Laura Barberán Reinares
Biographic Data
| ID | 109647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Barberán Reinares |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura Barberán |
| FAMILY NAME | Reinares |
| SIGNATURE | REINARES L B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
In the Name of Awareness
Human rights scholar Wendy Kozol has posed a series of challenging questions regarding women's human rights: "How are experiences of suffering represented? By whom? In what venues? And for which audiences?" This article seeks to address Kozol's inquiry regarding representations of sexual violence and context by considering the Comfort Women Wanted installation at the Museum of Sex in New York City. The curators of this exhibit, partly sponsored b…
Writing Unspeakable Things: Speechlessness, Abjection, and the Ethics/Aesthetics of (Not) Representing Sexual Violence in Three Korean American "Comfort Women" Novels
This article analyzes "comfort women" novels by the Korean American authors Therese Park, Nora Okja Keller, and Chang-rae Lee in terms of the ethics and aesthetics of representing sexual violence through language. I specifically look at these authors' stylistic strategies to describe rape in writing and how they (more or less successfully) avoid voyeuristic portrayals of the "comfort women" by controlling the narrative point of view and relying o…
On writing transnational migration in On Black Sisters' Street (2009) and Better Never Than Late (2019): An interview with Chika Unigwe
This interview with Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe, conducted in early 2020, addresses the ethics and aesthetics of representing sex trafficking and transnational migration in her award-winning novel On Black Sisters’ Street (2009) and her latest short story collection Better Never Than Late, which appeared in the US in 2020. The author discusses the discourse on migration and trafficking in both works, bringing much-needed nuance to the conversati…
Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño
At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained interdisciplinary study bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and sex trafficking, as analyzed through literary theory, anthropology, sociology…
On writing transnational migration in On Black Sisters' Street (2009) and Better Never Than Late (2019): An interview with Chika Unigwe
This interview with Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe, conducted in early 2020, addresses the ethics and aesthetics of representing sex trafficking and transnational migration in her award-winning novel On Black Sisters’ Street (2009) and her latest short story collection Better Never Than Late, which appeared in the US in 2020. The author discusses the discourse on migration and trafficking in both works, bringing much-needed nuance to the conversati…
Writing Unspeakable Things: Speechlessness, Abjection, and the Ethics/Aesthetics of (Not) Representing Sexual Violence in Three Korean American "Comfort Women" Novels
This article analyzes "comfort women" novels by the Korean American authors Therese Park, Nora Okja Keller, and Chang-rae Lee in terms of the ethics and aesthetics of representing sexual violence through language. I specifically look at these authors' stylistic strategies to describe rape in writing and how they (more or less successfully) avoid voyeuristic portrayals of the "comfort women" by controlling the narrative point of view and relying o…
Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño
At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained interdisciplinary study bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and sex trafficking, as analyzed through literary theory, anthropology, sociology…
On writing transnational migration in On Black Sisters' Street (2009) and Better Never Than Late (2019): An interview with Chika Unigwe
This interview with Nigerian writer Chika Unigwe, conducted in early 2020, addresses the ethics and aesthetics of representing sex trafficking and transnational migration in her award-winning novel On Black Sisters’ Street (2009) and her latest short story collection Better Never Than Late, which appeared in the US in 2020. The author discusses the discourse on migration and trafficking in both works, bringing much-needed nuance to the conversati…
Writing Unspeakable Things: Speechlessness, Abjection, and the Ethics/Aesthetics of (Not) Representing Sexual Violence in Three Korean American "Comfort Women" Novels
This article analyzes "comfort women" novels by the Korean American authors Therese Park, Nora Okja Keller, and Chang-rae Lee in terms of the ethics and aesthetics of representing sexual violence through language. I specifically look at these authors' stylistic strategies to describe rape in writing and how they (more or less successfully) avoid voyeuristic portrayals of the "comfort women" by controlling the narrative point of view and relying o…
In the Name of Awareness
Human rights scholar Wendy Kozol has posed a series of challenging questions regarding women's human rights: "How are experiences of suffering represented? By whom? In what venues? And for which audiences?" This article seeks to address Kozol's inquiry regarding representations of sexual violence and context by considering the Comfort Women Wanted installation at the Museum of Sex in New York City. The curators of this exhibit, partly sponsored b…
Sociology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · 20th century (1 works) · 21st century (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works)