Sistema Regional de Información
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Although Mercedes Valdivieso would belong to the literary generation of the 50’s, her name is rarely mentioned in the histories of literature. Her first publication, La brecha (1961), is a feminist novel, the first at a national level. This work will identify an aesthetic which I call localized or situated, where the model of construction of the feminine coming from the patriarchal hegemony and the protagonist’s desire for emancipation, is stressed. For this, the novel elaborates two fundamental proposals of disarticulation of the hegemonic feminine: the fall of the romantic utopia and the yearning for salaried work. The result is not an emancipated woman, but in the process of emancipation. That is to say, I will try to show how in La brecha detaching oneself from romanticism and having a salaried job become the axes of the identity formation of the protagonist.

Literary festivals play a substantial role in the construction of the value of Latin American literature in the 21st century, although they have hardly been adressed in the field of Latin American Studies. Since the impact of globalization and neoliberal development on the creative industry, literary festivals have not only been proliferating on both sides of the Atlantic but are also carrying out a process of gatekeeping and public legitimation of certain figures, genres, themes and aesthetics that have an effect on the shaping of taste and on the new world agenda of literary, social and economic values. The case study presented here is based on a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the programming of the local festival Filba Internacional in Buenos Aires, from 2008 to 2020.

In this paper, I propose a review of the internationalization of the novel The Partner (El socio, 1928) by the Chilean writer Jenaro Prieto. As such, we will aim to understand its translation and introduction into the languages and audiences of several European countries between 20221930 and 1936. Based on a detailed review of the novel’s reception in France and the author’s trip to Italy in 1934, my hypothesis is that within Chile the intellectual and political networks that made its internationalization possible were concealed, as it was preferable to explain its success solely by virtue of the literary excellence of Prieto’s work. This implied a false and distorted representation of the mediations and agencies that mobilize global literary exchanges, which will be analyzed below.

This article focuses on two university programs in Spanish-language creative writing: one at the University of Iowa and the other at the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP). In order to describe the aesthetic orientations corresponding to these literary institutions, the article dialogues with two fields: studies of creative writing as a gatekeeping institution and studies of Latin American literature in relation to the concept of world literature. The first half of the text reviews the emergence of creative writing as a university discipline in the United States and its historical relationship with Latin American literature. The second half carries out a reading of textual materials produced by the two programs, offering a descriptive typology of the different positions taken toward world literature in the two programs: one that can be described as cosmopolitan and another that is best conceived as a border aesthetics.

The 21st century has witnessed the explosion of digital contents known as the audioboom (podcasts, audiobooks). Literary scholars raise questions about the literary experience related to the fourth format in the history of books, such as the inquiry about the effects of remediation from the written to the aural formats. This article addresses some of the issues around the audiobooks and their place in the literary world, while putting forward arguments against the role of traditional gatekeepers.

The resounding triumph of Latin American and Spanish women writers in Spanish-speaking and world literary markets in recent years is a consequence of significant changes in the gatekeeping process, as well as fundamental shifts in ideas about the relationship between the novel and the market. This paper proposes a discussion of the role of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, founded in 1993 and awarded each year to novels written by women in Spanish America (including Spain), in this process. The text will first discuss the prize as part of a trend of literary prizes in which women can participate exclusively, such as the Women’s Prize of Fiction. It will then discuss in particular the cases of prize-winning women writers who have achieved resonance beyond the Spanish language (such as Cristina Rivera Garza, Lina Meruane, Marina Perezagua, Nona Fernández and María Gainza) as opposed to others (Silvia Molina, Ana García Bergua, Inés Fernández Moreno) whose recognition is limited to the language. In this way, the award will be used as a privileged place to discuss the mechanisms and limitations faced by Latin American women writers in concentric circles of cultural capital.

This article explores the experience of mediation in the production of Latin American literature in the contemporary cultural scene and discusses the idea of “World Literature.” The general frame for this reflection encompasses the function of the producers and gatekeepers in modern literature and in the context of globalization. The main hypothesis focuses on interpreting the changes in the role of producers and mediators, how culture becomes mediation, and their effects on the circulation and consumption of literature and culture. Two case studies (works by Dani Zelko and Valeria Luiselli) are considered and this reflection is linked to the changes in cultural production and consumption under the pandemic.

