Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1794602
E. Houvenaghel
{"title":"La Construcción del yo en el Exilio: El público argentino de Rosa Chacel","authors":"E. Houvenaghel","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1794602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1794602","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The identity-building process of exiled republican writers moves in a field of tension between Spain and the host country. The self-image Rosa Chacel crafted in the short essays published during her Argentinian exile (1940–1959) and collected in the volume La lectura es secreto (1989) exemplifies that tension. On the one hand, there is a strong sense of identification with Ortega y Gasset’s generation and with the Spanish past. On the other, the scene from where the essays are enunciated is situated in the Argentinian context of the present: based on the reading experiences of the day in Argentina, a dialogic relationship with the Argentinian public is created. Contrary to what the title of the collection La literatura es secreto suggests — a reference to the solitary character of reading — the dialogic dimension of reading is reflected in the essays and becomes the mechanism through which Chacel rebuilds — between the Spain of the past and the Argentina of the present — her exiled self.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"80 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1794602","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48305120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1794603
E. Houvenaghel, M. Manso, M. Jansen, M. Urban
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"E. Houvenaghel, M. Manso, M. Jansen, M. Urban","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1794603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1794603","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"63 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1794603","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41876863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-04-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1794605
Carole Viñals
{"title":"Clara Campoamor en Buenos Aires (1938-1955): Un feminismo transnacional","authors":"Carole Viñals","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1794605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1794605","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work is based on three compilations of articles written by Clara Campoamor in Buenos Aires during her exile between 1938 and 1955: La mujer en la diplomacia y otros artículos, El amor y otras pasiones, Artículos literarios and La mujer quiere alas y otros ensayos, published between 2017 and 2019. The memory of Spain and the fight against fascism are prominent. But it is mainly feminist issues that she addresses, inspired by the example of Americans to re-consider the role of women in society. The perspective is transnational. The author’s analysis of the role of education and the importance of love for women are very topical.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"106 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1794605","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42038576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1739921
Patricia Rodríguez-Martínez
{"title":"The Voice of Edelma Zapata Pérez (1954-2010) – Afro-Colombian Poet Interviewed By: Patricia Rodríguez-Martínez","authors":"Patricia Rodríguez-Martínez","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1739921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739921","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As part of her research on Afro-Colombian Poetry, Patricia Rodríguez-Martínez interviewed Edelma Zapata Pérez, the daughter of Manuel Zapata Olivella and niece of Juan Zapata Olivella. These poets, uncle and niece, belonged to a well-known family of artists and intellectuals, professionals and public servants. As representatives of the Afro-Colombian people, they challenged and resisted not only systemic ‘traditional’ discrimination, but also systemic paramilitary and guerrilla violence and displacement against Afro-Colombian communities in recent decades. The interview was published in Spanish in Bogotá, Colombia by Panamericana Editorial in a collection of essays and interviews entitled: Hijas del Muntu: Biografías críticas de mujeres afrodescendientes de América Latina. Jaramillo, MM & L. Ortiz (2011).","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"38 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739921","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48551478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1739920
José-Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla
{"title":"Finitud y episteme en la narrativa latinoamericana: Jorge Volpi y la Trilogía del siglo XX","authors":"José-Carlos Redondo-Olmedilla","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1739920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739920","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The essay analyses the sense of finiteness and episteme in the Trilogía del siglo XX, a set of three novels, En busca de Klingsor (1999), El fin de la locura (2003) and No será la tierra (2006), by the Mexican author Jorge Volpi (1968—). To this end, it formally grounds the term ‘truth’ as good judgement or proposition and demonstrates that the search for knowledge and the fascination for total wisdom are integral to the human condition. The study links these novels’ ideological lines with contemporary discourses and with Latin American narrative. Finiteness and episteme are explained subsequently as key elements in our understanding of Volpi’s transtemporal search for knowledge. We conclude that truth is an impossible project and that the lives of human beings are simply narrations.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"48 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739920","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46593878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1766858
P. Scott
{"title":"Aliens and Alienation in Pierre Boulle’s La Planète des Singes","authors":"P. Scott","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1766858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1766858","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers a radical re-reading of Pierre Boulle’s Planète des singes (1963), a novel dealing with interplanetary exploration in 2500 and the discovery of a world in the Betelgeuse system with three orders of rational simian species and a subjugated humanoid race void of rationality and abused by the primates on the planet. This close of the novel focuses on the narrator’s love affairs with two extraterrestrial females (one a low-intelligence humanoid, the other a rational chimpanzee-like creature). In this framed science-fiction novel, Boulle creates a first-person narrative with a dislikeable central character, Ulysse, who unwittingly engineers the downfall and extinction of humankind. I propose that the work should be interpreted less in the satiric tradition, with which it undoubtedly possesses affinities, and more as a veiled and sustained critique of Western capitalism and the consumerist society of the reader. Boulle subtly uses the taboo relationships of Ulysse with two aliens as a reflection on social codes and agencies of control.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"26 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1766858","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45780703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1739919
