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Monarchy and Liberalism in Spain: The Building of the Nation-State, 1780–1931 Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Íñigo Huércanos Esparza
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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L’Assommoir and Zola’s Nuanced Vision of Nineteenth-Century Alcoholism Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Susanna Lee
This article examines depictions of problem drinking in Emile Zola’s 1877 L’Assommoir, situating the novel within contemporaneous writings about alcoholism. While criticism has long found in Zola’s...
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Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Byron Ellsworth Hamann
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)
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Forecasting Extinction at the Guatemalan Border Forests: El mundo como flor y como invento by Mario Payeras Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez
In this article, I examine two short stories written by Guatemalan author Mario Payeras, both included in the collection El mundo como flor y como invento. Through the portrayal of the connections ...
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“For Rats Died in the Street; Men in their Homes:” The Pharmacology of the Human-Rat Relationship in Camus’s The Plague Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Pritikana Karmakar, Nagendra Kumar
Animals have always embodied the memory and trauma of troubled times in human history. The alienization of animals in terms of their non-human essence results in their gothification, resulting in i...
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Megan Corbin. Haunted Objects. Spectral Testimony in the Southern Cone Post-Dictatorship. Raleigh, North Carolina: A Contracorriente, 2021. 200 pp. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Sebastián Muñoz Ruz
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)
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Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Dino S. Cervigni
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)
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Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Dean Allbritton
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)
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“[L]e divorce terrible entre le cœur et la chair:” Joseph Kessel’s Belle de Jour (1928) Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Hope Christiansen
The publication in 2020 of Joseph Kessel’s writings in Gallimard’s distinguished Pléiade series prompted Gaby Levin to publish an article titled “France Rediscovers Joseph Kessel, the Jewish Writer...
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On Affect, Violence, Vulnerability, and Community: Jenisjoplin Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 K. Josu Bijuesca, María Pilar Rodríguez
Jenisjoplin (2017) by Uxue Alberdi is an unsettling and formally innovative novel, as it recalls—through the account by its protagonist Nagore Vargas, nicknamed Jenisjoplin—the convulsive socio-his...
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Desafíos, diferencia y deformaciones de la ciudadanía: mutantes y monstruos en la producción cultural latinoamericana reciente Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Juan Pablo Rivera
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Technologies of the Novel: Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Olivier Delers
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 4, 2023)
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Jennifer Ponce De León. Another Esthetics is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Gail A. Bulman
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 3, 2023)
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Los sabores de la pena: duelos mundanos y transformación comunitaria en Umami (2015) de Laia Jufresa Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Maria Celina Bortolotto, May Summer Farnsworth
Abstract Umami (2015) by the Mexican author Laia Jufresa deals with the themes of loss, mourning and identity through several interrelated stories. Residents of an apartment complex in Mexico City live in separate flats and experience individual traumas linked to the loss of loved ones. In their daily interactions, they recognize each other’s pain while processing their own grief and exploring creative
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La représentation de Jeanne d’Arc dans la France du XVIe siècle: Politique, religion et genre dans L’Histoire tragique de la Pucelle d’Orléans (1580) Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Ji Gao
Abstract This article proposes an interpretation of Fronton du Duc’s L’Histoire tragique de la Pucelle d’Orleans (1580), an important early adaptation of Joan of Arc’s story partially based on contemporary records of her trial. Through a close reading of this little-known work, the article shows that the Jesuit playwright consciously made use of three types of discourse—politics, religion, and gender
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Tortura institucional en el cine español de la Transición Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 David Delgado López
Abstract This essay analyzes the representation of institutionalized torture in 1980’s Spanish cinema as it denounces police practices during the early years of Democracy. Consequently, this essay studies and examines the data on tortures practiced during the Spanish Transition based on Sophie Baby’s and Ignacio Mendiola’s research. It also analyzes the role torture has in a democratic government in
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Derrumbamiento del poder soberano y transculturación del sistema hacienda en Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 María Andrea Díaz Miranda
Abstract This article analyzes the transformations of the hacienda system in the Peruvian highlands during the second half of the twentieth century through the novel Todas las sangres written by José María Arguedas. Departing from Michel Foucault’s work and his distinction between sovereign power and biopolitics, the article analyses different social formations that evolve from the hacienda system
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Charles Leavitt. Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Dana Renga
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 3, 2023)
