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Los relatos de Javier Martínez conforman pasajes íntimos y situaciones de un mundo sugestivo y profundo. En sus personajes conviven los recuerdos de la infancia con los efectos devastadores del tiempo. Retratos de familia, la nostalgia, lo fantástico, el amor filial, la amistad, transitan por estas páginas con un estilo aparentemente sencillo, donde el lenguaje se enfoca desde la primera frase a establecer un tono y una atmósfera evocadoras de pérdida y destino. Al leerlos nos convertimos en testigos de la complejidad de las situaciones humanas. El texto final, cercano a la novela corta, nos habla tanto de las decisiones que moldean una vida y sus consecuencias como de la amistad. El autor propone cada relato con piedad y arte inusitados, haciendo de este libro uno que vale la pena leerse.
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The American Short Story Cycle
The American Short Story Cycle shows the roots of modernism and postmodernism winds through the short story cycle. Reviewers ranging from the The New York Times to Amazon do not know what to call books like Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad or Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth. Why do such popular and acclaimed books spark debates about what they are and how they should be read? The American Short Story Cycle provides a history of this genre that has been hiding in plain sight. Dating back to the early nineteenth century and proliferating to the present, the short story cycle has been wildly popular both in the US and around the world. Stories in a cycle, which can be read singly but mean more together, reflect the individualism and pluralism that shape modern experience. This book gives a name and theory to the genre that has fostered the aesthetics of fragmentation and recurrence that characterize fiction today.
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Juan Rulfo’s El Llano en llamas (1953) as Literary Expression of Agrarian Protest
The history of Mexico in the first half of the 20th century is almost completely dominated by the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920/40). Revolutionary events continue to shape Mexican society up to the present day. Due to the unequal distribution of resources and land and political instability, persistent social tensions have developed, resulting primarily from a collective impoverishment accompanied by de facto lawlessness, violence, and oppression of the Mexican rural population, and a rising elite in the cities. Mexican author Juan Rulfo (1917–1986) experienced violent clashes between social revolutionary and state actors in which around two million people died. These events fundamentally shaped Rulfo’s literary works, El Llano en llamas (1953), an anthology of short stories, and the novel Pedro Páramo (1955). This article focuses on El Llano en llamas , understanding the collection of short stories as an aestheticization of the structural grievances suffered by the Mexican rural population at the beginning of the 20th century and regards it as a form of literary protest. Showing that Rulfo’s stories are placed in a tension between ethics, aesthetics, and documentation, this article seeks to uncover the social agenda that Rulfo pursued as an author, giving voice to figures who can hardly articulate themselves outside of literature. Through literature, Rulfo appropriates, reshapes and reflects socially located power structures and socio-economic hierarchies. Finally, this article shows that the links between poverty, inequality of opportunity, structural discrimination, and spatial marginalization that Rulfo’s stories express remain virulent in the 21st century.
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The Skull of Pancho Villa and Other Stories
A stirring collection of short stories from the master of Chicano noir.
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Land Acknowledgement
Kali Fajardo-Anstines writing affirms her Land Acknowledgement because she honors her querencia, place of origin, and elders. Her collection of short stories Sabrina & Corina (2019) gives voice to ChicanaAmerindian women and girls whose lives are affected by displacement, cyclical poverty, and the challenge to reclaim traditional knowledges. Fajardo-Anstine confronts her peoples trauma through writing strong female characters who inspire others and create a path for seven generations to come. Specifically in her inaugural story Sugar Babies, it is the younger generation who reconnects with their multicultural heritages where their parents generation suffers the susto of displacement. Whereas Ghost Sickness, the closing story of the collection, addresses the consequences of displacement but chooses to lift up life rather than fall into the abyss caused by multigenerational trauma. The analysis herein considers place-based querencia as a means to reclaim what was lost due to trauma caused by displacement. I use querencia as defined in the anthology Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (2020), as well as Raúl Homero Villas Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture on the effects of displacement, and Priscilla Solis Ybarras Writing the Good Life: Mexican American Literature and the Environment (2016), which explains the importance of Chicana-Amerindian writing as a means of emphasizing multicultural heritages and connection to the land. Hence, Fajardo-Anstines work embodies the intent of stressing Land Acknowledgement as a means to honor traditional teachings, ones elders, and origin.
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