Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2016 - Nº 20
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Artículo Voces contra la mediocridad la vanguardia teatral de los provincetown players, 1915-1922. Noelia Hernando Real.(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) González Crespán, AraceliArtículo Intertextuality in American Drama. Drew Eisenhauer and Brenda Murphy, Editors.(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Clemente, CristóbalArtículo An Interview with Robert Hass(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Patea, VioricaArtículo The Deadly Cash Nexus in the Slave Narrative of Venture Smith(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Zaidi, Ali ShehzadThis article examines Venture Smith‟s slave narrative, one of the very first in the United States, in which Smith recounts his African childhood and his struggle to purchase his freedom. Smith describes various financial transactions including one that led to the death of his son. Because he exploits other African Americans in pursuit of his freedom, Smith is implicated in the very system that had enslaved him. In his mordant narrative Smith delegitimizes slavery by showing how it converts human beings into commodities. At its conclusion, the narrative conveys the sorrow of a man relegated to social death by the institution of slavery.Artículo Revisiting the Campo: A Biopolitical Reading of Perry Miyake’s 21st Century Manzanar(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Simal González, BegoñaThis article approaches Perry Miyake‟s 21st Century Manzanar, a recent example of neo-internment literature, from a biopolitical perspective. In his novel, Miyake revisits the history of Japanese American “internment” in a near future, when the US is waging an economic war against Japan and Japanese Americans are once more sent to concentration camps. I argue that, far from obfuscating the historical past, this novel teases out its less-obvious truths. First, racist profiling effectively places every single person of Japanese ancestry in a state of exception: as homo sacer, (s)he is beyond legal rights. Once in camp, having been reduced to nuda vita, the prisoners will submit to having their lives biopolitically “managed.” I conclude that 21st Century Manzanar acts both as an effective lens through which to re-interpret America‟s problematic past and as an astute warning against replicating such mistakes in the future.Artículo From Revenge to Justice: Perpetrator Trauma in Erdrich’s The Round House(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Roldán Sevillano, LauraLouise Erdrich‘s The Round House (2012) is not only an original detective novel but a moving postcolonial narrative which denounces the individual and collective trauma that sexism, gender violence and racism cause to Native American communities in the USA. The novel‘s interest also lies in how Erdrich problematizes the stereotypes traditionally attached to Indians as well as the victim/victimizer dichotomy by including a protagonist who is simultaneously a victim and a perpetrator traumatized by his own acts. The purpose of this paper is precisely to explore the figure of the protagonist from the perspective of perpetrator trauma—a neglected approach by critics— through a non-Eurocentric viewpoint in line with the current tendency of the decolonization of trauma studies. By so doing, I will demonstrate that under the novel‘s numerous layers lies Erdrich‘s core denunciation: the complex and unfair long-process situation of (neo)colonialism that Native Americans still endure in the 21st century.Artículo The Double Feminine Nature and the Medical Gaze: Elsie Venner (1861)(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Rodríguez Pastor, CristinaElsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny, written in 1861 by Oliver Wendell Holmes, is a singular novel. Written at a time when medicine was struggling to become a model of professionalization, its singularity lies in the fact that there are four doctors involved in the novel: its author, the narrator of the story and two main characters. Apart from this, out of the three main female characters in the novel, two of them sicken as a consequence of their disobedience to social and moral standards. The novel helps us explore some of the most important issues that were at the center of public debate in nineteenth century medicine: the supposedly pathological nature of female health, the complex relationship between doctor and patient, the consequences of crossing the borders of gender roles, the medical treatment of hysteria, the observational skills of the doctor, the role of the nurse and the threats to healthy reproduction.Artículo Margaret Fuller and Education: Between History and Aesthetics(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Miguel Alfonso, RicardoThis essay examines the significance of historical knowledge in the context of Margaret Fuller‟s educational proposals, especially in Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845). Starting from the idea that the idea of knowing history, especially during the Romantic generation in the US but also in Europe, is based on a relentless process of idealization of its main figures, I want to demonstrate that in Fuller‟s case this method is radicalized. So much so that Fuller literally reinvents certain historical processes and subjects (especially in the case of the Spanish Exaltados, as I analyze towards the end of the essay) in order to turn them into “useful” elements for her educational project and make them meaningful for her vision of female emancipation.Artículo Thomas Merton’s Americanism: A Study of his Ideas on America in his Letters to Writers(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Raggio, MarcelaThis paper explores Thomas Merton’s letters to writers, in order to determine Merton’s Americanist ideal. Based on the Latin American discourse of identity, especially José Martí’s, our hypothesis is that though in a few letters there is a sense of ―Pan-Americanism,‖ Merton’s predominant attitude is one of admiration and differentiation of Latin America from North America. Merton’s concerns with Latin America are directed towards three main issues: its history and the echoes in the present; its role in the future; and, above all, its poetry. Though he writes about these issues mainly to Latin American writers, there are also references in his correspondence with poets of other nationalities. The texts in the corpus of analysis date from the 1950s and 1960s; but they have retained relevance to this day, and may provide ways of establishing a North-South dialogue, as well as of valuing the contributions such ideas can make to contemporary relations among people.Artículo Louisa S. Mccord’s Caius Gracchus: A Transatlantic Southern Literary Response to 1848 European Revolutions(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Manuel Cuenca, CarmeLouisa S. McCord is the most important female intellectual in the antebellum South and one of its most recognized voices, even if her name rarely appears in studies not directly related to her region. McCord has a parallel, according to Mary Kelley, in Margaret Fuller, the relevant prewar Northern intellectual and essayist. From contrasting ideological positions, both left testimony of their interest in constructing a model of womanhood, capable of facing the contingencies of their times. Born in one of the most influential families of South Carolina, McCord produced a phenomenal synthesis of the conservative political, economic and religious arguments accepted in her times and managed to transform them into a coherent philosophy that stood as a firm foundation for a society based on slave labor and a rigid social hierarchy. With her political writings and especially with her tragedy Caius Gracchus, McCord shows that she was not only interested in Southern politics but, most important, in the possible consequences of European political upheavals, and specifically in the influence that the European Revolutions of 1848 could exert in American territories. Her play is then a revealing testimony of the involvement of Southern women in post-1848 transnational political debates.Artículo Genre Reconsidered in Louise Erdrich’s The Round House(Universidad de Sevilla, 2016) Ibarrola Armendáriz, AitorThis article discusses the significant shift in terms of genre to be observed in Louise Erdrich‘s fourteenth novel, The Round House (2012). This novel, which explores the effects of a sexual assault on an Ojibwe reservation, can be seen to use narrative styles and generic conventions that are quite different from those found in Erdrich‘s earlier works. The article considers the possible reasons that could explain Erdrich‘s decision to hybridize different genres (coming-of-age, thriller, etc.) in The Round House and how that decision may have conditioned the reception of the novel among Native and non-Indian readers alike. A number of socio-cultural and rhetorical theories of genre (Miller, Bitzer, Bakhtin) are used to discern the author‘s logic in opting for a specific blend of literary genres. The article concludes that Erdrich‘s generic choices are best understood in the light of the socio-political urgency and activism that the vulnerable situation of Native women on reservations demands.