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Power And Representation In Anglo-American Travel Blogs And Travel Books About China, Stefano Calzati

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Power and Representation in Anglo-American Travel Blogs and Travel Books about China" Stefano Calzati presents a comparative analysis between two travel books and two travel blogs written by Anglo-American travellers about China. The assumption is that travel books and travel blogs, being two differently mediated forms of travel writing, share some similarities: they are "autodiegetic narratives" and they bear a (cross)cultural potential. Through a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis I investigate how Anglo-American travel writers represent themselves and Chinese people as to what extent the definition of travel writing is medially affected; 2) to what extent the cross-cultural …

Negra D'America Remond And Her Journeys, Sirpa A. Salenius

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In her article "negra d'America Remond and Her Journeys" Sirpa A. Salenius analyzes Sarah P. Remond's travels to Europe. Remond, an African American born free in Salem, Massachusetts in 1826 into an abolitionist family, was a successful lecturer on abolitionism in the United States before traveling to England in 1859. During her anti-slavery lecture tour there, she also became involved in promoting women's rights thus enlarging the scope of her social and political agenda to embrace both racial and gender oppression. Subsequently, she studied in London, graduating as a nurse from London University College before moving to Italy where …

Metropolitan (Im)Migrants In The "Lettered City", Stacey Balkan

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In her article "Metropolitan (Im)migrants in the 'Lettered City'" Stacey Balkan employs Ángel Rama's discussion of audience as a means of analyzing a Latin American diaspora that exists beyond the "rational periphery" of the state. Herein, the term diaspora is redefined as a translocal phenomenon wherein the metropolitan (im)migrant moves from rural margin to urban center. Normative definitions of exile — persons displaced from autonomous nation-states — are likewise scrutinized in the context of what the Rama terms a post-contemporary "city of letters." This post-contemporary city is the subject of what Mabel Moraña refers to as a "subaltern boom" — …

Contemporary Us-American Satire And Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk), J.C. Lee

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In her article "Contemporary US-American Satire and Consumerism (Crews, Coupland, Palahniuk)" J.C. Lee focuses on contemporary satire's potential (or lack thereof) for change, reform, or rebellion through an investigation of works by Harry Crews, Douglas Coupland, and Chuck Palahniuk, all of which target consumerism. The said writers employ satire not to initiate rebellion or cultural change, but to reflect the problematic role of institutions in modern life and, in turn, the potential, even hope, for personal growth. Lee's analysis of texts by Crews, Coupland, and Palahniuk is intended to question satire's potential as a form of cultural critique and institutional …

Evans's The Turducken And Chekhov's The Seagull, Brian R. Johnson

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In his article "Evans's The Turducken and Chekhov's The Seagull" Brian R. Johnson approaches The Turducken as a travesty of The Seagull, examining six iconic scenes from The Seagull, in order to explore the satirical effect of the altered scenes. In December of 2008, Bedlam Theatre of Minneapolis presented The Turducken, "a holiday dinner theater spectacular inspired by Anton Chekhov's The Seagull." Playwright Josef Evans takes Chekhov's 1895 work and turns the classic piece into a musical and farcical satire. The plot of The Turducken follows the plot of The Seagull, and some scenes …

Intercultural Approaches To Cities And Spaces In Literature, Film, And New Media: A Review Of New Work By Manzanas And Benito And López-Varela And Neţ, Ana María Martín Castillejos

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Metaphor Translation As A Tool Of Intercultural Understanding, Ipshita Chanda

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In her article "Metaphor Translation as a Tool of Intercultural Understanding" Ipshita Chanda takes up specific cases of metaphor translation as a methodological exercise towards understanding intercultural exchange. Chanda's study is based on a semiotic and linguistic understanding of metaphor as a signifying and cognitive device. When a metaphor is translated from one linguistic-literary field into another, the process of translation itself yields some specific operational steps for studying inter- and cross-cultural relations. Here, translation is not proposed as a framework but as practical method: the translation of metaphor becomes an exercise in strategy for the pedagogy of …

