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The poetry collections Nostalgia de la muerte (1938) by Xavier Villaurrutia and Nuevo amor y otras poesías (1984) by Salvador Novo represent a significantexample of the aesthetic and political project developed by both authors through the literary group Los Contemporáneos. This study aims to demonstrate the transgressive nature of their poetic proposals by exploring the discursive strategies they employed to represent homoerotic subjectivities. Each poetic project is compared, taking into account their engagement with the concept of silence, as both works seek to challenge post-revolutionary discourse in the Mexican context of the first half of the 20th century.

In this article, we read Contrabando (2008) by Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda as an early example of a generic mode that we propose to call ‘post-testimonial autofiction’, in order to designate texts that combine the ideological convictions and aims of testimonial literature with the enunciative ambiguity characteristic of autofiction. We will demonstrate that the text, traditionally read as a narco-novel, also contains typical characteristics of autofiction and testimony. The four section that structure this essay will highlight both the elements that bring the text closer to autofiction — its ambiguity between fiction and referentiality and its formal sophistication — and those that connect it to testimonial writing — its collective, subaltern and antihegemonic perspective —. Special attention will also be paid to Huguito, the author-narrator-protagonist constructed by Rascón Banda, whose representation oscillates between, on the one hand, the negative and denigrating self-portrait typical of contemporary autofictions, and, on the other hand, the figure of the writer committed to the suffering people, more akin to the ethos of the editor of testimonies.

Through a political reading of El luto humano by José Revueltas, this article proposes a reading of the colonization of Mexican territory initiated by the Conquest and continued by the agrarian modernity designed by the Mexican Revolution. Through the light of essays and autobiographical notes by the same author, as well as sociological perspectives of that period, my approach will reveal how the territory, since colonial times, is not fairly distributed among those who actually labour it. This distance jeopardizes the quality of citizenship of the indigenous and peasant population, since they are not recognized as subjects of law or even as members of the nation. The state and other economic apparatuses that cancel their pressence become an obstacle for indigenous people and peasants to hold onto the land, literally and metaphorically.

At a very young age, at 18, Alfonso Reyes had already read the famous books by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, The World as Will and as Representation, and The Origin of Tragedy, respectively; at the same time he cultivated a “fondness of Greece,” as is evident in his early essay on “The Three Electras of the Athenian Theater” (1908).Then came the death of his father, General Bernardo Reyes, in a violent episode of the Mexican Revolution in 1913, when he led an uprising against President Francisco I. Madero. Reyes recalled this fatal episode in his dramatic poem Iphigenia Cruel in 1923. In his version he introduced a new ending, different from that of the well-known story presented by Euripides in Iphigenia in Tauris. Equally important, in it he tried to adhere to the canonical structure of Greek tragedy, as postulated by the members of the so-called “Cambridge anthropological school.” As a result of his adherence to them, Reyes emphasized the importance of the chorus, a theoretical legacy of Nietzsche. In addition, he wrote two paratexts about his experience inperforming his own short version of Iphigenia.

Discursive completion tasks (now DCT) are frequently used in pragmatics for corpus collection. In the field of phonetics, although its use is not as pervasive, an increase has been observed in recent years. The following review describes the DCT task from the point of view of its origin and structure, as well as refers to the application of this instrument in the field of L1 and L2 pragmatics and phonetics. To conclude, some suggestions to consider for the collection of oral corpora of L2 learners in the field of phonetics applied to second languages are introduced.

This article analyzes the diary and epistle in El monstruo pentápodo, by Liliana Blum, as two discursive modalities that structure the psychic identity of the character in this novel. Both the diary and the epistle integrate the internal narrative focus, being articulated structurally as a psychonarration and a narrated monologue, respectively. In this way, it is possible to see how in the diary a type of omniscience fostered by the memory perspective (remebrance), while in the letters they are used as a mechanism of self-communication (even when they are written for an interlocutor), in which the protagonist recognizes herself through confession and guilt.

El cuerpo en que nací, by Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel, is a novel centered on the flesh of the body, migration and the concept of border, told through the prism of self-fiction. This paper will analyze the intricacies of the text, in order to show how this work is framed within the Hispanic post-national literature,being able to explore what the title holds itself. 

This article addresses the debate over whether the historical-literary phenomenon known as Contemporáneos constitutes a participant in the avant-garde movement. It also describes and analyzes a work entitled Examen de pausas by Gilberto Owen, who belonged to this generation of writers. Its objective is to examine to what extent this work presents elements of the avant-garde, drawing on the theoretical notions of text and discourse.

Following the proposal of the recent book by José María Torralba, Una educación liberal. Elogio de los grandes libros, this article aims to offer a defense of liberal education, focusing on a fundamental aspect: the philosophical foundations of this type of education. To do so, we will devote the following reflection to the thought of political philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973), focusing on the present importance we can confer to the reading of the works of the past. By doing so, we want to contribute to the understanding of the controversial thought of Leo Strauss, which, in turn, means to take part in the recovery of philosophy in its original sense.