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{"title":"Approaches to Totalitarianism, Humanism and Arts in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four A Critical Review of Waddell, Nathan, ed. 2020. The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xv+287 pp. ISBN: 1-108-89970-6 Obarrio Moreno, Juan Alfredo. 2021. 1984 (George Orwell) Diálogos entre el derecho y la literatura: Los totalitarismos I. Madrid: Dykinson, S.L. 294 pp. ISBN: 9788413775067","authors":"Ana Valverde González","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2023-45.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135100111","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":"Time’s Up for a Change of Political Focus: Katniss Everdeen’s Ecofeminist Leadership in The Hunger Games Film Series","authors":"Mónica Martín","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2021-43.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2021-43.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores Katniss Everdeen’s ecofeminist political agency in The Hunger Games film series (2012-2015) in the light of global social movements in the late 2010s. As a young destitute woman who defies the oppressive rules of an oligarchic and patriarchal totalitarian order, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) represents the utopian potential of intersectional politics forged across class, gender, racial and geopolitical borders. In opposition to ecocidal and patriarchal conceptions of progress, Katniss’s ecofeminist heroism is illustrative of the emergence of cosmopolitan political imaginaries that advocate sustainable, egalitarian collective futures constructed beyond the methodological frameworks of neoliberal globalisation and material dialectics. Contemporary with young activists like Greta Thunberg, one of the founders of the ecological movement Fridays for Future, Katniss can be taken as a cinematic representative of a new generation of utopian political actors for whom individual well-being is tied to ecosocial welfare and cosmopolitan inclusion.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75072408","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":"Challenging the Victorian Nuclear Family Myth: The Incest Trope in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak","authors":"D. Pedro","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"espanolLa literatura (neo)victoriana ofrece conceptualizaciones contradictorias de la familia nuclear, ya que generalmente gira en torno a hogares tradicionales heteroparentales pero los presenta como fragmentados y profundamente disfuncionales. La pelicula Crimson Peak (2015) del director Guillermo del Toro se basa en tres motivos recurrentes en la ficcion gotica (neo) victoriana, los traumas domesticos, la familia disfuncional y lo sobrenatural. Mi objetivo principal es explorar como Del Toro utiliza la trama del incesto para subvertir las visiones preconcebidas e idealizadas sobre la familia victoriana. En primer lugar, analizo la casa ancestral y la figura materna como origen de los traumas familiares, para a continuacion examinar la relacion incestuosa entre los hermanos Sharpe desde un enfoque triple: etico, estetico y psicoanalitico. Sobre esta base, argumento que Del Toro representa traumas familiares del siglo XIX que continuan siendo relevantes en la sociedad actual, con el objetivo de que los espectadores puedan tomar conciencia de estos problemas sociales e incluso adoptar una postura activa contra los mismos. English(Neo-)Victorian literature offers contradictory conceptualisations of the nuclear family. While it usually revolves around traditional heteroparental households, at the same time it portrays them as fragmented and deeply flawed. Guillermo del Toro’s film Crimson Peak (2015) builds on domestic traumas, the dysfunctional family and the supernatural, three recurrent tropes in (neo-)Victorian Gothic fiction. My main aim is to explore how Del Toro exploits the incest plotline in order to subvert preconceived views on the idealised Victorian family. I first analyse the ancestral family house and the mother figure as the loci of family traumas. I then move on to examine the Sharpe siblings’ incestuous relationship from a threefold perspective involving ethics, aesthetics and psychoanalysis, thereby showing that Del Toro exposes nineteenth-century family traumas that are still present in contemporary societies, so that audiences may become aware of these social issues and even take an active stance against them.