Romanica Olomucensia, 2021 (vol. 33), issue 2

Introduction

Disensos al canon literario. Angola, Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador y Francia

Literary canon in dissent: Angola, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and France

Enrique Rodrigues-Moura

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):195-210 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.014

Literature and Culture

Une littérature francophone en quête de légitimité : le cas de la littérature dite « de la banlieue »

A francophone literature in search of legitimacy: the case of "banlieue literature"

Mohammed Abdelatif Benamar

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):211-224 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.015

This article is intended to be a critical reflection on a rather particular literary expression, known as "banlieue literature". In spite of its emerging in France, this literature struggles to find a place in the French literary landscape. In this contribution, the intention is to explain why these so-called "banlieue" writings remain marginal. Why these literatures, although produced in France and by French authors, still remain catalogued on the basis of an ethnic or spatial logic and still do not manage to enjoy appreciable literary visibility in French society will be determined. The purpose is to show that the stereotypes and language deployed...

Dyonélio Machado: Literatura Pampeana para além de suas fronteiras

Dyonélio Machado: Pampean literature beyond its borders

Jonas Kunzler Moreira Dornelles

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):225-240 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.016

The current paper presents an analysis of the set of figurations of characters coming from the border in Dyonélio Machado's work, related to aspects of his essayistics. A Marxist politician persecuted by Brazilian authoritarianism at several points, producer of a writing that was progressively rejected by the publishers of his time, it will be in consideration of the ambivalence of his representations of the border that we can find a new bias of interpretation for his literature. Following Walter Mignolo's epistemology of the border, which proposes a liminal knowledge that seeks to consider both sides of the border without fixating on either, Dyonélio...

María de Jorge Isaacs como subversión del romanticismo en la Nueva Granada

Jorge Isaacs' María as a subversion of Romanticism in New Granada

Juan Carlos Herrera Ruiz

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):241-257 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.017

The article analyses aspects of the slavery relations of production portrayed in Jorge Isaacs' María (1867) as an expression of altered criticism towards the canon of Romanticism and as a form of cultural resistance to the hegemonic discourse of the political elites in the founding literature of the 19th century. The work carried out by black characters from the master's point of view is traced through some keys derived from the Hegelian dialectic of the master and the slave, noting how their subjectivities are confronted and how, in the unfolding of the narrative voice, desire is restored to the slave. The acquisition of self-awareness on the...

Alfredo Gangotena: el poeta «no ecuatoriano» en el trance entre lenguas

Alfredo Gangotena: the "non-Ecuadorian" poet in the trance between two languages

Pablo Larreátegui Plaza

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):259-274 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.018

The introduction presents the poet Alfredo Gangotena (1904-1944) as a case of an author who located himself in the interstices between the French and Spanish languages and who appears outside the Ecuadorian literary canon in the middle of the defining process of national literary modernity in the early twentieth century. Methodologically, the period of the definition of Ecuadorian literary modernity is briefly contextualized, resorting to different publications from between 1910 and 1950. As for Gangotena's work, dispersed in various publications since 1920 in Ecuador and France, it has been compiled, as well as letters and translations dating from...

Maria Firmina dos Reis: a literatura subversiva de uma mulher negra contra a escravidão no brasil do século XIX

Maria Firmina dos Reis: the subversive literature of a black woman against slavery in 19th-century Brazil

Susan de Oliveira

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):275-287 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.019

For over a century, the Brazilian literary canon ignored the name of Maria Firmina dos Reis, the first black woman to write an abolitionist novel in Brazil, still in the midst of the slave order: Úrsula (1859). She was also the author of short stories and poetry, as well as the novel Gupeva (1861-1862). Maria Firmina dos Reis also stood out as an intellectual who challenged the patriarchal order, having worked in the area of education with ideas that were innovative for the time. In order to discuss the absence of Maria Firmina dos Reis from the Brazilian literary canon, this article analysed aspects of the author's life, characteristics...

