Anuario de Letras Modernas

9-11

Authors: Consejo Editorial

Presentación del número.

33-53

Authors: Mario Murgia

The purpose of this article is to explore the dramatic possibilities of a number of political concepts in plays like "Richard II", "Macbeth", and "King Lear". The argument of this exploration is based upon the assumption that a possible antithesis between political prosaicism and poetical grandiloquence provokes moral, rhetorical, and representational peculiarities in some of Shakespeare’s most politically active personages.

65-77

Authors: Adrián Muñoz

Blake studies have always fostered a wide range of interpretations. Due to the various topics handled by Blake, the scholar has the possibility of resorting to the most conventional ways of literary criticism, but also to the discipline of religious studies. Both perspectives can complement each other and demand still more insight. This paper hints at a novel methodological approach that takes Blakean work as both a literary and a religious phenomenon. I especially suggest that such model can strongly rely on tantric terminology and ideology, for both Blake and tantra share in various motifs: from religious exegesis and an emphasis on creative forces, to the enactment of mythic types and a voluptuous imagery. After outlining a typological description of Blake’s works, the paper seeks to lay down the foundations of the proposed methodology.

95-105

Authors: José Ricardo Chaves

This essay presents the case of German writer Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943) who, before World War I, was the most translated author of his country. Through his prose one can find many ingredients (the macabre, the gothic, the fantastic, the cruel) than made him a great representative of the dark German imagination, from Romanticism to xxcentury. Unfortunately, his participation in the Nazi movement affected his reputation (as in the case of Jünger, in Germany, or Céline, in France), but it’s time to review his literary work, beyond his political thought, that changed from the cosmopolitism in the first decades of xxcentury (when he reached great success) to nationalism (in his last years). His participation in the Expressionist German Cinema with "The Student of Prague" (1914) and some adaptions of his stories ("Alraune or Mandragore", for example) was another im-portant aspect of his career.

119-130

Authors: Ute Seydel

Andreas Huyssen highlights in his book "En busca del futuro perdido". "Cultura y memoria en tiempos de la globalización" (2002) that the Holocaust as universal tropos of traumatic history has been travelling to other contexts which are not related to the historical Holocaust. Departing from Huyssen ́s approach two novels will be analyzed in this article: Morirás lejos (1967) written by José Emilio Pacheco, and Zafer Şenocak's "Gefährliche Verwandtschaft" (1998). The Mexican author explores the Holocaust during the Third Reich and the genocides perpetrated during the Conquest and the Spanish Inquisition. On his part, the autodiegetic narrator in the novel of the German author of Turkish origin deals with family memory regarding the Holocaust and the genocide comitted against the Armenians during the Ottoman Empire. So both texts contribute to the construction of a transnational historical memory on war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by authoritan governments.

141-153

Authors: Norma Garza Saldívar

This work seeks to explore the literary manifestations of the oblique gaze. A gaze that implies something that the eye is not capable of perceiving, what remains beyond the visible than what is visible. This is what escapes from a synthesis, what enables the authentic otherness. From here may comes José Saramago’s interest for an oblique gaze, and the interest in this work to explore the possibilities of an oblique novel. This gaze as an exercise of thought, of memory, and the act of writing that goes back to what the Western eye has already seen, so as to remove the inertia of an over visualization.

171-186

Authors: Maribel Malta Paradinha, Eduardo Iván Viveros Morales

The African literature in Portuguese was, for many years, a literature written by white man and for white man, where the black man, without psychological and philosophical deepness, was seen and described as something exotic and secondary. In the so called colonial literature, the white man was the center of the narrative. A literature that privileges poetry, the political militancy and the fight for the black man’s place in the African society came with the politic conscience. After the independencies, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe develop another kind of literature, written by black, mestizos and white man “with black soul”, that has its own characteristics, distances from the Portuguese literature and reveals a great poetical expressivity and a great capacity of innovation.

203-225

Authors: Eva Cruz Yáñez

Since the last three decades of the past century, the contributions of poststructuralism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, feminism, as well as those of cultural studies and the new studies in translation, have brought into question and radically transformed such concepts as nation, culture and identity, long considered monolithic and universal, thus giving rise to multiculturalism and the affirmation of specific identities—national, sexual, ethnic, regional—based on the notions of otherness and difference. Likewise, the phenomenon of globalization, in spite of its hegemonic effects, has drastically transformed the old metropolitan/colony, center/periphery, north/south dichotomies. As a result of these transformations, the colonized, marginal or minority groups set out to construct an identity or cultural representation of their own which had been silenced or distorted by the dominant culture. Such is the case of Ireland and Scotland, nations which for centuries have been subject, in different modalities, to English domination. The struggles for autonomy or independence, as well as their attempts at constructing a political and cultural identity distinct from the English, have been constant throughout their history, particularly from the end of the XIX century to the present. In this article I intend to examine the poetic work of some Irish and Scottish poets, both men and women, born in the last century, who reflect these concerns in their writing.

245-256

Authors: Juan Carlos Calvillo Reyes

In the Western tradition, many poets have taken advantage of their arrival to a certain age to write confessions or meditations on their life and experience. This minimal anthology offers, both in their original English language and in translation into Spanish, poems by Donald Justice, Joseph Brodsky, and Derek Walcott in which the fortieth birthday is seized as an opportunity to gauge in lyrical terms the resignation imposed by maturity, the penuries of exile, and the persevering commitment to the art of poetry.

271-173

Authors: Federico Patán

Reseña de Gabriel Weisz y Argentina Rodríguez. Ficciones de la otredad

276-280

Authors: Raúl Quesada

Reseña de Marina Fe. Mujeres en la hoguera. Representaciones culturales y literarias de la figura de la bruja