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Women’s Poetry that Heals across Borders: A Trans-American Reading of the Body, Sexuality, and Love
(Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de Género, 2021)
[Abstract] Drawing on the idea of literature as healing (Wilentz), this article examines the anti-dualistic restoring defense of the body, sexuality, and love in Angelou (African American), Cisneros (Chicana), and Peri ...
Mulleres, guerras e memorias subalternas de Filipinas a Galicia: os (des)afectos en Merlinda Bobis e Simón Casal
(Universidad Complutense, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2020)
[Abstract] This article compares two cultural creations, “Fish-hair woman” (1999) –a story by the Filipina- Australian author Merlinda Bobis– and Lobos sucios (2015) –a film by the Galician director Simón Casal de
Miguel, ...
The Feminist Writing of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Pausing for the Chronotope
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2006)
[Abstract]The purpose of this paper is at least triple-fold. First of all, it hopes to show a fruitful dialogue between feminist and Bakhtinian critical approaches. Second, by means of a chronotopic reading of C. P. Gilman’s ...
Queeremos a Gloria Anzaldúa: Identity, Difference, New Tribalism, and Affective Eco-Dialogues
(Instituto Franklin de Investigación en Estudios Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcalá, 2018)
[Abstract] This article starts by conceptualizing Anzaldúa’s (and other thinkers’) approaches to poetry, queerness, identity, and difference from Borderlands (1987) to later works. Part two examines ...
A Queer Eye for Gilman’s Text: The Yellow Wallpaper, a Film by PBS
(The Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN), 2019)
[Abstract] This article puts forward a queer interpretation of PBS’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1989), adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s canonical story. It is structured in three parts: an approach to the term queer, a ...
Literary Challenges to the Patriarchal Notion of Female Heterosexuality: Six Stories by Women Authors from Le Sueur (1936) to Lawson (2016)
(Universidad Carlos III, 2020)
[Abstract] This article puts forth a comparative study of six short fictions by female authors—Le Sueur, Dinesen, Atwood, Kincaid, Alvarez, and Lawson—which replicate and challenge patriarchal notions on women’s ...
From Pensive Vegetables to Feminine Men: The Dialogical Posthuman in Silko, Moure, and Jen
(University of Alberta Library, 2022)
[Abstract] Encouraging cross-genre and cross-culture dialogues, this paper examines the short fiction of Native-American Leslie Marmon Silko and Chinese-American Gish Jen, together with the poetry of European-Canadian Erín ...
Humor, Gender, and Sex(uality) in Text and Film: Incredible Shrinking Men from Mark Twain to Lorrie Moore
(Universitat de Barcelona, 2020)
[Abstract] This article compares The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Twain, 1904-1906), The Incredible Shrinking Man (Arnold, 1957), and “You’re Ugly, Too” (Moore, 2008) from the perspectives of humor, feminism, and queer theory. ...