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Carullo presents papers at two Latin American conferences

By David Gonnerman '90
October 3, 2006

This summer Sylvia G. Carullo, associate professor of Spanish at St. Olaf, participated in two scholarly conferences on Spanish-American Literature. The first, hosted by the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil in Guayaquil, Ecuador, included Carullo's presentation of her paper, "Educated Courtesans, Rejected Lovers, Suffering and Devoted Wives," on a novel by the Ecuadorian writer Alicia Yanez Cossio, who attended the presentation.

At the second, hosted by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, Carullo gave a paper on the cult of water and its magic in Duerme, a novel by the Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa. Her paper explored the socio-political significance of the female protagonist's divinization, achieved through the injecting of water from Aztec wells and lakes into her veins in exchange for her own blood--a religious rite reminiscent of the ancient Aztec practice of human sacrifice.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.