Revista Pucara

A note on Ulrich Beck’s The metamorphosis of the world

Luisa Alejandrina Pillacela-Chin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Word, creativity, and ChatGPT: the truth about lies

Manuel Villavicencio-Quinde — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A flock inhaling the dew (Fragments)

Agustín Molina Arévalo — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Next week

Yimaldi André Marrero — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Bangladesh and the conflict with Christian minorities

Manuel Oswaldo Suin Guaraca, Tatiana Cabrera Mogrovejo — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The religious conflict in Bangladesh has severely impacted the Christian minority, which represents just 0.5% of the population. Although the country’s constitution promotes religious equality, the reality shows severe discrimination and persecution against Christians. Since Islam was declared the official religion in 1988, polarization has intensified, exacerbated by the rise of radical Islamist groups. Conversion to Christianity is seen as a cultural betrayal, which has led to social marginalization, employment difficulties, and physical attacks. During political and social crises, such as the Rohingya refugee crisis in 2017 and the uprisings in 2024, attacks against Christians increased, including looting, home destruction, and death threats. Despite these challenges, the Christian community has played a key role in education and social assistance, promoting development and literacy. However, religious intolerance remains a structural problem in Bangladesh.

Fiebre de carnaval and “traces”: a poetics of dwelling on the coast

Andrea Torres-Armas — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper explores the creation of a poetics of living through the analysis of Ortiz Ruano’s narrative language in Carnival Fever and “Indicios,” texts that depict Esmeraldas in the 1990s—a coastal territory historically framed as an “extractive zone.” How does childhood serve as a lens for reconfiguring place, subjectivity, and belonging in this context? “To speak is to make an insular territory,” Ortiz Ruano asserts, a notion that invites an exploration of insularity as a mode of inhabiting and narrating space. This study examines how a sound geography emerges—an affective and liquid ecosystem where tragedy, violence, and festivity intertwine. Through this lens, childhood is positioned as a site of resistance, capable of unsettling dominant visual and narrative frames. Finally, the text proposes the formation of a body-territory, anchored in the racialized female body, as a spatial and poetic configuration of place.

I tú: Cecilia Vicuña or the poetics of the broken language

Néstor Fernando Prieto Rojas — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This essay proposes a linguistic analysis of Cecilia Vicuña’s poetry collection I tú (2004) in order to explore how linguistic fragmentation, nomadism, and hybridity constitute a poetics that resignifies the notion of the “broken language” as a space for creation and resistance. It examines how the inherent limitations of fragmentary language are transfigured into a performative act that challenges and reconfigures traditional notions of linguistic and cultural identity in border contexts. Furthermore, it proposes conceptualizing the “broken language” as both a metaphor and an epistemological tool for rethinking the role of language in exilic and nomadic experiences. The analysis articulates the concepts of precariousness, hybridity, and nomadism present in Vicuña’s work, proposing a theoretical model for understanding the border language as an identity in constant transformation.

Cuando los muertos hablan: la fragmentación en El material humano de Rey Rosa

Estalin Calle Herrera — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the following text, the novel El material humano, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (1958), has been taken as an object of study. The objective is to argue about the structure of both the novel (archive /diary) and the language used. Thus, fragmentation in the novel is a stylistic resource, because the aim is to reflect the puzzle of historical memory completed from the memories of the dead. Here, then, clippings of experiences of citizens, actors and those involved in stories of disappearance, kidnapping, murder, and political persecution are heard and read. This recognition of the value of each particularity, experience, voice, fear allows us to reconstruct the events that, in general, are foreseen, but without certainty. For this approach, interpretive and structural reading has been applied, which according to Ricœur (2006) is based on a conjecture and has been validated with the references of the same text analyzed.

Certum est quia impossibile est. From Hyperrealism of José Manuel Cajal

Leopoldo Tillería Aqueveque — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The hyperrealism of the contemporary Spanish painter José Manuel Cajal is confronted with Jean Baudrillard’s theory of seduction, based on the analysis of two of his paintings, Rembrandtplein and Russells Square. Using the single case method, it is concluded that Rembrandtplein shows the illusion of seduction with some patience. And this, because the oil seems to extinguish its logos, the result precisely of its mimetic perfection. In Russells Square, on the other hand, the viewer has no choice but to recognize a 0 mimesis, that is, a primitive fascination with the game, as if it were, for example, the Squid game.