item: #1 of 51 id: reden-1355 author: Galván, Fernando title: University and the Humanities: Current Challenges date: 2019-01-01 words: 4167 flesch: 48 summary: The underlying purpose of the EUA is for European universities to acquire a dimension that will differentiate them from universities in other regions of the world, in particular North America and Asia. In another section discussing research, the EUA also expressed its reservations as to the EU’s market orientation in its innovations: “Translating research outcomes into marketable innovations is only one of the outcomes of research activity; the contribution of university research to innovation goes well beyond this, as it generates societal well-being of an economic, social, educational and cultural nature, with long-term benefits for social welfare” (p. 3). keywords: education; human; humanities; society; universities; university; world cache: reden-1355.pdf plain text: reden-1355.txt item: #2 of 51 id: reden-1356 author: Garrigós, Cristina title: Indestructible Pasts and Paranoid Presents: John Franzen against Active Forgetting in Purity date: 2019-01-01 words: 4368 flesch: 61 summary: At issue is the distinction between usable pasts and disposable data” (2003, p. 18). T. Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. keywords: forgetting; franzen; history; memory; novel; past cache: reden-1356.pdf plain text: reden-1356.txt item: #3 of 51 id: reden-1357 author: Pintor Iranzo, Ivan title: Aesthetics of Negativity in US Television Fiction and Comics: Here by Richard McGuire and Twin Peaks, the Return date: 2019-01-01 words: 6296 flesch: 61 summary: To study the presence of the logic of emptying out, opening up and tearing in works like Here, or in Season 3 of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return (Showtime Networks, 2017), or even in the works of the cartoonist Chris Ware, it is necessary to turn to methodological and theoretical tools similar to those needed for an analysis of the paintings of Mark Rothko or the work of the Anglo-Indian artist Anish Kapoor. It is in fact a strategy similar to that employed by David Lynch in Twin Peaks: The Return. keywords: comics; evil; fiction; lynch; moments; negativity; peaks; pintor; series; space; television; time; twin; way; work cache: reden-1357.pdf plain text: reden-1357.txt item: #4 of 51 id: reden-1358 author: Jalloul Muro, Hana title: Preventive Measures of Violent Radicalization that Leads to Violence and Terrorism and the Need for its Effective Implementation date: 2019-01-01 words: 7726 flesch: 46 summary: PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES TO FIGHT VIOLENT RADICALISATION THAT LEADS TO VIOLENCE Different policies have been put in place for the fight against violent radicalization, they are known as Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), according to a document of the European Commission (2015) could be defined as: “The fight against violent extremism, or CVE, constitutes all actions that strengthen the resilience of individuals and communities to the appeal of radicalizers and extremism” (p. 9). The fight against violent extremism (CVE) is also known as prevention of violent extremism (PVE- Preventing Violent Extremism) term coined by the United Nations, although in reality both are largely identical; In recent years they have been presented as alternatives to reduce the risks derived from radicalization processes toward violence and the commission of terrorist acts. keywords: counter; cve; european; extremism; groups; individuals; jalloul; measures; muro; prevention; process; radicalization; terrorism; violence cache: reden-1358.pdf plain text: reden-1358.txt item: #5 of 51 id: reden-1359 author: Morales Hernández, Javier title: Strategic stability and Great-power Rivalry in U.S.-Russia Security Relations date: 2019-01-01 words: 4598 flesch: 39 summary: On the other hand, in spite of Trump’s previous criticism of U.S. interventions, Washington does not seem to be withdrawing or disengaging from other regions: rather, its confrontational posture toward Iran, North Korea, Cuba, or Venezuela—reminiscent of the Bush Administration’s “axis of evil”—has been combined with a growing emphasis on strengthening U.S. military capabilities in the face of “revisionist” China and Russia (National Security Strategy, 2017, p. 25). The normalization of U.S.-Russian relations will have to be completed by their respective successors, given that the current leaders have grown too accustomed to unilaterally pursuing their own interests and regarding other world powers as competitors. keywords: power; relations; rivalry; russia; security; trump; u.s; u.s.