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La revolución filipina: Las manifestaciones de resistencia anticolonial y conflicto identitario en la prensa hispanofilipina

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Este artículo examina la causa revolucionaria en Filipinas a través del estudio de la prensa hispanofilipina durante la transición entre el colonialismo español y el imperialismo estadounidense. Escritos en castellano por periodistas filipinos, los periódicos hispanofilipinos actúan como un espacio de resistencia anticolonial donde el pueblo filipino afirma su agencia política, se opone y negocia con dos regímenes coloniales, y aborda su conflicto identitario frente a la caída del imperio español y el surgimiento de un nuevo poder imperialista. Los tres periódicos de este estudio – República filipina (1899), La patria (1903) y La independencia (1906) – revela cómo la prensa hispanofilipina avanzaba la lucha revolucionaria de manera heterogénea y pragmática, extendiéndose más allá de la dicotomía entre sumisión y rebelión. Además, este artículo destaca la necesidad de analizar la movilización revolucionaria de Filipinas en los estudios de la guerra hispano-estadounidense y el...

Hacia una dialéctica de la revolución: el nacimiento del nuevo cine cubano

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The triumph of the Cuban Revolution led to the translation of the Cold War to the American continent and also established, as Pedro Martínez and Pablo Rubio explain, a new utopian paradigm of social change that in addition to disrupting the political equilibriums or status quo of the time, was projected as an alternative ideological framework to the rest of the Latin American countries. Departing from a review of some documentary works by filmmaker Santiago Álvarez as a pioneer figure of the new Cuban cinema, this article traces and reconstructs an archeology of a social imaginary of revolution that permeated the Latin American public sphere since the 1960s, to investigate its ideological content and reflect, in turn, on the traumatic dimension that structures all social imaginaries of revolution.

El triunfo de la revolución cubana desembocó en la traslación de la Guerra Fría al continente americano y a su vez estableció, tal como explican Pedro Martínez...

La identidad en los muros públicos: Análisis lingüístico y temático del paisaje lingüístico transgresor en dos ciudades catalanas

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Este estudio analiza patrones lingüísticos en la construcción identitaria dentro del paisaje lingüístico transgresor de Sant Cugat del Vallès y Santa Coloma de Gramenet, las ciudades de Cataluña con mayor (82,2 %) y menor (50,7 %) proporción de hablantes de catalán (Generalitat de Catalunya, Informe de Política Lingüística 11). Se recorrieron todas las calles y espacios públicos de ambas ciudades, y se documentaron 591 signos transgresores (pintadas, grafitis, carteles, stencils, pegatinas y otros signos creados sin autorización oficial). Se etiquetaron la lengua, la ubicación y el tema de cada signo en Adobe Lightroom Classic, y se identificaron correlaciones entre estas variables. El catalán es la lengua predominante en el paisaje lingüístico transgresor de Sant Cugat del Vallès, pero su presencia es baja en los signos vulgares y amorosos en ambas ciudades. El castellano y el inglés predominan en los signos que abordan estos temas. Por su parte, el catalán prevalece en los...

Narrating the Naturalist Novel: Matilde Cherner’s Approach in María Magdalena (1880)

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the narrative strategies employed in María Magdalena: estudio social (1880) by Matilde Cherner. I argue that Cherner’s work is a foundational and revolutionary contribution to Spanish Naturalism primarily for its narratological experimentation within the novela lupanaria (brothel novel) tradition. Though the novel follows some conventions of Naturalist fiction, it simultaneously resists and expands the boundaries of these conventions through innovative narrative techniques, layered narration, and an implicit critique of gender roles and patriarchal society in the novel’s structure itself. Rather than merely depicting the inevitability of social determinism, María Magdalena interrogates it by foregrounding a female voice—albeit mediated through male narrators—and exploring the limitations imposed on women within a rigid moral and social order. Through this complex interplay of narrative voices, pseudonymity and framing devices, Cherner challenges...

