Utopias and dystopias in Hispano-American literatures

Giulia Nuzzo

Utopias and dystopias in Hispano-American literatures

Authors

Giulia Nuzzo

University of Salerno

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9959-6646

Keywords:

Giulia Nuzzo, Utopias and dystopias, Hispano-American Literature, Miscellany

Synopsis

Publisher: Department of Arts and Humanities Università degli Studi di Salerno (DipSum)

Series: Collection of Studies and Texts. From ancient Babel to the encounters of Modernity

Pages: 295

Language: Italian, Spanish

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Abstract: “Utopia” and “dystopia” can be considered as the opposite, complementary conceptual polarities through which representations of the American universe have persistently oscillated, since the arrival of Europeans in 1492. Adventurers, conquerors, missionaries, travellers, and writers perceived in the lands discovered by Columbus an ideal place for the realization of utopian projects, as well as a disturbing, almost frightening scenario of a bestial and malevolent otherness, dominated by the degradation and violence of social and political systems. Moreover, many of the experiences of the countries within the Spanish American orbit can also be interpreted under the sign of utopias and dystopias. Latin America continues to rank as one of the most violent regions in the world, thus producing a literature and art persistently characterized by dystopian, “catastrophic” imagery. This complex and vast historical and conceptual framework has been the subject of interdisciplinary and comparative study days held in Salerno in May 2023, following a long-standing tradition. The texts collected in this volume are the result of those discussions.

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Author Biography

Giulia Nuzzo, University of Salerno

Giulia Nuzzo is Associate Professor of Spanish American Languages and Literatures at the University of Salerno. Her research interests have focused on travel and exile literature, as well as on the narratives of violence in Colombia, with a particular emphasis on authors such as Ricardo Rojas, Gabriela Mistral, Jorge Eielson, Rodolfo Walsh, Daniel Ferreira, Pablo Montoya, among others. Her publicationsinclude the monographs Caminos identitarios entre Argentina y España. Los viajes a Europa de Ricardo Rojas (2015) and Intelectuales en el país de Trujillo. En torno a la vida y a la obra de Baltasar Miró (2016).