[Nora Rodriguez-Loro]

Stoncikaite, Ieva, y Mina-Riera, Núria. A. Creative Writing Workshop on Sexuality and Ageing: A Spanish Pilot Case
Study. Societies, 10(3), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10030057

Stone, John. The Two Noble Kinsmen and Eighteen Other Newly Discovered Early Modern English Quartos in an Hispano-Scottish Collection, Notes and Queries, https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaa089

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Yebra, José M. The Poetics of Otherness and Transition in Naomi Alderman’s Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-5275-4360-7

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José M. Yebra is a colleague of mine. One can learn new things about one’s colleagues here. By the way, I will include the references announced in these sections in my online bibliography, http://bit.ly/abibliog

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New Forms of Self-Narration
Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights

Ana Belén Martínez García

Develops the idea of life writing as a form of self-construction, whereby victims may reframe their story as that of an empowered survivor
Examines strategic narrative devices typical of testimonial accounts both online and offline
Unpacks the global phenomenon of young women’s testimonial projects

This book is a timely study of young women’s life writing as a form of human rights activism. It focuses on six young women who suffered human rights violations when they were girls and have gone on to become activists through life writing: Malala Yousafzai, Hyeonseo Lee, Yeonmi Park, Bana Alabed, Nujeen Mustafa, and Nadia Murad. Their ongoing life-writing projects diverge to some extent, but all share several notable features: they claim a testimonial collective voice, they deploy rights discourse, they excite humanitarian emotions, they link up their context-bound plight with bigger social justice causes, and they use English as their vehicle of self-expression and self-construction. This strategic use of English is of vital importance, as it has brought them together as icons in the public sphere within the last six years. New Forms of Self-Narration is the first ever attempt to explore all these activists’ life-writing texts side by side, encompassing both the written and the audiovisual material, online and offline, and taking all texts as belonging to a unique, single, though multifaceted, project.

Ana Belén Martínez García researches human rights life writing by young women activists at the University of Navarra, Spain. She is a member of the International Auto/Biography Association, the IABA-SNS (Students and New Scholars) Network, AEDEAN (Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies), and ISSN (International Society for the Study of Narrative).

You can purchase the book at the Palgrave Studies in Life Writing series website: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030464196

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“Shades of Noir in World Literatures”, guest-edited by Fiona Mackintosh (University of Edinburgh) and María Alonso Alonso (Universidade de Vigo).

https://academic.oup.com/fmls/issue

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World Political Theatre and Performance: Theories, Histories, Practices, edited by Mireia Aragay, Paola Botham and José Ramón Prado-Pérez (Brill, 2020).

The volume is a collection of essays from the Political Performances Working Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), organised in two sections: ‘Activist Theatres/Performances Past and Present’ and ‘Contemporary (Debates on) Political Theatre’. The contributors are: Julia Boll, Paola Botham, Marco Galea, Aneta Głowacka, Pujya Ghosh, Camila González Ortiz, Bérénice Hamidi-Kim, Fatine Bahar Karlıdağ, Madli Pesti, José Ramón Prado-Pérez, Trish Reid, Mikko-Olavi Seppälä, Andy Smith, Evi Stamatiou and Wei Zheyu. Full details are available on the following link: https://brill.com/view/title/57109?language=en

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Carmen Escobedo de Tapia and Alejandra Moreno Álvarez, eds. Spiritual and Corporeal Selves in India: Approaches in a Global World. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press (Lady Stephenson Library), 2020. ISBN (10): 1-5275-5780-4, ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-5780-2.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

List of Illustrations ………………………………………………………………………… vii

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………. 1

Carmen Escobedo de Tapia and Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez 

Chapter One ………………………………………………………………………………….. 15

“The Landing” Rohini Bannerjee 

Chapter Two …………………………………………………………………………………. 22

Neo-Vedanta: Some Conceptual Issues in the Contexts of Indian Discourses Murali Sivaramakrishnan 

Chapter Three ……………………………………………………………………………….. 32

Bodies and Functionings: Indian Experiences in the Capabilities Approaches of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum Javier Gil 

Chapter Four …………………………………………………………………………………. 53

Statues of Flesh, Art to be Touched Eva Fernández del Campo-Barbadillo 

Chapter Five …………………………………………………………………………………. 70

The Text, the Body and the Self in A. K. Ramanujan’s Poetic Universe Guillermo Rodríguez-Martín 

