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James Cowan: Autobiographical Historian and Traveller in Time
Authors: Belgrave Michael
Published: March 2018

James Cowan’s childhood, growing up on the family farm built on the site of the Battle of Ōrākau, has always been seen as an influence in his writing, particularly as a historian. This article explores Cowan’s world on the frontier, as a child in the 1870s, but more importantly as an adolescent in the early 1880s. Not only was Cowan’s experience of these tense and sometimes turbulent decades a major influence on his writing, they also help us explain some of the contradictions presently seen in work. On the one hand, Cowan echoed nineteenth-century notions of colonial virtue and argued that the wars drew Māori and Pākehā closer together. At the same time, he was prepared to call confiscation of Waikato land theft on a massive scale. Cowan’s ability to be a historian of the time, while also reflecting a critical perspective of colonisation, reflected the world of the frontier in the early 1880s. Attempts to make peace between the King and the Queen created an atmosphere of reconciliation, where the protagonists of the 1860s, including Rewi Maniapoto, Wahanui Huatare and Te Kooti Arikirangi te Turuki negotiated for a new peace with old enemies, George Grey, John Bryce and William Gilbert Mair. Cowan’s writing reflected familiarity with these peace makers, but also made him conscious of the failure of the negotiations to resolve grievances over confiscations. Cowan’s was a personal history, forged not in archives, but through personal relationships built on interviews and correspondence.
Nō Ōrākau: Past and People in James Cowan’s Places
Authors: Cooper Annabel
Published: March 2018

In tracing the interconnections of place and people in James Cowan's writing, this article argues that his widely-disseminated body of work complicates current orthodoxies and warrants more consideration in the study of settlement than it has had to date. Analyses of newspaper features and short non-fiction narratives, and of book chapters which centre on the prototype for Cowan’s cultural landscapes, Ōrākau, provide the basis for an argument that even in an era when the picturesque appeared to have wrought a division between scenic and inhabited landscapes, Cowan’s writing refused that distinction. The landscapes he wrote were peopled, valued for their beauty but given meaning by the traditions and the histories attached to them. I argue here that a consideration of Cowan as “nō Ōrākau”—haunted by a place to whose long historical resonances he responded over the work of a lifetime—introduces a more nuanced account of a settler imaginary which can allow not only of subjects who were “seeing men” seeking to possess what they surveyed, but also of those who lived in a complex and discomforted relationship to the indigenous past of place.
“Recording the Incident with a Monument”: The Waikato War in Historical Memory
Authors: O'Malley Vincent
Published: March 2018

This paper charts changing perceptions of the Waikato War in national memory and consciousness. The recent sesquicentenary passed by most New Zealanders largely unnoticed. Historical memories of the war that once (in part thanks to James Cowan) fed into larger nation-building narratives cut across them today. A century ago it was possible for Pākehā to believe that the Waikato War had given birth to fifty years of peace and that mutual respect forged in battle had provided the basis for “race relations” of unparalleled harmony. By the 1970s such a notion could no longer be sustained, leaving a kind of uncomfortable silence about one of the decisive events in New Zealand history.
Introduction
Authors: Green Anna
Published: March 2018

The articles in this issue cover a wide range of subjects, from undiscovered serialised literary novels and novellas in the nineteenth century to prisoner of war resistance to clothing regulations during World War Two.
Nineteenth Century New Zealand Novels and Novellas Published as Serials in New Zealand, Australian and British Newspapers and Periodicals and Never Published as Monographs: A Checklist
Authors: Traue J.E.
Published: March 2018

“It is to the old newspapers that we must go if we want to see the beginning of colonial fiction … there are in the dusty files of these and other journals many stories of colonial life which have never struggled out of the papers into book form.” Clara Eyre Cheeseman, “Colonials in Fiction,” NZ Illustrated Magazine 7 no. 4 (1 January 1903): 274.
The Boulder and the Bugler: The Battle of Boulcott's Farm in Public Memory
Authors: Morris Ewan
Published: March 2018

The Battle of Boulcott’s Farm, in which a Māori war party attacked the garrison of a British military outpost in the Hutt Valley, took place over several hours on 16 May 1846. Since then, the public memory of this relatively minor incident has been remarkably persistent. The story of the battle has been told in poetry and prose; in print, on stage and on screen; and in memorials and museums. As the story has evolved over time, it has focused on different themes: British military heroism; civic progress; and Māori resistance to colonial injustice.
"Poets had moved in this country once": John Mulgan and Romantic Poetry
Authors: Thomson Heidi
Published: March 2018

In Part Two of Man Alone John Mulgan describes a farm in the fen country of Northamptonshire: “Poets had moved in this country once, Cowper and John Clare, but few poets moved there now.” The significance of the reference to these two poets, both of whom had been institutionalized for insanity and both of whom found solace in working the land, cannot be underestimated for Mulgan’s emotional characterization of the main character, Johnson. This essay focuses on some of Mulgan’s references to English Romantic poetry (William Cowper, John Clare, and Lord Byron in particular) and how these references evoke his melancholy frame of mind.
Reading (in) the Antipodes: New Zealand and Pacific Literatures in Spanish Translation
Authors: Fresno-Calleja Paloma
Published: March 2018

