{"title":"Narrative Structure and the Unnarrated in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad","authors":"P. Salván","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.41.2020.11-33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.41.2020.11-33","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the narrative structure of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad against the grain of traditional slave narrative conventions. The novel may be categorized as a neoslave narrative, telling the story of a slave girl, Cora, and her escape from a Georgia plantation using the “Underground Railroad” mentioned in the title. My working hypothesis takes cue from the explicit, literal rendering of the Underground Railroad in the text, which may be considered as symptomatic of Whitehead’s approach to the slave narrative convention, in that his novel discloses or makes visible aspects which, in slave narratives, were left unnarrated.","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131541492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Nurturing River in Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s You: An Ecocritical Reading","authors":"Marisol Morales-ladrón","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.40.2019.77-96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.40.2019.77-96","url":null,"abstract":"Arguing that critical approaches to urban literature have often undermined the role of rivers, the present analysis will look at the emotional power that the river Liffey brings about in Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s debut novel You (2010). Informed by ecocritical theory, the discussion will tackle issues connected to the effects of urban and semi-urban habitats on the shaping of the individual mind, in a way that will challenge the traditional divide between city and countryside. It will consequently contend that the protagonist’s perception and relation to the places she inhabits can be explained in terms of the notions of topophilia and ecophobia, with the sole purpose of subverting them. The analysis will finally suggest that the comforting sound of whirls, the lulling effect of the current of the river, is the nurturing element that stands between the laws of nature and those of society, blending life with death and allowing the possibility for rebirth.","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131276875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gillian M. E. Alban. The Medusa Gaze in Contemporary Women’s Fiction: Petrifying, Maternal and Redemptive","authors":"Burcu Gülüm Tekin","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.303-305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.303-305","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>Reseñas</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116909227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"M. G. Sanchez: An Interview","authors":"Sara Abas","doi":"10.24197/ERSJES.39.2018.319-330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ERSJES.39.2018.319-330","url":null,"abstract":"Entrevista","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114509594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Préstamos en el habla viva de los pescadores gaditanos: el caso de los anglicismos","authors":"Soto Melgar, M. Mercedes.","doi":"10.24197/ERSJES.39.2018.281-302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ERSJES.39.2018.281-302","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo se recogen y analizan los préstamos procedentes del inglés que han sido documentados en el habla viva de los pescadores de la provincia de Cádiz. Los anglicismos aquí recogidos pertenecen a la parcela léxica de los artes de pesca empleados por los marineros a lo largo del litoral gaditano. De las 682 voces marineras recogidas durante las entrevistas semidirigidas que realizamos desde La Línea de la Concepción hasta Sanlúcar de Barrameda, veintiuna tienen su origen en lenguas extranjeras como el inglés, el francés, el portugués o el italiano; y nueve de estas son de origen anglosajón.","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"62 5-6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114048122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marisol Morales-Ladrón, editor. Family and Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Narrative and Film","authors":"María Jesús Lorenzo Modia","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.313-317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.313-317","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>Reseñas</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122821407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emron Esplin. Borges’s Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America","authors":"Christopher Rollason","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.307-311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.307-311","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>Reseñas</jats:p>","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134206615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Audible Light of Words: Mark Strand on Poetry and the Self","authors":"Leonor María Martínez Serrano","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.255-280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.255-280","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to look at American poet Mark Strand’s thinking about what poetry is all about, as expressed in his poetry collections and prose works, especially in The Monument (1978), a book of “notes, observations, rants, and revelations” about literary immortality, but also a meditation on “the translation of a self, and the text as self, the self as book”; in The Continuous Life (1990), a collection of luminous pieces on various aspects of the literary enterprise, including reading, translation and the multitude of selves making up the self; and in The Weather of Words: Poetic Invention (2000), a collection of insightful essays in which the poet discusses the essentials of poetry as something made by the human imagination, the meaning or content of a poem, and the creative process with the guidance of such preeminent minds as those of Carl Jung, Paul Valéry and Wallace Stevens.","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125052802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Of Holes and Wounds: Postcolonial Trauma and the Gothic in Catherine Jinks’s The Road","authors":"Bárbara Arizti Martín","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.193-214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.193-214","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses Catherine Jinks’s The Road (2004), a multi-protagonist novel, looking into the relationship between personal and historical forms of trauma in the context of postcolonial Australia and following Rothberg’s comparatist approach. More specifically, and taking advantage of the many synergies between the traumatic and the gothic, it studies the novel’s reliance on gothic tropes like the uncanny and the abject in order to demonstrate that both theme and narrative form work together against the overcoming of individual and national plights. The indigenous paratexts that frame Jinks’s story, read in the light of Walter Benjamin’s theses on history, prove particularly meaningful in this respect.","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"70 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129654375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Plight of Not Belonging: Jean Rhys’s “Let Them Call It Jazz” and “The Day They Burned the Books”","authors":"Carmen Laguarta Bueno","doi":"10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.157-172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24197/ersjes.39.2018.157-172","url":null,"abstract":"This paper offers an analysis of the short stories “Let Them Call It Jazz” (1962) and “The Day They Burned the Books” (1960), set in London and in the Caribbean respectively, with the aim to demonstrate that, no matter their origin, Rhys’s protagonists are often confronted with a feeling of non-belonging that sometimes makes them fluid, unstable beings. Furthermore, it aims to demonstrate that, although in some of her writings Rhys seemed to be very critical of the attitude of the colonizers and to align herself with the colonized Others instead, her attitude towards the empire can also be very ambivalent at some points. Ultimately, the analysis of these two short stories suggests that the ambivalence present in Rhys’s works could be a direct consequence of her peculiar positioning as somebody in between two different cultures, and, consequently, uncovers to what extent the process of colonization affected those involved in it. ","PeriodicalId":229163,"journal":{"name":"ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124674017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}