La formación de palabras en la toponimia de Lanzarote: lingüística, lengua y territorio II

Word formation in the toponymy of Lanzarote: linguistics, language, and territory II

Salvador G. Benítez Rodríguez

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):1-20 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.001  

From the perspective of linguistics as a discipline and, in particular, of the need humans have to name the spaces of the territory where they live in order, among other reasons, to distinguish them from others, a study of word formation in the toponymy of the island of Lanzarote is presented. Methodologically, it starts from the most complete corpus that currently exists of the place names of the island and it is focused on the lexical units that compose them, among which four types of word formations, with their corresponding subtypes, will be distinguished: simple, derived, compound, and mixed. The results are measured in absolute and relative data...

De la esencia al proceso. Análisis lingüístico de la construcción de representaciones discursivas sobre la identidad de género en historias de vida de personas trans

From essence to process. Linguistic analysis of the construction of discursive representations of gender identity in transgender people's life stories

Matías Soich

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):21-42 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.002  

The human rights of trans people (transvestites, transsexuals, transgender, and non-binary people) have been, and continue to be, violated on the basis of pathologizing definitions of their gender identities. These definitions entail essentialist assumptions, regarding identity as fixed and immutable. This work presents some results of the linguistic analysis of oral and written texts in the first person produced by trans people. The corpus consists of life stories and autobiographical narrations produced in Buenos Aires City between 2012 and 2016. The methodological paradigm is interpretativist, the methodology is qualitative and inductive, and the...

Cuarenta años de Los parientes de Ester (1978), de Luis Fayad. Del macondismo a la nueva novela urbana

Forty years since The relatives of Ester (1978), by Luis Fayad. From macondism to the new urban novel

José Manuel Camacho Delgado

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):43-58 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.003  

The first forty years have passed since the publication of a novel as an important as Los parientes de Ester (The Relatives of Ester) (1978), by the Bogota-born writer Luis Fayad. The work was received with enthusiasm from its first edition, despite the fact that the novel was written a moment of exaltation about neo-baroque writing and the unanimous and almost hyperbolic acceptance of literary products derived from magical realism. Fayad conceived his novel as a stark portrait of a convulsed society in which the survival of the most disadvantaged social classes was very difficult. The methodology used in this article is clearly transversal...

Las tarjetas postales fotográficascomo lugares de memoria del Circuncaribe

Photographic postcards as places for memory of the circum-Caribbean area

Enrique Camacho Navarro

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):59-80 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.004  

In the region bathed by the Caribbean Sea - the continental territories of Central America and part of South America - two interesting historical processes converged at the beginning of the twentieth century. On the one hand, the arrival of American investors led to the shaping of economies into supposed ways of achieving progress through the arrival of foreign capital, while, on the other hand, the production of postcards, which initially functioned as a means of achieving communication over long distances, eventually allowed the building of an imaginary that, through visual representation, endorsed the liberal discourse that contributed to the consolidation...

El culto a la «Santa Muerte» en México: un estudio socio-histórico y su reflejoen un relato de Homero Aridjis

The cult of "la Santa Muerte" in Mexico: a socio-historical study and its reflection in a short story by Homero Aridjis

Rafael Adelino Fortes

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):81-94 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.005  

In the culture of Meso-Latin America, the cults of Death were significant rites within the context of these civilizations, especially those of the Aztecs and the Mayans. With the arrival of Hernán Cortez in America and later with the Catholic catechization to the natives of Mesoamerica, Death continued to occupy a place of prominence. According to Olmos, after the Christian colonization, Death received many more requests for protection from the faithful than the Virgin of Guadalupe herself; in the face of this, the morbid icon was expelled from the churches on the allegation that it was a divinity originating from the natives and linked to witchcraft;...