“Daguerreotypes in the South at New York Prices:” A Paper Archaeology of John Armstrong Bennet

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The study of nineteenth century photography has focused for the most part on paper photography, acknowledging the years of the daguerreotype as a period of curiosity and experimentation while disregarding the impact of this era today. Available scholarship has sought to study these early images through archival and material approaches, navigating recurring historiographic voids and image losses, often in the form of national histories of the medium. This essay builds on the overlap of some of these histories to reconsider the production of photography in the Americas, namely through daguerreotype portraits and their fashioning as commodities by print cultures aimed at creating and seeking new customers. To do so, the article follows John Armstrong Bennet, a multifaceted tradesman and occasionally a daguerreotypist, on his continental journeys between 1840 and 1877. Bennet’s written traces allow for an archaeological study of the relations between early photography...

Team

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Team

Manifestations of Spinoza’s Potentia: “Un violador en tu camino” at Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Prison

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

“Un violador en tu camino” is a protest-performance that combines language and movement to indict the state and expose its role in the perpetuation of violence against women. Created by the Chilean feminist collective Las Tesis, it was first performed in Santiago in November 2019. In the months following, it quickly spread beyond the borders of Chile, having been performed in cities from London to Istanbul to New Delhi to Mexico City to Montreal, and beyond the Spanish-speaking world, translated into over a dozen languages. This paper considers an attempt by incarcerated women at Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Penitentiary in Mexico City to perform their own version of the protest within the prison walls. Through “Un violador en tu camino” the women at Santa Martha resist carceral discipline and produce an affectual connection with the outside that unsettles carceral space. This power of the protest lies in the coordination of voices and bodies in a combined affect, rendering it,...

Letter from the Editors

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Letter from the Editors

Peter Neil Carroll. Sketches of Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. ALBA Special Edition. Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2024.

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this poetry book, Peter Neil Carroll compiles the voices and lived experiences of United States volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.

La possessió en el txitximec de Jonaz i llengües emparentades

Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Aquest article explora la possessió en el txitximec de Jonaz, el qual, amb una base de 800 parlants el 2004, és emprat a la Misión de Chichimecas, a l’est de la localitat de San Luis de la Paz (estat mexicà de Guanajuato). Es tracta d’una de les llengües més septentrionals de la família otopamé, adscrita al seu torn al tronc comú de l’otomang. No són gaires els estudis que s’han dut a terme a l’entorn d’aquesta varietat, la qual proveeix dades certament interessants per a estudis tipològics i relatius als universals lingüístics. Després d’un recorregut breu per les característiques principals del sistema lingüístic (a escala fonològica/fonètica, morfològica i sintàctica), abordarem el tractament que fa el txitximec de Jonaz de la possessió, tot emfasitzant la variació formal que es desprèn de la distinció establerta entre substantius alienables i inalienables. Amb aquest objectiu, es revisa i s’amplia l’anàlisi detallada de Lastra (2004), alhora que es compara la possessió...

‘Estou asperamente viva’: on identity and the posthuman in Clarice Lispector’s A Paixão Segundo G.H. and Água Viva

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

For Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, writing was an act of self-interrogation and of becoming for her characters as well as for herself. This article explores two of Lispector’s novels, A Paixão Segundo G.H. (1964) and Água Viva (1973), in relation to posthuman theory, in particular Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman (2013). Braidotti's work complements that of Lispector, for it asks where the posthuman condition places humanity today; what new forms of subjectivity it supports; and whether the posthuman engenders its own form of inhumanity. Indeed, analyzing these books through a posthumanist lens enables exploration of various questions surrounding identity and human nature. This article consequently examines key concepts in both Lispector’s and Braidotti’s writing such as the individual questioning what it means to be human; the conflict between the individual and society, specifically in relation to concepts of time and the animal; and the broader challenge of navigating...

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Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Team

From Cannibalism to Global Mastication: When Glissant, Ruiz, and the Tropicália movement chew on Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This paper aims to analyze the influence of Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropófago on the musical, literary, and cinematic works of the Brazilian musicians Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, the Martinican writer Edouard Glissant, and the Chilean director Raúl Ruiz.

