La cultura política del sandinismo: nacimiento, desarrollo y realineamiento de una anomalía política centroamericana

Sandinista ideology and its political culture are born in 1927, with the refusal of the Pacto del Espino Negro by Augusto César Sandino, while its disappearance can be placed in 1999, date of the signature of the Liberal-Sandinista pact with which –effectively- the two main protagonist of nicaraguan politics at that time, Daniel Ortega and Arnoldo Alemán, halt the democratization process of Nicaragua, so putting on ice also its political development. Meanwhile, in the lapse of time between these two pacts, the most intense, feverish, dramatic and participated period of political history of the Central American country develops: an anti-imperialist guerrilla warfare ended in a bloodbath; a dynastic dictatorship of predatory authoritarianism for more than 40 years; a popular revolution that throws down the dictatorship; a decade of revolutionary government attacked by a counter-revolutionary war; an electoral defeat that will lead to a season of “pactismo” that will end the Sandinista anomaly and that will give an opening to something that we could consider –not with a certain difficulty- its pretence. The aim of this essay consists in analyzing how it has been possible that a political experience like the Sandinista Front , created not only for gaining power and for revolutionizing politically, socially and economically Nicaragua, but also for changing radically cultural, ethic and moral perspective of the country and its people, arrived being the contrary of what had been posed as the horizon to aspire...

Aspectos cognitivos en torno a la novela y el cine de la memoria histórica: "La voz dormida" de Dulce Chacón y su adaptación fílmica

Culture, history, and biology are inseparable. Cultural manifestations are necessarily immersed in a context, originate in the embodied minds that create them, and are directed to the embodied minds that receive them and recreate them within their contexts (individual and collective). The novel and the film of historical memory in Spain aim to connect their audiences with a problem that has not been solved, as the Civil War, the postwar, and the pact of forgetfulness left a wide sector of the Spanish society voiceless. During the last few years, a series of initiatives coming from the arts, as well as other realms such as the legal, have sought to reexamine the unhealed wound that still haunts Spanish subjects. La voz dormida [The Sleeping Voice] is one of those initiatives. It begins as testimony, develops into a hybrid and intertextual novel, and later becomes a film. It constitutes an inclusive project, one of offering an alternative version to the “official history”, while incorporating the marginal voices of women that had been left out of the memory of the war and the dictatorship. Objective and Results By examining both the literary and the cinematic versions of Chacón’s work I aimed to evidence the connections that exist between the artistic portrayal of the postwar repression (particularly how it affects women) and the current movement of recovery of historical memory in Spain. Specifically, I was interested in showing how both the novel and the film employ a series of narrative strategies that emphasize the body and intentionality, with the purpose of creating in readers and spectators an empathetic response that may lead to prosocial behavior. In order to carry out this interdisciplinary study, which relates fiction, mind, and socio-historical context, I draw on cognitive theories of literature and film, as well as theories from social and developmental psychology, such as the Richard Gerrig’s theory of narrative experience, Keith Oatley’s psychology of fiction, Suzanne Keen’s theory of narrative empathy, and the empathy-altruism hypothesis, derived form the ideas of Jean Decety, among others...

La carte et le territoire de Michel Houellebecq: un auteur au cœur de son roman

L'objectif principal de ce travail est de démontrer que Michel Houellebecq est au centre de son roman dans La Carte et le Territoire. En d'autres termes, nous pouvons dire qu'il est affecté à un poste roman Michel Houellebecq. Mais derrière cet objectif, d'autres peaux. En effet, il est aussi comprendre les motivations de l'auteur de développer son roman au sujet de son personnage. Nous voulons aussi déchiffrer les stratégies littéraires utilisés par l'auteur pour écrire son roman et définir le genre autobiographique de l'œuvre. Mais la difficulté de la question réside dans le caractère Auteur ambigu. Définir précisément le type de la carte et le territoire est une tâche difficile en raison de la originalité des performances offertes par l'écrivain. On pourrait penser qu'il a inventé, créé ce roman, un nouveau genre autobiographique encore à définir. La réponse à la question suivra un itinéraire: à partir de la première place, par la définition du genre Autobiographical de La Carte et le territoire à travers un inventaire des genres autobiographiques existantes et caractéristiques de chacun, une brève analyse du roman à la position dans des genres étudiés précédemment. Mais si la théorie est simple, la pratique est pas nécessairement parce que le roman Michel Houellebecq ne correspond pas à une réplique parfaite des caractéristiques d'un sexe déclarations. En fin de compte, il est réglé par le biais de cette étude, les limites générales genre et les limites du roman autobiographique étudiés. Deuxièmement, nous allons essayer d'analyser la roman et en particulier le caractère de Michel Houellebecq et les stratégies littéraires utilisés par l'auteur pour être placé au centre de son livre. Ces analyses nous permettent d'atteindre notre troisième approche pour étudier ce qui implique de comprendre les motivations de l'auteur pour l'auto-écrit ou moins la suggestion de motivations