This article considers the Spanish translations of New Zealand and Pacific authors and explores the circumstances that have determined their arrival into the Spanish market as well as the different editorial and marketing choices employed to present these works to a Spanish readership. It considers the scarcity of canonical authors, the branding of Maori and other “ethnic” voices, the influence of film adaptations and literary prizes in the translation market, and the construction of the “New Zealand exotic” in works written by non-New Zealand authors which, in the absence of more translations from Spain’s literary Antipodes, have dominated the Spanish market in recent years.
Are you a dissident? Art and diplomacy - two encounters
Authors: O'Brien Gregory
Published: March 2018

Although his background was in science, the ambassador reminded me that, because he was a Russian, art and poetry were deeply, deeply rooted in his psyche. It followed that he knew well the Moscow writers’ centre, the Gorkiy Institute, which I had visited with the poets Ian Wedde and Tusiata Avia a few months earlier. (We had stood in the room where Mayakovsky made his last public address, and beside the desk where he wrote some of his greatest verse...) Not far from Red Square, the Gorkiy Institute is a part of the Russian soul, he said, just as literature and art are. A Russian can never be a stranger to poetry.
Memories of Early Years and Other Writings
Authors: Bourke Chris
Published: March 2018

Douglas Lilburn’s Scottish-born father, a successful settler farmer, said of his son’s chosen profession, ‘If it had to be music, couldn’t it have been bagpipes?’[i] Lilburn, described by a memorial plaque in Christchurch as ‘the father of New Zealand music’, contemplated becoming a writer if his musical compositions had fallen on deaf ears. He showed early promise when a Christmas poem written for a Wanganui Chronicle competition won second prize and 10 shillings, just after his 12th birthday. With a child’s delight, ‘Christmas Day’ describes the comforting annual ritual as celebrated on his parents’ farm, Drysdale: ‘At dinner time you eat your fill / Of turkey and green peas, / And then you lie upon the lawn / In attitudes of ease’ (p. 39).[i]Douglas Lilburn, interviewed by Chris Bourke, Thorndon, Wellington, 3 October 1985, douglaslilburn.org/interviews.html
The Grass Catcher: A Digression about Home
Authors: Williams Mark
Published: March 2018

I read Ian Wedde’s memoir over Christmas 2014 on Waiheke Island, where I had been taken on holiday as a child sixty years earlier, delighting in his non-judgemental evocation of the 1950s—that culturally embarrassing decade that was a paradise to grow up in. In his account of a Blenheim childhood I encountered echoes of my mother’s recall of her childhood there in the 1920s. For the baby-boomers this is a defining literary registration of our era from within the lucid recall of a major writer of our generation. Sargeson’s or Frame’s New Zealand childhood worlds are distant now, and it is engaging to recognize a collective narrative not mired in puritanism or poverty. The Grass Catcher is a welcome generational story of place, community, and language.
Scientific evaluation of animal emotions: Brief history and recent New Zealand contributions
Authors: Beausoleil N.J. , Stratton R.B. , Guesgen M.J. , Sutherland M.A. , Johnson C.B.
Published: March 2018

The idea of animals having emotions was once rejected as being anthropomorphic and unscientific. However, with society’s changing views and advances in scientific knowledge and technology, the idea of animal emotions is becoming more accepted. Emotions are subjective internal experiences that can’t be measured directly. Animal welfare scientists must infer emotions by measuring the behavioural, physiological and neurobiological components of emotional experience. In this paper, we describe innovative ways in which these indicators have been used by New Zealand scientists to facilitate a more holistic understanding of the emotions and welfare of animals.
Emotional Labour in the Classroom: Lessons from a History of the British Education System
Authors: Edgington Ursula
Published: March 2018

Research and policy in education often draws on language accentuating opposing ideological principles, claiming definitions of “good” versus “poor” teaching strategies. These unhelpful dichotomies are legitimised through surveillance and evaluation strategies because pressures from economic and social policies promote competitive, audit cultures. New Zealand education policies are largely modelled on the British system; Britain is arguably positioned at the extreme of a continuum of marketised, commercial models. However, when the importance of integral emotional processes of learning are diminished through neoliberal, managerialist strategies which favour quantitative outcomes, there are negative consequences for students and teachers. By definition, developments of culturally-sensitive pedagogies centre on the emotions of teaching and learning. New Zealand policymakers could therefore benefit from studying the history of emotions in British classrooms to gain insights which could lead to improved outcomes on macro and micro levels.
Into the Fog: Literature and Censorship in New Zealand
Authors: Meffan James
Published: March 2018

Despite the fact that New Zealand has an active censorship regime that has, in its time, banned or restricted some significant literary works, literary academics do not seem particularly engaged in censorship debates here. The 2015 case in which the Young Adult novel Into the River was reclassified four times during which process it was placed under an Interim Restriction Order suggests that perhaps greater attention is warranted. In this essay I argue that the current censorship legislation, the Films, Videos and Publications Classification Act, 1993, does not represent literature in a way that most academics would recognise and support, and nor is it consistent in its own terms.
“I riro whenua atu me hoki whenua mai”: The return of land and the Waikato-Tainui raupatu settlement
Authors: Fisher Martin
Published: March 2018

