Project MUSE®: The Latin Americanist - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in The Latin Americanist.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 47 (2003) through current issue
Latest Articles: The Latin AmericanistTWOProject MUSE®The Latin Americanist1557-203X1557-2021Latest articles in The Latin Americanist. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Contributors Page
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986621
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Álvaro Torres-Calderón es Profesor Asociado de español y jefe Asociado del Departamento de Lenguas Modernas en la Universidad de North Georgia. Obtuvo su doctorado en Literatura Latinoamericana en Florida State University. Es autor del libro Mujer, nación y progreso en el discurso del exilio de Clorinda Matto de Turner y Juana Manuela Gorriti (Universidad Ricardo Palma, 2018). Su enfoque de investigación incluye los siglos XIX y XX en Latinoamérica, la construcción de nación, identidad y progreso, y las escritoras latinoamericanas.Etna Ávalos is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Washington State University. She is an affiliated faculty member of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallContributors Page2026-03-27text/htmlen-USContributors Page2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®83212026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Notes From the Editor
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986622
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A record-number 440 members of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies gathered 24-26 April in Mexico City for our Seventy-Second Annual Meeting. Program chairs Ignacio Rodeño and Juan José Ponce Vázquez (both from The University of Alabama) organized a total of 110 sessions and panels in the areas of Literature & Cultural Studies and History & Social Sciences, respectively. Breanna David (Alabama) and Jürgen Buchenau (UNC Charlotte) led local arrangements and planning for the conference.This year’s Annals issue showcases some of the best scholarship presented at the meeting. We received twenty-eight revised manuscripts to consider for publication. Following editorial and peer review and another round of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallNotes From the Editor2026-03-27text/htmlen-USNotes From the Editor2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®80962026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Proponiendo una nueva nación latinoamericana: Soledad Acosta de Samper y Clorinda Matto de Turner
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986623
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La construcción de la nación latinoamericana en el siglo XIX no puede comprenderse cabalmente sin atender a las voces que, desde los márgenes del canon letrado, intervinieron de manera activa en la configuración de un imaginario cívico, ético y pedagógico alternativo. En este contexto, las escritoras Soledad Acosta de Samper (Colombia) y Clorinda Matto de Turner (Perú) emergen como figuras clave. A través de su labor periodística, ensayística y narrativa, ambas autoras no solo abogaron por la inclusión de las mujeres en el proyecto nacional, sino que reformularon las bases sobre las cuales este se edificaba. Sus propuestas cuestionaron el sistema patriarcal dominante y los modelos eurocéntricos que estructuraban la
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallProponiendo una nueva nación latinoamericana: Soledad Acosta de Samper y Clorinda Matto de Turner2026-03-27text/htmlen-USProponiendo una nueva nación latinoamericana: Soledad Acosta de Samper y Clorinda Matto de Turner2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®679112026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27La Recta Provincia and the Logic of Resistance: Magic as Decolonial Heterotopia in the Film Brujería (2023)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986624
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“... la sensación de lo maravilloso presupone una fe. Los que no creen en santos no pueden curarse con milagros de santos, ni los que no son Quijotes pueden meterse, en cuerpo, alma y bienes, en el mundo de Amadís de Gaula o Tirante el blanco.”The foundational myths of many Latin American cultures —such as the Popol Vuh of the Maya, the Huarochirí Manuscript of the Inca, the Codex Chimalpopoca of the Aztec, and the epew oral stories of the Mapuche— reveal the deep roots of magical thinking in the region’s collective imagination. These stories are living archives of a world view where the boundaries between the real and the fantastical blur, and where spiritual power is not abstract but embodied in human experience
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallLa Recta Provincia and the Logic of Resistance: Magic as Decolonial Heterotopia in the Film Brujería (2023)2026-03-27text/htmlen-USLa Recta Provincia and the Logic of Resistance: Magic as Decolonial Heterotopia in the Film Brujería (2023)2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®675552026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Saint Rose of Lima, Folk Tradition and Imaginary Prisons in Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986625
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Los que no creen en santos no pueden curarse con milagros de santos, ni los que no son Quijotes pueden meterse, en cuerpo, alma y bienes, en el mundo de Amadís de Gaula o Tirante el Blanco.Exhausted by a spiritually vacuous existence in New York City, Carpentier’s cerebral polyglot musician, the narrator-protagonist of Los pasos perdidos, is wooed by the enchantment “del idioma de mi infancia” (“of the language of my infancy”), a metaphor for the frames of reference, patterns of thought and myths of folk religiosity that constitute the roots of the Spanish American culture that shaped his identity (Alegría 55–56; Carpentier 13; Onis 11; Poujol 144). In search of his origins in the South American continent, a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallSaint Rose of Lima, Folk Tradition and Imaginary Prisons in Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos2026-03-27text/htmlen-USSaint Rose of Lima, Folk Tradition and Imaginary Prisons in Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®705152026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Ghosts in the Panopticon: Afterlife and Memory in the Museo Panóptico de Ibagué
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986626
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“The subject of ghosts…has been among the torments of my life”To begin, a ghost story.In 2017, the Colombian television program Ellos están aquí (They Are Here) visited the ruins of the Panóptico de Ibagué, a former penitentiary located in the capital city of the department of Tolima.1 The series, a kind of criollo Ghost Hunters, brought paranormal investigators to places expected to be dense with specters of past violence. It lasted four seasons. Episodes dared to stay the night at cemeteries and torture cells, abandoned hospitals and disaster zones, prison islands and ghost towns.2 Even as the show’s tone wavers between giddy disbelief and dubious gravitas, punctured with jump scares and schlocky editing, the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallGhosts in the Panopticon: Afterlife and Memory in the Museo Panóptico de Ibagué2026-03-27text/htmlen-USGhosts in the Panopticon: Afterlife and Memory in the Museo Panóptico de Ibagué2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®1371232026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Caribbean Islands in Benedetto Bordone’s Isolario (1528)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986627
