Marta Fernández-Morales
Biographic Data
| ID | 154282 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marta Fernández-Morales |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marta |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernández-Morales |
| SIGNATURE | FERNÁNDEZ-MORALES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Oviedo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9116-3950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Let's sharpen the blades
During the spring of 2020, literary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were quick to appear. Poetry, essays and diaries proliferated, and collective initiatives sprang up, with authors delving into a crisis that was national as well as global; political as well as health-based. In their lockdown works, US-based authors tackled their experience in the context of the country, chronicling the virus alongside inequality, racism and environmental chal…
Dama contra peón
La miniserie Gambito de dama, protagonizada por una ajedrecista huérfana, con problemas emocionales y dependencia de los fármacos y el alcohol, fue la ficción más vista en la historia de la plataforma Netflix en 2020. En este artículo se realiza un análisis feminista de ella mediante un enfoque interpretativo y una metodología cualitativa, con el objetivo de dilucidar hasta qué punto la serie rompe con el paradigma mainstream de representación fe…
Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir
The life-writing genre, and more specifically the memoir subgenre, are fertile ground for survivors of sexual violence wanting to share their plight and/or to raise awareness about rape. Chanel Miller is an Asian American artist educated in California. In 2015 she attended a Stanford campus party and was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a White undergraduate student and athlete. Four years later, she wrote a memoir about her experience entitle…
The Question Is When
In 2010, Amy Boesky published What We Have, a memoir about her family's experience with cancer. With it at its core and other works by the same author as secondary sources, this paper explores the link between fear, time and risk in Boesky's writing. Through a close reading supported by theories about illness narratives, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, and affects, it demonstrates that Boesky's fear conditions the ways in which she manages …
‘A girl is Arya Stark from Winterfell’
Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a classic for the analysis of the archetypal hero’s journey, and contemporary TV series use his monomyth to elaborate character profiles. Such is the case of the corpus of our work: Game of Thrones , the TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s saga A Song of Ice and Fire. Amid the multiple relevant figures in Game of Thrones , this article takes Arya Stark as the object of study to discuss questi…
Breast cancer photography and the turn-of-the-century studium . Two case studies to illustrate a paradigm shift
In 1993, The New York Times Magazine published a story entitled ‘The anguished politics of breast cancer.’ The image on the cover was a self-portrait of artist and model Matuschka showing the physical consequences of a radical mastectomy. The picture elicited heated reactions, and the protagonist became an icon of the Women's Health Movement. Twelve years later, another model and photographer, Lynn Kohlman, published Front to back, which included…
The personal and the political in twenty-first-century America
With a focus on the twenty-first-century United States, this article explores two narratives of sexual violence written by White women: Rape New York by Jana Leo (2009) and Joanna Connors’ I Will Find You (2016). In order to discuss them in relation to the topic proposed, the following research questions are posed: (1) What is the aim of the text? (2) Which methods of composition and narrative are used to achieve that aim? (3) Does the text manif…
Postmillennial cancer narratives
In the context of a new wave of women's activism for equality, the body is once again at the centre of the discussion today, in the USA and globally. Analysing American discourses about health and illness at the turn of the twenty-first century, Tasha Dubriwny has argued that the current narratives are dominated by neoliberal and postfeminist philosophies that have thrived in a framework of biomedicalisation and self-surveillance. What happens, t…
When in Rome, Use What You’ve Got”
Drawing on the work of Lois McNay as a feminist extender of Foucault’s ideas about power and the possibility of resistance, this article offers a discussion of her theories of female agency as transferred onto Jenji Kohan’s TV adaptation of Piper Kerman’s prison autobiographical narrative Orange Is the New Black (2010). Situated within feminist epistemology, our approach is interdisciplinary, and we argue that the series is an instance of McNay’s…
Illness, Genre, and Gender in Contemporary Television Fiction
When in Rome, Use What You’ve Got”
Drawing on the work of Lois McNay as a feminist extender of Foucault’s ideas about power and the possibility of resistance, this article offers a discussion of her theories of female agency as transferred onto Jenji Kohan’s TV adaptation of Piper Kerman’s prison autobiographical narrative Orange Is the New Black (2010). Situated within feminist epistemology, our approach is interdisciplinary, and we argue that the series is an instance of McNay’s…
The personal and the political in twenty-first-century America
