María Laura Arce Álvarez
Biographic Data
| ID | 1247354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Laura Arce Álvarez |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Laura Arce |
| FAMILY NAME | Álvarez |
| SIGNATURE | ÁLVAREZ M L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2576-0295 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Queer Narrative Discourse and the Ungendered Narrator in Sara Taylor’s The Lauras
Queer Narrative Discourse and the Ungendered Narrator in Sara Taylor's The Lauras María Laura Arce Álvarez (bio) Introduction In her essay "Queering Narrative Voice" Susan Lanser proposed a new perspective on feminist narratology by analyzing "the binary of gender" in "the writerly and readerly engagement with narrative voice" (924–5). This proposal builds on earlier studies of homodiegetic ungendered narrators, as in her analysis of Jeannette Wi…
Revisiting Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar as a feminist response to McCarthyism
The present article introduces a feminist and political analysis of Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, considering it a cultural response to McCarthyism. In order to do that, the article focuses on the importance Plath gives to the Rosenberg’s case in the novel and particularly in the relevance Ethel Rosenberg’s death sentence had to awaken a female consciousness for the women of the 1950s in America. The female body turns fundamental for a femin…
Bodily Matters
The aim of this article is to analyze Angie Cruz’s novel Dominicana from a multicultural and gender perspective focusing on how Cruz introduces the female body as a metaphor for the immigrant experience lived by Dominican Women during the 1960s in the United States. Also, this paper studies how the female body becomes a metaphorical border in the diasporic experience for the central character as a way to depict an essentially female in-between-sp…
Growing up Queer
The aim of this study is to analyse how Carla Trujillo discusses Chicana lesbian identity in her novel What Night Brings (2003) through the eyes of an eleven year- old Chicana girl. Trujillo questions gender boundaries and sexual identity in a patriarchal Chicano cultural context characterized by violence and homophobia. The protagonist, Marcia Cruz, takes the reader on a journey of sexual awakening in which the body becomes fundamental to the ex…
The Native American dream in Sherman Alexie's short story “One Good Man”
The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea of an Indian identity and the Native American Dream in Sherman Alexie’s short story “One Good Man.” In this story, Alexie introduces the idea of the Indian constructed by the White Americans and attempts through his characters to redefine that concept by deconstructing all the different stereotypes created by the White American society. In order to do this, he also introduces the idea of the Amer…
Translation as influence
The intention of this article is to analyse the intertextual influence between the American writer Lydia Davis and the French philosopher and critic Maurice Blanchot. This literary dialogue occurs as a result of Davis’ experience translating Blanchot’s most relevant critical and fictional texts. Davis’ role as a translator influenced her short fiction in which she discusses the limits of the literary space and therefore constantly challenges the …
Paul Auster’s Oracle Night
This article analyses Paul Auster’s novel Oracle Night as the fictionalization of the creation of a literary space. Focusing on the figure of the writer and the creative act, the novel structures in a succession of different fictional layers that overlap and reflect on each other. In this sense, the novel becomes a novel within different short fictions that illustrate the process of writing. The construction of a literary space is compared to Mau…
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Paul Auster’s Oracle Night
This article analyses Paul Auster’s novel Oracle Night as the fictionalization of the creation of a literary space. Focusing on the figure of the writer and the creative act, the novel structures in a succession of different fictional layers that overlap and reflect on each other. In this sense, the novel becomes a novel within different short fictions that illustrate the process of writing. The construction of a literary space is compared to Mau…
Translation as influence
The intention of this article is to analyse the intertextual influence between the American writer Lydia Davis and the French philosopher and critic Maurice Blanchot. This literary dialogue occurs as a result of Davis’ experience translating Blanchot’s most relevant critical and fictional texts. Davis’ role as a translator influenced her short fiction in which she discusses the limits of the literary space and therefore constantly challenges the …
The Native American dream in Sherman Alexie's short story “One Good Man”
The purpose of this article is to discuss the idea of an Indian identity and the Native American Dream in Sherman Alexie’s short story “One Good Man.” In this story, Alexie introduces the idea of the Indian constructed by the White Americans and attempts through his characters to redefine that concept by deconstructing all the different stereotypes created by the White American society. In order to do this, he also introduces the idea of the Amer…
Growing up Queer
The aim of this study is to analyse how Carla Trujillo discusses Chicana lesbian identity in her novel What Night Brings (2003) through the eyes of an eleven year- old Chicana girl. Trujillo questions gender boundaries and sexual identity in a patriarchal Chicano cultural context characterized by violence and homophobia. The protagonist, Marcia Cruz, takes the reader on a journey of sexual awakening in which the body becomes fundamental to the ex…
Bodily Matters
The aim of this article is to analyze Angie Cruz’s novel Dominicana from a multicultural and gender perspective focusing on how Cruz introduces the female body as a metaphor for the immigrant experience lived by Dominican Women during the 1960s in the United States. Also, this paper studies how the female body becomes a metaphorical border in the diasporic experience for the central character as a way to depict an essentially female in-between-sp…
Queer Narrative Discourse and the Ungendered Narrator in Sara Taylor’s The Lauras
Queer Narrative Discourse and the Ungendered Narrator in Sara Taylor's The Lauras María Laura Arce Álvarez (bio) Introduction In her essay "Queering Narrative Voice" Susan Lanser proposed a new perspective on feminist narratology by analyzing "the binary of gender" in "the writerly and readerly engagement with narrative voice" (924–5). This proposal builds on earlier studies of homodiegetic ungendered narrators, as in her analysis of Jeannette Wi…
Revisiting Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar as a feminist response to McCarthyism
The present article introduces a feminist and political analysis of Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar, considering it a cultural response to McCarthyism. In order to do that, the article focuses on the importance Plath gives to the Rosenberg’s case in the novel and particularly in the relevance Ethel Rosenberg’s death sentence had to awaken a female consciousness for the women of the 1950s in America. The female body turns fundamental for a femin…
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