The aim of this thesis is to investigate the highly moral ethic of social duty and responsibility which animates the work of Alejo Carpentier. In order to examine this theme, I have studied, in particular, the following six novels: ‘El reino de este mundo', Los pasos perdidos', ‘El acoso', El siglo de las luces', ‘El recurso del método', and ‘La consagración de la primavera'. In the Introduction, I have investigated the various philosophical questions raised by the concept of responsibility : the debate about freewill and determinism has been examined, and the Existentialist philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre has been chosen as the most helpful in an investigation of Carpentier's theory of responsibility, due to a great coincidence of thought between the two writers. The protagonists of the novels in question have been grouped according to various distinguishing tendencies or characteristics, and have been analysed in the light of the Sartrian concepts of good and bad faith. These groupings are as follows: “the deluded intellectual”, “two tyrants”, “the lesson of experience”, and “the committed individual”. The success, or failure, of these characters, in matching up to the goals of self-transcendence and responsible commitment posed by Carpentier has been charted throughout Chapters One to Four, and deductions have been made about the various forms of bad faith in which the characters indulge. The conclusions that I have drawn from this detailed investigation of characters in good and bad faith are, firstly, that Carpentier sees man's goal in life as the attainment of self-knowledge and the honest acceptance of responsibility for the self : once this state of good faith has been achieved, man is able to commit himself to the never-ending struggle for the improvement of the social situation. Acceptance of responsibility for the self is vital, in Carpentier's canon, for without such acceptance, positive commitment is impossible. Secondly, I have concluded that, according to Carpentier, commitment is an inevitable part of life, and that Carpentier's goal, then, is that we should actively commit ourselves to a positive cause through recognition of our responsibility for ourselves and our society, rather than tacitly accept the status quo through a passive or deterministic attitude.

À l'horizon de ce travail se trouve la volonté d'affirmer la cohésion et les nuances d'un imaginaire caribéen, construit en dialogue avec tous les substrats culturels et les expériences de l'histoire et du paysage dont il est issu. L'étude se concentre sur les œuvres de trois auteurs qui ont fourni une réflexion critique sur la création littéraire et sur le rôle de l'artiste caribéen ou latino-américain : Alejo Carpentier, Édouard Glissant, Derek Walcott. Ils arpentent le réel caribéen, dans une tension toujours renouvelée entre un canon littéraire inculqué depuis l'autre rive européenne, et la volonté de représenter dans et par le texte littéraire les pratiques vives de l'oralité. Comment concilier les tensions entre médiation (inter)textuelle et immédiateté ou coïncidence rêvée du chant, pour écrire avec justesse l’histoire oblitérée d’un archipel ou d’un continent ? Je développe à partir de leurs usages une conception dynamique de l'intertextualité comme dialogue, confrontation et revitalisation de la mémoire écrite, qui entend dépasser l'axe binaire de la soumission ou la subversion à un canon écrit surtout européen. J'envisage en particulier l'axe Méditerranée-Caraïbe pour penser les phénomènes de transferts et de différenciation et montrer comment l'Antiquité gréco-latine peut servir à articuler le désir de fondation et la rencontre entre performance orale et trace écrite. J'examine enfin comment le désir d'oralité, allié à la notion de communauté, travaille les textes du corpus, à travers un certain nombre de scènes de passage, de scènes rituelles, ou de scènes limites de la représentation. / This work intends to stand for the cohesion and the nuances of a Caribbean imaginary, which is based on a constant dialogue with all the cultural substrates and the experiences of history and landscape. The study focuses on the works of three writers who produced a critical appraisal of literary creation and the role of the Caribbean or Latin-American artist: Alejo Carpentier, Édouard Glissant, Derek Walcott. They keep measuring the Caribbean reality, in a continuous tension between a literary canon often brought and taught from the European shore and view, and the will to represent in and by the literary text the vivid practices of orality. How can we conciliate the tensions between (inter)textual mediation and immediacy or coincidence of the song, in order to write the obliterared history of an archipelago or a continent? Reading their intertextual uses, I develop a dynamic conception of intertextuality as dialogue, confrontation and revitalization of literary memory, which intends to go beyond the binary axis of submission or subversion to European written canon. I study in particular the Mediterranean-Caribbean axis to think about the cultural transfers and differentiation, in order to show how the Greek and Roman tradition can be used to articulate the desire for foundation and the encounters between oral performance and written traces. Finally, I examine how the desire for orality, which seems to traduce a desire of community, influences the textual composition, through the study of scenes of passing, ritual scenes and boundary scenes of representation.