The Waikato-Tainui raupatu settlement signed in 1995 focused on the return of land to address grievances related to the war and confiscation that marked the Waikato region in the 1860s. Negotiations regarding the return of land focused on the tribal entity into which lands would be vested, which specific lands they would be returned and in what legal form they would be utilised. The negotiations regarding the return of land to Waikato-Tainui represented a situation under which the Crown’s power was reinvented rather than weakened. Compromises were made and some land was returned but it was under the Crown’s framework and overall control.
The Serving Men of New Zealand Studio Furniture, 1979 to 2008
Authors: Wood D
Published: March 2018

New Zealand’s first comprehensive research on its furniture making history (1830-1900) was published in 2006. This paper adds to that history by summarizing the record of studio furniture, defined as one-of-a-kind and individually made. The narrative begins with studio furniture’s inaugural collective incorporation in 1978, its growth and peak through the 1980s and its disappearance from public view towards the dawn of the new millennium. The state of studio furniture design and making today concludes the discussion.
Literature, Politics and Activism: “The Rich and the Poor” (1971) – A Rediscovered Essay by James K Baxter
Authors: Hill Richard S
Published: March 2018

In late September this year I came across a manuscript which I had not seen for some four decades. It was a short hand-written essay by James K Baxter, “The Rich and the Poor.” This article traces how the manuscript came into being, and a facsimile is attached as an appendix.
The Making of the Māori Middle Ages
Authors: Anderson Atholl
Published: March 2018

Literary and scientific narratives are often constructed in three parts, of which the task of the middle section is to make the beginning and the end satisfactorily consistent with each other. In this lecture I discuss some ideas about how that might be accomplished in relation to a middle or transitional phase of Māori archaeology, which I will take as dating about AD 1450-1650. Some of you might wonder whether this has not been done satisfactorily already, but I assure you that it has not. In fact, just as Medieval Europe was once seen as a dark age between the Classical era and its Renaissance, so the middle phase in Māori archaeology remains a shadowland between highlights of Polynesian colonisation and classic Māori culture.
Te Tarata and Te Otukapuarangi: Reverse engineering Hochstetter’s Lake Rotomahana Survey to map the Pink and White Terrace locations
Authors: Bunn Rex , Nolden Sascha
Published: March 2018

The Pink and White Terraces were New Zealand’s eighth wonder of the world, until the Tarawera eruption on 10 June 1886 engulfed them. Without pre-eruption survey data, scientific and government teams failed to relocate the terraces, which were assumed lost. Over 2011-2012 GNS Science announced the rediscovery of parts of both terraces in Lake Rotomahana: however, by 2016 they resiled these claims, concluding the majority of both terraces destroyed.This paper maps their original locations based on reverse engineering unpublished 1859 survey data from Ferdinand von Hochstetter. Evidence suggests the locations may have survived the eruption, with the terraces buried in ash, crossing the shoreline on land not subject to local volcanic cratering. Excavation is conceivable. The Pink and White Terraces may again delight visitors in Rotorua via the Terraces Track, complementing the world-class New Zealand walking tracks.
The FitzGerald Brothers’ Circus: Spectacle, Identity, and Nationhood at the Australian Circus
Authors: Daley Caroline
Published: March 2018

Whangarei is not the most obvious starting point for a book about the Australian circus, but that is where The FitzGerald Brothers’ Circus begins. On a cold and windy night, back in May 1898, hundreds gathered in Whangarei, waiting to be entertained. But bad weather delayed the coastal steamer bringing the circus to town. The FitzGerald company finally arrived at 11 pm. Rather than disappoint their audience, the company got straight to work, erected their tent and began their much-delayed show at 2 am. Their performance was a success, as were their shows at 2 pm and 7 pm that same day. Within 24 hours, having performed for 2,000 people, the circus moved on.
By Road: Reflections on Niue’s coral highway, August 2015
Authors: O'Brien Gregory , Kearns Robin
Published: March 2018

A letter to Robin Kearns - Gregory O’BrienListening to the Samoan-born writer Albert Wendt at a recent literary festival in Wanaka, my thoughts drifted northwards in the direction of the Pacific. When asked—in keeping with Maori protocol—to name his ancestral mountain, Albert insisted on citing three: a hill behind Apia, then a sacred burial mound on the Samoan coast, and finally Mt Taranaki, beneath which he had spent some formative years at New Plymouth Boys’ High. This set me thinking about our visit, last year, to the Niuean village of Liku. Our painter-friend John Pule had recently built a house there, leaving Auckland to settle on the plot of family land where he had been born in 1962.
A Changing Land: Sir Donald McLean’s Maraekakaho - 1857 to Today
Authors: Patterson Brad
Published: March 2018

