Journal Articles by David R . George, Jr
Hispanic Review, 2023
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In this essay, I examine how the set of Japanese decorative items present in Benito Pé... more ABSTRACT:
In this essay, I examine how the set of Japanese decorative items present in Benito Pérez Galdós's La familia de León Roch (1878) elucidates a reformulation of the Krausist model of masculinity embodied by the novel's hero. Focusing on Buddhist imagery in the text, I explore how allusions to the Eastern religion provide a symbolic framework to explore other modes for the liberal hero to be in the world that renders his apparent excesses into the positive behaviors necessary to effect reform and social change. Considering the rudimentary understandings of Buddhism that reached Spain amid the late-nineteenth-century Japan craze, Japonisme, then, I interpret León Roch not as a failed model of masculinity, but rather as an alternative within Galdós's broader revision of the Krausist ideal of the "hombre nuevo" in the late 1870s.
Revista Filipina, 2022
En este ensayo examino las impresiones de Filipinas que aparecen en los libros de viajeros españo... more En este ensayo examino las impresiones de Filipinas que aparecen en los libros de viajeros españoles, en castellano y en catalán, que dieron la vuelta al mundo entre el final de la Gran Guerra de 1914 y el comienzo de la Guerra Civil Española, en 1936. La que se considera época dorada del viaje, y del relato de viajes, es también la que inicia el fenómeno de los cruceros de circunnavegación que permiten experimentar en el mismo trayecto de ida y vuelta, lugares como Nueva York y Shanghái, La Habana y Calcuta o Marsella y Manila.
Romance Notes, 2020
In this paper I examine the way in which Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s narrative “Viaje a Macao” in La ... more In this paper I examine the way in which Vicente Blasco Ibáñez’s narrative “Viaje a Macao” in La vuelta al mundo de un novelista functions within the broader vindication of Spanish and Portuguese enterprises in East Asia that is a key subtext of the 1924 travelogue. Throughout the description of his journey around the Pacific, the Spanish novelist invokes the travails of the sixteenth-century Iberian navigators, explorers and missionaries who first discovered the wonders of the Far East to the Western world. Stops in Japan and China occupy the better part of the first two volumes of the three-volume travel book, however for obvious reasons, calls at the ports of Manila and Macau are especially significant, in spite of their brevity. If in the Philippines Blasco witnessed the vestiges of a lost empire, in Macau he observed with certain elation a continued presence as well as a potential for the reassertion of Iberian power in Asia. By retracing the story and the history that are woven together in the author’s the account of his visit to the Portuguese colony, I explore how, from a Republican and cosmopolitan perspective, Macau’s past and present are configured in the text as a representation of Pan-Iberian modernity vis-à-vis the turbulent geopolitical context of the 1920s.
Archivos de la Filmoteca, 2018
De la película que Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dirige con Max André en 1916, titulada La vieille du cin... more De la película que Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dirige con Max André en 1916, titulada La vieille du cinéma, quedan apenas algunas anécdotas recogidas por críticos y biógrafos, y el guion convertido en novela corta. Tampoco existe copia del film que hace Minoru Murata en 1924, Osumi to haha (Osumi y su madre), perdido en la II Guerra Mundial como tantas cintas del primer cine japonés, pero cuyos fotogramas y reseñas permiten identificar como adaptación de la novela La vieja del cinema. Sí se dispone de Natsukashi no kao (Un rostro inolvidable), que Mikio Naruse realiza en 1941, y que puede considerarse un remake del film mudo de Murata, y por tanto una adaptación no reconocida de la obra de Blasco. Un análisis de estas obras en relación con la emotividad y el cine de guerra revela las estrategias que hacen hueco al mensaje antibélico en una industria que se rige progresivamente por la censura y los imperativos de propaganda. La trayectoria de adaptaciones que lleva una historia ambientada en el París de la Gran Guerra al contexto militarista de Japón, permite constatar el alcance de la narrativa de Blasco en ese país antes y después de su visita en 1923.
Revista de Estudios sobre Blasco Ibáñez, 2013
Communication & Society, 2013
Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies, 2014
Asia in the Hispanic World: The Other Orientalism. Eds. Yeon-Soo Kim & Kathleen Davis. Spec. sect... more Asia in the Hispanic World: The Other Orientalism. Eds. Yeon-Soo Kim & Kathleen Davis. Spec. section of Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies.
Studies in Hispanic Cinema, 2008
The study of early Spanish film can be a melancholy enterprise. Most of the film stock from the s... more The study of early Spanish film can be a melancholy enterprise. Most of the film stock from the silent period has disintegrated, and hundreds of original prints have been lost. Roman Gubern is of the opinion that only 10% of all Spanish films made before 1939 remain in viewable ...
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, 2008
Book Chapters by David R . George, Jr
Transnational Philippines: Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish, edited by Ortuño Casanova, Rocío, and Axel Gasquet, U. of Michigan P, 2024
Televising Restoration Spain: History and Fiction in Twenty-First-Century Costume Dramas, 2018
Historia cultural de la Transición. Pensamiento crítico y ficciones en la literatura, cine y televisión., 2019
Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Fin-de-siècle Spanish Literature and Culture., 2016
Historias de la pequeña pantalla: Representaciones históricas en la televisión de la España democrática. , 2009
Juana La Loca: Reinventions of the Mad Queen., 2008
Visualizing Spanish Modernity., 2005
Edited Volumes by David R . George, Jr
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Journal Articles by David R . George, Jr
In this essay, I examine how the set of Japanese decorative items present in Benito Pérez Galdós's La familia de León Roch (1878) elucidates a reformulation of the Krausist model of masculinity embodied by the novel's hero. Focusing on Buddhist imagery in the text, I explore how allusions to the Eastern religion provide a symbolic framework to explore other modes for the liberal hero to be in the world that renders his apparent excesses into the positive behaviors necessary to effect reform and social change. Considering the rudimentary understandings of Buddhism that reached Spain amid the late-nineteenth-century Japan craze, Japonisme, then, I interpret León Roch not as a failed model of masculinity, but rather as an alternative within Galdós's broader revision of the Krausist ideal of the "hombre nuevo" in the late 1870s.
Book Chapters by David R . George, Jr
Edited Volumes by David R . George, Jr
In this essay, I examine how the set of Japanese decorative items present in Benito Pérez Galdós's La familia de León Roch (1878) elucidates a reformulation of the Krausist model of masculinity embodied by the novel's hero. Focusing on Buddhist imagery in the text, I explore how allusions to the Eastern religion provide a symbolic framework to explore other modes for the liberal hero to be in the world that renders his apparent excesses into the positive behaviors necessary to effect reform and social change. Considering the rudimentary understandings of Buddhism that reached Spain amid the late-nineteenth-century Japan craze, Japonisme, then, I interpret León Roch not as a failed model of masculinity, but rather as an alternative within Galdós's broader revision of the Krausist ideal of the "hombre nuevo" in the late 1870s.