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Texting the City: Textual Reconstructions of Latin American Urban Spaces
Accepting that the Latin American city exists in a material form outside the literary text, this panel will examine the representation of Latin American urban life though the textualization of the city and the discourses that order that material space.
Our investigations look at the ways in which Latin American writers respond to historic hegemonies and authorities through their own textual reconstructions of the Latin American urban space. Through our analyses of the literary works of Julio Cortázar (Argentina), Rita Indiana Hernández (Republica Dominicana), Eudardo Lalo (Puerto Rico), and Pedro Lemebel (Chile), we locate the textual spaces in which the city emerges as a new (social, economic, political, and even geographical) construct.
Just as we argue that the works of these writers allow us to see a new city constructed as text, they equally force us to explore the phantasmagoric spaces within the material city from which these textual reconfigurations emerge.
Our panel seeks out the spaces in the
city-as-text and in the text-as-city in which fantasy reorganizes reality
and produces community and identity. Because the possibility of
political representation is a fiction for many Latin American urban
dwellers, we hope to show that within a textually constructed city,
fiction perhaps becomes the possibility of political representation.
The Pedro in the Closet, Or, the Untellable Stories of Pedro Mardones Lemebel
Department of Comparative Literature,
University of California, Irvine (United States)
La heterogeneidad de la ciudad en textos caribeńos
Lindsay
Puente
Department of Comparative Literature,
University of California, Irvine (United States)
Department of Comparative Literature,
University of California, Irvine (United States)
Friday 2nd of June, 2006
Viernes 2 de junio, 2006
Auditorio C (UPN)
12:00 - 13:45