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Spanish musical film was recurrent during the Francoism, with actors who sang or singers who acted. At first, linked to popular styles, Spanish cinema opted since 1960s for melodic song or pop, and promoted an idea of modernity to Europe and Latin America through singers of the time. This paper analyzes the characters and songs of the seven films which Raphael starred between 1966 and 1973, in the second Francoism, where, almost autobiographically, he played aspiring and music stars, sang the hits from his albums and his performances worked in these films as a music video.

This paper analyses the decolonial production of Edgardo Lander and Ramón Grosfoguel. It will focus on a historiographical reconstruction of the characteristics presented by the Coloniality-Modernity network. The methodological approach applied here is that of the History of the Latin-American Ideas. It concludes that the network fractures due to the publication of a political document authored by some of the decolonial intellectuals, who are critics of Nicolas Maduro’s government. These theoretical-political dissidences allow to disarticulate the myth of the Modernity-Coloniality group.

The aim of this paper is discussing some polemical points when it comes to the Brazilian literature written by afro-Brazilian writers. What is the most adequate category to use for talking about these texts: afro-Brazilian literature? Afrodescendent literature? Brazilian black literature? After that, it is presented a “study case” focusing the short novel Ilhota, written by Zeli de Oliveira Barbosa.

This paper reflects on health reparation practices in the context of neoliberal hegemony and long-lasting impunity. It builds on an ethnographical approach (2019-2022) to four health reparation initiatives created by users and workers of a state reparation program together with civil organizations in the South of Chile. It states that the way these initiatives deal with the damage produced by state violence (1973-1990) point toward an alternative horizon for health reparations, which may also counter today’s authoritarian orientations.

This paper seeks to approach the story that blames the Chilean left for the institutional breakdown that ended in the civil-military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet. If we take as a reference the Uruguayan case, in relation to the discussion on "who threw the first stone" (the left or the right), we do it to question and deepen our own case, by analyzing the arguments that justify representations of the past that criminalize, shame and dehumanize the identity pillars of the Chilean left. Thus, we will explore the responsibilities of the right wing not only in the institutional ruptures, but also in the dissemination and representation of common meanings that aim to see the actions of the left as a "cause" and the military irruption as a "consequence".

This paper aims to explore the ‘migratory careers’ of a group of highly educated Brazilian women and the dynamics activated to achieve the job-education match in Spain. It analyses the reasons for emigration and settlement, as well as the structures of opportunities and constraints, from a multidimensional perspective. The main findings show the existence of a system of vulnerabilities that influence both their geographical trajectories and their occupational (im)mobilities. This is explained in terms of the interrelationship between hindering/fostering factors in different dimensions of life, with the aim of developing a balanced migratory career to achieve the job-education match.

This paper will discuss a movie and a multimedia work based on the play Las brutas by Juan Radrigán, about the last days of three Colla shepherds, who lived isolated in the northern Chilean Andes. Western and urban projections about the relation between human being and environment and the meaning of life that are on display in the works will be explored. Through the interplay among Colla ethnological sources, Andean thought and phenomenology, the paper aims at problematizing the very premises of critical approach.

This paper aims to understand how heritage is the result of a simultaneous game of memory and oblivion, which carries with it visions of a hierarchical society. For this purpose, the most important heritage sites of Santa Marta, the most ancient city of South America, are analysed. In this city, it’s possible to appreciate the heritage framework that involves the commemoration of two temporalities: Spanish colonialism of XVI century, and republican endocolonialism in the XIX century. In the paper it is analysed how these two historical segments have imposed a sense of identity.

This paper aims to analyse the characters of Bartleby, from the story “Bartleby, the scrivener” by Herman Melville, and Aires, from the novel Conselour Aires’s Memoirs by Machado de Assis, through a philosophical perspective that multiplies the possibilities of fiction conceived traditionally as the opposite of reality. By investigating those literary figures, along with a Deleuzian vocabulary, this paper will think about the limits of a traditional conception of reality and fiction, as well as the self, in order to assert its dynamic and unstable aspect which consequently involves language itself.

The paper examines five poems in which the Portuguese Baroque poet Frei Jerónimo Baía (1620-1688) depicts the portrait of the beloved woman. Each of these texts features the list of the different body parts praised for their beauty, following a model already present in the Petrarchist tradition. Baía combines to this model, like other authors of the same period, a display of wit and a playful disposition for wordplay, hyperbole, and paradox.

