Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

In 2015, Valeria Luiselli worked in New York as a volunteer interpreter for dozens of children from Central America who had crossed through Mexico, hoping to receive refugee status in the USA. In her essay, the author describes the difficulties she encountered in translating the traumatic stories of these unaccompanied children. Although the text has documentary elements, it interweaves the stories of the undocumented children with Luiselli’s own story and struggles with migration. Tell Me How It Ends emphasizes the performativity of the task of the interpreter and the breakdown of the notion of community in globalized societies – societies in which some lives are considered “precarious” and “ungrievable”. In doing so, the book goes beyond a mere depiction of reality and “affects” the reader.

This article proposes an analysis of the account by the Brazilian Inês Etienne Romeu, the only survivor of the House of Death in Petrópolis. It interprets her testimony of political imprisonment from a perspective of feminist theories, in order to establish new parameters for the conception and comprehending of women as political active subjects in history. Testimony is understood as a valid space of enunciation built from the exchange of subjective experiences reaffirming women as political subjects inserted in a context of prison, violence and transgression.

This article analyzes trauma and digital culture, focusing on the blog Diario de una princesa montonera by Mariana Eva Perez, which was subsequently published in book form. It is argued that if the digital has involved substantial changes in culture, this also affects the conception of trauma. The article examines the representation of the self in the blog and how this performance contradicts the subjectivity described in the psychoanalytic post-structural model of trauma. After analyzing the importance of the community and “the common”, the space of the blog is addressed as a public/private sphere, interrogating the democratizing potential of this space. Another spotlight is put on the operations of translation involved in the transition from the blog into the printed version.

This work brings reflections on the relationship between workers and the media, particularly through Radio Difusora, a broadcast started in the mid-1960s in south-western Brazil. It will prioritize discussing how this topics take part in this interchange, not only as “listeners”, but as subjects capable of interacting with these broadcasts – placing their demands and social tensions in the journalistic agenda. In a dense and controversial plot about the images produced by this dialogue, this study proposes to discuss the force fields that permeate such an encounter and the way how the academy conveys its analytical efforts involving the media.

This article analyzes the trajectory of Makunaima, a myth originally collected by the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg, among the Taurepang people, on the border between Brazil, Venezuela and British Guiana. We used an interface between anthropology, literary theory, and semiotics of images to reflect on the ways this Amerindian “cultural hero” was adapted to the modernist literature of Mário de Andrade, and to the cinematic aesthetics of Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. This set of mythological variants is analyzed by means of its main remaining characteristics, and its differential distances. This study aims, lastly, to apprehend the recurring elements that configure a Makunaimic poetics in those narratives.

Presentación del N° 75

Purpose: To determine the potential risk factors associated with the frailty syndrome in elderly persons who attended the programs of the Moravian Association (local networking of the Progressive Care Networking for the Elderly Persons, Nazareth House and House of the Elderly Person) in Moravia, during the second semester of 2018. Method: Observational, cross-association transverse descriptive study. The population was composed of 174 elderly persons who are beneficiaries of the local programs in charge of the Moravian Association; only 80 of them participated as the sample. Sociodemographic characteristics, physical, functional, and cognitive variables were evaluated using previously validated scales, likewise, frailty criteria were analyzed by examining the Fried phenotype. A non-parametric inferential analysis using the ANOVA test, an explanatory linear regression model as well as the corresponding Prevalence Odds Ratio (statistical significance at p≤0.05 for all cases) were carried out.  Results: A prevalence of 52.2% of frailty and 46.3% of pre-frailty was found; only 1.5% of the subjects did not present any grade of the syndrome. A significant link between the following risk factor was identified: females aged over 80 years, being institutionalized for more than three years, CVD, COPD, anemia, arthritis, dementia, polypharmacy, lack of support networks and low schooling.  Conclusions: There was a high prevalence of frailty syndrome even in early stages of aging. Weakness and low walking speed were the most common manifestation of the phenotype. The evolution of frailty syndrome is progressive, multifactorial and multisystemic.

The objective of the study was to analyze the effects of the psychoeducational intervention program "Live my retirement fully: no to depression and yes to well-being" on subjective experiences of depression in retirees. Qualitative study. Psychoeducational intervention, comprehensive evaluation through case studies with phenomenological interpretation. Six retired older adults over 60 years old, two men and four women, who attend a day-care home for retirees participated as subjects of the study, they were chosen by a theoretical non-probabilistic and convenience sampling method. In-depth individual interviews recorded in audio were executed. A phenomenological analysis was carried out. The results showed that, thanks to the program intervention, retirees recognized the importance of participating in activities and socialize, they also acquired new knowledge, highlighted positive feelings, and emphasized in the importance to keep learning. The effect of the intervention carried out by the program on retirees was positive.