{"id":713,"date":"2024-05-04T10:48:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/?p=713"},"modified":"2024-05-20T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T00:48:17","slug":"leyendo-liliana-colanzi-entrada-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/hispanic-studies-3257-spring-2024\/country\/bolivia\/leyendo-liliana-colanzi-entrada-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Leyendo a Liliana Colanzi: Entrada #1"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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La Cueva<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cLa Cueva\u201d es un cuento con varias tramas que se conectan no con un tema singular, sino con el lugar de la cueva. El cuento abre con una descripci\u00f3n asquerosa de un conejo muerto. Esto nos introduce a un rasgo de violencia que es recurrente a lo largo del cuento. La protagonista del primer cap\u00edtulo est\u00e1 embarazada y no se sabe de qui\u00e9n. En su momento de parir experimenta bastante dolor, y piensa en las generaciones de mujeres anteriores que han sentido este dolor, \u201cvio a su madre de cuclillas, expulsando en el suelo cr\u00edas flacas y azuladas que invariablemente mor\u00edan a los pocos d\u00edas\u201d (16). El dolor y la p\u00e9rdida sirven como v\u00ednculo, conecta<\/span>n<\/span>do la experiencia de ser mujer. El proceso de dar a luz se describe como algo muy violento y los beb\u00e9s se caracterizan como casi inhumanos. Por ejemplo, la narradora describe a su primera cr\u00eda como \u201cuna salamandra h\u00fameda.\u201d Despu\u00e9s de parir dos beb\u00e9s la protagonista describe su mala suerte de tener dos beb\u00e9s, con la necesidad de darles para comer. Luego, la protagonista examina a sus beb\u00e9s de manera casi cient\u00edfica, describiendo que son \u201ctransl\u00facidas, cubiertas en un vello fin\u00edsimo\u201d (17). Podemos notar por el uso de palabras femeninas que las cr\u00edas son ni\u00f1as. Es una decisi\u00f3n muy importante por parte del autor solo mencionar a personajes femeninas dentro de este primer cap\u00edtulo, aunque el cuento todav\u00eda alude a las dificultades de ser mujer en un mundo patriarcal. Al final, la protagonista mata a sus beb\u00e9s y deja los cuerpos dentro de la cueva. Este primer cap\u00edtulo del cuento capt\u00f3 mi atenci\u00f3n con su contenido chocante y descripciones violentas de las condiciones de la vida humana, y en particular la vida de las mujeres. Continuando con el tema de la vida de las mujeres desde otra perspectiva, el segundo cap\u00edtulo trata de una joven que se detiene en la cueva de camino a casa, y cuando vuelve a su casa es asesinada por su novio. Los cap\u00edtulos tres y cuarto hablan de la vida natural y los murci\u00e9lagos que viven en la cueva. El cap\u00edtulo cinco trata de unos j\u00f3venes enamorados que vienen a la cueva para intentar fugarse juntos de sus familias enemigas, pero de repente la mujer se casa con un hombre de su pueblo. A\u00f1os despu\u00e9s ella vuelve a la cueva y piensa en su amor de juventud. Colanzi juega con el tiempo, conectando lo que el lector puede presumir son distintas \u00e9pocas con un lugar singular. La cueva parece un s\u00edmbolo del ciclo de la vida. A lo largo de los diferentes cap\u00edtulos ocurren nacimientos, muertes, principios y finales. Aunque el lector tiene solo un tiempo corto con cada personaje, la cueva sigue existiendo como testigo de la experiencia humana. En conclusi\u00f3n, en solo diez p\u00e1ginas Colanzi entreteje varias tramas para comentar no solo sobre el tema del g\u00e9nero y de las dificultades de ser mujer, pero tambi\u00e9n el tema de la interacci\u00f3n de los ser<\/span>es<\/span> humanos con el mundo natural.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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“La Cueva” is a story with multiple interconnected plots revolving around a singular theme\u2014the cave. The story opens with a gruesome description of a dead rabbit. This introduces a thread of violence that recurs throughout the narrative. The protagonist of the first chapter is pregnant, and it is unclear who the father is. During her moment of giving birth, she experiences considerable pain and reflects on the generations of women before her who have felt this pain, “she saw her mother squatting, expelling thin, bluish offspring onto the ground, which invariably died within a few days” (16). Pain and loss serve as a bond, connecting the experience of womanhood. The process of giving birth is described as highly violent, and the babies are depicted as almost inhuman. For instance, the narrator describes her first offspring as “a wet salamander.” After giving birth to two babies, the protagonist laments her misfortune of having two infants, with the need to feed them. Later, the protagonist examines her babies in an almost scientific manner, describing them as “translucent, covered in fine hair” (17). We can infer from the use of feminine words that the offspring are female. It is a significant decision by the author to only mention female characters within this first chapter, although the story still alludes to the difficulties of being a woman in a patriarchal world. In the end, the protagonist kills her babies and leaves their bodies inside the cave. This first chapter of the story captured my attention with its shocking content and violent descriptions of the conditions of human life, particularly women’s lives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Continuing the theme of women’s lives from another perspective, the second chapter tells of a young woman who stops at the cave on her way home and is subsequently murdered by her boyfriend when she returns home. The third and fourth chapters discuss natural life and the bats that inhabit the cave. The fifth chapter involves young lovers who come to the cave to try to elope from their feuding families, but the woman suddenly marries a man from her village. Years later, she returns to the cave and thinks of her youthful love. Colanzi plays with time, connecting what the reader can presume are different eras with a singular place. The cave seems to symbolize the cycle of life. Throughout the different chapters, births, deaths, beginnings, and endings occur. Although the reader spends only a short time with each character, the cave continues to exist as a witness to the human experience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In conclusion, in just ten pages, Colanzi weaves multiple plots to comment not only on the theme of gender and the difficulties of being a woman but also on the theme of human interaction with the natural world.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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