Culturas e Literaturas dos Estados Unidos de América (CLEU): Envíos recentes
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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, ... -
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. ... -
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 ...