Ben Bollig
Biographic Data
| ID | 136581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ben Bollig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ben |
| FAMILY NAME | Bollig |
| SIGNATURE | BEN BOLLIG |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1215-2349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hard yards, vulnerable bodies: Tenderness in two recent prison films from Argentina and Chile
Prison literature from Latin America has been a topic of growing interest for literary scholars of and from the region in recent years. This reflects wider attention in cultural studies dedicated to ‘heterotopias’ or ‘other spaces’, while building on the work of sociologists who have studied prisons and prison reform in countries there. Less has been written, however, about films set in penitentiaries. Building on recent work (Podalksy) that exam…
Rethinking Tenderness in the Early Poetry of Juan Gelman
The poetry of Juan Gelman (1930–2014) is eminently suited to an edition of BSS that simultaneously celebrates a centenary of Hispanist research in the UK and attempts to survey the current state of the field. Gelman—poet, journalist and political activist—with an oeuvre that emerges from the socially engaged verse of the 1950s, engaging with Anglophone poetry, pseudonymous translations mysticism, and culminating in the Premio Cervantes 2007. An a…
Ternura y Pathosformeln en la obra de Héctor Ciocchini
Este texto investiga la presencia de la ternura en la poesía y crítica del argentino Héctor Ciocchini. La ternura es un concepto clave por motivos generales y específicos. A pesar del «boom» en los estudios afectivos en las humanidades, se ha prestado muy poca atención a ella y, es más, la teoría vacila entre «emoción» y «afecto» al clasificarla. Parece conformar con los conceptos de la teoría de los afectos (en inglés affect theory) sobre lo imp…
‘Fantasies of Catastrophe’: Politics and Race in the Early Novels of Julio Cortázar
This paper examines politics and race in the early novels of Julio Cortázar - those written before Rayuela (1963), sometimes called his ‘Argentine trilogy’, and published after the author’s death. Despite Cortázar’s later public statements about the importance of an author’s engagement with politics, it is the analytical acumen in the realist aspects of these often fantastical novels, rather than a commitment to a stance, or a political message, …
«Muchas mujeres para las que no hubo justicia». «Cuentos de delitos» por tres escritoras argentinas
Unreasonable doubt: Politics and aesthetics in the crime novels of Horacio Vázquez Rial
Horacio Vázquez Rial (Buenos Aires, 1947–Madrid, 2012) was an Argentine writer, historian and ex-militant in the Trotskyite Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People’s Revolutionary Army, or ERP). He left Argentina for Spain in the mid-1970s and became an outspoken critic of the Latin American left and in particular of the Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner governments in the 2000s. He also penned a series of pioneering, neo-noir thrillers that …
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction - by Russek, Dan
Theories of Money in Argentine Crime Fiction
Much recent writing on crime fiction and on Latin-American crime fiction in particular has focused on the genre's potential for social and political critique. This article aims to examine the specific case of money in Argentine crime fiction. It argues that in a number of Argentine novels dealing with crime, money is more than just a leitmotif or theme: it is a character in itself. Money has a role to play, almost a certain protagonism which, in …
Argentina's presidential elections
On 22 November 2015, Mauricio Macri of the Cambiemos (Let’s Change) coalition defeated Daniel Scioli of the Frente para la Victoria (FpV, Victory Front) to become Argentina’s president. Macri is the first president to be elected in the country on a right-wing ticket since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1916. Menem, president from 1989 to 1999, oversaw structural adjustments and massive privatisations, but won office first as a left-win…
‘El libro era una cosa que ocupaba espacio’ (Néstor Perlongher). Recent Works on Poetry, Publishing and Performance in the Southern Cone
El libro era una cosa que ocupaba espacio" (Néstor Perlongher).Recent Works on Poetry, Publishing and Performance in the Contemporary Southern Cone.On a 2014 trip to Argentina, I visited a number of bookshops.Buenos Aires, in particular, is renowned for its iconic stores: the Ateneo Gran Splendid, in a cavernous converted theatre; the elegant and trendsetting Eterna Cadencia, which also runs an influential publishing arm; or the once seminal, now…
Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot: Modern Poetry and the Translation of Influence ‐ by Boll, Tom
Raimondi-Vignoli-Cristina. Poetic Activism in Contemporary Argentina
After the emergence in Argentine in the 1980s of neobarroco or neobaroque poetry, and in the 1990s of a contrasting objetivista or objectivist aesthetic, commentators have written of "Boom" in poetry in the 2000s, the emergence or successful re-launching of young writers, notable anthologies, and new independent publishers. Many groups and poets use poetry as an integral part of their political activism. However, the aesthetic effects of such act…
Africa under erasure: The North African travels of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Roberto Arlt
Zeno's Tortoise: In quietude, velocity sleeps
Zeno’s Tortoise(In quietude, velocity sleeps) Eduardo Espina (bio) Translated by Ben Bollig Closed doors attract the outdoors. Trace traced on the centipede and a little of logos on the shelle. As it passes the parallels ponder goes the gust with a howling gale, goes so that life will not notice. The happy remorse of reason. A quickness as when the moon emerges whilst the thirst said don’t wait, said be of others, not of yourself, nor so much now…
The Reason for All Things: Lovers in love and over love
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada - by Pablo Neruda
Exiles and Nomads: Perlongher in Brazil
This paper seeks to explore the effect of exile on the work of the Argentine poet and anthropologist Néstor Perlongher. The writer fled Argentina for Brazil in the early 1980s after suffering police harassment and violence. In Argentina, his poems had criticized conservative notions of the nation, and proposed alternative desiring communities, or Temporary Autonomous Zones to use the term coined by Hakim Bey. In contrast, his poetry in Brazil det…
Violence without Reason: On Argentine Short Stories
Cuentos argentinos. Una antologia, Eduardo Hojman (Ed.), Madrid, Siruela, 2004, 304 pp, ISBN 84-7844-7784, (£17.95, pbk) The appearance of this prestigious and elegantly presented new anthology of
Now/here Is Everywhere: Exile And Cynicism In The Verse Of Osvaldo Lamborghini1
Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma , or the Sad End of Party Politics in Belle Époque Brazil
Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma , or the Sad End of Party Politics in Belle Époque Brazil
This paper examines Lima Barreto's 1911 novel, a polemic work attacking the moral and political vacuity of turn-of the-century Brazilian life. The piece aims to discover the cause of the protagonist's downfall through an examination of his political, agricultural, and military exploits within the context of contemporary Brazil; is Quaresma a political visionary, a Brazilian Don Quixote, or a dangerous nationalist madman? The notion of madness in …
Evita ́ hablar de la pol L ́tica: Multiple Critical Readings of Ne ́stor Perlongher's Evita vive (en cada hotel organizado) 1
(2003). iEvita ́ hablar de la pol L ́tica!: Multiple Critical Readings of Ne ́stor Perlongher's Evita vive (en cada hotel organizado) 1. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 3-18
One or Several Betrayals? or, When is Betrayal Treason? Genet, Arlt and the Argentine Liberal Project
Betrayal is one of the key narrative tropes in the fiction of the Argentine writer Roberto Arlt. The psychological and existential implications of the betrayals found in novels such as El juguete rabioso (1926) and El amor brujo (1933) have attracted much critical comment, as have the links between the betrayals found in Arlt's fiction and the work of Jean Genet. Arlt's oeuvre has been read in relation to the turbulent political context of 1920s …
Perlongher, Poetics and Transvestism
White Rapper/Black Beats: Discovering a Race Problem in the Music of Gabriel o Pensador
From its roots in the West African griot tradition, slave call-and-response songs, soul, gospel, and disco music, through interactions at the cutting edge of technology, rap music has gained huge commercial and popular success world-wide. Rap, the combination of rhythmically delivered rhymes ("MC-ing") with variously adapted pre-recorded sounds ("DJ-ing") has risen from the Bronx ghetto to become a symbol of Black protest and economic power and h…
Africa under erasure: The North African travels of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Roberto Arlt
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada - by Pablo Neruda
