Acta Literaria

METALITERATURE AND METANOVEL IN THE LITERARY WORK OF JUAN EMAR

Roberto Eduardo Angel Gallardo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

PINTURAS PSICOSOMÁTICAS

Natalie Israyy — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

SPANISH ARABISM AND ARABIC POETRY

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Any thought is a response to a certain intellectual concern that arises in a certain spatiotemporal context. In this sense, Spanish Arabism appears as a trend that aspires to give answers to questions of a cultural and historical nature at the same time, taking into account Spain's relationship with its own past and with the elements that have originated its singularity in the western world, especially in what refers to its links with the Arab component. The objective of this article is to analyze the vision of the Spanish Arabists of Arabic poetry, which constitutes one of the most important manifestations of culture. Our treatment of this subject starts from the problem of the nature and scope of this same vision; that is to say, we are concerned with finding out if the Arabists have been carried away by western parameters or have based themselves on particular criteria in their approach to Arabic literature.

SONRÍE CHINA BY RAFAEL ALBERTI: A STUDY OF IMAGOLOGY

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

The book Sonríe China includes the poems written by Alberti according to what he saw and felt after his visit to China in the 1950s, which are full of his understanding and experience of Chinese culture and new Chinese style after the field experience. Based on the text, from the perspective of comparative literature figurology, this paper will process poetry through the investigation of otherness as a configurator of identity, analyze the relationship between "China", the reconstructed subject, and its noumenon, the reflection from "other" to "self, and the breakthrough of the boundary between them in writing. It will become a possible research paradigm for mutual learning between Chinese and Western civilizations.

GENETIC TRACES AND LITERARY VESTIGES IN THE SHORT PROSE OF PABLO PALACIO

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

The Ecuadorian writer Pablo Palacio (1906-1947) is considered by the literary criticism as one of the more disconcerting avant-garde authors in Latin America. His brief body of work has been thoroughly analyzed, particularly his only short story collection, Un hombre muerto a puntapiés (1927), while overlooking the early learning narratives of the writer from Loja. This essay focuses on examining the textual traces, aesthetic marks, and thematic obsessions that appear in eleven of his formative narrative pieces, published between 1921 and 1930. The aim is to construct a more comprehensive map of his literary project and clarify certain stylistic features and aesthetic intentions in the provocative work of this singular avant-garde writer.

EPISTEME AND AESTHETIC SYNCRETISM IN QICHQA, A COLLECTION OF POEMS IN QUECHUA BY OLIVIA REGINALDO

Pablo A. Landeo Muñoz — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

This article analyzes Olivia Reginaldo's Quechua poetry book, Qichqa, published in Lima without a Spanish translation in 2024. It sheds light on the Quechua categories essential for an epistemological approach to the book. It also shows that Qichqa reveals a key syncretism between the initial paratext, a fragment of El Aleph, by Borges (1998), and the opening poem, titled "Qichqa," a locus from which Andean knowledge engages with other epistemic systems. Within this framework, we employ discourse analysis and hermeneutics. We show that the book, despite its brevity, poses ruptures with traditional forms of writing poetry in Quechua and requires an epistemic approach from an Andean perspective. Finally, we observe that Qichqa addresses the migration of Andean peasants to cities as a way of integrating with the other, becoming one with the other, as part of a survival strategy.

AN IDOL IN THE MANUAL DE MINISTROS DE INDIOS BY JACINTO DE LA SERNA (1656). PROOF OF IDOLATROUS ABOMINATION IN THE EYES OF AN EXTIRPATOR

Liza Nereyda Piña Rubio — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

This research aims to demonstrate that behind the document proving idolatry, included in Jacinto de la Serna's Manual de ministros de indios (1656), lies an ideological model hidden by the author. Theoretical omissions in the text support the criteria for identifying this document, which is analyzed through an iconographic and linguistic methodology. It confirms that anti-superstition literature from the 16th and 17th centuries and Mexican conciliar regulations influenced de la Serna's writing. The study traces the literary and legal origins of idolatry as a pact of vassalage from biblical times and classifies the document as a "roster" according to the theory of superstitio. It also distinguishes between the "ritual specialist" (author of the roster) and the "evangelical agent" (extirpator of idolatry). The analysis reveals that anti-superstition strategies failed to fully replace pre-Hispanic beliefs, as shown by the iconographic mixture and persistence of indigenous terms in the document. A closer look at the Nahuatl text, ignored by de la Serna for ideological reasons, suggests the emergence of a new social category: the "true Christian," represented by a Christianized indigenous group devoted in their own way.

ARTISTIC CAPITALISM AND LIQUID MODERNITY IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HOUELLEBECQ'S EL MAPA Y EL TERRITORIO (2010) AND MAIER'S PIÑA (2022)

René Araya Alarcón — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

This article presents a comparative reading of the novels Houellebecq's El mapa y el territorio (2010) and Maier's Piña (2022), aiming to situate them within the broader cultural transformations associated with artistic capitalism and liquid modernity. Drawing on an analysis of critical reception and key theoretical interpretations, it examines how both works problematize the aestheticization of experience, the precariousness of subjectivity, and the symbolic circulation of art in the neoliberal context. While Houellebecq represents the simulacrum of art as a spectacular commodity, Maier proposes an aesthetic of minimalism and residue. The study identifies a gap in comparative criticism that it seeks to address through a rigorous theoretical approach, articulated from the perspectives of art sociology, cultural theory, and contemporary literary studies.

LITTLE CLAY CUPS AND CANS OF NESCAFÉ: THREE VIEWS ON OBJECTS IN CLAUDIO BERTONI'S POETRY

Marco Antonio Salas Opazo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

This article proposes a three-part reading of the presence of everyday objects in the poetry of Claudio Bertoni. First, the concept of "surplus of meaning" (Bodei, 2013) is introduced as a key interpretive tool to approach the apparent superficiality of his texts. As a counterpoint, a materialist perspective is proposed, one that dismisses the previous reading as an illusion (Rosset, 2016) that denies the mortuary nature of objects. Finally, drawing from Markus Gabriel's New Realism (2019a), the article reclaims the life that objects acquire insofar as they do not negate but rather complement and enrich the real, allowing for the emergence of an augmented reality within the poem.

PRESENTACIÓN

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400