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Holocaust literature is an artistic expression, which in many ways sits outside the established understandings of literature and its purpose. The Holocaust itself was an event so unique in its complexities that it separated from other historic atrocities. The Holocaust is not just a historical event. It affected psychology, sociology, politics, innovation, medicine, engineering, ethics, morality, and artistic expressions. Throughout this essay, I will argue the case for Holocaust literature: what exactly is it, what unique challenges does it face as a genre, how it is evolving, and how best to read it. Authors in this genre have a great responsibility to present factual information through the use of prose. This is particularly of concern as survivors die and new voices emerge, whether they are the children of survivors or not. The telling of the many stories of the Holocaust can help us all become witnesses of a human tragedy that, although highly secretive and manipulative of language, emotions, and events, affected the entire world.

"What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politics must be addressed indirectly, including through comedy, myth, and travellers' tales. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly reengages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers. Cascardi notably connects Cervantes' political theory to Plato's, much as the writer's literary criticism has been firmly linked to Aristotle's. He also shows how Cervantes' view of literature provided a compelling alternative to the modern, scientific politics of Machiavelli and Hobbes, highlighting the potential interplay of literature and politics in an ideal state."--P. [i]

The article examines the perception about books, reading and literature in Chile, between 1810 and 1842. It deals with the vision of the two first generations of intellectuals about this subject, a vision politically motivated. It then goes on to establish a constrast between the utopical vision and the real experience in the area of book and reading. The article finally confronts both visions in relation to the independence of literature. ; El artículo examina las concepciones operantes del libro, la lectura y la literatura en Chile, entre 1810 y 1842. Describe la concepción enciclópedica y eminentemente política de lo literario en las dos primeras generaciones de criollos ilustrados y el modo como ella fue conformando un canon para la nueva nación. Contrasta luego el discurso de la utopía ilustrada (entendida como "verdad prematura") sobre la lectura y el libro con testimonios sobre su realidad. Finalmente enfrenta ambas perspectivas y las vincula a la independencia de la literatura.

Going through compilation works of Paraguayan writers Augusto Roa Bastos and Rubén Bareiro Saguier, and from literary and nonliterary discourses, the ambiguity founded in the word guarani is analyzed; which indistinctly designates a language, a culture, and an ethnic group; and which, by metonymy, is a demonymnickname for Paraguayans. Relations between Paraguayan and Guarani literature are explored, from the perspective of the cited authors; both connoisseurs and disseminators of Guarani literature, as two of the few Paraguayans able to overcome a siege of cultural isolation thanks, in part, to the political exile; in the light of an hizpanicying Latin American critical tradition that, as well as invisibilizes Paraguayan literature, contributes to a mystification founded in its linguistic peculiarity, whether real or invented. ; Passando por trabalhos compilatórios dos escritores paraguaios Augusto Roa Bastos e Rubén Bareiro Saguier, e a partir de discursos literários e não literários, analisa-se a ambiguidade fundada na palavra guarani; que designa, indistintamente, uma língua, uma cultura, uma etnia; e que, por metonímia, constitui-se em apelido-gentílico dos paraguaios. Relações entre literatura paraguaia e literatura Guarani são exploradas, desde a perspectiva dos autores citados; tanto conhecedores e divulgadores da mesma, como dois dos poucos paraguaios capazes de ultrapassar um cerco de isolamento cultural graças, em parte, ao exílio político; sob a luz de uma tradição crítica latino-americana hispanizante que, enquanto invisibiliza a literatura paraguaia, contribui com uma mistificação dela, fundada em sua peculiaridade linguística, seja ela real ou inventada.

ABSTRACT: This article, written by Vesna Čopič, Andrej Srakar and Jordi Baltà, examines recent literature in the field of cultural governance, with particular emphasis on its implications for local cultural policies.Keywords: Cultural governance, cultural policy, cities, local governments, decentralisation, governance.-RESUM: Aquest article, escrit per Vesna Čopič, Andrej Srakar i Jordi Baltà, analitza la bibliografia recent en l'àmbit de la governança cultural, amb especial èmfasi sobre les seues conseqüències en les polítiques culturals locals.Paraules clau: governança cultural, política cultural, ciutats, administracions locals, descentralització, governança.-RESUMEN: Este artículo, escrito por Vesna Čopič, Andrej Srakar y Jordi Baltà, examina la bibliografía reciente en el ámbito de la gobernanza cultural, con especial atención a sus repercusiones en las políticas culturales locales. Palabras clave: gobernanza cultural, política cultural, ciudades, administraciones locales, descentralización, gobernanza.

Which were the mechanisms by which certain groups were positioned at the margins of national narratives during the nineteenth century, either via their exclusion from these narratives of through their incorporation into them as 'others'? By engaging with shifting ideas of exclusion and difference, the authors in this book reflect upon the paradoxical centrality of the subaltern at a time when literature was deployed as a tool for nation building. The lasting presence of the Jewish and Moorish legacy, the portrayal of gypsy characters, or the changing notions of femininity in public discourse exemplify the ways in which images of marginal 'types' played a central role in the configuration of the very idea of Spanishness. ¿Cuáles fueron los mecanismos mediante los que ciertos grupos fueron relegados a los márgenes del relato nacional durante el siglo XIX, bien a través de su exclusión de dichos relatos, bien a través de su incorporación a ellos como "otros"? A través del análisis de las ideas de exclusión y diferencia, los autores de este libro reflexionan sobre la paradójica centralidad de lo marginal en una época en la que la literatura fue una herramienta fundamental para la construcción de la nación. La pervivencia del legado judío y morisco, la representación de personajes gitanos o las distintas nociones de feminidad presentes en el discurso público ejemplifican las formas en que las imágenes de "tipos" marginales desempeñaron un papel central en la configuración de la idea de españolidad

This paper makes an approaching to between the literature and the law, which will be useful to analyze the figures of the possession and the property since a legal point of view, to after, to show some literally approaching to both. Those civil institutions must be looked, today, since a different way of the Romans and the liberalism of the centuries XVII and XIX view. In consequence, the study will focus in the property and the possession of the land, begging in the base of the solution of the problem of the land tenure —settled in first time in the subjects of the actual "peace dialogs" realized in the Habana (Cuba), between the Government of Colombia and the insurgent movement self called «Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)»— constitutes a fundamental worry in the society, and the right to the land property is a natural aspiration of the mankind, but alien to the liberal conception of the property. ; Este artículo realiza un acercamiento a la relación entre literatura y derecho, que será útil para analizar las figuras de la propiedad y la posesión desde punto de vista jurídico para, luego, mostrar algunos acercamientos literarios a ellas. Se afirma que estas dos instituciones civiles deben ser miradas, hoy en día, desde una óptica distinta a la de los romanos y a la del liberalismo de los siglos XVIII y XIX. En consecuencia, el estudio se centrará en la propiedad y en la posesión de la tierra, partiendo de la base de que la solución al problema de la tenencia de la tierra —colocado en primer lugar dentro del temario de los actuales "diálogos de paz" que se realizan, en La Habana (Cuba), entre el Gobierno nacional de Colombia y el movimiento insurgente autodenominado «Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)»— constituye fundamental preocupación en toda sociedad, y que el derecho a la tierra es una aspiración natural del hombre, pero ajeno a la concepción liberal de propiedad.