Revista Hispánica Moderna 

About: Revista Hispánica Moderna is an academic journal published by University of Pennsylvania Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Poetry & Latin Americans. It has an ISSN identifier of 0034-9593. Over the lifetime, 435 publications have been published receiving 1042 citations. The journal is also known as: Revista Hispanica Moderna.

Estética, política y el posible territorio de la ficción en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño

Abstract: This article analyzes the novel 2666 (2004) by Chilean writer Roberto Bolano. The aim of this study is to rethink the intertwining of fiction, politics, and violence in Bolano’s literature: this means to reflect on the potentiality of Bolano’s writing, and from this perspective to reconsider the specificity of Bolano’s political engagement. This article identifies and describes the ways in which violence is used in the construction of the fiction. By reading 2666 together with Jacques Ranciere’s ideas on the relationship between politics and aesthetics, this study highlights 2666’s aesthetic ‘disagreement’, which consists in the repetition of the heterogeneous. In the novel, this repetition produces a specific form of violence. By means of repetition, the narrator of 2666 draws a possible connection between two different forms of violence experienced during the 20th Century: the Jewish genocide and the Mexican feminicide of Ciudad Juarez. Bolano develops within his writing a ‘methodology of evil’, which allows him to make seeable and sayable specific manifestations of violence, specific crimes. This is how politics relates to aesthetics in Bolano’s fiction. This study briefly comments on other works by Bolano, Amuleto (Amulet) and Estrella distante (Distant Star).

The Limits of "Nuestra América"

Abstract: "Nuestra America" (1891), Jose Marti famously repudiates the idea of race as a biological fact. Marti argues that "there are no races," suggesting that biological race is the business of "lamp-lit minds" (295) who are committing a "sin against humanity" (296). Instead, Marti argues that "in the justice of nature" one will find not races but only "the universal identity of man" (296). In "Mi raza" (1893), Marti expands his critique of biologically determined accounts of race and argues not only against race but also against any sort of race-thinking at all. Marti argues that to believe that "in the black man" there is a "virus" (319) is a "sin against humanity," and then chides "the black man who trumpets his race" because he, too, is committing a "sin against humanity," just like the "white man who [. . .] believes himself to be superior to the black man" (319). Proceeding from his repudiation of race, Marti produces a concept of culture to take its place. What is striking about Martfs concept of culture, however, is its failure to abandon race Martfs supposedly raceless concept of culture relies on the very concept of biological race which Marti denies. The problem with "Nuestra America," however, is not merely that its historically determined concept of culture depends on race, or that it exchanges racial normativi ty for cultural normativi ty grounded in biological race. The problem with "Nuestra America" is that it continues to function as the model for Latin American cul-