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Anthony P. Espòsito
University of Pennsylvania
I. Last words Balkan style: Philology and the Bosnia Syndrome (1898).
Last words, the theme for this series of articles that comes out of last spring’s graduate conference of the same name, are somewhat disconcerting for a philologist. Philology’s traditional obsession has usually been with first […]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
When Last Words Become First Words: Transgressive Literacies and the Birth of Romance Textuality
October 12, 2006 – 2:22 pm
La Huella Psicológica del Franquismo en el Cine Español de los Noventa
October 12, 2006 – 2:21 pm
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Joaquin Florido Berrocal
The Johns Hopkins University
El cine español ha sufrido durante las últimas décadas cambios generacionales que se han dejado notar en el producto final de muchos directores. Estos directores a los que aludo son un grupo bastante nutrido al cual haré referencia más adelante que han trabajado en la […]
The story never ends: Rachid Mimouni’s Le Printemps n’en sera que plus beau and the production of counter-discourse in Algerian state-sponsored literature
October 12, 2006 – 2:19 pm
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Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Yale University
In the process of post-colonial nation-building, the State often attempts to impose its own discourse as the sole source of national identity in order to homogenize the nation. In his influential work Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson […]
Memories in Orbit: Loss in Sergio Chejfec’s Los planetas
October 12, 2006 – 2:16 pm
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Noble Novitzki
University of Pennsylvania
The protagonist of Sergio Chejfec’s 1999 novel Los Planetas (known only by the initial S.), claims to have made the decision to become a writer only because of the disappearance of his friend from adolescence (known by the initial M.) who he declares was much more apt […]
On Joy, Death, and Writing: From Autobiography to Autothanatography in Clarice Lispector’s Works
October 12, 2006 – 2:13 pm
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Elena Deanda
Vanderbilt University
How does one state in words the impossibility of writing? How does one translate an author who has depicted herself as silent in the very text? The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector dares to do so. From Agua viva, oneof her first novels, to Un soplo de vida, her […]
Antonin Artaud et l’essouflement du lógos
October 12, 2006 – 5:29 am
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Nicolas Valazza
The Johns Hopkins University
Au cours du mois de novembre 1947, Fernand Pouey, le directeur des émissions littéraires de la Radiodiffusion française, sollicite Antonin Artaud – revenu à Paris en mai 1946 après une période d’internement psychiatrique de neuf ans à l’asile de Rodez – pour qu’il prépare une performance […]