The Uses And Gratifications Of Dance Reality Television Shows, Heather M. Yuille

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The Uses and Gratifications of Dance Reality Shows

Competition based dance reality shows are a sub-category under the reality television show genre. One way to add to the growing body of research about reality television shows is to study each sub-category individually in terms of uses and gratifications theory. Therefore this research looked into the reasons why people watch dance reality shows. Since dance is an art form that has deep historic roots, has experienced highs and lows in terms of public perception and has experienced a strong resurgence recently within the realm of reality television, it proves to be …

Aesthetics In Gao's Soul Mountain, Mabel Lee

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In her article "Aesthetics in Gao's Soul Mountain" Mabel Lee analyses Nobel Laureate 2000 Xingjian Gao's aesthetics. Transnational conglomerates today control the book industry from publishing house to bookshop and through aggressive market strategies they exert considerable influence on readers. Nonetheless, there are writers who refuse to capitulate to market demands and seek only to actualize their aesthetic ideas in the creation of literary texts. One such writer is Gao, author of the novel Soul Mountain. Lee posits that Gao's aesthetics is founded on the close interrogation of both Chinese and European models and practices and explores specific …

Egypt's Police State In The Work Of Idris And Mahfouz, David F. Dimeo

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In his article "Egypt's Police State in the Work of Idris and Mahfouz" David F. DiMeo examines how two leading twentieth-century authors of politically committed fiction addressed an angry generation's confrontations with former members of the oppressive state police apparatus. Yusuf Idris's The Black Policeman (1962) and Najib Mahfouz's al-Karnak (1974) remain particularly relevant as today's Egyptian activists confront the vestiges of the former regime's security forces. Using Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the carnival as a paradigm for analysis, DiMeo examines how both texts present sharp contrasts between hollow quests for public revenge through purges and a genuine overturning of …

Nostalgia In Oral Histories Of Israeli Women, Yael Zilberman

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In her article "Nostalgia in Oral Histories of Israeli Women" Yael Zilberman explores the narration of nostalgia of elderly women about the city of Be'er Sheva. In their narration, the subjects of the study create textual and spatial practices which are engendered and create analogies between the city, their maturing/ed bodies, and by-gone youth. Further, the grief owing to the perceived condition of the city intensifies the idealized description of the city and the longing for its past. Zilberman's study brakes new ground in that the study of urban experience within folklore is a lesser explored field as the urban …

Victims Of The City In Novels Of Zola And Dostoevsky, Marta L. Wilkinson

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In her article "Victims of the City in Novels of Zola and Dostoevsky" Marta Wilkinson argues that urbanity in its nineteenth-century setting functioned as the culpable agent in criminal behavior found in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and in several of Zola's Rougon-Macquart novels. Wilkinson an analysis of the novels based on Merlin Coverly's concept of psychogeography which supports the extension of the cityscape as an integral part of the novels' characters. Further, Wilkinson illustrates how in Zola's and Dostoevsky's novels the city reigns triumphant as characters fall victim to disease, drink, or are left with desperate choices: in Dostoevsky's novel …

Evoking A Memory Of The Future In Foer's Everything Is Illuminated, Doro Wiese

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In her article "Evoking a Memory of the Future in Foer's Everything is Illuminated" Doro Wiese discusses Jonathan Safran Foer's novel. In the text a photograph plays a decisive role: the image of two young people drives the Jewish American Jonathan to visit the Ukraine. The photograph is presumably of Jonathan's grandfather Safran and a woman named Augustine who saved Safran's life during a nazi raid of his village: the photograph becomes an ekphrasis, a description of a visual work of art in another medium which transforms the generic characteristics of written and photographic representations. According to Anselm …

