{"title":"Erin McGlothlin, Brad Preger, and Markus Zisselsberger, editors. The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes. Wayne State UP, 2020.","authors":"Michael T. Williamson","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2206","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Erin McGlothlin, Brad Preger, and Markus Zisselsberger, editors. The Construction of Testimony: Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Its Outtakes. Wayne State UP, 2020. 495 pp.","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89193155","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":"Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza. This Ghostly Poetry: History and Memory of Exiled Spanish Republican Poets. U of Toronto P, 2020.","authors":"P. Cahill","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80214715","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":"Heredia, Juanita. Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019.","authors":"Manuela Borzone","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2214","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Juanita Heredia. Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers, Palgrave MacMillan, 2019. vii + 238 pp.","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74994190","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":"Decolonizing the Metropole: The Born-Translated Works of Najat El Hachmi and Agnès Agboton as Literary Activism","authors":"Anna C. Tybinko","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2210","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares Agnès Agboton’s memoirs Más allá del mar de arena: Una mujer africana en España (‘Beyond the Sea of Sand: An African Woman in Spain,’ 2005) to Najat El Hachmi’s novel, La filla estrangera (‘The Foreign Daughter,’ 2015) to illustrate how these seemingly dissimilar works serve to make space for their author’s first languages in peninsular letters. Applying Rebecca Walkowitz’s conception of born-translated literature to the case of these Spanish and Catalan texts, it argues that the migratory tales of these two women writers constitute a contribution to the Global Hispanaphone. This rubric is typically conceived of as a decolonial framework that accounts for the diverse geographies, cultures, and languages formerly united under Spanish colonial rule. However, these two literary works are involved in a similar interrogation of the hegemony of Castilian Spanish via content, form, and, above all, self-translation.","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78358174","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 Spirit of Migrancy: Mati Diop’s Atlantique","authors":"Gigi Adair","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2208","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary migration to Europe affects and involves the migrants themselves, the European host communities that receive them, and the people and communities left behind in the homelands of the migrants. Nonetheless, the impact of migration on the latter receives much less attention, both in media and political discussions of migration and in migration studies research. In this essay, I examine the depiction of migration to Europe, its causes and consequences, in the 2019 film Atlantique (Atlantics) by Mati Diop. The film, set in Dakar, Senegal, contextualizes contemporary migration from West Africa to Europe by depicting some of the economic and social causes of migration, implying a continuity between the labor exploitation effected by global neoliberalism and the European border regime and the historical exploitation of slavery and European imperialism. This genre-crossing work draws upon the cinematic traditions of ghost, zombie and detective films, and the cultural traditions of West African spirit possession and Islamic djinns to explore broader impact of migration and the highly gendered nature of the experience of migrancy in West Africa. It focuses on a group of young women left behind by migrant men who enact a quest for justice and form a community of female solidarity that enables them to envision an alternative future.","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91003818","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":"Twenty-first-century African and Asian Migration to Europe and the Rise of the Ethno-topographic Narrative","authors":"Nelson González Ortega, Olga Michael","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2203","url":null,"abstract":"The first two decades of the twenty-first century have witnessed a rise in the publication of narratives concerning contemporary African and Asian migration to Europe, written individually or collectively, by Asian, African and/or European authors. While scholarly attention has increasingly turned to these texts, our purpose is to further investigate them from a pan-European perspective and to propose a model for their analysis as a distinct literary genre. We therefore introduce the \"ethno-topographic narrative\" to define, classify and systematically analyze twenty-first-century migration narratives published in Europe in relation to theory, method, corpus, generic type, individual or collective authorship, border and periphery/ center, literal and figurative spaces, and multi-voiced modes of narration, including the gaze of the migrant, among other literary and taxonomic criteria. Focusing on five representative samples from Germany, Sweden, Italy, the UK and Greece, we argue that the new geopolitically-charged genre to which these texts belong constitutes a dynamic part of European literatures that attempts to unsettle the monolithic European canon, rejecting, as it does so, the label of the “exotic” text displaying “foreign” characters. Our approach is grounded on the implications of the three components of ethno-topographic (ethnos, topos, graphein), which enable a tripartite form of literary analysis.","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89885710","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":"Migration meets Bildung: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Go, Went, Gone","authors":"L. Balint, Landon Reitz","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2176","url":null,"abstract":"At the time of its publication, German writer Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Go, Went, Gone (2017; Gehen, Ging, Gegangen, 2015) was hailed for its particular timeliness, as its story revolves around the most recent influx of asylum seekers and refugees from African to European countries, including Germany. In contradistinction to readings of Go, Went, Gone as a narrative of migration, our article places the novel in the tradition of the bildungsroman and takes Erpenbeck’s choice of protagonist as its starting point: in asking what is rendered visible through the privileged perspective of Richard—a recently retired classics professor—we argue that Erpenbeck’s novel reckons with the colonial underpinnings of western epistemology, the fundamental Eurocentrism of Bildung and its established narrative, and their effects on German political and social attitudes toward migration. As a bildungsroman with an aging protagonist, Go, Went, Gone renders migration as the consequence of European modernity and colonialism.","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"121 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89403528","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":"Morgane Cadieu. Marcher au hasard : Clinamen et création dans la prose du XXe siècle. Classiques Garnier, 2019.","authors":"Jason C Grant","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88370008","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":"Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano. The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era. U of Texas P, 2018.","authors":"Tamara L. Mitchell","doi":"10.4148/2334-4415.2201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2201","url":null,"abstract":"Review of Eugenio Claudio Di Stefano. The Vanishing Frame: Latin American Culture and Theory in the Postdictatorial Era. U of Texas P, 2018. 185 pp.","PeriodicalId":30962,"journal":{"name":"Studies in 20th 21st Century Literature","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90849343","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}