This article discusses Tracy Chevalier’s A Single Thread (2019), with an emphasis on the parallels between the writer’s interest in women’s resilient experiences, which lead to individual and community agency, and the role played in these by cultural practices such as embroidery and bell-ringing. Chevalier’s focus is on the interwar period and its closeness to totalitarianism. Based on aspects from the theory of resilience (Cyrulnik 2006; Herman 1992; Vanistendael 2003), this article explores how the uses and meanings associated with cultural practices can turn them into resources for modulating grief and mobilising such resilience and agency in women’s lives, both from an individual and a social perspective. This article also considers that an understanding of Chevalier’s oeuvre can be of help in shaping future scholarly research on this writer.
El volumen del que es editor Fernando Galván Reula reúne ocho artículos de otros tantos autores a los que ha convocado la misma preocupación: indagar sobre la manifestación literaria que muestra la existencia de lo que se ha considerado fragmentado frente a lo unitario dentro del canon literario occidental. Se estudian aquí a distintos escritores cuyas obras literarias deconstruyen la noción de literatura inglesa, es decir, y simplificando, la que ha tenido su origen en las Islas Británicas.El ensayo de Galván Reula, titulado "La narrativa británica de finales del siglo XX: cuestiones históricas y críticas", revisa la noción anterior afirmando que dicha deconstrucción se ha producido como parte de un proceso en el que el canon cultural occidental ha visto cómo se ponían en cuestión toda una serie de principios teóricos, estéticos y formales que no han pasado por alto a la obra literaria. Así, la literatura británica actual somete a revisión los conceptos que han prevalecido en el constructo cultural de la Europa occidental, que hasta hace tres décadas se había caracterizado fundamentalmente por la influencia que había ejercido el Modernismo y por la práctica del realismo. De esta manera, frente a la defensa de los valores del canon literario occidental, caracterizado fundamentalmente por la parcialidad, la centralidad y el anglocentrismo (Pozuelo Yvancos, 1996), nos encontramos con estudios sobre autores cuyas obras vindican unos valores que están más allá del horizonte del canon.María del Mar Pérez Gil habla sobre el desmantelamiento de los valores culturales tradicionalmente aceptados que se produce en las novelas de las últimas décadas del siglo XX en "En torno al margen, en torno al centro: aproximaciones desde la narrativa femenina actual". Según Pérez Gil, la actual literatura de mujeres aborda el proceso de subversión del centro por lo que ha permanecido en los márgenes, y ello se consigue mediante la ruptura ideológica o la estética. En las obras de autoras como Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter o Emma Tennant, lo considerado subversivo y marginal hasta hace muy poco tiempo obtiene ahora un tratamiento prioritario, como por ejemplo la identidad femenina y la relevancia del papel de la mujer en la historia, la identidad sexual, o la importancia de desmitificar el lugar que la historia o la religión han otorgado a determinados personajes. Habrá que cuestionarse, pues, qué se acepta como parte del centro cultural y qué se acepta como marginal dentro de la tradición estética y artística, es decir, lo que ahora se celebra como muestra de la multiplicidad y el pluralismo, que van unidos al rechazo del concepto de centro.
This paper explores the narrative process identified in the Whitehorn Letters, written by Doris Lessing from 1944 to 1949, as historical documents that form a single, coherent whole. Their significance is assessed by means of an epistemological reflection that sheds light on the path by which the young Lessing established her identity as an author (Bieder, 1993). In the letter-writing process, Lessing declares her aim to become a writer. The letters also characterise the writer as a historical subject, and describe the relationship between this historical subject and the individual who writes the correspondence. Since the letters formulate a coherent discourse about Lessing’s authorial identity, I investigate whether using a model for reading them may be beneficial. I believe that additional nuances could be detected in her narratives by revisiting Lessing and examining, in the centenary of her birth, some hitherto unknown parts of her writings, as these letters represent.
Joy Harjo’s poetry may be used to reflect on how various cultural traditions experience the concept of “We” with regards to other species and the environment, for which creative forms of responsibility should be articulated. Today, humans and non-humans alike face numerous and significant challenges and threats that are becoming increasingly apparent in the specific context of climate change and environmental degradation. Harjo’s work raises concerns about the impact that current global crises are having on the environment and our relationship to places, and consequently, our sense of belonging. This article discusses the relevance of some of Harjo’s poetry for increasing consciousness about the earth’s vulnerability and the need for environmental justice, which may be found in small but fundamental acts of caring
This article deals with a selection of works belonging to the literary production of two British playwrights, Caryl Churchill and Charlotte Keatley, who make evident their concem with the different ways of representing the female discourse and its status as a cultural construction. Both authors will be considered within the context of their age, by paying attention to their skills, methods and technical devices when dealing with questions of gender studies and gender discourse.
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