[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

• Modern Ecopoetry. Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World, edited by Leonor M. Martínez Serrano and Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández. Series Nature, Culture and Literature, Volume: 16. Leiden: Brill, 2021. https://brill.com/view/title/58840. For more information see the publication flyer attached and the following link: https://brill.com/view/title/58840
• Otelo en España. La versión neoclásica y las obras relacionadas. Ángel-Luis Pujante and Keith Gregor (eds.), Murcia: edit.um; Madrid: Ediciones Complutense, 2020. 246 pp. This volume brings together for the first time the Spanish neoclassical version of Othello and the three related works that helped create a special “Othellomania” and so, directly or indirectly, aided the reception and transmission of Shakespeare in Spain. For more information, see the publication flyer attached.

 

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My chapter from a recent book on Modernism:

Garcia Landa, Jose Angel, The Mind, A Room of One’s Own: An Epiphanic Moment in Virginia Woolf (2019). José Angel García Landa. “The Mind, A Room of One’s Own: An Epiphanic Moment in Virginia Woof.” In The Fictional Minds of Modernism: Narrative Cognition from Henry James to Christopher Isherwood. Ed. Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3758808

Note that there’s a free-access English & Commonwealth Literature Journal at the SSRN: https://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Commonwealth-Lit.html

 

 

[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

We are delighted to announce the publication of Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage. The link on the Palgrave site is here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/<wbr />book/9783030584856

[José Angel GARCÍA LANDA]

(Re)defining Gender in Early Modern English Drama  (You’ve got a chapter here, Nora): https://thishugestage.blogspot.com/2021/04/redefining-gender-in-early-modern.html

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The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood, ed. by Coral Ann Howells. Cambridge University Press, 2021. Second edition. http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/canadian-literature/cambridge-companion-margaret-atwood-2nd-edition?format=PB&isbn=9781108707633

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We are pleased to announce the publication of the book, Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction, as part of the Peter Lang Series Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture.

https://www.peterlang.com/<wbr />view/title/73773?format=EPDF

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We are very pleased to announce the publication of our new book Latinidad at the Crossroads: Insights into Latinx Identity in the Twenty-First Century (Brill Rodopi 2021) ISBN: 978-90-04-46043-0Edited by Amanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa María González Rodríguez Latinidad at the Crossroad: Insights into Latinx identity in the Twenty-First Century provides insight into the ways in which Latinas/os struggle to forge their multiracial and multicultural identities within their own communities and in mainstream U.S. society.

This volume encompasses an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex range of latinidades that confronts stereotypical connotations, and simultaneously advocates a more flexible (re)definition that may overcome static collective representations of identity, ethnicity, and belonging. Well-positioned in the current political context, the notion of latinidad is examined as a complex sociological phenomenon of identity-construction which is affected by outside influences and is used as a powerful linguistic, cultural and ideological weapon to denounce oppression and deconstruct stereotypes. Including chapters from foundational and influential scholars, this collection moves towards a dynamic exploration of how Latinx are remapping their identity positions in twenty-first century America.

Table of Contents:

1. “Introduction: Revisiting Latinidad in the 21st Century” by Amanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa María González Rodríguez
2. “Seismic Shifts in Chicano/a Literature Leading to the Twenty-First Century: Are Latinos/as Now Coasting or Still Breaking New Ground?” by Francisco A. Lomelí
3. “Digging Through the Past to Reconcile Race and Latinx Identity in Dominican-American Women’s Memoirs” by Luisa María González Rodríguez
4. “Dominicans and the Political Realm of Latinidad in New York City” by Fernando Aquino
5. “Identity, De-colonization and Cosmopolitism in (Afro)Latina Artists’ Spoken Word Performances” by Esther Álvarez López
6. “Encarnaciones Cubanas: Elías Miguel Muñoz and Queering of the Latina/o Canon” by Ylce Irizarry
7. “Revisiting La Frontera: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood and Ana Teresa Fernández” by Ewa Antoszek
8. “Borders and Immigration: Revisiting Canonical Literature under Trump’s Regime” by José Antonio Gurpegui

For more information please see our flyer: https://brill.com/view/title/59115

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We’d like to send this e-mail to promote the book Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour published in December 2020 by Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. It may be relevant to those who specialise in Canadian studies, popular culture, musicology or comparative literature.

