OceanidePub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v15i.72
Jesús Bolaño Quintero
{"title":"Post-Postmodernism: Mapping Out the Zeitgeist of the New Millennium","authors":"Jesús Bolaño Quintero","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v15i.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v15i.72","url":null,"abstract":"At the turn of the millennium, many theorists questioned the survival of postmodernism and, although it is true that their statements were not supported by a general consensus, the new century brought with it an intense debate on the subject. With this in mind, the aim of this article is to map out the taxonomy of the alternatives to postmodernism proposed by several theorists during the first decade of the twenty-first century in order to understand their nature. This article analyses an extensive corpus of theories, to arrive at the conclusion that this period was an interstitial moment of change whose direction seemed to be heading towards the recovery of a much-nuanced unfinished project of modernity, as advocated by Jürgen Habermas. This attempt at debunking postmodern relativism was thwarted by the social dissatisfaction generated by the bank bailout of 2008 and the ulterior intensification of neoliberalism. However, the subsequent attempts to define the zeitgeist of this cultural phase that followed postmodernism started to dwindle. The desired recovery of this unfinished project responds to a need for univocity that, during the 2010s, leads to a hyper-neoliberalism sponsored by populism and constructed on a kind of reactionary post-truth.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43467512","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v15i.76
Antonio Bruyèl-Olmedo, M. Juan-Garau
{"title":"Linguistic Transgression in Society as Seen Through Spanish Linguistic Landscapes","authors":"Antonio Bruyèl-Olmedo, M. Juan-Garau","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v15i.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v15i.76","url":null,"abstract":"The term “transgression” is traditionally associated with the infringement of what is prescribed. However, a closer look at its nature suggests that it is an integral part of the norm, as well as a starting point for innovation, in this case linguistic. The study focuses on the linguistic landscape (LL) of Spain, where five official languages share regional official status with Castilian Spanish. Further, these languages coexist in the LL with immigrant ones and English as an international language. In this environment, the article explores how linguistic transgression is reflected in the LL and what motivations underlie such non-normative uses. Given the spatial and grammatical limitations of the texts in the LL, the study focuses on aspects of code preference and orthography. To this end, we work on photographs taken in different Spanish regions which reflect the range of transgressive linguistic practices present in the public space. The evidence gathered allows us to suggest the grouping of these techniques under the categories of code (or variant) choice/elimination, exoticisation, re-representation and re-signification. The subsequent analysis presents linguistic transgression in LL as a voluntary, motivated and intentional social act that reflects identity, socio-cultural, but also commercial motivations. These motivations lead street-text authors to force the linguistic norm in their texts in order to claim their identity, show their solidarity with ideologies, resist linguistic policies or seek identification with their audience’s sensitivities for trade purposes.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48451981","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v15i.91
Carmen María Fernández Rodríguez
{"title":"Slaves of Affection in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda (1801) and Jane Austen’s Emma (1817)","authors":"Carmen María Fernández Rodríguez","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v15i.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v15i.91","url":null,"abstract":"One of the reasons to associate Maria Edgeworth with Jane Austen is the importance of the former as a main source of inspiration for Austen’s domestic plots. Interestingly, both colonialism and gender studies have turned their eyes to Edgeworth’s and Austen’s approach to slavery. Nevertheless, the specific connection between Belinda and Emma in this regard has been overlooked while, indeed, there are many reasons to relate both works since both deal with women’s submission and emotional dependence from others in many ways. This article analyses two secondary characters in Edgeworth’s Belinda and Austen’s Emma. After examining the similarities of the status of blacks and women in late eighteenth-century England, I maintain that these works can be seen as two studies of gratitude and that they offer a new version of Edgeworth’s familiar theme of the grateful negro, though in this case it applies to woman’s surrogate social position. The ideas of Homi K. Bhabha on colonial discourse help to examine the relationship between gender and race in Belinda and Emma, as well as the lack of a fixed identity and unfulfilled desire of independence that was common to blacks and women. It is precisely this feature that adds some darkness and social critique to Edgeworth’s and Austen’s otherwise rather predictable plots.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45956862","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v15i.98
