The Holy Mountain
While Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo inaugurate the midnight movie phenomenon, its success spawned The Holy Mountain. The film production was aided by the intervention of John Lennon and Allen Klein. However, after a scandalous release and a sixteen-month midnight career, The Holy Mountain was relegated to the underground world of fan bootlegs for over thirty […]
Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas
Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos — This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a […]
Fricciones
Gabriel Saldías Rossel — Fricciones is a collection of short stories published by Editorial Nadar in Chile, 2017. All the short stories present in the volume revolve, as its title suggests, around the idea of uncomfortable contact. Written with a caustic prose filled with black humor, irony and detachment, the nightmarish scenarios presented in these short stories […]
The Mirror in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Specular Reflections
Nancy Frelick (ed.) — This volume examines the intersections between material and metaphorical mirrors in medieval and early modern culture. Mirrors have always fascinated humankind. They collapse ordinary distinctions, making visible what is normally invisible, and promising access to hidden realities. Yet, these liminal objects also point to the limitations of human perception, knowledge, and wisdom. In […]
Buñuel en Toledo. Arte público, acción cultural y vanguardia
María Soledad Fernández Utrera — In 1923, Luis Buñuel established the Order of Toledo, a parody order of knights whose members included Salvador Dalí, García Lorca, and Rafael Alberti. Together, they often visited the ancient Spanish capital to stroll through its labyrinthine streets. But these excursions on the part of Buñuel and the Brotherhood were […]
Postcolonial Counterpoint. Orientalist, France, and the Maghreb
Farid Laroussi — Postcolonial Counterpoint is a critical study of Orientalism and the state of Francophone and postcolonial studies, examined through the lens of the historical and cross-cultural relations between France and North Africa. Thoroughly questioning the inability of Western academia to shake free of universalism and essentialism and come to grips with the Orientalism […]
La mesure des mots. Microscopie du Livre I des fables de La Fontaine
Hervé Curat — Cette analyse textuelle des vingt-deux «fables de La Fontaine» qui font le Livre premier des Fables choisies de 1668 suit l’ordre du recueil, préservant le plan de lecture choisi par le fabuliste. L’étude de chacune longe le texte, mais cède à l’occasion le pas à une vue transversale de faits touchant l’ensemble […]
Celestina según su lenguaje
Raúl Alvarez-Moreno — Celestina según su lenguaje estudia el lenguaje en Celestina (1499-1502) como elemento primordial y no solo supletorio o subsiguiente de la contienda que tiene lugar en la obra. A causa del recorrido desde lo semántico a lo epistemológico y lo filósofico-moral -ética y política-, ya en el aristotelismo, el estoicismo o el […]
Traditions orales et postcoloniales
Luc Fotsing Fondjo et Moustapha Fall (ed.) — Que suggère une oralité postcoloniale qui informe le texte de fiction postcolonial africain ? Est-ce un stéréotype folklorique ? Est-ce l’expression d’une voix collective revendiquant un espace dont elle a été dépossédée ? Est-ce la voix transgressive d’une nouvelle génération d’écrivains et de lecteurs s’opposant aux canons […]
Una embajada española al Egipto de principios del siglo XVI
Raúl Álvarez-Moreno — Pedro Mártir de Anglería desembarcó en Egipto la Navidad de 1501 tras ochenta días de viaje, trece de ellos en Venecia, para negociar la restauración de los lugares santos y la protección de los cristianos en Jerusalén, quienes temían una represalia mameluca por las recientes acciones llevadas a cabo contra los moriscos […]