Description
This collection of essays brings together a wide range of Spanish and Portuguese academics and writers exploring the ways in which our encounters with literatures in English inform our assumptions about texts and identities (or texts as identities) and the way we read them. Mapping, examining, reading and re-reading, fashioning and self-fashioning and, especially, weaving appear as appropriate images that convey the complexity and the nature of creative writing. Such a metaphor has been fundamental for the history of world literature since the Roman poet Ovid had included a tale in his Metamorphoses in which weaving, narration, uncertain identities, and the risks of telling uncomfortable truths all figure prominently. As such, these essays trace the intertwined patterns that knit texts together, weaving identities as well as undoing them and, in the process, interrogating established and official truths.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Weaving Tales
Paula García-Ramírez, Beatriz Valverde, Maria Angélica Varandas, and Jason Whittaker
- Urizen Now: Reading Anew William Blake’s Response to His Times, Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa and Jason Whitaker
- William Blake in Spanish Popular Culture and Literature, M. Cecilia Marchetto Santorun
- (Re)reading Classical Mythology through the Aztec Gods: Cherríe Moraga’s Lesbian Mexican Medea, Marta Villalba-Lázaro
- From Influence to Response: Angela Carter’s Selected Novels Come to Terms with William Shakespeare’s Tragedies, Maria José Pires
- PD James’s The Black Tower: “almost Iris Murdoch with murders in it”?, Jesús Nieto
- Romanticism and heteronymic theory: John Keats and the Poetics of Fernando Pessoa, Nuno Ribeiro
- Jennifer Egan and Digital Fiction after Postmodernism, Mairi Power
- “Non Angli, sed angeli”: The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons and the dawn of Englishness, Angélica Varandas
- Exploring the “Outsider Consciousness” in a Selection of Stories by Alice Munro, Pilar Sánchez Calle
- Depiction of Enforced Identity in Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa – The Novel and the Film, Ritu Mohan
- A Transmodern Reading of Joanna Kavenna’s Zed: Digital Reason and the Attempt to Transcend Cartesian Dialectics, Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen
- Hospitable Loci: the Spatialisation of Oppositional Worldviews in the Eighteenth- Century Women’s Writings, Yolanda Caballero Aceituno
- “REMEMBEREST THOU ME?” Violent Women in Louisa Medina Hamblin’s The Panorama of Life, Milagros López-Peláez Casellas
- Patriarchal Orthorexia and Embodied Dissidence in Contemporary Feminist Dystopias, Almudena Machado-Jiménez
- Instapoetry and the Transmodern Paradigm: Transnational Feminism in Nikita Gill’s Work, Alejandro Nadal Ruiz
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