Though a filiation between de Andrade’s Manifesto and the Tropicália movement has been drawn by several authors such as Dunn, Sovik, Harvey, Moehn, and the tropicalists themselves, approaching the work of Glissant and Ruiz through the legacy of cultural anthropophagy is less common. This paper argues however that analyzing the continuity between the postcolonial tone of de Andrade’s manifesto and the center-periphery dynamic present in the Tropicália movement, Glissant and Ruiz’s works can help shed new light on Veloso and Gil’s first album Tropicália: ou panis et circencis (1968), Glissant’s Poétique de la relation, and Ruiz’s Poétique du cinema. When de Andrade uses his Manifesto to defend the authenticity...

De materialista-histérica a santa-loca: Re-escribiendo el Yo de Lina Mascareñas en Dulce Dueño de Pardo Bazán

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Lina Mascareñas, personaje central de la de la última novela de Emilia Pardo Bazán, Dulce Dueño escrita en 1911, excluida de la crítica por muchos años, recupera su protagonismo al ser analizada bajo la perspectiva de género. Dulce Dueño pasa de ser considerada una obra mística y de conversión no convincente, a ser una novela con temas actuales al encontrarse en ella características concluyentes de empoderamiento femenino. El objetivo de este ensayo es profundizar en la búsqueda de independencia, igualdad y empoderamiento mental, sexual, corporal y espiritual que atraviesa la protagonista de Dulce Dueño . Para tal efecto consideraré la posición de varios artículos y textos donde se analiza al personaje de Lina y su paulatina transformación ante la crítica desde la reaparición de Dulce Dueño en la crítica del siglo XX, no con la idea de negar o desestimar los estudios...

Letter from the Editors

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Letter from the Editors

TEARS & FRONTEARS

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

TEARS & FRONTEARS

White Supremacy and Resistance in Bacurau’s Brazilian Northeast

Mon, 4 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In 2019, co-directors Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho released Bacurau , a Brazilian film that centers on its namesake: a small, diverse community in the Northeast of Brazil under siege by escalating acts of white supremacist abuse and violence. The sertão—a vast, dry and sparsely populated landscape in the Northeast of Brazil—is notorious for its underdevelopment and intense, devastating droughts. The region is situated at the historical intersection of colonialism and racial violence. White settlement, the slave trade and the theft of indigenous land have transformed the unsubdued sertão into a landscape of resistance. Historically, Black people have liberated themselves from port cities and populous colonial settlements; and fled into the sertão where indigenous people had not been uprooted, and where they established quilombos, or Black autonomous communities of resistance. Bacurau explores these complex cultural dynamics and...

Team

Mon, 2 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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[Untitled Collection of Photographs]

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

[Untitled Collection of Photographs]

Mujer sin Edén: Fusiones del feminismo y guerra/posguerra

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Este ensayo es un análisis literario de la colección de poesía Mujer sin Edén (1947) escrito por Carmen Conde (1907-1996). Publicada durante la dictadura del Franciso Franco y un creciente feminismo en España, analiza los técnicos literarios que maneja Conde para protestar la represión sociopolítica en su país y ofrecer una lectura feminista a través del palimpsesto bíblico. Como base teórico, investigo cómo esta obra responde a la teoría del genocentrismo, la cual propone que las escritoras españolas del siglo XX presentaban a la mujer como un ser marginada y autodeterminista. A la vez, comparo la representación feminista en Mujer sin Edén con imágenes feministas presentes en tres novelas de Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921). Arguyo que mientras Pardo Bazán retrata una mujer feminista en transición, Conde va un paso adelante al presentar voces poéticas que hacen...

Interrupting Movements in Barcelona

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

With an attention to walking, this article explores a politics of movement and recognition that emerged between tourists and anti-tourism activism in Barcelona in 2017. Of focus is the political performance of a walking artist who interrupted tourist entitlements and imaginaries, performing what anthropologist Audra Simpson calls refusal (2016 328). Upon wandering the periphery of a Catalan festival that was celebrating local myths and legends, this artist-activist, named Jordi, contested the commodification of Catalan culture and incited anxiety among tourists taking in the display. In relation to other scenes of protest, these enactments of collective refusal shifted the rhythm of relation in the moment of encounter, entangling tourists in the wider socio-political context.

