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

Una soledad volcánica. Cartas desde Galápagos, Correspondence by Efraín Jara Idrovo

Ecocriticism is a field of knowledge that seeks a dialogue between literature and the environment, focusing on the representations of nature in literary production. From this perspective, the document proposes a bibliographical review of different ecocritical studies in order to understand the postulates that sustain this current of thought, from a review of Anglo-Saxon studies to the works produced in Latin America.

De la espiral y la tangente. Ensayos sobre literatura I, by Mario Campaña

Lecciones de abismo, Story Book by Cristóbal Zapata

El infinito en un junco, essay by Irene Vallejo

The aesthetics of the fragmentary is the main characteristic of the story “Black Box” (from the book Antropofaguitas, 2013), by Gabriela Ponce Padilla. It is a narration composed of three stories that tell the lives of three Ecuadorian women in different historical and social circumstances. The black box is the device that puts together the three stories that, in terms of form, replicate the writings, testimonies and dialogues that allow reconstructing the last moments for the protagonists’ lives. The reflection upon ruin (together with the thought of María Zambrano, Walter Benjamin and others) allows us to understand the forms of resistance from which the stories of Ponce Padilla arise.

The works of Margarita García Robayo (Cartagena de Indias, 1980) are characterized by a crude and ironic tone. To that extent, it seems the author has the intention of bringing the socially established into crisis by means of certain uncomfortable and disconcerting body images that reject society’s invariability condition. This essay proposes a reading of three of the author’s works, considering a dynamic and changing overlay between homeland and exile, body images that inhabit them, and a writing that can sometimes be self-referential, revealing her relationship with the body and, therefore, with memory.

The trilogy by Argentinian writer Ariana Harwicz, which brings together the novels Matate, amor, La débil mental y Precoz, is analyzed in this article with basis on the ways in which language translates and materializes the experience of the female body as traversed by the violent and paradoxical presence of the maternal.

The novel by Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda, Nefando (2016), centers its interest in reflecting upon the possibilities of naming and narrating extreme corporal experiences when it comes to a damaged childhood. It is also interesting to recognize a line of thought around childhood in the novel, as well as violence and pain suffered by others. Writing, disturbing, showing the obscene are verbs that meet in the horizon of a semantic field that seeks to put in crisis the assumptions adopted with respect to childhood and family. The writing of Nefando is activated by the question of how to say what cannot be said.

This article intends to, from the vertex between gender studies and post/decolonial theories, examine key elements regarding the narrative of Puerto Rican author Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro which allow understanding the construction of subjectivities through various writings in which race, class, coloniality and sexual desire are constantly tensed; to the extent that, sometimes, they articulate political-aesthetic projects that seem contradictory and that serve to understand certain contemporary identity crossroads. In line with this hypothesis, this essay analyzes both the anti-racist as well as the queer perspective of the author, trying to understand her complex enunciation and the various impositions and resistances of certain women in the Caribbean.