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This book promotes international and interdisciplinary reflections on narratives of exclusion, liminality, dissident power, and the forging of new identities during the last decades. Focusing on the rich case-studies presented by the Spanish-speaking world and beyond, it seeks to generate a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of “othering” and the strategies being developed by the traditionally suppressed voices of marginalized ethnic, gender, and mnemonic communities in order to be heard.
This book provides an informative overview of literary developments in Berlin since 1750, with more detailed readings of exemplary key texts.
Burning Down the House explores the political, economic and cultural landscape of 21st-century Latin America through comics. It examines works from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Colombia, México and Spain, and the resurgence of comics in recent decades spurred by the ubiquity of the Internet and reminiscent of the complex political experiences and realities of the region. The volume analyses experimentations in themes and formats and how Latin American comics have become deeply plural in its inspirations, subjects, drawing styles and political concerns while also underlining the hybrid and diverse cultures they represent. It examines the representative and historical im...
As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, within this context, it has been observed that words or expressions situated within the artistic framework of storytelling have not yet been at the centre of research interest. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the phenomenon of ambiguity from the perspective of narratology – understood as a general theory of narration and narrative communication. The volume pursues two goals: Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the interdisciplinary combination of linguistics, cultural history and narratology enriches the field of litera...
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the...
Ulrich Peltzer ist einer der profiliertesten und markantesten Autoren der Gegenwartsliteratur. Seine vielgelobten Romane liefern präzise Porträts einer zersplitterten Gegenwart im Kontext urbaner Räume. Mit einer Poetik radikaler Gegenwärtigkeit, die den Verästelungen post-fordistischer Prozesse im Bewusstsein der Romanfiguren nachgeht, registriert Peltzers Literatur sensibel soziale, politische und kulturelle Entwicklungen. Dieser Materialienband mit Einzelstudien internationaler Beiträger_innen verschafft einen umfassenden Überblick über Ulrich Peltzers Werk. Ein aufschlussreiches Interview sowie eine ausführliche Bibliografie runden die Gesamtdarstellung ab.
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Reúne ensayos que se acercan a la obra sorjuanina desde un prisma analítico específico, el de la relación entre ingenio y feminidad. Desarrolla nuevas perspectivas sobre la obra de la monja, sus procedimientos literarios y declaraciones temáticas, tomando en cuenta su conciencia crítica de la disimetría nocional enraizada en la figura del genio.
El final de los conflictos armados marcó un cambio en la producción cultural de Centroamérica. La literatura testimonio, antes transmisora de la ideología revolucionaria, dio paso a nuevas narrativas que, alejadas de lo político, reflejan los cambios sociales de la región. Más allá de la identidad colectiva explora el papel de la ficción literaria en la (re)construcción de la identidad (colectiva) en sociedades traumatizadas por la violencia política. Centrándose en la saga de los Aragón de Horacio Castellanos Moya, se aborda la relación entre nación, familia e individuo en la novela familiar.
Este volumen constituye una contribución innovadora y esencial al campo de los Estudios Culturales al abordar la intersección entre la discapacidad y la creación escénica, literaria y audiovisual. Es el resultado de una investigación rigurosa y profunda que, atendiendo de manera preferente al contexto español contemporáneo, examina con detalle el papel que la diversidad funcional puede llegar a desempeñar en los ámbitos de la teoría y de la práctica artística. Los trabajos de este volumen abarcan una amplia gama de campos temáticos: el impacto del marco jurídico sobre la creación artística; la existencia y, en su caso, el cuestionamiento y/o la transgresión de determinadas n...