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{"title":"La représentation de Jeanne d’Arc dans la France du XVIe siècle: Politique, religion et genre dans L’Histoire tragique de la Pucelle d’Orléans (1580)","authors":"Ji Gao","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2230872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2230872","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article proposes an interpretation of Fronton du Duc’s L’Histoire tragique de la Pucelle d’Orleans (1580), an important early adaptation of Joan of Arc’s story partially based on contemporary records of her trial. Through a close reading of this little-known work, the article shows that the Jesuit playwright consciously made use of three types of discourse—politics, religion, and gender. As this piece was written for the French king’s visit to Lorraine, Fronton du Duc underlines the alliance between France and Lorraine and highlights the image of a united France. By calling attention to the divide between Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Church, the author anachronistically makes use of Joan of Arc’s story to emphasize the religious dimension of late sixteenth century French nationalism. Besides, Fronton du Duc brings a gender discourse into play to underscore Joan of Arc’s “feminity,” and thus maintains Joan’s mystical role without affecting the masculinized image of the French state. This specific portrayal of Joan of Arc corresponded to the historical context of the French wars of religion in the second half of the sixteenth century and marked a crucial step in the early representation of Joan of Arc as a national heroine.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49391617","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}

{"title":"Los sabores de la pena: duelos mundanos y transformación comunitaria en Umami (2015) de Laia Jufresa","authors":"María Celina Bortolotto, May Summer Farnsworth","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2231347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2231347","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Umami (2015) by the Mexican author Laia Jufresa deals with the themes of loss, mourning and identity through several interrelated stories. Residents of an apartment complex in Mexico City live in separate flats and experience individual traumas linked to the loss of loved ones. In their daily interactions, they recognize each other’s pain while processing their own grief and exploring creative transformations in their identities and communities. Jufresa shows the intimate and personal process of mourning as a counterpart to stories of massive violence and narco-terrorism by presenting detailed examples of “ordinary grief.” Jufresa also explores the cultural dimensions of more traditional types of mourning in Mexico. The characters in Umami recognize each other, keep each other company, and experience collective vulnerability, recreating what Barbara Fredrickson, Judith Butler, and Iona Heath attribute to the roles of mutual support in grief and the key role of positive emotion in individual and community transformation. Through these perspectives from psychology, psychotherapy, and medicine, our essay reads Umami as a literary representation of the complex relationship between the personal and the communal in the creative-affective exchanges that allow us to navigate the turbulent waters of everyday mourning.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42341858","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}

{"title":"Jennifer Ponce De León. Another Esthetics is Possible: Arts of Rebellion in the Fourth World War","authors":"G. Bulman","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2235745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2235745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45089144","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}

{"title":"Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain","authors":"Anne M. Pasero","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2231426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2231426","url":null,"abstract":"Esteemed professor, critic, and scholar Sharon Keefe Ugalde, who for many years has provided groundbreaking analyses of contemporary Spanish women poets, has recently published a significant book that is in many ways a compilation and overview of the context of her work since the death of Franco in 1975. This recent book, Ophelia: Shakespeare and Gender in Contemporary Spain, undertakes an in-depth study of the Ophelia theme in different genres and settings, responding to the question of why the importance of the theme for Spain and its relationship to both time and place. From the outset, Professor Ugalde states the need for such an analysis: “Despite the originality and abundance of literary, dramatic and artistic transformations of Ophelia, the Spanish is completely overlooked in recent analyses (2). For Ugalde then, the purpose of her book is to “remedy this critical oversight and to highlight for an international audience the range and quality of creative endeavours produced in Spain since the Transition” (2). According to Ugalde, chapter’s end, Dr. Leavitt offers a compelling discussion of the category of neorealism today. While sympathetic to the argument of Alan O’Leary and Catherine O’Rawe and others that neorealism and realism have had perhaps unwarranted critical precedence in studies of Italian cinema, Dr. Leavitt interrogates these terms that, for better or for worse, are held up as the bars by which many other national cinemas are measured. Neorealism: A Cultural History is a valuable resource for anyone working in European cultural history, Italian film studies and literary history, and film studies more broadly. Further, in its exploration into the persistence of neorealism as a cultural category that has captivated individuals across the globe, Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History unveils how neorealism has become a “fixed historical signifier” (175) even when it emerged in the 1940s as a complex cultural conversation with a distinct cultural legacy.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44152859","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}

{"title":"Derrumbamiento del poder soberano y transculturación del sistema hacienda en Todas las sangres de José María Arguedas","authors":"María Andrea Díaz Miranda","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2231829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2231829","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article analyzes the transformations of the hacienda system in the Peruvian highlands during the second half of the twentieth century through the novel Todas las sangres written by José María Arguedas. Departing from Michel Foucault’s work and his distinction between sovereign power and biopolitics, the article analyses different social formations that evolve from the hacienda system through processes of transculturation. By analyzing fragments of the novel where the biopolitical project that hides behind one of these social formations is revealed, the goal of the article is to discover how Arguedas articulates an ideological critique toward the implementation of foreign models of productivity in the Peruvian highlands through an ending that leaves in suspense the role of local communities and their epistemologies in the political and economic renewal of Peru.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44156855","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}