For over three decades Donald McLean bestrode New Zealand administrative and political life. Commencing as a Sub-Protector of Aborigines in Taranaki, he filled a multiplicity of roles, including Chief Land Purchase Commissioner, Superintendent of the province of Hawke’s Bay, Agent for the General Government at Hawke’s Bay, ultimately Native Minister. McLean, however, was a complex and enigmatic individual, which perhaps for many years discouraged historians from attempting to properly evaluate the man and his actions.
The Pacific Festivals of Aotearoa New Zealand: Negotiating Place and Identity in a New Homeland
Authors: Pereira Fuli
Published: March 2018

The formation of cultural identity within the diasporic Pacific communities in Aotearoa New Zealand is the central concern here. Multi-layered in nature and riddled with incongruities as lived realities, identity negotiation is as complex and dynamic as the fieldwork site selected for the research basis of this publication – that is, the two major Pacific festivals held annually in Aotearoa New Zealand; Wellington’s Positively Pasifika Festival and Auckland’s Pasifika Festival.
Ka Ngaro Te Reo: Māori Language Under Siege in the Nineteenth Century
Authors: Petrie Hazel
Published: March 2018

My early childhood was spent in my mother’s home area of London until, at the age of nine, my family moved to my father’s home town in Yorkshire. It seemed only natural to me that the local people spoke with a different accent and used dialect words and unfamiliar expressions. But I was shocked when, having been asked to read a piece from a book, my new teacher announced to the class that I spoke correctly while my thirty-plus classmates did not. The ‘news’ that one language or form of language was superior to another had a profound and lasting impact on me — one that deepened when a classmate in my next school, in Auckland, was publicly castigated for using both the Māori and English forms of her name. Those were, of course, just tiny pointers to a reality of much greater significance, but they and other memories resonated as I read Paul Moon’s new book Ka Ngaro te Reo: Māori Language Under Siege in the Nineteenth Century.
Editor's Introduction
Authors: Green Anna
Published: March 2018

The theme of this issue could almost be described as that of 'rediscovery': of the importance of climate and environment in narratives of transition or change; of memory and Māori Treaty settlements; of long buried treasures in the natural world; or a text by a well-loved and highly respected New Zealand author.
Originalism and the Treaty of Waitangi
Authors: Moon Paul
Published: March 2018

Originalism has long been used as a conceptual approach for interpreting the United States Constitution. Its premise is that the authoritative interpretation of constitutional documents is best obtained by determining the meaning of their texts as they were understood at the time of their creation, along with the intent of their drafters and adopters. This article examines both the potential and the limitations of originalism when applied to the Treaty of Waitangi, and explores how the manner in which the Treaty’s provisions were devised, drafted, and subsequently acceded to militates against the sort of exactness of interpretation that originalism offers elsewhere.
“We are not changing it”: A Reassessment of the History of the Flag
Authors: Christoffel Paul
Published: March 2018

According to conventional historical accounts, the New Zealand Ensign Act 1901 changed the national flag from the Union Jack to the current flag. This article shows that the 1901 Act did not change the national flag; it merely reconfirmed that the New Zealand ensign was ‘the recognised flag of the colony’. During 1900 the public became confused when an apparent rival national flag emerged thanks to a bureaucratic bungle. The 1901 Act abolished the rival flag, which was highly unpopular due to its unsightly white disc.
The shadowland manipulator: Sir Ernest “Booze”, John A. Lee, and the Labour Party
Authors: Horrocks John
Published: March 2018

For Mine is the Kingdom, published in 1975, is John A. Lee’s tell-all account of his long relationship with Sir Ernest Davis, the Auckland beer baron, philanthropist, mayor, and leading financier of the Labour Party. It is frustrating as an historical document because of Lee’s fondness for reconstructed conversations and its semi-novelistic style. As a result, it is often hard to assess the accuracy of Lee’s portrayal of the sinister but engaging “Sir Booze.” Despite these limitations, it remains the most detailed description of the links between the early Labour Party and the brewing industry. As an exercise in psychobiography it is also only partially successful, yet its description of Davis’ relentless womanising and exploitation of his female staff, as well as his financial support for Labour, is emblematic of the shadowy way Davis operated, both in the bedroom and in the interests of his business.
Rich Pickings: the intellectual life of Josephine Gordon Rich (1866-1940)
Authors: Crane Rosi
Published: March 2018

The title of this paper is a little misleading as the adjective “meagre” rather than “rich” better suits the picking over of the life of Josephine Gordon Rich (1866-1940), but the intentional pun would have been lost. She was one of a handful of women of her generation in New Zealand to actively pursue science and deserves due recognition for her zoological achievements, and this is the aim of this paper. Information gleaned about Rich’s activities and interests is incomplete, enigmatic and largely inferred through the activities of her teacher, Professor Thomas Jeffery Parker (1850-1897) in Dunedin, and her husband, Professor William Aitcheson Haswell (1854-1925) in Sydney.
Outcasts of the Gods? The Struggle over Slavery in New Zealand
Authors: Ballara Angela
Published: March 2018

In some ways, Hazel Petrie’s new book is an enigma. Having read it, readers might have a problem in pin-pointing just what constituted the ‘struggle’ over slavery in Māori New Zealand. Were inter-Māori wars fought to end the practice?
A Whakapapa of Tradition: 100 years of Ngāti Porou Carving, 1830-1930
Authors: Mahuika Nēpia
Published: March 2018

