{"title":"Believe Me, Do not Believe Me: Jhumpa Lahiri and the Royal Family of Oudh","authors":"Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.05","url":null,"abstract":"In Interpreter of Maladies (1999) Jhumpa Lahiri gives voice to Boori Ma, a durwan (doorkeeper) who chronicles about the easier times she enjoyed before deportation to Kolkata (previously known as Calcutta, India) after Partition of 1947. Lahiri plays with the word real implying that Boori Ma’s stories could be deciphered as real or not. Boori Ma’s fictitious life resembles the one of the Royal Family of Oudh, which Lahiri seems to be inspired by. Foreign correspondents (Kaufman, 1981; Miles, 1985; Barry, 2019) did not question the veracity of this family’s life story. In the present article, the two stories are compared: a literary and a real one. It is our intention to prove that traumatic experiences, such as Partition, cause subjects to imagine an alternative life; strategy which is unconsciously activated to heal trauma (LaCapra, 1999; Mookerjea-Leonard, 2017). The latter is what western journalists and readers failed to acknowledge","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131656844","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":"Princess Elizabeth Bibesco: A Novelist of the 1920s","authors":"Mihaela Mudure","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.09","url":null,"abstract":"Princess Elizabeth Bibesco (1897-1945) was the daughter of Sir Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of Great Britain between 1908 and 1916, and wife of Prince Antoine Bibesco (1878-1951). During the 1920s Bibesco published two novels The Fir and the Palm and There Is No Return which include her into the same spiritual family as the literary impressionists of the time. Critics did not pay too much attention to this novelist of the 1920s who holds, however, a singular place in the literary life of the time. This paper is a close reading of Bibesco’s novels from the 1920 which proves her indebtedness to modernism and literary impressionism.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116649043","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":"“A Libament to Your Palate”: Narrative Form, History and Gender in Eliana. A New Romance","authors":"M. Tomás","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2019.79.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2019.79.08","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEliana. A New Romance (1661), atribuido a Samuel Pordage, no atrajo la atencion de los lectores en el momento de su publicacion y sigue siendo uno de los romances de la Restauracion menos estudiados. En 2007, Amelia Zurcher rescato la obra del olvido al analizar la nocion de ‘interes’ en dos historias del romance, el cual describio como “mucho mas convencional que menos.” A fin de ofrecer una introduccion mas completa y, de camino, sugerir algunos de los elementos “menos convencionales,” este articulo estudiara, entre otros aspectos, las estructuras diegeticas y de lectura, las tecnicas narrativas mas fidedignas y objetivas ideadas tanto para las voces intradiegeticas como para el narrador extradiegetico, la extraordinaria combinacion de ficcion e historia antigua, la variedad de relaciones masculinas dentro del espectro homosocial-homosexual, y la defensa de la amistad como prototipo ideal de amor. Este articulo mostrara algunas estrategias empleadas por el joven Pordage en su intento de actualizar el genero narrativo. EnglishEliana. A New Romance (1661), attributed to Samuel Pordage, not only failed to appeal to its contemporary readership, but also remains one of the most neglected romances of the early Restoration period. In 2007, Amelia Zurcher rescued it from oblivion by exploring the notion of ‘interest’ in two stories within this “more rather than less conventional” romance. In order to introduce it further and, in the process, suggest some of its “less conventional” aspects, this essay will focus, among other issues, on the diegetic and readerly structures, the strategies to reinforce the reliability of both the intradiegetic narrators and the extradiegetic voice, the remarkable combination of fiction and ancient history, the male relationships in the homosocial-homosexual spectrum, and the extolling of friendship as the ideal prototype of love. This essay may ultimately show some of the ways in which young Pordage tried to modernise the art of fiction.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128429467","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":"Out of Space and into the Ground: Chemical and Water Pollution in H.P. Lovecraft’s New England","authors":"Catalina Bonati","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.05","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the influence of interwar environmental practices regarding chemical and water pollution in New England on H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” (1927) and “The Shunned House” (1937). It is argued that the literary Gothic tradition which Lovecraft builds upon is influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and remodeled by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring (1962) as ecoGothic realism. It is discussed that “The Colour Out of Space” extends Lovecraft’s personal writings regarding the gap between class and politics in the face of growing wealth disparity. It is commented how in “The Shunned House,” Lovecraft presents anti-immigration sentiment while also advocating for integrated and preserved cities free of pollution, and the paper concludes that for Lovecraft, changes in landscape and ecology reflect fundamental changes in New England society that are evidenced by commercialism and lack of proper waste management policies.