White Rapper/Black Beats: Discovering a Race Problem in the Music of Gabriel o Pensador
From its roots in the West African griot tradition, slave call-and-response songs, soul, gospel, and disco music, through interactions at the cutting edge of technology, rap music has gained huge commercial and popular success world-wide. Rap, the combination of rhythmically delivered rhymes ("MC-ing") with variously adapted pre-recorded sounds ("DJ-ing") has risen from the Bronx ghetto to become a symbol of Black protest and economic power and h…
White Rapper/Black Beats: Discovering a Race Problem in the Music of Gabriel o Pensador
From its roots in the West African griot tradition, slave call-and-response songs, soul, gospel, and disco music, through interactions at the cutting edge of technology, rap music has gained huge commercial and popular success world-wide. Rap, the combination of rhythmically delivered rhymes ("MC-ing") with variously adapted pre-recorded sounds ("DJ-ing") has risen from the Bronx ghetto to become a symbol of Black protest and economic power and h…
Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma , or the Sad End of Party Politics in Belle Époque Brazil
Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma , or the Sad End of Party Politics in Belle Époque Brazil
This paper examines Lima Barreto's 1911 novel, a polemic work attacking the moral and political vacuity of turn-of the-century Brazilian life. The piece aims to discover the cause of the protagonist's downfall through an examination of his political, agricultural, and military exploits within the context of contemporary Brazil; is Quaresma a political visionary, a Brazilian Don Quixote, or a dangerous nationalist madman? The notion of madness in …
Evita ́ hablar de la pol L ́tica: Multiple Critical Readings of Ne ́stor Perlongher's Evita vive (en cada hotel organizado) 1
(2003). iEvita ́ hablar de la pol L ́tica!: Multiple Critical Readings of Ne ́stor Perlongher's Evita vive (en cada hotel organizado) 1. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 3-18
One or Several Betrayals? or, When is Betrayal Treason? Genet, Arlt and the Argentine Liberal Project
Betrayal is one of the key narrative tropes in the fiction of the Argentine writer Roberto Arlt. The psychological and existential implications of the betrayals found in novels such as El juguete rabioso (1926) and El amor brujo (1933) have attracted much critical comment, as have the links between the betrayals found in Arlt's fiction and the work of Jean Genet. Arlt's oeuvre has been read in relation to the turbulent political context of 1920s …
Perlongher, Poetics and Transvestism
Exiles and Nomads: Perlongher in Brazil
This paper seeks to explore the effect of exile on the work of the Argentine poet and anthropologist Néstor Perlongher. The writer fled Argentina for Brazil in the early 1980s after suffering police harassment and violence. In Argentina, his poems had criticized conservative notions of the nation, and proposed alternative desiring communities, or Temporary Autonomous Zones to use the term coined by Hakim Bey. In contrast, his poetry in Brazil det…
Violence without Reason: On Argentine Short Stories
Cuentos argentinos. Una antologia, Eduardo Hojman (Ed.), Madrid, Siruela, 2004, 304 pp, ISBN 84-7844-7784, (£17.95, pbk) The appearance of this prestigious and elegantly presented new anthology of
Now/here Is Everywhere: Exile And Cynicism In The Verse Of Osvaldo Lamborghini1
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada - by Pablo Neruda
Africa under erasure: The North African travels of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Roberto Arlt
Zeno's Tortoise: In quietude, velocity sleeps
Zeno’s Tortoise(In quietude, velocity sleeps) Eduardo Espina (bio) Translated by Ben Bollig Closed doors attract the outdoors. Trace traced on the centipede and a little of logos on the shelle. As it passes the parallels ponder goes the gust with a howling gale, goes so that life will not notice. The happy remorse of reason. A quickness as when the moon emerges whilst the thirst said don’t wait, said be of others, not of yourself, nor so much now…
The Reason for All Things: Lovers in love and over love
Raimondi-Vignoli-Cristina. Poetic Activism in Contemporary Argentina
After the emergence in Argentine in the 1980s of neobarroco or neobaroque poetry, and in the 1990s of a contrasting objetivista or objectivist aesthetic, commentators have written of "Boom" in poetry in the 2000s, the emergence or successful re-launching of young writers, notable anthologies, and new independent publishers. Many groups and poets use poetry as an integral part of their political activism. However, the aesthetic effects of such act…
