CONCORDIA DISCORS vs DISCORDIA CONCORS

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Authors: Borges’s Poe. The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America

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Authors: Ioana ROSTOŞ

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Authors: Marta FERNÁNDEZ-MORALES

American playwright and activist Eve Ensler has explained how, due to her father‘s abuse, she felt exiled from her own body from a young age (Greene 2001; Ensler 2006). Her theatrical praxis, including the internationally acclaimed Vagina Monologues (1998), provides a means for her to re-inhabit her organism and re-examine her victimization. In 2010, while campaigning against gender violence in the Congo, Ensler was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She recorded her traumatic experience in In the Body of the World (2013), which opens with a reminder about her early ―exile‖ and closes with an encouragement to rise against abuse. Throughout its 53 chapters, Ensler reflects that cancer threw her ―through the window of my disassociation into the center of my body‘s crisis‖, reconnecting her with her physical self and with the world. In 2010, while campaigning against gender violence in the Congo, Ensler was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She recorded her traumatic experience in In the Body of the World (2013), which opens with a reminder about her early ―exile‖ and closes with an encouragement to rise against abuse. Throughout its 53 chapters, Ensler reflects that cancer threw her ―through the window of my disassociation into the center of my body‘s crisis‖, reconnecting her with her physical self and with the world.

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Authors: Emilia DEFFIS

In light of the most recent Argentinian novels published on the theme of postdictatorial historical memory, two writers, accounting for past and present experiences of violence, coincide in the narrative elaboration of the world as seen through the eyes of a child. Laura Alcoba does this in The Rabbit House (2008) and The Blue of the Bees (2014), and Jenny Erpenbeck, in The Book of Words (2007). Since both authors originally wrote in a foreign language, the experiences pass through an additional filter for an Argentinian readership: the mediation of the Spanish language.Thus, in principle, these texts raise the issue of memory, but more specifically that of language, not only in its ability to name things but also and especially in its semantic movement—a displacement that allows something to be said without naming it openly. Such a space therefore acquires a fundamentally living and psychological dimension in the process of a therapeutic encounter with the past for anyone having grown up in an environment of violence.The goal of this work is to reflect on the artistic representations of childhood experiences that take on special importance in redefining the imperatives of duty pertaining to memory in the current sociohistorical perspective.

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Authors: Eleonore DE FELIP

One of the characteristics of Friederike Mayröcker‘s lyrical poetry is the frequent occurrence of auto-reflexive and metapoetical moments. Hence, the paper focuses upon a lyrical text, which enacts and simultaneously reflects the process of becoming of a poem. In „»auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Stille« (John Cage)― Mayröcker adopts John Cage‗s concept of silence (i.e. there is no absolute silence) by integrating the presence of noise and everyday sounds into the ‗silence‘ of her poetical world. Her poem concerns both the longing for silence as the premise for creative writing and the transformation of silence into words. Moreover, it equally absorbs the inspiring presence of real and imagined acoustic perceptions as well as that of outer and inner voices. Within the wide-open ears of the lyrical instance, fragments of reality mutate to moments of creative ecstasy. The poem ends, after a comma, with the white ‗silence‘ of the blank sheet, engulfed in the vastness of an imagined echo.