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"290 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131520368","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":"People’s cinema with people’s support: a review of the 7th Kolkata people’s film festival (Kolkata, India–January 2020)","authors":"Santanu Das","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130294938","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":"Marginalising Within The Margins: The Evolution of Dalit Women’s (Mis) Representation in Narendra Jadhav’s Untouchables: My Family’s Triumphant Journey Out Of The Caste System In Modern India (2005) And Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke (2008)","authors":"B. Cherechés","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.19","url":null,"abstract":"\"Dalit women have traversed a long path over the last four decades. During this time their consciousness has evolved in many ways as reflected in Dalit writing. Life narratives function as the locus of enunciation where agency and self-identity are attended and asserted by Dalit women, through different approaches. As the social location determines the perception of reality, this paper attempts a look at how Narendra Jadhav and Baby Kamble tackle and bring to the centre the gendered nature of caste and the power-relations that still affect Dalit women. Form, language and subject matter are some of the resources that Dalit women use to defy generic conventions, depart from imposed identities, and build up resistance against an enduring double oppression which insists on homogenising Dalit body politics.\"","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"195 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134022391","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":"Social and Environmental Awareness In the Lyrics Of Mike Shinoda: ‘Kenji’ And ‘Nothing Makes Sense Anymore’ /","authors":"María Antonia Mezquita Fernández","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.13","url":null,"abstract":"A third-generation mix-raced Japanese American, Mike Shinoda is a renowned rock and rap musician. Thanks to his two bands, Linkin Park and Fort Minor, Shinoda has been able to raise his voice to condemn social injustices or environmental damage and degradation. The following paper will focus on two of his songs “Kenji” and “Nothing makes Sense Anymore,” which include references to those issues. By analyzing the lyrics, we will evince how they distill criticism on social discrimination and environmental damage.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"04 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131049943","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":"Masculinity in the Metanarrative of the Global War on Terror: Shauna Singh Baldwin’s Transnational Critique","authors":"Belén Martín-lucas","doi":"10.25145/J.RECAESIN.2019.78.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/J.RECAESIN.2019.78.09","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEste articulo ofrece una aproximacion critica a la metanarrativa globalizada de la llamada «guerra contra el terror», a traves del analisis –desde perspectivas feministas y decoloniales– de la coleccion de relatos We Are not in Pakistan (2007) de Shauna Singh Baldwin. Centrandome en las diversas descripciones de masculinidades en una seleccion de relatos de esta coleccion, mi intencion es desvelar el complejo mecanismo de genero que opera en esta metanarrativa basada en los afectos del miedo y la venganza. En contra-diccion (es decir, como contradiscurso) con la retorica dominante islamofobica, los personajes de Baldwin establecen sorprendentes comparaciones y senalan paralelismos entre distintas culturas, exponiendo vinculos comunes y afectividades compartidas entre personajes de distinto origen etnico y racial. De caracter abiertamente politico, los relatos de Baldwin proporcionan una perspectiva transcanadiense sobre el neoimperialismo violento tras el 11-S. EnglishThis article offers a feminist critique of the globalized metanarrative on the so-called ‘war on terror,’ through an analysis –from decolonial and feminist perspectives– of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s short story collection We Are not in Pakistan (2007). Focusing on the contrasting depictions of masculinity portrayed in a selection of her stories, I intend to reveal the complexities in the gendering of a metanarrative that attempts to mobilize affects of fear and revenge. In contra-diction (that is, as counter-discourse) to the dominant rhetoric of stereotypical Islamophobia, Baldwin’s characters point out surprising comparisons and parallelisms across cultural differences, revealing common links and shared affectivity among characters of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. Vocally political, her narratives provide a transCanadian perspective on violent neoimperialism after 9/11.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134058880","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 Waste Land: Potential Drama, Persistent Poetry","authors":"Dídac Llorens-Cubedo","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.05","url":null,"abstract":"\"Late in his career, when he was fully devoted to dramatic writing, T.S. Eliot made the provocative statement that his early poetry was “striving ... toward the condition of drama.” This paper examines dramatic elements in The Waste Land (1922): scenes, voices/characters, and dialogue. In analysing the poem as a proto-dramatic text, it also considers Eliot’s future career as a dramatist (mid-1930s-late 1950s), as well as his contemporary essays on drama, and the unfinished play Sweeney Agonistes (1926-1927). Finally, this study explores the pervading presence of “Waste Land” imagery, moods, and diction in Eliot’s later plays. The dramatic quality of The Waste Land prefigures the plays, while these –as modern verse drama– hark back to the poem.\"","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115389236","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 Remaking of the Radical in the Harlem Renaissance: Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem","authors":"Loredana Bercuci","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.03","url":null,"abstract":"Home to Harlem, one of the first successful African American novels, inspired from the urban lower classes’ life, produced both revulsion and fascination. W.E.B. Du Bois stated that Claude McKay had proved African Americans were “buffoons, thugs, and rotters anyway” (245). However, the novel was successful, pointing to a 1920s fascination with the lower classes. This article analyzes the intersection of race and class in Home to Harlem and shows that the novel proposes a composite model for a radical subject.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122530208","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}