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    Natascha Rempel

    Este artículo analiza el desarrollo del pensamiento afrofeminista costarricense a partir del ámbito literario. Con una visión panorámica, la presente propuesta se centra en las principales líneas estético-discursivas de un conjunto de... more
    Este artículo analiza el desarrollo del pensamiento afrofeminista costarricense a partir del ámbito literario. Con una visión panorámica, la presente propuesta se centra en las principales líneas estético-discursivas de un conjunto de textos escritos por mujeres desde comienzos del siglo XX hasta principios del siglo XXI. El análisis está organizado en cuatro facetas escriturales que parten de la incorporación de textos desconocidos (identificados en un trabajo previo de estudio de archivo con periódicos) para después adentrarse en obras poéticas más recientes, tanto inéditas como publicadas. Se argumenta que las inquietudes intelectuales de las escritoras afrocostarricenses han estado relacionadas con luchas transgeneracionales y glocales de reivindicación sociocultural, lingüística, política e histórica, abriendo debates públicos desde diferentes perspectivas interseccionales, que han sido invisibilizadas en Costa Rica.

    This article analyzes the development of an Afro-Costa Rican feminist thought in the literary sphere. From a panoramic vision, it focuses on the main aesthetic and discursive features of a set of texts women wrote from the start of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century. The analysis has been organized into four writing facets that start with providing unknown texts (identified in a precious archival work) and then delve into more recent unpublished and published poetic works. It is argued that the intellectual concerns of Afro-Costa Rican female writers have been related to transgenerational struggles of socio-cultural, linguistic, political, and historical vindication, opening public debates from different intersectional perspectives, which have long been underestimated in Costa Rica.

    (Poesía de Maria Graige, Prudence Bellamy Richards, Eulalia Bernard Little, Marcia Reid Chambers, Delia McDonald Woolery, Queen Nzinga Maxwell, Shirley Campbell Barr, Nancy Rebeca Banard Camacho, Karina Obando González, Shalaisha Barrett Parkinson)
    There is hardly a political, economic or aesthetic phenomenon that could be understood or described today without reference to 'social networks'. This fact is not new to sociology, history, and art history: these disciplines have a... more
    There is hardly a political, economic or aesthetic phenomenon that could be understood or described today without reference to 'social networks'. This fact is not new to sociology, history, and art history: these disciplines have a suitable, traditional theoretical foundation. In contrast, networks and network research hardly play a systematic role in literary and cultural studies. The present volume makes a contribution to closing this gap. Networks and networks of works (Bruno Latour) locate themselves beyond a 'strong' subject that is still very much alive even in postcolonial perspectives, characterized by its individual history of education and emancipation. With their dispersed "affinités déspatialisées" (Boltanski/Chiapello), they also leave behind the spatial turn and its much-theorized concept of space. This volume provides an introduction to network studies from a Romance perspective. It offers a whole range of international positions on artistic-social networks in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. With its historical setting between the Mexican Revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall, we illuminate an epoch that seems to be catching up with us again today - in the form of a digitally networked public sphere.