Volumen 39, Número 1
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Impuesto a la carne: la irrupción de una escritura antiedípica y anárquica, desde la abyección del cuerpo femenino
(2014-03-17)In this approach to the novel Impuesto a la carne (2010) from the Chilean writer Diamela Eltit I analyze, from a gender perspective, the irruption of an anti-Oedipal and anarchic writing experimented by a mother and her ... -
La fragmentación del cuerpo femenino y la degradación del yo lírico a partir de la escritura femenina en La Mano Suicida
(2014-03-17)This article analyzes the work of Maria Montero entitled La mano suicida, which shows the formation of the female lyric writing from the fragmentation of the female body and its degradation as a subject writer. It takes ... -
Seres monstruosos y cuerpos fragmentados. Sus representaciones en dos relatos fantásticos de Alberto Chimal
(2014-03-17)This study analyzes the formal and discursive strategies through which two fantasy texts by Mexican Alberto Chimal are built, as their specific characteristics are pointed out. The behavior of protagonists is highlighted ... -
Jardines del cuerpo que se fragmenta
(2014-03-17)This article will present an analysis on the subject of the fragmentation of the beloved’s body that the lover does in his romantic speech. For this, it will take as a central axis the case of the novel Los Jardines Secretos ... -
Más allá de la letra: cuerpo y escopicidad en la poesía de Ana Rossetti
(2014-03-17)The poetry of Ana Rossetti (1950-) is filled with different streams of eroticism which reveal the stamp of a eroticized body expressed on her creative page. This relationship between body, writing and eroticism is the ... -
Cuerpos desgarrados: textualidades desgarradoras. Una aproximación a la escritura de Claudia Hernández
(2014-03-17)The contemporary American literary production constitutes a space for the subjects identity (des) configuration and the collapse of the cultural-imaginary speech. This premise requires search and constant re‐signifying. ... -
Las manos como símbolo, huella física del trabajo y proyecto ético en “Manos de obrero”, de Gabriela Mistral
(2014-03-17)The human body is a recurring theme in Gabriela Mistral’s poetry. In “Manos de obrero”, from her poetry collection Lagar, the Chilean poet carries out a Marxist panegyric of the worker’s labor by focusing on the hands, a ... -
La representación del cuerpo dócil en El Infierno Verde de José Marín Cañas
(2014-03-17)In the framework of research journey "Literary Representations of the Body", the objective of this article on the novel El infierno verde, of José Marín Cañas, is to demonstrate how the human body is represented in the ... -
Relaciones entre la representación antropomorfa-zoomorfa de piezas prehispánicas de la Región Central de Costa Rica y dos cartas de Juan Vázquez de Coronado del siglo XVI
(2014-03-17)The following study analyzes two letters written in 1563 by the Spanish conqueror and peace-maker Juan Vasquez de Coronado in light of two general aspects: the first, a map taken from the book Garcimuñoz la ciudad que nunca ... -
Del ayote al culantro: el cuerpo como imagen culinaria en la tradición popular y en los cuentos de Carmen Lyra
(2014-03-17)In the Costa Rican popular tradition there are a wide range of culinary metaphors, with fruits and vegetables. These products represents different parts of the human body and certain emotions. This article examines the ... -
Las inscripciones corporales del indio: canibalismo y desnudez en Pedro Cieza de León
(2014-03-17)Although rituals concerning the decoration of the body as a cannibalistic ritual might go unnoticed by the Eurocentric viewer because they do not have the capacity to observe in them neither practices of etiquette nor uses ... -
La vagina dentada en un mito nivaclé: pérdidas como parte de la erotización corporal
(2014-03-17)In nivacle myth “Water women”, from the naked corporality y uncultured, women motivate desire in men in order to approach to them. After anthropomorphous men capture them, they discover that those women have a particularity: ... -
"...porque ninguna es perfecta si hemos de hablar por lo claro": un retrato de las mujeres en la literatura colonial costarricense
(2014-03-17)In one of the three short theatrical plays, written by Joaquín de Oreamuno and Muñoz de la Trinidad and represented in de city of Cartago in 1809, it is made a physical description of women that could be well classified ... -
El cuerpo femenino: retórica y argumentación en la poesía misógina medieval
(2014-03-17)Classic rhetoric offers different principles for epideictic and deliberative discourse. This paper applies them to understand the role of female body in some misogynistic poems of Medieval Age from an argumentative point of view. -
El cuerpo cósmico como metáfora del orden divino, natural y social: una interpretación del himno al Purusa (R.V. X, 90)
(2014-03-17)The Ṛg Veda is the oldest literary work in India. It consists of a collection of 1028 religious hymns, ordered in 10 books, whose composition dates back to approximately 1500 B.C., with the arrival of the Indo-Europeans ...