Roberta Johnson

Biographic Data

ID3761931
NAMERoberta Johnson
GIVEN NAMESRoberta
FAMILY NAMEJohnson
SIGNATUREJOHNSON R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kansas
ORCID0000-0001-6681-5809
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • María Zambrano's Feminism in Caribbean Exile

    Open AccessRoberta JohnsonARTICLETSN Transatlantic Studies Network2022

    María Zambrano's long exile included several sojourns in the Caribbean, both in Cuba and Puerto Rico, between 1940 and 1953. Significantly, the bulk of her feminist writing was done in these locations, perhaps due to her strained relationship with her husband and her collaboration with Gustavo Pittaluga on his treatise Grandeza y servidumbre de la mujer. This article examines Zambrano's feminist writing of the Caribbean period, especially her Ant…

  • Margot Versteeg. Propuestas Para (Re)construir Una Nación. El Teatro De Emilia Pardo Bazán. West Lafayette, In: Purdue UP, 2019. xi, 312pp

    Open AccessRoberta JohnsonARTICLERevista Canadiense de Estudios…2022

    Reseña de Propuestas para (re)construir una nación. El teatro de Emilia Pardo Bazán de Margot Versteeg

  • Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory

    Roberta JohnsonBOOKMajor Concepts in Spanish…2020

  • Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory

    Roberta JohnsonBOOKMajor Concepts in Spanish…2019

  • Antigone's tomb: ‘Prologue’

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2018

    The fact is that Antigone did not commit suicide in her tomb as Socrates, erroneously, tells us. Moreover, how could Antigone, who had never exercised control over her life, kill herself. She did n

  • María Zambrano’s and Albert Camus’s communal ethics

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2018

    Maria Zambrano and Albert Camus had much in common, especially their sympathy for the Second Spanish Republic and their ethical vision. Both intellectuals employed literary forms to explore philosophical ideas allegorically, explicitly notions related to exile and solitude. Works included in the study are ‘Delirio de Antigone,’ La tumba de Antigone, and Delirio y destino [Delirum and Destiny] by Zambrano and The Plague and The Myth of Sysifus by …

  • The Wetback and Other Stories by Ron Arias

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHispania2018

    Reviewed by: The Wetback and Other Stories by Ron Arias Roberta Johnson Arias, Ron. The Wetback and Other Stories. Arte Público, 2016. Pp. 134. ISBN 978-1-55885-834-3. "[N]i de este lado ni del otro" (49), the narrator's aunt often intoned in Ron Arias's "The Chamizal Espress," evoking the division between dream and reality, Mexico and the United States, life and death, that infuse these stories by master narrator Ron Arias. It is a delight to ha…

  • Carmen Laforet’s Nada: From Letter to Novel

    Roberta Johnson, Israel Rolón-BaradaARTICLEBulletin of Spanish Studies2016

    Before she began to compose her first novel Nada, Carmen Laforet wrote many letters to friends about her experiences in Barcelona shortly after the Spanish Civil War. These letters contain the seeds of the novel and (as is argued in this article) inspired a number of epistolary features in the novel's structure and style—its first-person narrative voice that begs for an addressee, its enigmatic ellipses, gaps and fissures, its voyeurism and its e…

  • La niña bonita: Tradition and change in female allegories of the Second Spanish Republic

    Luis F Cuesta, Roberta JohnsonARTICLEJournal of Spanish Cultural Studies2013References: 1

    The republican movements in Spain from at least 1792 shortly after the French Revolution until 1939 when the Spanish Civil War ended employed female allegories to represent a potential or realized Spanish republic. The present article focuses on the images of women that represented the Second Spanish Republic from 1931 to 1939, although it refers to female allegories of the First Spanish Republic, which provided inspiration for some of the symbol…

