Anuario de Letras Modernas

7-8

Authors: Rosalba Lendo Fuentes

Presentación del número.

28-43

Authors: Nicolas Piedade

This article analyzes the transgression of narrative thresholds in Alfred Jarry’s novel Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien (1911), which expounds the principles of pataphysics, a parodic science dedicated to exceptions and exploring the potentialities of imagination. The hypothesis developed in this reflection is therefore based on the observation that the innovative assessment of Jarry’s work exceeds the corpus to which it is commonly reduced. Through the subjective account of its narrating character, the pataphysical initiation represented in the novel shapes representational paths paying attention to potential and unexpected projections of significance hitherto prohibited by the realistic or naturalistic interpretations of reality. This article interrogates the mechanisms used in the construction of a fictional matrix conceived as a pragmatic support for illustration and experimentation of the principles of pataphysics. Thanks to Vincent Jouve’s methodology for analyzing the reception of the character, this work first examines the nature of the signifying mechanisms used by Alfred Jarry in the conception of doctor Faustroll as the initiator of the pataphysical science. The instability of his composition thus appears depending on a displaced fiction-al practice, playing with processes of fragmentation and refraction of meaning. The metalepsis, a narrative figure examined by Gérard Genette, then turns out to be a particularly fruitful entry for a narratological analysis of the narrative transgressions established by the pataphysical writing regime.

58-77

Authors: Nair Anaya Ferreira

Ama Ata Aidoo is known for openly questioning the legacy of British colonialism in Africa, and this constitutes the main subject-matter of her large narrative, poetic and dramatic oeuvre. In her first novel, Our Sister Killjoy (1977), Aidoo defies the European representational models which deny the history of the continent and continues to perpetuate racial stereotypes as means of exclusion. The aim of this article is to examine the ways in which thanks to a poignant and masterly use of irony and satire Aidoo destabi-lizes three important European genres: travel narratives, the novel of formation, and the epistolary novel. I contend that the presence of a narrative voice deeply rooted on African oral traditions and that irreverently interrogates the contradictions of a universalist colonial discourse opens a satirical space in which the protagonist can only adopt an ethical and moral stance against the purported superiority of European culture. Using the trope of the squint, an out-of-focus gaze which inverts and subverts European values, Aidoo poignantly identifies the paradoxes underlying the postcolonial condition.

90-104

Authors: Imelda A. Ojinaga

Due to the technological evolution in which we are immersed, we increasingly incorporate technology into didactic work. In recent months, many teachers have become familiar with the use of different interactive platforms, podcasts, and web pages. However, there are tools that are part of the daily life of students and that we can take advantage of to achieve educational objectives in class. The following article aims to show that the use of the social network Instagram as a teaching tool in foreign language classes is effective and useful. The dynamics of social networks create an optimal collaborative environment for the acquisition of knowledge, mainly on culture and language. As a preamble to the techniques used in language classes at the School of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (unam), two studies from foreign universities are addressed, where there seems to be no common context, and which, nevertheless, yield similar results and recommend the use of Instagram in class, as it has proven to be a tool to improve motivation, language acquisition, and progress. Finally, some techniques and activities carried out in the new virtual context are shown in which the student-teacher dynamic currently arises and develops. Each of the activities is explained and justified; in the same way, the results and the changes that the use of the social network produced in the students of the second semester of the BA program in Italian Studies at unam are presented.

110-113

Authors: Berenice Ortega Villela

RIVERA GARZA, Cristina. (2021). El invencible verano de Liliana. Literatura Random House.