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O materialismo do final do século norteamericano nas Ecólogas y Urbanas de Jesús López Pacheco
The work of Jesús López Pacheco (1930-1997) has always been conscious of the environment surrounding his characters. It will be, however, in his last work during his lifetime, Ecólogas y Urbanas: Manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro (1996), where this concern is manifested in all its splendor. Behind this neologism (which combines “eclogue” and “ecology”) hides a lyrical activism that goes from personal to collective experience, and that tries to bring us back to sustainability as a paradigm for subsistence in the third millennium. From an ecological materialist perspective of North American origin, it analyzes human relations with other animal species, the critique of savage economic mercantilism and the environmental degradation of urban landscapes. Therefore, showing a sharp sense of humour linked with vis poietica, a possible postpastoral scenario is drawn, tinged with hope, as the only solution to humanity in the years to come.La obra de Jesús López Pacheco (1930-1997) siempre ha sido consciente del entorno que rodea a sus personajes. Sin embargo, será en su última obra en vida, Ecólogas y Urbanas: Manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro (1996), donde esta preocupación se manifieste en todo su esplendor. Tras este neologismo (que aúna “égloga” y “ecología”) se esconde un activismo lírico que va de la experiencia personal a la colectiva, y que intenta que volvamos a la sostenibilidad como paradigma para la subsistencia en el tercer milenio. Desde una perspectiva materialista ecológica de origen norteamericano se analizan, así, las relaciones humanas con las otras especies animales, la crítica al mercantilismo económico salvaje y la degradación ambiental de los paisajes urbanos. De este modo, uniendo un humor mordaz a la vis poética, se dibuja, esperanzado, un entorno postpastoral posible como única solución para la humanidad en los años venideros.O trabalho de Jesús López Pacheco (1930-1997) sempre esteve atento ao ambiente que envolve seus personagens. Entretanto, será em seu último trabalho durante sua vida, Ecólogas y Urbanas: Manual para evitar un fin de siglo siniestro (1996), onde esta preocupação se manifesta em todo seu esplendor. Por trás deste neologismo (que combina “écloga” e “ecologia”) está um ativismo lírico que vai da experiência pessoal à coletiva, e que tenta nos trazer de volta à sustentabilidade como um paradigma para a subsistência no terceiro milênio. De uma perspectiva materialista ecológica de origem norte-americana, as relações humanas com outras espécies animais, a crítica ao mercantilismo econômico selvagem e a degradação ambiental das paisagens urbanas são assim analisadas. Desta forma, combinando humor mordaz com visão poética, é traçado um quadro esperançoso de um possível ambiente pós-pastoral como a única solução para a humanidade nos próximos anos
El "punto de vista" en los poemas de D.M. Thomas (II)
D.M. Thomas (Cornualles, 1935) es un caso particular de escritor inmerso primero en un
mundo poético propio, que se adentra, más tarde, en el más extenso terreno de la narración.
Ahora bien, ninguno de estos espacios es respetado por el autor, inestable y caprichoso,
sometido psíquicamente a sus fijaciones, que construye la ficción como un universo de los
sentidos donde las pasiones afloran desde el subconsciente. Tanto en sus poemas como en
sus novelas se recrean los espacios físicos y mentales desde un punto de vista peculiar, cuya
vis poietica será analizada profusamente en este artículo.D.M. Thomas (Cornwall, 1935) is a special case: a writer who was sooner immerse in a
private poetic world, and who later tries the broader and more public scope of the narrative.
However, none of these spaces is compartmentalized by this author, unstable and capricious,
psychically submitted to his fixations; one who builds fiction as a universe of the
senses where passions surge from the subconsciousness. Physical and mental scapes are
recreated, both in his poems and in his novels, from a peculiar viewpoint whose vis poietica
will be analysed in detail throughout this essay
La creación postcolonial en el Pacífico asiático
Reseña de: SKOOB PACIFICA ANTHOLOGY NO. 2: POSTCOLONIAL WRITINGS OF THE PACIFIC
RIM: “THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.” No. 2013. London: Skoob Books
Publishing, 199
"Homeless and Homesick": Exile and Bildungsroman in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy
It is the purpose of this paper to analyze the literature of a Sri-
Lankan writer who has been urged to emigrate because of the social
and racial problems risen between Tamils and Sinhaleses in Sri-Lanka,
in the last few decades. Shyam Selvadurai (Funny Boy), now living in
Canada, a new novelist of the nineties, describes a paradisiac country
in violent turmoil and writes about the decision to leave a seemingly
impossible situation for a “promised” land. It will be interesting to
examine the contradictions between these very different but enriching
civilizations, the Eastern and the Western, specifically in the way
they face religion, gender and race. Special attention would be paid
to the notions of bildungsroman, the loss of innocence, the growingup
of political conscience, the racial discrimination, and the literary
metaphors of exile
“Estancias desiertas”: la construcción femenina de la diáspora postcolonial angloindia
Los estudios de la construcción de la identidad se inscriben en las últimas tendencias críticas
postcoloniales, dentro de las teorías de la subalternidad y de las intersecciones de clase,
género y raza. En este caso se deconstruye la escritura de relatos de mujeres emigrantes del
subcontinente indio, residentes en Canadá y Estados Unidos. Se analizan, pues, en este
artículo las tensiones entre el primer mundo y el tercer mundo, la forma en que estas mujeres
reescriben su propia historia para exorcizar los problemas sociales y raciales con que se
encuentran, así como la desmitificación de su propia personalidad en quiebra para reconstruirla
nuevamente de una forma más sólida y autoconsciente.The quests for the construction of an identity merge from the last critical tendencies on
postcolonialism, inside the theories of subaltern and class/gender/race studies. In this case,
there is a deconstruction of the short-story telling written by migrant women from the
Indian subcontinent, living in Canada and the United States of America. Not only the
tensions between the first world and the third world are studied in this essay, but also the
way in which these women rewrite their own story to exorcize social and racial problems
and, finally, the unveiling of their own broken personalities to reconstruct them again, in a
more solid and self-conscious way
Salman Rushdie, Grimus y su lenguaje: el "juego del orden"
Grimus (1975) is Salman Rushdie's first published novel. A very clever
book, it combines myth and allegory, unreality and satire, delicacy and
naturalism, logic and nonsense... Inscribed as Utopian science-fiction, it can
be considered a ludicrous and witty mental game, whose language is a
fireworks of puns, anagrams, acrostics, parodies and ambiguity. All these
elements are analysed in detail, together with some other formal devices
and the mental processes of its recreation
Historia, discurso y género: la teoría postcolonial diez años después
Es reseña de: Against the Grain: Writing South East/Asia in English. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim. London : Skoob Books, 199
"Parodia y pastiche en la obra de John Fowles"
The essay attempts to establish the figure of John Fowles as a parodie
writer who, through pastiche and experiment, places himself as one of
those so-called 'classic' postmodernist authors (like Doris Lessing or
Angus Wilson in the sixties). They will influence a second generation of
writers (like Salman Rushdie or D.M. Thomas) who use parody in a freer
and more polemic way, in a decade that is beginning to be known as 'the
golden time of imitation'
El lenguaje de las novelas indostanas de Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie’s famous hits, Midnight’s Children (1981) and
Shame (1983), form part of a literature of richness in language and
technical innovation that regenerated the English literature of the eighties.
A study of the technique, vocabulary and literary figures, the importance
of colours, numbers, and sensations, of parody and metaphor
is made in this paper, to highlight the fireworks of a language of magic
realism and political fancy and satire
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