Imagen y memoria del cuerpo en la literatura hispanoamericana

Image and memory of the body in Latin American literature

Daniel Nemrava, Juan Carlos Herrera Ruiz

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):173-178 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.016  

Escribir sobre el rostro. El fin de siglo en sus imágenes

Writing on the face. Images at the fin de siècle

Leo Cherri

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):179-194 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.017  

The creation, use, and circulation of the photographic device moved and affected the knowledge of the 19th and 20th centuries, forever modifying our culture and experience; above all, radicalising the crisis of a scopic regimen that - in the terms of Martin Jay or Susan Sontag - structured Western thought from Plato's cave to the present day. This paper aims to explore the intellectual, artistic, and political adventure involved in the creation and journey of photography - its importation - from Europe to the American continent. For that purpose, a route that recovers discursive moments that are considered key in what respects the conceptualisation...

Copi en Copi: el cuerpo del traductor

Copi within Copi: the translator's body

Lucía Cytryn

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):195-208 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.018  

Copi's work twists the categories and units of the traditional literary story, from temporality, causality, and speed to its verisimilitude. The categories of author, writer, and name are particularly affected by this procedure: narrators and characters named Copi, Pico, Raúl Damonte, Darío Copi, cartoonists, and writers produce a multiplication of the proper name. Following a qualitative analysis methodology that takes elements from close reading, this article analyses the novels El Uruguayo and La ciudad de las ratas, by the Argentine author Copi, in the light of the theoretical relationship between translation, proper name, and body....

Normalización del cuerpo en los buenos gobiernos. De las prácticas disciplinarias en el estado autoritario a la construcción de la narrativa de Silvia Hopenhayn

Normalisation of the body in good governments. From disciplinary practices in the authoritarian state to the construction of docility in the protective state in the narrative by Silvia Hopenhayn

Giuseppe Gatti Riccardi

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):209-228 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.019  

The analysis proposed in the following pages focuses on the novel Ginebra, published in 2018 by the Argentine writer Silvia Hopenhayn. The purpose lies in placing the work within the framework of the studies of the modalities of literary representation of the events of the recent history of the Southern Cone nations, in the thematic axis of the captive bodies. In particular, the approach to the text tries to verify the degree of application of Michel Foucault's reflections about the disciplinary methods of surveillance, control, and education of the body put in place by the institutions of power of modernity. The analysis seeks to transfer Foucault's...

El hábito. Cubrimiento, desnudez y trans-vestismo en las crónicas de Indias

The Habit. Covering, nudity, and trans-vestism in chronicles of the Indies

Marina Estefanía Guevara

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):229-246 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.020  

This article proposes a reading, in some texts of the 16th century, of the way in which colonial subjects apprehend the existence and corporality of others, as well as their own, through the figure of the garments, of their absence (nudity), and of their displacements ("trans-vestism"). The habit - what covers and identifies, the custom - is here the complementary face of the figure of "discovery". The vestment served as one of the first parameters for the classification of the other. As protection, dissimulation, or ritual, clothing invests bodies with new potentialities, with the body being understood here as an active and complex process of appropriation...

Cuerpo y archivo en la escritura autoetnográfica de Gabriela Wiener: el caso de Huaco retrato

Body and archive in Gabriela Wiener's autoethnographic writing: the case of Huaco retrato

Jakub Hromada

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):247-258 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.021  

In Huaco retrato (2021), the autoethnographic approach to the present of the migrant includes the rereading of the textual archive of Charles Wiener, the European archipatriarch who came to Peru in the late nineteenth century to lay the foundations for archaeological studies. From the critique of bodily representation by the social and human sciences and focusing on the limits of text, this article analyses the semantic field of the gaze in the decolonial context. The limits of the visual acquire meaning in the anarchivistic work with the institutional archive, experiences of self-guided tours in museum exhibitions and in the affective dialogue...

