Naomi Lindstrom

Borges and his successors : the Borgesian impact on literature and the arts

The centrality of Jorge Luis Borges to the contemporary aesthetic imagination has been widely recognized. In this book devoted to that topic, Edna Aizenberg brings together specially commissioned and translated essays from a variety of disciplines to provide an assessment of Borgess influence.

Adorno Encounters Cu-Bop Experimental Music as a Task for Critics and Their Audiences

Suggesting a typology of musical listeners, Adorno (1976/1962) invites his readers to refine his proposed schema and to apply it to their real-world observations. This study takes up his invitation. It uses Adornos typology to examine the responses of jazz critics and their implied audiences at a moment of profound innovation in the development of jazz, the introduction of Caribbean-influenced Cu-bop.

El discurso anómalamente visionario de Moacyr Scliar

Este estudio examina el discurso que producen, bajo los efectos de la inspiracion sobrenatural, los personajes visionarios en la narrativa de Moacyr Scliar. El cuento “Os profetas de Benjamim Bok” y la novela A estranha nacao de Rafael Mendes presentan diversas manifestaciones del habla inspirada, mezclando las convenciones de la literatura profetica y apocaliptica con elementos provenientes de otras epocas y culturas. En la ingeniosa novela A mulher que escreveu a Biblia , se aprecia una fusion de la creencia tradicional en la escritura revelada con algunos conceptos tipicos del feminismo de la segunda parte del siglo XX, en torno a la mujer, su cuerpo y su escritura.

Heroines, Hierarchies, and Space: The Fiction of Cecilia Absatz

This examination of the fiction of Cecilia Absatz (Argentina, 1943), covers three novels: Feiguele (1976), the 1982 Te con canela ‘Tea with cinnamon’ and the 1985 Los anos pares ‘The Even-Numbered Years.’ The continuities between the three texts, and especially the similarity of their female protagonists, who age from adolescence to the threshold of middle age, allow these novels to be read as a series. The primary focus of this study is the maturation of the protagonists as they struggle for autonomy while navigating different types of space. These include space that is marked by gender; identified as Jewish; and dominated by members of various elites, whether defined by wealth and lineage, by celebrity, or by specialized cultural knowledge or skills. The protagonists are at a disadvantage in different environments: being female in a corporate workplace dominated by powerful males; craving individuality and solitude in a Jewish space in which community is the ideal; and being barely middle-class in milieux where money, accomplishments, and social connections are crucial. Though in many episodes the heroines, out of insecurity and inexperience, allow themselves to be intimidated and manipulated, they analyze their experiences, learn, and seek to strengthen their autonomy. Only in the third of the novels does the protagonist succeed in breaking the hold that more powerful and prestigious men hold over her and establishing a space for herself. This article is available in Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature: http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol34/iss1/2 Heroines, Hierarchies, and Space: The Fiction of Cecilia Absatz Naomi Lindstrom University of Texas at Austin The novels of Cecilia Absatz (Argentina, 1943), journalist, editor, and creative writer, stand out for the sardonic voices of their heroines and narrators, their casual frankness about sexuality and the body, their mordant satire, and their antiauthoritarian and feminist stance. Absatz lived through the repressive Argentine military regime of 1976-83, and the value of her writing lies partly in the insights it provides into that period. Rather than representing extreme violations of human rights, such as disappearances and torture, her fiction communicates the contradictions and anxieties of everyday existence in an Argentina under authoritarian rule. This essay examines her brief novel Feiguele, published in 1976 along with short stories as Feiguele y otras mujeres ‘Feiguele and other women,’ the first edition of which was suppressed by the military government,1 and two full-length novels, the 1982 Te con canela ‘Tea with cinnamon’ and the 1985 Los anos pares ‘The Even-Numbered Years.’2 Despite their differences—for example, Te, with its fragmented narrative structure, requires greater concentration on the reader’s part—the three novels exhibit significant commonalities. They center on the intimate experiences of protagonists who, while not the same character, have a number of features in common. In Feiguele the heroine is a young adolescent, while in the other two novels she is a sexually active woman. In each novel the protagonist is from Buenos Aires, from a Jewish family situated somewhere on the lower reaches of the middle class, outwardly bold, yet haunted by constant insecurity. The intimate experiences of these heroines are laid bare, whether in first or third person, with exceptional frank1 Lindstrom: Heroines, Hierarchies, and Space: The Fiction of Cecilia Absatz Published by New Prairie Press

