Mar Gallego
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mar Gallego |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mar |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallego |
| SIGNATURE | GALLEGO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Huelva |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5518-7667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reconstructing a Matriarchal Kingdom
Namina Forna’s debut novel The Gilded Ones (2021) has been widely acclaimed as a dystopian novel where the author creates an imaginary ancestral world in which young girls who are considered “impure” by the sanctioned social precepts of the time are severely punished and even killed. The only option left for these girls is to join an army of Alaki (impure women) in order to defend the ancient kingdom of Otera from the attack of brutal deathshriek…
Sexuality and Healing in the African Diaspora
This article examines the literary production of two writers from the African diaspora, specifically African American Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008), and Ghanaian-American Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016), to explore their significance as counter-narratives that defy the “official” historiography of enslavement times in order to set the records straight, as it were. By highlighting these women writers’ project of resistance against normative definiti…
Race, Interdependence and Healing in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
In Toni Morrison’s works, traumatized characters are victimized by the damaging, racist dominant ideology that still codifies black bodies as the non-human “Other” due to the long-lasting effects of slavery and diasporic dispersal. These individual and collective traumas seemingly hinder their articulation of healthy forms of subject formation and community-building efforts. My contention is that in God Help the Child (2015) Morrison explores the…
Cultures of healing’
Concepts of healing and spirituality have remained crucial to generating agency and empowerment for both black women and black men, especially in their diasporic displacement from Africa to the US. Healing has been consistently deployed to fight against the systemic racism and sexism that has pervaded and continues to persist in the lives of African diasporic subjects. Placing the discussion of healing within the current debates about interdepend…
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and lite…
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem Renaissance. Mar Gallego effectively uncovers the presence of a subversive component in five of these novels (by James Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Fauset), turning them into useful tools to explore the passing phenomenon in all its richness and complexity. He…
Cultures of healing’
Concepts of healing and spirituality have remained crucial to generating agency and empowerment for both black women and black men, especially in their diasporic displacement from Africa to the US. Healing has been consistently deployed to fight against the systemic racism and sexism that has pervaded and continues to persist in the lives of African diasporic subjects. Placing the discussion of healing within the current debates about interdepend…
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance
Passing Novels in the Harlem Renaissance offers an insightful study of the significance of passing novels for the literary and intellectual debate of the Harlem Renaissance. Mar Gallego effectively uncovers the presence of a subversive component in five of these novels (by James Weldon Johnson, George Schuyler, Nella Larsen, and Jessie Fauset), turning them into useful tools to explore the passing phenomenon in all its richness and complexity. He…
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and lite…
Sexuality and Healing in the African Diaspora
This article examines the literary production of two writers from the African diaspora, specifically African American Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008), and Ghanaian-American Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016), to explore their significance as counter-narratives that defy the “official” historiography of enslavement times in order to set the records straight, as it were. By highlighting these women writers’ project of resistance against normative definiti…
Race, Interdependence and Healing in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child
In Toni Morrison’s works, traumatized characters are victimized by the damaging, racist dominant ideology that still codifies black bodies as the non-human “Other” due to the long-lasting effects of slavery and diasporic dispersal. These individual and collective traumas seemingly hinder their articulation of healthy forms of subject formation and community-building efforts. My contention is that in God Help the Child (2015) Morrison explores the…
Cultures of healing’
Concepts of healing and spirituality have remained crucial to generating agency and empowerment for both black women and black men, especially in their diasporic displacement from Africa to the US. Healing has been consistently deployed to fight against the systemic racism and sexism that has pervaded and continues to persist in the lives of African diasporic subjects. Placing the discussion of healing within the current debates about interdepend…
Reconstructing a Matriarchal Kingdom
Namina Forna’s debut novel The Gilded Ones (2021) has been widely acclaimed as a dystopian novel where the author creates an imaginary ancestral world in which young girls who are considered “impure” by the sanctioned social precepts of the time are severely punished and even killed. The only option left for these girls is to join an army of Alaki (impure women) in order to defend the ancient kingdom of Otera from the attack of brutal deathshriek…
Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works)