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"Violence and the Sacred": sacrifice, scapegoating and social conflict in Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel
(Oxford University Press, 2016-10-24)
This article presents a reading of Alfonso Reyes Ifigenia cruel informed by René Girard s theories of mimetic violence and the scapegoating effect . It seeks to foster interest in the complex relationship between the ...
Migrating myths: From Greece to Nicaragua, Mexico and Ireland
(Society for Irish Latin America Studies (SILAS), 2018)
Michèle Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet associated with the
Sandinista Revolution; her 1991 collection of poems Cantos de Ifigenia
(Songs of Iphigenia) has had a deep and lasting impact on my academic
and creative work. ...
La experiencia no reclamada. Exilio, memoria y trauma en Ifigenia cruel de Alfonso Reyes
(Colegio de Mexico, 2015)
Escrito diez anos después de la muerte de su padre y los eventos de 'La Decena Trágica', la Ifigenia cruel de Reyes explora el papel de la memoria en la formacion de la identidad de una manera que rompe con las convenciones ...
From Athens to Managua: Myth and sacrifice in Michele Najlis' Cantos de Ifigenia
(Liverpool University Press, 2012)
Michele Najlis is a Nicaraguan poet whose work emerged alongside the Sandinista insurrection. The Sandinistas were removed from office in 1990, creating, in political and cultural terms, one of those 'boundary situations' ...