María Amor Barros del Río
{"title":"Irish Youth, Materialism and Postfeminism: The Critique behind the Romance in \"Normal People\"","authors":"María Amor Barros del Río","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v15i.98","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v15i.98","url":null,"abstract":"Normal People, the TV series, aired in Ireland during the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020 and became an instant hit. This romantic drama, based on Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel, offers an updated representation of the tensions inherent in the process of growing up for Irish youth, a context extensive to other Western countries. The aim of this article is to explore the critique behind the romance through an in-depth interpretation of the protagonists’ problematic process of coming-of-age. For this purpose, the dramatic aspects of this cinematic narrative are explored in terms of composition, narration and focalization. Under the critical lens of postfeminism, this article analyses how psychological violence and explicit and rough sex are used in the series as forms of (mis)communication, with a particular interest in the combination of camera work, dialogues and silences. Finally, this article assesses to what extent Normal People naturalizes mundane life and succeeds in adhering to the romantic plot within the frame of neoliberal and postfeminist values.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42848136","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v15i.93
Maria Magdalena Brotons Capó, Sebastià Alzamora Martin
{"title":"Blai Bonet i Pier Paolo Pasolini: imatges del trascendent","authors":"Maria Magdalena Brotons Capó, Sebastià Alzamora Martin","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v15i.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v15i.93","url":null,"abstract":"La importància de Pier Paolo Pasolini com a cineasta i com a poeta del segle XX va més enllà de les seves obres, com ho demostra el fet que la seva petjada és perceptible en altres autors que se sentiren profundament influïts per la tasca d’aquest artista italià. És el cas del poeta mallorquí Blai Bonet, el qual, de vegades de manera evident, sovint indirectament, mostra l’admiració vers les pel·lícules i escrits de Pasolini a moltes de les seves obres. En aquest article desgranarem les petjades de Pasolini a l’obra de Bonet, partint d’autors que anteriorment ja havien tractat aspectes de l’obra de Blai Bonet i aprofundint en el tema a partir d’una anàlisi més acurada de la filmografia del director. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":"112 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41271097","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v15i.82
Miguel Ángel González Campos
{"title":"Remembering a Present-Oriented Future in Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993)","authors":"Miguel Ángel González Campos","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v15i.82","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v15i.82","url":null,"abstract":"Futures Studies as a multidisciplinary academic field developed in the last decades has emphasized the meaningful and revealing nature of the images of the future originating in every society. In this sense, Piotr M. Szpunar and Karl K. Szpunar (2016) underline the close relationship between recalling the past and imagining the future and suggest a mutual influence and interdependence between both processes. The purpose of this article is to apply the concept of “collective future thought” coined by these authors to the analysis of The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry, which depicts a future dystopian society where memories of the past, as a powerful and threatening artifact, are kept away from the members of the community. This novel has been extensively analyzed as a dystopian text from many different perspectives. However, no critical attention has been paid to the way Lowry explores the close interrelationship and interdependence between the visions of past and future created by a society and their bonds of reciprocal interaction. Starting from a consideration of The Giver as dystopian fiction, this research attempts to move the critical exploration of this novel one step further and claims that a more nuanced understanding of the text can be achieved by considering the contributions from the field of Futures Studies and the concepts of collective memory and collective future thinking.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44506037","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2022-02-08DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v15i.75
Raisa Gorgojo Iglesias
{"title":"El pensamiento anti postmodernista de Anna Maria Ortese: el análisis histórico a través de la experiencia desde el margen","authors":"Raisa Gorgojo Iglesias","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v15i.75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v15i.75","url":null,"abstract":"Este trabajo pretende ser un ejercicio de re-visión (Rich 1972) para realizar un examen intertextual que confronte las ideas de la escritora italiana Anna Maria Ortese presentes en Corpo celeste (1997) con obras de índole academicista que analizan la transformación de la sociedad postmoderna, teniendo en cuenta que Ortese parte de una perspectiva biográfica y ajena a los círculos académicos y literarios del momento. Este estudio se fundamenta en una perspectiva de conocimiento feminista situado (Haraway 2013 [1991]) para explorar la concepción de creación industrial, presente eterno y el papel cambiante de la cultura según Ortese. El objetivo es llevar a cabo una defensa de la necesidad de incorporar al canon las voces marginadas, pretendiendo así justificar la emergencia de transmitir, traducir y reeditar sus obras.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46044077","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.37668/OCEANIDE.V14I.61
