Claudia Alonso-Recarte
Biographic Data
| ID | 4118047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudia Alonso-Recarte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudia |
| FAMILY NAME | Alonso-Recarte |
| SIGNATURE | ALONSO-RECARTE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de València |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3719-8930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Aids, Nonhuman Animal Imagery and Extinction in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
This article analyzes the rhetorical significance of nonhuman animal Otherness in Tony Kushner’s landmark two-part play Angels in America, which premiered in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and ambitiously explored (national) identity politics through the depiction of the AIDS crisis during the Reagan administration. Nonhuman animals appear in the text in multiple instances, articulating a rhetorical space of interspecies encounters at the center of…
Weary Old Dogs: Ageing Masculinities in Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s Los perros duros no bailan
Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s short novel Los perros duros no bailan (2018) is the first of the prolific Spanish writer’s attempts at animal fable and allegory. This postmodern and highly intertextual novel explores the nature of masculinity and ageing in a hostile world of violence and conflict. The aim of this article is to analyse the role of the motif of the dog, and the way in which the author deploys it as mechanism through which to communicate is…
They Stood like Men”: Horses, Myth, and Carnophallogocentrism in Toni Morrison’s Home
Toni Morrison’s fiction has frequently attracted critical attention on account of her strategic use of myth (whether classical or Afrocentric) and symbols. This paper examines the role that horses have, as rhetorical constructs, in strengthening the mythical and symbolic unity of her tenth novel Home (2012). Horses have figured widely in the articulation of African American history and letters, often serving as symbols of the abused slaves upon w…
Pit Bulls and Dogfighting as Symbols of Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture
This article explores the aesthetic and cultural connections between the hyper-masculinization inherent to hip hop culture (and particularly to gangsta rap), the pit bull dog breed, and dogfighting. Building on recent scholarship that has identified the racial and racist assumptions underlying the pit bull controversy, I provide further evidence and arguments on how the highly racialized and genderized hip hop discourses inoculate the pit bull bo…
Zoomasculinities: At the Intersection Between Animals, Animality, and Masculinity
Organicism, womanhood and domesticity in Anne LaBastille's Woodswoman saga
Anne LaBastille's Woodswoman saga presents an ecological approach to organicism that aims to recuperate the notion of nature and the wilderness as live organisms in perpetual, cyclical transition. LaBastille's conception of nature as an animate entity to which the self is intimately connected unleashes her discursive advocacy for a necessary reversion to a communion with natural rhythms. Her hermitage represents a voluntary conversion into the la…
Myths of Primitiveness: A Barthean Interpretation of Rhetorical Devices in Early Jazz Criticism
Ever since jazz began to make an impact in white aesthetic culture in the late 1910s and 1920s, critics, regardless of whether they celebrated or condemned the music, enmeshed their discourse with images of exoticism, noble savageness, and racial brutishness. As Jazz Studies emerged as an academic discipline, scholars have shown increasing interest in exposing these images in order to illustrate the pervading racist sentiment inscribed within whi…
Pit Bulls and Dogfighting as Symbols of Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture
This article explores the aesthetic and cultural connections between the hyper-masculinization inherent to hip hop culture (and particularly to gangsta rap), the pit bull dog breed, and dogfighting. Building on recent scholarship that has identified the racial and racist assumptions underlying the pit bull controversy, I provide further evidence and arguments on how the highly racialized and genderized hip hop discourses inoculate the pit bull bo…
Zoomasculinities: At the Intersection Between Animals, Animality, and Masculinity
Organicism, womanhood and domesticity in Anne LaBastille's Woodswoman saga
Anne LaBastille's Woodswoman saga presents an ecological approach to organicism that aims to recuperate the notion of nature and the wilderness as live organisms in perpetual, cyclical transition. LaBastille's conception of nature as an animate entity to which the self is intimately connected unleashes her discursive advocacy for a necessary reversion to a communion with natural rhythms. Her hermitage represents a voluntary conversion into the la…
Myths of Primitiveness: A Barthean Interpretation of Rhetorical Devices in Early Jazz Criticism
Ever since jazz began to make an impact in white aesthetic culture in the late 1910s and 1920s, critics, regardless of whether they celebrated or condemned the music, enmeshed their discourse with images of exoticism, noble savageness, and racial brutishness. As Jazz Studies emerged as an academic discipline, scholars have shown increasing interest in exposing these images in order to illustrate the pervading racist sentiment inscribed within whi…
Pit Bulls and Dogfighting as Symbols of Masculinity in Hip Hop Culture
This article explores the aesthetic and cultural connections between the hyper-masculinization inherent to hip hop culture (and particularly to gangsta rap), the pit bull dog breed, and dogfighting. Building on recent scholarship that has identified the racial and racist assumptions underlying the pit bull controversy, I provide further evidence and arguments on how the highly racialized and genderized hip hop discourses inoculate the pit bull bo…
Zoomasculinities: At the Intersection Between Animals, Animality, and Masculinity
They Stood like Men”: Horses, Myth, and Carnophallogocentrism in Toni Morrison’s Home
Toni Morrison’s fiction has frequently attracted critical attention on account of her strategic use of myth (whether classical or Afrocentric) and symbols. This paper examines the role that horses have, as rhetorical constructs, in strengthening the mythical and symbolic unity of her tenth novel Home (2012). Horses have figured widely in the articulation of African American history and letters, often serving as symbols of the abused slaves upon w…
Weary Old Dogs: Ageing Masculinities in Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s Los perros duros no bailan
Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s short novel Los perros duros no bailan (2018) is the first of the prolific Spanish writer’s attempts at animal fable and allegory. This postmodern and highly intertextual novel explores the nature of masculinity and ageing in a hostile world of violence and conflict. The aim of this article is to analyse the role of the motif of the dog, and the way in which the author deploys it as mechanism through which to communicate is…
Aids, Nonhuman Animal Imagery and Extinction in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
This article analyzes the rhetorical significance of nonhuman animal Otherness in Tony Kushner’s landmark two-part play Angels in America, which premiered in 1991 and 1992, respectively, and ambitiously explored (national) identity politics through the depiction of the AIDS crisis during the Reagan administration. Nonhuman animals appear in the text in multiple instances, articulating a rhetorical space of interspecies encounters at the center of…
Aesthetics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Masculinity (3 works) · Rhetorical question (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Geography (2 works)