Revista Fuentes Humanísticas

Presentación. Diálogos en movimiento

Alejandro Gerardo Ortiz Bullé-Goyri, Antonio Durán Ruíz — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

Art as Poetic Logos: Resistance to the Dominant Discourse

Gustavo García Conde — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The text explores the concept of Poetic logos as a form of symbolic resistance against institutionalized power discourses embedded in language. Drawing on the ideas of Bolívar Echeverría and María Zambrano, it argues that art, understood as a Poetic logos, reconfigures meanings and reclaims its emancipatory and critical potential within the social construction of discourse.

Maps of Thought in Literary Cartographies: A Dialogical Relationship Between Text and Its Context

Diana Erika Cruz Jiménez — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

This text ponders on the relationship between the intellectual training of the authors and the impact it has on their work; highlighting that literary Works are written not only to reflect the historical, social and intellectual influences of the time in which they were created, but also the academic training that their authors had.

The article seeks to make literature visible as a cross-border space that connects various disciplines of knowledge, overcoming the barriers between them to offer a comprehensive understanding of reality. The literary work is presented as a legacy that documents not only facts and events, but also the authors' processes of interpretation and understanding of their world.

Latin American cities: narration and description

Carmen Fernández Galán Montemayor — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The history of Latin American cities and its transformations could be written from the scientific and artistic representations. Narration and description are combined in travelers' stories, cartographies, chronicles and dialogues between different disciplines that try to explain the complex reality of Latin America. The models of the city and the American utopias continue to be rewritten from literature. The following is an attempt to recover the traditional discursive genres of description of Latin American cities and the current perspectives of study.

River, Myth, and Poetics in Chiapas

Rafael Araujo González — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

This article explores the river as a motif in creative writing. It focuses on the poetic use of water's flow, examining: first, its role in the Chiapas poetic tradition, and second, its function as a discursive image representing concepts beyond the river itself. In both instances, however, mythological significance remains integral to everyday life.

The wild state in the myticism of Michel Hulin

José Filadelfo García Gutiérrez — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The following essay reflexively develops the main characteristics that Michel Hulin attributes to the wil state of myticism proposed in his work La mística salvaje. En los antipodas del espíritu. After the analysis of these characteristics, it is propitiously observed that the concept or wild state of Hulin’s mysticism still remains within the parameters of the civilized.

The Mexican Musical Revue Theater and its Contributions to Popular Music

Alejandro Gerardo Ortiz Bullé-Goyri — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

This article explores the relationships between Mexican revue theater and the production and dissemination of popular songs during the first half of the twentieth century. It examines how these songs, originating on the theatrical stage, became part of the country's musical repertoire through radio broadcasting and social events.

The Humanization of Wild Beasts, or The Fable of Fray Matías de Córdova

Antonio Durán Ruiz, José Martínez Torres — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

This article analyzes a significant poem by the Dominican friar Matías de Córdova, positioning it within the classic literature of fables. It highlights key characteristics and values of the genre, such as intelligence and kindness. The article then provides a transcription of the original poem, adapted with updated spelling.

Among Mists of Dream, Verboids, and a Mirror: Xavier Villaurrutia's "Nocturno de la Estatua"

Enrique López Aguilar — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

This essay explores the relationship between Xavier Villaurrutia and Agustín Lazo to analyze "Nocturno de la estatua". The oneiric and surreal poem uses verboids and repetitions to create an ethereal, timeless atmosphere. It discusses possible interpretations of the statue, such as the poet's feminine side or Death, and analyzes the poem's final dilogy.

The Chieftainess of Arauca

Vicente Francisco Torres Medina — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

If Facundo and La vorágine have been the works that, traditionally, inaugurate the topic of civilization and barbarism in Latin American narrative, this article goes a little further back, to the publication, in 1920, of El último de los Solar, where Rómulo Gallegos has, in agraz, the development of the subject. It also deals with the vicissitudes that surrounded the appearance of Doña Bárbara and the way in which her importance was assessed with the passage of time.

The image of the horse as an interdisciplinary link between art, history and literature

María del Carmen Rivero Quinto — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The article offers an interdisciplinary reflextion divided in two parts. One, the study of the image of the horse as a literary motive in Huesos de lagartija, Federico Navarrete's novel, and Álvaro Enrigue's Tu sueño imperios han sido along with some historical references. The othes one studies the representation of the horse in José Clemente Orozco's paintings Los Teules, in La fusión de dos culturas, Jorge González Camarena's painting, and Vangelis' musical theme "Moxica and The Horse".

Modo indicativo, salvación y ethos. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner y la retórica de la certeza

Elina Alejandra Giménez, Graciela Barbieri, Verónica Norma Mailhes — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The purpose of this article is to show how the former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner constructs, in the first speech she delivers after the attack of which she was a victim on September 1, 2022, an ethos, an image of herself, supported by certainty that she was saved from death thanks to divine intervention of God and the Virgin.

Homosexuality in Tunisia: The Dialectic Between Desired Inclusion and Lived Exclusion

Wiem Messaoudi — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0600

This article explores the complex relationship between the desire for inclusion and the experience of exclusion faced by homosexual individuals in Tunisia, within a context of cultural, religious, and political tensions. It examines how the current legal framework, conservative religious interpretations, and strong social pressures contribute to the persistent marginalization of this community. These restrictive dynamics significantly limit access to essential opportunities in areas such as family life, education, employment, and the healthcare system. Furthermore, the crucial role of Tunisian organizations like Shams will be highlighted, as they tirelessly work in the defense of human rights and the promotion of equality. These organizations not only provide direct support to those affected but also play a fundamental role in raising social awareness and advocating for legal reforms aimed at ensuring greater inclusion and protection of the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community in Tunisia.

Galería de títeres de Pita Amor: la sociedad mexicana en los años 50

Cecilia Colón Hernández — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0600

The Present belongs to them. Female rock bands in Mexico (2000-2022). Critical review

Jairo de Jesús López Flores — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 -0600

This work addresses the current boom in female-only musical groups. Thus, the book written by Raúl Heliodoro Torres Medina is a proactive and innovative historiographic exercise in solving the thematic gap regarding female representation in this musical genre, as well as rock studies in the 21st century.

Las alas de la libertad: Una mirada cinematográfica a la esencia de la liberta

María Concepción Huarte Trujillo — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600