Laura Roldan-Sevillano
Biographic Data
| ID | 6289203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Roldan-Sevillano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Roldan-Sevillano |
| SIGNATURE | ROLDAN-SEVILLANO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3894-9065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against a Limited and Cruel Myth
The article analyses how, in line with two recent literary trends—the turn to sincerity and realism in post-postmodern fiction as well as the emergence of literary works reconsidering the viability of the myth of the American Dream in the increasingly unequal US—Cameroonian-American writer Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016) provides a realist view of the country which counters the master or grand narrative of the American Dream and the meri…
Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives
Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives: An Introduction
A Postcolonial Wasteland in the Caribbean Post-Holocene
This article examines Katia D. Ulysse’s Mouths Don’t Speak (2018) as a realist narrative which presents Ulysse’s motherland, Haiti, as a postcolonial wasteland of repeated natural disasters, political turmoil and extreme poverty in many cases engendered by the neocolonial interventionism of the US and other countries as well as the contribution of the Haitian elite and the Americanised Haitian diasporas like Ulysse’s protagonists. Hence, drawing …
The Double-Headed Arrow of Trauma
Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) gave rise to much controversy when it came out, for this novella revolves around a traumatised Nazi doctor exiled in the US whose life is narrated in a disorienting reverse chronology by what would seem to be his own dissociated conscience. Despite the abundant academic publications on this experimental narrative, such as those that read it as a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) piece of fiction, the origin of…
Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives
Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives: An Introduction
The Double-Headed Arrow of Trauma
Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) gave rise to much controversy when it came out, for this novella revolves around a traumatised Nazi doctor exiled in the US whose life is narrated in a disorienting reverse chronology by what would seem to be his own dissociated conscience. Despite the abundant academic publications on this experimental narrative, such as those that read it as a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) piece of fiction, the origin of…
A Postcolonial Wasteland in the Caribbean Post-Holocene
This article examines Katia D. Ulysse’s Mouths Don’t Speak (2018) as a realist narrative which presents Ulysse’s motherland, Haiti, as a postcolonial wasteland of repeated natural disasters, political turmoil and extreme poverty in many cases engendered by the neocolonial interventionism of the US and other countries as well as the contribution of the Haitian elite and the Americanised Haitian diasporas like Ulysse’s protagonists. Hence, drawing …
Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives
Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives: An Introduction
Against a Limited and Cruel Myth
The article analyses how, in line with two recent literary trends—the turn to sincerity and realism in post-postmodern fiction as well as the emergence of literary works reconsidering the viability of the myth of the American Dream in the increasingly unequal US—Cameroonian-American writer Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers (2016) provides a realist view of the country which counters the master or grand narrative of the American Dream and the meri…
Narrative (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Meritocracy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 work) · Bourgeoisie (1 work)