Barthelme's "Paraguay," The Postmodern, And Neocolonialism, Daniel Chaskes

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In his article "Barthelme's 'Paraguay,' the Postmodern, and Neocolonialism," Daniel Chaskes explores the analytic opportunities afforded by conjoining globalizing critical approaches with a story by an author who has often been circumscribed by the postmodern rubric. Donald Barthelme's "Paraguay," written the summer after Nelson Rockefeller's fact-finding mission to South America in 1969, provides a chance to consider modes of anti-colonial critique in Barthelme's work. It also offers examples of a more self-reflective criticism aimed at the U.S. counterculture and the indeterminacies of postmodernism. Chaskes reads "Paraguay" with the aim of understanding Barthelme's hemispheric interest and he investigates the multiple cultural …

New Forms Of Contemporary Aesthetics: A Review Article Of New Works By Camerotti And Quaranta, Marina Mantini

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Memory, Identity, And Narration: A Book Review Of New Work By Assmann And Conrad And Tilmans, Vree, And Winter, Simona Mitroiu

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Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

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Cine Mexicano Y Su Representación Periférica: La Representación De Las Luchas Armadas Contemporáneas, Guillermo Martínez Sotelo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El cine mexicano ha sido históricamente ligado al centro cultural del país, la Ciudad de México; y la cinematografía que se produce en la periferia regularmente toma una forma crítica en contra del sistema. El objetivo del análisis de estas dos películas es dar a conocer a más profundidad una vertiente del cine mexicano que hace crítica a dicho sistema establecido, sin necesidad de estar dentro del centro de poder. En este ensayo se analiza la temática y la construcción visual que hacen dos películas mexicanas y que cuya temática se desarrolla enfocada en los conflictos armados que se han …

El Sujeto De La Lengua Sujeto A La Lengua: Reflexiones Sobre La Dramaturgia Performativa Contemporánea, Stephan Baumgärtel, Miguel Ángel Zamorano, Karen Basaure

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Partiendo de un breve análisis de la performatividad escénica contemporánea, este artículo investiga procedimientos formales de una escritura teatral que muestra rasgos más performativos que representacionales. Para tal fin, analiza aspectos performativos de la dramaturgia de Valére Novarina, Rainald Goetz e Heiner Müller. Enfoca la materialidad de la lengua y el uso desviante de estructuras lingü.sticas habituales como tácticas que predominan en una estética de escritura teatral que presenta a la propia lengua como el personaje principal. A partir del reconocimiento de la ausencia del sujeto-constituyente, muestra por qué la dramaturgia performativa puede calificarse de posmoderna y posdramática y argumenta …

Reflexiones Entorno Al Patrimonio Cinematográfico En España Y Su Protección, Gloria Camarero Gómez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El objetivo de este texto es presentar y evaluar las políticas realizadas en el marco normativo nacional e internacional, que han articulado el concepto de patrimonio cinematográfico susceptible de protección y su excepcionalidad. Igualmente, se insiste en las actuaciones concretas llevadas a cabo recientemente en España dentro del rescate, restauración y divulgación del mismo, así como en el futuro de tales intervenciones.

O Silêncio Do Subalterno Em Menino De Engenho E Bangüê, Olimpia E. Rosenthal

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El presente artículo analiza la forma en que la voz del subalterno es silenciada en las novelas Menino de Engenho y Bangüê, ambas del escritor brasileño José Lins do Rego. Basándome en las teorías de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak y Michel Foucault, examino las asimetrías entre poder y conocimiento que se evidencian en estos textos. Argumento que el tipo discurso que se construye en ambas novelas ejemplifica un patrón común de la literatura brasileña de comienzos del siglo XX, por medio del cual la representación de judíos, mujeres y afrobrasileños buscaba propagar ideologías de la clase dominante masculina de la …

Don Quijote En El Cine: ¿Un Sueño Imposible?, Rafael De España

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

De las muchas adaptaciones cinematográficas y televisivas de la novela de Cervantes nos vamos a centrar en aquellas que recogen la interpretación "trágica" del personaje, al que presentan como una figura crística que quiere llevar a un mundo dominado por la maldad y el egoísmo un mensaje de amor y justicia. Pese a su origen esencialmente eslavo (ruso), este "Quijote trágico" ha tenido una extraordinaria aceptación en el cine internacional y ha contribuido a darle una imagen popular que en gran medida desvirtúa el concepto original cervantino.