José Saramago has repeatedly positioned himself against the use of the concept of narrator, often with categorical and provocative statements, seeking to take part in a theoretical-literary discussion that transcended his time andplace. By reflecting on the function of the literary quarrelin the construction and promotion of the writer-polemist, the purpose of this paper isto revive and deepen the debateproposed by the Portuguese Nobel laureate. Ouraim is to retrace his positions and a part of the history of the concept of the narrator, in orderto examine how this category is constructed in some of Saramago’s novels.

The current migratory movement from Venezuela to Colombia is at the heart of a heated debate. This paper aims to focus the attention on the Colombian context, starting from the transition process generated after the internal armed conflict. After that, border dynamics and migration policies will be examined, highlighting how the centrality of the subject order / disorder, social harmony / disharmony has also oriented the construction of the figure of the Venezuelan migrant both politically and in the media, with consequences on the reception and inclusion.

This paper proposes a reading of a collection of articles by Lucio V. Mansilla in which the author describes Paraguay as a field of experiences and a scenario of observations, as well as a territory that is part of his own world, while at the same time expands this map. Without including articles related to the Paraguayan War, we present several texts published between 1878 and 1889 and organize them in two main series: on the one hand, those where we read the narrative forms and images that Mansilla essayed as an explorer in his expedition to the country of gold; on the other hand, we present the political and cultural representations about pre- and post-war Paraguay in which Mansilla intervened as a foreign traveler, also in the post-war years.

This paper dwells on the challenges of globalisation and the hegemonic power structures that govern the relationships between the north and the south, and how it is possible to stablish epistemological and practical alliances between decolonial feminism and queer theories. Furthermore, the plethora of views on the topic allows us to construct connected theoretical frames, that gives us the ability to create non hegemonical and emancipated politics. This research analyses the main theses of decolonial feminism to establish a connection with other theories and to provide answers to the current global needs.

This paper aims to address the operation of military justice in Argentina during the period of the so-called "National Organization" that began in the mid-nineteenth century. We will review the influence and survival of the Spanish military tradition expressed in the military ordinances issued by Carlos III (1768) together with the different modalities used by the military authorities to repress military crimes. For this analysis, we will delve into aspects related to the management of internal discipline and military justice that is expressed in the punitive practices applied in various situations within the units of the Army of the Line, together with the laws and military decrees sanctioned during the second mid-nineteenth century in Argentina.

In this paper we will analyse how queer gender desires and expressions are cinematically articulated in Lucía Puenzo’s El niño pez. For this purpose, we will study the relationship between Lala (Inés Efrón) and her family's Guaraní domestic servant, Ailín (Mariela Vitale). We will implement a methodological approach anchored in the concepts of haptic visuality (Marks 2002) and interseccionality (Crenshaw 1989). Although El niño pez presents certain identitarian undefinitions linked to queerness, we will demonstrate that the construction of Lala's character points to certain stereotypes related to the filmic representation of lesbianism.

This paper proposes a reading of Las aventuras de la China Iron (2017) in relation to the literary canon and the ethnic imaginary in Argentina, to the language of a State that constituted itself as monolingual, and to heteropatriarchal hegemony. For this purpose, I use contributions from cultural (Jameson), gender (Haraway) and anthropological studies (Cadogan, Melià, Clastres), which ratify how the novel challenges pre-established orders, whether it is species, class or gender; or even ethnic, cultural and linguistic that nourish the national imaginary.

In this paper, we comparatively investigate Los Días de la Peste (2017), by Edmundo Paz Soldán, and Cadáver Exquisito (2018), by Agustina Bazterrica, from a concept that is still little explored in Latin American literary criticism: post-pessimism. We observe in the works similar perspectives in the narrative framework, such as: the figuration of social problems through dystopian narratives; the constitution of characters between resignation and stoic acceptance of the unfair experienced situations; the representation of different forms of violence as central axes of the novels.

The neighborhoods Downtown and Cidade Alta, in Novo Brazil/PA, in the Amazon, are separated by a slope and by a stigma built in the municipality that considers Cidade Alta a violent place. By means of semi-structured interviews and conversations with the residents of Cidade Alta, in this paper we aim to appreciate the educational and identity aspects of the neighborhood, in a municipality originated by a project of the Brazilian dictatorship that aimed to occupy the Amazon. The residents' memories make it possible to understand the narratives and the social dynamics of the neighborhood, beyond the stereotypes.

