Roxanna Curto
Biographic Data
| ID | 1369728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roxanna Curto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roxanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Curto |
| SIGNATURE | CURTO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Édouard Glissant’s Relation and Chaos-Monde in the Era of Covid
Édouard Glissant’s death precedes the Covid crisis by about a decade. Nevertheless, his description of global communities as highly interconnected and chaotic is eerily prescient in its portrayal of a world highly susceptible to a pandemic, and the concepts that he develops are effective in elucidating the cultural impact of such a crisis. This essay seeks to utilize ideas from the philosophy of Glissant to examine the Covid crisis, focusing on t…
De son sol et de son climat
This essay considers Barthes’ notion of a national sport as an activity that emerges naturally from a country’s soil and climate, as explored in his essay from Mythologies, “Le Tour de France comme épopée” (1957) and voiceover narrative to the film, Le Sport et les hommes (1961). In these texts, Barthes explores how certain sports are born from an organic relationship between peoples and landscapes, before becoming codified into a cultural practi…
Negritude Revived
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
Algerian Sketches by Pierre Bourdieu
Reviewed by: Algerian Sketches by Pierre Bourdieu Roxanna Curto Algerian Sketches. By Pierre Bourdieu. Edited by Tassadit Yacine and translated by David Fernbach. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2013. vi + 390 pp. Pierre Bourdieu is undoubtedly one of the most influential theorists and sociologists of our era. His notions of habitus, capital, and field—among others—have exerted such a tremendous influence on the humanities and social sciences that t…
Narrating via Fragments
This paper examines the narrative strategy that Patrick Modiano pursues in Dora Bruder (Paris: Gallimard, 1997) to find a solution to the dilemma of how to narrate the Holocaust without giving it meaning, mainly storytelling via fragments. Using Roman Jakobson and David Lodge's distinctions between “metonymic” and “metaphoric” discourse as a theoretical framework, I show how the predominance of a fragmentary, “metonymic” style in Dora Bruder on m…
Aimé Césaire and Enrique Buenaventura
This essay offers an initial exploration of connections between Césaire and Spanish-speaking authors and literary movements, including the vibrant culture of public performance that developed in Latin America in the 1960s, by exploring the largely unexamined influence on him of the Colombian director and playwright Enrique Buenaventura. First, I demonstrate how both Césaire and Buenaventura express their theatrical objectives in essays and interv…
The Science of Illusion-making in Aimé Césaire's La tragédie du roi Christophe and Une tempête
This essay considers Césaire’s theater from the point of view of performance, by focusing on two works from his trilogy on decolonization: La tragédie du roi Christophe and Une tempête. The ability to create illusions, including the scientific knowledge necessary to do so, is portrayed as a European instrument, which can be used either negatively, to deceive the characters with the objective of exploiting them, or positively, as a means of raisin…
Tech Transfer, Modernization, and Independence in Bhêly-Quénum and Loba
Signs of Dissent
Reviewed by: Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism Roxanna Curto (bio) Fulton, Dawn. Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2008. In the past few years, there has been an enormous surge in literary criticism on Maryse Condé. Condé's stark refusal to assume rigid categories of identity, such as female, postcolonial and black/African writer, has made the study of her work a f…
The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures
Reviewed by: The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures Roxanna Curto (bio) Frindéthié, K. Martial . The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. 2008. In The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures, K. Martial Frindéthié traces the origins and development of a mythology of blackness, which he calls "g…
The Science of Illusion-making in Aimé Césaire's La tragédie du roi Christophe and Une tempête
This essay considers Césaire’s theater from the point of view of performance, by focusing on two works from his trilogy on decolonization: La tragédie du roi Christophe and Une tempête. The ability to create illusions, including the scientific knowledge necessary to do so, is portrayed as a European instrument, which can be used either negatively, to deceive the characters with the objective of exploiting them, or positively, as a means of raisin…
Tech Transfer, Modernization, and Independence in Bhêly-Quénum and Loba
Signs of Dissent
Reviewed by: Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism Roxanna Curto (bio) Fulton, Dawn. Signs of Dissent: Maryse Condé and Postcolonial Criticism. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2008. In the past few years, there has been an enormous surge in literary criticism on Maryse Condé. Condé's stark refusal to assume rigid categories of identity, such as female, postcolonial and black/African writer, has made the study of her work a f…
The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures
Reviewed by: The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures Roxanna Curto (bio) Frindéthié, K. Martial . The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. 2008. In The Black Renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures, K. Martial Frindéthié traces the origins and development of a mythology of blackness, which he calls "g…
The Science of Illusion-making in Aimé Césaire's La tragédie du roi Christophe and Une tempête
This essay considers Césaire’s theater from the point of view of performance, by focusing on two works from his trilogy on decolonization: La tragédie du roi Christophe and Une tempête. The ability to create illusions, including the scientific knowledge necessary to do so, is portrayed as a European instrument, which can be used either negatively, to deceive the characters with the objective of exploiting them, or positively, as a means of raisin…
Aimé Césaire and Enrique Buenaventura
This essay offers an initial exploration of connections between Césaire and Spanish-speaking authors and literary movements, including the vibrant culture of public performance that developed in Latin America in the 1960s, by exploring the largely unexamined influence on him of the Colombian director and playwright Enrique Buenaventura. First, I demonstrate how both Césaire and Buenaventura express their theatrical objectives in essays and interv…
Narrating via Fragments
This paper examines the narrative strategy that Patrick Modiano pursues in Dora Bruder (Paris: Gallimard, 1997) to find a solution to the dilemma of how to narrate the Holocaust without giving it meaning, mainly storytelling via fragments. Using Roman Jakobson and David Lodge's distinctions between “metonymic” and “metaphoric” discourse as a theoretical framework, I show how the predominance of a fragmentary, “metonymic” style in Dora Bruder on m…
Algerian Sketches by Pierre Bourdieu
Reviewed by: Algerian Sketches by Pierre Bourdieu Roxanna Curto Algerian Sketches. By Pierre Bourdieu. Edited by Tassadit Yacine and translated by David Fernbach. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2013. vi + 390 pp. Pierre Bourdieu is undoubtedly one of the most influential theorists and sociologists of our era. His notions of habitus, capital, and field—among others—have exerted such a tremendous influence on the humanities and social sciences that t…
Negritude Revived
Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…
De son sol et de son climat
This essay considers Barthes’ notion of a national sport as an activity that emerges naturally from a country’s soil and climate, as explored in his essay from Mythologies, “Le Tour de France comme épopée” (1957) and voiceover narrative to the film, Le Sport et les hommes (1961). In these texts, Barthes explores how certain sports are born from an organic relationship between peoples and landscapes, before becoming codified into a cultural practi…
Édouard Glissant’s Relation and Chaos-Monde in the Era of Covid
Édouard Glissant’s death precedes the Covid crisis by about a decade. Nevertheless, his description of global communities as highly interconnected and chaotic is eerily prescient in its portrayal of a world highly susceptible to a pandemic, and the concepts that he develops are effective in elucidating the cultural impact of such a crisis. This essay seeks to utilize ideas from the philosophy of Glissant to examine the Covid crisis, focusing on t…
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