The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás

This article aims at analyzing how the film Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás (2008) deconstructs foundational fictions of the Argentine pampa as a desert both in geopolitical and geopoetical terms. Such a view is developed, instead of being based on the figuration of the pampa as a desert...

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Autor principal: Dünne, Jörg
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Publicado: Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras 2022
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River Movie
(Un)Founding Fictions
Desert
Flooding
Novel of Adventures
película fluvial
ficciones (des)fundacionales
desierto
inundación
novela de aventuras
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spelling I10-R333-article-397612022-12-19T12:37:06Z The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás El río como dios de la llanura. Acerca de la poética fluvial en Historias extraordinarias de Mariano Llinás Dünne, Jörg River Movie (Un)Founding Fictions Desert Flooding Novel of Adventures película fluvial ficciones (des)fundacionales desierto inundación novela de aventuras This article aims at analyzing how the film Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás (2008) deconstructs foundational fictions of the Argentine pampa as a desert both in geopolitical and geopoetical terms. Such a view is developed, instead of being based on the figuration of the pampa as a desert, from a liminal fluvial landscape, a transitional space between the aquatic and the terrestrial. Llinás questions not only the project of the construction of fluvial canals as a "straight line to progress", inspired by a vision of the civilizing process as expressed by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Starting from the literary model of the European novel of adventures, whose classic features can be found, for example, in the representation of the Argentine pampas as a flooded space in novels by Daniel Defoe and Jules Verne, Llinás also subverts the traditional narrative model of the adventure plot that grants agency exclusively to human actors. In the episode that has as its central event the flooding of the Salado River in the story of H and César, Historias extraordinarias develops an alternative poetics that sees in the river and its uncontrollable dynamics the true central actor, the "god of our plain," as Llinás himself describes it in a note to the film’s script. El presente artículo se propone analizar cómo la película Historias extraordinarias de Mariano Llinás (2008) deconstruye ficciones fundacionales de la pampa argentina como desierto tanto en el plano geopolítico como en el plano geopoético. Tal visión se desarrolla, a diferencia de la figuración de la pampa como desierto, a partir de un paisaje fluvial de carácter liminal, un espacio transicional entre lo acuático y lo terrestre. Llinás no solo cuestiona el proyecto de la construcción de canales fluviales como “línea recta hacia el progreso”, inspirado en una visión sarmientina del proceso civilizatorio. A partir del modelo literario de la novela europea de aventuras, cuyos rasgos clásicos se encuentran, por ejemplo, en la representación de la pampa argentina como espacio inundado en novelas de Daniel Defoe y Jules Verne, Llinás subvierte también la tradicional trama de aventuras que concede agencialidad exclusivamente a actores humanos. En el episodio que tiene como evento central la inundación del río Salado en la historia de H y de César, Historias extraordinarias desarrolla una poética alternativa que ve en el río y sus dinámicas incontrolables el verdadero actor central, el “dios de nuestra llanura”, como lo describe el propio Llinás en una nota al guion de la película. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras 2022-12-19 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/39761 Heterotopías; Vol. 5 No. 10 (2022): River matter. Aesthetic-political configurations of American watersheds.; 112-127 Heterotopías; Vol. 5 Núm. 10 (2022): Materia fluvial. Configuraciones estético-políticas de las cuencas de América; 112-127 2618-2726 spa https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/39761/39891 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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topic River Movie
(Un)Founding Fictions
Desert
Flooding
Novel of Adventures
película fluvial
ficciones (des)fundacionales
desierto
inundación
novela de aventuras
spellingShingle River Movie
(Un)Founding Fictions
Desert
Flooding
Novel of Adventures
película fluvial
ficciones (des)fundacionales
desierto
inundación
novela de aventuras
Dünne, Jörg
The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás
topic_facet River Movie
(Un)Founding Fictions
Desert
Flooding
Novel of Adventures
película fluvial
ficciones (des)fundacionales
desierto
inundación
novela de aventuras
author Dünne, Jörg
author_facet Dünne, Jörg
author_sort Dünne, Jörg
title The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás
title_short The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás
title_full The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás
title_fullStr The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás
title_full_unstemmed The River as God of the Plains. On the Fluvial Poetics of Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás
title_sort river as god of the plains. on the fluvial poetics of historias extraordinarias by mariano llinás
description This article aims at analyzing how the film Historias extraordinarias by Mariano Llinás (2008) deconstructs foundational fictions of the Argentine pampa as a desert both in geopolitical and geopoetical terms. Such a view is developed, instead of being based on the figuration of the pampa as a desert, from a liminal fluvial landscape, a transitional space between the aquatic and the terrestrial. Llinás questions not only the project of the construction of fluvial canals as a "straight line to progress", inspired by a vision of the civilizing process as expressed by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento. Starting from the literary model of the European novel of adventures, whose classic features can be found, for example, in the representation of the Argentine pampas as a flooded space in novels by Daniel Defoe and Jules Verne, Llinás also subverts the traditional narrative model of the adventure plot that grants agency exclusively to human actors. In the episode that has as its central event the flooding of the Salado River in the story of H and César, Historias extraordinarias develops an alternative poetics that sees in the river and its uncontrollable dynamics the true central actor, the "god of our plain," as Llinás himself describes it in a note to the film’s script.
publisher Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Letras
publishDate 2022
url https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/heterotopias/article/view/39761
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