scholarly journals Espacio rural y paisaje en la narrativa de Miguel Delibes: el ejemplo de la novela El disputado voto del señor Cayo / Rural space and landscape in the narrative of Miguel Delibes: the example of the novel The Disputed Vote of Mr. Cayo

Ería ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
Juan Ignacio Plaza Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Miguel Delibes ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Spatial Characterization ◽  
Geographical Dimension

Este artículo subraya la presencia que el espacio y el paisaje ocupan en la narrativa de Miguel Delibes. Para ello, se ha elegido su novela El disputado voto del señor Cayo. Tras una contextualización, se repasa brevemente el perfil de Miguel Delibes, destacando su vinculación y la de su producción literaria con el paisaje y la sociedad de Castilla. Finalmente se aborda la dimensión geográfica que hay en la novela, subrayando los elementos y valores más destacados de la organización del paisaje y de la caracterización del espacio, y la diversidad y riqueza terminológicas del lenguaje de este escritor castellano.Cet article souligne la présence de l’espace et du paysage dans le récit de Miguel Delibes. Pour cela, on a choisi son roman Le vote disputé de Monsieur Cayo. Après une contextualisation, le profil de Miguel Delibes est brièvement passé en revue, mettant en évidence ainsi son lien et celui de sa production littéraire avec le paysage et la société castillane. Enfin, la dimension géographique du roman est abordée, en soulignant les éléments et valeurs les plus importants de l’organisation du paysage et de la caractérisation de l’espace, ainsi que la diversité et la richesse terminologique de cet écrivain castillan.This article highlights the presence of space and landscape in the narrative of Miguel Delibes. To this end, his novel The Disputed Vote of Mr. Cayo has been chosen. After a contextualization, the profile of Miguel Delibes is briefly reviewed, highlighting his linkage and that of his literary production with the landscape and society of Castile. Finally, the geographical dimension of this novel is broached, emphasizing the most outstanding elements and values of landscape organization and spatial characterization, as well as the diversity and richness of terminology by this Castilian writer.

scholarly journals Literary production in Niger: The case of the novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aïssata S. Kindo Patengouh
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
African Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Nature Literature

Literature, like all art, is in part geographically and historically determined. Despite its imaginary nature, literature maintains close ties with its context of emergence. African literature is in part an illustration of determinisms of this type and owes a great deal to colonial trauma. Nevertheless, it also draws on autochthonous myths – both old and new – on the colonial heritage, and on new mentalities generated by decolonisation and other factors. However, certain political and ideological choices visible in literary texts underline national specificities. My intention, as a citizen of Niger, is to contribute to bringing Nigérien literature, and the Nigérien novel, in particular, into the limelight. In fact, this production is only just emerging, as the first novel dates back to 1959. This paper focuses on the fundamental problem of the relation between the novel produced in Niger and the Nigérien society, and by extension, the relation between Nigérien literature and the society from which it is emerging. Based on a thematic study, in the spirit of socio-criticism, an attempt will be made to place a selected corpus of eleven novels, published between 1977 and 1993, in their context of emergence. The geographical (spatial and climatic) milieu is omnipresent and dominant in these works; focus on a traditional socio-cultural milieu is recurrent and is still of current importance, while the modern socio-cultural milieu is determinant but not quite as dominant as rural space. These are some of the basic elements composing the backdrop of Nigérien novelistic creation. They suggest aspects of a collective identity. Nonetheless these are not, in themselves, sufficient grounds on which to identify a specific literary production.

scholarly journals THE AESTHETIC OF INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE ARAB FEMINIST NOVEL"WOMEN IN HELL" BY " AICHA BENNOUR"AS MODEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 483-492
Author(s):  
Rabiaa HLITIM ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Work ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
Flexible Form ◽  
Holy Quran ◽  
The Holy Quran ◽  
Historical Writings ◽  
The Aesthetic

The corpus of the novel, through its different components and structures, has focused on the mechanism of intertextuality considering that the novel is the literary type that is most capable of absorbing different texts and reshaping them in its discourse, it therefore remains the most open and flexible form. The contemporary novel does not stand out if it is not bound up with variable discourses and various types of religious and historical writings. In this research work, we have tried to study the aesthetics of intertextuality in the Arab feminist novel, taking as an example the novel by " Aïcha Bennour" "Women in Hell ". This contemporary writer has taken the Holy Quran, history and literary production as a reference for her writings in order to express the Arab women′s suffering.

