La novela histórica hispanoamericana  y la reescritura de la historia: Navegantes, historia y escrituras en <i>Vigilia del Almirante</i> de Augusto Roa Bastos

Authors

  • Fabián Gabriel Mossello Universidad Nacional de Villa María Córdoba Argentina

Abstract

Spanish-American Historical Novel and the Rewriting of History.
Seafarers, History and Writing in Vigil of the Admiral
by Augusto Roa Bastos
The historical novel in Latin America has contributed much to Latin American historiography. Beginning with the earliest writings by chroniclers, conquistadors and priests, writing has served to comment on the reality of our American world: a world of immense complexity, both in terms of materiality of existence and of intellectual life. The article addresses this complexity with reference to a particular historical novel: Vigil of the Admiral (1992) by the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos. The novel offers a rereading of the life of Christopher Columbus, in which the latter’s biography is presented as an alternative version of that adopted by official historiography. The writer highlights scenes of Columbus’s intimate life and populates the narrative with his thoughts, his obsessions, fears and visions of the future in the crucial historical moment when the relationship between the New and the Old Worlds becomes defined.

Author Biography

Fabián Gabriel Mossello, Universidad Nacional de Villa María Córdoba Argentina

Fabián Gabriel Mossello, Profesor y Licenciado en Letras Modernas, Especialista en Lectura, Escritura y Educación, FLACSO y Magíster en Literaturas Latinoamericanas por la U.N.C. Entre sus libros se destacan: Melana, Marcela, Fabián Mossello, (2007) Construcción de identidades culturales a partir de procesos de escritura de ficción. Advocatus; Melana-Mossello, (2003) Voces de ceniza y agua. Antología literaria; Mossello, Fabián (2002) ‘Escritura literaria y campo cultural judío en Argentina’, en: Mozejko-Costa (2002) Lugares de decir. Competencia social y estrategia discursiva. HomoSapiens; Fabián Mossello, (2010), Literatura, ideología y sociedad. EDUVIM. UNVM; Fabián Mossello, Daniel Teobaldi (2010) Imaginarios literarios y culturales. Géneros y poéticas. Ediciones El Copista. Cba; Co-dirige la revista Sendero, del Programa Universitario para Adultos Mayores, UNVM. Director del Proyecto de Investigación El Discurso del Policial (2010–2014). UNVM. Profesor en la Universidad Nacional de Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina.

Fabián Gabriel Mossello holds a B.A. in Modern Specialist Reading, Writing and Education (FLACSO) and an M.A. in Latin American Literature granted by the UNC. Among his more important publications are: Melana, Marcela, Mossello Fabian (2007) The Construction of Cultural Identities from Fiction-Writing Processes. Advocatus. Melana-Mossello (2003) Voices of Ash and Water. A Literary Anthology; Mossello Fabian (2002) ‘Literary Writing and Jewish Cultural Space in Argentina’, in Mozejko-Costa (2002) Places that Speak. Social Competence and Discursive Strategies. HomoSapiens; Fabian Mossello (2010), Literature, Ideology and Society. Eduvim. UNVM; Fabian Mossello, Daniel Teobaldi (2010) The Literary and Cultural Imaginarium. Genres and Poetics. Copista.Cba Editions. Mosello co-edited the magazine Path, co-directed the University Program for Senior Adults at UNVM and directed the research project entitled Investigations into Political Discourse (2010–2014) at UNVM. Currently, Fabián Gabriel Mossello is a professor at the National University of Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina.

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Entre Océanos, Umbral de Nuevos Mundos—RIAS Vol. 8, Fall–Winter (2/2015)

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2015-11-15

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Mossello, F. G. (2015). La novela histórica hispanoamericana  y la reescritura de la historia: Navegantes, historia y escrituras en <i>Vigilia del Almirante</i> de Augusto Roa Bastos. Review of International American Studies, 8(2). Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/RIAS/article/view/3976

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2015): Entre Océanos, Umbral de Nuevos Mundos—RIAS Vol. 8, Fall–Winter (2/2015)

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