In this essay I will examine how the prestigious Dominican intellectual Pedro Henríquez Ureña developed in his most important essays a writing strategy of "silencing" the indigenous and afro cultures, as a way to litigate with his condition as a postcolonial intellectual mulatto. The study of these silences clearly reveals how through the interstices of his writings, a classist, racist and patriarchal ideology lies underneath. The silencing or negation of some aspects of the Latin-American popular culture, will direct Henríquez Ureña in an Hispanophile path, since it is not only pride but admiration what he will show for the conquest and colonization of the American continent by the Spanish Empire. His opinions about colonial Santo Domingo depict a nostalgic mode through which he attempts to link his linage with the raising of the Dominican nation, and vicariously through Spain, the country from which he was awaiting recognition. As a postcolonial mulatto intellectual, Henríquez Ureña had to fight both with the anxiety for recognition by the hegemonic "Other," and the racial indetermination of his mulatto reality. It is my thesis that these facts will produce a delusional self-image as a White, based on his surnames and social prestige, identified with an European ideal.
The purpose of this essay is to analyze “Fauna of Mirrors” by Jorge Luis Borges, in the context of his poetics: mirrors, fantastic animal, and dreams. Borges (re) creates the myth of the Fish of the mirrors and the legend of the tiger of the mirrors, of doubtful existence. Taking advantage of the epistemological distance with China, Borges founds his own sinology, his own myth, and his own legend. For Borges, copying, repetition, real or apocryphal quotes, glosses, translation, interpretation and rewriting are but another form of literary creation. Partially, the writers and texts cited by Borges to assemble his text are apocryphal: it is the case of Father Zallinger and the sinologist Herbert Allen Giles who, although of real existence, are attributed false and incomplete references. In the text, animals of mirrors manifest themselves as products of the Yellow Emperor's dream, as the repressed unconscious, upon which Chinese civilization and culture are founded.
En este artículo, me interesa explorar la articulación del bolero en La amigdalitis de Tarzán de Alfredo Bryce Echenique. Pero antes me gustaría examinar algunos aspectos de este importante género musical para poder comprender mejor la novela-bolero latinoamericana, en general, y la de Bryce, en particular.
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