Public Lecture: "Lo real maravilloso: Conversations on Transculture and Magical Realism"
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On December 16, at 11:00 a.m., Carolina Miranda, a professor at Victoria University of Wellington, will deliver a lecture on Lo real maravilloso: Conversations on Transculture and Magical Realism.
The lecture is part of the master's course "Modern Spanish Literature - Magical Realism ”led by Marietta Chikhladze, Assistant Professor at Ilia State University.
When talking about contemporary Latin American fiction, the international literary market is particularly fascinated by two terms - nueva novela and Boom, known as magical realism or transculture, as it is referred to from a Latin American perspective. When discussing the perception of reality on a subcontinent that it is more like fantasy than fiction, transculture usually highlights the fantastic disproportions of Latin American history and offers an alternative perspective based on local (Indian or peasant) cultures.
In the lecture, I will discuss some specific examples from the landmark novel of the genre, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967). I will also talk about the work of the Uruguayan writer Horatio Kviroga (1878-1937), whose "domesticated" Gothic made him the precursor of lo fantascico-maravilloso. "
Carolina Miranda, is a professor at Victoria University of Wellington, where she teaches translation, literature and cultural studies. She has published works on Roberto Arlt's theater and prose, as well as Argentine, Spanish and New Zealand crime fiction.
Time: December 16, 11:00 a.m.
Meeting link: https://bit.ly/3yokOqC
Meeting ID: 824 1490 1798
Passcode: 146801
2021