Sanchez Lopera, Alejandro
(2016)
José Revueltas y Roberto Bolaño: Formas genéricas de la experiencia.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
My dissertation investigates the ways in which José Revueltas (México, 1914-1976) and Roberto Bolaño (Chile, 1953-2003) strive to communicate anti-humanistic social experiences in Chile and Mexico through three episodes: the Mexican Revolution; the 1968 revolts in Mexico; and the 1973 Chilean coup. I argue that Revueltas and Bolaño share a common project of recovering experiences, forgotten or ostracized, stigmatized as marginal to the history of nation-state consolidation often because of their cruelty. Both writers challenge us to confront these abject histories as a way of reimagining Latin American societies without self-indulgence or pity, signaling the exit from perennial debates about originality and deficit. In short, Revueltas and Bolaño offer an anti-exceptionalist literature for re-thinking Latin America in a global context. Each chapter of the dissertation is guided and modeled by a problem, and the criteria used for the texts chosen is hinged on their relationship to each problem. My inquiry was based on six problems: generic and non-territorial sovereignty; images of thought; right to cruelty and the arts of memory in Revueltas´ texts; non-psicological memory and thought; fascism and sadism; the transition from the letrado to the calculista, in Bolaño´s case.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Sanchez Lopera, Alejandro | als219@pitt.edu | ALS219 | |
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| Date: |
15 June 2016 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
25 September 2015 |
| Approval Date: |
15 June 2016 |
| Submission Date: |
12 November 2015 |
| Access Restriction: |
5 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 5 years. |
| Number of Pages: |
337 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Experience; memory; sovereignty; sadism; truth; José Revueltas; Roberto Bolaño; Latin American Literature |
| Date Deposited: |
15 Jun 2016 13:56 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Jun 2021 05:15 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26333 |
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