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{"title":"The Horror of Loss: Reading Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook as a Trauma Narrative","authors":"P. Mitchell","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2019-41.2.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2019-41.2.09","url":null,"abstract":"This article responds to the critical debate around Jennifer Kent’s horror movie, The Babadook (2014), by offering an analysis that moves beyond its use of generic codes and its sociopolitical representation of maternity. It contends that reading the film as a trauma narrative allows us to better understand the horrifying experience suffered by Amelia Vanek (Essie Davis): her husband’s premature death in a car accident. Taking Dominick LaCapra’s concepts of acting out and working through as key interpretive tools, the analysis demonstrates how Kent conveys posttraumatic stress disorder as both a visceral and a material experience, inscribing absence and loss onto the cinematic texture of the film. The article offers the conclusion that, as The Babadook enacts Amelia’s process of recuperation, figured as a psychosomatic struggle against her monstrous Other, she becomes able to express her trauma and, in doing so, is finally able to accept her husband’s death.Keywords: Babadook; horror; cinema; loss; posttraumatic stress disorder; monstrosity","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74516181","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":"Female Cycling and the Discourse of Moral Panic in Late Victorian Britain","authors":"B. Kiersnowska","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2019-41.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2019-41.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses the role of cycling in women’s emancipation in late Victorian Britain and explores the attitudes of the middle-class public to women’s pursuit of this recreational activity. The unique combination of healthy physical exercise, unrestrained mobility and sporting excitement that the bicycle offered elevated cycling into one of the epoch’s most popular leisure activities. For women, the bicycle became an important instrument to break away from the constraints of the androcentric paternalistic culture that stereotyped them and cast them in the passive role of the angel in the house . The immense popularity of bicycling with middle- and upper-class women and the inevitable changes in patterns of female leisure, clothing and normative behaviour it involved, caused strong reaction from the bourgeois establishment. An analysis of opinions published in the British press at the time reveals a discourse marked by anxiety that cycling might become an avenue for women to claim more independence for themselves and even subvert the established social framework based on power relations and a clear delineation of gender roles. Keywords: women; cycling; late Victorian period; gender roles; press; prejudice","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85582792","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":"Escape and Consolation: Narrative Voice and Metafiction in the Harry Potter Series","authors":"A. L. Pons","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019.41.1.125-141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019.41.1.125-141","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEste articulo analiza la voz narrativa y la presencia de elementos metatextuales y metaficcionales en las novelas de la saga Harry Potter (1997-2007), de J. K. Rowling, prestando especial atencion al diario de Tom Riddle, que aparece por primera vez en Harry Potter y la Camara Secreta (1998), y al libro de cuentos complementario de la serie, Cuentos de Beedle el Bardo (2007). Mientras que se ha hablado mucho de los siete libros que componen la saga, los libros complementarios que pretenden ser los mismos que los protagonistas leen en las novelas—Animales fantasticos y donde encontrarlos (2001), Quidditch a traves de los tiempos (2001) y Cuentos de Beedle el Bardo—no han atraido el mismo nivel de atencion por parte de los criticos. Sin embargo, estos y otros ejemplos de narrativas metadiegeticas nos permiten entender mejor la representacion de la relacion entre texto y lector, adulto y nino, a lo largo de la saga. Mediante el analisis de la voz narrativa y la metaficcion, argumento que, a pesar de que la historia que se cuenta es a veces oscura y perturbadora, la autora le otorga un marco narrativo que proporciona acompanamiento y seguridad a los lectores, ademas de una reflexion sobre la importancia de la literatura infantil y del arte de contar historias. Asi pues, la metaficcion aporta complejidad a la obra de Rowling y desafia al lector a viajar entre los diferentes niveles de la narracion y a reflexionar sobre el acto de leer. EnglishThis article sets out to examine narrative voice in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (1997- 2007) as well as the presence of metatextual and metafictional elements in her novels. Special attention will be paid to Tom Riddle’s diary, which first appears in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998), and the book of fairy tales and companion to the series, The Tales of Beedle the Bard (2007). While Rowling’s seven-book series has been extensively discussed, the companion books that purport to be the books that the main characters read in the novels—Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001), Quidditch Through the Ages (2001) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard—have not received the same amount of critical attention. Yet these and other examples of metadiegetic narratives provide thought-provoking insights into the series’s commentary on the relationship between texts and readers, adults and children. Through a careful examination of Rowling’s narrative voice and her use of metafiction, I argue that the author gives her sometimes dark, disturbing story a narrative frame that not only provides the reader with consolation and reassurance, but also offers a commentary on the importance of storytelling and children’s literature. Metafiction thus makes Rowling’s work more complex than we might assume, challenging its readers to navigate through different narrative levels and reflect on the very act of reading.