Sublime peligro: naturaleza, sujeto y nación en latinoamérica
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Abreu Mendoza, Carlos
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Romance Studies
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- The sublime has attracted vigorous academic inquiry in fields such as philosophy, cultural studies, and subaltern studies. Recently, theorists such as Slavoj Zizek, Fredric Jameson, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak have explored the history and enduring effects of the concept, while feminist critics Barbara Freeman and Christine Battersby have noted the gendered dichotomies implicit in classic theories of the sublime penned by men. These feminist and philosophical studies succeed in underlining the racism and colonialism embedded in the sublime, and provide valuable methodological tools to analyze Latin America's long-lasting relation with the West. However, an analysis of the specific conditions in which the sublime takes shape in Latin America has yet to be done. This is the void filled by my doctoral dissertation, which uses the sublime as a conceptual framework to explore intersections between post-independence Latin American literature and Western post-enlightenment ideas and projects. The narrative and thematic currents of the sublime in Latin American literary production reveal postcolonial struggles of nation building, unexamined assumptions about femininity and indigeneity, and modernity's dislocation of nature. Juxtaposing texts from different nations such as Domingo Faustino Sarmiento's Facundo (1845), José Martí’s Lucía Jerez (1885), Horacio Quiroga’s jungle fictions, Juan José Saer’s El entenado (1983), and the work of contemporary indigenous poets like Hugo Jamioy and Fredy Chikangana, I examine how they question the self-centered view of the sublime while they simultaneously propose an alternative theory of aesthetics and subjectivity.
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- May 2014
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- González Espitia, Juan Carlos
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- Doctor of Philosophy
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 2014
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