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

This paper examines the representations of the men in two Argentinean women’s magazines from the 1990s: Para Ti and Mujeres & Compañía. The purpose is to track what kind of masculine identities are constructed within their pages. Through discourse analysis,four types of dominant representations were recognized: men as women’s couples, men as an identity in change, men as an object of laughter, and men as objects of desire. In addition, special attention was paid to how Argentinean magazines account for the changes in sexuality as a consequence of women achievements in the public sphere

This article aims, from a viewpoint of field theory and the symbolic violence of Pierre Bourdieu, to address the changes which are being generated in communication and journalism from an intercultural within the processes of informative mediation. In order to do that, this research will expound a theoretical and epistemological development which will question the biased points of view, defending stances related to border lone communities and listening new and active voices marginalized by the treatment of the news given by the traditional journalism.

La interculturalidad es un concepto clave en el marco de una sociedad global y compleja. Cuando hablamos de lo global hay dos aspectos asociados: el primero remite a Zigumn Bauman cuando considera que el concepto globalización significa que todos, en una dimensión planetaria, dependemos ya unos de otros. El segundo, derivado del anterior, es el que esa red mundial de interdependencias implica, también, múltiples interacciones

The following essay aims at analyzing the short story collection Los niños tontos (1956) written by Ana María Matute, focusing particularly on the initiation rites as main motifs of the pieces. The theoretical basis – Arnold van Gennep’s antropological approach to the rites of passage – will briefly be presented. By examining the preliminal and liminal rites that appear in the short stories of the volume we understand why social reintegration becomes questionable and leads to Matute’s harsh criticism. We also deal with the semantic complexity of the stories, the recurring motifs, as well as focalization which all contribute to creating numerous ellipses.

This paper is an approach to the oldest human emotion, fear, through a story of a Mexican writer, Amparo Dávila, who is contemporary with Juan José Arreola, Francisco Tario, Guadalupe Dueñas, Inés Arredondo. All of them tend to create a fantastic reality in their works. My analysis of Dávila’s story is based on David Roas’s opinion about fear and fantastic fiction, and also on symbolic and psychological approaches to fear.

La poesía de Ana Istarú se erige a principios del siglo XXI como un imaginario rico y de obligada visita, pues refleja el resultado del proceso histórico de la forja de la identidad del pueblo costarricense tras la independencia de la metrópoli en el marco de su historia literaria, de la centroamericana y en el de habla hispana con toda la problemática que ello implica en territorio tico. Los poemas de La estación de fiebre manifiestan el deseo de independencia e integración de la mujer en el ámbito de lo público a través del cuerpo y de la palabra en el último tercio del siglo XX. Para ello la escritora no duda en denunciar igualmente en su discurso las consecuencias negativas que ha tenido el patriarcado. Ana Istarú’s poetry began to develop in the early twenty-first century as a rich imaginary not to be missed. It reflects the result of a historical process to forge the identity of Costa Ricans after their independence in the framework of literary history and in particular of Central America and the Spanish-speaking community with all the complexity that this involves in Costa Rica. The poems in La estación de fiebre show a desire for independence and the integration of the woman in the public sphere through her body and through her words in the last third of the twentieth century. Likewise, in her writing Istarú does not hesitate to denounce the negative effects of patriarchy.

El estudio analiza las relaciones entre obras insertas en el canon literario costarricense y los factores que las han llevado al formato audiovisual. Hecha una descripción del recorrido histórico de tales relaciones, se señalan factores determinantes que vinculan esas obras y la producción audiovisual. Entre esos factores se señala la cercanía con una imagen idílica de nación, la afinidad de los escritores con el poder político, y en general, criterios de conveniencia comercial. This study analyzes the relations between works belonging to the Costa Rican literary canon and the factors which have taken them to an audiovisual format. Once the history of those relations is described, mention is made of determining factors that link those works and audiovisual production. These factors include closeness with the idyllic image of nation, the authors’ affinity with political power, and criteria of commercial suitability, in general.

Se descubre y analiza el perfil histórico y político de Bartolomé de Las Casas, según la configuración literaria que elabora Miguel Ángel Asturias en su obra teatral La audiencia de los confines. Mediante un cotejo de datos históricos, se examina la interpretación que ofrece el escritor guatemalteco del clérigo sevillano, en cuanto a su papel de reivindicador de los derechos de los indios, y de denunciador de los crímenes de parte de los conquistadores españoles. The historical and political profile of Bartolomé de Las Casas is discovered and analyzed, according to the literary configuration of Miguel Ángel Asturias in his play La audiencia de los confines. By verifying historical data, a description is provided of the interpretation of that Guatemalan author of the Sevillian priest, regarding his role in defending the rights of the indigenous peoples and in denouncing the crimes of the Spanish conquerors.

Se ofrece una crónica del desarrollo de Letras, desde su fundación, en 1979, hasta la actualidad. Es un análisis comentado de las políticas editoriales, sus orientaciones académicas generales a lo largo de los años, las áreas disciplinarias y demás asuntos atinentes a una publicación periódica de esta índole. Se señala la diversidad de aspectos y factores que han permitido una lenta evolución, desde un primer perfil entre revista literaria y universitaria, hasta su consolidación como revista académica dedicada a los estudios lingüísticos, literarios, sobre adquisición y enseñanza de lenguas, lenguas indígenas y nuevas corrientes en las ciencias del lenguaje. The development of Letras is chronicled from its founding in 1979 up to the present. An analysis is provided of editorial policies, its general academic orientation as it evolved, the disciplines covered, and other issues characteristic of this type of periodical. Mention is made of a number of aspects and factors which have contributed to its gradual shift from its first profile as a university, literary publication to its consolidation as an academic journal devoted to linguistics, literary studies, language teaching and acquisition, and indigenous languages, along with new currents in language sciences.

Analiza la obra del historiador Carlos Monge Alfaro y explora sus diferentes narrativas de la construcción de la historia desde la perspectiva teórica y de la experiencia del mundo costarricense. Concibe a Monge Alfaro como un autor que ensaya visiones contrapuestas del universo social, y no como un intelectual coherente y aprehensible, constructor de ideas claramente hilvanadas en sus diferentes textos. Cuando Monge Alfaro deja de ser un intelectual de oposición para participar en la construcción de un proyecto hegemónico, reconstituye su discursividad inicial en respuesta a las transformaciones dadas en su concepción de la relación entre el mundo social y el poder. An analysis is presented of the work the historian Carlos Monge Alfaro and of the different ways that he narrates the construction of history from a theoretical perspective and the experience of the Costa Rican world. Monge Alfaro is conceived as an author who presents contradictory views of the social universe and not as a coherent and apprehensible intellectual, constructing ideas which are linked in his different texts. When Monge Alfaro stopped being an intellectual of the opposition to participate in the construction of a hegemonic project, he reconstructed his initial discourse as a response to the transformations present in his conception of the relation between the social world and power.