Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Latin American Cyberliterature: From the Lettered City to the Creativity of its Citizens
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- I Cyberculture and Cybercommunities
- II Cyberliterature: Avatars and Aficionados
- 9 Posthumanism in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges
- 10 Julio Cortázar's Rayuela and the Challenges of Cyberliterature
- 11 Contemporary Brazilian Fiction: Between Screens and Printed Pages
- 12 Creative Processes in Hypermedia Literature: Single Purpose, Multiple Authors
- 13 Hypertext in Context: Space and Time in the Hypertext and Hypermedia Fictions of Blas Valdez and Doménico Chiappe
- 14 Virtual Bodies in Cyberspace: Guzik Glantz's Weblog
- A Cyberliterary Afterword: Of Blogs and Other Matters
- Conclusion: Latin American Identity and Cyberspace
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
13 - Hypertext in Context: Space and Time in the Hypertext and Hypermedia Fictions of Blas Valdez and Doménico Chiappe
from II - Cyberliterature: Avatars and Aficionados
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword: Latin American Cyberliterature: From the Lettered City to the Creativity of its Citizens
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- I Cyberculture and Cybercommunities
- II Cyberliterature: Avatars and Aficionados
- 9 Posthumanism in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges
- 10 Julio Cortázar's Rayuela and the Challenges of Cyberliterature
- 11 Contemporary Brazilian Fiction: Between Screens and Printed Pages
- 12 Creative Processes in Hypermedia Literature: Single Purpose, Multiple Authors
- 13 Hypertext in Context: Space and Time in the Hypertext and Hypermedia Fictions of Blas Valdez and Doménico Chiappe
- 14 Virtual Bodies in Cyberspace: Guzik Glantz's Weblog
- A Cyberliterary Afterword: Of Blogs and Other Matters
- Conclusion: Latin American Identity and Cyberspace
- Suggested Further Reading
- Index
Summary
And what is happening is that, rather than looking for its niche in the Enlightenment idea of culture, the audiovisual experience redefines culture in terms of the way we relate to reality; in other words, in terms of the transformations which it produces in our perception of space and time.
(Martín-Barbero 2000: 61)In the article cited above Jesús Martín-Barbero explores some of the key issues thrown up by the development of audiovisual, and, increasingly, digital culture as it pertains to Latin America. In particular he focuses on the question of space, exploring the relationship between cultural products and their ‘embeddedness’ in a given space such as the nation; and on that of time, examining how changes in the conceptualisation of time in new media may accommodate a distinctively Latin American perspective on history and narrative. What this chapter proposes to do is to test some of Martín-Barbero's arguments by applying them to two seminal works of Latin American hypertext fiction. As a by-product of this investigation, it intends to elucidate the ways in which such works may be seen to relate to and participate in the development of the canon of Latin American literature, placing particular emphasis on areas where hypertextual elements combine with and enhance Latin American cultural features. By way of a conclusion, this chapter will consider whether hypertext endangers Latin American culture by force-feeding ‘globalised’ cultural products to audiences in the region, leaving them adrift in global time and space, or whether it can perhaps offer a local, emancipatory, resistant solution to the more nefarious effects of globalisation on Latin American culture.
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- Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature , pp. 227 - 243Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007