Memorias do carcere : between history and imagination
01 Mar 1999-Hispania (American Association ot Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese)-Vol. 82, Iss: 1, pp 46-55
TL;DR: In this article, a Lacanian discourse analysis reveals the strategies employed by Graciliano Ramos in avoiding the pitfalls in- herent in autobiographical writing as he construes a believable narrative, which offers a powerful alternative to the official version of history.
Abstract: Mem6rias do Cdrcere (1953) by Graciliano Ramos adds an important marker to the topology of au- tobiography, for the memoirs show the author's conscious manipulation of facts to transform them into a be- lievable narrative account which calls for the reader's imagination in the recreation of his life in prison. A Lacanian discourse analysis reveals the strategies employed by Graciliano Ramos in avoiding the pitfalls in- herent in autobiographical writing as he construes a believable narrative, which offers a powerful alternative to the official version of history.
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TL;DR: The use of Cuban prisons for the detention of political prisoners by examining Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women's Prison, the prison memoir of guerilla activist Ana Rodriguez to understand the resistance to Castro's revolution and the ways in which female prisoners reimagined themselves as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: With contemporary political debates centering on the possibility of closing the Guantanamo Bay military installation, attention is once again being focused on prisons in Cuba. This provides an opportunity to interrogate the modern history of prisons in Cuba, particularly following the Cuban Revolution. As such, this essay considers the use of Cuban prisons for the detention of political prisoners by examining Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women's Prison, the prison memoir of guerilla activist Ana Rodriguez to understand the resistance to Castro's revolution and the ways in which female prisoners reimagined themselves and wrote the brutal history of the Revolution.
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...…narratives are important because they threaten ‘‘the official version of history of nations, and ultimately the history of mankind’’ because they demand collusion between the storyteller and the reader that acknowledges the abuses of power and triumphs over those abuses (Courteau 1999, 49)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a volume substancial de ensaios academicos sobre a obra do autor alagoano, nao existe um estudo centrado na historia de sua recepcao critica nos Estados Unidos - assunto de que trata o presente ensaio.
Abstract: Os estudos sobre a obra de Graciliano Ramos tem abordado numerosos aspectos, e nao ha duvida de que seus livros despertam interesse permanente entre os criticos norte-americanos. Contudo, apesar do volume substancial de ensaios academicos sobre a obra do autor alagoano, nao existe um estudo centrado na historia de sua recepcao critica nos Estados Unidos - assunto de que trata o presente ensaio. Tal discussao revela momentos historicos definidores, bem como tendencias ideologicas e formacoes culturais que tem influenciado a maneira pela qual a critica daquele pais seleciona, le e escreve sobre a literatura de outras regioes.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an estudo sobre a historia de a recepcao de Graciliano Ramos in America, assunto que sera o enfoque deste ensaio.
Abstract: Os estudos norte-americanos sobre a obra de Graciliano Ramos tem se detido sobre inumeraveis assuntos e nao ha duvida de que seus livros terao um interesse permanente aqui. Ao mesmo tempo, e apesar do corpo substancial de escrita erudita sobre os textos de Graciliano, nao existe um estudo sobre a historia de sua recepcao nos Estados Unidos, assunto que sera o enfoque deste ensaio. Tal discussao sera util porque pode revelar momentos historicos definidores, tendencias ideologicas e formacoes culturais que influenciaram a maneira pela qual selecionamos, lemos, e escrevemos sobre literatura.
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TL;DR: The authors look back at exemplary moments of the first 100 years of Hispania and use this history to glean ideas for the future of the journal and examine the terms "Hispania" and "Hispanic" as means of commemorating the broad, interdisciplinary scope for the journal.
Abstract: This essay looks back at exemplary moments of the first 100 years of Hispania and uses this history to glean ideas for the future of the journal. The publication's fate has been tied to that of the United States, its world languages programs, and US understandings of the Iberian world. I examine the terms "Hispania" and "Hispanic" as means of commemorating the broad, interdisciplinary scope for the journal and advocating for its continued expansion. Diasporas are examined as a growing point of contact between the Americas. The insights of the Global South are presented as an approach that contributes to a more diverse and democratic future for the journal.
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TL;DR: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology as mentioned in this paper, but rather a history of different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects.
Abstract: The ideas which I would like to discuss here represent neither a theory nor a methodology. I would like to say, first of all, what has been the goal of my work during the last twenty years. It has not been to analyze the phenomena of power, nor to elaborate the foundations of such an analysis. My objective, instead, has been to create a history of the different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects. My work has dealt with three modes of objectification which transform human beings into subjects. The first is the modes of inquiry which try to give themselves the status of sciences; for example, the objectivizing of the speaking subject in grammaire generale, philology, and linguistics. Or again, in this first mode, the objectivizing of the productive subject, the subject who labors, in the analysis of wealth and of economics. Or, a third example, the objectivizing of the sheer fact of being alive in natural history or biology. In the second part of my work, I have studied the objectivizing of the subject in what I shall call "dividing practices." The subject is either
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TL;DR: In this paper, a collection of essays on the social formations of fantasy poses the question of the relation between fantasy and reality, and specific cultural practices and situations are analysed in an attempt to theorize the social, and therefore political dimension of psychical reality.
Abstract: Grounded in Freudian and Lacanian theories of desire, sexual identity and the unconscious, this collection of essays on the social formations of fantasy poses the question of the relation between fantasy and reality. Specific cultural practices and situations are analysed in an attempt to theorize the social, and therefore political dimension of psychical reality. Includes an index. 166 bibl. ref.
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01 Jan 1982
TL;DR: Warnier and Mohan as discussed by the authors argue that the focus of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) on 'actors' is unable to account for subjectivity of human actors, since the assemblages or networks that constitute society are not limited to human beings.
Abstract: Jean-Pierre Warnier and Urmila Mohan provide a very helpful and engaging overview of the study of the materiality of religion, to which I am very sympathetic. So my remarks here should not be interpreted as widely divergent since I will focus only on certain matters that we may regard differently. Warnier and Mohan raise the important issue of the human in the study of religion. They wonder if the focus of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) on ‘actors’ is unable to account for the subjectivity of human actors. In fact, Latour urged that the terms ‘actor’ and ‘actant’ be extended to non-human, non-individual entities (Latour, 1996: 369). His approach is to broaden the field of actors to include non-human with human since the assemblages or networks that constitute society are not limited to human beings (Latour, 2004: 72). Agency is not an emanation from what Latour provocatively calls the ‘mindin-a-vat’ model of consciousness described by the dualist tradition of idealist philosophy from Descartes to modern phenomenology (Latour, 1999: 4–10). But does Latour throw the baby out with the bath water? In his account, is human consciousness in danger of being lost altogether in a flat ontology, where microbes, roads, cars, seatbelts and doors are placed on an equal footing with human beings as agents? I do not think so. First of all, as I have tried to indicate elsewhere, Latour is not talking about Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception when he bemoans the dualism of the phenomenological tradition (Morgan, 2014: 95, 102, n11). Merleau-Ponty directed criticism at Descartes and developed an account of perception that was decidedly not dualist (MerleauPonty, 2002[1945]: 102; Morgan, 2012: 50–53). Secondly, human consciousness may be helpfully described as distributed among things and people, not locked inside the human mind. The challenge is to stop thinking of reflexivity or subjectivity as a little guy in our heads, an homunculus in control of the body, which is an instrument with no cognition. We need a different way of thinking about thinking, one that does not begin with the notion that consciousness is an absolute or still point at the center of the person. Philosophers, neuro-scientists, and others far more qualified than I am to discuss matters
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