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Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Anne M. Pasero
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 3, 2023)
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Carolyn Wolfenzon. Nuevos fantasmas recorren México. Lo espectral en la literatura mexicana del siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2020. 340 pp. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Carmen Serrano
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 3, 2023)
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Performative Polemic: Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Juliette Cherbuliez
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 3, 2023)
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Michael J. McGrath. Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Tania de Miguel Magro
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 3, 2023)
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Twenty-First Century Approaches to Hispanic Golden Age Drama Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Christopher D. Gascón
Abstract Diversity and inclusivity have guided many scholars of Hispanic Golden Age drama in their attempts to cover new ground and incorporate fresh insights in the first quarter of the twenty-first century on early modern theater written in Spanish. The six essays in this special issue provide a sampling of that spirit, exploring themes such as physical, ethnic, and political otherness, the dynamics
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Lope Enters with His Entourage: Metatheatricality in Ignacio Amestoy’s Lope y sus Doroteas Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
Abstract This article examines how Lope de Vega is brought to center stage as a character in the recent theater production Lope y sus Doroteas o cuando Lope quiere, quiere (2021), written by Ignacio Amestoy and directed by Ainhoa Amestoy. The play explores Lope’s last years, his literary work, his relationship with his youngest and illegitimate daughter, Antonia Clara, and his personal struggles. This
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The Unstageable Birth of the Crip Galán: Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Las paredes oyen Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Pablo García Piñar
Abstract Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s Las paredes oyen is not an ordinary comedia. Its verses portray the embodied and social experience of disability in seventeenth-century Spain from the insider perspective of a disabled person. The play had a successful eighteen-year run in the Habsburg Court of Philip IV, but, paradoxically, it was never performed as Ruiz de Alarcón originally envisioned. Archival evidence
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The Criticism is Coming from Inside the Casa: Sor Juana’s Colonial Critique Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Erin Cowling
Abstract The debates surrounding Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s fictional work have frequently centered on her use of autobiographical details to inform her characterizations and plots. In Los empeños de una casa, Sor Juana incorporates not only her personal details but also her deep connections to Mexico as a colonized state, to an extent not yet fully explored by scholars. Thus, she breaks the rules
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Morisco Justice in Calderón’s Amar después de la muerte Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Sharon D. Voros
Abstract For Thomas Case and Erik Coenen, Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s notion of justice has theological origins in Saint Thomas Aquinas’s natural law and national self-determination. Issues of Morisco justice become a means of dramatic development. In Amar después de la muerte, Calderón dramatizes the Morisco revolt in Granada (1567–1571). Moorish descendants sought refuge and a return to Islam, after
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Making It Abroad: Bernarda Ramírez (Naples) and Petronila Jibaja (Lisbon) Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Susan Paun de García
Abstract From earliest times, the life of actors or actresses was a sort of “escaparate” or showcase, always on display. Much like today’s gliteratti, they were both admired and looked down upon. If the acting profession was seen as morally reprehensible in general, the attitude toward women was no less critical. Given social norms that saw the female sex almost exclusively in terms of her body and
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Diego Sánchez de Badajoz’s Musical Farsas: The Significance of El juego de las cañas Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-06-28 J. Yuri Porras
Abstract Music in Iberian early modern theater presents the complex challenge of recovery and coherent contextualization, especially in PreLopean theater. Diego Sánchez de Bajadoz deserves more attention not merely because some of his works operate as proto-zarzuelas but also because his drama pertains to a declining cycle in the trajectory of Spanish sacred theater. This essay will focus on how Diego
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Bare Life and Biopolitics in El Rey de La Habana Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Micah McKay
Abstract In this essay, I propose a reading of Pedro Juan Gutiérrez’s novel El Rey de La Habana (1999) as a critique of the reduction of political life to what philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls “bare life.” The novel, written during the período especial highlights the state of emergency and economic crisis that overwhelmed Cuba following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet
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Painting in Casanova’s Paris Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Rori Bloom
Abstract Although Casanova’s memoirs appear to tell the story of his erotic adventures, this article argues that Part 3 Chapter 13 of the Histoire de ma vie is organized around an interrogation of esthetics. Specifically, in the last chapter recounting his first stay in Paris, Casanova evokes different paintings and painters to develop his own ideas on representation. In explaining his relationship
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Necropolítica del himen naturalista: virginidad, excedentes de vida y poder soberano en Santa (1903), El hijo del Estado (1884) y El himen en México (1885) Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Carlos Gustavo Halaburda