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84875714","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":"Another Look at Old English Zero Derivation and Alternations","authors":"J. Arista","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019.41.1.163-182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2019.41.1.163-182","url":null,"abstract":"espanolEste articulo ofrece una vision general de la derivacion cero en ingles antiguo, una descripcion de las alternancias que se establecen entre los nombres, adjetivos y verbos debiles, de una parte, y sus bases de derivacion, de otra parte; y una valoracion de la importancia de las alternancias para la evolucion del lexico ingles. Se cuantifican las alternancias y se relacionan con la mutacion de la i y con los procesos de formacion de palabras mediante distinciones entre las alternancias directas y las inversas y entre el verbo fuerte como origen de la derivacion y el verbo debil como meta de la derivacion. Las conclusiones reflejan el caracter sincronico-diacronico de las alternancias. En el eje sincronico, las alternancias representan un fenomeno relativamente generalizado que afecta a todas las clases de verbos fuertes y debiles; mientras que en el eje diacronico las alternancias permiten medir el progreso del cambio de la morfologia de base variable a la morfologia de base invariable. EnglishThis article offers an overview of zero derivation in Old English, a description of the vocalic alternations that hold between zero derived nouns, adjectives and weak verbs and their bases of derivation as well as an account of the significance of alternations in the wider context of the evolution of the lexicon of English. Alternations are quantified and related to i-mutation and word-formation processes by distinguishing direct from reverse alternations and alternations with a strong verb source from alternations with a weak verb target. The conclusions reflect the synchronic-diachronic character of alternations. On the synchronic axis, alternations represent a relatively generalised phenomenon that affects all classes of both strong and weak verbs, while, on the diachronic axis, they allow us to assess the progress of the change from variable to invariable base morphology.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76592623","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":"Appropriated Bodies: Trauma, Biopower and the Posthuman in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “The Girl Who Was Plugged In”","authors":"María Ferrández San Miguel","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.2.27-44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.2.27-44","url":null,"abstract":"This article approaches science fiction using the strategically powerful perspectives of Trauma Studies and the posthuman in conjunction with Foucault’s notion of biopower, paying special attention to the deep investment of these discourses in notions of embodiment and agency. In order to do so, I will consider Octavia Butler’s 1984 short story “Bloodchild” (Hugo and Nebula Awards) and James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)’s 1973 novella “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (Hugo Award). Both stories explore dystopian futures—in their focus on coercive extraterrestrials and life on an inhospitable planet, on the one hand, and on oppressive consumer culture and corporate technoscience, on the other—and point back to our posthuman present through metaphoric characters that illustrate and invite comment upon the articulation of power and the construction of the embodied posthuman. The main issue at play in the two stories, I will contend, is the identification of biopower with the traumatic appropriation of the human body and the articulation of posthuman forms of resistance to it. Keywords: trauma; the posthuman; biopower; science fiction; James Tiptree, Jr.; Octavia Butler","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85198833","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":"The Storyteller’s \"Nostos\": Recreating Scheherazade and Odysseus in Kazuo Ishiguro’s \"Never Let Me Go\"","authors":"Manuel José Botero Camacho, Miguel Rodríguez Pérez","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.1.97-115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2018.40.1.97-115","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies the account of Kathy H., protagonist of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), as the confluence of narratives through which an individual and her community construct their identity based on the remembrance of the events that have marked their lives, as well as on the literary texts and cultural conventions that have served as the archetypes upon which the narratives of their lives are built. Two paradigmatic figures stand out in Kathy’s story: Odysseus, the lost seafarer endeavouring to return home, and Scheherazade, the artful storyteller of the Arabian Nights. From this perspective, Kathy’s recollection constitutes her attempt to return to the mythic place that Hailsham has come to represent for clones that, unable to be carried out on physical terms, induces her to find alternative means to recover it through memory and storytelling. As a result, she constitutes a replication of Scheherazade, adapting this figure to her dystopian and postcolonial context in a narration that explores the interplay between memory, fiction and identity. Keywords: Kazuo Ishiguro; Scheherazade; Ulysses; storytelling; un-belonging; memory","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2018-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85511468","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":"Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez, eds. 2016. World Englishes: New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations","authors":"Amanda Roig-Martí","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2017-39.2.20","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":"2017-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79118232","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":"Marisol Morales-Ladrón, ed. 2016. Family and Dysfunction in Contemporary Irish Narrative and Film","authors":"Auxiliadora Pérez-Vides","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.17","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":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73678970","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":"Elinor Shaffer and Catherine Brown, eds. 2016. The Reception of George Eliot in Europe","authors":"Sonia Villegas López","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017-39.2.15","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":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82338782","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":"Elena Seoane and Cristina Suarez-Gomez, eds. 2016. World Englishes: New Theoretical and Methodological Considerations","authors":"Amanda Roig-Marín","doi":"10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017.39.2.257-260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.28914/ATLANTIS-2017.39.2.257-260","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":"2017-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78311646","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}