Culturas e Literaturas dos Estados Unidos de América (CLEU)

The Junkyard in the Jungle: Transnational, Transnatural Nature in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest

Simal, Begoña (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

Núñez-Puente, Carolina (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 ...
An interview with Ama Ata Aidoo: "I Learnt my First Feminist Lessons in Africa"

Frías Rudolphi, María (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 ...