Abstract Sexual practices disassociated from the intimate family milieu and its reproductive futures were considered a betrayal against collective national wealth in fin-de-siècle Mexican Naturalism. One of the best-known scenes of the punishment for delitos de incontinencia (sexual incontinency) appears in Santa (1903), a representative urban novel by Federico Gamboa. Santa was perhaps the most widely
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Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Santiago Acosta
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Alvaro Kaempfer
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Luz Ainaí Morales-Pino
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Crear entre mundos: Nuevas tendencias en la metaficción española Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2023-02-26 Marta Pérez-Carbonell
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 77, No. 1, 2023)
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Safo y su recepción moderna: María Rosa de Gálvez Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Aurora Luque
Abstract The reception of Sappho in modernity raises a series of readings that explore various facets of the Greek poetess. This essay analyzes two works by María Rosa de Gálvez (her drama Safo and Poetry. Ode to a lover of the imitation arts) because they take into account the sapphic person and work, combined in the classic category of fame. An 18th-century woman writer projects the voice and figure
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Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Margarita Vargas
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 4, 2022)
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Bodies as Signs: Somacentric Signification and the Foundation of Meaning in Franz Kafka’s “Ein Hungerkünstler” and “In der Strafkolonie” Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Christian Baier
Abstract This article offers a comparative reading of “Ein Hungerkünstler” and “In der Strafkolonie,” combining the topic of incomprehension and miscommunication with the motif of the body. It analyzes how meaning and signification are conceptualized within the two stories, how problems of misunderstanding are framed and possible solutions explored. In an attempt to overcome the limitations of speaking
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The Joy and Melancholy of Living Beings in Mon ancêtre Poisson Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Marla Epp
Abstract Christine Montalbetti’s novel Mon ancêtre Poisson (2019) is teeming with descriptions of living things, perhaps not surprisingly given its subject, the life of her great-great-grandfather, the botanist Jules Poisson. In this essay, I argue that the focus on living beings becomes a way of fleshing out her account of this distant ancestor, whose life story she can only piece together from archival
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Drawing a Dream: Joaquín Peinado’s Artwork and the Semiotic in José María Hinojosa’s La flor de Californía Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Stephanie R. Gates
Abstract The juxtaposition of dream narratives from Spanish surrealist writer José María Hinojosa’s La flor de Californía (1928) and artist Joaquín Peinado’s four drawings found interspersed throughout the collection demonstrates a symbiotic relationship between the artist and writer’s creative purposes, in true surrealist fashion creating an “image-text.” Thus, the present article argues that Peinado’s
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Nunca mayor sobervia comidió Luçifer”. Límites del conocimiento y cultura claustral en el Libro de Alexandre Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Pablo Ancos
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 4, 2022)
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Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Language of the Early Spanish Empire Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Ana L. Méndez-Oliver
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 4, 2022)
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Staging Lives in Latin American Theater Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Osvaldo Sandoval-Leon
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 4, 2022)
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Precarious Mourning: Friendship in Nathacha Appanah’s Le dernier frère (2007) Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Akrish Adhikari
Abstract This article considers and develops Jacques Derrida’s ideas on friendship. According to him, friendship between two people is haunted by the knowledge that both will die, and that one will probably witness the death of the other. Due to this knowledge, friendship is structured by a sense of mourning, both before and after the friend’s death. I read this idea in the context of Nathacha Appanah’s
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Capitalist Thresholds: La muerte de Artemio Cruz and the Mapmaking of Modern Mexico Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Pavel Andrade
Abstract In this essay, I argue that Carlos Fuentes’ La muerte de Artemio Cruz (1962) delineates a theory of Mexico’s long transition to capitalism. I demonstrate that Fuentes’ novel makes sense of the world as it continually separates the external from the internal, the realm of the social from the realm of the individual, and popular from bourgeois interests. While literary scholarship has often
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Looking In and Shouting Out: Gendered Perspectives on the Convent in Gouges, Diderot, and Théron Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Kelly Keenan
Abstract This article argues that the gendered differences present in eighteenth-century French convent literature are put forth by two interconnected factors: (1) the ways in which the author understands and critiques the structure and function of monastic confinement and (2) the mechanism that drives the text forward, namely voice, gaze, or embodiment. Close readings of Olympe de Gouges’s Le Couvent
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Awaiting Revolution: Performing Chile’s Hierarchies in Ernesto Orellana’s Inútiles Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Carlos A. Ortiz