  • News from the Trenches

    R M Johnson, Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHispania2012

  • La novelística feminista de Carmen Laforet y el género negro

    Open AccessRoberta JohnsonARTICLEArbor2006References: 2

    En sus cinco novelas largas, Carmen Laforet intentaba consistentemente encontrar nuevos modos narrativos para enmarcar un mensaje feminista. Ya se ha estudiado su incorporación de la Bildungsroman, lo gótico y lo expresionista en Nada. Este ensayo se enfoca en los elementos de la novela detectivesca, sobre todo el subgénero negro, en la novelística de Laforet. Se concentra en Al volver la esquina publicada póstumamente en 2004, y en la que el pro…

  • Francisco Ayala: Boxer and Angel

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHispania2006

    Francisco Ayala's vanguard works written from 1928 to 1930 are often considered a brief parenthesis in his narrative oeuvre, which is otherwise ethically, philosophically, and/or politically engaged. This essay sidesteps the controversy over vanguard aesthetics versus ethically committed literature in Ayala's fiction to analyze the title story of El boxeador y un angel (1929) within the context of Ayala's early biography, boxing literature, angel…

  • The Culture of Cursilería: Bad Taste, Kitsch, and Class in Modern Spain

    R M Johnson, Roberta Johnson et al.ARTICLEHispania2004

  • Absence and Presence: Spanish Women Poets of the Twenties and Thirties

    R M Johnson, Roberta Johnson et al.ARTICLEHispania2003

  • Visiones de estereoscopio: Paradigma de hibridación en el arte y la narrativa de la vanguardia española

    Roberta Johnson, María Soledad Fernández UteraARTICLEHispania2003

    This book, written in Spanish, focuses on the literary and artistic works of such avant-garde figures as Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Benjamin Jarnes, Antonio de Obregon, Juan Chabas, Rosa Chacel, Claudio de la Torre, Almada Negreiros, Maruja Mallo, Mauricio Amster, Manuel Reinoso, Diego Rivera, and Angeles Santos y Victorio Macho. It identifies the attempt to integrate conflicting epistemological, ethical, and sociopolitical categories as the organi…

  • In Pursuit of the Natural Sign: Azorin and the Poetics of Ekphrasis

    Roberta Johnson, Gayana JurkevichARTICLEHispanic Review2002Cited by: 1

    This is the first major study on Azorin to appear in two decades. The first part explores parallels between the cultural milieus in France and Spain when both countries lost their colonies in the second half of the nineteenth century. The second part studies the fiction and essays of Jose Martinez Ruiz (Azorin). Illustrated

  • Carmen de Burgos and Spanish Modernism

    Open AccessRoberta JohnsonARTICLESouth Central Review2001

    Normal School in the early twentieth century, described Burgos in an interview from the 1970s as algo (somewhat modernist).' Burgos's modernism, according to Vilela, was attributable to the fact that she did things that other Spanish women of her time (she lived from 1867 to 1932) did not dare, such as having coffee alone at a public caf6. Vilela further deemed Burgos rather Bolchevique, because she openly stated her thoughts in a frank, down-to-…

  • Bibliografia y antologia critica de las vanguardias literarias en Espana

    Roberta Johnson, Harald Wentzlaff-EggebertARTICLEHispania2001

  • Entre El Desencanto Y La Esperanza

    R M Johnson, Roberta Johnson et al.ARTICLEHispania2001

  • El metodo arqueologico en la novelistica de Azorin

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHispania2001

  • The Spanish Avant-Garde

    Roberta Johnson, Derek HarrisARTICLEHispanic Review1998

  • Spanish Emigres of 1939 as Professors and Scholars in the U. S

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHispania1997

  • Jose Rubia Barcia: Ethical Humanist

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHispania1997

  • The Spanish Avantgarde

    Roberta Johnson, Derek HarrisARTICLEHispania1996

  • Maria Zambrano's Theory of Literature as Knowledge and Contingency

    Roberta JohnsonARTICLEHispania1996

    Maria Zambrano's work contradicts the common notion that there is a dearth of philosophy and literary theory in Spain. She argued that Spanish conceptual thinking is embedded in literature in the form of a razin poetica, a concept that, unlike traditional philosophical reason, includes the emotions. Zambrano's philosophical approach to literature focuses on the nature of the self in society in such books as Filosofia y poesia, Pensamiento y poesi…