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- Title
Joaquín Murrieta: cultura popular, migración y los limites de la literatura latinoameriaana.
- Authors
Irwin, Robert McKee
- Abstract
This article offers a critical reading of Vida de Joaquin Murrieta, the Mexican publication of the American novel written by Cherokee author Yellow Bird, translated by the Chilean Carlos Lopez Urrutia. The objective is to situate this novel about the legendary Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta, active during the California Gold Rush, in the context of a long literary and extra-literary debate over the character, a debate which most notably includes a novel often attributed to the Mexican Ireneo Paz, Vida y aventuras del más célébré bandido sonorense, Joaquin Murrieta: sus grandes proezas en California, Fulgory muerte de Joaquin Murieta, the cantata by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (for whom Murieta and not Murrieta is Chilean rather than Mexican), and a series of frontier "corridos", among other texts. This evaluation applies the "radical contextualization" methodology typical of cultural studies, which takes into account not only the spaces of production (which, in this case, include the translation) but also the dissemination and reception of the text, challenging the classical boundaries of the most traditional sector of the field of literary studies which relies on nationalist and elitist schemes.
- Subjects
VIDA de Joaquin Murrieta (Book); RIDGE, John Rollin, 1827-1867; LOPEZ Urrutia, Carlos; MURIETA, Joaquin, d. 1853; LITERARY characters; POPULAR culture &; literature; LATIN American literature
- Publication
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2008, Vol 13, Issue 25, p134
- ISSN
0122-8102
- Publication type
Literary Criticism