Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana
The Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana is a biannual peer-reviewed publication whose objective is to circulate recent studies and debates focused on the knowledge and understanding of Latin American literature and culture in their historical and social contexts. It includes texts in Spanish and Portuguese.
Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Perú). / Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar (Perú).
De Lima, Paolo. James Joyce y la poética de ‘lalengua’ en Ulises.
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Lesmes Albis, Marta, Coord. Discursos críticos cubanos. Siglos XX-XXI.
Ortiz Sánchez, Lourdes. Sino y adversidad sociocultural en la figura femenina de los siglos XIX y XX. Exégesis de la narrativa hispanoamericana
Ferreira, César, ed. Los cuentos de Julio Ramón Ribeyro. Catorce textos críticos.
Torres, Alejandra. Escritoras, artes y procedimientos intermediales en América Latina
Clorinda Matto de Turner. Tradiciones cuzqueñas. Estudio preliminar y edición de Christian Fernández
O discurso do metaempírico e o insólito ficcional em “A gargalhada”, de Orígenes Lessa
Orígenes Lessa (1903-1986), elected member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters in 1981, was a highly awarded writer. One of his novels, O Feijão e o Sonho, was adapted for television and shown between June and October 1976 on Rede Globo. Lessa wrote stories that identify with science fiction and fantasy stories and novels that move between the fantasy genre and the fantasy modality. Despite this, the author and his work have been forgotten for years and there is no movement to rescue them. The short story “A gargalhada”, that is the objet of this essay, can be read both as science fiction and, more appropriately, as fantastic, especially if approached from a modal perspective.
Sección Monográfica: En los bordes de lo fantástico latinoamericano
Narrativas en el umbral: figuraciones del horror y desvíos del policial en la narrativa Argentina actual (2010-2021)
A partir de la denominación de “narrativas en el umbral” se buscó dar respuesta a cuáles son los elementos de la textualidad que dan cuenta de las figuraciones del horror. Por otro lado, partiendo de la afirmación de que en la narrativa argentina contemporánea se leen usos y desvíos del policial, resultó necesario precisar cómo participan las figuraciones del horror. Se trazó un mapa de lectura que se recorta de la narrativa argentina publicada en los últimos años constituido por las novelas Polígono Buenos Aires (2013) de Marcos Herrera, Berazachussets (2013) y Medianera (2011) de Leandro Avalos Blacha, La tensión del umbral (2015) y Desarmadero (2022), de Eugenia. Almeida.
Nuevas negociaciones entre el realismo y lo insólito en algunos cuentos de Federico Falco
Federico Falco’s (Córdoba, Argentina, 1977) narrative project cannot be considered as fantastic, although it sometimes uses the resources of the fantastic, especially in relation to the place-landscape-subject coordinates. The wasted borders that his stories suggest move in an intergenre that transgress the limits of the possible without stridency. I think of the unusual in this narrative not as a macro-genre but as a fluid collaboration between non-mimetic genres that generates the effect of an “augmented reality” that dares realistic representation. I will work on some stories from La hora de los monos (2010), 222 patitos (2004), and Un cementerio perfecto (2016).
O nascimento de um mestre do grotesco: Gastão Cruls
This paper aims at a critical reading of Gastão Cruls’ unpublished short story, “O seio de Rosaura [The Breast of Rosaura].” Written between 1910 and 1917, therefore before his first publications, it narrates the story of a young man suffering from tertian fever, who is haunted by the image of the combination of the body of his beloved Rosaura with the body of an old man deformed by aggressive cancer, and anticipates the main characteristics of Cruls’ later fiction: (i) grotesque themes that defy understanding; (ii) disillusionment with science, which explores the concerns about the limits and the risks inherent to knowledge; (iii) the horrors associated with our irremediable biological condition, in particular, our libido, whose phobic potential was explored by many great works at the turn of the century: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886); Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan (1894); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), just to mention a few ones.