Description 

This monograph arose from thinking about the literary tradition as described by the Anglo-American modernist writers Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. In their view, the tradition of European love-lyrics crystallized in the work of the medieval Occitan troubadours, who represented the cultural and political milieu of the Occitanie of that period and whose work reflected the religious influences of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The main subject of their poetry was the worship of a divinized feminine character resembling the Virgin Mary, the Gnostic Sophia, or the ancient Mother Goddess. Their literary preoccupations further flourished in Tuscany, as well as among the German Minnesängers, and at the court of the Sicilian King Frederick II (1194–1250), from where they infiltrated into English literature during the Renaissance. In this period, Classical literature, in combination with troubadour poetry, became the cornerstone of English artistic production. However, it is not so well known that troubadour poetry took as its model the medieval poetry written in Andalusian Arabic. This enigmatic essence is what makes this literature so relevant as it is the first instance of the synthesizing of religions, mythologies, philosophies, literatures, symbols, and motifs coming from cultures other than our own. Nowadays, it is not surprising that contemporary artists draw on the troubadour poets and that they are even contrasted with them by critics. Such is the case of Leonard Cohen, who, during his career, revealed erudition in medieval poetry and religion, and whose work shows many parallels with the work of his Occitan and Andalusian predecessors. For this reason, the book presents a comparison of the texts and motifs present in their works and refers to another important facet of their œuvre: religion and mysticism. The purpose is to highlight the importance of troubadour poetry in the rise of popular culture in the second half of the 20th century. https://www.vydavatelstviupol.cz/en/978-80-244-5784-0 (paperback)
https://www.vydavatelstviupol.cz/en/978-80-244-5787-1 (iPDF)+ an overview of the book is attached to this e-mail

Author Jiří Měsíc holds a doctorate in English and American literature from Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. His main interests are the mystical branches of Abrahamic religions (Christian mysticism, Kabbalah, Sufism) and their echoes in literature and popular music. Among his most recent publications are the monograph Leonard Cohen, the Modern Troubadour published by Palacký University in December 2020, the critical edition of John Pass’s poetry, Větrná zvonkohra (Protimluv, 2020), the critical edition of Gertrude Stein’s work, Mluvit a naslouchat (Éditions Fra, 2019), as well as several book chapters and academic articles dealing with religious influences in popular music. His most recent research focuses on the exploitation of popular music for commercial purposes, political marketing, as well as on the presence of religious symbolism in advertising campaigns. Currently, he teaches courses on modern language, anthropology, Christian social thought, and ethics at ESIC University in Madrid.

If you’d like to obtain the book, feel free to contact the author on the following e-mail: jirimesic@gmail.com

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I would like to share with you the news of the publication of the book entitled Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Memory Lost (Routledge, 2021).
This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role.
Via analysis of selected works, Garrigós considers how the erasure of memory in a person with Alzheimer’s affects our idea of the identity of that person and their sense of belonging to a group. Starting out from three different types of memory (individual, social, and cultural), the study focuses on the narrative strategies that authors use to configure how the disease is perceived and represented.This study is significant not only because of what the texts reveal about those with Alzheimer’s, but also for what they say about us – about the authors and readers who are producing and consuming these texts, about how we see this disease, and what our attitudes to it say about contemporary U.S. society.

https://www.routledge.com/Alzheimers-Disease-in-Contemporary-US-Fiction-Memory-Lost/Garrigos/p/book/9781032035581

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This month’s issue of Dickens Quarterly sees the publication of my article on the discovery of what appears to be the earliest published translation of writing by Dickens into Spanish.  I argue that the unsigned translation should be attributed to Guillermo Macpherson, who would go on to be a noted Shakespeare translator. In a closing section on the diasporic history of print, I compare and contrast the routes by which English-language print reached Cádiz and Madrid in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
Here’s a link to the artlicle:

The Earliest Spanish Dickens? The 1844 Alborada Translation of Pickwick’s “Madman’s Manuscript”

[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

A new Special Issue of the journal The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 26, Issue 3-4 (2021) on Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era has been issued. 

This issue has been co-edited by Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Martínez-Falquina and Bárbara Arizti and it can be accessed on the following website: https://www.<wbr />tandfonline.com/toc/cele20/26/<wbr />3-4?nav=tocList

The Table of Contents comprises the following articles:

– Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era

– Introduction (Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Martínez-Falquina & Bárbara Arizti)

– Jewish Agents of Memory in Linda Grant’s Still Here: A Transgenerational and Intersectional Feminist Reading (Silvia Pellicer-Ortín)

– Social Media and Female Empowerment in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (Violeta Duce)

– Female Chants from the Past: Celtic Myths in Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea (Burcu Gülüm Tekin)

– Feminist Dystopia and Reality in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God and Leni Zumas’s Red Clocks (Silvia Martínez-Falquina)