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79437611","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":"Disability, Illness and Cultural Belonging in Akhil Sharma’s Family Life","authors":"Iwona Filipczak","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEl objetivo de este articulo es demostrar como los discursos de discapacidad/enfermedad e inmigracion se entrelazan en la novela Family Life (2014), de Akhil Sharma. Sostengo que la negociacion de las identidades culturales por parte de los personajes ocurre en la interseccion de su estatus en cuanto a raza, etnia, clase, migracion y (dis)capacidad, cuyo examen revela la experiencia unica de opresion sufrida por una familia de inmigrantes indios. Reconociendo la semejanza de la narrativa con la “narrativa del caos,” exploro en particular la sensacion de devastacion del narrador y su resistencia a la expectativa cultural del discurso del exito. El estudio aborda cuestiones de pertenencia cultural y es sensible al contexto sociohistorico de la inmigracion india a EUA, en un intento de mostrar algunos aspectos de como la cultura influye en la percepcion de la discapacidad y la enfermedad. EnglishThe aim of this article is to demonstrate how the discourses of disability/illness and immigration are intertwined in Akhil Sharma’s novel Family Life (2014). I argue that the characters’ negotiation of cultural identities occurs at the intersection of their race, ethnicity, class, and immigrant and ability status, the examination of which reveals a unique experience of oppression of an Indian immigrant family. Recognizing the narrative’s resemblance to the “chaos narrative,” I explore in particular the narrator’s sense of devastation and the narrative’s resistance to the cultural expectation of the discourse of triumph. As the study deals with questions of cultural belonging and is sensitive to the sociohistorical context of Indian immigration to the US, an attempt is undertaken to show some aspects of how culture influences the perception of disability and illness.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87979311","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":"Child First Language Acquisition of English and Spanish Prepositional and Double Object Constructions","authors":"Silvia Sánchez Calderón","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the acquisition of dative alternation (DA), namely, prepositional structures and double object constructions (DOCs), in English and Spanish. The analysis of Spanish and English child monolingual data and adult input available in CHILDES reveals a similar pattern of emergence of prepositional and DOCs in the two language groups. This suggests a lack of derivation between the two structures in the two languages, assuming that more complex derived structures emerge later than nonderived ones. This is argued to be the case despite the difference between English and Spanish DA, as per the Complex Predicate Parameter. The delay in the onset and the lower incidence of English and Spanish prepositional DA seems to be related to the amount of exposure in the adult input. These findings, therefore, suggest that children acquire the similar syntactic nonderivational relationship that underlies DA constructions both in English and in Spanish. Besides, adult input factors seem to play a similar role in the children’s preference for the use of DOCs rather than prepositional structures in the two languages.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72440727","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":"New Verse Translations of Old English Poetry into Spanish","authors":"Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91349285","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":"Of Godfathers and Markets: The Politics of (the) American Gangster","authors":"Fabián Orán Llarena","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEste articulo analiza en profundidad la pelicula American Gangster (2007) como reinterpretacion del cine de gansteres en clave neoliberal. Desarrollando una metodologia basada en estudios culturales y de genero cinematografico, sostengo que la pelicula revisita temas e imagenes troncales del cine de gansteres bajo la influencia de la ideologia neoliberal y abordando ciertas visiones y fenomenos vinculados a la acumulacion capitalista, como el Keynesianismo, el libertarismo o la relacion entre las esferas estatal y privada. Existe abundante produccion academica centrada en el capitalismo neoliberal y su afianzamiento como el sistema politico y economico hegemonico de nuestro tiempo. Sin embargo, los estudios de cine aun no han abordado exhaustivamente la representacion del neoliberalismo en el cine. Es mas, se observa una importante escasez de investigacion sobre la posible plasmacion cinematografica del neoliberalismo con atencion a especificidades de genero. American Gangster se presenta como una pelicula particularmente idonea para tratar todas esas cuestiones de manera unificada y cohesiva. EnglishThis article closely examines the film American Gangster (2007) as a reinterpretation of the gangster film in light of neoliberalism. Deploying a critical framework underpinned by