Irene Pérez Fernández
Biographic Data
| ID | 3585574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irene Pérez Fernández |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irene Pérez |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernández |
| SIGNATURE | FERNÁNDEZ I P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Francesa y Alemana, University of Oviedo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8910-365X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selina Thompson’s salt
This article places Selina Thompson’s play salt. (2018) within the genealogy of Black British theatre and examines the play as a theatrical example of the neo-slave genre in that it not only revisits the history of British slavery and its enduring legacies but offers, at the same time, strategies of recovery and resistance for contemporary readers. I explore the journey of the playwright and that of her theatrical alter ego, The Woman, as both pe…
Casting Stones with Intent
In the summer of 2020, on the wave of the Black Lives Matter Movement, statues and public monuments became focal points of political struggle, perceived by many as symbolic reminders of pervading western imperial legacies. Yet, the debate over public memorialisation is far from new. Starting from the 2020 BLM protests in Britain and going back to previous campaigns, this article contextualises the toppling, effacing and removal of well-known stat…
Black British love matters
The genre of romance has until fairly recently predominantly depicted white protagonists and presented readers with limited representations of ethnic and racial diversity. This paper provides an overview of the ever-increasing number of Black British authors who are currently addressing this significant gap in the British publishing industry and analyse Bolu Babalola's debut Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold (2020) as a case …
Breaking Historical Silence
The institution of slavery was motivated by the production of wealth and the enrichment of a few over devastating costs of a majority, and justified through a rhetoric of dehumanization that constructed slaves as mere objects of commercial exchange. In this paper I will focus on Joan Anim-Addo’s short story “Daughter and His Housekeeper" (2008) and Andrea Levy’s novel The Long Song (2010) as narratives that disrupt traditional representations of …
From over the Seven Seas the Empire's sons came
The work of Andrea Levy has recurrently explored the historical connections between Britain and the Caribbean, and has contributed to the mapping of black British identities. Six Stories and an Essay (2014) continues this theme. In “Uriah’s War”, the final short story of the collection, Levy pursues her concern with the gaps in historical memory by revisiting the Great War at the significant historical time of the centennial anniversary of the ou…
Embodying "twoness in oneness" in Diana Evans's26a
Diana Evans's debut novel 26a deals with the parallel childhood and subsequent dissimilar adult development of a set of female identical twins. Identical twins problematize the definition of identity and individuality by their superfluity, since being an identical twin is paradoxical, in that that one's body is a signifier of both individuality and twoness or duality. This article investigates the space of individual identity. Focusing on the bod…
À la reconquête de la parole
Produire l'homme
Critique
La naïveté critique
From over the Seven Seas the Empire's sons came
The work of Andrea Levy has recurrently explored the historical connections between Britain and the Caribbean, and has contributed to the mapping of black British identities. Six Stories and an Essay (2014) continues this theme. In “Uriah’s War”, the final short story of the collection, Levy pursues her concern with the gaps in historical memory by revisiting the Great War at the significant historical time of the centennial anniversary of the ou…
Embodying "twoness in oneness" in Diana Evans's26a
Diana Evans's debut novel 26a deals with the parallel childhood and subsequent dissimilar adult development of a set of female identical twins. Identical twins problematize the definition of identity and individuality by their superfluity, since being an identical twin is paradoxical, in that that one's body is a signifier of both individuality and twoness or duality. This article investigates the space of individual identity. Focusing on the bod…
La naïveté critique
Critique
Produire l'homme
À la reconquête de la parole
Embodying "twoness in oneness" in Diana Evans's26a
Diana Evans's debut novel 26a deals with the parallel childhood and subsequent dissimilar adult development of a set of female identical twins. Identical twins problematize the definition of identity and individuality by their superfluity, since being an identical twin is paradoxical, in that that one's body is a signifier of both individuality and twoness or duality. This article investigates the space of individual identity. Focusing on the bod…
Breaking Historical Silence
The institution of slavery was motivated by the production of wealth and the enrichment of a few over devastating costs of a majority, and justified through a rhetoric of dehumanization that constructed slaves as mere objects of commercial exchange. In this paper I will focus on Joan Anim-Addo’s short story “Daughter and His Housekeeper" (2008) and Andrea Levy’s novel The Long Song (2010) as narratives that disrupt traditional representations of …
From over the Seven Seas the Empire's sons came
The work of Andrea Levy has recurrently explored the historical connections between Britain and the Caribbean, and has contributed to the mapping of black British identities. Six Stories and an Essay (2014) continues this theme. In “Uriah’s War”, the final short story of the collection, Levy pursues her concern with the gaps in historical memory by revisiting the Great War at the significant historical time of the centennial anniversary of the ou…
Casting Stones with Intent
In the summer of 2020, on the wave of the Black Lives Matter Movement, statues and public monuments became focal points of political struggle, perceived by many as symbolic reminders of pervading western imperial legacies. Yet, the debate over public memorialisation is far from new. Starting from the 2020 BLM protests in Britain and going back to previous campaigns, this article contextualises the toppling, effacing and removal of well-known stat…
Black British love matters
The genre of romance has until fairly recently predominantly depicted white protagonists and presented readers with limited representations of ethnic and racial diversity. This paper provides an overview of the ever-increasing number of Black British authors who are currently addressing this significant gap in the British publishing industry and analyse Bolu Babalola's debut Love in Colour: Mythical Tales Around the World Retold (2020) as a case …
Selina Thompson’s salt
This article places Selina Thompson’s play salt. (2018) within the genealogy of Black British theatre and examines the play as a theatrical example of the neo-slave genre in that it not only revisits the history of British slavery and its enduring legacies but offers, at the same time, strategies of recovery and resistance for contemporary readers. I explore the journey of the playwright and that of her theatrical alter ego, The Woman, as both pe…
Art (5 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)