Dos bastidores ao palco—a trajetória da mulher no teatro de Júlia Lopes de Almeida e Guiomar Torresão

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A recent effort by literary critics to highlight 19 ^th century women playwrights’ work has brought fourth plays by the Portuguese Guiomar Torresão (1844-1898) and Brazilian Júlia Lopes de Almeida (1862-1934), several of which had never been published before. This work analyzes A herança (1908) and Vai raiar o sol (2016) by Lopes de Almeida and O fraco da baronesa (2005) by Torresão in order to understand how ambiguity is used to persuade readers/spectators to support women’s cause for equality. In the case of Lopes de Almeida, who had been neglected by 20 ^th century critics for her lack of support for equality, we find strong female protagonists that are not afraid to challenge their roles in order to find happiness. Torresão’s comedy, on the other hand, brings forward the hypocrisy of upper-class liberals that claimed to support women’s right for equality. All three plays...

El archivo encarnado en Lost Children Archive (2019)

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Este trabajo analiza la última novela de la escritora mexicana Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive (2019), desde los estudios de performance. Específicamente, se utilizan los conceptos de archivo y repertorio que plantea Diana Taylor. Se propone que, en el texto se crea un archivo encarnado que guarda y transmite el acto performático, no por medio de soportes materiales, sino a través del cuerpo vivo. Esto se observa en las recreaciones y juegos que hacen los personajes Memphis y Swift Feather, en la ficción abismal que se crea por medio de la novela ficticia Elegies for Lost Children y en los ecos que permean el texto.

Movements and Stillness: Rosana Paulino’s Tecelãs and Experimentations of The Flesh

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This paper focuses on Rosana Paulino’s installation Tecelãs , meaning weavers, from 2003, which features several ceramic nests and insect-women wrapped in thread. Tecelãs speaks to the experience of black women in Brazil and visually represents how in order to survive the precarity of black life, “woman pulls from within herself the threads with which she makes her cocoon - where she remakes, dies, and is born again.” The analysis of the paper flows between Paulino’s installation, performance studies and black studies, theories of the flesh, confinement, and diverse black feminist freedom movements. The main argument of this paper is to say that for black women and girls, literal and figurative spaces of confinement—such as living in the periphery or the marked black body—are also spaces of performative experimentations towards freedom. Following Harvey Young, Harriet Jacobs, Sarah Jane Cervenak, and Alexander Weheliye,...

Siendo qhari: (Re)creando la masculinidad andina a través de la danza

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Este artículo estudia el proceso de construcción de identidades de género en los andes a través de la danza. Además, analiza cómo nociones étnicas influyen en el desarrollo de identidades de género en la región. En particular, el ensayo estudia la coreografía del Qhapaq Qolla, una comparsa de varones que participa anualmente en la Festividad de la Virgen del Carmen, una de las celebraciones más importantes de la región Cusco en el Perú. El estudio se realiza a través de un marco analítico basado en conceptos Quechuas. El artículo argumenta que, a través de la danza, los miembros del Qhapaq Qolla exploran estereotipos acerca de la masculinidad andina para subvertirlos, desarrollando a través de este proceso una identidad de género fuertemente influenciada por la herencia de sus tradiciones Quechua. La masculinidad que construyen los danzantes está conformada por roles y energías masculinas, femeninas, humanas y no humanas, las cuales están en constante negociación.

From the Editors

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

From the Editors

Rising from the Grave

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Rising from the Grave

Del cómo los queloides actúan de guarida

Mon, 27 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Del cómo los queloides actúan de guarida

Edmundo Paz Soldán: Río fugitivo

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Edmundo Paz Soldán: Río fugitivo

Silvia Parra

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Silvia Parra

Deshebrando la esperanza

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Deshebrando la esperanza

Cosas sobre mi madre

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Cosas sobre mi madre

From Oral Narratives to Images

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

From Oral Narratives to Images

Cover

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Editorial Board

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Editorial Board

América: ¿Dónde? ¿Quién? ¿Cómo?

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

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Editorial Board

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Editorial Board

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Contents

España

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

España

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Contents

Cover

Mon, 6 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Cover

Mar y altiplano