{"title":"A Girl’s Life in English Interwar Suburbia: Evadne Price’s Just Jane","authors":"Begoña Lasa-Álvarez","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.84.07","url":null,"abstract":"Just Jane, the first of a series of books for young female readers written by the Australian-English writer Evadne Price, was published in 1928. The young heroine starring in the book and the members of her family represent the typical middle-class family living in an English suburban area, a type of neighbourhood which underwent an unprecedented growth during the 1920s. This article analyses Price’s text in the light of the new lifestyle fostered in English interwar suburbia, as it illustrates how, together with the building of new houses and neighbourhoods, new values concerning family relations, gender roles, social networking and leisure activities were generated and promoted.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"104 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":"127951087","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":"On the Uses of Waste","authors":"Sara Villamarín-Freire","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.10","url":null,"abstract":"For the past few years, waste has become an increasingly popular topic among literary scholars. The sheer volume of areas of knowledge involved in this highly interdisciplinary field has been somehow blurred as the labels “Waste Studies” and “Waste Theory” gained traction. Nevertheless, upon closer inspection those terms crumble easily. What is “Waste Theory”? What attempts, if any, have been made to agglutinate these disparage fields and their corresponding contributions into a cohesive discipline of its own? This paper aims to shed light on these questions by reviewing some of the most referenced works and authors within the burgeoning waste scholarship. Likewise, it seeks to critically examine whether it would be possible–and productive–to elaborate a general theory of waste.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"26 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":"129100032","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":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 79","authors":"Oliva Cruz, J. Ignacio.","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2019.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2019.79","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"49 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":"131955729","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":"“Gardening in Eden”: Wasted Lives, or Detoxic Identities in Gail AndersonDargatz’s Turtle Valley and Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer","authors":"Pedro Miguel Carmona Rodríguez","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.04","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyzes the inflection of a border-crossing ecological concern on the regional cultures of settlement through Gail Anderson-Dargatz’s Turtle Valley (2007) and Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer (2000). Their engagement with the contingent position of the farmers in the British Columbia Shuswap region, and the southern Appalachian Zebulon County resituates the self. The struggle for production is substituted by a revisionist attitude that relocates (wo)men and nature in a sustainable coexistence that approaches the human species and others. The ecological awareness of these novels uses a postindustrial landscape where human bodies and lives exhibit the malaise inflicted on the environment; they increasingly become waste(d) and toxic, and their habitat becomes a threat, also materialized in (post)natural catastrophes impelling the relocation of human communities, or business reinvention. The human wastification of Eden is instrumental to launch a revision that detoxifies identity thanks to a remodeled bond with nature.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"73 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":"130576382","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":"\"And This is What I Saw”: (Un)Natural Waste in Cathy Park Hong’s “Fable of the Last Untouched Town”","authors":"Martín Praga","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2023.86.03","url":null,"abstract":"At its most philosophical, poetry can help us imagine alternative realities. In “Fable of the Last Untouched Town,” Cathy Park Hong manages to complicate current notions of nature by way of an unusual form of futuristic waste. Through the analysis of the poem, this article aims, on the one hand, to show how works of poetry can reflect and denounce some of the many ugly aspects of reality. Particularly, Hong can be said to draw in her poem an allegory of the pressing issue of e-waste. On the other, I intend to highlight how poetic imaginations can shake certain assumptions regarding those contemporary conceptions of nature and problematize the humanistic tendency in new materialisms and object-oriented theories. Indeed, an understanding of waste as the threshold which separates us from Nature might better equip us when facing the imminent change of paradigm that looms over our understanding of our place in the world.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"12 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":"125337599","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":"‘Another Way of Naming Elsewhere’: Transnational and Hemispheric Stories by some Canadian and Argentinian Authors","authors":"María Jesús Llarena-Ascanio","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2019.78.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2019.78.04","url":null,"abstract":"Transnational and gothic discourses have for some time been paired in critical invocations of the unhomely or spectral legacies of imperialism and globalization. This legacy, which appears in the form of unresolved memory traces and occluded histories resulting from diasporic migration is readily figured as an ostranenie which haunts the characters of some Argentinian and Canadian storytelling from within and without. The writers of these stories are first or second generation migrants who developed their writing career in the host country. This essay tries to analyse these transnational stories which we will call hemispheric and which bear some resemblance in Canadian and Argentinian writing, for different political and traumatic reasons, in their cinematic deployment of the homeSpace horror, childhood memories and physical and psychological boundaries which chain us to our ancestors’ memories.","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"37 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":"125413430","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":"Snapshots of Indian Otherness in Aparna Sen’s Cinema","authors":"Felicity Hand","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.83.07","url":null,"abstract":"Aparna Sen turned to film directing in 1980 after a highly successful career as an actor. Her debut film, 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) highlights the loneliness of an elderly Anglo-Indian woman. One of her best-known films outside India is Mr & Mrs Iyer (2002), in which an upper caste Hindu woman saves the life of a Muslim stranger in an act of personal commitment with the Other. In 15 Park Avenue (2005), a film that focusses on schizophrenia, Sen shows how the female members of a family struggle to cope with mental illness. In this article I discuss how Sen explores different ways of being Indian in these three films and how she draws attention to values such as personal commitment and tenacity in the face of disability, ageing and communalism","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"2 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":"125682042","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":"“With Inviolable Voice”: Eliot’s Redeeming Word in The Waste Land","authors":"Viorica Patea","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.08","url":null,"abstract":"\"This paper analyzes the notions of despair and selfhood in The Waste Land through the prism of Soren Kierkegaard’s Sickness unto Death (1849). It contends that despite the sense of loss and meaninglessness of existence, The Waste Land traces the journey of the self from ignorance and suffering, from being bound to temporality and sensual thirst, through “the dark night of the soul” to a vantage point from where it can see into “the heart of light.” Furthermore, it claims that Eliot is a twentieth century Dante who goes beyond European frontiers and attempts to reconcile Christianity, Buddhism and the Vedanta with an existentialist discourse.\"","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"16 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":"125728498","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":"Recital “Then Spoke The Waste Land: Songs and Fragments” (Congreso “Wastelands” 2022, UNED, Madrid)","authors":"","doi":"10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2022.85.18","url":null,"abstract":"\"“Then Spoke the Waste Land; Songs and Fragments” is a recital performed by the UNED English Faculty Group; it premiered in Madrid, April 6, 2022, at the 34th European Association for American Studies Conference (EAAS). The recital is a combination of music and verse. Passages from The Waste Land are read, interspersed with comments from Eliot’s friends, such as Ezra Pound and Virgina Woolf, or his wife, Vivien Haigh-Wood. These voices emerge from different texts, letters, novels, even autobiographies, and all reflect on the poem. We can even hear William Carlos Williams’s reaction to the poem when it was published, as he annotated it in his Autobiography. They perform against a musical backdrop which ranges from Wagner to popular song. The poem is recited thematically, rather than in an orderly fashion from beginning to end. Passages are grouped around seven main motifs. Beginning with a Prologue / Overture, it continues with: “Spring and Love,” “The City,” “Here is Belladonna,” “Dry Desolation,” “Death By Water,” “Distant Spirituality.” The recital is available at: https://canal.uned.es/video/624ea08db6092302 c6288f02. What follows are brief introductions of each section, as well as the fragments and music included in each of them.\"","PeriodicalId":273717,"journal":{"name":"Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses","volume":"587 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":"113966780","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}