‘El libro era una cosa que ocupaba espacio’ (Néstor Perlongher). Recent Works on Poetry, Publishing and Performance in the Southern Cone
El libro era una cosa que ocupaba espacio" (Néstor Perlongher).Recent Works on Poetry, Publishing and Performance in the Contemporary Southern Cone.On a 2014 trip to Argentina, I visited a number of bookshops.Buenos Aires, in particular, is renowned for its iconic stores: the Ateneo Gran Splendid, in a cavernous converted theatre; the elegant and trendsetting Eterna Cadencia, which also runs an influential publishing arm; or the once seminal, now…
Octavio Paz and T. S. Eliot: Modern Poetry and the Translation of Influence ‐ by Boll, Tom
Theories of Money in Argentine Crime Fiction
Much recent writing on crime fiction and on Latin-American crime fiction in particular has focused on the genre's potential for social and political critique. This article aims to examine the specific case of money in Argentine crime fiction. It argues that in a number of Argentine novels dealing with crime, money is more than just a leitmotif or theme: it is a character in itself. Money has a role to play, almost a certain protagonism which, in …
Argentina's presidential elections
On 22 November 2015, Mauricio Macri of the Cambiemos (Let’s Change) coalition defeated Daniel Scioli of the Frente para la Victoria (FpV, Victory Front) to become Argentina’s president. Macri is the first president to be elected in the country on a right-wing ticket since the introduction of universal suffrage in 1916. Menem, president from 1989 to 1999, oversaw structural adjustments and massive privatisations, but won office first as a left-win…
Textual Exposures: Photography in Twentieth-Century Spanish American Narrative Fiction - by Russek, Dan
Unreasonable doubt: Politics and aesthetics in the crime novels of Horacio Vázquez Rial
Horacio Vázquez Rial (Buenos Aires, 1947–Madrid, 2012) was an Argentine writer, historian and ex-militant in the Trotskyite Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People’s Revolutionary Army, or ERP). He left Argentina for Spain in the mid-1970s and became an outspoken critic of the Latin American left and in particular of the Kirchner and Fernández de Kirchner governments in the 2000s. He also penned a series of pioneering, neo-noir thrillers that …
«Muchas mujeres para las que no hubo justicia». «Cuentos de delitos» por tres escritoras argentinas
Ternura y Pathosformeln en la obra de Héctor Ciocchini
Este texto investiga la presencia de la ternura en la poesía y crítica del argentino Héctor Ciocchini. La ternura es un concepto clave por motivos generales y específicos. A pesar del «boom» en los estudios afectivos en las humanidades, se ha prestado muy poca atención a ella y, es más, la teoría vacila entre «emoción» y «afecto» al clasificarla. Parece conformar con los conceptos de la teoría de los afectos (en inglés affect theory) sobre lo imp…
‘Fantasies of Catastrophe’: Politics and Race in the Early Novels of Julio Cortázar
This paper examines politics and race in the early novels of Julio Cortázar - those written before Rayuela (1963), sometimes called his ‘Argentine trilogy’, and published after the author’s death. Despite Cortázar’s later public statements about the importance of an author’s engagement with politics, it is the analytical acumen in the realist aspects of these often fantastical novels, rather than a commitment to a stance, or a political message, …
Hard yards, vulnerable bodies: Tenderness in two recent prison films from Argentina and Chile
Prison literature from Latin America has been a topic of growing interest for literary scholars of and from the region in recent years. This reflects wider attention in cultural studies dedicated to ‘heterotopias’ or ‘other spaces’, while building on the work of sociologists who have studied prisons and prison reform in countries there. Less has been written, however, about films set in penitentiaries. Building on recent work (Podalksy) that exam…
Rethinking Tenderness in the Early Poetry of Juan Gelman
The poetry of Juan Gelman (1930–2014) is eminently suited to an edition of BSS that simultaneously celebrates a centenary of Hispanist research in the UK and attempts to survey the current state of the field. Gelman—poet, journalist and political activist—with an oeuvre that emerges from the socially engaged verse of the 1950s, engaging with Anglophone poetry, pseudonymous translations mysticism, and culminating in the Premio Cervantes 2007. An a…
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