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Writing food and food memories in Turkish-German literature by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyün and Emine Sevgi Özdamar (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bartel, H. (2016, June). Writing food and food memories in Turkish-German literature by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyün and Emine Sevgi Özdamar. Presented at Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions, Nottingham, UK

This essay explores the role of food and eating in the autobiographical fictions of three very different female Turkish-German authors writing in German. It employs postcolonial theory to explore the complex relationship between gender, identity and... Read More about Writing food and food memories in Turkish-German literature by Renan Demirkan, Hatice Akyün and Emine Sevgi Özdamar.

Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’ (2020)
Journal Article
Lane, J. F., & Lane, J. (2021). Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’. Textual Practice, 35(4), 545-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2020.1733066

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Jacques Rancière re-inflects Aristotle's famous maxim to claim that ‘man is a political animal because he is a literary animal’. He goes on to relate this characteristic of ‘literarity’... Read More about Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’.

"L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique (2020)
Book
GILONNE, Y. (2020). "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique. Paris: L'Harmattan

Cet ouvrage questionne le concept de déception. Le nucléaire a en effet emporté jusqu'à l'idée de fondement, exposant la raison à l'effondrement de son principe et subvertissant le programme rationnel de la modernité. La raison semble alors incapable... Read More about "L'Apocalypse déçoit", Blanchot, Derrida, Levinas, Penser le désastre à l'ère atomique.

History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto” (2020)
Book Chapter
Miranda, R. (2020). History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto”. In A Companion to João Paulo Borges Coelho. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

The impact of João Paulo Borges Coelho’s ‘A força do mar de Agosto’ rests largely on its concurrent conceptualization of the Indian Ocean and on its instrumental use of the Indian Ocean as a literary device. In Borges Coelho’s short story, the sea is... Read More about History, literature and the indices of the Ocean: Force of signification in Borges Coelho’s ‘”A força do mar de Agosto”.

Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales (2020)
Book
Andrews, J. (2020). Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations. He spent... Read More about Painting and devotion in Golden Age Iberia: Luis de Morales.

Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945 (2023)
Journal Article
Atkin, W. (2023). Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945. Dada/Surrealism, 24(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.31902

This article explores the wartime works of Gherasim Luca and the Romanian surrealists during the 1940s, and considers how surrealist discourse was idiosyncratically reconfigured around the central themes of demons and black magic. Hermetically sealed... Read More about Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945.

Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts (2020)
Journal Article
Gray, M. (2020). Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts. Transletters: International Journal of Translation and Interpreting, 4, 75-97

Darko Suvin argues for an understanding of science fiction as the literature of ‘cognitive estrangement’. This paper will take Suvin’s notion as its starting point, examiningextracts from two works by author Alain Damasio to demonstrate how... Read More about Domestication and Foreignisation in a Cognitively Estranged World: The Application of Venuti's Framework to Science Fictional Texts.

Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages (2021)
Journal Article
Walsh, O. (2021). Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42(9), 773-782. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1813146

This special issue provides new perspectives on how standard language ideology (SLI) informs and influences attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ language varieties. Standard languages are commonly viewed as uniform, minimally varying (homogeneous) forms... Read More about Introduction: in the shadow of the standard. Standard language ideology and attitudes towards ‘non-standard’ varieties and usages.

Josefa de Ayala e Cabreira's St Catherine Altarpiece and Female Empowerment (2020)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J., & Roe, J. (2020). Josefa de Ayala e Cabreira's St Catherine Altarpiece and Female Empowerment. In Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World (105-124). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter examines Josefa de Ayala's altarpiece on the life of St Catherine of Alexandria (1661) in the parish church of Óbidos, Portugal and the relationship that may be drawn between it and the impending nuptials of Catarina de Bragança and Char... Read More about Josefa de Ayala e Cabreira's St Catherine Altarpiece and Female Empowerment.

Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World (2020)
Book
Roe, J., & Andrews, J. (Eds.). (2021). Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351010122

This volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how the political identities of Iberian women were represen... Read More about Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World.

The French language: monocentric or pluricentric? Standard language ideology and attitudes towards the French language in twentieth-century language columns in Quebec (2020)
Journal Article
Walsh, O. (2021). The French language: monocentric or pluricentric? Standard language ideology and attitudes towards the French language in twentieth-century language columns in Quebec. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 42(9), 869-881. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2020.1839085

Quebec has a tradition of language columns, articles discussing questions related to the French language produced by a single author and published regularly in the periodical press. This study examines the content and discourse of a sample of these l... Read More about The French language: monocentric or pluricentric? Standard language ideology and attitudes towards the French language in twentieth-century language columns in Quebec.

Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences (2020)
Journal Article
Mével, P. A. (2020). Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences. Punctum: International Journal of Semiotics, 06(01), 203-219. https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2020.0010

This article examines the importance of paratext – theoretically and practically – in getting D/deaf audiences to engage with theatrical performances. our notion of ‘accessible paratext’ necessarily involves multimodal forms of translation, and inter... Read More about Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences.

Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias) (2020)
Journal Article
MIRANDA, R. (2020). Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias). Diacrítica: revista do centro de estudos humanísticos, 34(2), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.21814/diacritica.567

Repare bem (Maria de Medeiros, 2013) and Luz obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias) are illustrative examples of women documentary filmmaker's approach to post-dictatorship memory in Brazil and in Portugal. Their attempt to counterpose affective and personal... Read More about Looking back for ways ahead – Revisions Post-Dictatorship memories in Repare Bem (Maria de Medeiros) and Luz Obscura (Susana de Sousa Dias).

‘¿Hacia un liberalismo socialista? Los intelectuales españoles de principios del siglo XX y su crítica del liberalismo decimonónico’ (2017)
Book Chapter
ROBERTS, S. (2017). ‘¿Hacia un liberalismo socialista? Los intelectuales españoles de principios del siglo XX y su crítica del liberalismo decimonónico’. In J. Novella Suárez, J. L. Mora García, & X. Agenjo Bullón (Eds.), Laberintos del Liberalismo. Libro de las XII Jornadas Internacionales de Hispanismo Filosófico (217-235). Madrid: Fundación Ignacio Larramendi, Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad de Murcia, Asociación de Hispanismo Filosófico

This chapter analyses the intellectual debates on the relationship between liberalism and socialism in early twentieth-century Spain.

Miguel de Unamuno’s notion of public sphere (2019)
Book Chapter
Roberts, S. (2019). Miguel de Unamuno’s notion of public sphere. In L. Villamediana González, & D. Jiménez Torres (Eds.), The configuration of the Spanish public sphere: from the Enlightenment to the Indignados (174-191). Berghahn Books

This chapter analyses Unamuno's evolving notion of a public sphere in Spain between the 1890s and the 1930s.

Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing (2021)
Journal Article
Miranda, R. (2021). Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing. Luso-Brazilian Review, 58(1), 179-204

This article addresses the morpholinguistic and stylistice devices underwriting Freyre’s writing as the notion of “lusotropicalism” is advanced, mainly in the travelogue Aventura e rotina (1953) and the accompanying volume Um brasileiro em terras por... Read More about Ida e volta: “quase Brasil”, “quase político” and the inherent vice of Freyre’s lusotropicalist framing.