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Department of Foreign Languages College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences [CLASS] Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA, USA Issue 1 March 2007 Editor's Introduction
The first issue of The Coastal Review is here! Jorge W. Suazo, Georgia Southern University
Federico Vidal, el espíritu ecuánime en Los vencidos de Antonio Ferres Louis Bourne, Georgia College & State University
Abstract
Antonio Ferres (Madrid, 1924), Spanish novelist who began publishing in the 1950s in the period of what has been called “social realism,” wrote Los vencidos in 1960 during a shorter period of about four years referred to as “critical realism,” but the novel was forbidden by the censor during the Franco dictatorship, came out in Italian in 1962 and in Spanish in France in 1965. Unjustly deprived of a general Spanish public until 2005, it tells the story of Asunción who searches for her husband only to find he was put to death by Spanish nationalists, Federico Vidal, an imprisoned doctor friend of the husband, who never loses faith that victors and vanquished will one day be reconciled, and Miguel, a fascist prison official who begins to learn, by Federico’s example, the emptiness of victory.
Adrienne M. Angelo, Auburn University
Abstract
This article compares Catherine Millet’s La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (2001) to another work of erotic “fiction:” Pauline Réage’s Histoire d’O (1954). The scandal surrounding the publication of both works focused on the taboo subject of sexuality, and more significantly, on the role of the female author in writing such a graphic work. While Réage’s fictional account of one woman’s sexual experiences is told through a third-person narrator, Millet describes her own experiences in the first-person. However, the continual multiplication of this first-person narrator complicates a reading of her work that would presuppose that one is reading an autobiographical account. Instead, this contemporary work of “erotobiography” foregrounds woman’s quest for identity tied to sexuality.
L’Appel des arènes: A Postcolonial Development of the Buildungsroman Médoune Guèye, Virginia Tech
Abstract
Despite the fact that many critics consider the Buildungsroman obsolete, the genre is still alive. Many African writers have revised the classical Buildungsroman in order to underscore the conflict of cultures and the complex subjectivities of their characters. By analyzing the discourse on identity in L’Appel des arènes, we understand how Aminata Sow Fall recreates the modalities of enunciation found in African traditional literature while structuring L’Appel des arènes with generic patterns from the Buildungsroman.
El determinismo en Historia de una escalera by Antonio Buero-Vallejo Victor Duran, University of South Carolina Aiken
Abstract
This paper attempts to identify the deterministic traits that are found in Historia de una escalera that Buero-Vallejo masterfully utilizes to suggest that the play is indeed anti-deterministic. The paper identifies and describes salient characteristics of Emile Zola’s (1840-1902) scientific determinism and demonstrates how these characteristics underpin the drama to emphasize the playwright’s theme postulated in Historia de una escalera, that is, life in general is not governed by scientific determinism.
Being Ghetto: The Hara as Heterotopia in Judeo-Tunisian Literature Debbie Barnard, Tennessee Tech University
Abstract
The Hara, or ghetto, is a place that distinguishes its inhabitants from other religious and cultural groups, acting as a spatial indicator of their difference. When Foucault’s theory of heterotopia is applied, the Hara becomes a hybrid, a place simultaneously of crisis and of deviation. In Albert Memmi’s La statue de sel, the protagonist experiences the Hara as antagonistic, or as a dystopia. In Nine Moati’s Les belles de Tunis, the protagonist experiences the Hara as a utopia.
Gegenwartsliteratur aus Südtirol – Trends und Entwicklungen (1990-2005) Siegrun Wildner, University of Northern Iowa
Abstract
This article is a comprehensive analysis of representative contemporary literature (1990-2005) published by German-speaking minority writers from the northern Italian province of South Tyrol / Alto Adige. It is argued that although the selected works reflect many differing literary genres, themes, and styles, some of the texts converge on one major element: the artistic reaction to the region’s multilingual and multiethnic environment.
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