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The Construction Of History In The Folds Of Family History In The Novel Song Lost In West Buenos Aires By María Rosa Lojo, Zulema Moret
The Construction Of History In The Folds Of Family History In The Novel Song Lost In West Buenos Aires By María Rosa Lojo, Zulema Moret
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The novels written by María Rosa Lojo strongly reflect a specific preoccupation with the rewriting of history from new perspectives that are related to so-called postmodernism. This is the case with Canción perdida en Buenos Aires al Oeste (1987). This work attempts to articulate a reading of the "private" at a crossroads with the history of the country and of other countries (Argentina/Spain). It is a novel of exiles, from the exile of the Neira family from the Franco dictatorship in the forties to the particular exiles of each family member during the seventies and eighties in Argentina. From the …
Almost The Same, But Not Quite: Re-Orienting The Story Of The Subject In Christina Fernández Cubas's El Año De Gracia , Jessica A. Folkart
Almost The Same, But Not Quite: Re-Orienting The Story Of The Subject In Christina Fernández Cubas's El Año De Gracia , Jessica A. Folkart
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Cristina Fernández Cubas's novel El año de Gracia (1985), about a young Spaniard who is shipwrecked on a deserted island with only a mangy shepherd for company, evokes the political dialectics of self/other found in the European's discovery and conquest of an unknown island in Robinson Crusoe. In Fernández Cubas's literary depiction of the European subject, however, she situates him on the margins of power in order to view the dynamic from a different perspective. The postcolonial theorizations of Edward Said and Homi Bhabha inform this analysis of how Fernández Cubas's castaway is at first overpowered by the other …
When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza
When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
While most critics agree that the quest for identity which underlies much of post-colonial literature is illustrated in the thematic approaches adopted by writers, this study further the argument by suggesting that it also conditions writers' selection of narrative strategies. In its representation of subjectivity in process, the apprenticeship novel seems to offer an enticing model of self-completion. This narrative strategy, however, presents particular complexities when used to portray coming of age in a society divided along ethnic lines. Simon Gikandi argues with regards to the Caribbean that the probability of a quest for identity reaching fruition is nil, but …
A Tale Of Two Authors: Valenzuela And Borges , Sharon Magnarelli
A Tale Of Two Authors: Valenzuela And Borges , Sharon Magnarelli
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Although Luisa Valenzuela and Borges were friends for many years, it is only recently that we find traces of that friendship in her narrative. "La calesita" and "El otro libro," published in 1998 and 1999 respectively, evoke many of the elements we find in Borges's narrative. The latter story, which is the main focus of this study, employs nearly all the narrative elements we have come to associate with the Argentine master. Nonetheless, a single sign is changed as Borges's male characters are replaced by females in Valenzuela's work. The end result is a tribute to Borges but one that …
"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson
"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
On the dedication page of The Blacks, Genet writes "One evening an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his color?" Prefiguring major issues and paradoxes of African American cultural studies today, The Blacks insists on the very real ways in which the black/white racial binary, like the very concept of race itself, is lived and socially enforced, and at the same time argues that the binary is ultimately a fiction, made real through performative reification. Genet's "clown show," ambiguously reversing the blackface minstrelsy tradition, …
Interview, Ghada Amer, French,, Fuencisla Zomeño
Interview, Ghada Amer, French,, Fuencisla Zomeño
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This paper analyzes the influence of postmodernism in Paloma Díaz-Mas's feminist approach through two short stories, "The World According to Valdés," and "In Search of a Portrait." The political situation after Franco's death embraced democracy which allowed writers to pay more attention to intellectual concerns. Women writers steered the radical positions of the 1970s toward a more philosophical and intellectual analysis of reality and artistic expression during the eighties. In these two short stories, Díaz-Mas addresses women's issues by questioning the scope of modernist and humanist views. She criticizes the modernist concept of unity (text/identity) pointing out the discrimination that …
Is "Kulturnation" A Synonym For "National Identity"?, Helmut Peitsch
Is "Kulturnation" A Synonym For "National Identity"?, Helmut Peitsch
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Literature and German Unification by Stephen Brockmann is a pioneering study, even if I am not as sure as the dust cover writer if it constitutes "the first systematic attempt in English to examine the literary consequences of German reunification." Stephan...
Marketing Strategies For A New Academic Economy: Can We Sell French Without Selling Out?, Mary Jean Green
Marketing Strategies For A New Academic Economy: Can We Sell French Without Selling Out?, Mary Jean Green
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
When I was asked to participate in this discussion, I was told that my comments should reflect in some way the perspective I gained by temporarily crossing the line into academic administration when I became Associate Dean of the Faculty in charge of the Humanities at my home university five years ago, an experience from which I'm still in recovery...
Crossing Francophone Boundaries: Beckett's Fictions, Beryl Schlossman
Crossing Francophone Boundaries: Beckett's Fictions, Beryl Schlossman
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Although Samuel Beckett's œuvre is bilingual in French and English, his writing is generally considered to be the product of a single national identity…
Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher
Introduction: Reassessing French Studies In The Context Of Postmodern Geopolitics , Dominique D. Fisher
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This volume was compiled following the 16th International colloquium in Twentieth-Century French Studies that Martine Antle and I organized at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1999…
Maghrebi-French Directors Behind The Camera: The Cinema Of The Second G, Dina Sherzer
Maghrebi-French Directors Behind The Camera: The Cinema Of The Second G, Dina Sherzer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In an article entitled "De Nanterre à Hollywood" ("From Nanterre to Hollywood"), published in a 1996 issue of L'Express, Dalila Kerkouche writes: "leur père tenait le marteau piqueur, eux manient la caméra…
European Hospitality Without A Home , Mireille Rosello
European Hospitality Without A Home , Mireille Rosello
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
How do European governments conceptualize what they call "hospitality" when they draft immigration laws and when they allow the concepts of asylum, of illegal immigrants, to change according to a constantly evolving political context? What consequences…
From War Films To Films On War: Gendered Scenarios Of National Identity—The Case Of The Last Metro, Leah D. Hewitt
From War Films To Films On War: Gendered Scenarios Of National Identity—The Case Of The Last Metro, Leah D. Hewitt
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
If France's ongoing struggle for self-definition in the late twentieth century involved new conceptions of citizenship and nationality, in short what it means to be French, this struggle also entailed the search for an accurate portrayal of a past in which France could recognize itself...
Interview With Ghada Amer, Estelle Taraud
Interview With Ghada Amer, Estelle Taraud
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Interview with Ghada Amer