Memoria, metáfora y traumas en la narrativa uruguaya del nuevo siglo. Las propuestas de Agustín Acevedo Kanopa y Horacio Cavallo

Memory, metaphor, and traumas in the Uruguayan narrativeof the new century.The proposals of Agustín Acevedo Kanopa and Horacio Cavallo

Giuseppe Gatti Riccardi

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):95-110 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.006  

The object of the study is to think about the impact that the end of the grands réctis of modernity has meant for a thematic aspect of contemporary Uruguayan literature that has its focus on the recovery of memory. The collapse of these grands réctis has led writers to adopt minimal stories and leads the analysis to focus on the literary production of two Uruguayan narrators of recent times': Agustín Acevedo Kanopa (1985) and Horacio Cavallo (1977). Their latest collections of stories, Historia de nuestros perros (2016) and El silencio de los pájaros (2013), respectively, relate the collective memory with the crisis of personal identity. Moving from...

La teoría del inconsciente ideológicode Juan Carlos Rodríguez: una línea de fuga entre marxismo,psicoanálisis y estudios literarios

Juan Carlos Rodríguez's theorization of the ideologicalunconscious: A line of escape between Marxism, psychoanalysis, and literary studies

Chiara Giordano

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):111-124 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.007  

According to the critic of ideology and literary theorist Juan Carlos Rodríguez - whose main lines will be analysed in this article - the ideological level is one of the three instances that, along with the political and economic levels, defines all social formation. Rodriguez's triadic model, then, is opposed to the classic dichotomy between the base and superstructure of traditional Marxism, according to which the superstructure is the phantasmagorical and fetishized reflection of the material base. Thus understood, ideology ceases to be synonymous with self-deception and false consciousness to become an ideological unconscious, in other words, the...

Los pasos en las huellas:la novela de memoria en Argentina

Steps in the rut: novels from memory in Argentina

Julio Premat

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):125-138 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.008  

In addition to representations, debates, transfers, and productions of historical memory in contemporary novels - and, in the case of Argentina, of the memory of the last dictatorship - current narratives are obsessed with anamnestic gestures that take various forms: family histories and collective narratives overlap in fictions with the focus turned toward the past. In this article, the forms, the impact, and the relations to the present of what could be called, in general terms, the novela de memoria (the memory novel, but also the novel from memory) of this start of the millennium are analysed. As a starting point four long contemporary Argentine...

Le bestiaire dans le conte libertin

The bestiary in the libertine tale

Andrea Tureková

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):139-152 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.009  

The animal is an integral part of the literary fancy, and especially the fancy of the marvellous. Yet the birth of the fairy tale as a literary genre is situated at the end of the 17^th century. The keen interest in fairy tales, strengthened by the entrance of the oriental fairy tale in the early 18^th century, brought, together with the influence of libertinism, a parodic reaction. The question is, then, in view of parodic processes and the presence of libertinism in these fairy tales, to understand how animals (as a traditionally inseparable element of the fairy tale) enter storytellers' critical and subversive intentions. A corpus...

Forme del dialogo in Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese and the forms of dialogue

Claudia Zavaglini

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):153-162 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2018.010  

This paper aims at further expanding the already existing scholarship on the relationship between Pavese and dialogue, meant not only as a mere tendency underlying his writing style, but also as a specific and "irresistible" literary form that materializes in different ways: in the famous short texts entitled Dialoghi con Leucò and in the ideologically oriented dialogues called Dialoghi col compagno. The first part of the article focuses on Il mestiere di vivere: an in-depth analysis allows the main dialogical elements emerging from the author's diary and also his theoretical considerations on the "new form" to be highlighted....

Dagatti, Mariano (2017), El partido de la patria. Los discursos presidenciales de Néstor Kirchner

Carolina Tosi

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):163-165  

Hricsina, Jan (2015), Vývoj portugalského jazyka

Samuel Bidaud

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):165-167  

Rodrigues-Moura, Enrique – Wieser, Doris (org.) (2015), Identidades em Movimento. Construções identitárias na África da língua portuguesa e seus relexos no Brasil e em Portugal

Aleš Vrbata

Romanica Olomucensia 2018, 30(1):167-171