La anomalía fantástica: relatos fantásticos en ciclos cuentísticos realistas (Rafael F. Muñoz, Jesús Díaz y Eduardo Antonio Parra)
The purpose of this article is to describe the characteristics of three fantastic short stories included in three books considered short story cycles and to determine whether any of these characteristics was influenced by the realistic context of the book. “La cuerda del general” (El feroz cabecilla y otros relatos de la revolución en el Norte [1928] by Rafael Felipe Muñoz), “El polvo a la mitad” (Los años duros [1967] by Jesus Díaz), and “Traveler Hotel” (Tierra de nadie [1999] by Eduardo Antonio Parra) are the stories studied here. This article starts from the hypothesis that the insertion of a fantastic short story in an emphatically realistic context —such as the short story cycles mentioned— could have consequences in the configuration of fantastic fiction. The theoretical framework of this study is based on concepts of the fantastic taken from Tzvetan Todorov, Ana María Barrenechea and Rosalba Campra, and on the short story cycle concept proposed by Forrest Ingram. As a result, the attenuation of fantastic features in the supernatural intrusion, in the selection of themes and in the ambiguity of the discursive level is obtained.
Mugre rosa de Fernanda Trías: afectos y conexiones en la era del Capitaloceno
n the Hispanic American narrative of the 21st century, there is an inclination for the exhibition of a sense of consternation and bewilderment through literary resources that refer to the fantastic or dystopian narrative of the last century, but from an original perspective, very much rooted in the present. The aim of this study is to verify, through textual analysis and the study of affects, how these feelings converge in the novel Mugre rosa (2021) by Fernanda Trías and how the writer represents and interprets the shadow zones of the present.
Apuntes para una crítica weird desde los bordes del sistema: América Latina como frontera del mundo global en tres cuentos de Solange Rodríguez Pappe
As Giovanna Rivero points out (“Raro, hermoso, lúdico. Eso es un mundo”), Solange Rodríguez Pappe’s latest collection of short stories, De un mundo raro, functions as a “Latin American western” where “the subject” “blurs on the horizon”, productively ‘rarefies’, giving way to the “liberating epiphany of another life that dispenses with the norms of civilisation”, i.e. favouring the projection of a chaotic “New World” (originating from the end of the world as we know it): a mutant, heterogeneous, hybrid world of fierce inter-speciesist alliances, whose evident posthumanist affiliation emerges as the ideal continuation of the Latin American cultural discourse of emancipation from absolute categories and ideals of purity. This article sets out to explore, from the perspective of weird fiction, the possibilities of the current manifestation of localism, accounting for the literary return of the poetic and politically resistant image of Latin America as a significant margin of the world-system and an emblematic place of identity experimentation.
Paranoia, barbarie y tabú en el horror actual latinoamericano escrito por mujeres
In this paper we propose to investigate the ascendancy of the horror novel in the new literary proposals of the current fantastic, particularly in writers such as Mariana Enríquez, Liliana Colanzi, Giovanna Rivero, Solange Rodríguez Pappe and Gabriela Arciniegas among others. From the theoretical tools on gender, and in the crossing with other modern genres such as the Crime Story, the article aims to examine the representation of the tension between body expression and governmentality in late capitalism. For this reason, the approach focuses on the cross between critical reading of literary structures and critique of governmentality. Our aim, therefore, is to find out the capacity of literary forms to join the challenges of the social sciences in the representation of the contradictions of contemporaneity.
Haciendo ruido contra la violencia de género: Raimunda Torres y Quiroga y el gótico del siglo XIX
At the end of the 19th century, the Argentine author Raimunda Torres y Quiroga published fantastic short stories that address the issue of domestic violence. In the present article, we analyze the relationship between aesthetics and politics in her fantastic short stories, focusing particularly on the workings of sounds. The study will reveal how male voices are silenced through powerful female voices, thus destabilizing gender power relations and the authority of the husband. In the sociohistorical and political context, the sounds in these stories serve as both an aesthetic element and a strategy to expose and denaturalize violence against women.
