“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

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 gl…[Read more]

Early Modern Female Book Ownership. Edited by Mark Empey, Sarah Lindenbaum, Tara Lyons, Erin McCarthy, Micheline White, Georgianna Ziegler, and Martine van Elk. Reviewed by Valerie Schutte
Early Modern Female Book Ownership is a website dedicated to individual books that can be traced to female owners from 1500 to 1750. On the home page,…[Read more]

From the prehistory of my web: Reading notes on some English classics: https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/notes.html

Another paper on Salman Rushdie, in:

Santaolalla, Isabel, ed. “New” Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness. (Postmodern Studies 29). Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000.* Online texts in Google Books.         https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/newexoticisms.html

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AND  a paper on Pestilent Fictions: “The Plague of Utopias” by Elana Gomel: https://www.academia.edu/38558965/

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

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

Title/topic: European Popular Literatures and Their Sociocultural Implications.
Guest editors: Asunción López-Varela (Universidad Complutense, Madrid, alopezva@ucm.es ), Antonio Ballesteros-González (UNED, aballesteros@flog.uned.es )
Deadlines: Abstracts (300 words) and bioprofiles (50 words) should be sent to guest editors by 30 September 20…[Read more]

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

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 bl…[Read more]