A DECADE AGO I asked one of our leading Ngāti Porou artists about his views on tradition and modernity. This was his reply: ‘Traditional art and modern art. For me there’s no such thing. It’s about continuum of movement because tomorrow my art will be tradition. I have frequently pondered that statement and its implications, seeking to find its resonances and deeper meaning in the many histories of indigenous negotiations in this country and beyond. For me, A Whakapapa of Tradition provides one of the most recent instalments relevant to this statement, contextualised in a discussion of how Ngāti Porou art and architecture underwent ‘radical’ change in the century from 1830-1930. Focusing on the Iwirakau school of carving based in the Waiapu valley, Ngarino Ellis (Ngāti Porou and Ngā Puhi) argues that during this time Māori art in Ngāti Porou territory underwent a radical transformation, in which the dominant forms of waka taua (war canoes), pātaka (decorated storehouses), and whare rangatira (chief’s houses), were replaced by whare karakia (churches), whare whakairo (meeting houses), and wharekai (dining halls).
To Dance the Native Dance: Vernacular Modernism in an “Australian-New Zealand Comedy Romance”
Authors: Hillyer Minette
Published: March 2018

This article studies The Adventures of Algy, a 1925 “Australian-New Zealand comedy-romance,” and in particular the “Māori dance” performances of its Pākeha heroine, Kiwi McGill. Dance serves multiple functions in the film, reflecting a trend for primitivism in global silent cinema, claiming Māori performance culture for a settler colonial narrative, and acting as a means to translate modern experiences. As such it offers a mechanism to reconsider what Miriam Hansen has described, in relation to the classical Hollywood cinema, as “vernacular modernism” in the form of a minor, and only marginally successful film: “one of ours.”
Māori Oral Traditions He Kōrero nō te Ao Tawhito
Authors: Ross Mike
Published: March 2018

Like yesterday’s newsfeed most people, whether Māori or Pākehā, are ignorant about the traditions of their ancestors.  However, like today’s cellphone, those ancient traditions were constantly on hand for their Māori ancestral users, and referred to in everyday activities to inform, communicate, create, entertain, and survive in their world.
New Zealand Rugby Country: How the Game Shaped our Nation
Authors: Watson Geoff
Published: March 2018

Desmond Wood has produced a very readable social history of rugby union in New Zealand. The strength of the book lies in the way he synthesizes scholarly analyses of the game, including his own interviews and research, into an easily accessible style.
Emigración e identidad en el libro álbum "Eloísa y los bichos" de Jairo Buitrago y Rafael Yockteng
Authors: González de la Llana Fernández Natalia
Published: March 2018

Este trabajo propone un análisis del libro álbum Eloísa y los bichos de Jairo Buitrago y Rafael Yockteng centrándose en la problemática de la emigración y la construcción de la identidad a partir del estudio de los paratextos, el espacio, el tiempo y los personajes, con el objetivo de comprender mejor cómo se produce el complejo proceso de transculturación que experimenta la protagonista.                                                                                                                                                                                This article proposes an analysis of Eloísa and the Bugs, a picture book by Jairo Buitrago and Rafael Yockteng, which focuses on the issues of emigration and identity construction through the study of paratexts, space, time and characters, in order to better understand how the complex process of transculturation experienced by the protagonist comes about.
Ross MacDonald y la "Hollywood novel"
Authors: Gutiérrez José Ismael
Published: March 2018

La novela negra ha revelado una versatilidad que le ha permitido establecer una relación de ósmosis con otros géneros. Uno de ellos es la conocida como «novela de Hollywood». En la narrativa de Ross MacDonald, uno de los maestros de la novela negra norteamericana, se producen abundantes cruces entre las historias de detectives herederas de la ficción hard-boiled y la novela que utiliza el mundo de Hollywood como trasfondo o tema principal de las tramas. El presente artículo trata de mostrar cómo ese diálogo intergenérico se traduce en la incorporación al relato de imágenes de naturaleza cinematográfica o que enfatizan el aspecto fílmico de la realidad que representan. Asimismo, las novelas y cuentos de MacDonald perfilan un universo, unos ambientes y unos personajes vinculados o cercanos a la industria del cine americano dominados por la pérdida de valores éticos, la delincuencia y el crimen.                                                                                                                                                                                                      The noir novel has generated a versatility that has allowed it to establish a relationship of osmosis with other genres, with one of these being the so-called «Hollywood novel». In narrative of Ross MacDonald, one of the masters of the American noir novel, we can find abundant overlaps between the detective stories deriving from the hard-boiled fiction tradition and those novels that use the world of Hollywood as their fictional background or as main element in their plots. The present article attempts to show how this intergeneric dialogue is achieved by the incorporation of cinematographic images in the story or by others that emphasize the filmic aspect of the reality they represent. Likewise, MacDonald's novels and short stories define a universe, settings and characters linked to or in reflection of the American film industry and dominated by the loss of ethical values, delinquency and crime.
El decir relevante y el sentido de la mímesis (según Felipe Martínez Marzoa)
Authors: Caner Liese Robert
Published: March 2018

