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Dynamics of Ambivalence: Montacerdos and a poetic of impossibility
Chávez, Juan Ignacio ; Ferrer, Diogo (advisor) ; Alves Pereira Silvestre, Osvaldo Manuel (referee) ; Portocarrero Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luísa (referee)
Ambivalent Dynamics: Montacerdos and the poetics of the impossible This philosophical research takes the literary analysis of Montacerdos as a liminar case for the theory of the heterogeneity of Antonio Cornejo Polar, according to which Jara's nouvelle would present a negative view of the phenomenon of internal migration, in the same safhion as the generation of the 50s (Ribeyro, Salazar Bondy, Enrique Congrains, etc.). Following what Raul Bueno considers a pending task in the theory of heterogeneity: to make the heterogenous subject a heterogenating subject, we intend to reformulate the concepts of Cornejo Polar so that they account for the positive nature of the critical non-representative of Montacerdos, which will be done through a discussion between Latin American «Estudios Culturales» and two contemporary theories. In the first place I will review the Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's concept of minor literature to test the relevance of a semiotics de- ontologisation of the Peruvian migrant subject, who unlike the European minor writer - whose paradigmatic example is Franz Kafka - must face the phenomenon of internal colonialism. Secondly, I will review Homi Bhabha's concept of ambivalence, which does not seize cultural encounters through semiotic de-ontologisation, but through a...
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Dynamics of Ambivalence: Montacerdos and a poetic of impossibility
Chávez, Juan Ignacio ; Ferrer, Diogo (advisor) ; Alves Pereira Silvestre, Osvaldo Manuel (referee) ; Portocarrero Ferreira da Silva, Maria Luísa (referee)
Ambivalent Dynamics: Montacerdos and the poetics of the impossible This philosophical research takes the literary analysis of Montacerdos as a liminar case for the theory of the heterogeneity of Antonio Cornejo Polar, according to which Jara's nouvelle would present a negative view of the phenomenon of internal migration, in the same safhion as the generation of the 50s (Ribeyro, Salazar Bondy, Enrique Congrains, etc.). Following what Raul Bueno considers a pending task in the theory of heterogeneity: to make the heterogenous subject a heterogenating subject, we intend to reformulate the concepts of Cornejo Polar so that they account for the positive nature of the critical non-representative of Montacerdos, which will be done through a discussion between Latin American «Estudios Culturales» and two contemporary theories. In the first place I will review the Gilles Deleuze's and Felix Guattari's concept of minor literature to test the relevance of a semiotics de- ontologisation of the Peruvian migrant subject, who unlike the European minor writer - whose paradigmatic example is Franz Kafka - must face the phenomenon of internal colonialism. Secondly, I will review Homi Bhabha's concept of ambivalence, which does not seize cultural encounters through semiotic de-ontologisation, but through a...
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Unamuno and Kundera: I, existence and scepticism
Velasco Burgunder, Alitzel ; Ferrer, Diogo (advisor) ; Serban, Claudia (referee)
The research of the understanding of the I and the research of the meaning of the existence can lead to a scepticism concerning the possibility of a rational and knowledge. Miguel de Unamuno and Milan Kundera look for what the I is and for what we know about who we are. Finding no answers after looking for "universal truths", they decide to keep the thought aside and express their feelings about life through art: literature in their case, instead of accepting assertions or evidences they can't prove, being therefore confronted to criticisms and major problems. Even if we can think about other solutions in the wish of overcoming the anxiety that can be caused by the lack of certainties, we criticise the acceptation of a theory or thesis based on suppositions, evidences or axiomatic assertions about which we can always doubt. The way to art and the suspension of judgment are the solutions that Unamuno and Kundera develop. In this work, we will compare how these writers set up their thinking through literature as a form of art. Their solutions are mainly two: the lightness of the I and the immortality as a self-fulfilment in relation with the otherness. Key words: I; Scepticism; Reason; Sentiment, Agony; Existentialism; Art; Kundera; Unamuno; Literature
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