The Resilient Apocalypse : Narrating the End from Early Spanish Visualizations to Twenty-First Century Latin American Articulations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kushigian, Julia A.

Series:

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Series

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures Series ; v.328

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apocalypse in literature.

Spanish literature--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Latin American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina, Studies in Romance Languages & Literatures, 2024.

Summary:

"Portraits of 'good battling evil' in the geography of Hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, fearful images of life, chaos and death are inclusive and interdepEndent, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality. Where images remain unfulfilled in narrow allegiances to a proscribed End, this investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities. Redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, it distinguishes itself by training the lens on New Beginnings. Its analysis embeds resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America and Spain revealed in gilded illustration, decolonizing drama, messianic chronicles and poetry, baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality-threatening films, and intimidating immigrant photos complete with destruction wreaked by climate change. Through chaos the resilient Apocalypse simultaneously performs as an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance). Its strategy listens to and keeps the enemy 'in sight and in mind,' a formula for grappling with and engaging difference that analyzes the traces left on each other's cultural fabric in an open-Ended, communal struggle. This study argues for decolonizing the politics of the End and reformulating an incomplete, mythical, uncanny quality into a poetics of resistance garnering communal solutions and obligations. Here the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to redefine social justice, salvation and reality over time and past collateral damage, ironically providing future hope against itself, the crushing fear of the End. It crystalizes what had yet to be comprehensively explored: how rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews to arrive at sustainable plans of action, time-tested, reputable cultural models to control dissension from within and without, and social goals supported by traces the other imprints on their cultural ethos. Bracketing the finality of the End and arguing the process from conflict archaeology toward New Beginnings, salvation, solace or hope, resolves an incomplete myth by negotiating the afterward. Revealing how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimize each other, this theory of unfulfilled promise forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Apocalyptic Resistance

The Rhetoric of the Apocalypse and New Beginnings in the Hispanic World

CHAPTER 1. Visualizing the End: Passages in Apocalyptic Wartime Interventions

Beato de Liébana: Apocalyptic Commentaries and Illustrations

A. "The Siege of Jerusalem and the Lamentation of Jeremiah"

B. "The Whore of Babylon"

C. "Seventh Angel: Thunder, Lightening, and Earthquake"

"Thousands Joining Isis, Despite Global Efforts": The Feminization of Violence through the Apocalypse

Filmic Visualizations of Apocalyptic Chaos and the End

A. Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's New Muslim Cool (2009)

B. Carlos Carrera's Backyard: El traspatio (2009)

C. Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia de la luz (2010)

D. Alfonso Cuarón's Roma (2018)

In Sum:

CHAPTER 2. Decolonizing the Apocalypse while Passing for Empire: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Sor Juana and the Decolonization of the Apocalypse

Revenge, Wounds, Mistrust, and Other Forms of Collateral Damage: The Respuesta

Collateral Damage: Challenging the False Prophets from Within

Appendix A: Cédulas reales, México 8, 10, 15, 16

Appendix B: Carta Atenagórica

Appendix C: Sor Filotea 2 de noviembre, 1690

Appendix D: 12 de febrero, 1681

CHAPTER 3. Portraits of Apocalyptic Mutation: Systemic Racism, Anti-Religious Fervor and Monsters

Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdés ola Loma del Ángel (1882)

The Mythical Apocalypse: La cola de la serpiente

Racing to the Cuban Diaspora: Monkey Hunting in Hyphenated Cultures

Racial, Ethnic, Social, Political and Religious Injustice: From Holy Week to the Festival of Turupukllay in Abril rojo

Transnational Fear and Hatred: Luisa Futoransky's El Formosa.

The Apocalypse in Cyberspace: Martín Kohan's Fuera de lugar

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-4696-8192-7

1-4696-8191-9