Chapter Six …………………………………………………………………………………… 88

Ecospirituality as a Crucial Reconciliation with the Inner Self: Uma in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting Ángela Mena-González 

Chapter Seven ……………………………………………………………………………… 106

Entrenched Evil Against Women: Corporeal and Spiritual Violence in Anuradha Roy’s Sleeping on Jupiter Jorge Diego-Sánchez 

Chapter Eight ………………………………………………………………………………. 121

Asking for it? Crime Narratives in the 2012 New Delhi Gang Rape Elena Avanzas-Álvarez 

Chapter Nine ……………………………………………………………………………….. 138

The Communicative Dimension of Dance in Bollywood Movies of the Last Two Decades Francesca Rosso 

Chapter Ten ………………………………………………………………………………… 151

The Female Yoga Body in Contemporary Weight-loss Media Rocío Riestra-Camacho  

Chapter Eleven ……………………………………………………………………………. 169

Chakras: The Symbolic Body in Yoga and Hindu Mysticism María Tausiet 

 Chapter Twelve …………………………………………………………………………… 186

Colonial and Postcolonial Ghosts: Victorian and Indian Spectral Narratives Antonio Ballesteros-González 

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Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text addresses the importance of dialogue between art and literature, text and image in our image-saturated era. In a globalized world, isolation and compartmentalization hinder us back, whereas the Romantic idea of belonging urges us to look beyond and to build bridges. Bearing this Romantic spirit in mind, rather than focusing on a traditional paragonal approach, this book puts forward the benefits of alliance by offering an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective. Illustrations are included to guide the reader into comparativism and intermedial encounters, while providing an inspiring overview of the literary and visual department both in Europe and America from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The different essays lead us through an aesthetic exploratory journey by the hand of Cervantes, Shakespeare, Felicia Hemans, Emily Eden, William Wordsworth, Edgar A. Poe, Flannery O’Connor, N. Scott Momaday, José Joaquín de Mora, Wallace Stevens and José Ángel Valente, among others.Editors, Beatriz González Moreno and Fernando González Moreno have brought together an international group of scholars around the idea of “painting words,” which they define as the pictorial ability of language to stir the reader’s imagination and the way illustrators have “read” literary works over the course of centuries. Many traditional comparative studies examine literature belonging to specific time periods or movements, far less frequently do they bridge visual culture with text– Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text aims to do just that.
https://www.routledge.com/Painting-Words-Aesthetics-and-the-Relationship-between-Image-and-Text/Moreno-Gonzalez-Moreno/p/book/9780367196769

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Martin, Sara. Representations of Masculinity in Literature and Film: Focus on Men, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/representations-of-masculinity-in-literature-and-film

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I love Sara Martin’s blog The Joys of Teaching Literature. Many-sided perspectives on the profession and the discipline and the works… highly recommended! https://blogs.uab.cat/saramartinalegre/

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Brian Richardson, A Poetics of Plot, on ‘unnatural narratives’, online full text:

https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/88537

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• Mr. Turbulent. A Critical Edition. By Jorge Blanco-Vacas (Peter Lang). Mr. Turbulent (1682) is an anonymous city comedy which starred popular comic actors and young actresses of great appeal. The play was produced in the immediate aftermath of the Exclusion Crisis. This first-ever critical edition offers a fully annotated modernized version of the text, together with an introduction that examines the contexts of the play. https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/71842
• A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015, edited by Wolfgang Görtschacher and David Malcolm (Wiley). A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960–2015 | Wiley Online Books.
• The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature, an edited collection on War Writing, co-edited by David Owen and Cristina Pividori (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). https://www.cambridgescholars/com/product/978-1-5275-6355-1.
• Gender in 21st Century Animated Children’s Cinema (Online publication) ed. by Sara Martin Alegre. This e-book is the product of the activities carried out in the MA course ‘Gender Studies: New Sexualities/New Textualities’, taught in the academic year 2020-21, within the MA in Advanced English Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This collective volume authored by the students is focused on how gender is represented in current 21st century Anglophone animated children’s cinema. The 57 films dealt with cover the period 2001-2020, from ‘Monsters Inc’ to ‘Onward’, and include analyses of film by Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Illumination Studios, Laika Studios, Blue Sky Studios and others. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/236285/

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