scholarly journals Gender and Memory in Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17
Author(s):  
Anna Mertová
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity

This paper discusses Cristina García’s 1997 novel The Agüero Sisters. Its aim is to outline some of the topics present in the novel through the lens of gender, and to contribute to an awareness of Hispanic American literature. Following a brief introduction, the paper discusses masculinity and femininity as present in the novel. Here the paper focuses on two motifs – the position of the human body in the novel, and memory; a link between these two motifs is suggested. Memory is central to the novel, and it appears in different variations throughout the text – nostalgia, intergenerational memory, or memory as an inherently unreliable process. While this paper does not exhaust the topic of memory, it attempts to point out a possible direction for further discussion.

scholarly journals A MARXIST READING OF LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE (2017) BY CELESTE NG

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Mayang Sagita ◽  
Delvi Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Surrogate Mother ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Species Being

This thesis is an analysis of a novel written by Celeste Ng entitled Little Fires Everywhere (2017). This analysis looks at the commodification and alienation that is experienced by women who involved in surrogacy and adoption. This analysis employes Marxist literary theory to explain the phenomena in the novel. The analysis focuses on two issues of commodification and alienation that are proposed by Karl Marx as seen through two female protagonists which are Mia Warren and Bebe Chow. This analysis also depends a lot on the narrator to determine which parts of the novel are used as the data. The result of the study shows that Mia Warren experienced commodification of the human body and four kinds of alienation such as alienation from the product of labor, alienation from the act of production, alienation from the species being, and alienation from other people bacause she becomes a surrogate mother. The other protagonist, Bebe Chow, also experienced four kinds of alienation because her child is adopted.

Face

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-90
Author(s):  
Marissa K. López
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Brown Body ◽  
The City

In Cecile Pineda’s novel Face (1985), protagonist Helio Cara loses his face in a tragic accident. The novel documents the aftermath of his misfortune, as Helio grapples with his changing social world and strives to remake himself, piecing together both his face and the story of his life. In Face, Pineda works through the complex nexus of visible and invisible, focusing on the present absence of the human body and how Helio is variously seen and obscured as he moves through the city after his accident. In tracing Helio’s path from seen to unseen and back again, Face documents how community gathers around and through the human body, how Helio’s face galvanizes different groups into action. In this chapter, the author argues that contemporary photographers Stefan Ruiz and Ken Gonzales-Day deploy the body similarly to emphasize not the unique histories attached to individual bodies but rather the communal networks gathered around the bodies featured in their photographs. Like Face, the two photographers’ work can be seen as an extended project of reintegrating the brown body into historical memory and rescripting its political future away from subjectivity and rights and toward networks, institutions, and issues.

Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Hardwick
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Current Understanding ◽  
French Caribbean ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Joseph Zobel ◽  
French Caribbean Literature

Joseph Zobel (1915-2006) is one of the best-known Francophone Caribbean authors, and is internationally recognized for his novel La Rue Cases-Nègres (1950). Yet very little is known about his other novels, and most readings of La Rue Cases-Nègres consider the text in isolation. Through a series of close readings of the author’s six published novels, with supporting references drawn from his published short stories, poetry and diaries, Joseph Zobel: Négritude and the Novel generates new insights into Zobel’s highly original decision to develop Négritude’s project of affirming pride in black identity through the novel and social realism. The study establishes how, influenced by the American Harlem Renaissance movement, Zobel expands the scope of Négritude by introducing new themes and stylistic innovations which herald a new kind of social realist French Caribbean literature. These discoveries in turn challenge and alter the current understanding of Francophone Caribbean literature during the Négritude period, in addition to contributing to changes in the current understanding of Caribbean and American literature more broadly understood.

Verbal Narration

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Patrick Colm Hogan
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
The Third ◽  
As I Lay Dying

While the second chapter of Style in Narrative addressed authorial canon (scope) and story (level), the third chapter considers a single work (scope) and narration (level). Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying seems to present a straightforward case of multiple narration. However, attention to details reveals that the novel is much more complex and apparently contradictory. In other words, the narrational style is marked by ambiguity and hints of untrustworthiness, along with unresolved issues of narrator definition (including, for example, hints that Addie could be in effect narrating the entire novel). The chapter shows not only the relevance of narration to style (and of stylistic analysis to narration), but the relevance of indeterminacy and ambivalence to style (and stylistic analysis) as well. The chapter concludes by examining some thematic implications of these features of narrational style and what they may suggest about Faulkner’s relation to American literature and literary modernism.

The Human Body is a Pressurized Self-Assembly Machine

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda K. Krkosska Bayles
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Self Assembly ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Daughter Cells ◽  
Self Assembling ◽  
Living Tissues ◽  
First Time

The novel and self-obtained concept of this paper is that living tissues get help self-assembling by following some mechanical equations. The simple diagnostic act of checking someone’s blood pressure reminds us that the human body is a pressurized object, and blood moving throughout the pressurized body creates flows that are strikingly similar to the movements of fluids in pressurized machines. Self-assembly using two mechanical concepts and their equations is herein demonstrated for the first time to show the separation of healthy daughter cells and the nonseparation of aneuploid cells, and to show monosaccharide and disaccharide movements.

A Selective Bibliography of Bibliographies of Hispanic American Literature

Hispania ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 600
Author(s):  
David William Foster ◽  
Shasta M. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Selective Bibliography

Design of a novel walking assistance device for people with walking disabilities

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rafighi ◽  
Abdulkadir Güllü
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
High Price ◽  
Light Weight ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Software Module ◽  
Heavy Weight ◽  
The People

Moving independently is very important for people with walking disability, thus, in this paper the novel walking assistance device is designed based on strategies derived from optimization of available walking assistance devices for ‎the people with walking disabilities. Available walking assistance device like ReWalk has high price and heavy weight disadvantages. Therefore, the main aim of this study is optimization of available devices by new design and analyses to make them cheaper and lighter. The presented device is a simulator of a human body motion in lower limb which consists of ‎ hip, shank and knee. All parts were designed and assembled in software module and after manufacturing, it could be used as a rehabilitation device for the people with walking disability to support their sitting, standing and walking. As a result, regarding to aforementioned issues, in this study the new walking assistance device was designed which is inexpensive and light weight.

The Anatomy of Eroticism: Reimagining Sex and Sexuality in the Late Ming Novel Xiuta Yeshi

NAN Nü ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 284-329
Author(s):  
Ka Wong
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sexual Content ◽  
Material World ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Female Relationships ◽  
Late Ming ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
New Interpretation

AbstractDue to its explicit and outrageous sexual content, Xiuta yeshi is often deemed an "obscene book" that lacks literary sophistication. Precisely because of its obscenity, however, the novel provides a unique perspective from which to study the discourse of sex and sexuality in the late Ming period. By examining Xiuta yeshi on its own terms as pornography, one can explore more fully the dynamics of gender, desire, and male-female relationships in this supposedly decadent era. In its construct of eroticism, the novel hinges as much on the detailed recounting of the material world and, in particular, a new interpretation of the human body, as on sex itself. Using foul language to exploit most of the modern pornographic tropes—from rape to orgy to both male and female homosexual acts—this late sixteenth-century work not only redefines a popular genre but also reveals the exhilarating, extravagant, and even grotesque aspects of a libertine culture captivated by and capitalizing on sex.

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