El presente trabajo gira en torno a la noción del «decir griego», uno de los temas centrales de la investigación filosófica de Felipe Martínez Marzoa. Además de presentar los rasgos fundamentales de este «decir relevante» o «excelente» que tiene lugar en la Grecia arcaica y clásica y del cual surgirán posteriormente los discursos filosófico y literario como dos modalidades discursivas diferenciadas, este trabajo intenta, con la ayuda de la obra de Martínez Marzoa, clarificar la controvertida noción platónica de mímesis así como también comprender el proyecto estético del poeta y artista plástico catalán Perejaume.
"Si te dicen que caí" (1973), de Juan Marsé: usos, modulaciones y funcionalidad del discurso polifónico en el entramado rizomático de las aventis
Authors: Valcheff Fernando N.
Published: March 2018

El presente trabajo se propone indagar acerca de las estrategias textuales que configuran la novela Si te dicen que caí (1973), del escritor español Juan Marsé, con el objetivo de identificar cuáles son los procedimientos y técnicas narrativas que le permiten al autor diseñar una obra en la que proliferan múltiples puntos de vista de la mano con un perspectivismo plural y abierto. Para analizar este entramado, buscaremos recuperar y poner en funcionamiento los planteos de Mijail Bajtín acerca del dialogismo y la polifonía en Problemas de la poética de Dostoievsky (1986) haciéndolos dialogar con la propuesta de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari en Rizoma (1972), así como con los aportes críticos de otros autores que trabajaron la obra de Marsé. En última instancia, nos centraremos en el estudio de tres aspectos cruciales para la novela: el rol de las aventis en la trama narrativa, el despliegue de juegos autoreflexivos y de máscaras metaficcionales, y las referencias intra e intertextuales que pueblan el universo de la obra, con el propósito último de complementar y enriquecer los estudios acerca de la novela disponibles en la actualidad.                                                                                                                                                                                                                This paper seeks to inquire about the textual strategies that configure the novel Si te dicen que caí (1973), by Spanish writer Juan Marsé, with the gold of identifying which procedures and narrative techniques allow the author to design a piece of work in which multiple points of view are in constant proliferation. In order to analyze this literary scheme, we will recover the considerations by Mijail Bajtin relating to polyphony and dialogism in Problems of Dostoyevsky’s Poetics (1986) making them dialogue with the theoretical proposal by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Rhizome (1972), and also with the critical contributions of other authors that analyzed Marse’s work. Finally, we will study three crucial aspects of the novel: the functioning of the Aventis in the narrative plot, the deploying of self-reflexiveness and metafictional masks, and the intertextual and intratextual references that populate the novel’s universe, with the ultimate purpose of complementing and enriching the studies about the novel available at the moment.
Lost in Translation? La adaptación al cine de El amor en los tiempos del cólera de Gabriel García Márquez
Authors: Cabañas Miguel Angel
Published: March 2018

La película de Mike Newell, Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), con un alto presupuesto termina en desastre recaudatorio y crítico global, argüimos, puesto que la adaptación reduce la novela de Gabriel García Márquez a una fórmula (el romance histórico) y representa su contenido de forma realista, domesticando los aspectos controversiales del texto. Paradójicamente, la película intenta ser fidedigna al texto original, copiando minuciosamente las escenas importantes, la ambientación y las líneas memorables, pero olvidando la parodia novelística al realismo. Al desvirtuar el mensaje subversivo e híbrido del realismo mágico postcolonial, la película no consigue reafirmar la anhelada “autenticidad del texto” para el público.                                                                                                                                            Mike Newell's film, Love in the Time of Cholera (2007), with a high budget ends in a global critical and collecting disaster, we argue, since the adaptation reduces Gabriel García Márquez's novel to a formula (historical romance) and represents its content realistically, domesticating the controversial aspects of the text. Paradoxically, the film tries to be faithful to the original text, painstakingly copying the important scenes, setting and memorable lines, but forgetting the novelistic parody of realism. By distorting the subversive and hybrid message of postcolonial magical realism, the film fails to reaffirm the longed for "authenticity of the text" for the public.
Alianza y comunión: la poesía como sacramento en la obra de Andrés Sánchez Robayna
Authors: Peinado Elliot Carlos
Published: March 2018

