{"title":"EARLY 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN TRAVELERS AND ART DEALERS OF THE SPANISH ARTISTIC AND HISTORICAL HERITAGE: ARTHUR AND MILDRED STAPLEY BYNE AND THEIR DOUBLE LIVES AS PLUNDERERS AND TRAVEL WRITERS.","authors":"José Ruiz Mas","doi":"10.12795/ren.2023.i27.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2023.i27.1","url":null,"abstract":"En este artículo analizo las actividades poco ortodoxas llevadas a cabo por los viajeros y marchantes estadounidenses Arthur Byne y su esposa Mildred Stanley Byne en su búsqueda de tesoros artísticos en España durante el primer tercio del siglo XX. Simultáneamente a su saqueo artístico, los Byne publicaron una serie de valiosas obras sobre arte español, todas ellas profusamente ilustradas con fotografías y mapas. Pongo aquí en contraste su escritura de viajes con su actividad depredadora en España. Los Byne se aprovecharon del atraso y la debilidad política de España, de su corrupción institucional y eclesiástica y de la pobreza del pueblo llano para llevar a cabo sus actividades de saqueo. Su producción literaria entre 1914 y 1924, que comenzó siendo un análisis puramente descriptivo del patrimonio artístico español, fue gradualmente evolucionando hacia el relato de viajes más personal por el país (1925- 26). Sin embargo, tras la estrategia de sus intentos de promover el turismo cultural extranjero en España y de fomentar las visitas in situ de los turistas a los lugares descritos en sus obras, los Byne estaban despojando sigilosamente el tesoro artístico español para venderlo en los EE. UU., práctica que consiguieron disimular durante la redacción de sus narraciones de viajes.","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66095816","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":"REVIEW OF ROSAS EN LA ARENA. LOS RELATOS DE SUSAN GLASPELL. NOELIA HERNANDO-REAL. València: Universitat de València, 2022, pp. 248. ISBN: 978-84-9134-048-1.","authors":"Marta Fernández-Morales","doi":"10.12795/ren.2023.i27.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2023.i27.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66096000","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":"‘FOR EVERMORE’: AN EXAMINATION OF MUSICAL EKPHRASES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE’S “THE RAVEN”","authors":"ESTER DÍAZ MORILLO","doi":"10.12795/ren.2023.i27.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2023.i27.4","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the transfer of poetic language into music, focusing on Edgar Allan Poe’s celebrated poem “The Raven” (1845). After a theoretical study on poetic language and theoretical questions regarding transmediation, I look into different pieces of instrumental music directly inspired by Poe’s lines. To this end, I draw on ground-breaking research regarding media transformation by authors such as Lars Elleström, whose work provides the theoretical framework, and, most especially, Siglind Bruhn, who has written about the relation between poetry and music, and who coined the term “musical ekphrasis”. Finally, I argue that these composers transmediate Poe’s “The Raven” by using musical devices similar to those employed by Poe in his poem. Particularly important for this analysis will be compulsive repetition and variation as strategies of the musical ekphrasis, and the re-presentation of the uncanny in music.","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136005301","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":"“ONE NIGHTMARE REPLACES ANOTHER”: TRAUMA AND MOURNING IN THE AGE OF TERROR THROUGH PAUL AUSTER’S TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM AND MAN IN THE DARK.","authors":"Laura Rodríguez Arnáiz","doi":"10.12795/ren.2023.i27.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2023.i27.2","url":null,"abstract":"Los ataques terroristas del 11 de septiembre de 2001 ocasionaron una espiral de miedo e ira en la sociedad americana que tuvo como respuesta alguna de las medidas legislativas más controvertidas de su historia. El sentimiento de invencibilidad que había dominado el imaginario americano se evaporó ante el caos y el miedo de aquel día que posteriormente dieron forma a textos escritos por algunos de los escritores norteamericanos de mayor renombre. Entre ellos, Paul Auster con sus novelas sobre el 11-S, Travels in the Scriptorium (2007) y Man in the Dark (2008) que intentan responder a la inconmensurabilidad del 11-S a través de la angustia producida por el trauma físico y psicológico de dos ancianos encerrados en una habitación, donde la ficción se postula como la única salida a su confinamiento y donde la memoria individual e histórica se entrelazan con la crítica de Auster a la ‘Guerra contra el terror’.","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66095917","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":"SARAH E. FARRO’S TRUE LOVE (1891): PLAGIARIST RECONFIGURATIONS OF ELLEN WOOD’S THE SHADOW OF ASHLYDYAT (1863)","authors":"Carme MANUEL CUENCA","doi":"10.12795/ren.2022.i26.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.01","url":null,"abstract":"In 1891 Sarah E. Farro was hailed as “the first negro novelist” with the publication of her novel True Love, a story featuring white English characters set in England. Scholars have believed that Farro’s text was ignored because it features no black characters and does not deal with racial issues. In contrast to these opinions, I contend that True Love is an unacknowledged but meticulous reworking of The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863), the celebrated Victorian sensation novel by Ellen Wood. Farro’s plagiarism together with her deployment of a raceless plot far from being an aberration is an act freighted with a titanic self-affirmation and literary ambition that may have ultimately condemned her to literary ostracism.","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66094640","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":"TRANSHUMANISM AND THE ANTHROPOCENE IN BECKY CHAMBERS’ A CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT","authors":"Vanesa Roldán Romero","doi":"10.12795/ren.2022.i26.