Gótico y ficción doméstica: Creaciones de Eduarda Mansilla
The purpose of this work is to analyze a set of stories from Creaciones (1881) by Eduarda Mansilla in which elements of the Gothic literary tradition appear linked to the uses and figurations of the affective and sentimental and to gender-generic constructions. The Gothic and its imaginary are associated with an emotional excess and/or an experience of transgression embodied by characters whose sentimental overflow may in some cases be redirected and, in others, will reveal their non-correspondence with a conception of “domestic love” based on a functional affectivity to the matrimonial institution.
En los bordes de lo fantástico latinoamericano
José Antonio Mazzotti: “en el 80, se trata de recuperar el canto”
Sección Monográfica: José Antonio Mazzotti. Poeta, crítico literario y gestor cultural
La feria urbana de las mercancías: hiperrealidad, simulacro y simulación en Las flores del mall, de José Antonio Mazzotti
This essay explores, through epigraphic intertextualities and the concepts of “Hyperreality,” “Simulacrum,” and “Simulation” as developed by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, the ways in which José Antonio Mazzotti recreates (reconstructs) the notion of “city”—a concept underlying Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal (1857)—and reconfigures the urban experience within the framework of the postmodernity in his poetry collection Las flores del Mall (2009). From this critical perspective, the poetic voice reflects upon history and interrogates American national memory from an ambiguous locus of enunciation (situated both within and outside hegemonic discourse), articulated through urban markers (monuments, public spaces, institutions, and geographic demarcations). In this manner, the essay examines the urban reconstruction proposed in Las flores del Mall, the dialogical tone of the poetic voice, and the historicist dimension of collective memory, conceived as a mercantile legacy shaped by historical processes of consumption and cultural appropriation.
El entre-lugar poético: escritura y exilio en Mazzotti
This essay examines José Antonio Mazzotti’s poetry by approaching exile not as a biographical incident, but as a poetic, political, and epistemological condition. Based on the analysis of five of his poetry collections, the study explores how displacement, linguistic hybridity, and ancestral memory shape a transnational poetics of resistance. Drawing from the frameworks of the migrant subject (Cornejo Polar), the “line of flight” (Milán), the “third space” (Bhabha), the “mestiza language” (Anzaldúa), and Edward Said’s concept of exile as a critical vantage point, the essay argues that Mazzotti’s work turns dislocation into a generative site where cultural, ecological, and linguistic forces intersect to question hegemonic narratives and envision new modes of belonging.
Poemas no recogidos en libro (1981) de José Antonio Mazzotti: retrato del poeta adolescente
En las divinas metalenguas: metapoesía y poéticas de José Antonio Mazzotti
This work recovers a minimal but essential personal anthology by José Antonio Mazzotti, still unpublished, to explore the art of some of the most important features of his general poetics: those that trace an aesthetic continuity and give particular substance to the baroque style that critics have identified in his poetry
José Antonio Mazzotti. Encontrando un inca. Ensayos escogidos sobre el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Un recorrido por los ensayos escogidos de José Antonio Mazzotti sobre el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
In this work, I am interested in highlighting how, based on a broad theoretical framework and the concept of cultural heterogeneity, José Antonio Mazzotti develops those levels of Inca Garcilaso’s work that correspond to the Andean discursive tradition, mainly oral in nature, and to the survival of certain symbols of the Cuzco court, until now less studied than the presence of classical and Renaissance historiography. By recognizing Garcilaso’s dialogue with this dual tradition, he adopted a less conventional approach to the works of the Cuzco writer, particularly the Comentarios reales, which has managed to expand the interpretive field of his works and open new avenues for their interpretation.
Recordando a José Antonio Mazzotti (1961-2024): Comentarios reales en clave andina
Nelson Osorio y el lugar de la escritura crítica
Camilo Fernández Cozman. Hacia una nueva lectura de Los heraldos negros
Eduardo Huaytán Martínez. Emociones masculinas. Afecto melodramático en las obras de Vargas Llosa y Arguedas