Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2008 - Nº 13
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Artículo Review: Constante González Groba. On their own premises(Universidad de Sevilla, 2008) Soto Delgado, SandraArtículo Herman Melville. Israel Potter [Reseña](Universidad de Sevilla, 2008) Toda Iglesia, María de los Ángeles; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana)Artículo Review: La literatura de Estados Unidos desde sus orígenes hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial. Carme Manuel Cuenca(Universidad de Sevilla, 2008) Guijarro González, Juan Ignacio; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana)Artículo The hesitancy of a “Middle-Aged witch”: Anne Sexton’s “Transformations”(Universidad de Sevilla, 2008) Fukuda, ShihoIn “Transformations”, a work innovatively based on the stories of the Brothers Grimm, Anne Sexton assumes the sarcastic persona of a “middle-aged witch,” a guise taken on to spotlight and criticize the relentless patriarchal themes that permeate the Grimms’ fairy tales. Since the poet’s most creative period paralleled the emergence of the feminist movement in the USA, the appearance of a feminist interpretation of well-known, male oriented folklore can be considered to be a logical occurrence. However, Sexton’s poems concurrently exhibit hesitancy on the part of the “middle-aged witch” in her attempt to revise the prevailing male-centered conception of the world. Her hesitancy suggests a personal reluctance to commit to gender issues and thereby reveals a woman who could not fully free herself from submissiveness to the masculine power. This paper reveals such ambivalent feelings on the part of the poet towards the female status.Artículo El orden/desorden binario en la ficción de Stephen Marlowe: de los sujetos neuróticos al caos narrativo(2008) Calvo, MónicaEl presente artículo se centra en el análisis de la noción de "desorden" en dos novelas del autor estadounidense stephen marlowe (1928-2008), publicadas en 1972 y 1987, e intenta demostrar que existe una clara continuidad en el tratamiento del tema, si biArtículo Emprender la huída: diásporas voluntarias y espacios de trauma en el relato breve afroamericano(2008) San José Rico, Patricia¿Qué significa "hogar"? No hay respuestas definitivas para esa pregunta. El de hogar es un concepto variable que es visto de maneras diferentes por las distintas comunidades culturales. En términos generales, el hogar debería suponer un lugar seguro, un "Artículo Sex and Text: Re(dis)covering Male Sexualities in American Fiction(2008) Armengol, Josep. M.Most discussions about literary representations of (male) sexuality go back to Leslie Fiedler’s Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), who argued that American fiction focuses on men’s struggle to avoid women and (hetero)sexuality. However, this article attempts to move beyond Fiedler’s arresting assertions by revisiting the construction of male sexualities in a selected number of U.S. fictions, ranging from Henry James’s The American (1877) to F. S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925) to Richard Ford’s Rock Springs (1987). In re(dis)covering (male) sexualities in American fictions from the nineteenth, early-twentieth, and late-twentieth centuries, respectively, the study will try to show how Fiedler’s ideas about male sexuality, put forward in 1960, are not only inapplicable to contemporary fiction but may also be questioned when discussing classical American texts. In rereading sexuality in the selected works of James, Fitzgerald and Ford, all of which concern themselves with male protagonists, the article will pay specific attention to the (fictional) connections between masculinities and male sexualities. In so doing, we will conclude three main points. First, American literary men have recurrently understood sexuality as a marker of virility. Second, James, Fitzgerald and Ford are all similarly concerned with rewriting the traditional conception of male sexuality as a proof of masculinity. Third, Richard Ford has also provided new, alternative, non-phallic representations of male sexualities to contemporary U.S. fiction.Artículo Ozieblo, Bárbara, and Jerry Dickey. Susan Glaspell and Sophie Treadwell. Oxon and New York: routledge, 2008(2009) Espejo Romero, Ramón; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana)Artículo "An interview with Sarah Schulman"(2008) Toda Iglesia, María de los Ángeles; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana)An interview with Sarah Schulman, the New York writer and activist for lesbian and gay liberation, held during the II Congress on Gay and Lesbian Culture held in 2006 at the University of Seville and updated via email. Schulman is the author of nine novels chronicling lesbian and gay life in New York over several decades, which have achieved a cult status among lesbian readers well beyond the limits of the US, several plays staged both in avant-garde and uptown venues, and four nonfiction books on different aspects of American culture, and has been awarded among other distinctions the 2009 Kessler Award for her contribution to the field of Gay and Lesbian Studies.