The identity of Hispanic literatures: one breath, a million words
Nothing can stop the tides of innovation in art: it is this idea that a captive, dirty, weak, and hungry Don Quixote embraced to affirm himself as the heroic referent for the emerging Romance literatures. Indeed, this adaptability has been the secret of his longevity in the Western canon. Like Don Q...
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) |
| Repository: | e_Buah Biblioteca Digital Universidad de Alcalá |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ebuah.uah.es:10017/45591 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45591 https://dx.doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3496 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Hispanism Latin American literature Spanish literature Nationalism Ecocriticism Literary theory Hispanismo Literatura latinoamericana Literatura española Nacionalismo Ecocrítica Teoría literaria Literatura Medio ambiente Literature Environmental science |
| Summary: | Nothing can stop the tides of innovation in art: it is this idea that a captive, dirty, weak, and hungry Don Quixote embraced to affirm himself as the heroic referent for the emerging Romance literatures. Indeed, this adaptability has been the secret of his longevity in the Western canon. Like Don Quixote, Hispanic literatures cannot build their identity on a pristine, metropolitan, and uniform Spanish language elevated by its exclusivity. If literary Hispanism is to be alive, it needs to evolve into a complex cultural construction that binds together the oral and literate languages of America and Spain and takes into account transatlantic flows and contradictions. Breathing, a common feature of both literary patterns and a rhythm of nature, will serve as the much-needed metaphor to bridge Latin American oral cultures, which have found permanence and expression in written texts, with literate cultures, including even the most urban, digital, and technologically advanced from Mexico, Chile or Spain. |
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