No. 23 (2011)
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Item Ver lo mismo, pero con otros ojos: iconografía arquitectónica de la Cuenca histórica(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Páez Barrera, OswaldoThe topic of the patrimonial architecture of Cuenca-Ecuador is analyzed from the Latin American present social tensions which question the neoliberal visions and positions about the tangible patrimony. The notion about the “Historic Center”, which is discussed under the light of the archeological discoveries and recent patrimonial arguments, leads us to prefer the category of Historic City. The vernacular, indigenous and mestizo are proposed as central values of the tangible patrimony from a theoretical-historical view that argues its pertinence.Item El romanticismo de Dolores Veintimilla(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Grijalva, María ElenaVeintimilla’s short and tempestuous life express her love, disenchantment and betrayal. Living in a racist society, she dared to defend Tiburcio Lucero, an indigenous person accused of patricide. This stand caused her to be targeted for denigration and slander by the Church and other pillars of official society. As an ultimate act of protest she committed suicide. Dolores Veintimilla was a controversial woman, a strong defender of social equality, and an opponent of the death penalty. Veintimilla’s romanticism was a response and challenge to the religious, racial, and patriarchal ideology of Nineteenth Century Ecuador.Item Piedra de Sol: un peregrinaje desde el cosmos al hombre - Octavio Paz (1957)(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Moscoso Carvallo, María EugeniaHis reflection is traversed by a deep knowledge of man, world and life. His inspiration brings elements that make it possible a very wide and suggestive work in several genres: poetry, essay, and critic. The Sun Stone, Octavio Paz´s most significant poem, deals with the central topics of the western lyric: the couple and the lovable presence as a reflection of a “body of light”, man´s pilgrimage, woman and her symbology, time, history, and the vital cycle. This sustained and eloquent poetic composition is covered by enormous expressivity and a great metaphoric scope. Its symbology is sculptured on the edge of that giant wrapped stone that the Mexicas, Aztecs or Nahoas regarded as their calendar, The Sun Stone, which was understood as the fusion of the cosmic world. This enormous poem is conveyed into a media episode between the original experiences of the poet in his act of creation and the ulterior experience, as a critic, in his act of recreation. Paz would have said, “It is the place where poetry and man meet”.Item La modernización literaria en Argentina: cuentos de Jorge Luis Borges y Roberto Arlt(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Rodríguez, MarthaIn this paper, the author analizes the construction of “argentinian” in Jorge Luis Borges texts, and modernizing Buenos Aires city representation, in Roberto Arlt short stories. The discussion context deals with the disputes for a place in argentinian literary field —during its process of becoming autonomous—, and its incidence in the construction of the literary canon in that country, during the first half of 20th century.Item Derechos Humanos y literatura(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Maíz, ClaudioIn this paper, we intend to establish a correlation between the universal idea of Human Rights and the literary discourses. In both fields, the permanent dichotomy modes of focusing them interact, that is, the abstract terminology and the local realities. The human rights within the Latin-American and world literature in general have a conflictive expression about the declarative spirit inherent to the discourse on rights.Item La memoria chilena hoy(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Aponte Avilés, AidalíChilean writers and artists that belong to the 80’s Generation, devised channels to recover and maintain the memory of the dictatorship. Their idea was to create forums where citizens could break away from silence and recount their experiences. However, the generation of artists and writers from the beginning of the XXI Century are breaking away from this tradition of memory and are creating new forms of art that use memory as a foundation but not as the focal point of their work. This paper analyzes how Florencia Smiths’ poems and Equipo ZELM’s graphic novels are creating a Chilean narrative that keeps memory but going beyond it to shape the idea of the nation in the contemporary century.Item La subversión de la identidad en el amor es una droga dura de Cristina Peri Rossi(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Alvarez, CristinaThe novel El amor es una droga dura by Cristina Rossi and others from the same author, deals with problems of gender identity with mastery. In the following pages we are going to check this novel on the basis of the postulates that Judith Butler does on her essay El género en disputa. The feminism and the subvercitivity of the identity. Javier and Nora, the protagonists of this story transit uncomfortably through the rooted conceptions in the culture which is attributed to men and women. To Javier, it will be the desire which will lead him to the limits moves petulantly, arbitrarily impelled by her muddled passions. On the course of the story, fissures are introduced on both characters, fissures that slowly vanish the limits of her identity.Item Heterodoxia, subjetividad y desencanto en las memorias de España de Elena Garro(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Manzoni, CelinaMemories from Spain. 1937, by Elena Garro (1992), is a text that is traversed by the conflict of the self and the History. Effectively, these memories were built within an instable relation between an explicit then (1937) and the now of the writing (probably 1986 or 1987); the sense movements between both moments traverse the culture of the century in a disperse space: the Spanish cities that were in a highly politicized and sophisticated conflict and spheres from Mexico, Paris and New York, connected by an autobiographic process of delayed publication.Item La huella del chamán: mitos y rituales de una espiritualidad ancestral(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Sánchez Carmona, María TeresaShamanism constitutes a clear object of interest in the Area of Human Sciences, not only for being one of the first manifestations of religiousness in the History of Humanity, but in addition because its vision of the World served as a source of inspiration for later cultures, in whose myths it is possible to estimate this ancient substratum. Adopting a point of view eminently comparative the present study tries to outline Shamanism´s main characteristics, as well as to trace its influence on other cultures, attending to the figure of the shaman, the configuration of his imaginary and the symbolism of its rituals and celebrations.Item La recaída del logos en mito y el mito salvífico de la modernidad europea(2011) Leon Pesantez, Catalina SoledadThis work refers to the transition from the myth to the logos,taking intoaccount certain considerations of the Dialectic of the Illustration;however,it does not concentrate on a detailed analysis of its subject matter, but it de-parts from it to reflect on the transit of the logos to the illustrated myth of the reason within the historical conditions of a “discovered” America; also, itconsiders the hypothesis that the origin of the illustrated myth of the Latin-American modernity is articulated around the notions of reason, progress andsalvation within the perspective of showing a possible “coincidence” betweenthe Dialectic of the Illustration(Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno)and the Critic of the Modernity “myth”(Enrique Dussel).Item Del investigador social al ciudadano real: la difusión como enlace y problematización de las ciencias sociales(Universidad de Cuenca, 2011) Riera Rodríguez, GloriaMy paper is inserted into the questioning and the debate to which the Social Sciences have been submitted during the last years, and it has a specific focus: the diffusion of social knowledge. To explain this, I start with a brief review of the origin of Social Sciences, in order to make it evident that since the very beginning, the scientific theories and contributions of the social scientist have been the product of control policies that have been directed to what investigate, who write for, and how much to diffuse. Then after, it takes hold of school, main transmitter of social knowledge, as the place where the fragmentation of the social theory that gets there, is exhibited.