Mexican writer Aurora Correa, who arrived in exile in Mexico in 1937 with the group known as the Morelia children, wrote several film screenplays that, however, were never filmed. Among them is El pajareador, in which she adapts the homonymous story by Mexican author Francisco Rojas González. With the intention of delving into Correa’s facet as a film writer, it is intended to carefully analyze the script of El pajareador. For this reason, the presence of cinema in her publications and her work as a screenwriter will be established. After this, it will be analyzed how film resources are used in the text to present the Mexican rural world, which is shown as a place with harsh living conditions.

Stylistic resources in the “Coplas de Juan Descalzo” by Nicolás Guillén

2025-12-18T11:11:41+00:00

Abstract. This work carries out a literary analysis of the “Coplas de Juan Descalzo” written and published by the national poet of Cuba, Nicolás Guillén Batista (1902-1989), better known as Nicolás Guillén. He is considered by literary critics and readers to be the greatest Cuban poet of all time. This poem belongs to the Political Satire section of his vast and fruitful literary production that has as a backdrop, the different historical and sociocultural contexts of the Cuban nation before the triumph of the socialist revolution of 1959. Of the results obtained from this study, the following stand out: uses and management of the stylistic resources carried out by the Camagüey bard in this poetic composition where the use of this type of strophic form from the Spanish popular tradition predominates.

Three tales by Óscar Hahn: “El sándwich”, “El centro del dormitorio” and “El viejo y el joven”. A new perspective on his work

2025-12-18T11:11:43+00:00

Óscar Hahn's three short stories ‘El sándwich’ (1959), ‘El centro del dormitorio’ (1959) and ‘El viejo y el joven’ (2022) are practically unknown. This research relates the fantastic images that appear in these stories by Hahn with his later poetic work in order to observe their evolution and changes. On the one hand, in ‘El sándwich’ and ‘El centro del dormitorio’ there are a desacralisation of certain Catholic rituals, for example, the act of taking communion, which Hahn takes up again in his verses, see ‘Fábula nocturna’ and ‘Monaguillo’. On the other hand, existential concerns are the protagonists in ‘El viejo y el joven’, where he speculates on death as a new place from which one cannot escape or as a closed circle where the previous life ends and another begins, in other words, reincarnation, ideas on which Hahn reflects in several of his poems, such as ‘Fotografía’ or ‘Reloj de pared’.

Gothic Echoes in “Bezoar” by Guadalupe Nettel

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Based on previous works, I will perform a Gothic reading of Guadalupe Nettel’s short story “Bezoar”. Through the concept of the unreliable narrator, I will argue that the character Víctor is not an independent figure in the story but rather an imaginary product of the narrator’s sick psyche. I will support this idea by comparing the character Dr. Murillo with the character Dr. Moreau from H.G. Wells's Gothic novel The Island of Dr. Moreau (1896). I will analyze then a characteristic motif of the Gothic genre: the figure of the double and its relationship with the Unheimlich. To do this, I primarily rely on Freud's comments on the subject. I will conclude with proposals for future analyses. 1. Introduction 2. Victor, the Result of a Sick Psyche 3. Dr. Murrillo and Dr. Moreau 4. Double, Splitting and Unheimlich 5. “My Favorite Genre Was Still the Fantastic Tale Leaning Towards Gore and Horror”.