Theatrical inauguration of a parallax view: intertextually - mediated communal memory in Borges’s “Tema del traidor y del héroe”
This article analyzes the mediation of historical events in “Tema del traidor y del héroe” by Jorge Luis Borges, wherein decisive revolutionary successes are the results of a staged performance—the dramatized execution of independence leader Fergus Kilpatrick. Bymixing theater and history, Borges ov...
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DIALOGOS220122021-11-03T17:45:26Z Theatrical inauguration of a parallax view: intertextually - mediated communal memory in Borges’s “Tema del traidor y del héroe” Bahena Urióstegui, Mario historical mediation parallax view literature and history representation This article analyzes the mediation of historical events in “Tema del traidor y del héroe” by Jorge Luis Borges, wherein decisive revolutionary successes are the results of a staged performance—the dramatized execution of independence leader Fergus Kilpatrick. Bymixing theater and history, Borges overcomes historical representation in terms of the binaries true/false and real/fiction. This article argues that the historical reality initiated by this performance is the result of an incessant literary mediation. Literature, specifically Festspiele and Shakespearean plays, helped establish a parallax view of the historical events and became the vehicle to validate them as ontological reality. Thus, the historical events, performed or otherwise, are inherently accompanied by literature, having the latter enlighten the former.When Ryan, the main character, discovers the historical theatricality, he also discovers that he cannot change the social significance of the historical events, and himself becomes a part of the historical narrative. Universidad de Costa Rica 2015-11-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Contribution application/pdf text/html https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/view/22012 10.15517/dre.v0i0.22012 Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia; Vol. 16 (2015): Special Volume: Memory, Narrative and Rites in Latin America; 147-162 Diálogos. Revista Electrónica de Historia; Vol. 16 (2015): Volumen Especial: Memoria, Narrativa y Ritos en América Latina; 147-162 Diálogos; Vol. 16 (2015): Volumen Especial: Memoria, Narrativa y Ritos en América Latina; 147-162 1409-469X 2215-3292 spa https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/view/22012/22193 https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/dialogos/article/view/22012/22204 Derechos de autor 2015 Diálogos Revista Electrónica |
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This article analyzes the mediation of historical events in “Tema del traidor y del héroe” by Jorge Luis Borges, wherein decisive revolutionary successes are the results of a staged performance—the dramatized execution of independence leader Fergus Kilpatrick. Bymixing theater and history, Borges overcomes historical representation in terms of the binaries true/false and real/fiction. This article argues that the historical reality initiated by this performance is the result of an incessant literary mediation. Literature, specifically Festspiele and Shakespearean plays, helped establish a parallax view of the historical events and became the vehicle to validate them as ontological reality. Thus, the historical events, performed or otherwise, are inherently accompanied by literature, having the latter enlighten the former.When Ryan, the main character, discovers the historical theatricality, he also discovers that he cannot change the social significance of the historical events, and himself becomes a part of the historical narrative. |
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Theatrical inauguration of a parallax view: intertextually - mediated communal memory in Borges’s “Tema del traidor y del héroe” |
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