Cristina M Gámez-Fernández
Biographic Data
| ID | 92861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina M Gámez-Fernández |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gámez-Fernández |
| SIGNATURE | GÁMEZ-FERNÁNDEZ C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Córdoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9990-2260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Modern ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World
"Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World interrogates how humans' relation to and confrontation with the nonhuman world is captured in or through poetry. It brings together contributions that explore how modern poetry addresses human beings' relationship with the natural world, mirroring some of the most salient ecopoetic approaches to date. This collection is written from very different corners of the globe and sign…
Meena Kandasamy’s Contestation of Inherited Cultural Landscapes in Touch
This chapter argues that, in her 2006 poetry book Touch, the Dalit activist and writer Meena Kandasamy challenges the inherited, conflicted landscapes and narratives of her native Tamil Nadu, imbued with a history of sustained violence against disenfranchised Dalits. Following the distinction created by cultural geographer between a vernacular landscape—associated with an intimate relationship of individuals and communities with the land—and an o…
Planetary precarity and the pandemic
As this special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing goes to print, fear of the life-changing and life-taking SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads worldwide faster than the virus itself. The volume’s v
Delusion and defeat in the short-story sequence ‘Hema and Kaushik’ from Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
The aim of this paper is to explore the boundaries imposed over Hema and Kaushik, two second-generation diasporic characters who, despite being born in unfamiliar terrain and thus likely to flourish, consistently feel entangled between delusion, because they almost pathologically search for unattainable desires, and nostalgia and defeat in their personal pursuit of individual, familiar and social happiness, as well as the nourishing interconnecte…
Planetary precarity and the pandemic
As this special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing goes to print, fear of the life-changing and life-taking SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads worldwide faster than the virus itself. The volume’s v
Delusion and defeat in the short-story sequence ‘Hema and Kaushik’ from Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth
The aim of this paper is to explore the boundaries imposed over Hema and Kaushik, two second-generation diasporic characters who, despite being born in unfamiliar terrain and thus likely to flourish, consistently feel entangled between delusion, because they almost pathologically search for unattainable desires, and nostalgia and defeat in their personal pursuit of individual, familiar and social happiness, as well as the nourishing interconnecte…
Meena Kandasamy’s Contestation of Inherited Cultural Landscapes in Touch
This chapter argues that, in her 2006 poetry book Touch, the Dalit activist and writer Meena Kandasamy challenges the inherited, conflicted landscapes and narratives of her native Tamil Nadu, imbued with a history of sustained violence against disenfranchised Dalits. Following the distinction created by cultural geographer between a vernacular landscape—associated with an intimate relationship of individuals and communities with the land—and an o…
Planetary precarity and the pandemic
As this special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing goes to print, fear of the life-changing and life-taking SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads worldwide faster than the virus itself. The volume’s v
Modern ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World
"Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World interrogates how humans' relation to and confrontation with the nonhuman world is captured in or through poetry. It brings together contributions that explore how modern poetry addresses human beings' relationship with the natural world, mirroring some of the most salient ecopoetic approaches to date. This collection is written from very different corners of the globe and sign…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · History (2 works) · 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak (1 works) · 20th century (1 works) · 21st century (1 works) · Consciousness (1 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (1 works)