The Ill City: Literature and Marginality in Medardo Ángel Silva’s chronicles
Literature and discourses about crime have always coexisted. They have fed each other during their historical development, reaching, perhaps, the climax of these relationships in the conceptualization of “beautiful crimes” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the introduction to her book E...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | (an)ecdótica |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/145 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/anEcdotica/index.php/anec/article/view/145 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Modernismo criminología decadentismo crónica Medardo Ángel Silva Modernism criminology decadentism chronicle |
| Sumario: | Literature and discourses about crime have always coexisted. They have fed each other during their historical development, reaching, perhaps, the climax of these relationships in the conceptualization of “beautiful crimes” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the introduction to her book El cuerpo del delito. Un manual, Josefina Ludmer proposes the use of crime as a “critical instrument” that allows the serialization of different texts. The crime, or what it is considered a crime at a given moment, is in itself an indicator of a state of society. Medardo Ángel Silva (1898-1919) is one of the greatest representatives of the late Ecuadorian modernism. His facet as a poet has been thoroughly studied, even by his contemporaries. On the contrary, his facet as a chronicler, as in general happened with other modernist writers, was recovered by critics not so many years ago. His chronicles are complex discursive plots that articulate a series of innovative turn-of-the-century discourses for Ecuadorian letters. Criminology, decadence and, in broad terms, discourses that associated literary practice with degeneration nurture the chronicler of Guayaquil, the ill city. |
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