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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 ...
Del ayote al culantro: el cuerpo como imagen culinaria en la tradición popular y en los cuentos de Carmen Lyra
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 ...
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: ...
Cuerpos desgarrados: textualidades desgarradoras. Una aproximación a la escritura de Claudia Hernández
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. ...
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 ...
El cuerpo femenino: retórica y argumentación en la poesía misógina medieval
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)
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 ...
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 ...
"...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 ...
Las manos como símbolo, huella física del trabajo y proyecto ético en “Manos de obrero”, de Gabriela Mistral
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 ...