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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 ...
“You have two bullets and then what?”: Fallible Paternity in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
(Ediciones Complutense, 2022)
[Abstract] This article seeks to critically examine the representation of the father-child bond in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006) in order to elucidate the complex portrayal of fatherhood conjured in the text. In ...
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, ...
Discursive Constructions of Waste and Slow Violence in Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Has Been
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022-12)
[Abstract] This paper addresses the representation of environmental destruction in the Appalachian coalfields in the novel Strange as this Weather Has Been(Ann Pancake, 2007). Pancake’s book follows the disbandment of ...
An interview with Ama Ata Aidoo: "I Learnt my First Feminist Lessons in Africa"
(Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 2003)
[Abstract] This is an interview with Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo. It took place in Acrra (Ghana), on January 1998. Aidoo is considered an outspoken African writer who tackles feminist issues in her fiction. In this ...
Migrant Women’s Bodies in Transit: From Sub-Saharan Africa to Spain in Real Life and Film
(De Gruyter, 2019)
[Abstracts] The purpose of this chapter is to focus on African women’s bodies in transit from West Africa to Spain, in view of Gerardo Olivares’s42 pioneer film on the topic, 14 Kilometros (2007). Although the protagonist ...
The Junkyard in the Jungle: Transnational, Transnatural Nature in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
(Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010)
[Abstract] In this new millennium the relatively young field of ecocriticism has had to face important transdisciplinary, transnational, and transnatural challenges. This article attempts to demonstrate how two of the major ...
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 ...
Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead and the Representational Challenges of Slow Violence
(Universidad de Sevilla. Facultad de Filología, 2022)
[Resumen] Los sucesos narrados por Muriel Rukeyseren The Book of the Dead (1938) constituyen un buen ejemplo de lo que Rob Nixon denomina “violencia lenta,” un tipo de violencia alejada de la espectacularidad, violencia ...
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 ...