Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

La vorágine : The Symbolics of Masculine Logic and the Open Vortex(t)

1995; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 72; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/1475382952000372195

1469-3550

Susan Isabel Stein,

Spanish Literature and Culture Studies

Abstract Their desire is often interpreted, and feared, as a sort of insatiable hunger, a voracity that will swallow you whole …Footnote1 I am not afraid of you. I defy you. I have a penis.Footnote2 BSS Subject Index: RIVERA, JOSÉ EUSTASIO (1889–1928)SYMBOLISM/SYMBOLSVORÁGINE, LA [J. E. RIVERA]WOMEN/GENDER ISSUES — LATIN AMERICA Notes 1. Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, trans. Catherine Porter (Ithaca: Cornell U. P., 1985), 29. 2. Sigmund Freud, ‘Medusa's Head’, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, ed. Philip Rieff(New York: Collier Books, 1963), 213. 3. Fernando Alegría, Nueva historia de la novela hispanoamericana (Hanover, NH: Ediciones del Norte, 1986), 156; Enrique Anderson Imbert, Spanish American Literature. A History. 1910-1963, trans. John V. Falconieri, 2 vols (Detroit: Wayne State U. P., 1969 [2nd ed.]), 527; Luis B. Eyzaguirre, El héroe en la novela hispanoamericana del siglo XX (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria, 1973), 47; Eduardo Neale-Silva, ‘The Factual Bases of La vorágine’, PMLA, LIV (1939), 331; Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Grandes novelistas de la América Hispana. I. Los novelistas de la tierra (Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1941), 257. 4. Cedomil Goic, Historia de la novela hispanoamericana (Valparaiso: Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaiso, 1972), 156-64; Juan Loveluck, ‘Para una relectura de La vorágine’, ‘La vorágine’: textos críticos, ed. Montserrat Ordóñez Vila (Bogotá: Alianza Editorial Colombiana, 1987), 431-36; Seymour Menton, ‘La vorágine: el triángulo y el círculo’, La novela colombiana: planetas y satélites (Bogotá: Plaza y Janés, 1978), 145-88; Sylvia Molloy, ‘Contagio narrativo y gesticulación retórica en La vorágine’, Ordóñez Villa, 489-513. 5. Neale-Silva, art. cit., 316-18. 6. Alberto Zum Felde, Índice crítico de la literatura hispanoamericana. II. La narrativa (Mexico City: Guaranía, 1959), 233. 7. Menton, art. cit., 149. 8. Jean Franco, An Introduction to Spanish-American Literature, 1975 ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 1985), 208. 9. For various approaches to Cova as a hero figure, refer to William E. Bull, ‘Nature and Anthropomorphism in La vorágine’, Romanic Review, XXXIX (1948), 307-18; Richard J. Callan, ‘The Archetype of Psychic Renewal in La vorágine’, Woman as Myth and Metaphor in Latin American Literature (Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1985), 15-26; Eyzaguirre, op. cit., 46-65; Malva E. Filer, ‘La vorágine: agonía y desaparición del héroe’, Ordóñez Villa, op. cit., 391-98; Jean Franco, ‘Image and Experience in La vorágine’, BHS, XLI (1964), 101-10; Sharon Magnarelli, ‘La mujer y la naturaleza en La vorágine: la imagen y semejanza del hombre’, Ordóñez Villa, op. cit., 334-52; Molloy, op. cit., 489-513; Otto Olivera, ‘El romanticismo de La vorágine’, Ordóñez Villa, op. cit., 259-67; Randolph D. Pope, ‘La vorágine: autobiografía de un intelectual’, Ordóñez Villa, op. cit., 399-414; Doris Sommer, ‘El género deconstruido: cómo releer el canon a partir de La vorágine’, Ordóñez Villa, op. cit., 465-83. 10. Refer to the following articles for materialist analyses of the aesthetics of modernismo: Yerko Moretic, ‘Acerca de las raíces ideológicas del modernismo hispanoamericano’, Philológica Progresiva, VII (1965): 45–53 and Françoise Perus, ‘E1 modernismo hispanoamericano y las formaciones sociales en Latinoamérica hacia 1880’, Ideologies and Literature, I (May-June 1977), No. 3, 6–12. 11. Mikhail Mikhailovitch Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1981), 285, 312. 12. Ibid., 309. 13. Molloy, op. cit., 498, 493. 14. Ibid., 491. 15. Ibid., 505–06. 16. Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, 111. 17. Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, trans. Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca: Cornell U. P., 1985), 141. 18. Sarah Kofman, ‘The Narcissistic Woman: Freud and Girard’, Diacritics (Fall 1980), 39–40. 19. Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, 112. 20. Ibid., 78 (author's emphasis). 21. Refer to Callan, op. cit., 15–26; Malva E. Filer, ‘La vorágine: agonía y desaparición del héroe’, Prismal / Cabral, III–IV (1979); Magnarelli, op. cit., 335–52; William Mejía, ‘La mujer en la obra riveriana’, Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico, X (1967), 158–63; Menton, op. cit., 147–88; Molloy, op. cit., 489–516; Pope, op. cit., 399–414; Sommer, op. cit., 465–83. 22. Magnarelli, op. cit., 338. 23. Sommer, op. cit., 477. 24. Ibid., 466. 25. Ibid., 467. 26. Ibid., 476. 27. Ibid., 478 (emphasis added). 28. Menton, op. cit., 182. 29. Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, 104–05. 30. Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (New York: The Free Press, 1973), 235–36. 31. Denis de Rougemont, Love in the Western World, trans. Montgomery Belgion (Princeton: Princeton U. P., [rev. ed.], 1983), 22, 15. 32. Ibid., 283. 33. Ibid., 24. 34. Ibid., 34 (emphasis added). 35. Mejía, op. cit., 162. 36. Marie Louise von Franz, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1987), 6. 37. Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, 123. 38. Carl G. Jung, Aspects of the Feminine, trans. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton: Princeton U. P., 1982), 83. 39. Ibid., 78. 40. De Rougemont, op. cit., 21. 41. Jung, op. cit., 113. 42. Magnarelli, op. cit., 338. 43. Menton, op. cit., 184. 44. Sigmund Freud, ‘Fetishism’, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, ed. cit., 215–16. 45. Jung, op. cit., 83–86. 46. Ibid., 110. 47. Freud, ‘Fetishism’, 215. 48. Jung, op. cit., 86. 49. De Rougemont, op. cit., 51. 50. Freud, ‘Medusa's Head’, 212–13. 51. Ibid., 212. 52. Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, 26–27. 53. Sigmund Freud, ‘Femininity’, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, trans. James Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1965), 112–14. 54. Irigaray, Speculum of the Other Woman, 23. 55. Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, 101. 56. Freud,'Fetishism’, 216. 57. Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale U. P., 1984), 4. 58. Ibid., 5. 59. Callan, op. cit., 24. 60. Sommer, op. cit., 477.