Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2014 - Nº 18
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Artículo Review: Dixie matters: new perspectives on southern femininities and masculinities. Ed. U. Niewiadomska-Flis(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Manuel Cuenca, CarmeArtículo Review: "Parting the mormon veil". "Phyllis Barber’s writing". A. Chaparro Sainz(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Guijarro González, Juan IgnacioArtículo Review: Chuck Palahniuk: Fight club. Invisible monsters. Choke. Ed. F. Collado(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Garrigós González, CristinaArtículo "Beneath the surface": an interview with playwright Daniel Curzon(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Ceballos Muñoz, AlfonsoArtículo “Guiding a Community:” unworking community in Sandra Cisneros’ "The house on Mango Street"(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Rodríguez Salas, GerardoThe present study revises communitarian boundaries in the fiction of Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros. Using the ideas of key figures in post-phenomenological communitarian theory and connecting them with Anzaldúa and Braidotti’s concepts of borderland and nomadism, this essay explores Cisneros’ contrast between operative communities that crave for the immanence of a shared communion and substantiate themselves in essentialist tropes, and inoperative communities that are characterized by transcendence or exposure to alterity. In The House on Mango Street (1984) the figure of the child is the perfect starting point to ‘unwork’ (in Nancy’s terminology) concepts such as spatial belonging, nationalistic beliefs, linguistic constrictions, and gender roles through a selection of tangible imagery which, from a female child’s pseudo-innocent perspective, aims to generate an inoperative community beyond essentialist tropes, where individualistic and communal drives are ambiguously intertwined. Using Cisneros’ debut novel as a case study, this article studies the female narrator as embodying both a community of one and Cisneros’ search for an intellectual Chicano community.Artículo Integration versus assimilation within minority groups in North America: multidimensional acculturation measurement for francophone communities in the Canadian prairies(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) López Ruiz, BaltasarThe Francophone communities within the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan constitute the target group of the present study focused on acculturation processes. A survey aiming at measuring acculturation has been conducted, including a total of 223 participants. The data hereby displayed are the result of the statistical treatment of the responses extracted from a 24-question questionnaire, an adapted version of the Vancouver Index of Acculturation model. A multidimensional scale which includes behavioral and psychological domains has been designed to measure the Acculturation Index of the target group in relation to both the Canadian mainstream and Francophone heritage culture. The conclusions here presented support our hypothesis that the Francophones living in the Canadian Prairies generally opt for integration, whereas assimilation and separation are not often regarded as the preferred mode of acculturation.Artículo Spaces and flows in the Puerto Rican Barrio: "Latero stories", "Bodega dreams"(Universidad de Sevilla, 2014) Benito, JesúsTaking Manuel Castells’s idea of globalization in a world of late capitalism as a “space of flows,” where mobility and instability are essential to the workings of the system, the article looks at the role of the barrio and its ethnic dwellers as forces of stability and local resistance. If it is undeniable that many recent political movements of a clearly oppositional stance have gained visibility through the occupation of particularly prominent sites (whether in Zucotti Park, Tahrir Square or la Puerta del Sol, among others), can we also view the barrio as another site of metaphorical occupation, a bulwark against the forces of capitalist infiltration and gentrification? Can we then assume barrio dwellers as largely opposed to the economic dynamics of globalization? The article explores this issue by analyzing two Puerto Rican texts, Tato Laviera’s “Latero Story” and Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams, where the characters occupy diverse and complex positionalities with regards to the promises of a renewed American dream.