Andrés Sánchez Robayna entiende la poesía como una forma de conocimiento, siguiendo la tradición que procede  del Romanticismo. La poesía se presenta como liberación del poder espiritual de la palabra, capaz de reunificar al hombre con el mundo. El poema brota movido por el deseo de lo desconocido, que es el fondo invisible de lo visible. Este misterio que late en la realidad es lo sagrado para el poeta, quien experimenta el sentimiento de pertenencia a la tierra que remite al lugar de origen. El poema se muestra como una «auscultación del lugar» que procede del deseo: la belleza del lugar suscita el canto de celebración. De este modo la palabra convoca una presencia que toma cuerpo en la palabra; y al mismo tiempo este nombrar se ahonda en lo invisible, unificándolo con lo visible. Este construir y habitar la imagen-cuerpo del mundo mediante la obra poética constituye una liturgia que reúne a los hombres, el mundo y lo sagrado. La alianza tiene lugar en el símbolo-imagen, que unifica lo escindido y es el cimiento de la liturgia. El artículo concluye con un breve acercamiento a «La alianza», poema perteneciente a La sombra y la apariencia.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Andrés Sánchez Robayna understands poetry as a way of knowledge, following the tradition that comes from Romanticism. Poetry is presented as a liberation of the spiritual power of the word, which is able to reunify the man with the world. The poem springs up moved by the desire of the unknown, which is the invisible depth of the visible. This mystery that beats in the reality is the sacred for the poet, who experiences the feeling of belonging to the earth that refers to the place of origin. The poem is shown like an “auscultation of the place” which comes from the desire: the beauty of the place arouses the chant of celebration. In this way, the word summons a presence that is embodied in the word , and, simultaneously, this calling deepens in the invisible, merging it with the visible. This scaffolding and inhabiting the image-body of the world using the poetic work, constitutes a liturgy that congregates humans, the world and the sacred. The covenant takes place in the symbol-image, which unifies what is torn  and is the foundation of the liturgy. The article concludes with a brief approach to “La alianza”, a poem belonging to La sombra y la apariencia.
La experiencia (y contemplación) de lo sagrado en la obra poética de Andrés Sánchez Robayna
Authors: Rastrollo Torres Juan José
Published: March 2018

¿Es lo sagrado algo sobrenatural o, más bien, se halla en el territorio del misterio y de lo oculto en este mundo? ¿Es lo poético la forma más alta de expresión de lo sagrado? Estas cuestiones y otras en torno a la naturaleza de las experiencias místicas y la esencia sagrada de la poesía se las formula Andrés Sánchez Robayna en su reseña a La mística salvaje de Michel Hulin. El propósito de este trabajo es, por una parte, precisar el alcance semántico de «lo sagrado» en su obra poética, trazando un recorrido por las modulaciones, entidades y espacios convergentes de la sacralidad; y, por otra, localizar las señales o momentos de su presencia, para formular una posible exégesis de la manifestación de sus variaciones.                                                                                                                                                                              Is sacredness something supernatural or, rather, is it in the space of the mysterious and the unseen of this world? Is poetry the highest form of expression of the sacredness? These questions and others about the nature of mystical experiences, and the sacred essence of poetry, are formulated by Andrés Sánchez Robayna in his review of The Wild Mystique by Michel Hulin. The aim of this article is, on the one hand, to specify semantic nuances of “sacredness”, journeying through the modulations, entities and convergent spaces of sacredness in his poetic work; and, on the other hand, to locate the signs or moments of its presence in order to formulate a possible exegesis of the manifestation of their variations.
Andrés Sánchez Robayna y la luz insular
Authors: Le Bigot Claude
Published: March 2018

Este trabajo, nutrido por los aportes de la fenomenología, pretende explicar el significado de la luz en la obra poética de Andrés Sánchez Robayna. Si el poeta concede un papel esencial a la luz, lo hace a partir de la experiencia sensorial que inspira a los pintores. En una primera parte, examinamos la configuración de lo visible, que permite dar una forma al mundo contemplado. Siempre que el poeta se asoma al paisaje insular, lo encauza en una «estructura de horizonte», limitada y abierta a un tiempo, dando a entender que bajo lo visible se oculta la verdad profunda del sujeto. Un poeta o un artista, en busca de esta verdad (un centro, dirá Robayna), otorga al paisaje un valor ontológico. De ahí la idea de que el pensamiento poético robayniano desarrolla implícitamente une «teología de la luz». Pero este centro de lo sensible, que no se puede confundir con una búsqueda de las esencias, no es más que la raíz de la pulsión creadora o la voluntad de comprobar los poderes de lenguaje.                                                                                                                                                                                                             Ce travail, nourri par les apports de la phénoménologie, entend expliquer la signification de la lumière dans l'œuvre poétique d'Andrés Sánchez Robayna. Si le poète accorde un rôle essentiel à la lumière, il le fait à partir de l'expérience sensorielle qui inspire les peintres. Dans une première partie, nous examinerons la configuration du visible, qui permet de donner une forme au monde contemplé. Chaque fois que le poète se penche sur le paysage insulaire, il le canalise dans une « structure d'horizon », limitée et ouverte en même temps, laissant entendre que sous le visible se cache la vérité profonde du sujet. Un poète ou un artiste, à la recherche de cette vérité (un centre, dira Robayna), octroie au paysage une valeur ontologique. De là, l'idée que la pensée poétique de Robayna développe implicitement une « théologie de la lumière ». Mais ce centre du sensible, que l'on ne peut pas confondre avec une quête des essences, n'est rien d'autre que la racine de la pulsion créatrice ou la volonté de tester les pouvoirs du langage.
Andrés Sánchez Robayna: "El libro, tras la duna". Diálogos con José Ángel Valente e Yves Bonnefoy
Authors: Terrasson Claudie
Published: March 2018

