Lourdes López-Ropero
Biographic Data
| ID | 240265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lourdes López-Ropero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lourdes |
| FAMILY NAME | López-Ropero |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ-ROPERO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alicante |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3375-5664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Two London fires and a critique of grievability
Although as a response to the New Cross and Grenfell Tower fires Jay Bernard’s collection Surge (2019) engages with the themes of loss and mourning, no critical attempt has been made to approach this complex sequence of poems from the perspective of the poetic elegy. This paper argues that reading Surge as a neo-elegy sheds light on Bernard’s intervention in current discourses on the grievability of Black lives in order to carry out their work of…
A Curator in the House of Memory
Aminatta Forna’s novel The Hired Man, on post-war Croatia, attests to the author's continued interest in transitional, post-conflict societies where mass atrocity and human rights violations such as forced disappearance and ethnic cleansing have taken place. Drawing on the conceptual framework of transitional justice and memory studies, this paper argues that the novel deepens and extends the concerns of post-conflict fiction in two main ways. Fi…
Remembering Jonestown through the camp and the postcolony
This article explores the contribution of Fred D’Aguiar’s 2014 novel Children of Paradise to the conflicted memorialization of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy, where over 900 American citizens lost their lives in the Amazonian interior of Guyana. It argues that in his fictional revisitation of the massacre, D’Aguiar explores Jonestown as a multidirectional site of memory. By placing the tragedy in a historical and conceptual continuum that encompasses…
Multiculturalism in a selection of English and Spanish fiction and artworks
Discourses of cultural pluralism in literature, cinema and art today prove that inter-ethnic relations in Europe are moving towards, and in some spaces have already achieved, a spontaneous conviviality, in spite of the presence of racism and social injustice. Though the focus will be on the long-standing British multicultural experience, attention will also be paid to the case of Spain, a much younger country of migration. The specific histories …
Remembering Jonestown through the camp and the postcolony
This article explores the contribution of Fred D’Aguiar’s 2014 novel Children of Paradise to the conflicted memorialization of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy, where over 900 American citizens lost their lives in the Amazonian interior of Guyana. It argues that in his fictional revisitation of the massacre, D’Aguiar explores Jonestown as a multidirectional site of memory. By placing the tragedy in a historical and conceptual continuum that encompasses…
Multiculturalism in a selection of English and Spanish fiction and artworks
Discourses of cultural pluralism in literature, cinema and art today prove that inter-ethnic relations in Europe are moving towards, and in some spaces have already achieved, a spontaneous conviviality, in spite of the presence of racism and social injustice. Though the focus will be on the long-standing British multicultural experience, attention will also be paid to the case of Spain, a much younger country of migration. The specific histories …
Remembering Jonestown through the camp and the postcolony
This article explores the contribution of Fred D’Aguiar’s 2014 novel Children of Paradise to the conflicted memorialization of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy, where over 900 American citizens lost their lives in the Amazonian interior of Guyana. It argues that in his fictional revisitation of the massacre, D’Aguiar explores Jonestown as a multidirectional site of memory. By placing the tragedy in a historical and conceptual continuum that encompasses…
A Curator in the House of Memory
Aminatta Forna’s novel The Hired Man, on post-war Croatia, attests to the author's continued interest in transitional, post-conflict societies where mass atrocity and human rights violations such as forced disappearance and ethnic cleansing have taken place. Drawing on the conceptual framework of transitional justice and memory studies, this paper argues that the novel deepens and extends the concerns of post-conflict fiction in two main ways. Fi…
Two London fires and a critique of grievability
Although as a response to the New Cross and Grenfell Tower fires Jay Bernard’s collection Surge (2019) engages with the themes of loss and mourning, no critical attempt has been made to approach this complex sequence of poems from the perspective of the poetic elegy. This paper argues that reading Surge as a neo-elegy sheds light on Bernard’s intervention in current discourses on the grievability of Black lives in order to carry out their work of…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Injustice (2 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Allegory (1 work)