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In 1528, a book compiling maps of all known islands of the world was printed in Venice. Such island-books were an established genre in the Mediterranean, but what distinguished this island-book was its inclusion of American islands for the first time. Cuba, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Martinique, and Jamaica were singled out in individual maps in Benedetto Bordone’s Book In Which Are Discussed All The Islands of the World (Libro di Benedetto Bordone Nel qual si ragiona de tutte l’Isole del mondo).1 Benedetto Bordone created the 1528 Libro during a period in which cartographic ideas about the New World were still taking shape. He never traveled to the Americas, and his images and descriptions of Caribbean islands were
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallCaribbean Islands in Benedetto Bordone’s Isolario (1528)2026-03-27text/htmlen-USCaribbean Islands in Benedetto Bordone’s Isolario (1528)2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®936632026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Between Civil Wars: Colombia’s Liberal Republic, Memory of the Thousand Days’ War, and the Drift to La Violencia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986628
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“On 21 September 1901, conservative janissaries VILLAINOUSLY MURDERED this undefeated Chief of liberalism,” proclaimed a campaign poster for Colombia’s 1942 presidential election, displaying a photo of General Tulio Varón. Varón, of course, was not the candidate. He had fought for the rebellious Liberal Party against the conservative government and died during Colombia’s civil war of 1899–1902, known as the Thousand Days’ War.1By the time the poster was created, the war was four decades past. The poster supported former liberal president Alfonso López Pumarejo as he ran for a second, non-consecutive term; his opponent was a fellow liberal, Carlos Arango Vélez. The Conservative Party supported Arango Vélez
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallBetween Civil Wars: Colombia’s Liberal Republic, Memory of the Thousand Days’ War, and the Drift to La Violencia2026-03-27text/htmlen-USBetween Civil Wars: Colombia’s Liberal Republic, Memory of the Thousand Days’ War, and the Drift to La Violencia2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®746162026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27La identidad de género como expresión intrínseca de la existencia humana: Perspectivas desde la dirección teatral en el ámbito universitario.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986629
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El presente ensayo es un ejercicio de reflexión sobre una producción escénica realizada por el director de teatro Martín Balmaceda, en 2022 profesor de teatro de la Universidad de las Américas Puebla -UDLAP-sobre un texto del dramaturgo Pablo García Gámez. Ese año Balmaceda contacta a García Gámez para proponer una producción, de corte universitario de Noche tan linda, pieza de la autoría de este último. Se inicia un proceso de reuniones virtuales con los actores-estudiantes, entre el autor y el director; entrevistas con los medios de comunicación de la universidad, coordinación de horarios, asuntos administrativos y logísticos, así como intercambios de opiniones por correo electrónico. Es un proceso complejo por
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallLa identidad de género como expresión intrínseca de la existencia humana: Perspectivas desde la dirección teatral en el ámbito universitario.2026-03-27text/htmlen-USLa identidad de género como expresión intrínseca de la existencia humana: Perspectivas desde la dirección teatral en el ámbito universitario.2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®762592026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Mirrored Realities: Local Perceptions of Haitian Migration and Border Enforcement in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, and Del Rio, Texas (2021–2023)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986630
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In September 2021, the twin border cities of Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, and Del Rio, Texas, faced an unprecedented migration event when approximately 15,000 Haitian asylum seekers crossed the Rio Grande and established a camp beneath the International Bridge on the U.S. side (Flores and Sands 2021). Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, this event attracted intense media attention, especially after images of horse-mounted Border Patrol agents confronting migrants went viral (Sullivan and Kanno-Youngs 2021). In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott deployed state forces under Operation Lone Star to block further crossings, prompting many migrants to return to the Mexican side (Office of the Texas Governor 2024). Furthermore, U.S.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallMirrored Realities: Local Perceptions of Haitian Migration and Border Enforcement in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, and Del Rio, Texas (2021–2023)2026-03-27text/htmlen-USMirrored Realities: Local Perceptions of Haitian Migration and Border Enforcement in Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, and Del Rio, Texas (2021–2023)2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®986612026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27Chronicle of a Death Untold: Journalism and Responsibility at the Border
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/986631
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In the spring of 2024, hundreds of migrants were waiting at the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juárez for a chance to cross the border and surrender themselves to Border Patrol agents in El Paso. Operation Lone Star, with miles of razor-sharp concertina wire and National Guards wielding pepper ball guns, blocked their path. Dozens of migrants spoke to me and alleged they had been physically abused and shot by the National Guard. Then, on May 17, one of the migrants died.What I knew about the situation of migrants at the Rio Grande, along with testimony from witnesses who saw the man before he died, pointed to the necessity of questioning the people on the opposite bank of the river that morning: members of the Texas National
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/737/image/coversmallChronicle of a Death Untold: Journalism and Responsibility at the Border2026-03-27text/htmlen-USChronicle of a Death Untold: Journalism and Responsibility at the Border2026-03-272026TWOProject MUSE®731472026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-03-27