This paper analyses the activities of the Bacle lithography in Buenos Aires, and its ambivalent relationship with the governments of Juan Manuel de Rosas. This story is read in the light of two wider phenomena that were affecting the Atlantic world, namely the diffusion of new forms of visual politicisation linked to republicanism and the construction of interconnected and interdependent market economies. The lithography permitted and was sustained by the two aforementioned processes.

Due to colonization and migratory movements, the Portuguese language can be found all over the globe. In Japan, it is mainly spoken by the Brazilian and other Latin American immigrant communities that have been established there since the early 1990s, in most cases, employed as a cheap workforce. Since then, this newly emerged Portuguese variety underwent a process of language change: in the vocabulary and phonology. In this paper, we would like to provide examples and arguments that support the idea that this language variety is a sociolect.

The essay studies Huarcaya's "amazograms" from the category of the sublime. In his attempt to represent greatness, the jungle permeates the paper, altering the classical conventions of photographic art. The images are sublime because they lack precise limits and account for a disruptive force that tries to capture itself as a limit. They are images that both return to the origins of photographic tradition and testify to what is left of nature in the context of a utilitarian rationality that no longer knows an outside.

This paper aims to analyse the participation of Latin America in the League of Nations, by considering Colombia as a case study. Through a historical approach and using diplomatic sources, the purpose of the essay is to find out the orientation of Bogota’s governments about the structure of an organism built to ensure peace, but from the beginning lacerated by the tension between the traditional politics of power and the aspirations for universal cooperation schemes.

In the city of Buenos Aires at the beginning of the 20th century, a police publication entitled Galería de Ladrones Conocidos was released. It compiled a series of photographic portraits and filiation data of suspects and recidivists who frequented police stations. By revealing the relationships and tensions between racial categories and photographs, I will analyze how police classifications configure a dynamic of hyper-embrace visual whiteness. At the same time, the paper presents the idea of mestizo images which makes it possible to dislocate the hegemonic notion of miscegenation conceived as a process of social whitening.

As an anomalous and transgressive novel, Jorge Barón Biza’s The Desert and Its Seed (1998) has become a classic of Argentine literature in recent decades. In this paper we are interested in approaching its reading based on its link with that “Gothic mode” read by critics as a perverse nucleus omnipresent in Rio de la Plata literary tradition. We will focus on two aspects that could be considered cardinal: (a) the uncanny representation of the Italian and (b) the recurring motif in Argentine literature of the decline of old oligarchic families.

The following paper highlights the meanings and expressions of memory in an Andean community of northern Chile. The aim is thus the identification and understanding of the various "paths of memory" or "amt'añ thakhi", used by farmers in the formal and informal remembrance of the past, both in labor expressions, cultural, as in the rituals using mnemonic devices. Additionally, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of memory as a significant tool for those companies faced with cultural and political changes, leading them to generate successive deconstructions of their own history and past events.

This paper examines Roberto Bolaño's rewriting of his own short story "Ramírez Hoffman, el infame" in the novel Estrella distante. It considers the re-narration of historical catastrophes as an ethical and political scheme, exploring Bolaño's poetics of narrative pluralization, as well as his ethics of reading as a critical experience. Following Idelber Avelar's theories on postdictatorial fiction, the paper highlights the author's effort to impede the resolution of the mourning process, opposing the politics of memory of the so-called Latin American democratic transition.

This paper presents a study of short films for children and youth that are directed by black Brazilian directors that work with the theme of racism in childhood through the theme of hair. We propose reflections on the rupture of stereotypes from the pretagonismo (black protagonism) in the audiovisual by analyzing counter-hegemonic narratives and characters in the films Ana (Vitória Felipe, 2017), Guri (Adriano Monteiro, 2019) and Fábula de Vó Ita (Joyce Prado and Thalita Oshiro, 2016). The research is based on the concepts of representation and identity, oppositional gaze, coloniality and black Atlantic’s diasporas.

This study analyses the contact between Spanish and Italian in the Italian linguistic landscape (LL) of Buenos Aires, from the most ancient layers (together with their linguistic innovations) to the most recent ones, resulting from a commodification of the Italian culture and identity. The focus is on the gastronomy and catering sector in Avenida Corrientes, as well as the neighbourhoods of San Telmo, Palermo and Retiro. The paper aims at identifying signs of the migration memory embedded and visible in the LL.

The article analyzes in historical perspective the ways in which Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in Argentina become agents considered efficient for the management of social policy from the 90's. It focuses on the forms of legitimation that referents -NGO directors and senior officials of the socio-assistance field- display in different periods about the legitimacy granted or denied to NGOs to intervene in the socio-assistance field, the ways in which the relationship with the State is configured and the boundaries of a complex, changing, non-linear link are drawn. This paper uses interviews with directors of organizations and state officials; and the analysis of regulations and institutional documents.