With a focus on the twenty-first-century United States, this article explores two narratives of sexual violence written by White women: Rape New York by Jana Leo (2009) and Joanna Connors’ I Will Find You (2016). In order to discuss them in relation to the topic proposed, the following research questions are posed: (1) What is the aim of the text? (2) Which methods of composition and narrative are used to achieve that aim? (3) Does the text manif…
Postmillennial cancer narratives
In the context of a new wave of women's activism for equality, the body is once again at the centre of the discussion today, in the USA and globally. Analysing American discourses about health and illness at the turn of the twenty-first century, Tasha Dubriwny has argued that the current narratives are dominated by neoliberal and postfeminist philosophies that have thrived in a framework of biomedicalisation and self-surveillance. What happens, t…
Illness, Genre, and Gender in Contemporary Television Fiction
When in Rome, Use What You’ve Got”
Drawing on the work of Lois McNay as a feminist extender of Foucault’s ideas about power and the possibility of resistance, this article offers a discussion of her theories of female agency as transferred onto Jenji Kohan’s TV adaptation of Piper Kerman’s prison autobiographical narrative Orange Is the New Black (2010). Situated within feminist epistemology, our approach is interdisciplinary, and we argue that the series is an instance of McNay’s…
Postmillennial cancer narratives
In the context of a new wave of women's activism for equality, the body is once again at the centre of the discussion today, in the USA and globally. Analysing American discourses about health and illness at the turn of the twenty-first century, Tasha Dubriwny has argued that the current narratives are dominated by neoliberal and postfeminist philosophies that have thrived in a framework of biomedicalisation and self-surveillance. What happens, t…
‘A girl is Arya Stark from Winterfell’
Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces is a classic for the analysis of the archetypal hero’s journey, and contemporary TV series use his monomyth to elaborate character profiles. Such is the case of the corpus of our work: Game of Thrones , the TV adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s saga A Song of Ice and Fire. Amid the multiple relevant figures in Game of Thrones , this article takes Arya Stark as the object of study to discuss questi…
Breast cancer photography and the turn-of-the-century studium . Two case studies to illustrate a paradigm shift
In 1993, The New York Times Magazine published a story entitled ‘The anguished politics of breast cancer.’ The image on the cover was a self-portrait of artist and model Matuschka showing the physical consequences of a radical mastectomy. The picture elicited heated reactions, and the protagonist became an icon of the Women's Health Movement. Twelve years later, another model and photographer, Lynn Kohlman, published Front to back, which included…
The personal and the political in twenty-first-century America
With a focus on the twenty-first-century United States, this article explores two narratives of sexual violence written by White women: Rape New York by Jana Leo (2009) and Joanna Connors’ I Will Find You (2016). In order to discuss them in relation to the topic proposed, the following research questions are posed: (1) What is the aim of the text? (2) Which methods of composition and narrative are used to achieve that aim? (3) Does the text manif…
Dama contra peón
La miniserie Gambito de dama, protagonizada por una ajedrecista huérfana, con problemas emocionales y dependencia de los fármacos y el alcohol, fue la ficción más vista en la historia de la plataforma Netflix en 2020. En este artículo se realiza un análisis feminista de ella mediante un enfoque interpretativo y una metodología cualitativa, con el objetivo de dilucidar hasta qué punto la serie rompe con el paradigma mainstream de representación fe…
Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir
The life-writing genre, and more specifically the memoir subgenre, are fertile ground for survivors of sexual violence wanting to share their plight and/or to raise awareness about rape. Chanel Miller is an Asian American artist educated in California. In 2015 she attended a Stanford campus party and was sexually assaulted by Brock Turner, a White undergraduate student and athlete. Four years later, she wrote a memoir about her experience entitle…
The Question Is When
In 2010, Amy Boesky published What We Have, a memoir about her family's experience with cancer. With it at its core and other works by the same author as secondary sources, this paper explores the link between fear, time and risk in Boesky's writing. Through a close reading supported by theories about illness narratives, hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, and affects, it demonstrates that Boesky's fear conditions the ways in which she manages …
Let's sharpen the blades
During the spring of 2020, literary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were quick to appear. Poetry, essays and diaries proliferated, and collective initiatives sprang up, with authors delving into a crisis that was national as well as global; political as well as health-based. In their lockdown works, US-based authors tackled their experience in the context of the country, chronicling the virus alongside inequality, racism and environmental chal…
Art (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art history (5 works)