Teaching Narratives of Women’s Inner Exile in Spain and Chile

2019 ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Lisa DiGiovanni
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Almudena Grandes ◽  
Del Rio ◽  
Franco Dictatorship ◽  
Chilean Women ◽  
Pinochet Dictatorship

By examining how contemporary Spanish and Chilean women writers represent dictatorial pasts and the experience of inner exile, this essay sheds light on the link between political and gendered violence underpinning the Franco dictatorship in Spain (1939-1975) and Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973-1989). Without collapsing difference, we address political systems and artistic movements within a wider cultural, political and historical framework. Through a close reading of El lector de Julio Verne by Spanish novelist Almudena Grandes and Óxido de Carmen by Chilean author Ana María del Río, we gain a platform to ask questions that move beyond a monocultural or national standpoint and to explore how authors have responded to similar struggles. A transatlantic comparative study of these texts not only helps us to understand how the regimes’ violence was shaped by related ideologies, but also how literature might intervene, expose and subvert such violence through the reconstruction of silenced memories of resistance.

Gender, Genre and Nation: Nineteenth-century Swedish Women Writers on Export

2020 ◽  
pp. 145-164
Author(s):  
Gunilla Hermansson ◽  
Yvonne Leffler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Romantic Poet ◽  
History Of

The chapter centres on a comparative study of the international reception of two Swedish women writers, the Romantic poet, Julia Nyberg, and the best-selling novelist, Emilie Flygare-Carlén, using their examples to highlight the different opportunities for disrupting the balance between small and major, and presenting gender, genre and nationality as key factors in the process of attaining an international readership for not only Swedish, but also writers from other small nations. The chapter concludes by arguing that both writers had the potential to enter the international literary mainstream, but through reception and promotion were progressively removed from the centre into an increasingly gendered context, the ladies’ room in the peripheral history of Swedish literature.

A Circle of Circles (Jean-Patrick Manchette)

Beyond Return ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 75-131
Author(s):  
Lucas Hollister
Keyword(s):  
Literary Form ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Violence ◽  
Radical Left

This chapter examines Jean-Patrick Manchette, ‘father of the néo-polar,’ who is widely credited with bringing French crime fiction into step with the radical left politics of the 1970s. This chapter argues that an attention to questions of generic conventions and narrative shape allows us to reconsider the politics of noir as a literary form. This reconsideration of Manchette’s fictional politics begins with a close reading of Manchette’s essays on what he called the forme-polar or noir form. I then analyze two of Manchette’s late novels, Three to Kill (1976) and The Prone Gunman (1981), showing how issues of masculinity, gendered violence, and (post-)colonial violence are embedded in these fictions. Moving to questions of narrative shape and meta-aesthetic rhetoric, I show how Manchette’s work offers a radical and challenging view of the implications of working with and in cliché. Ultimately, this chapter lays out the case for a more expansive reading of Manchette’s work, one which goes beyond populist narratives about the noir novel in France, and which reads Manchette’s work as a politicized challenge to the ‘noir form’ itself.

scholarly journals La donna è mobile : Mujeres errantes en la ficción turística de Chile y Argentina

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Lie
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
American Women ◽  
New Energy ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Creative Production

This article offers an exploration of the creative production of women writers and filmmakers who engage with tourism as a setting for fictional imaginaries. Centering on recent fiction from Chile and Argentina, it examines how tourism has infused new energy into the withering genre of travel writing, opening up a space for the expression of female subjectivities in a field previously dominated by men. Through close reading of works by Uhart, Katz, Scherson and Jeftanovic, it explores how these Latin American women challenge Michel Onfray’s definition of travel literature.

scholarly journals Gendered Violence: A Look at Northeast Women’s Writing as Literary Interventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Dr. Vizovono Elizabeth
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Northeast Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Experiences Of Women

There are more than enough writings and debates on political conflict and violence in the Northeast region of India, but violence targeted at women specifically, has not received equal attention. This paper aims to initiate honest and serious critical examinations about sexual abuse and other forms of gendered violence that are inflicted on women in these communities, but which continues to remain like a taboo subject. Violence against women in Northeast has roots deep in cultural and colonial history. Set against this context, the paper is based on a framework of referencing literary studies and intersecting it with empirical evidence from other relevant studies. The literary works are all based on actual lived experiences of women. Hence these writings also intersect with and validate the social reality of our times. It also highlights how Northeast women writers have been voicing and questioning the silence and shame attached to this issue through their writings. The paper contends that these significant literary interventions into gendered violence are noteworthy and point to the need for understanding the experiences of tribal Northeast women from their specific context.

Mössbauer and XRD Comparative Study of Host Rock and Iron Rich Mineral Samples from Paz del Rio Iron Ore Mineral Mine in Colombia

ICAME 2003 ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 395-402
Author(s):  
M. Fajardo ◽  
G. A. Pérez Alcázar ◽  
A. M. Moreira ◽  
N. L. Speziali
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Host Rock ◽  
Iron Ore ◽  
Del Rio

Dominant and Subsidiary Modes of Political Legitimation in the USSR: A Comment on Christel Lane's Article

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. H. Rigby
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Full Range ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Shared Understandings

Perhaps we political scientists and sociologists should have left ‘legitimacy’ to the constitutional and international lawyers. Such a view is certainly suggested by the present cacophany of our definitions, taxonomies and applications of the term. When the contributors to a book on political legitimation in communist states, representing by no means the full range of scholarly views on the social and political systems of these countries, can variously characterize the political legitimation of the USSR today as dominated by ‘goal-rational’, ‘traditional’ or ‘paternalistic’ legitimation, or as a combination of ‘heteronomous-teleological’ and ‘autonomous-consensual’ or of ‘overt’ and ‘covert’ modes of legitimation, we evidently have a long way to go before our shared understandings of political legitmation could be adequate for the comparative study of political systems or for analysing political change.

Federal Political Systems and Federal Societies

1968 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B. Stein
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
American Constitution ◽  
World War ◽  
Division Of Powers ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
Regional Governments

Until these recent studies by Riker, Watts, and Wildavsky appeared, the theory of federalism was embodied largely in the work of K. C. Wheare. Wheare published the first truly pathbreaking book in the comparative study of federalism shortly after World War II. He defined federalism as that system of government in which the federal and regional governments are both coordinate and independent. In applying this definition, he stressed the sharp division in the powers and functions of two coequal sovereignties as a basis for classifying systems of government as federal. Wheare's definition was derived primarily from his analysis of die American Constitution and, in particular, its formally sharp division of powers between national and state governments.

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