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Looking Back To Old New York City In Herman Melville’S “Bartleby”, Shawn Thomson

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Though “Bartleby, the Scrivener” takes place in the three-block area in and around the lawyer’s Wall Street offices, the uptown attitudes toward city life of the suburbs inform the lawyer’s relationships to his urban or downtown space. Wall Street stands as a central feature of the island city’s history, taking its name from a physical wall built to protect the Dutch from the British and the Indians. As a result, Wall Street served to differentiate the suburban from the urban confines of the city. Through the position of the lawyer in the Master Chancery office on Wall Street and his …

5. A Chicana Pedagogy For Digital Pen Pals, Diana Noreen Rivera, Leigh Johnson

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

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Of Conquistadors And Corridos: Aurora Lucero-White And The New Mexico Federal Writers’ Project, Diana Noreen Rivera

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

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The City-Sin: Collective Responsibility For The Plague In Early Modern London, Andrew Fleck

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

The epidemic of bubonic plague that struck London in 1603 created its own culture of collectivity. Instead of seeking to place blame on others, the writers responding to the epidemic understood the disease to be divine punishment and a call to collective moral reform. Analyzing the plague pamphlets of Thomas Dekker, William Muggins, Thomas Middleton, and a Dutch refugee residing in London, Jacob Cool, this article argues that the focus on personal moral responsibility for the plague and the need for collective reform created an unexpected culture of collectivity in early modern London.

A Survey Of The Epistolary Dimension In Peninsular Contemporary Women Poets [Panorama De Lo Epistolar En La Poesía Española Peninsular Contemporánea Escrita Por Mujeres], Elena Vega-Sampayo

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

This paper seeks to interpret the choice by some Peninsular women poets of what would initially seem to be mere traces, sheer remnants of the epistolary genre. To this end, a score of 20th and early 21st century works of Contemporary Peninsular Spanish women poets will be analyzed, bearing witness to a singular poetic reality, inasmuch they share an approach to the epistolary genre, and scrutinizing their connections with the literary tradition. By resorting to J. Culler's analysis of the apostrophe as a framework of reference, as well as to a specific analysis of the literary techniques and rhetorical figures …

Imagining Ancestors, David Bowles

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

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Tacto Y Psicogénesis De Personaje En Tres Novelas De Mercè Rodoreda, Elena Vega-Sampayo

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Este artículo analiza un rasgo común en la psicogénesis de personaje, fundamentado en el acto de tocar, en tres novelas de la autora catalana Mercè Rodoreda (1908-1983): Aloma, La plaza del Diamante y Espejo roto. Se propone un abordaje nocional a partir de los conceptos psicoanalíticos del Yo-piel de Didier Anzieu, y de la cosa de Jacques Lacan, desde los cuales se describirá cómo el tacto, el deseo y la disolución entre la psique y la realidad conforman un patrón desde la novelística temprana de la autora y trazable en las protagonistas de estas tres obras.

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Impossible Origins: Trauma Narrative And Cinematic Adaptation, Linda Belau

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

In this essay, I explore the cinematic adaptation and the representation of trauma, while I further consider the role and significance of the notion of the origin in both trauma and in cinematic adaptation. Through an initial consideration of the relationship between the theory of the impossible origin, particularly as it is articulated by Walter Benjamin, the essay goes on to analyze the significance and role of an impossible origin in the elemental form of adaptation. To this end, the essay considers the movement of adaptation from an autobiographical trauma memoir to a feature film, considering the success or failure …

Sound Acts, Part 1: Calling Back Performance Studies, Patricia Herrera, Caitlin Marshall, Marci R. Mcmahon

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'Arte With Her Contending, Doth Aspire T'Excell The Naturall': Contending For Representation In The Elizabethan Epyllion, Andrew Fleck

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Corridos, David Bowles

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Análisis De Y Desde La Mirada En "Largo Noviembre De Madrid" Y En Otros Cuentos De Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, Elena Vega-Sampayo, Jose M. Davila-Montes

