Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2017 - Nº 21
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Artículo Home on the border in Ana Castillo's "The Guardians": the colonial matrix of power, epistemic disobedience, and decolonial love(Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Poks, MalgorzataAfter 9/11, more than ever in the history of the United States of America, security and domesticity have become paradoxical antonyms in racially and ethnically mixed areas, like that of the US-Mexican border. The borderland‘s history is further complicated by the issue of illegal immigration and its corollaries, such as strict border control and mass deportations of ―aliens,‖ as well as the rising crime rate. Even though it is protected by a fence and monitored by heavily armed border patrols, the area‘s notoriety for narcosmuggling, human trafficking and femicide keeps growing. Paradoxically, the more drastic the security measures used, the more dangerous the borderland becomes. In her 2007 novel The Guardians, Ana Castillo suggests that tighter control itself is responsible for criminalizing the border. Focusing on a Mexican American woman‘s search for her brother lost during an illegal crossing, the novel presents a complex dynamic between security and domesticity. The following article attempts to trace this dynamic through the epistemic lens of decolonial methodology.Artículo Parallel deaths: logic and structure in the house of Poe(Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Botero Camacho, ManuelThroughout this article a through reading of the short-story titled “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe is proposed, with purpose of exposing it as a fully intentional construction. The sort of intentionally here is mentioned focuses on the structural framework, the narrative: its literary design. This analysis draws the reader’s attention specifically to the layout, frame and scenering of the tale in order to reveal parallel structures expressed in a symmetry between ground and figure. The work adresses as well the author’s intrusion within the text, the problema entailed by a referential language and the purposeful transformations resulting resulting from textual appropiation.Artículo The limits of lovemaking and community: infertility in "Their eyes were watching God"(Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Harris, TrudierJanie Crawford, the protagonist in Zora Neale Hurston‟s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), never fully grows up or integrates completely into any of the communities of which she is a part in the novel. She therefore remains “infertile” in several relationships and communities that showcase diverse kinds of “fertility,” whether that fertility is Logan Killicks‟s productivity with his farmland, Jody Starks‟s successes in building Eatonville, or even Tea Cake‟s skills at gambling and guitar-playing. No matter her environment, Janie remains outside of systems of fertility, more child-like than adult, which means that the blossoming pear tree image that surrounds her, and which seems to epitomize sexuality and fertility, is wasted on Janie, because she refuses to grow up and become fertile either by procreating or by contributing creatively to the communities in which she lives.Artículo "He was in no place and no place was in him": Edward Dahlberg's autobiographical fictions as an epistemology of sites(Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Urdiales, MartínEdward Dahlberg‘s childhood, adolescence and youth, narratively fictionalized in two early autobiographical novels, Bottom Dogs (1930) and Flushing to Calvary (1932) is markedly and recurrently informed by the influence of urban sites and institutional spaces. As the article discusses, a number of these spaces are pivotal to the development of Dahlberg‘s autobiographical character Lorry, and can be productively read in terms of the Foucaldian heterotopia, while other sites, explicitly identified as metropolitan, are marginal to Lorry‘s autobiographical narrative, and yet serve to foreground the protagonist‘s absence from them in relevant ways. Finally, other spaces may epitomize a predominantly artificial nature, functioning as simulacra of experiences that Lorry undergoes but needs to cast out. Drawing on theoretical tenets related to space, site and place, as set out by Foucault, Baudrillard, Lefebvre, and others, in this article I will contend that a situated epistemological approach is essential in fruitfully reading Dahlberg‘s early fictions, and, ultimately, in understanding his quest for space in both biographical and artistic terms.Artículo Woman on trial: gender and the accussed woman in plays from Ancient Greece to the contemporary stage [Reseña](Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Hernando Real, NoeliaArtículo Individual and collective identity: Dorothy Allison's literary contribution to demystifying the poor whites/"white trash" stigma(Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Parrondo Carretero, ConcepciónIn this day and age, when uncertainty for minority groups seems to have resurfaced in the political arena of the USA, it is worth noting the work that writers such as Dorothy Allison have been performing during the past forty years. Determined to take down the barriers that outcast the poor whites from the mainstream, Allison‟s work feels as contemporary now as it did in the nineteen eighties. Adamant on telling things how they are, Allison‟s life and work represent a relentless effort to draw the reader closer to the people she grew up with, the poor whites, also known as „white trash.‟ This article serves as an introduction to Dorothy Allison‟s literary commitment to revealing the truth behind the stigma of being poor and white. In doing so, Allison‟s literary contribution to building poor whites‟ true identity will be examined through the analysis of the objectives behind her writing, her own identity seeking mechanisms as well as her honest attempt to show the humanness in being white and poor. A look into her work in which her contribution to collective and individual identity seeking can be clearly identified is being offered to conclude this article.Artículo Life lines: writing transcultural adoption [Reseña](Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Simal González, BegoñaArtículo Pauline E. Hopkins's intertextual aesthetics in Contending Forces(Universidad de Sevilla, 2017) Manuel, CarmePauline E. Hopkins‘s attitude towards fiction as a terrain where political and social truths could be uttered, helped her establish a new hybrid writing paradigm in Contending Forces, her historical romance. The extraordinary intertextual load of references, verbatim borrowings and changed citations, her Emersonian ―noble borrowing,‖ is in fact both an audacious maneuvering of popular literature, and a systematic and subversive redrafting of preceding canonical texts from the Anglo-American literary traditions and of contemporary historical political testimonies. Hopkins‘s palimpsestic aesthetics recreate a sense of African American literary interventions aimed at recomposing a new black archival imaginary redeemed of racist detritus. Hopkins does not emerge in this novel as a plagiarist, as happens in some of her novels, but as an alluder, a narrative voice that always signals readers towards the racial burden of the past hidden in a corpus of intertextual debts to anchor her African American historical romance in a world of textually independent dependence.