cultural and film genre studies, I argue the film revisits key tropes and themes of the gangster film by drawing substantially on neoliberal ideology and by addressing certain worldviews and phenomena concerning capitalist accumulation, such as Keynesianism, libertarianism and the relation between the state and private spheres. A wealth of scholarly literature has accrued that probes neoliberal capitalism as the hegemonic economic and political system of our time. However, film studies has yet to comprehensively take up the study of neoliberalism. Additionally, whether there are genre specificities in the way neoliberalism has been translated into film is a significantly underexplored area of research. American Gangster constitutes a particularly appropriate film to cohesively and unitarily tackle all those questions.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75786766","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":"A Multimodal Approach to Foster the Multiliteracies Pedagogy in the Teaching of EFL through Picturebooks: The Snow Lion","authors":"A. Reyes-Torres, Matilde Portalés Raga","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEnsenar lenguas en el siglo veintiuno implica prestar atencion a las demandas pedagogicas multimodales de un mundo digital global. Para alcanzar este objetivo, la ensenanza efectiva del ingles requiere una preparacion de los instructores para guiar de manera consciente el desarrollo de la literacidad de los alumnos e integrar las distintas maneras de construir significado que van mucho mas alla del mero uso de la lengua. Este articulo suscribe la nocion de literacidad como un concepto multidimensional y propone un conjunto de herramientas multimodales como medio para que los maestros de ingles como lengua extranjera (ILE) trabajen con elementos literarios y visuales clave. Centrandonos en la lectura de The Snow Lion (Helmore and Jones 2017), analizamos la relacion caracteristica entre palabras e imagenes que define el album ilustrado e implementamos la pedagogia de las multiliteracidades, que consta de cuatro procesos de conocimiento, esto es, experimentar, conceptualizar, analizar y aplicar. El objetivo final es guiar a jovenes estudiantes en la produccion de significados y en el pensamiento critico en el marco del aula de ILE a traves del analisis e interpretacion de los albumes ilustrados. EnglishTwenty-first-century language education involves paying attention to the multimodal pedagogical demands of a global digital world. To this end, effective English language teaching (ELT) requires preparation on the part of instructors in terms of consciously guiding learners’ literacy development and integrating multiple modes of creating meaning that are broader than language alone. This article supports the notion of literacy as a multidimensional concept and proposes a multimodal toolkit as a means for teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) to work with key literary and visual elements. Focusing on the reading of The Snow Lion (Helmore and Jones 2017), we discuss the meaningful interaction between words and images that defines picturebooks and implement the multiliteracies pedagogy approach, which is comprised of four knowledge processes, i.e., experiencing, conceptualizing, analyzing and applying. The final objective is to guide young students to produce meaning and think critically in the EFL classroom through the analysis and interpretation of picturebooks.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75274208","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":"Meera Syal’s “The Traveller”: Its Feminist Allegory and Later Echoes","authors":"Noemí Pereira-Ares","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"espanolComprometida con visibilizar la experiencia femenina y, mas concretamente, la realidad de la mujer surasiatica, Meera Syal es una escritora cuyas obras incluyen a menudo un subtexto feminista. Un claro ejemplo de esto lo encontramos en “The Traveller” (1988), un relato corto de caracter alegorico que incorpora una marcada agenda feminista. Sin embargo, podria decirse que, frente a otras obras de Syal, este relato ha sido ampliamente ignorado por la critica literaria. El objetivo de este articulo es contribuir precisamente a rectificar este desequilibrio, reevaluando la importancia de este texto dentro de la obra de la autora. Apoyandose en trabajos criticos de corte feminista, el articulo tambien pretende proporcionar un analisis detallado del mencionado relato, revelando y examinando la alegoria feminista que encapsula. Como se expone a lo largo del articulo, “The Traveller” se erige como una critica a las tendencias universalizadoras sobre las que se ha sostenido el feminismo occidental, al tiempo que enuncia la aparicion del denominado feminismo negro britanico en las decadas de 1970 y 1980. A pesar de esto, a traves de