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The Slave's Little Friends
The texts included in this anthology illustrate the wide range of possibilities that abolitionist writings offered to American children during the first half of the nineteenth century. Composing their works under the wings of the antislavery movement, authors responded to the unequal and controversial development of abolitionist politics during the decades that led up to the outbreak of the Civil War. These writers struggled to teach children “to feel right,” and attempted to instruct them to actively respond to the injustice of the slavery system as rendered visible by a harrowing visual archive of suffering bodies compiled by both English and American antislavery promoters. Reading was...
Indigenizing the Classroom
In the past four decades Native American/First Nations Literature has emerged as a literary and academic field and it is now read, taught, and theorized in many educational settings outside the United States and Canada. Native American and First Nations authors have also broadened their themes and readership by exploring transnational contexts and foreign realities, and through translation into major and minor languages, thus establishing creative networks with other literary communities around the world. However, when their texts are taught abroad, the perpetuation of Indian stereotypes, mystifications, and misconceptions is still a major issue that non-Native readers, students, and teacher...
American Quaker Romances
Quaker characters have peopled many an American literary work—most notably, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin"—as Quakerism has been historically associated with progressive attitudes and the advancement of social justice. With the rise in recent years of the Christian romance market, dominated by American Evangelical companies, there has been a renewed interest in fictional Quakers. In the historical Quaker romances analyzed in this book, Quaker heroines often devote time to spiritual considerations, advocate the sanctity of marriage and promote traditional family values. However, their concern with social justice also leads them to engage in subversive behavior and to question the status quo, as il...
African American Women's Literature in Spain
This volume brings forward a descriptive approach to the translation and reception of African American women’s literature in Spain. Drawing from a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological framework, it traces the translation history of literature produced by African American women, seeking to uncover changing strategies in translation policies as well as shifts in interests in the target context, and it examines the topicality of this cohort of authors as frames of reference for Spanish critics and reviewers. Likewise, the reception of the source literature in the Spanish context is described by reconstructing the values that underlie judgements in different reception sources. Finally, this book addresses the specific problem of the translation of Black English into Spanish. More precisely, it pays attention to the ideological and the ethical implications of translation choices and the effect of the latter on the reception of literary texts.
Truths Up His Sleeve: The Times of Michael Cacoyannis
This first critical biography of radio broadcaster, stage director, and auteur filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis examines his prolific body of work within the socio-political context of his times. Best known as a bold modernist for triple-Oscar-winner ‘Zorba the Greek’, Michael likewise was hailed as an astute classicist for his inventive interpretations of Euripides. Working across several continents and languages, he forwarded feminist, humanist, and pacifist agendas, as he further innovated crafty LGBT narratives of unprecedented artistry and complexity. Despite intense persecution during the Cold War red scare and lavender scare, his casts and crews of frugal cosmopolitans critiqued racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. Avoiding censorship, job loss, and jail, Michael thereby laid foundations for the 1990s new queer cinema and set the stage for empowering dramas of socio-economic justice in the third millennium. Over his long life and productive career, Michael exposed and espoused the vital truths up his sleeve.
Wasteland Modernism
This book proposes a renewed myth-critical approach to the so-called ‘wasteland modernism’ of the 1920s to reassess certain key texts of the American modernist canon from a critical prism that offers new perspectives of analysis and interpretation. Myth-criticism and, more specifically, the critical survey of myth as an aesthetic and ideological strategy fundamental for the comprehension of modernist literature, leads to an engaging discussion about the disenchantment of myth in modernist literary texts. This process of mythical disenchantment, inextricable from the cultural and historical circumstances that define the modernist zeitgeist, offers a possibility for revising from a contemp...
Benjamin Drew
Benjamin Drew’s "North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee, or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada" (1856) is a collection of his interviews with former slaves living in Canada who had escaped from the United States, and an invaluable example of the transnational abolitionist movement’s political agenda. These edited oral accounts show how these runaways turned into African Canadians and reconfigured new meanings of Blackness in Canada, set out the foundations of a Black Canadian sense of attachment, and eventually helped to reshape North America by contributing to the birth of the Canadian nation-state.
Emily Dickinson
Los lectores de Emily Dickinson (Amherst, Massachusetts, 1830-1866) se cuentan por millares, tanto en el mundo de habla inglesa como fuera de él. El enorme interés que sus versos siguen despertando se finca en una sensibilidad lírica y una capacidad de recreación emotiva y visual que rebosan los límites espaciales de sus sucintas aunque complejas piezas poéticas. La lengua española ha recibido, en varias latitudes y por medio de un buen número de traductores y poetas, la poesía de Dickinson con múltiples variantes, formas, aspectos y significaciones, durante ya muchos años. Juan Carlos Calvillo (poeta, traductor e investigador de El Colegio de México), en las incisivas y puntillosas páginas de 'Emily Dickinson: un estudio de poesía en traducción al español', explora lo que significa para el traductor hispánico enfrentarse a la obra de una figura señera de la lírica mundial. El autor ofrece aquí un análisis de varios intentos de traslado de los versos de Dickinson a la lengua española y presenta criterios mediante los que se pueda determinar el nivel de éxito que distintos traductores han alcanzado en cada de una de sus considerables empresas.
Tennessee Williams y la Norteamérica de posguerra
A través de las obras dramáticas que Tennessee Williams escribió durante los años inmediatamente posteriores al fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se analizan los entresijos y las grietas de los que adoleció el sueño americano. El estudio de los diversos personajes que las protagonizan va más allá de una interpretación puramente literaria y se enmarca dentro del contexto histórico y social con el fin de analizarlos como sujetos que reflejan su época. Todos ellos persiguen de una forma u otra la felicidad, una quimera que acaba convirtiéndose para muchos en una trampa de la que difícilmente pueden escapar.
Hemingway en la España taurina
La trayectoria profesional de Alfonso Martínez Berganza abarcó tres décadas de la historia del periodismo español del siglo pasado en las que desarrolló su actividad en los puestos y medios más diversos, desde editorialista de la “Tercera Página” del diario ‘Pueblo’ hasta su labor en RNE, donde, como señaló su obituario, “supo ser jefe en momentos difíciles de la vida política española”. Durante su carrera fue galardonado con diversos premios periodísticos y literarios, entre los que se cuenta el I Premio Hemingway de Periodismo para artículos de tema taurino. ‘Hemingway en la España taurina’ es una iluminadora inmersión en los escenarios taurinos del nobel norteamericano. A raíz de su muerte en 1961, Martínez Berganza erigió este tríptico literario “en defensa de un amigo”, que nos sumerge en la polémica sobre el conocimiento de la fiesta de los toros por parte del escritor de Illinois, recreando sus paisajes literarios y personales. Este volumen recoge así los debates planteados en aquellos años en España, polémicas que son resueltas desde un análisis riguroso y objetivo de los textos y las opiniones vertidas.
