María Isabel Soto López
Biographic Data
| ID | 5104697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Isabel Soto López |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Isabel Soto |
| FAMILY NAME | López |
| SIGNATURE | LÓPEZ M I S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2645-891X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The problematics of openness
Teju Cole’s novel Open City holds up to scrutiny the consequences of the traumatic events of the September 11 terrorist attacks, specifically the Twin Towers in New York City. In a post-9/11 scenario, the limitations of the goals, claims, and outcomes of globalization and cosmopolitanism become manifest, especially when they intersect with the categories of race and religious faith. Ultimately, Open City invites an exploration of the metaphor of …
Critical perspectives on Teju Cole
The introduction presents the key concerns and arguments of Critical Perspectives on Teju Cole. Introducing the essays of this volume, it offers insight into Cole’s genre-crossing oeuvre and its critical study. It also broadens the outlook of this project by pointing to areas for further research
Idea l’a need” or, enough said
My reading of Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City focuses on strategies of suppression or reticence. Cole’s aesthetic practice involves elision, omission, and revelation through indirection, his vocabulary weaving between terms of forgetting and recovery. One might name this a “poetics of reticence” or what Julius, the narrator of Open City, calls “the ability to trace out a story from what [is] omitted” (9), offering a readerly …
The Weight of Words
In 1993, the historians' group in the European Association for American Studies held a meeting at the Roosevelt Studies Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands. David Thelen, then editor of the Journal of American History, attended this meeting to beat the drum for his commendable project of internationalizing the study of American history by forging closer ties between the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and non-U.S. scholars, especially…
Boundaries Transgressed
This essay argues that while Langston Hughes's short story “Red-Headed Baby” (from The Ways of White Folks) may initially seem to depart from the Hughes repertoire (through its dizzying modernist style, for one), it ultimately endorses the author's signature concerns of race, genre transgression and imaginative appropriation of alterity. I also seek to historicize Hughes's text, inscribing it within a modernist practice, studies of which have tra…
Critical perspectives on Teju Cole
The introduction presents the key concerns and arguments of Critical Perspectives on Teju Cole. Introducing the essays of this volume, it offers insight into Cole’s genre-crossing oeuvre and its critical study. It also broadens the outlook of this project by pointing to areas for further research
Boundaries Transgressed
This essay argues that while Langston Hughes's short story “Red-Headed Baby” (from The Ways of White Folks) may initially seem to depart from the Hughes repertoire (through its dizzying modernist style, for one), it ultimately endorses the author's signature concerns of race, genre transgression and imaginative appropriation of alterity. I also seek to historicize Hughes's text, inscribing it within a modernist practice, studies of which have tra…
The Weight of Words
In 1993, the historians' group in the European Association for American Studies held a meeting at the Roosevelt Studies Center in Middelburg, the Netherlands. David Thelen, then editor of the Journal of American History, attended this meeting to beat the drum for his commendable project of internationalizing the study of American history by forging closer ties between the Organization of American Historians (OAH) and non-U.S. scholars, especially…
The problematics of openness
Teju Cole’s novel Open City holds up to scrutiny the consequences of the traumatic events of the September 11 terrorist attacks, specifically the Twin Towers in New York City. In a post-9/11 scenario, the limitations of the goals, claims, and outcomes of globalization and cosmopolitanism become manifest, especially when they intersect with the categories of race and religious faith. Ultimately, Open City invites an exploration of the metaphor of …
Critical perspectives on Teju Cole
The introduction presents the key concerns and arguments of Critical Perspectives on Teju Cole. Introducing the essays of this volume, it offers insight into Cole’s genre-crossing oeuvre and its critical study. It also broadens the outlook of this project by pointing to areas for further research
Idea l’a need” or, enough said
My reading of Teju Cole’s Every Day is for the Thief and Open City focuses on strategies of suppression or reticence. Cole’s aesthetic practice involves elision, omission, and revelation through indirection, his vocabulary weaving between terms of forgetting and recovery. One might name this a “poetics of reticence” or what Julius, the narrator of Open City, calls “the ability to trace out a story from what [is] omitted” (9), offering a readerly …
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