Search results for " Literary Theory"

Cristina García: narrativas de lo nacional y lo posnacional.

2013

Resumen : El articulo analiza la obra de Cristina Garcia, autora cubano-americana, enmarcandola en la problematica de la literatura posnacional y su cuestionamiento de las categorias tradicionales de adscripcion identitaria. La autora se centra en analizar el modo en que la obra de Garcia evoluciona desde la tematizacion de las raices a la aceptacion de la biculturalidad y, finalmente, al deseo de ir mas alla de esa condicion y explorar la condicion posnacional en sus multiples conexiones. Palabras Clave : Cristina Garcia, globalizacion, identidad, posnacional, cultura cuba-americana. Abstract: This article analyzes the work of Cristina Garcia, a Cuban-American author, and puts her in he co…

Beetwen Berlin and Moscow: Polish Western Thought in the Twenty-Year Interwar Period

2020

The article was submitted on 27.02.2020. This article is not primarily focused on presenting arguments and views held by Polish political groups with reference to the territorial shape of the Polish state after the First World War. Instead, its aim is to draw attention to actions taken by these groups towards the defence of Polish western lands. One of the key problems of Poland’s foreign policy after 1918 was the question of relations with its neighbours, chiefly Germany and Russia (and the Soviet Union). For many years, the most serious problem faced by post-Versailles Europe was that of the Germans striving to revise the legal order, to break their political isolation, and return to the …

Afroperipheral indigeneity in Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour

2021

Black Canadian writer Wayde Compton’s short story collection The Outer Harbour (2015) is located in the Afroperiphery of British Columbia which stands as a ‘contact zone’ that enables the alliances between Black and Indigenous peoples and also establishes a fecund ground of possibilities to emphasize the way in which crossethnic coalitions and representations reconsider imperial encounters previously ignored. The stories participate in the recent turn in Indigenous studies towards kinship and cross-ethnicity to map out the connected and shared itineraries of Black and Indigenous peoples and re-read Indigeneity in interaction. At the same time, the stories offer a fresh way to revisit Indige…

Enjoying sameness and difference – competition and convergence of Latin American telenovelas and Swahili video films in Tanzania

2018

Since the early 2000s Latin American telenovelas have become a very popular and widely received genre in Tanzania. At the same time, a huge video film industry has developed with local films made i...

Review of Peräkylä & Sorjonen (2012): Emotion in Interaction. Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics

2014

Review of Völkel (2010): Social Structure, Space and Possession in Tongan Culture and Language

2011

Review of Dancygier (2012): The Language of Stories, A Cognitive Approach

2012

'The sisters did her every imaginable injury': Power and violence in Cinderella

2012

The main aim of this article is to discuss the results achieved after investigating the presence of violence in the Grimm brothers’ <em>Cinderella</em> with the intention of finding out what kind of processes predominate in this tale and whether they can be related to violent actions. The analysis involved firstly, a study of the frequency and concordances of some words belonging to the semantic field ‘violence’, surveying in detail the context in which they appear and secondly, the analysis of transitivity processes. The method proved to be a good strategy to check whether each character’s identity and social position (power) were somehow related to the infliction of violence w…

Towards a lexicogrammatical pattern in Swedish crime novels

2013

The success of Swedish crime novels has been noted and discussed at length. Much of this commentary refers to a salient characteristic atmosphere which seems to be a common feature of most if not all Scandinavian crime novels. In this paper the potential of some recurring lexicogrammatical features to construct this characteristically gloomy and sombre atmosphere is presented and discussed. It will be shown that the vague feeling of unease which is perceived while reading these fictional texts is linguistically attestable. The analysis is conducted within the framework of M.A.K. Halliday’s systemic-functional grammar (SFG) which will be applied to three contemporary Swedish crime novels by …

Cultural Values and Impolite Behaviour. The Case of Spaniards and North-Americans

2016

This paper explores the influence of the individualism index (Hofstede 1991) of Spaniards and North-Americans on verbal impoliteness behaviour following Kaul de Marlangeon’s (2008) taxonomy of impolite acts. The level of social distance and affect between the interlocutors are considered as potential factors impacting on the use of impoliteness types and strategies. The corpus consists of scripts from a small sample of six movies (three from Spain and three from the US) and we follow an observational and a quantitative analysis. The findings reveal remarkable statistical differences as a result of the impact of cultural values on the verbal impoliteness behaviour of speakers from each count…