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In September 1864, The New York Times ran a brief advertisement for a new novel titled John Guilderstring's Sin, declaring it "an intense and passionate love story, in the 'Jane Eyre' style." By so labelling the novel, this advert presented its author, C. French Richards, as a member of the "Jane Eyre school": a term coined by Godey's to describe the host of successful American women authors who rewrote Charlotte Brontë's iconic plot for a largely conservative antebellum and wartime audience. Richards, however, failed to attract the popular following of her fellow "Jane Eyre" authors, who typically sanitised Brontë's hedonistic hero and doubled down on the rewards of the marriage plot. Richards distinguishes herself by writing a "Jane Eyre" novel that rejects rather than embraces heteronormative romance. She presents her own Byronic male lead, the titular John Guilderstring, as a corrupt, undesirable choice for her consciously androgynous heroine, Mattie, whose chivalric courtship of women serves as an antidote to his predatory behaviour. By presenting Mattie's navigation of queer womanhood and toxic masculinity via a rewriting of the widely read Jane Eyre, Richards defies the American "Jane Eyre school's" stranglehold on Brontë's text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Travel literature not only provides relevant information about cultural heritage, such as authorship, chronology or location, but also reveals the impressions evoked by its reception. This article describes the methodology of the ongoing REWIND project, which explores European cultural heritage through the perspectives of Latin American women writers who travelled to Europe in the early twentieth century. The project seeks to amplify the voices of non-European women committed to feminism and sociocultural diversity to foster decolonial, inclusive and pluralistic historical narratives. On the one hand, we address the configuration of the project corpus, the semantic annotation process, and the design of the ontological modelling according to the deep data concept. On the other hand, we explain the analysis of the relationships between cultural heritage, time, space and emotion. The project uses travel literature in digital format to retrieve, study and interpret data on cultural heritage, creating a workflow that integrates information from various historical sources to raise further questions and provide new insights. The proposed methodology follows the FAIR principles and prioritizes using open-source software to ensure reproducibility and facilitate the use of deliverables in other studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The International Journal of Humanities & Arts Computing (IJHAC) has a special issue on "Spatial Humanities and the Global South," which focuses on research related to historical geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial humanities. The issue includes articles that explore topics such as the territorial reconfiguration of a religious unit in colonial Mexico, Indigenous circulation networks in the Orinoco region of Colombia, European cultural heritage through the voices of Latin American women writers, and the preservation of Armenian toponyms in conflict zones. The journal also features two additional studies on Bob Dylan's song lyrics and the virtual reconstruction of an eighteenth-century funerary ceremony. The editorial team has announced a future special issue on "Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities." [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on revisiting Samuel R. Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue to explore its relevance for envisioning future queer cultures. Topics include the historical significance of public sex, the critique of mainstream LGBTQ+ achievements, and the ongoing necessity for transformative queer culture-building that challenges traditional norms of identity and sexuality.

This article examines two novels by contemporary American women writers: Luster by Ravel Leilani (2020) and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh (2018). It charts some of the ways in which both use art and portrayals of art to theorise late capitalism: its amorphous grip on the aesthetics of the contemporary, and what Fredric Jameson famously referred to as the ‘waning of affect’ under its cultural dominance. I argue, however, that these novels also offer a distinct approach to navigating late capitalism and the types of desires (for more of the same) it generates, and that they do this by resisting genre. This resistance of genre reads in terms of a plotlessness or ongoingness which serves the purpose, I suggest, of holding space for other, illegible, as-yet uncast desires which might disrupt capitalist convention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Latin America is facing a socio-political and economic context of great violence and crisis of care, reproduction of life, bonds and social fabric, with women being one of the most vulnerable groups. Therefore, it is necessary for social psychology, as a discipline permeated by neoliberalism and patriarchy, to turn its gaze and pay more attention, on the one hand, to the complex problems caused by political violence in our region and, on the other, to be critically examined to implement substantial transformations to its own research, academic education and social action or university extension processes. This article addresses some of the disciplinary challenges and responsibilities in a very complex regional context that requires a concrete and situated Latin American experience, and at the same time, a decolonial and intersectional feminist place of enunciation, that represents an area of resistance to continue building a critical, emancipatory and liberating, inclusive, feminist, diverse, intersectional and decolonial social psychology. Furthermore, it is necessary to forge a discipline that acts from epistemic disobedience and that can recognize other epistemological, theoretical, methodological, practical and interpretative frameworks of history and scientific knowledge that are enriched by the methods and practices of feminisms. Therefore, it is necessary to collaborate in making visible the contributions mainly of Costa Rican, Mesoamerican and Latin American women authors that confirm the political and socially transforming character of feminist research processes. However, to achieve this, it is essential to recognize that this is a disciplinary responsibility that concerns all professionals and not only women. Thus, the bibliographical review provides us with insights to continue working on a transforming, intersectional and encouragingly feminist social psychology, sensitive to regional contexts and from a psychosocial and decolonial praxis. Objective: This text seeks to contribute to the understanding and transformation of the disciplinary practice through a praxis that is critical towards a social approach, from feminist decolonial perspectives that are self-critical of the neoliberal patriarchal forms of reproduction of violence in the region and inside the activity of the discipline. Method: This article was developed through an online bibliographic search and review in scientific research portals, in journals such as Reflexiones and WimbLu of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), Revista Costarricense de Psicología, Revista de Pensamiento e Investigación Social, Revista Psicología Política, Revista Psicoperspectivas, Individuo y Sociedad of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso and Revista Interamericana de Psicología. In addition, books from the repositories of the libraries of the National University (UNA) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) were reviewed. Likewise, libraries of nongovernmental human rights and feminist organizations in the Mesoamerican region –which have developed interesting theoretical and methodological proposals and models of intervention and accompaniment applied to Latin America– were consulted, such as Aluna Acompañamiento Psicosocial of Mexico and the Community Studies and Psychosocial Action Team (ECAP) of Guatemala. From this review, texts mainly by Latin American authors were identified and selected with emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2022 as a means of covering the trends of the last 15 years in the fields of social psychology and intersectional feminisms, a period in which multiple forms of violence, chiefly against women, have increased and intensified, posing important challenges to the discipline of psychology in facing a very complex regional context that requires a concrete and situated experience at the Latin American level. Thus, this text is proposed as a critical bibliographic research based on theoretical elements of intersectional and decolonial feminisms and their contributions to the work of Latin American social psychology and its current trends. In addition to presenting a critical approach, it is intended as a reflective and self-reflective document; in other words, it is theoretical research, but also situated within a personal professional practice and a concrete experience that requires constant introspection in order to identify elements of the endeavor that could reproduce or are reproducing patriarchal and violent practices. Results: Few theoretical-practical investigations were found on structural violence in the region, and even fewer feminist investigations on the experiences of Latin American women and from the approaches of social psychology. The ones that were discovered were developed only by women, and do not include a critical perspective on patriarchal practices within our professional praxis. Conclusions: We find ourselves in a complex and violent socio-political and economic context in Latin America, which renders the care and reproduction of life, bonds and the social fabric vulnerable, with women being one of the most affected groups. Therefore, it is urgent that social psychology contributes to the transformation of this context, but at the same time, it needs to look internally to transform the multiple ways of reproducing neoliberalism and patriarchy within its disciplinary work. To do so, it requires support from decolonial and intersectional feminisms in order to promote, empower, motivate and recognize the wisdom of the peoples of Abya Yala and of Abya Yala herself, and the scientific and epistemological production of feminist women as a group that is also in resistance. The theoretical and methodological contributions addressed in this paper provide situated perspectives, from ethically and politically clear places of enunciation, epistemologically disobedient and committed to in-discipline. They also provide theoretical and methodological tools that collaborate in the reconstruction of the social fabric on which the dominant socio-political, neoliberal and patriarchal violence is produced and reproduced, but at the same time, where life and bonds, resistances and connections between women are reproduced. These contributions inspire creative, inclusive and critical practices that can strengthen new paths, but mainly provide insights to continue working in a transformative, intersectional and encouragingly feminist social psychology, sensitive to regional contexts and from the praxis of a decolonial psychosocial approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Funny Women. Perspectives on Women in/and the Comedy Scene: Introduction" explores the role of women in comedy, challenging stereotypes and highlighting their contributions to the Anglophone comedy scene. It discusses the historical context of women in comedy, the feminist killjoy figure, and the impact of women comedians like Michelle Wolf and Wanda Sykes. The article also delves into the representation of funny women in literature, TV shows, and stand-up comedy, emphasizing the importance of multidisciplinary perspectives in understanding women's comedic work. [Extracted from the article]

Four Latin American women authors--Karen Chacek and Gabriela Damián Miravete of Mexico, and Roberta Spindler and Aline Valek of Brazil--address the current climate crisis in narratives that break down barriers between the human body and the environment. Their stories explore the absorption of elements of the natural world into the human body, suggesting an exchange of both physicality and consciousness. This merging of elements from the plant, insect, and animal realms with the human body is evocative of Donna Haraway's networked body and Bolívar Echeverría's codigofagia, that is, the mixing of diverse codes toward the creation of future societies or civilizational experiments. The texts combine the possibilities of science fiction with the grieving process for a damaged planet, but without essentializing either women or nature. Using Rosi Braidotti's concept of posthuman feminism and Stacy Alaimo's transcorporeality, this article suggests that this approach to climate change--through bodily transformation and transcendent consciousness--captures the resilience of Latin American culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present literary study posits the argument that contemporary women's poetry depicts androgyny as a subversive tool against patriarchal order and gender-specific behaviors. The selected poetry of American and British women writers is explored for the representation of androgynous role and the ways it problematizes and challenges patriarchal stereotypical norms of gender identity and gender determined attitudes and performances. To substantiate the claim in relation to this particular motif in contemporary women's poetry, the theoretical concepts of flexible performativity, inter-gender egalitarianism and enhanced artistic capability from within the broader theory of Androgyny are applied to substantiate the claim in the analysis of the poetic works. A close reading of the selected poetry is done to show that androgyny is employed as a subversive tool in the selected body of creative writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Monique McDade's book, "California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal," explores the works of women writers in the American West between 1870 and 1945. McDade argues that these writers, including Helen Hunt Jackson, María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Sui Sin Far, Eva Rutland, and Joan Didion, used dominant literary forms to challenge the contradictions between American individualism and equality. McDade examines how these writers adapted popular genres and literary modes to create critical reflections and alternative narratives for liberal personhood. The book highlights the ways in which these women writers negotiated cultural agendas and presented messages of greater inclusion and regional identity. [Extracted from the article]

"California Dreams and American Contradictions: Women Writers and the Western Ideal" by Monique McDade is a scholarly book that explores western American women's literature as a genre. McDade discusses the works of Joan Didion, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far), and Eva Rutland, highlighting how these authors challenge dominant western mythology and expose the flaws in the progressivism of the West. The book engages with various theorists and critics and offers close readings of the main texts. While the book can be dense and overcrowded, it provides valuable insights into the authors' careers and their alternative narratives of the West. "Gather and Opera" by David McKay Powell examines Willa Cather's relationship with opera and music. Powell analyzes the influence of opera on Cather's artistic vision and how she incorporates operatic tropes in her work. The book provides a chronological analysis and highlights Cather's operatic understanding of the artist character. [Extracted from the article]

La crítica especializada y el mercado editorial dictan el futuro del hispanismo en su globalización. A pesar de que es en la diaspórica des/relocalización de su escritura donde reside el valor en alza de su literatura, este campo de investigación no ha sido considerado en su complejidad, y está por realizarse una aproximación desde la perspectiva de género, mirada que proponemos en este escrito. El artículo explora, a partir de una investigación interdisciplinaria, los temas y estrategias de representación generados a partir y en torno a la des/relocalización de sujetos femeninos latinoamericanos (o socializados como tales) en Europa y Norteamérica. The publishing market and specialized critics predict the future of Hispanism in its globalization. Although it is in the diasporic de/relocation of its writing where the rising value of its literature resides, this field of research has not been considered in its complexity, and it is yet to be carried out from a gender perspective. From interdisciplinary research, the article explores the themes and strategies of representation generated from and around the de/relocation of Latin American female subjects in Europe and North America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

They contextualize Belfiori's book within a feminist genealogy because "[el] pone en primer plano la experiencia y las memorias de las mujeres" (335). Rapidly, from acknowledging the improved translated position of those writers in comparison with 20 years ago (the case with Diamela Eltit and Tununa Mercado, among others), Domínguez's analysis turns into a problematization of the concept and practice of translating, according to which "traducir implica al mismo tiempo pensar las imágines que nos adjudican, la crítica y la revision de este lugar a partir de la devolución de esas imágenes" (40). This radical contextualization of the unexpected forms that rape can take, continues Forcinito, must also be analyzed for its consequences; for example, considering the case of "el marido de una compañera - al que le hicieron asistir a la violación de la misma, y que ella no recordaba - la dejó al poco tiempo de salir en libertad" (410). This proposed parallelism enables Oberti to problematize a twofold issue - first, "un tipo de lectura que ordena la narración de manera patriarchal" (308), and second, "la version estetizada de la maternidad" (314), in which childbirth was idealized beyond the material, painful, and solitary situations women had to endure during pregnancy and delivery. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the book "Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives," edited by Eleanor Ty. The book explores various groundbreaking graphic novels by and/or about Asian Americans, aiming to challenge and subvert stereotypical representations of Asian Americans in popular Western culture. The collection covers a range of texts, including memoirs and science fiction, and highlights the diversity of Asian American voices in the comics industry. The article acknowledges some limitations of the book, such as the lack of representation of earlier Asian American writers and artists, but overall praises it for providing insightful readings and sparking intellectual curiosity about Asian American graphic narratives. [Extracted from the article]

Several studies on anthropogonic myths and on the origins of patriarchy agree in pointing out that the myth of Adam and Eve is one of the most influential in shaping the identity and destiny of women in Western civilization. This paper analyzes a corpus of literary works from the 20th and 21st century written by Spanish and Latin American women writers that offer a female vision of the myth. By transferring the voice to Eve, they rewrite the plot and redefine the characters. The article focuses on the analysis of two of the modifications that these works, manifestly hypertextual, introduce with respect to the hypotext: Eve's perspective and voice, and the transformation of the story of the creation of the primordial couple. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes Lee Israel's autobiographical memoir "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" and its film adaptation of the same title to argue that the American author's acts of literary forgery may be attempts at imagining a new form of female canon and authorship. It explains how her preference to produce her work in the form of literary forgery constitutes a brave new form ofécriture féminine outside the boundaries of the anxiety of influence and the symbological authority of authorship.

The proposed article aims to examine the strategies used by American women cookbook writers to attract the intended audience to their collections. The study is based on 19th-century cookbooks published in the United States; earlier collections, although available in the US were published in and brought from Britain. Written for and, in many cases, by housewives, the analysed cookbooks show, on the one hand, how the authors tried to convince the prospective reader of their expertise and knowledge. On the other hand, a certain degree of intimacy with the reader was to draw the reader's attention to the collection. The discussion will be based on (i) the cookbooks' titles, as they are "the first point of contact between the writer and the potential reader" (Haggan, 2004, p. 193) and an important determinant of a book's success; and (ii) the authors' signatures (as not all of the publications were signed with the author's name). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes Grínor Rojo's new book, "Disquisitions from and about Latin American Modernity: Propositions. Essays on Critical Theory," which reflects on truth and its relationship with reason. The essays present debates on cultural and political modernity, highlighting the negative impact of capitalist development on nature and people's quality of life. It reflects on the relationship between the capitalist system and the humanities, emphasizing the importance of the critical and creative potential of individuals in modern societies. It also analyzes the society of the spectacle and its relationship with the capitalist system, mentioning the ideas of Guy Debord. The text highlights the capacity of social networks and video games for communication and organization in student movements in Chile, and mentions the role of the intellectual in capitalist development scenarios, analyzing the thinking of Álvaro García Linera. It emphasizes the importance of understanding Bolivia's historical particularity and the diversity of Latin America in intellectual analysis. Additionally, it mentions the desires for modernity of Latin American and Caribbean women writers of the 20th century and their struggle for autonomy and participation in the public sphere. The text concludes by pointing out that the author's reflections can help examine recent phenomena in Chile and Latin America, such as the return of MAS to government in Bolivia and the triumph of Lula da Silva in Brazil. [Extracted from the article]

This article is a review of the biography "Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer" by Jeremy D. Popkin. The author highlights Zelda Popkin's significance in American Jewish literary studies and gender studies. Her writing, which combined journalism and popular middlebrow novels, focused on major events in twentieth-century Jewish life and centered women's perspectives. The biography explores Zelda Popkin's novels, her approach to work and parenting, and her contributions to American Jewish history, including changing roles of women, perspectives on the Holocaust and Israel, and her critique of American Jewish institutions. The reviewer praises the biography for its intimate insights into Zelda Popkin's personal life and its inclusion of the author's personal memories and family archive. However, the reviewer also notes biases in the author's assessment of Zelda Popkin's writing, which detract from the analysis. Overall, the biography is seen as an important contribution to recognizing Zelda Popkin's pioneering role in Jewish American writing. [Extracted from the article]

"Mosaic Fictions: Writing Identity in the Spanish Civil War" by Emily Robbins Sharpe is a multi-genre study that explores the creation of North American identity through Spanish Civil War literary production. The book focuses on Canadian literature but also includes American writers and activists. Sharpe argues that Spanish Civil War literature and modern Jewish Canadian literature are mutually constitutive, and she examines how identity is shaped through religion, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. The book traces the influence of the war on North American writers during and after the conflict, highlighting the connections between different identities and experiences. [Extracted from the article]

Katrina Trask (1853-1922) is best known for founding -- both financially and idealistically -- Yaddo, the artist retreat located in Saratoga Springs, New York. Spencer and Katrina Trask's sense of service and philanthropy was informed by her love for Arthurian legends and the medieval notion of patronage, wherein the wealthy fund and support artists and writers. Trask devoted her life to serving, so much so that her own literary career has become a footnote to her charity. She began her writing career after the loss of her four young children, and over the span of her lifetime wrote essays, plays, poetry, and novels -- in addition to being a prolific chronicler of events. Historical and scholarly attention on Trask should be extended beyond references to her wealth to include her literary accomplishments, not as a mere footnote but rather as an independent aspect of her life worthy of its own critical attention. In this essay, I argue that the legends of King Arthur and Faust and the ethics associated therewith directly inform Katrina Trask's literary works and the larger notion of service throughout her lifetime. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a dossier titled "Memories, Networks, and Affections: Towards a Cultural History of Women in Latin America," which brings together a series of articles that emerged from an international seminar on the literary production of Latin American women writers between 1850 and 1950. The dossier seeks to make visible writers who were silenced by national and regional literary histories and analyzes how they built networks of work, visibility, and mutual support. The articles focus on topics such as exile and affections in the writing of Soledad Acosta de Samper, transnational feminism in the Women's Congress of Buenos Aires, and the exploration of women's autonomy in the stories of Luisa Capetillo, Carmela Eulate, and Ana Roqué. The article analyzes the column "Around a Woman" by Chilean writer Marta Brunet in the magazine Ecran, highlighting its importance as a space for artistic and social self-affirmation for women of the time. The relevance of profiles written by women about women in defining female cultural spaces is mentioned. Another article examines the relationship between literature and opera in four Hispano-American writers of the 19th century, exploring how operatic characters and passions were incorporated into their literary plots. Finally, the figure of Mexican poet Concha Urquiza and her influence on later writers is highlighted, as well as her representation in the work of Roberto Bolaño. The dossier focuses on the cultural history of women, highlighting the importance of networks and affections in their work. [Extracted from the article]

In [9], an American transplanted in Italy, William Boelhower, published his I Immigrant Autobiography in the United States i , an early attempt at classifying Italian American literature, specifically autobiography. Graph It is with this historico-critical backdrop that the I Italian American Review i sought essays dedicated to a rethinking and rearticulation of Italian American literary criticism; one result being voices from both the United States and Italy. The history of Italian American literary criticism is a problematic phenomenon for a variety of reasons. [Extracted from the article]

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Similarly, in the realm of fiction, Chahira Lahab, her journey to self-understanding completed, returns to Algeria, and like her compatriots, she faces her uncertain future with guarded optimism. To place this question within a contemporary Algerian context, she charts the journey of a dressmaker from her small town in Algeria to an international fashion design competition in Vienna. 2019 was an exceptional year in the literary career of Algerian novelist Lynda Chouiten. [Extracted from the article]