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

El presente artículo propone un análisis de los cuentos de Largo noviembre de Madrid, además de otros relatos de La trilogía de la guerra civil de Juan Eduardo Zúñiga desde un planteamiento multidisciplinar basado en el concepto de la mirada. Partiendo de un marco teórico lacaniano, y con la evidencia de la construcción lectora que requiere el estilo elíptico y elusivo del autor, se ofrece un abordaje en clave escópica que incide en la diferencia entre “ver” y “mirar” como elementos que articulan las relaciones psicológicas entre personajes, y como técnica que redunda en la inmersión lectora. En los …

Proximity And The Pox: Pathologizing Infidelity In Marston’S Dutch Courtesan, Andrew Fleck

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Marston’s Dutch Courtesan links the dangers of sexually transmitted infection and false religious doctrine, both spread by the Family of Love. The play finds dark comedy in the syphilis epidemic that urban sexual promiscuity perpetuated and in ridiculous religious heterodoxy. Both seem to thrive on infidelity. By making the tavern-owning Mulligrubs, the sex worker Franceschina, and her bawd Mary Faugh members of the Family of Love, Marston makes the corporeal dangers of illicit sex during an epidemic even more dangerous when its companion is the contagion of Familism, threatening to spread as efficiently as the syphilis ravaging early modern London.

Bookended: Someone To Believe In Me, David Bowles

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Literacy As Geographies Of Transnationalism And Mobility: Diasporic Experiences, Identities, And Knowledge Production, Cinthya M. Saavedra

Mexican American Studies Faculty Publications

In an increasingly mobile world, be it virtual or material, we have an incredible opportunity to conceptualize this mobility as a generator of knowledge production, giving us new ways to understand embodied literacies (Johnson & Vasudevan, 2012; Schmidt & Beucher, 2018) and ultimately reimagine our world. At some point in our lives, most of us have had to move or relocate, facing new ideas, people, and places/lands. These movimientos and migrations inevitably turn our worldview upside down, blurring our realities, a phenomenon Gloria Anzaldúa (2002, 2015) calls arrebatos (earth-shattering ruptures). Arrebatos are moments in our lives when we are catapulted …

La Lítote En Sin Ruido De José Corredor-Matheos, Elena Vega-Sampayo

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Este artículo analiza el poemario del manchego José Corredor-Matheos, Sin ruido (2013), desde la óptica de la lítote como figura de atenuación y, con mayor alcance, como mecanismo que subsume ciertos rasgos transversales característicos de la poética de madurez del autor. Dichos rasgos redundan en la coherencia de su poética y el compromiso con la poesía de la simplicidad y el despojamiento, en su ubicación en las formas y con las formas, y en la exploración de la negación como mecanismo de profundización semántica y ampliación de matices ante la contundencia de la vejez y la muerte.

Chapter 11 Lydia Mendoza, “Reina De La Música Tejana”: Self-Stylizing Mexicanidad Through China Poblana In The Us-Mexico Borderlands, Marci R. Mcmahon

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Propaganda, Patriotism, And News: Printing Discovered And Intercepted Letters In England, 1571–1600, Gary Schneider

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In this article I propose that the relatively few intercepted and discovered letters printed during the reign of Elizabeth I fall chiefly into three categories: they were published as propaganda, as patriotic statement, and as news reportage. Although Elizabeth and her ministers published intercepted and discovered letters on a strictly ad hoc and contingent basis, the pamphlets and books in which these letters appear, along with associated ideo-logical and polemical material, reveals determined uses of intercepted and discovered letters in print. Catholics likewise printed intercepted letters as propaganda to confront Elizabeth’s anti-Catholic policies through their own propaganda apparatus on the …

Learning From And Listening To Latinx Youth At The 2019 Ltc Tya Sin Fronteras Festival And Convening, Marci R. Mcmahon

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Sobre Las Variantes Textuales De Las Fuerzas Extrañas Y La Intertextualidad De “Un Fenómeno Inexplicable, Jose M. Martinez, Jonathan Godinez, Itzel Vargas

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This essay comments on the relegated importance of the textual variations of several short stories from Las fuerzas extrañas, by Leopoldo Lugones. It also reproduces the original versions of those stories to collate them with the ones in the final version of the book. The conclusion is reached that those variations are of a quantitative and qualitative importance greater than what is ordinarily assumed, and that they illuminate both the preparation of the book and its ultimate meaning. Finally, we also suggest that “Un fenómeno inexplicable” may have had its origin in a picture of Thomas Henry Huxley, the reputed …

