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NOVOHISPÁNSKE FORMY SYKRETIZMU AKO INTERPRETAČNÝ KĽÚČ K “MEXICKOSTI”

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Kučerková M.

World Literature Studies

2012

vol. 4 (21)

issue 2

53 – 66

The article describes two forms of cultural and religious syncretism and their artistic expression in the viceroyalty of New Spain, developed in the 17th century, where the Mexican national identity began to constitute itself. The first expression of syncretism under survey is the Marian cult of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe, initiated in the 16th century with the painting Our Lady of Guadalupe, while its meaning is illuminated by the 16th century narrative Nican Mopohua, emerging form the Indian literary traditions. The study attempts to point out their connections on the level of both form and content, which inspire an interpretation of the cult from the point of view of syncretic transformations and particularly through the prism of its Mestizo essence. The second expression of syncretism is the work of the notable Baroque author Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the Eucharist drama Divine Narcissus and its Prologue. The work presents an image of cultural and literary Mestizism in the wider historical context of the Creole society of New Spain, as reflected especially in the author´s thematization of America ś pre-Christian legacy and pagan mythology in conjunction with Christianity. In conclusion, the article opens space for thinking about what we call liberating spirituality, understood as the product of the co-existence of the European and indigenous American cultures. Its main idea is the liberation from neutrality and indifference and return to a focus on the oppressed and marginalized. These are the values that draw various groups to the cult of Our Lady of Guadalupe as well as the work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in the 20th century.

VNÚTORNÉ OBRAZY U KRESŤANSKÝCH MYSTIKOV. LITERÁRNO-SÉMANTICKÁ CHARAKTERISTIKA

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Kučerková M., Režná M.

World Literature Studies

2014

vol. 6 (23)

issue 1

3 – 20

The study offers a literary-semantic characteristic of the interior image in the writings of Christian or Roman Catholic mystics. The start point are several poetics which, from the point of view of literary-historical and cultural development, hold a relevant position their national literatures, but at the same time take part in the formation of a supra-national, universal, artistic mystical language, demonstrating – as seen in religionist approaches (e.g., M. Eliade) – several parallel and interior relations with mystical experiences in other religions. We understand the interior image as an image created in the consciousness of the mystic during a contemplative state and which the author later seeks to express in his work through language in a way that would preserve the semantic-value identity of the “seen”. It is the result of a so-called imaginative vision, and therefore has an analogic character: it is impossible to decode it literally, straightforwardly or without the knowledge of symbolic-connotative paradigm of Christianity and its imagination of the world.

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NOVOHISPÁNSKE FORMY SYKRETIZMU AKO INTERPRETAČNÝ KĽÚČ K “MEXICKOSTI”

VNÚTORNÉ OBRAZY U KRESŤANSKÝCH MYSTIKOV. LITERÁRNO-SÉMANTICKÁ CHARAKTERISTIKA