Real-life and Fictional Chronologies: on building a set of timelines around René Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves

Laura Vargas Zuleta

Real-life and Fictional Chronologies: on building a set of timelines around René Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves

Título traducido de la contribución: Cronologías de la vida real y ficticias: sobre la construcción de un conjunto de líneas de tiempo en torno a Hadriana dans tous mes rêves de René Depestre

Laura Vargas Zuleta

Duke University

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En este ensayo exploro las conexiones entre la literatura y los documentos históricos a través de una serie de líneas de tiempo digitales que creé en torno a la novela Hadriana dans tous mes rêves (1988), del escritor haitiano René Depestre. Como parte del club de lectura y exposición de arte In All My Dreams organizado por los profesores Kaiama L. Glover y Laurent Dubois en Hadriana, mi proyecto digital propone una forma interactiva para que los lectores tengan una idea de la novela al contrastar los eventos del libro con los históricos. Centrándome en los años que cubre la novela y aquellos en los que Depestre la escribió, utilicé el archivo de la Biblioteca Digital del Caribe (dLOC) del periódico haitiano Le Nouvelliste y seleccioné un grupo de noticias sobre Jacmel (la ciudad donde se desarrolla la historia). y al propio Depestre para incluirlo en mi proyecto. Seleccioné las noticias buscando contenido que pudiera ayudar a los lectores a imaginar el escenario de Hadriana. La novela, cuyo segundo movimiento incluye un artículo periodístico real sobre Jacmel, está narrada de forma fragmentada y no lineal, pero menciona las fechas de acontecimientos importantes. Sin embargo, esa no linealidad me hizo preguntarme cómo construir una línea de tiempo que enriquezca la lectura de la novela en lugar de estropearla. El producto final consta de tres líneas temporales: la primera se centra en la novela; el segundo incluye fotografías de las noticias que seleccioné de Le Nouvelliste y enlaces al archivo original pero no tiene información del libro; y el tercero combina los dos primeros para que los lectores puedan comparar y contrastar ambas realidades. Este proyecto muestra las posibilidades que ofrece un archivo como dLOC para la lectura de obras literarias como la de Depestre.

Título traducido de la contribución	Cronologías de la vida real y ficticias: sobre la construcción de un conjunto de líneas de tiempo en torno a Hadriana dans tous mes rêves de René Depestre
Idioma original	Inglés
Publicación	Archipelagos: a journal of Caribbean digital praxis
Volumen	Special Issue
N.º	6
Fecha en línea anticipada	may. 2022
Estado	Publicada - may. 2022
Publicado de forma externa	Sí

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Digital
Literature
History
Haitian
timeline
Interactive

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Real-life and Fictional Chronologies: on building a set of timelines around René Depestre's Hadriana dans tous mes rêves

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