¡Oye, Oye!: A Manifesto For Listening To Latinx Theater, Patricia Herrera, Marci R. Mcmahon

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Mapping Opposition In The Sonora- Arizona Borderlands: A Critical Recovery Of Federico Ronstadt’S Memoir Borderman, Diana Noreen Rivera

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Federico Ronstadt’s Borderman, a memoir written between 1944 and 1954, recounts the businessman’s immigration to Tucson and his life in the Sonora- Arizona borderlands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Paradigms of opposition that inform the recovery of early Mexican American memoir and autobiography—centering the life writings of elite, dispossessed Mexican Americans and Hispanic immigrant literature written in Spanish—have discouraged study of Ronstadt’s English-language, seemingly assimilationist memoir. In my critical recovery of Borderman, I argue that it should be read as part of the legacy of oppositional literature written by people of Mexican descent in the …

Coming Full Circle: The 2017 Ltc International Convening, Carla Della Gatta, Marci R. Mcmahon

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Soundscapes Of Narco Silence In U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Performance, Marci R. Mcmahon

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Remembering Hurricane Beulah: An Interview With Conjunto Legend Gilberto Perez On Hurricane Beulah Corridos, Commercialisim And Culture, Diana Noreen Rivera

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

An Interview with Conjunto music legend Gilberto Perez is presented, who has a prestigious career as a singer and accordionist. He talks about his experience of performing concerts, his band "Gilberto Perez y Sus Compadres" and band members and the significance of his corrido "Las Crecientes de Beulah" which is a narration of his experience at the time when a destructive hurricane Beulah had hit Rio Grande Valley in Texas, causing displacement of Mexicans as refugees.

“To Write Of Him And Pardon Crave”: Negotiating Biblical Authority In Lanyer’S Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, Andrew Fleck

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Aemilia Lanyer refers extensively to the Gospels in writing her poem on the Passion, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Alluding to the events of Christ's final day, she incorporates details from each of the Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion. Focusing on specific echoes of the translations available to her, it is possible to trace which bible Lanyer preferred. Surprisingly, despite Lanyer's preference for the Geneva translation, she also made use of the Bishops' Bible, suggesting that the poet carefully sifted through different English translations as she sought to generate biblical authority for her account of the Passion.

Experiences Of Performance: Firsthand Accounts Of Theater From Part Xiv - Shakespeare’S Early Reception (To 1660), Andrew Fleck

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Exemplarity And Its Discontents In Michael Drayton's Englands Heroical Epistles, Andrew Fleck

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Dissonant Divas In Chicana Music: The Limits Of La Onda By Deborah R. Vargaswild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture By Rita E. Urquijo-Ruizperforming The Us Latina And Latino Borderlands Edited By Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval, And Peter J. García, Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Despite the performative turn of the 1990s, a disjuncture has persisted between performance studies, though self-admittedly expansive and porous, and much of the scholarship produced around the diverse acts constituting Latina/o performance. The books reviewed here engage Latina/o performance on its own terms and terrains while reconceiving the limits of the archive as well as the subjects and substance of performance. Myriad works considered here further intervene in debates regarding critical regionalism and transnationalism within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, as well as American studies, by embracing a hemispheric approach while also being attuned to the inflections of the local. Also …

“The Valley Of The Shadow Of Books”: George Gissing, New Women, And Morbid Literary Detachment, Marisa Palacios Knox

Literatures and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

Victorian consternation about the physiological—especially reproductive—repercussions of women readers’ affective involvement with fiction is well documented. This essay contends, however, that at the fin de siècle a new cultural anxiety developed around the possibility of the woman who under-identifies, that is, refuses or is simply incapable of a stereotypically feminine standard of personal identification with literature. As the number of women entering vocational training as well as higher education increased exponentially in the late nineteenth century, the threat of women’s influx into the workplace expressed itself in a discourse of concern for the vitiation of women’s “natural” responsiveness to reading …