Books by Ana María Fraile-Marcos
Glocal Narratives of Resilience, 2020
Resilience discourse has recently become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social... 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
The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland along... 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, ... 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
Este libro contribuye al debate sobre la figura y relevancia de la obra de Zora Neale Hurston, in... 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
Papers by Ana María Fraile-Marcos
National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises, 2021
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Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies , 2022
ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 2020
This article heeds the recent shift in cultural criticism and creative writing toward imagining "... 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.
espanolLangston Hughes, el poeta laureado del Renacimiento de Harlem, viajo a Espana como reporte... 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...
Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, 2012
Michael Helm’s recent novel Cities of Refuge (2010) offers a gallery of physically displaced peop... 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...
Canada and Beyond 10, 2021
Coinciding with its 10th anniversary, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultu... 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.
Ethics and Affects in the Fiction of Alice Munro, 2018
Even though structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to literature have largely shunned mor... more Even though structuralist and poststructuralist approaches to literature have largely shunned moral issues as a concern, the current turn to ethics proves "the resilience of ethical questions in literary criticism and theory." 1 The urge to justify the existence of the Humanities as a field of study in the neoliberal terms of economic and social profit 2 may well have contributed to this resiliency, as the function of the arts and of literature in particular, can be explained in terms of the ethical values they may stir. Marlene Goldman views the shift to ethics as one away from deconstruction's concern with the provisional to a revived interest in the values of
Family Reflections the Contemporary American Family in the Arts 2007 Isbn 978 84 8138 711 7 Pags 255 274, 2007
Canada Exposed Le Canada a Decouvert 2009 Isbn 9789052015484 Pags 177 194, 2009
Amor y Erotismo en la Literatura: Congreso …, 1999
... Amor y erotismo en "El color púrpura". Autores: Ana María Fraile Marcos; Localizaci... 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. ...
La globalización: un estudio …, 2003
... Elizabeth Núñez¿s appraisal of globalization in beyond the limbo silence. Autores: Ana MaríaF... 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. ...
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Books by Ana María Fraile-Marcos
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.
Papers by Ana María Fraile-Marcos
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.
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.
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.
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...
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)
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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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.
Recognition and Recovery of Caribbean Canadian Cultural Production. Guest Editors: Michael A. Bucknor and Cornel Bogle.
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: [email protected] and
[email protected] 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.
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.