Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World.
Ultimately, The Resilient Apocalypse traces a compelling narrative theory of unfulfilled promise that forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self during intervals of fear..
By bracketing the finality of the End and proposing a tension between conflict archaeology and the transcendence of opposition through renovation, salvation or hope, this study reveals how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimizing each other.
In the works of Beato de Liebana, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Cirilo Villaverde, Cristina Garcia, Martin Kohan, Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, Santiago Roncagliolo, Alfonso Cuaron, etc., rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews and arrive at sustainable plans of action for negotiating the afterward.
When the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to impose social justice, salvation and reason, it paradoxically introduces future hope against itself.
It reformulates an incomplete, mythical, and uncanny narrative into a poetics of resistance with communal solutions and obligations.
This study argues for a strategy that listens to and keeps the enemy in sight and in mind, a method for grappling with and engaging difference by decolonizing the politics of the End.
The Resilient Apocalypse ironically performs as both an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance).
Whether revealed through gilded illustrations, messianic chronicles, poetry, Baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality and spirituality in film or intimidating immigrant photos, apocalyptic examples explode notions of final moments.
Here analysis explores Resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America, Spain and Latin@ communities in the US.
By redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, the Apocalypse suggests bewildering complexities as it trains its lens on New Beginnings.
This investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities when images remain unfulfilled in a proscribed End.
Apocalyptic nightmares, frightful images of chaos and death are inclusive and interrelated, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality (never seen or experienced before, the mother of all battles, I am the only one who can fix it).
Portraits of good battling evil in the geography of hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World