This paper describes, from geosemiotics — the study of social meaning in the material location of signs, discourse and actions in the material world —, the documentation of the Chuj and K'anjob’al languages in two border communities of Chiapas (Mexico) for the elaboration of bilingual calendars (2020). Two interaction resources were elicited collaboratively: the sense of time and perceptual spaces. Since both communities are recently created in Mexican territory and have a dispersed location, cultural knowledge and interaction orders have been updated and diversified concerning other communities where these indigenous languages are spoken.

This paper is the result of an in progress ethnographic research in a slum of Guatemala City, a “red zone”, as local media label the marginal areas of the city. The paper will offer a complex interpretation of that place, understood as a relational outcome not only relating to the actors that live in, but to a general mental and social structure interconnected to the whole metropolitan area. The analysis of the rhetoric used to produce this social enclave will necessary focus on a specific phenomenon: the transnational juvenile banditry.

This paper presents an analysis of the city’s image constructed in the work of brazilian poet Augusto de Campos, beginning with a poem from 1963, “cidade / city / cité”, and through works from the year 2000 as “sem saída”. Using concepts as “modern city”, “babelic city” and “phalanstery city”, this paper will approach the author’s conception of the relationship between poetry, city and politics, and the way it mutes. Finally, the article will raise critical views of Brazil’s modern image, emerged in the late sixties, and it will be revised De Campos’s intervention in this context.

The lines, the simplest way to represent borders, take part in the construction of power relations in the Western world, transformed into images and metaphors of poetic and narrative discourse. This paper aims to transcend this conception, starting from the traditional use -in western culture- as marks of the borders to underline its importance in the construction of visual and scriptural narratives, redrawn as symbols in the representations of non-western communities. Through a single case study - the allegory of America as a woman - the paper examines the transformation of this image from the sixteenth century cartography to the foundational national discourse of the nineteenth century.

How to escape censorship when graphic art is under surveillance by an authoritarian government? Which subterfuges can artists use to enforce their message, so to make themselves understood by their audience? These are the two questions inspiring the following paper, which analyzes the production of Belmonte, a famous caricaturist from São Paulo who gained prominence between the 1920s and 1940s. Guided by a Cultural History of the Political and by the documentary method for analysis of images, the article demonstrates how the Brazilian artist experienced and managed to overcome censorship during Getúlio Vargas' Estado Novo. In particular, one of his main strategies, i.e., the performativity of the caricatured characters, is scrutinized.

The paper discusses the relation between the democratization of access to public universities and the budget cuts in this sector announced by Bolsonaro’s Government. We conducted a dialogical speech analysis of four posters wielded during the protests against the cuts, focusing on the enunciates regarding the entry and presence of students from lower classes, blacks and indigenous people in higher education. The posters reveal the impact of the admission of the latter, affirm their presence, demand permanence and indicate how the democratization of education is a danger for the current government.

This paper works on two essential novels of Argentinian literature of the 20th Century, Zama by Di Benedetto (1956) and El Entenado (The Witness) by Saer (1983). The approach adopted draws a link between them from several ideas: the subject of language and the difficulties to understand the world; Otherness as an understanding element between two clashing Worlds, either in the “criollo topic” or the European witness of the Indian societies; sexuality as a way to approach the “mestizo” problem and the relationship between Society and Nature; the historical context to understand both stories.

Within the Northern Mexican Literature, a new generation of writers has emerged, disenfranchised from prototypical northern elements: the border, violence and drug trafficking. La Biblia Vaquera stands out for its emblematic postmodern experimentation. By analyzing Velázquez’s wordplays, this paper aims at highlighting the norteño literary space which does not identify with borderland dynamics, but with game as an act of creating reality, as well as a postmodernist antidote against the delegitimation of Knowledge (Lyotard, 2018).

The aim of this paper is to explore biographies of huacos unearthed by huaqueros through the huaquería ritual, practiced in the Northern Andes of Peru. An analytical process of ritual, comercial and museum biographical reconstruction will be applied in order to investigate three aspects of these objects. First, the role of huacos inside the communities in which they circulate; second, the thought system activated by these objects in their interactions with people from these communities.