scholarly journals Boquitas pintadas, una novela para armar. Primeras notas y borradores de un proyecto creativo en construcción

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 313-338
Author(s):  
Giselle Carolina Rodas
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Manuel Puig ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Production Mode ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Narrative Production ◽  
Representative Work

This article proposes to study the pre-textual germinal documents and those that allow us to identify the most representative work settings of the production process of the novel Boquitas pintadasby the Argentinian writer Manuel Puig. These materials explain unfinished decisions for formalizing and sharping a reasoned plan of production, as opposed to an improvised writing. They also allow identifying certain habits in the literary production mode initiated in this plan and sustained in the rest of the author's narrative production. The article also proposes focusing on two central aspects which Puig attends from the beginning of his planning: the articulation between the plot and the complex structure of the novel.

scholarly journals Secrets and Lies: Francesca Melandri’s Sangue Giusto (2017) and the Uncovered Memory of Italian East Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Charles Burdett
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Time

Abstract It is true that expansionism under Fascism did not, for a long time, receive the attention that it deserved. This period of historiographic and literary amnesia has now, however, come to a close. As regards literary production, recent years have seen the publication of a number of highly regarded works – by such well-known writers as Gabriella Ghermandi or Igiaba Scego – that have used the novel as a means of exploring the legacies of empire. The article explores one of the most recent additions to this body of work, Francesca Melandri’s Sangue giusto (2017). More specifically, it addresses the theme of secrets and their revelation that lies at the heart of the novel. It investigates the social and psychological ramifications of the discovery of the nature of imperial conquest under Fascism. It also explores how the novel interacts with the writing of those transnational African/Italian authors who have confronted the legacy of Italy’s colonial past. The article considers the overall vision that Sangue giusto offers of Italy’s relationship with Ethiopia, of the conceptual universe of colonialism, and of the enduring topicality of the memory of Italy’s imperial past.

“The Paper Old and Faded and Falling to Pieces”: Absalom, Absalom! and the Pulping of History

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-191
Author(s):  
Brooks E. Hefner
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
Yellow Peril ◽  
Adventure Fiction

This chapter examines how Faulkner's dramatization of the historical endeavor reflects the print culture conventions of his era. It argues that Absalom's “fluid and flexible” relationship to history amounts to a “pulping” of the historical record, “self-consciously destroying, recycling, and repurposing” it in ways gleaned from the “popular literary production” of the 1920s and 1930s. The so-called shudder pulps, with their emphasis on terror and the occult; “hero pulps” and other modes of popular adventure fiction; Black Mask-school hard-boiled crime fiction; Yellow Peril narratives and other tales depicting “racialized threat[s] to sexual purity” and the domestic sphere—the novel employs all of these pulp genres to shape and sensationalize the Sutpen saga and its central figures, in what amounts to a lowbrow version of the “emplotment” process that Hayden V. White finds at work in all historical narrative.

On Newness in the Novel

PMLA ◽  
1927 ◽  
Vol 42 (S1) ◽  
pp. xliii-lix
Author(s):  
T. Atkinson Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Winter Season ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Recent Estimate ◽  
Georges Duhamel ◽  
Physical Resistance

No doubt you have noticed that the forms of literary production which show the most life today are lyric poetry, drama, and the novel;—and of these three, the greatest by far is the novel. Truly, the production in this field is now prodigious. A recent estimate was that the present winter season would see the publication in English of some three thousand works of fiction. The French critic, Georges Duhamel, acting recently as reviewer for the Mercure de France, says that for several years he was compelled to read between six and seven hundred novels annually; and this, he adds, required not only a stout heart and a good deal of patience, but even a good constitution, a certain physical resistance. A French publisher, announcing a new collection of novels, states that in France the novel is now the most “acute” (aigu) and the most “taking” (prenant) form of literary activity; that it dominates, at the present hour, the whole of modern literature.