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.04","url":null,"abstract":"Transhumanism has been rising in both popularity and influence on western societies and philosophical thought. Dreams of mind transfer, immortality, or cloning as well as the fear of sentient and intelligent artificial intelligence (AI) can be traced in some of Netflix’s most popular series such as Altered Carbon (2018), from the novel by Richard K. Morgan, or Orphan Black (2013), to mention just a few. Similarly, transhumanism may be spotted in Becky Chambers’ fiction. The novel analysed in this paper, A Closed and Common Orbit (2016), a sequel in the author’s Wayfarers series, explores the possibility of cloning human bodies, the production of sentient AI, and the subsequent ethical implications of both science fiction tropes. Far from showing transhumanism as a miracle solution to limitations in human bodies and capacity to avoid climate change, the text presents the suspicions and fears transhumanism may raise in the USA. This article provides evidence of how the Anthropocene and transhumanism operate in Becky Chambers’ novel, the ethical effects concerning intrinsic and extrinsic values and their possible subversion through a posthumanist alliance under the Anthropocene.","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66094765","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":"JOY HARJO'S ETHICAL MODES OF BEHAVIOR TOWARD THE LAND.","authors":"Carmen García Navarro","doi":"10.12795/ren.2022.i26.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.09","url":null,"abstract":"Joy Harjo’s poetry may be used to reflect on how various cultural traditions experience the concept of “We” with regards to other species and the environment, for which creative forms of responsibility should be articulated. Today, humans and non-humans alike face numerous and significant challenges and threats that are becoming increasingly apparent in the specific context of climate change and environmental degradation. Harjo’s work raises concerns about the impact that current global crises are having on the environment and our relationship to places, and consequently, our sense of belonging. This article discusses the relevance of some of Harjo’s poetry for increasing consciousness about the earth’s vulnerability and the need for environmental justice, which may be found in small but fundamental acts of caring","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66094949","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":"WILLIAM L. ANDREWS. SLAVERY AND CLASS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH: A GENERATION OF SLAVE NARRATIVE TESTIMONY 18401865. Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. xiv, 389.","authors":"A. Rice","doi":"10.12795/ren.2022.i26.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66094827","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":"POETRY IN PANDEMIC TIMES: MOURNING COLLECTIVE VULNERABILITY IN SUE GOYETTE’S SOLSTICE 2020. AN ARCHIVE.","authors":"Leonor María Martínez Serrano","doi":"10.12795/ren.2022.i26.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.15","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on Canadian poet Sue Goyette’s collection Solstice 2020. An Archive (2021), this article examines how dealing with the effects of a global pandemic through the medium of poetry can act as a powerful catalyst in raising awareness about collective vulnerability and mourning. During the locked-down days of 2020, Goyette felt it was her responsibility as a poet to find words to convey the sense of shared vulnerability people experienced in the face of a momentous event that confined them to their homes for days on end. Drawing on vulnerability theory, ecophilosopher David Abram’s thinking on the more-than-human world, Stacy Alaimo’s concept of trans - corporeality, as well as on recent theorizations on the COVID-19 pandemic, this article argues that Goyette’s Solstice 2020 is a most interesting sociological document that represents collective vulnerability, testifies to the conundrums posed by the still ongoing pandemic, and makes visible the deep affinities between humankind and the more-than-human world.","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66095675","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":"DECOLONIAL HOPE AGAINST THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN EDWIDGE DANTICAT’S CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT (2013).","authors":"Mónica Fernández Jiménez","doi":"10.12795/ren.2022.i26.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12795/ren.2022.i26.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Edwidge Danticat’s last novel, Claire of the Sea Light (2013), as a response to Modern/colonial ideologies of progress that continue to emanate from predictions of a Fourth Industrial Revolution. After an analysis of the work of Danticat as literature of the American hemisphere instead of merely Haitian or Caribbean literature, this article contends that the text’s portrayal of nature, the environment, and the past aligns with visions of decolonial hope rather than with the linear progress of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Through the stories of a small community in Haiti, Claire of the Sea Light portrays the degradation of the environment that ravishes the country and does so in relation to the external forces that affect it, presenting a coloniality of climate associated to racial dynamics of the American hemisphere. The blending of human narratives and environmental ones in the novel nevertheless offers possibilities for resistance and a hopeful vision of the country rooted in decolonial ecologies and Caribbean epistemology. Granting equal importance to the stories of non-human actors in the narrative, the novel positions itself outside the Modern/colonial tradition to embrace a decolonial poetics that offers hope in a world which has proved to continually reproduce its own coloniality as new technology is developed.","PeriodicalId":38126,"journal":{"name":"Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66095462","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}