El cuerpo y la subjetividad narrativa en tres novelas de Horacio Castellanos Moya

Corporeality and narrative subjectivity in three novels by Horacio Castellanos Moya

Adriana Sara Jastrzębska

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):259-274 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.022  

In his novels, Horacio Castellanos Moya employs homo-diegetic narration with traces of orality, or a hetero-diegetic one, focalised from the character's perspective. As a result, the vision of reality in his works is a combination of individual experiences. It reflects experiences and perceptions of the world, frequently distorted by trauma, an illness, a vice, or an ideology. On the basis of examples from three of Castellanos Moya's novels - El asco. Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador (1997), La diabla en el espejo (2000), and El arma en el hombre (2001) - the paper analyses the importance of the human body and various aspects of...

Apropiaciones antiborgianas y corporalidad en la novela gráfica Perramus de Sasturain y Breccia

Anti-Borgian appropriations and corporeality in the graphic novel Perramus by Sasturain and Breccia

Javier de Navascués

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):275-290 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.023  

The graphic novel Perramus, published between 1982 and 1989, with a script by Juan Sasturain and drawings by Alberto Breccia, is a canonical work in its genre in Latin America and one of the main texts that dealt with the subject of the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1980s. In it, an anonymous character known by the nickname of Perramus has various adventures in a city, Santa María, dominated by the sinister regime of the Mariscals. Perramus integrates graphic experimentation with the political content of its stories, in this case linked to a left-wing Latin Americanist programme. One of the findings of the work is the inclusion...

Desplazamiento e identidad en Papeles falsos de Valeria Luiselli

Displacement and identity in Papeles falsos by Valeria Luiselli

Julieta Marina Vanney

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):291-302 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.024  

This work deals with the first book published by Valeria Luiselli, a collection of essays entitled Papeles falsos (2010). Luiselli has stated in various interviews that she began to write essays because, after a series of failed attempts, she believed that fiction writing was not for her. It is known that just one year after the appearance of Papeles falsos, she published her first work of fiction, Los ingrávidos (2011). Methodologically, this article will start from the idea that where Luiselli searches for fiction, she finds essay writing and, with that, she traces a return to fiction. This movement points to the need to conduct...

Le zèle autobiographique dans Aurélia de Gérard de Nerval

Autobiographical zeal in Aurélia by Gérard de Nerval

Abderrahim El Bahi

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):303-322 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.025  

The critique devoted to Gérard de Nerval's Aurélia, published in the previous issue of this journal, begins a thematic sketch of the work by examining two functions of "pain" in the narrative, a "constituting" function and another "instituting" one. The analysis proposed here rather questions its inscription in the poetics of the genre of autobiography. From a comparative perspective combining three angles of attack in the author's critical fist, the aesthetics of reception, narratology, and enunciative linguistics, this article draws, starting from Lejeune's Autobiographical Pact, a line of demarcation between Aurélia and Rousseau's...

Le cimetière juif - lieu absent de l'espace urbain et habitable

The Jewish cemetery - a place absent from urban and habitable space

Atinati Mamatsashvili

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):323-340 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.026  

This paper proposes to examine the spatial representation of the Jewish cemetery in the literary works of the French and Luxembourgish writers Henri Calet and Paul Palgen, who are either unknown or forgotten today. Written during the years of the Occupation or in the immediate post-war period, these texts present the Jewish cemetery as a place of annihilation, outside space and territory. Space is understood here in the Lefebvreian sense, having a social character and being a social product. The collage by the Belgian writer and artist Max Servais, Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire, provides a parallel reading that is divided between...

Santana Pérez, Juan Manuel – Santana Pérez, Germán (2022), Puertas en el Mar: Islas africanas atlánticas en el Antiguo Régimen, Valencia: Tirant lo blanch, 371 p.

Manuel Méndez Alonzo

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):365-367 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.029  

Válová, Karolina et al. (2021), 100 František / Jorge Listopad, Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 129 p.

Klára Trsková

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):367-370 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.030  

El cuerpo huyó, pero sigue en el mismo lugar

The body fled, but it is still in the same place

Abilio Estévez

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):341-350 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.027  

El archivo te buscará para matarte

The file will look for you to kill you

Daniel Link

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):351-364 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.028  

Luca Serianni (1947-2022)

Francesco Bianco

Romanica Olomucensia 2022, 34(2):371-374 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2022.031