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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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...