Refundando la matria Argentina, desdibujando límites normativos.Las Aventuras de la China Iron, de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Refounding the Argentine matria. Reading of The Adventures of China Iron, by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Minerva Peinador

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):289-304 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.020

This paper intends to provide a panoramic interpretation of The Adventures of China Iron (Las Aventuras de la China Iron), by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, a novel which is part of (or breaks away from) the Gaucho genre literary tradition, a co-founder of Argentinian national identity. After providing an epistemological, historical and socio-cultural framework of the origin of Argentina as a nation, the paper introduces and questions the Gaucho figure as a source of popular national collective identity, as well as his literary representations, which is in an essential contradiction as she puts together oral and written traditions and "low" and "high"...

Literatura afro-brasileira: memória e identidade no conto «Olhos d’água» de Conceição Evaristo

Afro-Brazilian literature: memory and identity in the tale «Olhos d´água» by Conceição Evaristo

Andreine Lizandra dos Santos

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):305-314 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.021

This article briefly analyses the short story by Conceição Evaristo entitled "Olhos d´água" (Eyes of water) (2014), from the perspective of memory and identity. Memory and identity are inseparable, the first representing the ability to preserve certain information and identity, characteristics that allow people or things to be individualized. Thus, memory brings together the processes of identity, allowing the construction of the past and its re-signification. To do so, the theoretical considerations of scholars such as Duarte, Hall, Hutcheon, Candido, and other authors are used. Regarding the analyses, it is important to note that the short story...

Poder, estratificação social e subalternização em dois contos de João Melo

Power, social stratification, and subalternization in two short stories by João Melo

Renata Cristine Gomes de Souza

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):315-327 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.022

In this paper, how João Melo's literary project is structured will be discussed from the point of view of a spatial analysis. The short stories "Efeito Estufa" and "O cortejo" bring a type of narrator who exemplifies this way of seeing the city, who weaves information about the characters and the spaces, placing himself as an individual who understands the specificities of what is narrated. This narrator focuses on showing social stratification and subalternization as constructors of society. The discussion proposed by the research is based on understanding how spatial representations reflect violence, disillusionment, and resistance. In this...

Il viaggio mitico in Sud America. Dino Campana – una sovversione non solo letteraria

Dino Campana´s mythical journey in South America. A literary and personal subversion

Natália Rusnáková, Fabiano Gritti, Monika Pamulová-Šavelová

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):329-341 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.023

The paper focuses on the background to the cultural and literary reception in modern European societies which was, because of common aesthetic and ideological roots, formed by idealist thinking, later modified by phenomenological reduction, prepared to receive some of the literary production of Dino Campana. Even if interpreted as a precursor of the Italian literary avant-garde almost immediately, aiming to actualize the national literature and culture within the modernist European frame, Campana's reception was highly ambiguous as regards the critical evaluation of his poetry. The perception of his orphic and impressionist poetic work was conditioned...

L’homo utopicus au prisme de l’imaginaire politique kunderien : de l’échec du sublime à l’impossibilité de l’utopie

Homo utopicus in the prism of the Kunderian political imaginary: from the failure of the sublime to the impossibility of utopia

Marieme Senihji, Hassan Chafik

Romanica Olomucensia 2021, 33(2):343-354 | DOI: 10.5507/ro.2021.024

Milan Kundera's imagination is situated in the context of terminal modernity. The great myths that have haunted modern man are nothing more than old, impossible dreams. Homo utopicus as the archetype of modern man becomes, for Kundera, a mere ridiculous puppet who witnesses the collapse and overthrow of his utopias. If any political utopia transferred to the field of action inevitably passes through a brief ephemeral moment that Marc Richir calls "sublime", this utopia is taken over by the forces of the symbolic institution to deviate towards an aestheticization of politics. The Kunderian imagination questions this fatal diversion, which refers to...