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Echoes of History, Shadowed Identities
This book addresses the recovery of submerged memories, loss and trauma in self-avowed intertextual fiction, while simultaneously exposing the tensions and untenability of any stable figuration of alterity. Otherness thus posits a liminal and largely transversal site of resistance to monological representations of Western identity, history and canon, which are now displayed inherently crossbred and built on the occulting and alienating of difference. With this in view, the author carries out a close reading of the works and scholarly statements of J. M. Coetzee and Marina Warner by taking as the point of departure the intertextualist approaches that most attend to the phenomenon of alterity ...
Means Matter
This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experimentalism, multiculturalism, hyperspace, and gender. Anthologies and little magazines form the matrix for this exploration on conceptual issues surrounding language. The author widens the perspective in which a great deal of writing forced the limits of poetry in this kind of publications. At the same time, he analyzes new contexts and enters into conversation with other sources for inspiration found through other disciplines such as social theory, philosophy, linguistics, and art generated at both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Reflective, taut with alertness, and exploding the postmodern concept of word/object as a liberating experience, this book becomes a driving force to address poetry and challenging political issues with admirable depth.
African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts
Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo (Ecquatorial Guinea), Abderrahman El Fathi (Morocco), Chus Gutiérrez (Spain), Juan Bonilla (Spain), and Bahia Mahmud Awah (Western Sahara), the contributors interrogate how Spanish cultural texts represent, idealize, or sympathize with the plight of immigrants, as well as the ways in which immigrants themselves represent Spain and Spanish culture. At the same time, these works shed light on issues related to Spain’s racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spain’s economic crisis in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Taken together, the essays are a convincing reminder that cultural texts provide a mirror into the perceptions of a society during times of change.
Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories
Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those people's stories. Lisa Propst argues that the British novelist and public intellectual Marina Warner offers some of the most provocative contemporary interventions into this dilemma. Tracing her writing from her early journalism to her novels, short stories, and studies of myths and fairy tales, Propst shows that in Warner's work, features such as stylized voices and narrative silences - tales that Warner's books hint at but never tell - question the authorit...
Patriarchy and Power in Magical Realism
Although the term magic(al) realism appeared in 1925 in pictorial art in Germany, it became well-known with the boom of magical realist fiction in Latin America in the 1960s. Since the 1980s, it has become one of the popular modes of writing worldwide. Due to its oxymoronic and hybrid nature, it has caught the attention of critics. Some have called it a postcolonial form of writing because of its prominence in postcolonial countries, while others have called it a postmodern mode because of the time of its emergence and the techniques applied in these kinds of novels. This book discusses how magical realism was used in the works of three contemporary female writers, Indigo or, Mapping the Wat...
Literature and Psychology
This volume provides a thorough study of how psychological messages are portrayed and interpreted via the written word. It explores the interactions between text and reader, as well as affiliations within the text, with particular emphasis on emotion and affect. Featuring relevant coverage on topics such as literary production, psychology in literature, identity/self and the other, and trauma studies, the book offers an in-depth analysis that is suitable for academicians, students, professionals, and researchers interested in discovering more about the relationship between psychology and literature.
Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, contrabandistas, carabineros y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994)
Varios personajes de la España de los siglos XIX y XX aparecen en la literatura inglesa, sobre todo en los libros de viajeros británicos, irlandeses y norteamericanos, con determinados perfiles literarios que los convierten en característicos, sin por ello llegar a resultar estereotipados o monolíticos. El presente libro analiza en especial la imagen literaria del guardia civil, y la de otros personajes que aparecen en los relatos de viajeros por España escritos en lengua inglesa entre 1844 y 1994. A través del estudio de un corpus compuesto por más de quinientas obras, se intenta reflejar una imagen del guardia civil compartida en el ámbito anglosajón. Además, se presenta dicha visión de la Benemérita contrastada con otras figuras que han ido poblando el paisaje español a lo largo de distintas épocas, como el bandolero, el gitano, el contrabandista, el turista o el carabinero. La imagen de éstos está mediatizada por los prejuicios personales, nacionales o ideológicos del viajero que narra, por su clase social, por su economía particular o por su conocimiento de la lengua y la cultura española.
NOVIAZGO, SEXO Y ABANDONO EN LA ANDALUCÍA MODERNA.
Esta obra estudia el pasado de las relaciones de noviazgo en sentido negativo, esto es, la ruptura de la relación de pareja y sus múltiples conexiones antes de la celebración del enlace matrimonial. El marco espacial y temporal seleccionado, la ciudad de Sevilla en los siglos XVII y XVIII, posibilita abrir una ventana a los conflictos que generaron las diferentes separaciones, así como a las motivaciones profundas de raíz económica, social, familiar- que se encuentran en su origen primero. No se olvidan las razones sentimentales, enlazando así con una historiografía, la de las emociones, que resulta de especial utilidad para analizar temas como los propuestos. Todo ello, con el telón de fondo de una justicia diocesana que entendía en las tales situaciones de conflicto según los principios canónicos y las realidades sociales del momento.
MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-
Mujeres en la travesía
Este libro pretende completar los conocimientos existentes y sacar a la luz la historia de los hombres, pero, sobre todo, de las mujeres que se aventuraron a adentrarse en el Océano a lo largo del siglo XVII. ¿Cómo nos acercaremos a ellas? ¿a través de qué documentos? Como ya adelantábamos, las fuentes básicas de nuestra investigación serán las licencias de embarque; pero no las únicas, pues también aprovecharemos la rica e interesante información incluida en la correspondencia privada.
