El mito de la Cautiva : desplazamientos y proyecciones en la literatura contemporánea argentina.

Through the analysis of several contemporary Argentine novels which go back to the literary myth of the Captive while introducing in the story knowledge and historical experiences sedimented in the present, it is interesting to observe how the symbolic readings of the topical images of the Nation ar...

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Main Author: María A. Semilla Durán
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Réseau Interuniversitaire d'Ètude des Littératures Contemporaines du Río de la Plata
Series:Cuadernos LIRICO
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lirico/1708
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Summary:Through the analysis of several contemporary Argentine novels which go back to the literary myth of the Captive while introducing in the story knowledge and historical experiences sedimented in the present, it is interesting to observe how the symbolic readings of the topical images of the Nation are modified, what are the inflexions brought by such readings to fill the wholes of representation, and what kind of alternative imagination is outlined during this process of intervention of the myth, where anachronism, analogy and contextualisation are essential devices
ISSN:2262-8339