Katie McErlain
{"title":"Sor Juana Unveils Calderón’s Feminism as Leonor (Los empeños de una casa) Refashions Laura (El secreto a voces)","authors":"Katie McErlain","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1739919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739919","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the resonances between the heroines Laura of Calderón’s comedia El secreto a voces (1642) and Leonor of Sor Juana’s Los empeños de una casa (1683). After first outlining the archetype of the dama tramoyera (the title bestowed on heroines of Golden Age comedias de capa y espada) and a key figure in Calderón’s approach to comedy, I go on to trace the tactics and temperament of Laura, a late Calderonian version of the archetype, who is also a precursor of Sor Juana’s heroine, Leonor, owing to her cerebral mask of modesty. The ability of Laura and Leonor to appear self-effacing when confronting intrusive authorities shields an underlying individualist stance. While Calderón’s approach is grounded on his commitment to a woman’s right to free will and equal humanity, Sor Juana extends this to education and free thought. Sor Juana’s response to the Spanish dramatist confirms Calderón’s ability to bring to light the increasingly outmoded position of women in his society while indicating her own political agenda, implicit in her enhanced version of a comic heroine crafted in the New World.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"12 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739919","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41338912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2020.1739918
J. Lorenzo
{"title":"Juan Boscán y la fama: el influjo de los Triumphi de Petrarca","authors":"J. Lorenzo","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2020.1739918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739918","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent scholarship on early modern Spanish poet Juan Boscán (c. 1490–1542) has considerably enhanced his reputation as a lyricist and established a more consequential place for his work in the literary canon. Such characterization can be said to have an early echo in the image of Boscán that we find in his sonnet CXVI (‘Amor m’embia un dulce sentimiento’) and in Garcilaso de la Vega’s Elegía II and Égloga II. In these poems, Boscán is described as a gifted poet whose writings will survive time and will earn him fame among his contemporaries. A careful examination of this flattering image of Boscán reveals its indebtedness to the symbols and the vocabulary associated with fame in Petrarch’s Triumphs and other texts related to this allegorical poem. Garcilaso and Boscán cannibalized these texts in an effort to raise Boscan’s poetry and reputation to the level of their Tuscan predecessors.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"1 - 11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2020.1739918","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45453215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2019.1690790
Nicoletta Mandolini
{"title":"Rivisitare la pratica femminista del ‘partire da sé’: autofiction al maschile e femminicidio in La scuola cattolica di Edoardo Albinati","authors":"Nicoletta Mandolini","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2019.1690790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2019.1690790","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘Il riconoscimento innanzitutto come maschio, partendo quindi da me, mi ha collocato in comunanza […] con la parte più oscura della mascolinità’. Con queste parole, incluse in un numero speciale de Il Manifesto sul tema del femminicidio (‘Il corpo del delitto’), Edoardo Albinati chiarisce lo stimolo creativo che sta alla base del suo romanzo La scuola cattolica, vincitore del Premio Strega nel 2016. La prospettiva eccentrica e dichiaratamente autofinzionale adottata da Albinati per raccontare la storia dei femminicidi commessi da Angelo Izzo, uno degli autori del massacro del Circeo, è, di fatto, ciò che ha garantito il successo del testo tra i critici letterari. Facendo riferimento a teorie su violenza di genere e autofiction, oltre che ai Critical Men’s Studies, l’articolo si propone di analizzare le controversie etiche che emergono del racconto sul femminicidio de La scuola cattolica, affidando particolare attenzione alla problematica relazione che la narrazione al maschile incentrata sulla figura del carnefice intrattiene con la realtà della vittimizzazione femminile. Lo studio ravvisa nell’opera di Albinati una reticenza a riassegnare vocalità alle donne vittimizzate che tuttavia corrisponde a un’importante tendenza ad erodere l’autorialità maschile e, con essa, la dicotomia di genere da cui deriva la violenza sessista.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"171 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2019.1690790","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45287446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Romance StudiesPub Date : 2019-10-02DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2019.1690791
Jeremy Squires
{"title":"Miguel Delibes’ Green Dilemma: ‘USA y yo’ versus ‘Un Mundo Que Agoniza’","authors":"Jeremy Squires","doi":"10.1080/02639904.2019.1690791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02639904.2019.1690791","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Miguel Delibes is widely known as a novelist and journalist with a strong commitment to environmentalism. In 1964 he visited the USA, a country that epitomized progress, technology and modernity, and subsequently published his impressions as USA y yo. While the author reacted negatively to certain aspects of American culture — especially what he deemed the dehumanizing effects of mechanization — his overall estimation was mixed in that he gave an idealized account of the American countryside, regarding it as combining the best aspects of town and country: a proximity to nature, but with modern amenities, and a strong sense of community. In 1975, Delibes explained his ecological credo to the Real Academia Española. This far more robust critique of modernity was informed by Delibes’ assimilation of works inspired by the new environmentalism of the late 1960s. However, throughout his life, Delibes continued to toy with the idea of modernization as the way forward for the Castilian countryside. This article explores the author’s lingering hesitancies as symptoms of the ongoing debate within the green movement between eco-modernists and eco-radicals. It also draws a parallel between Delibes and the American agrarian writer, Wendell Berry.","PeriodicalId":41864,"journal":{"name":"Romance Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"188 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02639904.2019.1690791","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43240125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}