Miguel Gomes

Rufino Blanco Fombona y las ambivalencias posmodernistas: el caso de los Cuentos americanos

This article argues that Rufino Blanco Fombona’s short stories, in particular Cuentos americanos, are a fundamental example of his ambiguities vis-à-vis Spanish American modernismo. Although his attacks on Rubén Darío were precisely articulated in his memoirs and essays, Blanco Fombona’s fictions are heavily indebted to his modernista roots, and especially to his first contacts with nationalistic motifs in the work of several Venezuelan modernistas. The ultimate aim of this discussion is to challenge the rigidity with which traditional historiography differentiates modernismo and criollismo. A more nuanced approach to this moment in literary history allows us to better understand how aesthetic ideologies are manipulated by authors and critics to distribute and accumulate symbolic power in the field of cultural production.

De la Conquista a la Independencia: Mariano Picón-Salas y el lenguaje americano del ensayo

Este articulo examina los vinculos entre la teoria de los generos literarios manejada por Mariano Picon-Salas y la concepcion del mestizaje que postula uno de sus libros mas importantes, De la Conquista a la Independencia.

Las estrategias del silencio: Pedro Llastra y la postvanguardia chilena

This article discursses how Pedro Lastra’s reflects the complexities of a period usually known in the Spanish American tradition as “the post vanguard”. It specifically focuses on how his work revises the legacy of the most important Chilean avant-garde poets.

Ifigenia de Teresa de la Parra: Dictadura, poéticas y parodias

Este trabajo examina los inconvenientes de caracterizar a Teresa de la Parra como “van-guardista” o una novelista que reacciona contra la “novela de la tierra”. Discute asimismola posibilidad de que un sutil vinculo intertextual con el modernismo venezolano, princi-palmente la obra de Manuel Diaz Rodriguez, senale una posicion critica de la autora conrespecto a la dictadura de Juan Vicente Gomez y sus partidarios intelectuales.