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El Espectro, En Teoría, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas
El Espectro, En Teoría, Alberto Ribas-Casasayas
Modern Languages & Literature
The article offers a synthesis of spectral theory from the publication of Spectres de Marx by Jacques Derrida and Ghostly Matters, by Avery Gordon, with a focus on its impact and relevance for Latin American cultural and narrative studies. He also offers a summary of the contents in the special issue "XVI. México espectral".
Jewish Refugee Women, Transnational Coalition Politics, And Affect In Ebe Cagli Seidenberg’S Come Ospiti: Eva Ed Altri, Eveljn Ferraro
Jewish Refugee Women, Transnational Coalition Politics, And Affect In Ebe Cagli Seidenberg’S Come Ospiti: Eva Ed Altri, Eveljn Ferraro
Modern Languages & Literature
Writing across and beyond borders evokes at once the human aspiration to connectedness and the reality of a divided world invested in particular interests. For Ebe Cagli Seidenberg, the act of writing emanates from the Fascist racial laws of 1938, which forced her – a young Jewish Italian woman – to leave her native Italy and find refuge in the United States. The production of a five-volume series entitled Ciclo dell’esilio obbligato [Cycle of the Forced Exile, 1975-91] is a testament to that unwanted separation and the implications that borders have on processes of self and communal identity, …