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Mujer y memoria en Pedro Paramo. Dianne M. Zandstra, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546

Juan Rulfo en su novela hace hablar a difuntos mexicanos, fuera de los limites del tiempo y del espacio que conlleva la vida humana. La mujer en Pedro Paramo es un ser tan pragmatico como mfstico que articula los dilemas de la existencia social a la vez que los ejemplifica. Este estudio se enfoca en la voz femenina y en la figura de la mujer como guardiana de la memoria: Doloritas con su evocacion de una Comala edenica, dona Eduviges y Dorotea con la culpa que cargan por su colaboracion con don Pedro, Susana San Juan con sus memorias/alucinaciones. Se analizan las versiones de una realidad historica que emergen cuando esta historia es narrada por mujeres y sobre mujeres.

Los Afroargentinos y los periodicos del Siglo XIX. Edward Miller Jr., Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI 49546

George Andrews many years ago, and more recently Marvin Lewis have confirmed in their important works about the afro-argentines the existence of newspapers published by black Argentines during the early part of the nineteenth century. Some of these periodicals, which were associated with the "Societies", or "Associations" that existed in Buenos Aires during those years (1820-1875), contained essays, short stories, and poetry written by members of the associations. They were written with the purpose of informing members what was going on in their communities, but also to give a voice to a segment of the population that felt that its voice had been silenced, or was being ignored. In this paper I would like to discuss just one of these newspapers and its content. La Broma, published from 1876-1881, was one of the newspapers that enjoyed a long life and also is one that voiced the concerns, desires and worries of the afro argentines in Buenos Aires during those years.

Panorama de la Poesia Ecuatoriana Actual. Ronald Haladyna, Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI 49307

Aparte de un contado grupo de poetas consagrados y re-consagrados, la poesia hispanoamericana suele ser marginada o simplemente ignorada por la critica literaria norteamericana. En el caso de los paises sudamericanos mas marginados--como Ecuador--existe aqui un infimo conocimiento de poetas que han publicado en los ultimos veinte anos un considerable cuerpo poetico, y los estudios criticos sobre los mismos son basicamente inexistentes. Dentro de este contexto, se pretende en esta ponencia dar a conocer algunas de las voces poeticas mas destacadas del Ecuador actual, proponiendo asi las primicias de un canon de la poesia ecuatoriana contemporanea, y asi mismo los criterios empleados para...

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