Estudio Formal E Intertextual De Buried, Modelo De Eficiencia Narrativa Y Eficacia Constructiva, Valeriano Piñeiro Naval, Raquel Crespo Vila

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El objetivo de este artículo radica en poner de manifiesto el carácter novedoso y la originalidad de los planteamientos narrativo y constructivo de Buried, cinta atípica no solo en la cinematografía española sino también internacional. Por tanto, y de forma muy concisa, nuestro propósito consiste en resaltar los aspectos que hacen de este filme una de las mayores y más agradables sorpresas del cine español de las últimas décadas.

Motivos Y Estrategias Del Futurismo, José Alberto Conderana Cerrillo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Estudio crítico de la visión del mundo generada por el Futurismo en los ámbitos de las artes plásticas y la arquitectura, con especial atención al triunfo de la orientación “necromorfa”, auspiciada por el culto de la modernidad, la guerra y el clima político radicalizado.

Drama As Method : Recontextualizing Project Learning For Hk Secondary Schools, Yuen Fun, Muriel Law

Lingnan Theses

This doctoral study is grounded in the work of cultural studies and its concern for pedagogy and education. The study investigated a local pedagogical issue— Independent Enquiry Study (IES)—a specific form of social inquiry in the core subject Liberal Studies (LS) in Hong Kong senior secondary schools. It took a designated IES classroom as the point of intervention and as the basis for exploring transformed pedagogical practices in Hong Kong secondary school education. My vantage point of the intervention rested on participant-observation through action research and critical contextual analysis of the action-research site and its relations to the wider social …

Entre El Público Y Poeta En Nueva York De Federico García Lorca, Francisco Acuyo Donaire

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Aproximación comparativa entre la obra teatral, El público, y el libro de poemas, Poeta en Nueva York, de Federico García Lorca. Se observarán las relaciones textuales e intertextuales entre ambas obras, así como sus influjos y diferencias de la tradición y las vanguardias. La lógica poética como vía de estructuración y la indagación y búsqueda del amor y la verdad como nexo de entendimiento común en las dos obras.

Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

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El Público: Surrealismo Y Metateatro Como Vías De Expresión De Un Drama Interno, Ana Garriga Espino

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En El público, comedia imposible en palabras del propio Lorca, el autor granadino se sirve de una suerte de surrealismo herético y de un teatro autorreflexivo para llevar a escena una investigación introspectiva sobre su propia persona. Se deshace de la tiranía de la palabra e inaugura, al mismo tiempo, un nuevo teatro auténticamente vanguardista: un teatro bajo la arena, que subvertirá los roles otorgados por el teatro tradicional, de un lado, a público y actores y de otro, a realidad y ficción.

Espectaculo Y Compromiso: Estrategias Vanguardistas En César Vallejo Y Carlos Oquendo De Amat, Damaris Puñales-Alpizar

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En este artículo pretendo demostrar cómo a través de diferentes estrategias vanguardistas, poetas tan disímiles como César Vallejo y Carlos Oquendo de Amat fueron capaces de convertir la palabra en espectáculo significativo sonoro y visual, pero manteniendo un estrecho contacto con su entorno social.

Jules Laforgue, Tristan Tzara, Carmelo Bene: La Vanguardia Que No Cesa, Alfredo Rodríguez López-Vázquez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

A través del personaje de Hamlet, las vanguardias europeas han planteado audaces propuestas teatrales alejándose del texto original de Shakespeare. Exploramos en este estudio la línea que va de Laforgue a Carmelo Bene pasando por Mouchoir de Nuages de Tristan Tzara. Proponemos que la exploración del personaje con matiz decadente hecha por Laforgue y continuada por Tzara confluyen en Carmelo Bene.