COMP-LIT 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Esteban Echeverría, Horacio Quiroga, Antireligion
15 Nov 2016
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Federalists vs. unitarians (wanted to make it more white ) Narrator: extradiegetic and homodiegetic narrator that doesn"t actually appear as a character (though in first person) Focalization: mostly zero very strong narrative voice. Very much in the foreground, narrator just commenting on thing. Associate aggressiveness and sexism with masculinity narrator seems male. Language used consists of big vocab words. Federalists characters have poor speech vs the one unitarian has. Sarcastic, ironic, cynical, sophisticated, a more advanced vocabulary. The struggle of the city (flood, famish, etc) vs. First part of the story sets a foreground/background (flood, capitalism, religion) to help the readers understand the reasoning for the second part. First part centered around buenos aires and the second part focuses on the slaughterhouse civilization vs. barbarism. Juan manuel de rosa (cid:1445)the restorer(cid:1446) (one of the bloodiest dictators of latin america (that killed many indigenous and unitarians)) the. Bull (chased) people with the spirit of resistance (unitarians)
