Culturas e Literaturas dos Estados Unidos de América (CLEU): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“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. ... -
“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 ...