The Mecoacán lagoon is an ecosystem used as a breeding area, a refuge, and a feeding and growth area by different species, particularly mollusks, crustaceans, and fish. The objective of this study is to compare the relationships between the environment and the structure of the fish community between two nycthemeral cycles, at a site near the mouth connecting a lagoon with the sea. Two sampling campaigns were carried out during June and October 2019, recording environmental variables and collecting samples of ichthyofauna with a gillnet. Abundance was determined in terms of number of individuals, biomass, and average weight, as well as heterogeneity, species diversity, and evenness indices. Dominant species were identified, ecological associations were analyzed and the correlations between abundance and environmental variables were determined. The average temperature was 29.6 °C, average salinity was 30.46 units, average dissolved oxygen was 2.28 mg/l and average pH was 7.46. In total, 16 species of fish were identified, among which the abundance of Diapterusrhombeus stands out. In June 13 species belonging to 12 genera and 11 families were reported, while in October 10 species were captured, belonging to 9 genera and 8 families. Eleven (11) dominant species were identified that can be classified into four groups which show differential correlations with environmental variables. Given the various anthropogenic pressures operating in the lagoon, it is important to integrate information on the environment and the structure of biotic communities as a basis for evaluating their degree of disturbance.

En Cuba, el archipiélago Sabana-Camagüey es un área donde confluyen intereses conservacionistas y económicos asociados al turismo. El desarrollo intensivo de esta actividad económica en polos específicos como los cayos al norte de Ciego de Ávila, además de los efectos del cambio climático, ha generado múltiples afectaciones a sus ecosistemas marinos. Los estudios, a pesar de ser diversos, han sido aislados y no sistemáticos, motivo que fundamentó el desarrollo de un nuevo monitoreo dirigido por el Centro de Investigaciones de Ecosistemas Costeros, bajo la premisa de elevar la calidad, llenar vacíos de conocimiento, y, a su vez, economizar tiempo y recursos. De este modo, el objetivo de la presente investigación es diseñar un sistema de información geográfica (SIG) para su implementación en la planificación de expediciones marinas en el archipiélago Sabana-Camagüey. De acuerdo con las características del área de estudio y las particularidades del proyecto de investigación se integró una base de datos con información bio-física y de gestión para el desarrollo de aplicaciones con las herramientas de análisis espacial y estadístico, que posibilitó una correcta planificación de las actividades de campo. El plan para esta campaña resultó con 48 sitios idóneos para desarrollar las inmersiones, agrupados en 16 rutas marítimas, basados en condiciones favorables, sinérgicamente analizadas, de distribución y características de hábitats marinos, batimetría, logística, entre otros. La planificación de las expediciones marinas mediante los SIG permitió alcanzar una mayor organización, efectividad, calidad y ahorro de tiempo y recursos.

La estructura de los manglares se ve afectada negativamente por diferentes factores y sus variaciones llegan a causar estrés fisiológico. El objetivo de la investigación fue describir el estado de la estructura vegetal y la flora asociada al humedal de Mata de Limón. En el año 2014, se establecieron seis parcelas de monitoreo, en donde se determinó el número de árboles, la altura, el diámetro a la altura del pecho (DAP) y la especie, para calcular el índice de complejidad y de valor de importancia. Se encontraron seis de las siete especies de flora nuclear identificadas en los manglares de Costa Rica. El índice de complejidad general fue de 4.97, Avicennia germinans tuvo el mayor valor de importancia, presente en cinco parcelas. Además, se reconocieron 26 organismos de vegetación asociada, distribuidos en 17 familias. La presencia de los diferentes mangles está determinada por la dinámica natural de diversos factores presentes en el ecosistema, sin embargo, debido al desarrollo de las actividades humanas su condición se puede ver alterada. Dadas las perturbaciones que ha enfrentado el humedal de Mata de Limón, como la construcción de la línea del tren, de la carretera y el puerto de Caldera; su conformación vegetal presenta una evidente heterogeneidad, de manera que las zonas más alejadas de la ocupación humana poseen mayor complejidad y presencia florística típica del ecosistema de manglar.