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-23T07:04:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tollendal_EduardoJose_D.pdf: 6392565 bytes, checksum: 69335e0f1768921daba62f6d68928cac (MD5) Previous issue date: 1997 / Resumo: No campo dos estudos comparados, este é um trabalho de análise e interpretação dos romances Jubiabá, Mar morto, Terras do sem fim, de Jorge Amado, e Écue- Yamba-Ó e La consagración de la primavera, de Alejo Carpentier. São romances que se aproximam por conciliarem o enfoque da situação do negro no espaço do subdesenvolvimento - tema herdado do regionalismo naturalista com a denúncia do capitalismo e da sociedade de classes. Representariam, portanto, uma linhagem "engajada" da tradição regionalista, que se desenvolve na literatura da América latina, em sintonia com o fenômeno de politização da vida e da cultura desta sociedade a partir dos anos 30, sob a influência da teoria marxista. Às motivações da consciência diante das questões sociais, que justificam o desenvolvimento deste tipo de romance, acrescente-se o impulso legitimador promovido pelo "prestígio" do realismo socialista. A descrição destes romances - numa perspectiva sócio-antropológica, em que tem destaque o delineamento das relações afetivas como sintoma da dominação de classe -- permitiu a identificação de procedimentos que caracterizam as variações desta tendência na obra de cada autor. Neste sentido, procuramos verificar o problema, presente em toda literatura política, da adequação entre a autonomia da forma e as determinações da ideologia. As soluções encontradas por Amado e Carpentier irão dizer da excelência de suas narrativas, enquanto arte revolucionária, segundo os princípios da estética marxista / Abstract: In the field of comparative studies this inquiry aims at analyzing and interpreting the novels Jubiabá, Mar Morto, Terras do sem fim, written by Jorge Amado and Écue-Yamba-Ó and La consagración de la primavera by Alejo Carpentier. The relationship among these novels exists in that there is an attempt to reconcile and focus on the status of blacks in underdeveloped contexts - a theme inherited from regional naturalist movements - which denounces capitalism and the class society. The novels, therefore, are within the naturalist regional literary tradition of commitment to a cause, which developed in Latin American Literature. In addition, they are a reflection of the political consciousness developed during the thirties influenced by the Marxist perspective. A conscious reaction to social problems, and a desire to legitimate the existing social conditions, added to the prestige of socialist realism, justifies the development of this type of novel. Through a description of these novels and from a socio-anthropological perspective in which an outline of affective relationships symptomatic of class domination are highlighted, it was possible to identify the procedures that characterize the various manifestations of this tendency in the work of each author. In this manner, the problems of political literature and the ways in which autonomy of form were adapted to the requirements of ideology are identified. The solutions to these problems found by Amado and Carpentier point out the distictive quality of their narrative as revolutionary art based on Marxist aesthetic theory / Doutorado / Teoria Literaria / Doutor em Letras

This dissertation interrogates the role of fashion at representative junctures in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture. It shows how fashion has helped to advance specific visions of cultural identity, historical change, and literary production and consumption. Chapter 1 surveys current understandings of dress, fashion, and related concepts, highlighting this dissertation's questioning of fashion as a historically construed, rhetorically powerful discourse associated with Western modernity. It reflects on the importance of sartorial metaphors in literary theory and proposes that fashion is key to understanding the specificity of Latin American modernity. Chapter 2 surveys current scholarship on fashion in Latin America, reconsidering fashion's role in works by Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Andrés Bello, Domingo Sarmiento, José Martí and other seminal nineteenth-century writers. Chapter 3 offers the first study of the women's fashion magazine Elegancias (1911-1914), produced in Paris for Latin American consumption with Rubén Darío as literary editor. It investigates Darío's involvement and analyzes four collaborations presently unpublished in book form, particularly Darío's profile of the Argentine writer Delfina Bunge (whom he called "mademoiselle Verlaine"). It also analyzes Elegancia's inscription of Latin American modernismo within femininity and commodity culture. Chapter 4 shifts to Mexico, following the motif of the empty indigenous dress in works by painter Frida Kahlo and writer Rosario Castellanos spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. Mexico's indigenous textile traditions offer a space against/outside fashion from which to subvert normative femininity, imagine ethnic filiations, and critique post-revolutionary Mexico's forging of a mestizo national identity that incorporates indigenous people as mere icons. Chapter 4 analyzes Alejo Carpentier's major novels and his fashion chronicles in Venezuela's El Nacional from the 1950s. It analyzes the representation of everyday dress as costume within the world as theatre metaphor and Carpentier's Benjaminian sensibility in granting fashion allegorical meanings in relation to historical dialectics and transculturation. Throughout, the analysis observes how fashion exacerbates anxieties about Latin American divergence from metropolitan cultural models while its repertoire of images and discourses is used to fruitfully negotiate gender, race, and class as images of the body politic crystalize into images of the dressed body. / Romance Languages and Literatures

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of English, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 10, 2009) Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-217). Also issued in print.