Abstract In response to the 2019 social uprising in Chile that resulted in several casualties, trauma, and an eventual plebiscite where the nation decided to rewrite its constitution, scholars are tracing what led to this social outburst. This study examines Ernesto Orellana’s Inútiles (2016) to show how theater crystallized the desires and need for change prior to the estallido social of October 2019
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Ana Elena Puga and Víctor M. Espinosa. Performances of suffering in Latin American migration: Heroes, Martyrs and Saints. Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Christina Baker
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 3, 2022)
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Ainsley Morse. Word play. Experimental poetry and soviet children’s literature . Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern up, 2021. 251 pp Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Erika Haber
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 3, 2022)
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Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870–1945 Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Matthew D. Miller
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 3, 2022)
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CAROLINE A. KITA. Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna. Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater . Bloomington, IN: Indiana up, 2019. 188 pp Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Helga Schreckenberger
Published in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures (Vol. 76, No. 3, 2022)
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New Worlds of Fiction: Contemporary Basque Women Writers Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Cristina Ortiz-Ceberio, María Pilar Rodríguez
Abstract This special issue focuses on the work of contemporary Basque women writers with four articles dedicated to the study of selected narrative fiction by Katixa Agirre, Karmele Jaio, Edurne Portela, and Eider Rodriguez. A change in the traditionally male canon of Basque literature, represented by figures such as Bernardo Atxaga and Ramon Saizarbitoria, is underway, and female writers are offering
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Katixa Agirre y Los turistas desganados: las dos caras del País Vasco Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Jon Kortazar, Paloma Rodriguez-Miñambres
Abstract This article proposes a reading of Katixa Agirre’s (1981) work Atertu arte itxaron (2015), translated as Los turistas desganados (2017). The analysis will include two different aspects: first a consideration of the road-movie structure and then the work will be analyzed through the recuperation of the conflictive memory of violence in the Basque Country. The chapter situates the novel in the
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La casa del padre en ruinas. La narrativa de Karmele Jaio Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Mari Jose Olaziregi
Abstract This article will analyze the thematic and poetic axes that govern Karmele Jaio’s literary universe, with special focus on narrative production formed by three books of short stories—Hamabost zauri (2004; Heridas crónicas, 2010), Zu bezain ahul (2007), and Ez naiz ni (2012)—and two novels—Amaren eskuak (2006; Las manos de mi madre, 2008) and Musika airean (2010; Música en el aire, 2013)—as
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On Eider Rodriguez’s Fiction: Gender, Anger, and (Basque) Politics Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Larraitz Ariznabarreta
Abstract The work of Basque short story writer Eider Rodriguez (Errenteria, 1977) has garnered remarkable acclaim from contemporary critics and readers alike. In the realm of Basque literature—which often rolls into the common sea of politics and/or sentimentality—Rodriguez’s stories slickly swim their way between both waters; and fly inland as the Basque witches’ old saying goes, “sasi guztien gainetik
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Understanding Metabolized Violence: Intimate and Socio-affective Ties of Terror in Basque Writer Edurne Portela’s El eco de los disparos (2016) and Mejor la ausencia (2017) Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Annabel Martín
Abstract This essay studies the writing of Basque author Edurne Portela (1974) and its special sensitivity toward the micropolitics of violence. Rejecting Basque society’s immunity to the tragedy of ETA violence, ignoring the call to “turn the page” after ETA’s permanent disarmament (2011) and disappearance (2018), Portela’s fiction betrays Basque and Spanish society’s ignorance and insensitivity toward
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Figures of Exclusion and Embodied Life-Narratives in Najat El Hachmi’s El lunes nos querrán Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Katarzyna Moszczyńska-Dürst
Abstract The aim of this article is to analyze the inscription of the embodied and political “I” in El lunes nos querrán (2021), Najat El Hachmi’s most recent novel. The study starts from the premises developed by Martine Leibovici in order to focus on the narrator’s particular social position as an “insider-outsider” as a powerful means of (self)knowledge about the mechanisms of social exclusion and
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Insolación de Emilia Pardo Bazán: De la burguesía “fin-de-siècle” al psicoanálisis Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Carlos Feal
Abstract Insolación (1889) is Emilia Pardo Bazán’s version of the Don Juan myth, incarnated in the male protagonist Diego Pacheco. A signifier of masculine desire, Pacheco will become Pardo Bazán’s object of projections of men she loved, such as Benito Pérez Galdós, a womanizer, and José Quiroga, her husband from whom she was separated. He also represents a mother figure in the mind of Asís, the religious
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Genital Inspections in 1952: Staging the Appearance of Transsexuality in France Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Todd W. Reeser
Abstract Jean de Létraz’s unpublished, little-known vaudeville play The Maiden of Auteuil (La pucelle d’Auteuil) ends, after the stage goes black and just before the curtain falls, with six characters performing a genital inspection on the main character Camille, who passed as both a man and a woman over the course of the play. Performed at the Palais-Royal Theatre in Paris in 1952, the comic play