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Carme Manuel
Pauline E. Hopkins's Intertextual Aesthetics in Contending Forces
Pauline E. Hopkins‘s attitude towards fiction as a terrain where political and social truths could be uttered, helped her establish a new hybrid writing paradigm in Contending Forces, her historical romance. The extraordinary intertextual load of references, verbatim borrowings and changed citations, her Emersonian ―noble borrowing,‖ is in fact both an audacious maneuvering of popular literature, and a systematic and subversive redrafting of preceding canonical texts from the Anglo-American literary traditions and of contemporary historical political testimonies. Hopkins‘s palimpsestic aesthetics recreate a sense of African American literary interventions aimed at recomposing a new black ar…
The House on Mango Street: A Parable of Degeneration or a Chicana Rewriting of Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies
Reading Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1863) makes it possible for Esperanza Cordero to imagine an idyllic site of empowered identity in The House on Mango Street. Yet, I argue that Esperanza’s transformed identity can only reside outside her original community and that her journey from the sad red house of Mango Street to her reconceived clean house at the end of the text is necessarily a trajectory of desired uprootedness that follows the script presented in The Water-Babies. Like Tom, Kingsley’s protagonist, Esperanza undergoes a metamorphosis to shed off the traits that categorize her as Chicana in order to embrace a remodeled subjectivity and, consequently, become an ontologicall…
Los escritores norteamericanos en la era de Trump: entre la metáfora moribunda y la hipérbole veraz
El 8 de noviembre de 2016 el candidato republicano Donald J. Trump fue elegido presidente de los Estados Unidos, y el 20 de enero de 2017 juró el cargo. Los sentimientos de incredulidad, estupor, horror y rabia experimentados por muchos norteamericanos liberales ante la consumación de lo que pensaban inimaginable fueron recogidos y publicitados en todos los medios de comunicación nacionales e internacionales. Las lamentaciones, gritos, lloros, rostros desencajados por un apocalipsis que había dejado de ser una premonición y se había convertido en una realidad se conjugaron con los vítores de júbilo y semblantes radiantes de esperanza de otros compatriotas que se arrodillaban ante quien acla…