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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. ...
“Junk You Can't Abandon”: Hoarding and Waste in Andrew Lam and Karen Tei Yamashita
(Universidad de Murcia, 2022)
[Abstract] In the last decades a concern with waste has started to “surface” not just in the economic and social sciences, but also in the humanities, where it has lately clustered around Waste Studies and Waste Theory. ...
Two ways of looking at the father: The Father de Sharon Olds y Fun Home d’Alison Bechdel
(Universidad de Barcelona, 2022)
[Abstract] This article explores a series of visual-textual devices used in the representation of father figures in the poetry collection The Father (Sharon Olds, 1992) and the graphic memoir Fun Home(Alison Bechdel, 2006). ...
“And This is What I Saw”: (Un)Natural Waste in Cathy Park Hong’s “Fable of the Last Untouched Town”
(Universidad de La Laguna, 2023)
Abstract] At its most philosophical, poetry can help us imagine alternative realities. In “Fable of
the Last Untouched Town,” Cathy Park Hong manages to complicate current notions of
nature by way of an unusual form of ...
Introduction: Azaleas and so on
(Universidad de La Laguna, 2023)
[Abstract] Wallace Stevens famously placed flowers amongst the “things that are in the dump [...] and the things that will be,” hoping to find a “purifying change” between “that disgust and this.” In the ...
The Unsung Heroes of Holy Garbage: An Analysis of Waste in A.R. Ammons’s Garbage
(Universidad de La Laguna, 2023)
[Abstract] This essay analyzes A.R. Ammons Garbage (1993) through the lens of Waste Studies by focusing on the interactions between the material and metaphorical uses of waste, scrutinizing the complex trope of the ...
From Waste to Hope An Interview with Marco Armiero
(Universida, 2023)
[Abstract] An Interview with Marco Armiero