SUMMARIES:

The Marvelous in Libro del conde Partinuplés
(By Ana María Morales)

The marvelous, understood as an autonomous system where nature functions with different laws and which does not negatively interfere with the logic of the world codified as real in a text, is common in all literature; nevertheless, the manner of understanding and appreciating it is particular to each era. The history of Partonopeus and Melior, which starts with the French Roman de Partonopeus may be an example of these changes: from stories where marvelous fantastic fairy ruled to others which prefer the marvelous which is magical or exotic.

The Bolero: A Symbol of Seduction and Resemantization of the Masculine Sexual Identity in Sirena Selena Vestida de Pena of Mayra Santos Febres
(By Juan Antonio Serna)

The first novel by the Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos Febres (1966), titled Sirena Selena Vestida de Pena can be considered as a bolero novel according to the criteria proposed by Vicente Francisco Torres. In this essay, the novel is studied in two levels. The first one consists in analyzing the seduction that music exercises, particularly the bolero as a symbol, through the character of the transformer/transvestite Sirena; however, greater attention is placed on the voice and on the transformation of Sirena than on the bolero itself. The second level of analysis focuses on the resemantization (in the sense of deconstruction, of reconfiguration and/or of reaffirmation) of the masculine sexual identity considering as a main theoretical base the "queer" coined by the critic David William Foster.

The Figure of the Dictator: Macías Nguema and Rafael Trujillo in Los Poderes de la Tempestad of Donato Ndongo BIdyogo and in La Fiesta del Chivo of Mario Vargas Llosa
(By Joseph-Desire Otabela Mewolo)

The article purposes to study the figure of the dictator in two relatively recent novels comparing the treatment of the theme in a Latin-American author and (the Dominican tyrant Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in La Fiesta del Chivo of Mario Vargas Llosa) and in a representative of the new and somewhat unfamiliar Hispanic literature of Equatorial Guinea (the portrait of Macias Nguema Biyogo Negue Ndong in Los Poderes de la Tempestad of Donato Ndongo Bidyogo). Particular attention is given to three aspects of the dictator: (a) a cult towards the personality that reaches divinization, (b) the importance of sex as a test of machismo and (omni) potency and (c) a particular form of nationalism which was manifested in the dictatorship of Trujillo in the genocide committed against the black Haitian immigrants and in Guineas in the radical refutation of the Hispanic heritage in favor of presumed traditional indigenous values.

Summit of Song: Lyric Poeticism in "Alturas de Macchu Picchu"
(By Eliana Rivero)

This article aspires to trace the accepted epic nature of Canto general of Pablo Neruda through a poetic analysis of the lyricism of one of its fundamental parts, Alturas de Macchu Picchu. Through a conscious reading of the subjectivity of the poetic speaker in Alturas and of its connections to other significant sections of the extensive text, an intention is made to illuminate its poetic constitution in a more theoretical manner in relation to the subjective construction of the discourse of different personal speakers who enunciate certain subtexts of Canto and that integrate, of course, its world of voices.

"To Open my Soul with a Pen." Notes on Teresa de la Parra's Ifigenia.
(By Gonzalo Oyola)

Published in 1924, Ifigenia. Diario de una Senorita que escribio porque se fastidiaba, the first novel by Teresa de la Parra expands on a series of questions about plots that compose feminine subjectivity in conflict with the positions, spaces, knowledge and practices attributed and reserved for women of the dominating class in the early decades of the XX century in Venezuela. This novel presents a subjectivity which in its inquiry into models of feminine identity traces its forms in the contradictory movements which oscillate between the rebuttal and the acceptance of domestic values imposed as desirable to women of their class.

The Summit of the Mountain is Not the Limit but the Beginning: A Dialogue with Armando Romero
(By Augusto Escobar Mesa)

This is a dialogue with the Columbian poet and narrator, Armando Romero where he allows us to see a world which is mediated by an adventure in life and an adventure in words. In this intercommunication, Romero ravels and unravels a world of realities, his own, which he has been constructing with threads, some explicit while others more subtle, to finally perceive that beyond everything there is a man whose adventure has been to search for the ball of threads which leads him to the center of his original vital experience.