Elisabetta Perra, a PhD in Hispanic Studies student in the Department of Modern Languages, has been allocated a postgraduate award to attend the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) annual conference in 2016.
The award follows on from Elisabetta’s success at last year’s conference where she won the Valentina Guevara Prize for the best paper.
The AHGBI is a professional association of academics and researchers working in all areas of Hispanic Studies. It represents a very diverse discipline, in terms of both geographical coverage (Spain, Portugal, Latin America and other Hispanic and Lusophone parts of the world) and objects of study (language, literature, film, popular culture, visual culture, music, history). They promote research and advanced study in all these areas, and represent the interests of their scholarly community at national and international levels.
Elisabetta will present a paper entitled ‘Rayuela’s Linguistic Revolution: Some Whys and Wherefores’ at the conference. The presentation concerns the experimental language found in Cortázar’s novel Rayuela (Pantheon Books, 1963), focussing on the cultural factors that gave rise to a foregrounding of deviant narrative discourse and on the new writing guidelines proposed by the character of Morelli. Rayuela’s experimental and subversive language is Cortázar’s stance against the use of ideologically grounded language by writers, armed forces and universities. This paper will firstly explore Cortázar’s view on the role of engagé writers and on his thoughts about the way in which language is manipulated by the armed forces and by the lecturers at the University of Cuyo where he taught. This analysis will be followed by a study of Morelli’s new linguistic model based upon the use of syntax and rhythm to enhance the meaning of words.
The conference will be held at Northumbria University on 4-6 April 2016.
For more information about the PhD in Hispanic Studies, please see the page here:
www.kent.ac.uk/secl/hispanicstudies/postgraduate/research-hispanic-studies.html