Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.13
Antonio Jesús Martínez Pleguezuelos
{"title":"Silvia Pilar Castro Borrego and María Isabel Romero Ruiz, eds. 2015. Identities on the Move. Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities","authors":"Antonio Jesús Martínez Pleguezuelos","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":"223-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81223379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017.39.2.89-104
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
This paper addresses the meanings of blackness in Esi Edugyan’s second novel, arguing that the text lends itself up to a multiplicity of readings. On one hand, this is achieved by exploring the historicity and geography of race, insofar as the text dwells on how the totalitarian German state and the Second World War concur to impose shifting and sometimes even antagonistic forms of racialization on all non-Aryans. On the other, it is the result of bringing together characters that, while phenotypically belonging to the same group, are yet altogether dissimilar as to origins, language and upbringing. Consequently, the novel showcases experiences and subjectivities across the spectrum of what Paul Gilroy has named “the Black Atlantic.” Keywords: Canadian literature; Afro-Europeanness; Black Atlantic; African diaspora; jazz; Esi Edugyan
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Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.12
Cristina Pividori
{"title":"Gabriel Insausti. 2015. Tierra de nadie: la literatura inglesa y la Gran Guerra.","authors":"Cristina Pividori","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":"39 1","pages":"217-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78458470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.19
Laura Filardo-Llamas
{"title":"Jane Lugea. 2016. World Building in Spanish and English Spoken Narratives","authors":"Laura Filardo-Llamas","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"253-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88343321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.02
J. Armengol
While scholarship has increasingly acknowledged Ralph Ellison’s indebtedness to Herman Melville, whose novella “Benito Cereno” (1855) was used as an epigraph to Invisible Man (1952), fewer scholars have discussed their common literary foci on blindness as a racial and gendered visual metaphor. Borrowing from the latest scholarship on whiteness and/as racial dominance, this article revisits “Benito Cereno” to show how Captain Delano’s lack of belief in the possibility of a slave insurrection throughout the novella is itself an effect of racism, stemming mostly from the taken-for-granted-ness of white superiority, which Melville shows as distorting the whites’ perceptions of blacks. In so doing, I will also explore Ellison’s reworking of Melville’s racial imagery in Invisible Man, which seems to extend the blindness metaphor to both black and white characters, re-presenting cross-racial blindness as reciprocal rather than unidirectional. As part of this argument, the article posits the inseparability of gender and race, suggesting that Ellison’s depiction of white racism may be traced back to the (antebellum) definition of American manhood as free and nonenslaved, which Melville’s novella both illustrates and undermines. I thus conclude that Ellison’s and Melville’s works skilfully anatomize, and critique, the discourses on whiteness and/as masculinity of their respective historical moments, highlighting their interdependence, but also their internal contradictions, which the black characters end up using to their own advantage. Keywords: Herman Melville; Ralph Ellison; “Benito Cereno”; Invisible Man; literary influence; black-white relations
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Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.01
Peter Mathews
This essay emerged from the intersection of two texts: a 2009 article by Alistair Cormack claiming that Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) was a rejection of postmodernism in favor of a return to F.R. Leavis’s “Great Tradition,” and the protagonist Briony’s closing question: “What are novelists for?” This essay criticizes the ongoing legacy of Leavis’s association of literature and moral improvement, an argument still being recycled today by critics like Harold Bloom and Martha Nussbaum, by tracing McEwan’s long history of interrogating this presumed ethical link in his fiction. Far from affirming Leavis’s position, McEwan’s work shows that some of humanity’s worst atrocities have coincided with its greatest periods of education and literacy. Rather than a moral phenomenon, the concluding section of the essay draws on the recent work of Nancy Armstrong, among others, to argue that the novel reflects the production of a peculiarly modern form of subjectivity that allows Atonement, by combining postmodern strategies with references to seminal texts from the British tradition (Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Austen, Woolf), to reveal the obscured roots of what gave birth to the novel in the first place. Keywords: Ian McEwan; Atonement; British novel; F.R. Lewis; postmodernism
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Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.18
J. Pertusa
{"title":"David Alderson. 2016. Sex, Needs & Queer Culture. From Liberation to the Post-Gay","authors":"J. Pertusa","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"247-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73833824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.07
M. V. Domínguez-Rodríguez
During the eighteenth century, language-experts were increasingly concerned with correctness and appropriate social expression. As a result, English grammar went through several attempts to codify and prescribe rules for correct usage, so that the number of these works increased rapidly from the 1760s onwards and reached a notable peak in the 1790s. In order to find a place in an increasingly saturated marketplace, authors, editors and publishers variously resorted to selling strategies that included, for instance, adding value to the English grammar by incorporating rich prefatory or post-main-text matter. This paper deals with author(itie)s and sources explicitly mentioned in the prefatory matter of eighteenth-century English grammars for children, with a focus on metacomments aimed at endorsing the book with reliability and validity for teachers and young learners. The study is based on acknowledged author(itie)s and sources so as to identify which were most commonly cited in the material examined, on the one hand, and to discuss the different reasons articulating this practice, on the other. Keywords: English grammars; eighteenth century; paratext; prefatory matter; metacomments
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Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.16
F. Bonafede
{"title":"Tyrus Miller, ed. 2016. The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis","authors":"F. Bonafede","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":"52 1","pages":"239-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80897988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-19DOI: 10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.11
Ana González-Rivas Fernández
{"title":"Emron Esplin and Margarida Vale de Gato, eds. 2014. Translated Poe.","authors":"Ana González-Rivas Fernández","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"213-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91146729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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