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Although the historical novel produced in Argentina after the fall of the last dictatorship has been characterized by the principle of inclusion, the representation of Indigenous peoples in the re-imagining of national narratives has contributed, ironically, to their marginalization. This article focuses on the ways La lengua del malón (2003) by Guillermo Saccomanno engages critically with national narratives from a peripheral position in order to escape the genre’s colonial limitations and proposes narrative strategies that allow the author not only to recognize the country’s Indigenous heritage, but also to acknowledge the continuous presence of Indigeneity in contemporary Argentinean culture.
Keywords: Guillermo Saccomanno, Guillermo Saccomanno, literatura argentina, Argentinean literature, posdictadura, post-dictatorship, novela histórica, historical novel, pueblos originarios, Indigenous peoples
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This article is a preliminary exploration of the relationship between the auto-biographical writings of radical US intellectual Paul Goodman and his theorizing of sexuality's links to the project of political liberation. Goodman's life writing was integrated into his social and political critique of mid-twentieth century society, as well as his more scholarly pursuits of psychology and sociology. In this way, Goodman's work needs to be seen as generative of the dialectic of sexually modernity, which integrated intimate queer sexual experiences with conceptual, intellectual, and elite discourses on sexuality.
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Although he is acknowledged as one of the most important Franco Ontarian poets, Patrice Desbiens has not won any major literary award. This article explains the gap between Desbiens's fame and his level of recognition through an analysis of his critical reception, which swings back and forth between unmitigated praise and virulent critique. It shows that the poet's aesthetic choices—favouring what is described as “an aesthetics of poverty”—contribute to the mixed response he elicits.
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Through a cross-reading of the fictional epistle Lettre d’un singe aux êtres de son espèce, and the utopia La Découverte australe par un homme volant, this article aims to highlight the originality of the conception of animality expressed by the polygraph Nicolas-Edme Restif de La Bretonne (1734-1806). Indeed, Restif is able in these writings, thanks to an imaginative representation of animality, to go beyond the simple criticism of anthropocentrism, to insert animal literature at the centre of the process of ‘invention’ of the rights of man and woman typical of the Enlightenment. Restif’s pamphlet is indeed focused – from a philosophical point of view – on the imaginative and projective dimension of compassion, mobilised by fiction, which allows the subject to go beyond his usual picture of life, until authentically sympathising with all possible forms of otherness, embodied by the non-human animal – the monkey – and by the half-breed, i.e. the man-beast.
Keywords: Restif de La Bretonne, human rights, compassion, Restive de la Bretonne, droits de l'homme, animality, animalité, monkey, singe, compassion
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The focus of this essay is Zayas's use of the Ave Maria, a hymn or prayer that celebrates the immaculate purity of God's chosen vessel for the birth of Christ and then pleads with her to “pray for us sinners now and in the hour of our death”. I will claim that Zayas's arguably blasphemous use of the religious hymn, which is situated within her ironic use of the Christian theology of revelation, pulls the curtain back on a morally bankrupt aristocratic class that has bent theological thought and religious ritual toward the perpetuation and defense of sexual violence in early modern Spanish social and political institutions.