The nineteenth-century Latin American novel

As the nineteenth century began, Latin American writers had not yet produced a work that fully qualified as a novel, though many had written lengthy narratives with certain literary features. One reason for the delay was Spain’s ban on novels in its American colonies, though this ruling had proven difficult to enforce. In 1539, Mexico City came to house the first press in the New World, and Lima acquired a press in 1584, but these outlets were highly regulated. Authorized printing was controlled by the colonial government and was limited to official business and works with religious content. Privately owned presses operated outside these restrictions; unauthorized printing became increasingly widespread in the later years of the Colonial period. Another obstacle to the development of the novel, even after the independence movements of the early nineteenth century, was the low prestige of the genre in comparison with such forms as heroic poetry. The reading of novels was associated in many people’s minds with idleness and escapism. The first Spanish American text that most critics consider a novel is the 1816 El Periquillo Sarniento ( The Itching Parrot ) by Jose Joaquin Fernandez de Lizardi (Mexico, 1776-1827). For some time thereafter, novels appeared at a slow rate. Around mid-century, the genre assumed a more prominent place in Latin American literature and more examples of it came into being. During the final two decades of the nineteenth century, a great number of novels, many of lasting significance, held the attention of Spanish American readers. El Periquillo Sarniento was an outgrowth of Lizardi’s newspaper El Pensador Mexicano (“The Mexican thinker”; the newspaper’s title came to be applied to its publisher as well). In February 1816, Lizardi began serializing El Periquillo Sarniento at the rate of two chapters a week. With this work, he sought to show that novels could serve a worthy purpose, providing readers with moral uplift and sound advice, particularly about molding young people into good citizens.

The Social Conscience in Latin-American Writing

Acknowledgments Introduction One. Autonomy and Dependency in Latin American Writing Two. Postmodernism in Latin American Literary Culture Three. Testimonial Narrative: Whose Text? Four. Literary Intellectuals and Mass Media Five. Latin American Womens Writing and Gender Issues in Criticism Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Contemporary Argentinean women writers : a critical anthology

With this anthology, the voices of fourteen major Argentinean women writers will be heard for the first time in English. Along with their short stories and novel segments, the collection includes an interview with each author and a bibliography of her work. Since its original publication in Spanish, the collection has been expanded and includes a new introduction that deals with Argentinean history of the past decades as well as current literary production there, with special emphasis on the position of women writers.

The Subversive Psyche: Contemporary Women's Narrative from Argentina and Uruguay

This study examines the links between gender and politics in the work of six contemporary women writers from Argentina and Uruguay. Through detailed discussions of the texts of Luisa Valenzuela, Marta Traba, Sylvia Molloy and Reina Roffe (Argentina), and Cristina Peri Rossi and Armonia Somers (Uruguay), Geoffrey Kantaris shows how their writings engage with, and often challenge, Western theories of the construction of gender and its relation to identity politics (notably psychoanalysis and deconstruction).

Bilingual Schooling in the United States, Revised Edition by Theodore Andersson and Mildred Boyer, and: Resource Guide to Bilingual Education: A Selective Bibliography of Recent Publications by Theodore Andersson (review)

It is a little over ten years since Congress passed the Bilingual Education Act of 1968. The most immediate effect of that legislation was to make embarrassingly evident the widespread confusion over the shortand longrange goals of bilingual education, its proper recipients and implementors, the structuring of bilingual programs. The basic issues underlying these questions had been little clarified by emotional debate. The U.S. Office of Education sought the compilation of a manual providing theoretical orientation and practical guidance. This labor fell to Theodore Andersson, long known as a voice crying in the wilderness for bilingual education, and Mildred Boyer. Together they produced the 1970 Bilingual Schooling in the United States.