Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 41 | 110 | 2018
Research Article | Grotesque Deconstruction of Oficial Colonial and Postcolonial Latin-American Identities
Grotesque Deconstruction of Oficial Colonial and Postcolonial Latin-American Identities
- Pedro Santa María de Abreu - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - email
Abstract
This article explores the deconstructive function of grotesque elements in contemporary Spanish and Ibero-American Literature. Starting with Tirano Banderas. Novela de Tierra Caliente (1926), a highlight in Valle-Inclan’s esperpento aesthetics, mocking what authors as Bakhtin or Foucault pointed out as “official truths”, both collective and individual. It is argued that grotesque representation establishes a subversive relation when confronted with epic or tragic modes, as established by aristotelic-horatian and dogmatic poetics. This may shed some light on the relation between grotesque structure and critical deconstruction, from the so-called Baroque era up until modernist and postmodernist essay, such as it is the case of one of the most thoroughly sophisticated contemporary writers in Brasil, Silviano Santiago, whose collection of essays O Cosmopolitismo do Pobre (2004) is the third pillar of our analysis.
Submitted: Feb. 8, 2018 | Accepted: April 1, 2018 | Published Dec. 11, 2018 | Language: es
Keywords Iberian and Latin-American Comparative Studies • Contemporary narrative • Deconstruction • Modernism • Valle-Inclán • Grotesque esperpento • Baroque • Classical and contemporary poetics • Postcolonial identities • Silviano Santiago
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Grotesque Deconstruction of Oficial Colonial and Postcolonial Latin-American Identities. From Valle-Inclan’s Tirano Banderas to Silviano Santiago’s Cosmopolitismo do pobre |
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Santa María de Abreu Pedro |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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Research Article |
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es |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2018/110/deconstruccion-grotesca-de-las-identidades-oficial/ |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article explores the deconstructive function of grotesque elements in contemporary Spanish and Ibero-American Literature. Starting with Tirano Banderas. Novela de Tierra Caliente (1926), a highlight in Valle-Inclan’s esperpento aesthetics, mocking what authors as Bakhtin or Foucault pointed out as “official truths”, both collective and individual. It is argued that grotesque representation establishes a subversive relation when confronted with epic or tragic modes, as established by aristotelic-horatian and dogmatic poetics. This may shed some light on the relation between grotesque structure and critical deconstruction, from the so-called Baroque era up until modernist and postmodernist essay, such as it is the case of one of the most thoroughly sophisticated contemporary writers in Brasil, Silviano Santiago, whose collection of essays O Cosmopolitismo do Pobre (2004) is the third pillar of our analysis. |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Rassegna iberistica |
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dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 41 | Issue 110 | December 2018 |
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dc.issued |
2018-12-11 |
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dc.dateAccepted |
2018-04-01 |
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dc.dateSubmitted |
2018-02-08 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2037-6588 |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2018/11/005 |
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dc.peer-review |
yes |
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dc.subject |
Baroque |
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dc.subject |
Baroque |
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dc.subject |
Classical and contemporary poetics |
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dc.subject |
Classical and contemporary poetics |
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dc.subject |
Contemporary narrative |
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dc.subject |
Contemporary narrative |
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dc.subject |
Deconstruction |
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dc.subject |
Deconstruction |
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dc.subject |
Grotesque esperpento |
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dc.subject |
Grotesque esperpento |
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dc.subject |
Iberian and Latin-American Comparative Studies |
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dc.subject |
Iberian and Latin-American Comparative Studies |
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dc.subject |
Modernism |
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dc.subject |
Modernism |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial identities |
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dc.subject |
Postcolonial identities |
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dc.subject |
Silviano Santiago |
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dc.subject |
Silviano Santiago |
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dc.subject |
Valle-Inclán |
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dc.subject |
Valle-Inclán |
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