Literature and Literary Theory, Visual Arts and Performing Arts
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Scopus Publications
Scopus Publications
ILHA DO DESTERRO Ilha do Desterro, 2026
FILM NARRATIVES CROSSING TIME AND SPACE IN THE AMERICAS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE OF LA JAULA DE ORO (2013) AND EL NORTE (1983); RIO (2011) AND THE THREE CABALLEROS (1944) Anelise Reich Corseuil Ilha do Desterro, 2022 The essay discusses how frequent migratory currents of certain narratives and ideas within the Americas have formed clusters of knowledge and stimulated audiences’ imagination about specific cultures or nations. The essay presents the process of narrative continuity and displacement in recent films about immigration and travel within the Americas, as they can be read in relation to earlier films on the same theme, La Jaula de Oro (Diego Queimada-Díez, 2013) vis à vis El Norte (Gregory Nava, 1983), and Rio (Carlos Saldanha, 2011) vis à vis The Three Caballeros (Walt Disney, 1944). La Jaula de Oro presents the same border crossing as El Norte, from Guatemala to Mexico to the USA, but thirty years apart, whereas in Rio the contemporary narrative of a migrating little blue macaw, Blu, who moves from the USA to Brazil, readdresses another culturally and politically invested symbolic icon from the mid-1940s and the good neighbor policy—a parrot named José Carioca, whose role in The Three Caballeros goes much beyond the frames of the film. The essay aims at an analysis of the narrative and aesthetic frameworks of the films and their ideological resonances and displacements in terms of American hemispheric relations.
Narratives that travel across space and time: The intertextuality of Eliza Lynch Anelise Reich Corseuil Nau Literaria, 2016 Resumo: Filmes contemporâneos sobre a viagem problematizam o conceito das fronteiras nacionais, as interrelações entre o público e o privado, e as formas narrativas utilizadas para representar os encontros inter-hemisféricos entre pessoas de diferentes raças e etnias. Os filmes podem ser vistos como leitura crítica de nossas economias globalizadas e seus deslocamentos atuais. Nesse contexto de produções culturais, pode-se situar o filme Eliza Lynch: a Rainha do Paraguay (2013) de Alan Gilsenan. O documentário dramático, que se pode definir como docudrama, sobre a vida de Eliza Alicia Lynch, retrata também as jornadas de Lynch no século XIX: da Irlanda a Paris, à Algéria, ao Paraguay, a Buenos Aires, e novamente a Paris. O presente trabalhoanalisa as formas como o filme Eliza Lynch: Rainha do Paraguay problematiza as diversas leituras realizadas sobre a vida de Eliza Lynch em suas relações com a nação Paraguaia e com Solano López.
 
 Palavras-chave: Eliza Lynch; Documentário; Guerra do Paraguai.
 
 Abstract: Contemporary films about travelling problematize the concept of the national frontiers, the interrelations between the private and the public, as well as the narrative forms used in the films themselves to convey hemispheric encounters among various peoples, as a form of critique of our own globalized economies and forms of dislocation. Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay (2013) directed by Alan Gilsenan, can be included within this context. Gilsenan’s film, which can be defined as a docudrama about Eliza Alicia Lynch´s life, is also a movie about the journeys Lynch had to endure in the nineteenth century: from Ireland to Paris, to Algeria, to Paraguay, to Buenos Aires, and back to Paris again. This paper analyzes how Gilsenan´s film problematizes the various readings of Eliza Lynch´s life and travels and her relation with the Paraguayan nation and Solano López.
 
 Keywords: Eliza Lynch; Documentary; War of Paraguay
