Convocatoria del Dossier Centenario de La Vorágine de José Eustasio Rivera
Open call for proposals: September 1, 2023
Closing date: April 30, 2024
The Vortex, the quintessential Colombian novel according to writer Antonio Caballero, will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year. Much has been written about it and about its author José Eustasio Rivera. A sample of this can be found in the magnificent and impressive works of Eduardo Neale-Silva, Montserrat Ordoñez Vila, Luis Carlos Herrera Molina, Isaías Peña Gutiérrez and Vicente Pérez Silva [1].
From the moment of its appearance, this novel has been considered a semiotic fabric where jungle, river, nature, violence, land, rubber, subjugation, illusion and social struggle are intertwined. Surely these elements, which capture the essence of our nation, a strange mixture of civilization and barbarism tinged with tropical joy, are what make The Vortex, according to the voters of the contest '200 Books 200 Years' [2], the most important book of Colombian history in its republican life. And that story told in the novel, smeared with poetry, was written, corrected and rewritten by the author in a Spanish language whose lexical and syntactic markers were as untamed as the story itself and, far from overwhelming or terrifying critics and readers from other latitudes and cultures, it was translated into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Serbian and recently, Korean. In an attempt to saying almost the same thing (U. Eco), "the jungle has swallowed them".
The Editorial Committee of the journal Paideia Surcolombiana (Surcolombiana University, Neiva-Colombia) will dedicate the dossier of issue 29 of 2024 to the centenary of this novel and will receive all contributions either in the form of scientific article, academic essay and academic note. Articles, essays and notes must be original and unpublished.
The deadline for submission of academic papers is April 30, 2024, and articles received after this date will be discarded for the monographic dossier.
In the link https://journalusco.edu.co/index.php/paideia/about/submissions the authors will find the instructions for sending their papers.
Thematic axes:
The following are some of the themes proposed for the dossier and are not exclusive:
New approaches to José Eustasio Rivera.
The Vortex as an ecological novel and social struggle.
Ecocriticism in The Vortex.
The Vortex: memory, violence, human rights, impunity.
The Vortex: editorial projects, new editions, new platforms.
The Vortex translation into other languages.
Notes
[1] Eduardo Neale-Silva (Horizonte Humano. Vida de José Eustasio Rivera. México, D.F., Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1960); Montserrat Ordoñez Vila (La Vorágine: Textos críticos, editora, Bogotá, Alianza editorial colombiana, 1987), Luis Carlos Herrera Molina (José Eustasio Rivera. Poeta de promisión, Bogotá, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1968. La Vorágine, edición crítica, Bogotá, Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2005); Isaías Peña Gutiérrez (José Eustasio Rivera, Bogotá, Procultura, 1989. Vicente Pérez Silva (José Eustasio Rivera, polemista. Bogotá, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1989.
[2] The novel by José Eustasio Rivera was selected by the voters of the call for ‘200 Books 200 Years’, which Radio Nacional de Colombia and the newspaper La Patria de Manizales supported as allied media, based on an initiative of the Manizales Book Fair and the Technological University of Pereira. Among the 200 books chosen by more than 100 voters, the novel genre stood out in a very large percentage, followed by examples of poetry, testimony, short stories, essays, memoirs, prose, fables, chronicles and reports, narrative journalism and children's and young people's literature.
The top 10 books on the list were:
- La Vorágine, José Eustasio Rivera (novela, 1924)
- Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Márquez (novela, 1967)
- La tejedora de coronas, Germán Espinosa (novela, 1982)
- María, Jorge Isaacs (novela, 1867)
- La casa grande, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio (novela, 1962)
- ¡Que viva la música!, Andrés Caicedo (novela, 1977)
- Cóndores no entierran todos los días, Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal (novela, 1972)
- Changó, el gran putas, Manuel Zapata Olivella (novela, 1983)
- Morada al sur, Aurelio Arturo (poesía, 1945)
- Cuatro años a bordo de mí mismo, Eduardo Zalamea Borda (novela, 1934)
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