The Identity of Hispanic Literatures: One Breath, a Million Words

Authors

  • José Manuel Marrero Henríquez Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2020.11.2.3496

Keywords:

Hispanism, Latin American Literature, Spanish Literature, Nationalism, Ecocriticism, Literary Theory

Abstract

      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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Author Biography

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez ha introducido en la teoría y la crítica literarias españolas los intereses especulativos y críticos que preocupan a la ecocrítica angloamericana y germánica. Sus trabajos publicados a partir de 2000 se han convertido en referencia internacional en el marco de los estudios literarios hispánicos, españoles y latinoamericanos y ademáshan logrado una sobresaliente repercusión no sólo en relevantes revistas españolas (Revista de Literatura) e hispanoamericanas (RCLL) de teoría y crítica indizadas en Arts and Humanities Citation Index sino también en las asociaciones científicas y publicaciones de referencia de Estados Unidos y Europa, a saber, en Estados Unidos, en la Asociación para el Estudio de la Literatura y el Medioambiente (ASLE, www.asle.org) y en la revista de la asociación, ISLE. Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and Environment (editada por Oxford University Press), y en Europa, en la Asociación Europea para el Estudio de la Literatura, la Cultura y el Medioambiente (EASLCE, www.easlce.eu), de cuyo Consejo Asesor ha sido miembro (2010-2014).

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Published

2020-09-25

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2020): 2020 Ecocriticism: In Europe and Beyond

Section

Articles: Literature, Landscape and Identity in Nations and Regions

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