Pathology and Poly-vocality in Nina Yargekov's Tuer Catherine (2009)

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Katie Jones
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Anxiety Of Influence ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Literary Influences ◽  
Shared Narrative

Nina Yargekov's debut novel Tuer Catherine (2009) updates longstanding conceptual links between madness and writing by borrowing ideas and terminology from clinical discourses, including the recently identified dissociative identity disorder. According to Elaine Showalter in Hystories (2007), hysterical conditions such as DID become widespread due to cultural processes analagous to intertextuality which construct their causes and symptoms as part of a shared narrative. Yargekov's intertextual borrowings in Tuer Catherine, presented as voices inside her narrator's head, combine literary and psychiatric discourses to reflect the ‘anxiety of influence’ (Bloom) suffered by the writer whose narrative is shaped by the literary tradition. By playing on stereotypical associations of women with madness, Yargekov also engages with the ‘anxiety of authorship’ Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar identify as a historical constraint on women writers. Drawing on Suzanne Dow's updated account of this notion in her study of more recent women's writing, I argue that while Yargekov's narrator's literary production is sometimes hindered by the dissociative voices of her literary influences, the novel as a whole produces a more positive image of madness and literature as mutually illuminating categories, and of the associative power of the reader.

Blogging a Revolution: From Utopia to Dystopia

2019 ◽  
pp. 190-214
Author(s):  
Teresa Pepe
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
Political Events

The chapter discusses the relation between these blogs and the events of the 25th January uprising. It recounts how bloggers imagined a revolution in their writing long before the actual political events of 2011; how they relate to the uprisings in their blog; how blogs have evolved in the years after 2011, and what is left of the blog in Arabic literary production. Here it shows that blogging continues to be an important phenomenon in the Arab world, even though blogging practices have changed following the spread of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. In addition, the blog continues to impact Arabic print literature, in terms of young authors’ access to the literary field, their experimentation with language and genre, and the importance of the visual. The novel Istikhdam al-Haya (Using Life, 2014) by Ahmed Naji, mentioned before, and Youssef Rakha’s novel Bawlu (Paulo, 2016) are analysed to discuss the link between the blog, the dystopic novel and new literary styles in Egypt.

scholarly journals O jornalismo feminino de Clarice Lispector: em busca do inesperado e da desordem

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Aparecida Maria Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post War ◽  
Condition Of Women

This study revisits research begun in the 1980s to recover Clarice Lispector’s work published in the Brazilian press. Lispector used the pages of various periodicals as an opportunity to publish poems, short stories, and small narratives that, subjected to later revision, would become landmarks in her literary production. Such is the case of the recipe for killing coakroaches that Lispector published as a columnist for “Entre Mulheres” in the weekly Comício in 1952. Published under the title, “Meio cômico, mas eficaz,” this text would later be split into two fictional pieces—the short story “A quinta história” and the novel A paixão segundo G.H. Working under the name Tereza Quadros, Lispector reveals in “Entre Mulheres” a feminist agenda that interrogates the condition of women in the 1950s and makes of the section a platform for the dissemination of ideas brought from post-war Europe.

Transculturalism, Otherness, Exile, and Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Matatu ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-399
Author(s):  
Augustine Uka Nwanyanwu
Keyword(s):  
African Literature ◽  
The Self ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Accurate Representation ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
African Writers

Abstract Today African literature exhibits and incorporates the decentred realities of African writers themselves as they negotiate and engage with multifarious forms of diaspora experience, dislocation, otherness, displacement, identity, and exile. National cultures in the twenty-first century have undergone significant decentralization. New African writing is now generated in and outside Africa by writers who themselves are products of transcultural forms and must now interrogate existence in global cities, transnational cultures, and the challenges of immigrants in these cities. Very few novels explore the theme of otherness and identity with as much insight as Adichie’s Americanah. The novel brings together opposing cultural forms, at once transcending and celebrating the local, and exploring spaces for the self where identity and otherness can be viewed and clarified. This article endeavours to show how African emigrants seek to affirm, manipulate, and define identity, reclaiming a space for self where migrant culture is marginalized. Adichie’s exemplary focus on transcultural engagement in Americanah provides an accurate representation of present-day African literary production in its dialectical dance between national and international particularities.

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