El artículo se propone analizar el diálogo poético que une a Andrés Sánchez Robayna con Yves Bonnefoy y José Ángel Valente. Esboza un estudio comparativo de su poesía respectiva lo mismo que de su estética, destacando puntos de conexión, encuentros y matices diferenciales.                                                                                                                                                      L’article se propose d’analyser le dialogue poétique qui unit Andrés Sánchez Robayna à Yves Bonnefoy et José Ángel Valente. Il ébauche une étude comparative de leur poésie respective ainsi que de leur esthétique détachant des points de convergence, rencontre et des nuances distinctives.
El diálogo entre palabra e imagen en "En el centro de un círculo de islas"
Authors: Pegorari Céline
Published: March 2018

Más que meras ilustraciones de los poemas de Andrés Sánchez Robayna en En el centro de un círculo de islas, los dibujos de José Manuel Broto no sólo entablan un diálogo con esos, sino que participan de esa reconstrucción de la peregrinación hacia las islas del mar Egeo evocada a lo largo del poemario. Contribuyen a hacer visible, a materializar de una forma complementaria a la de la palabra poética, esa experiencia de lo sagrado, a la vez visible e invisible, material e inmaterial, temporal y eterno que el poeta ha podido tener en las islas griegas.                                                                                                                                                                                                  Plus que de simples illustrations des poèmes d’Andrés Sánchez Robayna dans En el centro de un círculo de islas, les dessins de José Manuel Broto engagent non seulement un dialogue avec eux, mais participent de cette reconstruction du pèlerinage vers les îles de la mer Egée évoqué tout au long du recueil. Ils contribuent à rendre visible, à matérialiser d’une façon complémentaire à celle du mot, cette expérience du sacré, à la fois visible et invisible, matériel et immatériel, temporel et éternel que le poète a pu connaître dans les îles grecques.
Traduire Andrés Sánchez Robayna. Petit journal d'une traduction
Authors: Ancet Jacques
Published: March 2018

Tratamos en este artículo de seguir de cerca la suma de pequeños arreglos y/o desplazamientos (imposibles de mencionar todos) del que está hecho un trabajo de traducción, si es que quiere conservar el rigor del original (“Dios está en los detalles”, decía Flaubert). Este trabajo se somete, de manera más o menos consciente, a cierto número de obligaciones impuestas por la tradición y las leyes del lenguaje y de la lengua de las que no damos cuenta exhaustivamente en este texto ni mucho menos: sintaxis, léxico, valores métricos y rítmicos, cadenas de significantes, etc., tramando esto un sentido que es el producto de toda la organización del texto, y no solo del mero sentido de las palabras. En fin, lo que queremos mostrar con esto, es la extrema densidad del poema que es un objeto verbal hecho para atravesar el tiempo y al que la traducción debe responder por una densidad análoga que debe conservar, aunque desemboca necesariamente en otro texto —una verdadera metáfora del original.                                                                                                                                                                                            On essaye ici de suivre au plus près la somme de petits aménagements et/ou déplacements (impossibles à tous mentionner) dont est fait un travail de traduction, s'il veut conserver la rigueur de l'original (« le bon Dieu est dans le détail », disait Flaubert). Lequel se soumet lui-même, plus ou moins consciemment, à un certain nombre de contraintes imposées par la tradition et les lois du langage et de la langue dont on est loin également de rendre compte exhaustivement ici : syntaxe, lexique, valeurs métriques et rythmiques, chaînes des signifiants, etc., le tout tramant un sens qui est le produit de toute l'organisation du texte et pas seulement du seul sens des mots. Bref, ce qu'on veut montrer par là, c'est l'extrême densité du poème qui est un objet verbal fait pour traverser le temps et auquel la traduction doit répondre par une densité analogue qu'elle doit conserver, même si elle aboutit nécessairement à un autre texte —une véritable métaphore de l'original.
Textos sobre escritura creativa. El origen de una disciplina
Authors: Fraile Amador Pilar
Published: March 2018

Desde mediados del siglo xix hasta nuestros días se ha desarrollado un modo de escribir acerca de la escritura literaria que no es ni el de la Crítica ni el de la Poética. Estos textos, que se producen paralelamente en todas las latitudes de la literatura occidental, desde Rusia hasta Estados Unidos, comparten el objetivo de exponer los métodos y procedimientos que se utilizan en la práctica efectiva de la construcción de ficciones. Es decir, responden a la pregunta por el proceso. Abordaremos en este estudio por qué y cómo surgen estos textos en la segunda parte del siglo xix, sus características fundamentales, y su influencia en el surgimiento de distintas corrientes dentro de la misma materia a lo largo del siglo xx.                                                                                                                                                                      From de middle of the nineteenth century since today we have assisted to the rise of a new kind of texts on fiction that we can distinguish from that of the Criticism or the Poetics. These texts, written all over the western countries, from Russia to the USA, share one common goal: to explain the means and procedures of creative writing. Therefore, they focus on the process of writing. We will review in this essay the reasons for the rising of this kind of texts in the twentieth century. We will also explain their main traits and their influences on the twentieth century different streams within the same discipline.