– Disempowerment and Bodily Agency in Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and The Handmaid’s Tale TV Series (Julia Kuznetski)

– Reconfiguring Feminism: Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (Merve Sarıkaya-Şen)

– God is a Female Plant: Femininity and Divinity in the Stories of Anne Richter, Kathe Koja, and Karen Russell (Nieves Pascual Soler)

– Inez Baranay’s Ghosts Like Us as a Stolperstein (Bárbara Arizti)- The Social Importance of How Bodies Inhabit Spaces with Others: A Queer Reading of Sarah Waters’s The Paying Guests ( Susana Onega)

– A Reparative Reading of Feminism (Maite Escudero-Alías)

[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

A new issue of Hélice: Reflexiones críticas sobre ficción especulativa has just been released:

https://www.revistahelice.com/<wbr />helice-30/

• Sara Martín, «Retrospective Posthumanism: Frankenstein According to Our Vocabulary»
• Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, «The Female, the Intertextual, and the Transhuman in William Gibson Molly Millions»
• Beatriz Domínguez-García, «Of Mutants and Monsters: A Posthuman Study of Verhoeven’s and Wiseman’s Total Recall»
• Lidia María Cuadrado Payeras, «Posthuman Worldbuilding in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber: An Exploration of the Techno/Natural Divide»
• Rocío Carrasco Carrasco, «Experiencing the Posthuman: The Cinematic Clone in the 21st Century»
• Amaya Fernández Menicucci, «Mors Dei, Vita Mea: Human, Transhuman, and Posthuman Identities in the TV Altered Carbon and Westworld»
• Mónica Calvo Pascual, «The Tiger Flu: A Critical Posthumanist Response to the Illusion of Transhumanism»

[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

ASYRAS is happy to announce the publication of Volume 1 (Summer 2021) of GAUDEAMUS, the Journal of the Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies:
http://asyras.org/gaudeamus/>vol-1-summer-2021-2/

 

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Please find below some information concerning our new publication, entitled Postcolonial Youth in Contemporary British Fiction, recently published by Brill (Youth in a Globalising World Series, volume 15, https://brill.com/view/<wbr />title/60245) and edited by Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez, Jorge Sacido Romero and Noemí Pereira Ares. Please notice that the introduction to this volume is now available in Open Access.

ABSTRACT: Youth and the postcolonial are united in that both inhabit a liminal locus where new ways of being in the world are rehearsed and struggle for recognition against the impositions of dominant power structures. Departing from this premise, the present volume focuses on the experience of postcolonial youngsters in contemporary Britain as rendered in fiction, thus envisioning the postcolonial as a site of fruitful and potentially transformative friction between different identitary variables or sociocultural interpellations. In so doing, this volume provides varied evidence of the ability of literature—and of the short story genre, in particular—to represent and swiftly respond to a rapidly changing world as well as to the new socio-cultural realities and conflicts affecting our current global order and the generations to come.

[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

Now out is the third issue (Volume 2.1, summer 2020) of the Dylan Review, the open-access online journal launched in 2019 and dedicated to the academic study of Bob Dylan’s work, and of which I am an editorial board member. The new issue is available at:https://www.dylanreview.org/vol-2-1-summer-2020(for the earlier issues, see entries on my blog (http://rollason.wordpress.com) for 19 July 2019 and 10 January 2020).
As is only fitting, several articles home in on Dylan’s new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways: Charles Hartman offers a review from a musicological perspective; Richard Thomas draws out in fascinating detail the album’s multiple references to the Greco-Roman classics; and Anne Margaret Daniel focuses on the album’s stellar track ‘Murder Most Foul’ and its legion of allusions. Another recent release, ‘Travelin’ Thru: The Bootleg Series Vol. 15 1967-1969’, merits an informed review by John and Tim Hunt. Graley Herren enters the long-standing debate on Dylan’s Chronicles Volume One and its status as autobiographical fact or fiction; and there is a fascinating interview with Mark Davidson, librarian of the Bob Dylan Archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the future of Dylan studies in the archive and beyond.  The issue is available as a single .pdf, and the individual pieces can be accessed in both .pdf and webpage form. The quality of the various contributions shows that even with the Never-End Tour put on ice, Dylan studies are not only very much alive, but ever-expanding!

[José Angel GARCÍA LANDA]

I’ve begun reading this issue and I heartily recommend it, and for good measure also Dylan’s latest album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, which is one of his best in many years.  As to myself I don’t write on Dylan, but I do Dylan anyway. This one is ‘Things Have Changed’—which they have. https://youtu.be/X2FNmG17uds

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