Macarena García-Avello
{"title":"La influencia de la política sobre las representaciones familiares en los cuentos de Cortázar","authors":"Macarena García-Avello","doi":"10.37668/OCEANIDE.V14I.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/OCEANIDE.V14I.61","url":null,"abstract":"En la trayectoria artística de Julio Cortázar se suele establecer una división entre una primera etapa apolítica y el posterior florecimiento de preocupaciones políticas. En cuanto a los cuentos que se desarrollan dentro del marco familiar, a partir de Octaedro (1974) se hacen evidentes las lecturas en clave política de relatos como “Verano”, “Recortes de prensa”, “Pesadilla” y “Satarsa”. La cuestión que emerge y que se abordará a lo largo de este artículo es si es posible llevar a cabo un análisis político en cuentos anteriores en los que la familia ocupa un lugar central. Para ello, se trazará una genealogía mediante la que comprender y contextualizar la manera en que se articula la política en la obra de Cortázar anterior a 1973 a través del examen exhaustivo de “Casa tomada”, “Cartas de mamá” y “La salud de los enfermos”.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43686331","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2020-02-09DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v13i.39
Eduardo Barros Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez
{"title":"Transpopular Spaces: Gypsy Imageries in the Work of Van Morrison","authors":"Eduardo Barros Grela, María Bobadilla Pérez","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v13i.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v13i.39","url":null,"abstract":"The work of Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison has gone relatively unnoticed by critics despite the numerous social, literary and artistic elements included in his songs. Among them is the representation of the figure of the Gypsy as a model of action for generations of listeners who were concerned about countercultural dynamics, as well as alternative life models to those that were legitimized by the middle class of the time. The objective of this study is to analyze the romanticized component that is presented in Morrison's work around his conceptualization of gypsyism, as well as to observe how these elements generate, firstly, a deontologizing function in the Gypsy figure, and then a resignification of the spaces in transit occupied by the imagination(s) of this community as a nomadic people.To carry out this analysis, several songs from the first albums of the Northern Irish author will be examined, and we will explain the function of representing the Gypsy in the countercultural spatial environment of their epistemology.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47032171","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}
OceanidePub Date : 2020-02-09DOI: 10.37668/oceanide.v13i.43
José Manuel Estévez-Saá
{"title":"“Fearful … and Fearless”: Edna O’Brien’s “The Little Red Chairs” and “Girl”","authors":"José Manuel Estévez-Saá","doi":"10.37668/oceanide.v13i.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37668/oceanide.v13i.43","url":null,"abstract":"Edna O’Brien’s last published novels, \"The Little Red Chairs\" (2015) and \"Girl\" (2019), have been unanimously praised by criticism. \"The Little Red Chairs\" has been acclaimed as her masterpiece by Philip Roth in the book jacket cover, and as her most ambitious novel by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne at the moment of its publication (2015), which is a lot to say about an author who has been a referent in Irish literature since the 1960s. Girl has been also praised by influential figures such as Christina Patterson (2019) and Anne Enright (2019), among many other reviewers.\"The Little Red Chairs\" has been inspired by the historical episode of the Balkans War and the siege of Sarajevo. Divided in three parts, the novel takes its readers from the west of Ireland to the Balkans through London and The Hague Tribunal in a series of movements that serve the author to deploy the wide canvas of migratory exchanges in our current society which involve political exiles, refugees, expatriates and economic emigrants. \"Girl\", has been described by O’Brien herself as “the hardest and the most painful” novel that she has ever written. On this occasion, the narrative is based on the kidnapping of more than two hundred schoolgirls by the Boko Haram Jihadist sect, after the author’s journey to Nigeria, where she interviewed many of the people involved in the tragic episode. My study of these two novels focuses on Edna O’Brien’s ethical compromise, giving voice to the most traumatic episodes and traumatizedvictims of our contemporary society, as well as on her brilliant use of the genre of the novel for recording the chaos, complexity, dislocation and fragmentation caused by radicalisms, political violence and terrorism.","PeriodicalId":38352,"journal":{"name":"Oceanide","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41459576","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}