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Spanish and Portuguese (Latin American) I: Autores canónicos

Session 7 - Sunday 1:00-2:30pm
Henry Hall 225
Presiding Officer: 
Alicia Rico
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Lee Skinner
  1. The Unconscious and Language: Formation of Subjectivity in Jorge Luis Borges’s “El etnógrafo”. Juan M. Godoy, San Diego State University

    This paper argues that the psychoanalytic theories of Lacan (especially his developmental triad of the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real) are embodied in the figure of Fred Murdock, protagonist of Borges’s story “El etnógrafo.”

  2. "El Llano en llamas" como un sistema de carencia y deseo. Ana Requena, University of California, Santa Barbara

    El Llano en llamas de Juan Rulfo representa un sistema de carencia y deseo. La carencia se manifiesta a través de las descripciones del paisaje rulfiano y resulta de una castración que se muestra en casi todos los cuentos de Rulfo.

  3. Countering Meta-narratives in Julio Cortazar's Cronopios and Famas. Matea Ivanovic, Idaho State University

    Julio Cortazar’s Cronopios and Famas counters meta-narratives of progress and knowledge through experimental structure, thematic concerns, and deconstructive symbolism. With an absurdist twist, the author’s insertion of meta-fiction questions the seeming obviousness of rationality and the role of the author.

  4. Simultaneity and the Fantastic in Latin American Literature. Sharon Sieber, Idaho State University

    This paper investigates the nature of new consciousness as it is represented in modern fiction through a new archetype of time, which is also a way of perceiving and representing through simultaneous time in Hombres de maíz, Pedro Páramo, and Cien años de soledad.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed