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Resilience discourse has recently become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been undertaken as an important object of study within the field of the humanities. Understanding narrative in its... more
Resilience discourse has recently become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been undertaken as an important object of study within the field of the humanities. Understanding narrative in its broad sense as the representation in art of an event or story, Glocal Narratives of Resilience investigates the contemporary approaches to resilience through the analyses of cultural narratives that engage aesthetically and ideologically in (re)shaping the notion of resilience, going beyond the scales of the personal and the local to consider the entanglement of the regional, national and global aspects embedded in the production of crises and the resulting call for resilience. After an introductory survey of the state of the art in resilience thinking, the book grounds its analyses of a wide range of narratives from the American continent, Europe, and India in various theoretical strands, spanning Psycho-social Resilience, Socio-Ecological Resilience, Subaltern Resilience, Indigenous survivance and resurgence, Neoliberal Resilience, and Compromised Resilience thinking, among others, thus opening the path toward the articulation of a cultural narratology of resilience. Hb: 978-0-367-26133-7
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The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits. This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary... more
The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits.

This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both ‘globalism,’ which is increasingly perceived as the state-of-the-art literary paradigm, and the city. These are two significant axes of contemporary culture and identity that were previously disregarded by a critical tradition built around the importance of space and place in Canadian writing. Yet, as relevant as the turn to the city and to globalism may be, this collection’s most notable contribution lies in linking the notion of ‘glocality’, that is, the intermeshing of local and global forces to representations of subjectivity in the material and figurative space of the Canadian city. Dealing with oppositional discourses as multiculturalism, postcolonialism, feminism, diaspora, and environmentalism this book is an essential reference for any scholar with an interest in these areas.
Coinciding with the preparations for the celebration in 2008 of Richard Wright’s 100th birthday, this new collection of critical essays on Native Son attests to the importance and endurance of Wright’s controversial work. The eleven... more
Coinciding with the preparations for the celebration in 2008 of Richard Wright’s 100th birthday, this new collection of critical essays on Native Son attests to the importance and endurance of Wright’s controversial work. The eleven essays collected in this volume engage the objective of Rodopi’s Dialogue Series by creating multidirectional conversations in which senior and younger scholars interact with each other and with previous scholars who have weighed in on the novel’s import. Speaking from distant corners of the world, the contributors to this book reflect an international interest in Wright’s unique combination of literary strategies and social aims. The wide range of approaches to Native Son is presented in five thematic sections. The first three sections cover aspects such as the historical reception of Wright’s novel, the inscription of sex and gender both in Native Son and in other African American texts, and the influence of Africa and of vortical symbolism on Wright’s aesthetics; following is the study of the novel from the point of view of its adoption and transformation of various literary genres—the African American jeremiad, the protest novel, the crime novel and courtroom drama, the Bildungsroman, and the Biblical modes of narration. The closing section analyzes the novel’s lasting influence through its adaptation to other artistic fields, such as the cinema and song in the form of hip-hop. The present volume may, therefore, be of interest for students who are not very familiar with Wright’s classic text as well as for scholars and Richard Wright specialists
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Este libro contribuye al debate sobre la figura y relevancia de la obra de Zora Neale Hurston, insigne predecesora de las escritoras afroamericanas actuales. Además de estudiar el modo en que Hurston aplica a la literatura ideas sobre... more
Este libro contribuye al debate sobre la figura y relevancia de la obra de Zora Neale Hurston, insigne predecesora de las escritoras afroamericanas actuales. Además de estudiar el modo en que Hurston aplica a la literatura ideas sobre política racial de género, se expone el proceso por el que se convirtió en una figura clave en la lucha por la transformación del canon literario estadounidense
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espanolLangston Hughes, el poeta laureado del Renacimiento de Harlem, viajo a Espana como reportero de guerra en agosto de 1937. Este articulo estudia la coincidencia de ideas entre Hughes y los brigadistas afro-americanos basandose en... more
espanolLangston Hughes, el poeta laureado del Renacimiento de Harlem, viajo a Espana como reportero de guerra en agosto de 1937. Este articulo estudia la coincidencia de ideas entre Hughes y los brigadistas afro-americanos basandose en los escritos del propio Hughes y en las cartas de uno de estos brigadistas. Ambos hacen extensivas las implicaciones de nuestra guerra civil a la lucha contra el sistema de segregacion racial en el sur de Estados Unidos, conocido como Jim Crow, asi como al enfrentamiento entre la Democracia y el Fascismo en la escena internacional de la epoca. EnglishIn August 1937 Harlem poet laureate Langston Hughes traveled to Spain. His mission as a reporter was to inform about the on-going Spanich Civil War. This paper examines the coincidence of ideas between Hughes and the African American brigadiers based on Hughes's writings and on the letters of one of these brigadiers. Both extend the implications of the Spanish Civil War to the struggle against Jim Cro...
Michael Helm’s recent novel Cities of Refuge (2010) offers a gallery of physically displaced people and of spiritual exiles who, albeit presenting different characteristics, are all subsumed within the category of the stranger. By... more
Michael Helm’s recent novel Cities of Refuge (2010) offers a gallery of physically displaced people and of spiritual exiles who, albeit presenting different characteristics, are all subsumed within the category of the stranger. By foregrounding the ethical responsibility toward the stranger in our midst, the novel engages with questions of current concern, such as the impact of global-scale displacements and conflicts on the Canadian nation-state. Consequently, while delving on the ambivalence of the stranger, this essay tangentially addresses the following questions: how does the state manage its physical and imaginary borders? How does the presence of undocumented subjects impinge on Canada’s national self-image in the age of official multiculturalism and extolled pluralism? How is the average Canadian urbanite affected in his/her everyday life by the presence of these underground, non-status subjectivities?  In which ways are the violences of history and of the state brought to b...
Coinciding with its 10th anniversary, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has joined the University of Salamanca publishing program. This issue marks not only the journal’s move to a new location, but... more
Coinciding with its 10th anniversary, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has joined the University of Salamanca publishing program. This issue marks not only the journal’s move to a new location, but also the beginning of a new phase. As co-editors of Canada and Beyond, we assume the challenge of steering the journal at a time of profound and overlapping global crises such as those derived from climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, as well as ongoing frictions that continue to deepen social and economic inequities in Canada and elsewhere. We understand this journal as a space for critical reflection and imaginative approaches to the literary and cultural production coming from Canada/Turtle Island and reaching out to the world in these complex times.
... Amor y erotismo en "El color púrpura". Autores: Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localización: Amor y Erotismo en la Literatura: Congreso Internacional Amor y Erotismo en la Literatura / Vicente González Martín ( aut. ), 1999, ISBN... more
... Amor y erotismo en "El color púrpura". Autores: Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localización: Amor y Erotismo en la Literatura: Congreso Internacional Amor y Erotismo en la Literatura / Vicente González Martín ( aut. ), 1999, ISBN 84-87132-85-5 , págs. 345-352. Fundación Dialnet. ...
... Elizabeth Núñez¿s appraisal of globalization in beyond the limbo silence. Autores: Ana MaríaFraile Marcos; Localización: La globalización : un estudio interdisciplinario / coord. por Miguel Angel Díaz Mier, 2003, ISBN 84-8138-604-9 ,... more
... Elizabeth Núñez¿s appraisal of globalization in beyond the limbo silence. Autores: Ana MaríaFraile Marcos; Localización: La globalización : un estudio interdisciplinario / coord. por Miguel Angel Díaz Mier, 2003, ISBN 84-8138-604-9 , págs. 349-358. Fundación Dialnet. ...
... Afro-american literature and the issue of canon formation: the case of zora neale hurston. Autores:Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localización: Marginal discourse / coord. por Manuel Aguirre, Mercedes Bengoechea Bartolomé, Robert K.... more
... Afro-american literature and the issue of canon formation: the case of zora neale hurston. Autores:Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localización: Marginal discourse / coord. por Manuel Aguirre, Mercedes Bengoechea Bartolomé, Robert K. Shepherd, 1993 , págs. 91-108. ...
... Mi gente!, ¡mi gente!: (texto biblingüe). Información General. Autores: Zora Neale Hurston, AnaMaría Fraile Marcos; Editores: León : Universidad, DL 1994; Año de publicación: 1994; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-7719-446-7.... more
... Mi gente!, ¡mi gente!: (texto biblingüe). Información General. Autores: Zora Neale Hurston, AnaMaría Fraile Marcos; Editores: León : Universidad, DL 1994; Año de publicación: 1994; País: España; Idioma: Español; ISBN : 84-7719-446-7. Otros catálogos. ...
... americana: un estudio de Sweat. Autores: Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localización: XVI Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos : (AEDEAN 92) : Valladolid, 14, 15 y 16 de diciembre de 1992 / coord. ...
... Kate Chopin's "The awakening": a world of dialectical forces. Autores: Ana María FraileMarcos; Localización: Actas del XV congreso de AEDEAN, Logroño 16-18 de diciembre de 1991 / coord. por Francisco José Ruiz de... more
... Kate Chopin's "The awakening": a world of dialectical forces. Autores: Ana María FraileMarcos; Localización: Actas del XV congreso de AEDEAN, Logroño 16-18 de diciembre de 1991 / coord. por Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza ...
Literary critics such as Henry Louis Gates and Barbara Johnson have already approached the issue of voice in Zora Neale Hurston's novels-especially in Their Eyes Were Watching God. However, little attention has been directed to her... more
Literary critics such as Henry Louis Gates and Barbara Johnson have already approached the issue of voice in Zora Neale Hurston's novels-especially in Their Eyes Were Watching God. However, little attention has been directed to her short stories, despite the fact that they ...
... The retrieval of history through memory and imagination: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. Autores: Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localización: Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN = Proceedings of the 27th... more
... The retrieval of history through memory and imagination: Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. Autores: Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localización: Actas del XXVII Congreso Internacional de AEDEAN = Proceedings of the 27th International AEDEAN Conference / coord. ...
This article posits the centrality of stories as agents of potential harm and healing in the revalorization of Indigenous epistemologies and contemporary decolonizing efforts. Reading in tandem the stories woven within the novels... more
This article posits the centrality of stories as agents of potential harm and healing in the revalorization of Indigenous epistemologies and contemporary decolonizing efforts. Reading in tandem the stories woven within the novels Ravensong (1993) by Salish-Métis author Lee Maracle and its sequel Celia’s Song (2014), it brings to light a model of community-centred health policing in the earlier novel that turns into a powerful call for decolonization and Indigenous resurgence in Celia’s Song. The use of illness tropes in these novels goes beyond exposing the damaging by-products of colonialism, manifested as a transgenerational epidemic of violence amongst the Indigenous population, to create powerful images of Indigenous resurgence and Indigenous–settler engagement. These analyses are contextualized within the current COVID-19 pandemic and draw on, among other sources, Lee Maracle’s own critical reflections on the cultural and healing roles of stories, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s writing on Indigenous resistance and resurgence.
After the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2008, the hegemony of the politics of financial debt was largely perceived in Southern Europe as an internal colonisation, with Germany as the leading economic power. According to this view,... more
After the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2008, the hegemony of the politics of financial debt was largely perceived in Southern Europe as an internal colonisation, with Germany as the leading economic power. According to this view, Southern Europe became the trial ground for neoliberal late capitalism. The unequal impact of the crisis on the different European economies resulted in the unwelcome reactivation of old stereotypes that hinder the European process towards transnational economic, social and cultural convergence. This contribution considers fiction as a privileged space for the nuanced representation of the complexities characterising the current moment of European liquid modernity and presents the novel as an important arena for critical reflection. It discusses a selection of recently published novels from Spain, which, set in the aftermath of the construction boom and the unveiling of systemic corruption, register the multiple negative consequences of the European austerity policies and grapple with the resurfacing of the stereotypical constructs of national identities through humour, satire, and social and political critique. Among the authors considered are Almudena Grandes, Germán Gullón, Rafael Chirbes, Luis García Jambrina, and Belén Gopegui.
This chapter suggests that Margaret Atwood’s speculative novel The Heart Goes Last reflects on the possibilities and limitations of affect to elicit resilience and positive social change. I posit that resilience—understood broadly as... more
This chapter suggests that Margaret Atwood’s speculative novel The Heart Goes Last reflects on the possibilities and limitations of affect to elicit resilience and positive social change. I posit that resilience—understood broadly as either the capacity of beings and systems to withstand adversity and endure by absorbing shocks and adapting to conditions of crisis, or as “the process of harnessing biological, psychosocial, structural and cultural resources to sustain wellbeing” (Panter-Brick and Leckman 335; emphasis mine)—emerges in Atwood’s novel as a new affect linked to anxiety and emphasizing the tensions between agency, free will, and moral blindness. The article draws on Zygmunt Bauman’s and Hannah Arendt’s philosophical analyses of the contemporary moment, and tracks the novel’s critique of the cold sensitivity underpinning resilience strategies in times of the crises inherent to the period of late modernity.
This article heeds the recent shift in cultural criticism and creative writing toward imagining "a functional ecology of knowledges in Canada" (Coleman, "Toward" 8) that takes its conceptual lead from Indigenous epistemologies. Through... more
This article heeds the recent shift in cultural criticism and creative writing toward imagining "a functional ecology of knowledges in Canada" (Coleman, "Toward" 8) that takes its conceptual lead from Indigenous epistemologies. Through close reading Thomas King's novel The Back of the Turtle (2014), Wayde Compton's short story collection The Outer Harbour (2014), and Daniel Coleman's nonfiction book Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place (2017), the article connects Indigenous notions of kinship to the turn to trans-systemic epistemologies in contemporary Canadian literature and criticism. My analysis draws on Indigenous theories of kinship underlying Indigenous resurgence and decolonization and sets them in conversation with King's reflections on storytelling and world-building, Compton's theoretical charting of African Canadian space as Afroperipheral within diaspora criticism, and Coleman's self-retraining to redefine settler belonging and knowledge. This analysis concludes that, by promoting an awareness of the interdependence between the natural environment, humans, and other-than-human beings that is central to Indigenous epistemologies, these works contribute to the shift toward the construction of an ecology of knowledges and hold the potential for renewed decolonizing efforts, social justice, and environmental sustainability.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756899
This article stems from the assumption that the stories emerging from distinct cultural traditions constitute discrete epistemologies that determine how human individuals and societies face ontological vulnerability and precariousness.... more
This article stems from the assumption that the stories emerging from distinct cultural traditions constitute discrete epistemologies that determine how human individuals and societies face ontological vulnerability and precariousness. Focusing on Thomas King's novel The Back of the Turtle (2014), it examines the differential agency of two interlocking sets of stories and their respective epistemological systems. Consequently, the article is divided in two main parts. The first examines the novel's rendering of the tensions between the Enlightenment's investment in the search for empirical truth, and its current alignment with unfettered neo-liberal capitalism and post-truth discourse. The second part reads the novel's use of ancestral Indigenous stories as a counterpoint to the stories of modern progress underlying western epistemologies. The emerging question is whether Indigenous ways of knowing embedded in ancestral stories may potentially show the way towards an "ecology of knowledges" that lessens precarity and works towards ecological sustainability.
Resilience discourse has become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been an object of study in the humanities. Understanding narrative in its broad sense as the representation in art of an... more
Resilience discourse has become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been an object of study in the humanities. Understanding narrative in its broad sense as the representation in art of an event or story, Glocal Narratives of Resilience investigates contemporary approaches to resilience through the analyses of cultural narratives that engage aesthetically and ideologically in (re)shaping the notion of resilience. The book grounds its analyses of a wide range of narratives from the American continent, Europe, and India at the intersection of various theoretical strands, spanning western and Indigenous takes on resilience.
This paper analyses the trope of water in Thomas King’s latest novel The Back of the Turtle from an ethics-of-care perspective that puts in conversation Indigenous ethics, feminist care ethics and environmental ethics. I suggest that... more
This paper analyses the trope of water in Thomas King’s latest novel The Back of the Turtle from an ethics-of-care perspective that puts in conversation Indigenous ethics, feminist care ethics and environmental ethics. I suggest that King’s focus on water offers a harsh—even if often humorous—critique of the anthropocentric, neoliberal extractivist mentality while proposing a transcultural ethics of care. Consequently, my analysis of the novel draws on the dialogue taking place in the realm of the Environmental Humanities in Canada and beyond about the centrality of water (See Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod and Astrida Neimais’ Thinking with Water; Dorothy Christian and Rita Wong’s Downstream: Reimagining Water; Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology; Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times, as well as on Indigenous epistemologies that eschew anthropocentrism in favour of attentive caring for the interconnected needs of humans and non-humans within interdependent ecologies, and feminist environmental care ethics that emphasize the importance of empowering communities to care for themselves and the ecologies that sustain them.

This article ““‘Who’s going to look after the river?’ Water and the Ethics of Care in Thomas King’s The Back of the Turtle“” originally appeared in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 66-82.
This paper analyzes Dionne Brand’s novel Love Enough (2014) and Wayde Compton’s short-story collection The Outer Harbour (2014) through a theoretical framework that establishes a three-way conversation with Rosi Braidotti’s theories on... more
This paper analyzes Dionne Brand’s novel Love Enough (2014) and Wayde Compton’s short-story collection The Outer Harbour (2014) through a theoretical framework that establishes a three-way conversation with Rosi Braidotti’s theories on the interconnection of space, subjectivity, and ethical consciousness; Wayde Compton’s theorization of black Canadian spatiality in terms of what he calls “assertive Afroperipheralism” (After Canaan 15); and Hortense Spillers’s notion of black diasporic culture.
This article draws attention to Helm’s nuanced rendition of the twenty-first century city of Toronto as the setting where analytical reason and sensory perception clash, compete and intertwine in the characters’ quest for the production... more
This article draws attention to Helm’s nuanced rendition of the twenty-first century city of Toronto as the setting where analytical reason and sensory perception clash, compete and intertwine in the characters’ quest for the production of order out of chaos, meaning, understanding, and knowledge. Though seemingly relying on the dichotomy reason/emotion for character construction, the novel resists both the privileging of Cartesian rationalism prevalent in Western thought, and the wholesale allegiance to affect as an epistemological source consisting of “a substrate of potential bodily responses, often autonomic responses, in excess of consciousness” with the capacity both “to affect and be affected or the augmentation or diminution of a body’s capacity to act, to engage, and to connect” (Clough 2007, 2).
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Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical... more
Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro explores the representation of embodied ethics and affects in Alice Munro’s writing. The collection illustrates how Munro’s short stories powerfully intersect with important theoretical trends in literary studies, including affect studies, ethical criticism, age studies, disability studies, animal studies, and posthumanism. These essays offer us an Alice Munro who is not the kindly Canadian icon reinforcing small-town verities who was celebrated and perpetuated in acts of national pedagogy with her Nobel Prize win; they ponder, instead, an edgier, messier Munro whose fictions of affective and ethical perplexities disturb rather than comfort. In Munro’s fiction, unruly embodiments and affects interfere with normative identity and humanist conventions of the human based on reason and rationality, destabilizing prevailing gender and sexual politics, ethical responsibilities, and affective economies. As these essays make clear, Munro’s fiction reminds us of the consequences of everyday affects and the extraordinary ordinariness of the ethical encounters we engage again and again.
419 is an inquiry into the strain that increasing global connectivity and unfettered late capital suggest that Ferguson's use of the thriller genre introduces an innovative move by resisting both retributive and restorative justice... more
419 is an inquiry into the strain that increasing global connectivity and unfettered late capital suggest that Ferguson's use of the thriller genre introduces an innovative move by resisting both retributive and restorative justice resolutions. Furthermore, Ferguson's novel functions as a petrofiction by placing oil at the centre of the discussion about the intersection of sovereignty, justice, and ethics, while offering a scathing critique of how energy resources around the world ished project on governmentality. Consequently, my analysis draws on a variety of philosophical theories that reveal contesting understandings of sovereignty (Foucault, Montag, Mbembe, Résumé : Cet article étudie le roman primé de l'auteur calgarien Will Ferguson, 419, paru en 2012.
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Acknowledging the richness and variety of George Elliott Clarke's "polyphonic poetics," this essay brings to the foreground the so far unattended (African) American intertextuality in Clarke's novel George & Rue, where the author rereads... more
Acknowledging the richness and variety of George Elliott Clarke's "polyphonic poetics," this essay brings to the foreground the so far unattended (African) American intertextuality in Clarke's novel George & Rue, where the author rereads William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner (1966) in a Canadian context, and revises Richard Wright's Native Son (1940) and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) in his rendition of Africadian Black masculinity, history, and voice. I situate my discussion in the context of what Daniel Coleman labels wry civility, or an ethical stance that is aware and critical of the historical project of normative White civility in Canada that Clarke's novel contests and challenges with its transnational and transcultural aesthetics
This paper reads Kim Barry Brunhuber’s novel Kameleon Man as an important exploration of different heterotopian spaces offering a reflection of our contemporary society in terms of the production and consumption of culture, racialization... more
This paper reads Kim Barry Brunhuber’s novel Kameleon Man as an important exploration of different heterotopian spaces offering a reflection of our contemporary society in terms of the production and consumption of culture, racialization and identity. Stacey Schmidt, a twenty-one year-old black student, appears as a modern flâneur moving in urban landscapes from one heteretopia to the next in his quest for success in the fashion industry as a mixed-race model. He is also acutely aware of his own shifting positionality hinging on the ambiguous sign and site of the hyphen, which has been described by Fred Wah as that marked (or unmarked) space that both binds and divides. This heno-poetic (Grk heno-, one) punct, this flag of the many in the one, yet 'less than one and double' (Bhabha 177), is the operable tool that both compounds difference and underlines sameness (Faking 72-73). Using an interdisciplinary methodology, I will draw from the European philosophical tradition of Foucault and Benjamin as well as from urban studies, and will put these in conversation with some recent Canadian critical mixed-race theory in order to bring into view the specificity of Stacey's experience as an urban, racialized, mixed-race Canadian man.
Michael Helm’s recent novel Cities of Refuge (2010) offers a gallery of physically displaced people and of spiritual exiles who, albeit presenting different characteristics, are all subsumed within the category of the stranger. By... more
Michael Helm’s recent novel Cities of Refuge (2010) offers a gallery of physically displaced people and of spiritual exiles who, albeit presenting different characteristics, are all subsumed within the category of the stranger. By foregrounding the ethical responsibility toward the stranger in our midst, the novel engages with questions of current concern, such as the impact of global-scale displacements and conflicts on the Canadian nation-state. Consequently, while delving on the ambivalence of the stranger, this essay tangentially addresses the following questions: how does the state manage its physical and imaginary borders? How does the presence of undocumented subjects impinge on Canada’s national self-image in the age of official multiculturalism and extolled pluralism? How is the average Canadian urbanite affected in his/her everyday life by the presence of these underground, non-status subjectivities?  In which ways are the violences of history and of the state brought to bear upon the bodies and destinies of failed refugees in Canada, as well as upon Canadian citizens themselves? Given the philosophical extent of these concerns, my reading of the novel has been inspired by the discussions of Jacques Derrida and of Zygmunt Bauman around the ambiguities attached to the figure of the stranger. Frank Kermode’s Sense of an Ending has proved equally illuminating in my attempt to grasp the novel’s focus on the production of narratives as tools for providing order and meaning out of the ambivalent and apocalyptic experience characteristic of our globalized world.
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Review by Michael Basseler of Glocal narratives of resilience, edited by Ana María Fraile-Marcos, New York/London, Routledge, 2020. The volume is the result of an intense collaboration of scholars mainly from Spain and Canada in the... more
Review by Michael Basseler of Glocal narratives of resilience, edited by Ana María Fraile-Marcos, New York/London, Routledge, 2020.

The volume is the result of an intense collaboration of scholars mainly from Spain and Canada in the research project ‘Narratives of Resilience: An Intersectional Approach to Literature and Other Contemporary Cultural Representations’ funded by the Spanish Ministry. Its contributions stem from the conference ‘Narratives of Resilience and Healing’ held at the University of Salamanca in October 2017.
Ana María Fraile-Marcos’s comprehensive introduction would also stand alone as an illuminating reflection on the relationship between resilience and narrative. It provides an excellent starting point as it outlines the (by now heavily used, complex, yet somewhat fuzzy) notion of resilience and its potential for the study of literary and other cultural artefacts. The introduction as well as the volume as a whole suggest the ‘concept of glocal narratives of resilience as a singular cultural and textual category’ (17) as well as a ‘cultural and literary trope’ (ibid.) that is gaining significance in recent years.
Glocal Narratives of Resilience sets a very high standard for scholars working on resilience. Its unique contribution relies on its vast thematic scope and its clear defiance to accept that we should abandon the study of the concept... more
Glocal Narratives of Resilience sets a very high standard for scholars working on resilience. Its unique contribution relies on its vast thematic scope and its clear defiance to accept that we should abandon the study of the concept because of its ties to neoliberalism. Reading resilience as a ‘cultural and literary trope from comparativist, postcolonial, decolonial, and Indigenous perspectives’ (p17) provides future scholars from an array of disciplines – not only the humanities – with the tools to contest, reform, and reshape resilience.
Ana María Fraile-Marcos’s volume Glocal Narratives of Resilience constitutes an outstanding, modern, and valuable contribution to the field of literary studies for it spearheads a line of research in the humanities that picks up the... more
Ana María Fraile-Marcos’s volume Glocal
Narratives of Resilience constitutes an outstanding,
modern, and valuable contribution to the field of
literary studies for it spearheads a line of research in
the humanities that picks up the cultural legacy of the
current post-trauma paradigm and propels the study of
resilience beyond hegemonic Western thinking. In so
doing, the volume establishes resilience thinking as a
glocal phenomenon that serves to read and react to the
multiple dangers that this risk society faces globally. Thus,
the book is a fresh and suggestive exercise that helps us
question and rethink established ideas of resistance and
survival in the discipline of humanities by means of
proposing the multifaceted nature of resilience as an
original critical lens through which we can grapple with
the maladies of the present in search of a better future.
Review of Literature and the Glocal City by Pilar Cuder in Atlantis
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Glocalizing CanLit in an Era of Austerity Ana María Fraile-Marcos (Editor) Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary. Routledge Reviewed by Daniel Coleman The coinage “glocal” in the title of this book... more
Glocalizing CanLit in an Era of Austerity
Ana María Fraile-Marcos (Editor)
Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary. Routledge
Reviewed by Daniel Coleman
The coinage “glocal” in the title of this book echoes and repositions A. J. M. Smith’s mid-twentieth-century complaint that CanLit had sequestered itself
in a nativist search for “Canadianness” and thereby failed to participate in a “cosmopolitan” literary world. This volume of essays demonstrates, both in
its production and in the arguments of its contributors, how thoroughly immersed Canadian literary production is today, for better or for worse, in an international cultural economy. The book is the result of a conference organized at the University of Salamanca, by its Spanish editor, Ana María Fraile-Marcos. It is published by the transnational publisher Routledge. Its contributors hail from Britain, Spain, and Canada, and its subject matter addresses cultural currents that connect Indigenous, Asian, European, Latin American, and Caribbean histories, feminist cityscapes and queer dystopias, urban hipster conservatism and refugee activism, neoliberal traffic between metro Toronto and the Maritimes, shopping mall economics, and Canada’s international multicultural image.
Literature and the Glocal City constitutes a significant contribution to CanLitCrit’s attention to the challenges posed by urbanization to its traditional focus, since Thomas D’arcy McGee, on how literature narrates the nation...
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Ciclo de conferencias del proyecto «Los nuevos medios y la representación del dolor. El retrato de la enfermedad como estrategia de resiliencia y superación» (FS/2-2019) financiado por la Fundación Memoria de D. Samuel Solórzano Barruso,... more
Ciclo de conferencias del proyecto «Los nuevos medios y la representación del dolor. El retrato de la enfermedad como estrategia de resiliencia y superación» (FS/2-2019) financiado por la Fundación Memoria de D. Samuel Solórzano Barruso, en colaboración con el proyecto “Exocanónicos: márgenes y descentramiento en la literatura en español del siglo XXI” (PID2019-104957GA-I00) del Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, y el proyecto “Glocal Narratives of Resilience and Resurgence: Toward a Cultural Narratology” del Programa I de la USAL.
Recently, the fields of history and anthropology have used the lens of resilience to engage the analysis of societies that collapsed for lack of anticipation, competence and ecological intelligence or control. In the Humanities, too,... more
Recently, the fields of history and anthropology have used the lens of resilience to engage the analysis of societies that collapsed for lack of anticipation, competence and ecological intelligence or control. In the Humanities, too, resilience is carving a niche for itself. In addition, the concept of spiritual and bodily healing remains at the heart of all social justice projects, as it addresses the necessity of recuperation and renewal after individual or collective trauma resulting from armed conflict or from discriminatory and exclusionary practices and discourses either in our past or still ongoing present. This conference aims to create synergies, facilitating a comparativist approach to the materials presented, reinforcing the international and interdisciplinary network constituted by the research projects mentioned below, and disseminating the results of our work within and beyond the academic environment.

Coordinated projects “Narratives of Resilience: An Intersectional Approach to Literature and Other Contemporaneous Cultural Representation” (FFI2015-63895-C2-2-R University of Salamanca) and “Justice, Citizenship and Vulnerability: Precarious Narratives and Intersectional Approaches” (FFI2015-63895-C2-1-R University of La Laguna)

Coordinated Projects “Bodies in Transit”: “From Conflict to Healing” (FFI2013-47789-C2-1-P University of Huelva) and “Making Difference in Globalized Cultures” (FFI2013-47789-C2-2-P University of Vigo)

Project “TransCanadian Networks: Excellence and Transversality from Spain about Canada towards Europe” (FFI2015-71921-REDT University of La Laguna)
Recently, the fields of history and anthropology have used the lens of resilience to engage the analysis of societies that collapsed for lack of anticipation, competence and ecological intelligence or control. In the Humanities, too,... more
Recently, the fields of history and anthropology have used the lens of resilience to engage the analysis of societies that collapsed for lack of anticipation, competence and ecological intelligence or control. In the Humanities, too, resilience is carving a niche for itself. In addition, the concept of spiritual and bodily healing remains at the heart of all social justice projects, as it addresses the necessity of recuperation and renewal after individual or collective trauma resulting from armed conflict or from discriminatory and exclusionary practices and discourses either in our past or still ongoing present. This conference aims to create synergies, facilitating a comparativist approach to the materials presented, reinforcing the international and interdisciplinary network constituted by the research projects mentioned below, and disseminating the results of our work within and beyond the academic environment.

Coordinated projects “Narratives of Resilience: An Intersectional Approach to Literature and Other Contemporaneous Cultural Representation” (FFI2015-63895-C2-2-R University of Salamanca) and “Justice, Citizenship and Vulnerability: Precarious Narratives and Intersectional Approaches” (FFI2015-63895-C2-1-R University of La Laguna)

Coordinated Projects “Bodies in Transit”: “From Conflict to Healing” (FFI2013-47789-C2-1-P University of Huelva) and “Making Difference in Globalized Cultures” (FFI2013-47789-C2-2-P University of Vigo)

Project “TransCanadian Networks: Excellence and Transversality from Spain about Canada towards Europe” (FFI2015-71921-REDT University of La Laguna)
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EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL ANA MARÍA FRAILE-MARCOS https://wls.sav.sk/?page_id=322&lang=en Resilience, the capacity to adapt to adversity and rebound, has become a ubiquitous and contested concept, yet approaches to it from the field of... more
EDITORIÁL / EDITORIAL
ANA MARÍA FRAILE-MARCOS
https://wls.sav.sk/?page_id=322&lang=en

Resilience, the capacity to adapt to adversity and rebound, has become a ubiquitous and contested concept, yet approaches to it from the field of literary criticism are still scarce. This issue contributes to fill in this gap by probing current narratives from which resilience emerges as a central multifaceted paradigm through which to apprehend contemporary reality and subjectivity. The ten articles gathered here interrogate the global currency of notions of resilience while mapping an aesthetics of critical resilience that opens new paths to knowledge, hope, and positive agency.
CFPs Special issue of Canada and Beyond: a Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies.
Recognition and Recovery of Caribbean Canadian Cultural Production. Guest Editors: Michael A. Bucknor and Cornel Bogle.
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The present monograph hopes to make an intervention in the nascent field of resilience studies by bringing together experts from the Humanities and the Social Sciences. It aims to explore the rich meanings of resilience and its... more
The present monograph hopes to make an intervention in the nascent field of resilience studies by bringing together experts from the Humanities and the Social Sciences. It aims to explore the rich meanings of resilience and its representation in varied narrative forms that imagine resilience as a paradigm through which to apprehend contemporary reality and subjectivity.

We welcome 500-word abstracts in English that address (but are not limited to) the
following topics:

- Literary analyses of resilience narratives that draw on theoretical approaches and
conceptualizations of trauma, vulnerability, precarity, well-being, the good life, happiness, and healing.
- Narrative articulations of resilience vis-à-vis abrupt change and crisis, as seen from different perspectives: ecology, climate change, psychology, gender, decolonization, post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism, etc.
- The potential agency of resilience narratives: therapeutic, didactic, epistemological, ontological, cultural, political, ethical.
- Delineating an aesthetics of resilience: thematic and formal narrative features.
- Narrating resilience across genres.

Please send abstracts for articles to the following addresses: anafra@usal.es and
usvlwlit@savba.sk by July 31, 2022.

You will be notified of the acceptance of your abstract by September 15, 2022.
Deadline for the final text (in English): January 31, 2023.
Publication: June 2023.
Article length: 27 000 – 36 000 characters.
How might literary scholars and writers in Canada respond in meaningful ways to ongoing ecological crises? Between the crises of prairie drought, Rocky Mountain and Boreal forest fires, flooding in both Alberta and British Columbia, rapid... more
How might literary scholars and writers in Canada respond in meaningful ways to ongoing ecological crises? Between the crises of prairie drought, Rocky Mountain and Boreal forest fires, flooding in both Alberta and British Columbia, rapid Arctic warming, and rising sea levels, as well as politically significant ecological concerns such as logging in Fairy Creek, pipelines impacting the Wet’suwet’en, and the Site C dam on the Peace River, environmental questions are unavoidable in this moment. It becomes increasingly clear that literary critics and creative writers need to (re)train themselves to respond to the climate emergency.

In this special issue, we are interested in the following, non-exhaustive questions:

● How are notions of resilience and happiness reworked and set in dialogical interaction in / through literature?
● What are the literary affects of this moment of ecological crisis?
● What models do writers offer for thinking and feeling through these crises?
● Anthropocene, chthulucene, capitalocene, and more: how might literary works help to define this epoch?
● If “decolonization is not a metaphor” (Tuck and Yang), what does that mean for environmental literary studies, given literature’s reliance upon metaphor itself?
● How might literary works play a role in mobilizing readers’ ecological senses to incite climate action?
● What role do the senses play in representing the (complex, striated) relationships between humans, non-humans, and places at this moment in time?
● How might literature offer what rita wong terms a “syntax of hope”?
● To what will we “return” in literary studies and / or classrooms? How might we conceptualize such a return?
● (How) can literary studies in Canada (and beyond!) become an environmentally just practice?

All submissions to Canada & Beyond must be original, unpublished work. Articles, between 6,000 and 7,500 words in length, including endnotes and works cited, should follow current MLA bibliographic format.
Literary and Cultural Studies has recently joined the University of Salamanca publishing program, and to celebrate this event and recognize the contributions of new scholars working in the field, the journal invites new submissions of... more
Literary and Cultural Studies has recently joined the University of Salamanca publishing program, and to celebrate this event and recognize the contributions of new scholars working in the field, the journal invites new submissions of original research articles in
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