This paper is about the representations of violence in the archives from European colonialism. By analysing a series of texts by French writer Éric Vuillard and by Portuguese author Paulo Faria, the author comments the ways in which literature sets up a critical re-appropriation of these colonial archives from the perspective of post-memory. These two works of art propose a new relationship between archive and fiction.

Since the analysis of the female characters that appear in Regàs’ and Janés’ memoirs, this paper goes depth into the condition of women in the XX century in Spain. Through the portraits that each memoirist creates in her text, it is possible to see how two generations of women lived. On the one hand, the stories of those women who, after the unsuccessful republican experience, adapted themselves to the patriarchal society of the Franquoist regime. On the other, all those women who rise up against the male subjection, claiming their role of Modern Woman just before the establishment of democracy.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the narrative Meu corpo daria um romance by Herbert Daniel (1984). We will propose a reading of this novel that highlights homosexual issues and themes and establishes a connection with the work of contemporary philosophers, such as Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.

This paper aims to investigate the concept of “limit” in Hay algo que no es como me dicen, el caso de Nevenka Fernández contra la realidad by Juan José Millás, a work characterized by an interaction between literary writing and reportorial writing. From a methodological point of view, the very concept of limit or border refers to the analyses of hybrid genres, as stated in the works by Sobejano, Chillón and Valls. Our goal will be to explain and examine the creative ways that allow the coexistence of literary writing and reportorial writing.

Since the 1990s several Latin American countries have entered a phase defined as “post-conflict”. This concept has quickly ceased to indicate a new beginning to become a common place underlining a governmentality model in continuity with the past, or a synonym for neoliberalism. In this paper we analyse the case of Guatemala. We propose that the ethics of compassion, based on the ideas of Human Rights and ethnic identity, although allowing the end of the war and the envision peace, it shapes a post-conflict order that perpetuates inequality, favours social violence (emblematically represented by the mara phenomenon) and criminalizes poverty.

Starting from Zavala’s concern about the political neutralization of the narcoculture products, this paper aims to rebuild a re-politization of journalism from literature. We analyse the ethical, esthetical, and political implication of the fictionalization of the journalist, their voice and body, in the novels by Roberto Bolaño, Cristina Rivera Garza and Pedro Ángel Palou, which deal with narcoviolence in an explicit or implicit way. The symbolic characters created by those authors set an urgent discourse on the responsibility of art and journalism about how to represent narco and its social effects.

This paper focuses on the analysis of José María Arguedas’ self-translations. From the comparison between the two versions (Quechua-Spanish), we will analyse how the author-translator opts for opposite and complementary tendencies oscillating between the wish to conform the text to the norms of the target culture and the desire to let a transcultural linguistics perspective emerge. The textualization of diglossia determines not only the presence of heterolinguism but also the possibility of specifying a process of textual rewriting, that is able to create a cross-border and migrant writing.

In this paper we will analyse four narratives: Boca de lobo (2000) and by the Argentinean writer Sergio Chejfec, Menino oculto (2005) by the Brazilian writer Godofredo de Oliveira Neto, El Aleph engordado (2009) by the Argentinean writer Pablo Katchadjian, and Meshugá by the Brazilian writer Jacques Fux. The aim is to understand the dynamics and fragments of time which would constitute an understanding of the present time. These elements allow us to map the thematic and formal expressions of the present time in contemporary Latin American narrative.

The author presents the circuits that Pankararé indigenous group establish between Bahia and Sao Paulo. The paper discusses the processes of articulation and production of an indigenous space in the city. The author analyses how the urban segment of Pankararé manages to (re)assert its cultural, social and political agency, in the new urban areas thank to the maintenance of mobility dynamics between the homeland and the city. Through continuous flows of things, articulation of concepts such as territory, space and memory they produce heterogeneous networks and cultural creativity.

Interchange has been representing a part of human activities along History in many ways. So that, the resulting relationships are constitutive of our societies. Exchange for profit is just one of those forms of interchange, and not necessarily the most important. This paper focuses on diverse kind of interchange observed in the Andean region’s fair called Manka Fiesta. This is the oldest fair which still takes place nowadays in the Argentine-Bolivian Andean puna. It is the biggest of its type and maintains the same location and date through more than a century.

This article assesses the governance challenges related to the environmental conflict occurred in the protected area of the Yaigojé-Apaporis National Natural Park, where a gold mining title was established. This text argues that in this environmental dispute there is an institutional fragmentation and an extractivist management of natural resources, which affects significantly the main dimensions of a fair governance. Moreover, the paper addresses the need to promote the indigenous cultural heritage as vital in the environmental sustainability.