Este trabajo tiene como propósito analizar la novela El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier (1949), centrándose en el personaje literario de Paulina Bonaparte. Nos preguntamos si Paulina Bonaparte representa la nueva élite de Europa y la fascinación de ciertos personajes de la población del Caribe por Europa en la novela El reino de este mundo. Con esta pregunta destacamos al personaje Paulina Bonaparte desde un punto de vista nuevo, que hasta ahora no ha sido enfocado de esta manera en los estudios literarios, por lo que sabemos. La hipótesis que se formula es que Paulina Bonaparte se representa como una sinécdoque de las nuevas élites europeas durante los primeros años del siglo XIX en el libro El reino de este mundo. Principalmente hemos utilizado extractos de la novela y de artículos académicos que apoyan nuestra hipótesis. También hemos estudiado la obra analítica Historia y utopía en Alejo Carpentier de Oscar Velayos Zurdo (1990). Podemos concluir que hay indicios que muestran que Paulina Bonaparte representa la nueva élite de Europa en la novela El reino de este mundo.

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Traditional Caribbean history has been directed by and focused upon the conquerors who came to the region to colonize and seek profitable resources. Native Caribbean peoples and African slaves used to work the land have been silenced by traditional history so that it has become necessary for modern Caribbean thinkers to challenge that history and recreate it. Alejo Carpentier and Michelle Cliff challenge traditional Caribbean history in their texts, The Kingdom of This World and Abeng, respectively. Each of these texts rewrites traditional history to include the perspectives of natives and the slaves of Haiti and Jamaica. Traditional history is challenged by the inclusion of these perspectives, thus providing a rewritten, revised history. / by Tricia Amiel. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Durante o inicio do século XX, se intensifica na literatura latino-americana o interesse pela expressão e formação de identidades. Os escritores procuram os elementos mais adequados para descrever as particularidades e contradições dessa região, ainda bastante influenciada pela cultura europeia, na qual os resquícios de colonialismo se misturam com os elementos regionais. Nessa perspectiva, surge o que CHIAMPI (1994) chama de “síndrome do barroco”, o reaparecimento desta arte, reinventada e contextualizada no período contemporâneo, como forma de descrição da realidade americana e de suas contradições. Essa nova onda barroca revela o mal estar da cultura, suas crises e sua desordem, e a necessidade de representação deste contexto. O neobarroco procura enfatizar o desequilíbrio, a tensão e a fragmentação e diversidade da sociedade, criticando valores e concepções tradicionais como forma de “desmascarar” os ritos sociais e a cultura. Com base nestas ideias, a análise presente neste texto privilegia as concepções identitárias das propostas literárias de Alejo Carpentier e Severo Sarduy, mostrando as diferentes formas de pensamento a respeito da realidade americana nestes autores cubanos que expressam, através do barroco, suas visões de América. / Durante el siglo XX, se intensifica en la literatura latinoamericana el interés por la expresión y la formación de identidades. Los escritores buscan los elementos más apropiados para describir las peculiaridades y contradicciones de esta región aún fuertemente influenciada por la cultura europea, en la que características del colonialismo se mezclan con elementos regionales. Desde esta perspectiva, aparece lo que Chiampi (1994) intitula "síndrome del barroco", el resurgimiento de esta forma artística, renovada y contextualizada en la época contemporánea, como recurso para la descripción de la realidad americana y sus contradicciones. Esta nueva etapa barroca revela el malestar de la cultura, sus crisis y su desorden, y la necesidad de una representación del contexto. El neobarroco enfatiza el desequilibrio, el desorden, la tensión y la fragmentación de la sociedad y su diversidad, criticando los valores y las concepciones tradicionales como forma de "desenmascarar" la sociedad y la cultura. Sobre la base de estas ideas, este análisis se centra en las concepciones de identidad presentes en las propuestas literarias de Alejo Carpentier y Severo Sarduy, que muestran a través del barroco diferentes visiones de América.