sus densas metaforas, el relato de Syal tambien enfatiza la idea de comonalidad, destacando la necesidad de reconocer tanto las diferencias como los puntos en comun, asi como la pertinencia de establecer vinculos entre la experiencia femenina en el subcontinente indio y sus diasporas. EnglishCommitted to the exploration of the female experience—specifically the South Asian female experience—Meera Syal has often woven a feminist subtext into the fabric of her works. This is probably nowhere more evident than in “The Traveller” (1988), an allegorical short story that constitutes Syal’s more sustained effort to produce a feminist text per se. However, whereas Syal’s novels and screenplays have been accorded considerable critical attention, “The Traveller” has been largely overlooked. This article aims to help rectify this imbalance by reassessing the importance of this text within Syal’s oeuvre. Drawing on feminist discourse, it also provides a detailed analysis of the story, unveiling and examining its feminist allegory. As I contend, “The Traveller” provides a critique of the universalising tendencies at the core of much Western feminism, whilst also enunciating the coming into being of Black British feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. This notwithstanding, through the figure of the “traveller,” a strong metaphor throughout, Syal’s story also creates common ground, highlighting the need to recognise both differences and commonalities and to build bridges amongst South Asian women living at both ends of the East-West divide.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75028010","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":"On the Analogical Suffixation of Paired Antonyms: The Case of English innie and outie","authors":"J. A. S. Fajardo","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEn ingles, existe una gran cantidad de parejas de antonimos que terminan en el mismo sufijo, sobre todo en el habla argotica y coloquial—por ejemplo, stardom, regulardom/unknowndom; friendship, enemyship; singlehood, marriedhood, etc. Este articulo investiga los principios de la sufijacion analogica de parejas de antonimos (ASPA en ingles), que es el proceso que constituye la base de los mecanismos de analogia morfologica y complementacion semantica en la formacion de parejas de antonimos terminados en el mismo sufijo (AP en ingles). En el estudio de ASPA, se utiliza la pareja de antonimos innie/outie para el analisis del nexo existente entre los conceptos de antonimia, sufijacion y analogia en los veintinueve significados identificados en los corpus (News on the Web Corpus y Lexis Nexis Academic). Este estudio de caso demuestra que un AP es el resultado del solapamiento de varias categorias en las que intervienen las bases (in-, out-), el sufijo (-ie/y), la naturaleza complementaria y coalescente de las parejas, y la adaptacion morfologica de los etimos para que puedan encajar como pares. El proceso de ASPA es un principio universal y variable que puede depender de la opacidad semantica de las bases, del valor sociolinguistico del vocabulario y del concepto de creatividad lexica. El estudio del proceso de analogia morfologica de parejas de antonimos puede arrojar luz sobre la predictibilidad y uso (rendimiento) de los mecanismos de formacion de palabras tanto en el lexico estandar como en el periferico. EnglishIn English, there are a series of paired antonyms ending with the same suffix, particularly in slang or colloquial speech—stardom, regulardom/unknowndom; friendship, enemyship; singlehood, marriedhood, etc. This article looks into the tenets of the analogical suffixation of paired antonyms (ASPA), which is the process that is thought to underlie the mechanisms of morphological analogy and semantic complementation in the structuring of same-suffixed antonymic pairs (APs). In the study of ASPA, the AP innie/outie is used to explore the interconnection of antonymy, suffixation and analogy in the twenty-nine senses identified in the corpora (News on the Web Corpus and Lexis Nexis Academic). This case study shows that the semantic composition of the AP is the result of overlapping categories that involve the bases (in-, out-), the attached suffix (-ie/y), the complementary and coalescent nature of the pairs and the morphological adaptation undergone by the etymons to fit into the pairing markedness. The process of ASPA is a universal and scalar property that depends on the semantic opacity of bases, the sociolinguistic value of the word stock and the concept of lexical creativity. The examination of the morphological analogy of paired antonyms can shed more light on the predictability and performance (profitability) of word-formation mechanisms in both mainstream and peripheral lexis.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78278120","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}