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Conflicted City: The City as Site of Conflict in Brother, I'm Dying and "Leyenda de la Tatuana"
Jamee Indigo Eriksen
Guatemalan Miguel Angel Asturias published a collection of Maya
folktakes entitled Leyendas de
Guatemala in 1930. In one of these short stories, "La
Leyenda de la Tatuana," Asturias explores the allegorical experience
of an indigenous priest, Maestro Almendro who divides and then loses
his soul. This is a surreal cautionary tale about the perils of the
urban existence. In this short story, Asturias makes visible the
factors underlying the city. His text deconstructs the city from the
perspective of an alternate voice, one that is both Guatemalan and
indigenous.... Full Article>
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With Eyes Cast Down: Natural Imagery in the Works of two Culturally Dispossessed Authors
Joseph Holmes
Throughout our history as humans we have seen numerous examples of cultural and political hegemonies changing drastically and causing a sudden pseudo-deterritorialization of a people within their own homeland which can lead to significant anxiety. This loss or, at the very least, extreme revision of the individual’s experience within their society is manifest in the works of Japanese author Doppo Kunikida and Persian historian/poet Afzaladdin Badil (Ibrahim) ibn Ali Nadjar—who wrote under the name Khaqani....Full Article>
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Love and Dismemberment in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl and Luisa Valenzuela’s Cambio de Armas
Rachel Robbins
A comparison of Luisa Valenzuela’s Cambio de Armas (Other Weapons) with Shelley Jackson’s hypertext fiction Patchwork Girl reveals startling similarities amid glaring differences. Each author constructs a multivalent and contradictory narrative; each text defies closure and confounds the distinctions between author, narrator, and reader. Each text is constructed as a multiply authored and mutable text. Both subvert narrative unity by producing multiple, often contradictory readings....Full Article>
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