{"title":"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Tortura institucional en el cine español de la Transición","authors":"David Delgado López","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2231341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2231341","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This essay analyzes the representation of institutionalized torture in 1980’s Spanish cinema as it denounces police practices during the early years of Democracy. Consequently, this essay studies and examines the data on tortures practiced during the Spanish Transition based on Sophie Baby’s and Ignacio Mendiola’s research. It also analyzes the role torture has in a democratic government in conversation with Darius Rejali’s work. Under this premise, the essay examines two films which have been celebrated due to the different topics they show on screen and the different perspectives they represent within Spanish cinema, yet both express a clear representation of state torture. These movies are: El crimen de Cuenca (1979) and La muerte de Mikel (1984).","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45822156","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}

{"title":"Carolyn Wolfenzon. Nuevos fantasmas recorren México. Lo espectral en la literatura mexicana del siglo XXI. Madrid: Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert, 2020. 340 pp.","authors":"C. Serrano","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2231450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2231450","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48324973","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}

{"title":"Michael J. McGrath. Don Quixote and Catholicism: Rereading Cervantine Spirituality","authors":"Tania De Miguel Magro","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2229234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2229234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49513353","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}

{"title":"Performative Polemic: Anti-Absolutist Pamphlets and Their Readers in Late Seventeenth-Century France","authors":"J. Cherbuliez","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2231425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2231425","url":null,"abstract":"In Huguenot writer Anne de La Roche Guilhem’s 1697 historical nouvelle “Marie de Beauvilliers, Abbesse de Montmartre, sous Henri IV, Roi de France,” the first Bourbon monarch is still Protestant, and the debate over the Reformation is a matter of conversation. Convents are compared to “purgatories,” and the mother superior jocularly calls one of her charges a “Huguenot.” Such overt polemic is surprising even to seasoned readers of seventeenth-century literature. We are used to critique of any kind appearing in far more subtle ways, if at all. In other stories included in the same collection, L’Histoire des Favorites (translated as The History of Female Favorites), theologians are said to have no other purpose than to echo the king’s wishes, and papal machinations are indistinguishable from monarchical excesses. Was La Roche Guilhem an anti-absolutist? Was she a novelist or a propagandist? Twenty years ago, I would have answered the first question in the affirmative, but also have argued that as a novelist she couldn’t also be a propagandist. Now I am not so sure. New research on seventeenth-century French cultures of dissent has rethought the idea of anti-absolutism and questioned the very constitution of absolutism itself. It is not coincidental that so much of this research also insists on new archives and methodologies, compelling readers to rethink taxonomies that treat novels and political tracts as generically distinct. Kathrina Ann LaPorta’s Performative Polemics is part of this new research focus and contributes to a general call among scholars of the French seventeenth century to explore a much less starkly defined “Grand Siècle” by expanding the sources from which we draw our analyses. The re-exploration in question includes many forms of “decentering:” Anna Rosensweig’s Subjects of Affection (2021) uncouples tragedy, the most codified and structured of literary genres, from its traditional role as a confirmation of absolutist esthetics and instead embeds it in the aftermath of political debates over the Wars of Religion. Ellen Welch’s Theater of Diplomacy (2018) explores court archives both French and foreign in order to return the performing arts to their role as agents of diplomatic efficacity, while Hall Bjørnstad’s Dream of Absolutism (2022) dismantles from within by showing how the esthetic and political imaginary we call “absolutism” was and remains a constructed, affectively driven fantasy that continues to wield enormous power today. These and other recent works of scholarship compel us to consider a cultural and political landscape that was not nearly as monolithic as that on which the abiding myth of absolutism has insisted for far too long. Performative Polemics joins these reconsiderations of absolutism, following a distinct approach by exploring the ways in which anti-absolutist writers used rhetorical strategies drawn from legal, literary, and philosophical discourse to counter the official discourse Notes on contributor","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59349937","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}

{"title":"Morisco Justice in Calderón’s Amar después de la muerte","authors":"Sharon D. Voros","doi":"10.1080/00397709.2023.2200100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00397709.2023.2200100","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For Thomas Case and Erik Coenen, Pedro Calderón de la Barca’s notion of justice has theological origins in Saint Thomas Aquinas’s natural law and national self-determination. Issues of Morisco justice become a means of dramatic development. In Amar después de la muerte, Calderón dramatizes the Morisco revolt in Granada (1567–1571). Moorish descendants sought refuge and a return to Islam, after Philip II’s edicts banned their cultural heritage. Calderón’s play moves through four different attempts to deal with the Morisco community. The first is the enslavement of survivors of the rebellion. The second attempt is intermarriage, evidenced when Malec’s daughter Clara, betrothed to El Tuzaní de Alpujarras, accepts marriage as a means of revenge against Juan de Mendoza, whom she plans to kill for disrespecting her father. With the third issue, the revolt, the play becomes a revenge drama as El Tuzaní seeks out the murderer of his wife. The fourth issue is true conversion to Catholicism. Redemptive justice and true faith are perhaps what attracted Calderón to this historical event. His play stands as a tribute to a disenfranchised population.","PeriodicalId":45184,"journal":{"name":"SYMPOSIUM-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN MODERN LITERATURES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43842082","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}