{"title":"Struggling with the ‘Rosalian myth’","authors":"Carmen Pereira-Muro","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.23","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The theme of emigration is present in the work of two of the most prominent nineteenth-century Galician authors, Emilia Pardo Bazán and Rosalía de Castro. They had very different approaches: the topic of displacement in several naturalist stories by Pardo Bazán is far removed from the discourse of affect that characterizes de Castro’s work. But in the novel Morriña [‘Homesickness’] (1889), Pardo Bazán displays an uneasy mixture of both discourses (sentimentalism and naturalist determinism) which is, I will argue, a result of the unresolved tension between her Spanish nationalism and her feminist agenda. This tension will lead her to both accept and challenge the ‘Rosalian myth’ created by Galician migrants and embodied in Esclavitud, the migrant protagonist of Morriña.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"409-435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46033675","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":"Returning to rurality","authors":"Danny Barreto","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.27","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000In recent years, LGBTQ literature, culture, and communities have begun returning to the rural as a space from which to articulate a queer Galician identity. Drawing on rural queer studies, literature, and cultural phenomena, this article seeks to understand both how the rural became associated with heteropatriarchy and how contemporary non-metronormative LGBTQ narratives reimagine rural space as a site of resistance, redirecting the cultural shift away from the urban that has characterized contemporary Galician society and culture during the last century. Under consideration is a wide range of literature, art, cultural events, and ephemera from the Rexurdimento to the present day.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"513-535"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45543539","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":"Posmorriña in Ángel Rama’s Tierra sin mapa","authors":"G. Román","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.25","url":null,"abstract":"The Uruguayan Ángel Rama (1926-1983) is widely recognized as a pioneer in the development of cultural studies in Latin America. This article proposes that there was a lesser-known side to the socially conscious, historicist Rama that was expressed mostly in intimate writings: a romantic, essentialist Rama. The focus is a semi-fictional work, Tierra sin mapa (1959), which recounts the stories Rama’s inmigrant mother told him in Montevideo about her childhood in rural Galicia. In retelling her reminiscences, which were triggered by the homesickness that in Galician is termed morriña, Rama relives his mother’s experiences as his own. This process is here called posmorriña, in an echo of the term ‘postmemory’, coined by Marianne Hirsch to denote the experience of children of victims of trauma. The article argues that this maternal Galicia left a mark on the young intellectual that played a key role in his understanding of Latin American cultural identity. It further suggests that Rama’s experience may be paradigmatic of those of other writers in his time and place.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"461-488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42534947","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":"‘Critical Language Research: Applied Linguistic and Anthropological Approaches’, Newcastle University, 25 October 2019","authors":"R. Howard","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"537-541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48483825","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":"‘Writing/Reading for Change: A Celebration of the Work of Gill Rye’, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, IMLR, 8 November 2019","authors":"S. Jordan, Catherine Davies","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.29","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"543-549"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41809474","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":"Galicia on the move","authors":"M. A. Alonso, Catherine Barbour","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.22","url":null,"abstract":"If migratory processes inform and construct global imaginaries, discussions of the societal impact of Galician mobility remain as pertinent as ever. The Galician community has been characterized by the intranational and transnational movement of a significant portion of its people since the nineteenth century, a key period in the revitalization of Galician language and culture contemporaneous with the Western consolidation of national identities and nation states. The historic role of Galician diasporas in shaping cultural consciousness has been well documented but constantly demands reappraisal in the so-called age of globalization, as heterogeneous waves of migrants continue to leave in search of opportunities elsewhere. Whilst scholarship on the lasting impact of emigration during the late 1800s and early 1900s abounds, more recent migratory processes during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in particular demand further scrutiny","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48062243","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":"‘Little Spain’ or ‘Little Galicia’?","authors":"David Miranda-Barreiro","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.26","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This article studies three cinematic representations of the Galician migrant community in the United States: the documentaries Os 15000 de Newark (2007) and Little Spain (2014), and the feature-length film Little Galicia (2015). The analysis of these films focuses especially on the influence of their chosen framing on the migrants’ performance of their cultural identity. By assessing the performative aspect of identity, this article also examines the possibility of considering Galicianness as a transnational positioning, globally or glocally performed, rather than a geographically fixed essence.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"489-512"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48211339","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":"Food, disorder, and disgust in Marie NDiaye","authors":"S. Jordan","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"323-346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48835483","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":"Food and societal (dis)order in Marie Darrieussecq’s works","authors":"Sandra Daroczi","doi":"10.3828/jrs.2020.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.2020.17","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses the way Marie Darrieussecq explores oppositions intrinsic to food, both as a lens that reflects the absurdities of various societal orders and as an instrument to contest, respond to, and subvert these orders. First I focus on fictional works ( Truismes (1996) and Il faut beaucoup aimer les hommes (2013)), and on the othering processes they depict. In its relationship to the animal/human distinction and to colonial and postcolonial discourses, food in these works is shown to be both welcoming and divisive. Then I study non-fictional texts (Darrieussecq’s autobiographically inspired Le Bébé (2002) and her biography of Paula Modersohn Becker, Être ici est une splendeur (2016)) in which food is linked to discourses of mothering and to the upholding of the patriarchal order. Finally I draw on recipes published by Darrieussecq to show how reading as we eat can contribute to the development of new types of readerly hospitalities.","PeriodicalId":41740,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Romance Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46948118","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}