May 25, 2022
BENENGELI 2022 THE LARGEST SPANISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE FEST IN THE WORLD
Fri Jun 10 2022 at 06:00
pm Instituto Cervantes, 31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654, EE. UU., Chicago,
United States
INSTITUTO CERVANTES CHICAGO
PRESENTS THE CLOSING ROUND TABLE OF THIS WORLDWIDE EVENT. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN
THE WRITERS MIGUEL GOMES AND FREDERICK DE ARMAS MODERATED BY ROCÍO FERREIRA
Instituto Cervantes in Chicago
is proud to announce that it will be part of the worldwide literary festival
Benengeli 2022 which will take place from 6th to the 10th of June in the five
continents with more than 40 Spanish English and French writers offering their
reflections on the theme of realism.
The Instituto Cervantes in Spain as part of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on a worldwide literary festival that promotes Spanish literature Benengeli 2022 the International Week of Spanish Literature. Benengeli 2022 will be jointly hosted at the centres of Instituto Cervantes in Chicago (North America) Toulouse (Europe) Casablanca (Africa) New Delhi (Asia) and Sydney (Australia). The central theme of Benengeli 2022 is realism.
Benengeli 2022 closing event at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago on June 10th at 6 pm with the Miguel Gomes conversing with Frederick de Armas about narrative fictions in the 21st century and the weight that realistic aesthetics. Rocío Ferreira will act as moderator of this remarkable event.
Miguel Gomes is a storyteller born in Caracas in 1964. He studied at the University of Coimbra in Portugal and at the Central University of Venezuela. He later obtained a doctorate at Stony Brook University in New York. Since 1989 he has lived in the United States where he works as a graduate professor at the University of Connecticut. Among his titles are the novels Llévame esta noche Retrato de un caballero and Ante el jurado; books of short stories La cueva de Altamira Un fantasma portugués and Julieta en su castillo; and volumes of criticism and essays El pozo de las palabras Los géneros literarios en Hispanoamérica and La realidad y el valor estético: configuraciones del poder en el ensayo hispanoamericano.
https://languages.uconn.edu/person/miguel-gomes/
Frederick de Armas received
his PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina. He has
published novels El abra de Yamurí and Sinfonía Salvaje as well as several
critical essays including “El retorno de Astrea: Astrología mito e imperio en
Calderón” “La astrología en el teatro clásico europeo” and “Cervantes'
Architectures: The Danger Outside.” He has served as president of the Cervantes
Society of America and the International Association Siglo de Oro (AISO). He
currently holds the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at the University of Chicago.
https://rll.uchicago.edu/frederick-de-armas
Rocío Ferreira
https://las.depaul.edu/academics/modern-languages/faculty/spanish/Pages/rocio-ferreira.aspx
Rocío Ferreira is Associate
Professor of Latin American literature culture and cinema and Chair of the
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at DePaul University in Chicago. She
earned a doctorate in Latin American literature and in Women’s Gender and
Sexualities Studies from the University of California Berkeley. She specializes
in nineteenth-century and contemporary literary and visual culture written by
women. Her areas of research are foundational narratives and journalism of the
19th century war literature (XIX-XXI) and contemporary issues related to the
configurations of memory in literature culture and cinema. She has participated
in numerous international congresses has published critical articles in
specialized books and scholarly journals and critical editions in addition to
her monograph De las Veladas literarias a la Cocina ecléctica: mujeres cultura
y nación en el Perú decimonónico. She is currently writing a new book on women
writing on the Peruvian internal armed conflict entitled Las mujeres disparan:
Imágenes y poéticas de la violencia política (1980-2000) en la cultura
literaria y visual peruana contemporánea.
Voices of great aesthetic power such as those of Piedad Bonnet (Colombia) Katya Adaui (Peru) Magela Baudoin (Bolivia) Carlos Cortés Zúñiga (Costa Rica); Selva Almada (Argentina) Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Venezuela) Evelio Rosero (Colombia) Fernanda Trías (Uruguay) Vicente Luis Mora (Spain) Mayra Santos Febres (Puerto Rico) Carlos Franz (Chile) Ronaldo Menéndez (Cuba) Pedro Crenes (Panama) Antonio José Ponte (Cuba) Santiago Gil (Spain) and Jacinta Escudos (El Salvador) will present the elements that constitute the axis of their work and the relationship of love distance or rejection that each one of them experiences in front of the realistic discourse that seems to define a good part of the universal narrative of this moment of the 21st century.
Outstanding narrators such as
Valeria Correa Fiz (Argentina) David Toscana (Mexico) and Spaniards Juana
Salabert Daniel Gascón Bárbara Mingo Costales and José Ovejero will talk about
their most recent books; titles that constitute a living landscape on the
fictional recreation that marks current times.
Impossible to forget the
presence of the Lima writer Fernando Iwasaki who will offer small spoken
portraits on the play with reality that authors belonging to various traditions
and territories and who have adopted or maintained Spanish as their artistic
language make. We will thus get to know the work of Siu Kam Wen Fabio Morabito
Ioana Gruia Kalman Barsy and Mónika Zgustova.
As the dialogue between diverse literary
traditions is one of the main attempts of Benengeli 2022 the activities will
also include the presence of writers such as Lydie Salvayre (France); Ken Bugul
(Senegal) Andrew Pippos (Australia) Félix Calviño (Spain/Australia) and Geetanjali
Shree (India).
Benengeli 2022 an initiative
of the Cervantes Institute whose curator is writer Nicolas Melini has the
support of institutions and cultural entities from Buenos Aires Lima La Paz
Bogota Caracas San Jose de Costa Rica San Juan de Puerto Rico Panama City Las
Palmas de Gran Canaria Santa Cruz de La Palma Seville and Madrid.
Between June 6 and 10 in
addition to the on-site activities in each of the five cities of Benengeli 2022
the virtual programming of this festival will be available through the
Instituto Cervantes in in Sydney New Delhi Toulouse Dakar and Chicago You Tube
channels the Podcast channel of the Cervantes Institute and through the
following link: https://cvc.cervantes.es/benengeli22/. As mentioned at the
beginning of this information the content will be available not only in Spanish
but also in dubbed or subtitled versions in English.
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