-russia; war; world cache: reden-1359.pdf plain text: reden-1359.txt item: #6 of 51 id: reden-1360 author: López Zapico, Misael Arturo title: American Tourism to Spain during the Late Francoism: A Socio-economic Analysis date: 2019-01-01 words: 5382 flesch: 61 summary: ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS Although the number of American tourists arriving to Spain during Franco’s years was always lower than the amount of travelers that entered into the country with passports from the main countries of Western Europe, U.S. citizens were one of the groups that contributed the most to the annual total figures. Commentary: Current Account Balance = Trade Balance + Net Services + Net Transfers; Balance; Balance At the beginning of the seventies, the habits and products of the country were still very attractive for the thousands of American tourists who wanted to choose Spain as their holiday destination. keywords: american; balance; country; francoism; madrid; new; spain; times; tourism; tourists; u.s; york cache: reden-1360.pdf plain text: reden-1360.txt item: #7 of 51 id: reden-1370 author: Fernández Lorenzo, Patricia title: Come Rain or Come Shine: Archer M. Huntington between Spain and the United States date: 2019-11-30 words: 6387 flesch: 57 summary: Key Words: Hispanism, Hispanic Society of America, Archer Huntington, Spanish culture, cultural diplomacy, bilateral relations A 8 AB ST RA CT *Fernández Lorenzo, P. “Come Rain or Come Shine: A young Archer Huntington, aged 28 years, finds himself travelling in Spain doing archaeological excavations in Seville. keywords: america; archer; hispanic; huntington; madrid; new; print; society; spain; spanish; states; united; war; york cache: reden-1370.pdf plain text: reden-1370.txt item: #8 of 51 id: reden-1371 author: Huertas Martín, Víctor title: Traumatic Redemption Chronotope as Theoretical Model to Study Serial Shakespeares date: 2019-11-30 words: 8807 flesch: 57 summary: On Shakespeare and the culture of trauma, see Silverstone, C. Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance. Television Shakespeare: keywords: caesar; characters; chronotope; complex; eisner; model; narrative; new; print; pullo; redemption; roman; rome; series; shakespeare; study; trauma; vorenus; web cache: reden-1371.pdf plain text: reden-1371.txt item: #9 of 51 id: reden-1373 author: Huguet, Montserrat title: The US American Self-criticism. Stories of Anger and Bewilderment date: 2019-11-30 words: 9753 flesch: 59 summary: But also, American history has revitalized a type of individual conscience that, tormented by shame (Stearns, Shame: A Brief History) and blame about the damage committed by administrations, seeks the way to promote empathy with the heirs of victims and tries to recompose the moral damage with current actions. Today, protest movements, continued Srnick and Williams, are isolated, without a logical structure or clear objectives American history has revitalized a type of individual conscience that, tormented by shame and blame about the damage committed by administrations, seeks the way to promote empathy with the heirs of victims and tries to recompose the moral damage with current actions. of change in the style of those of the twentieth century. keywords: actions; american; anger; century; country; criticism; flag; history; huguet; new; people; politics; print; right; self; shame; states; stories; united; university; york cache: reden-1373.pdf plain text: reden-1373.txt item: #10 of 51 id: reden-1374 author: Orduña Prada, Mónica title: Hildreth Meière: Connections to Spain Before and During the Spanish Civil War date: 2019-11-30 words: 6923 flesch: 61 summary: Key Words: Meière, Spanish Civil War, Humanitarian Assistance, Second World War INTRODUCTION Hildreth Meière was one of the most prolific American artists of the Art Deco period, with a career that lasted nearly up until her death in 1961. Hildreth Meière papers, 1901, bulk 1911-1960. keywords: american; archives; art; box; bulk; civil; hildreth; hildreth meière; institution; meière; papers; spain; spanish; war cache: reden-1374.pdf plain text: reden-1374.txt item: #11 of 51 id: reden-1375 author: Pettersson, Inger title: Writing Conflict to End Conflict: Reconciliatory Writing in Cristina García’s "Dreaming in Cuban," "The Agüero Sisters," and "King of Cuba" date: 2019-11-30 words: 9510 flesch: 62 summary: Three years after Dreaming in Cuban was published, cultural critic Coco Fusco gives a prominent position to García 112 11 Coco Fusco emphasizes García’s cubanía: “The cubanía evoked by Cristina García in her novel Dreaming in Cuban floats effortlessly across borders, as family members separated by geography, politics, and even death communicate with one another” (20). Key words: Cristina García, reconciliatory writing, Cuban fiction, translation of culture The building of bridges between Cuba and the US has been ongoing for a long time, not least by artists. keywords: celia; conflict; cristina; cuban; dead; dreaming; end; english; fiction; garcía; language; novel; print; reality; reconciliation; translation; writing cache: reden-1375.pdf plain text: reden-1375.txt item: #12 of 51 id: reden-1377 author: Vitalaru, Bianca; Vescan, Iulia title: Bridging the Gap Between Expectations and Teaching on the Field Practice: Instituto Franklin-UAH as Intercultural Mediator for Language Assistants in Spain date: 2021-07-23 words: 12254 flesch: 45 summary: In fact, in the context of the general gap between academic expectations and teaching in the field practical requirements, as Linda Darling-Hammond points out, “The teaching practicum is important for bridging the gap between what student teachers have learnt in the program and the reality of teaching practice in schools” (cited by Azkiyah & Mukminin 2017). Therefore, aspects such as admission criteria, the field of their previous training (Bachelor degree major), prior teaching/education training, and student teaching practicum experience will be briefly discussed. keywords: aspects; bilingual; communication; cultural; education; expectations; language; las; planning; program; role; schools; students; teachers; teaching; uah cache: reden-1377.pdf plain text: reden-1377.txt item: #13 of 51 id: reden-1378 author: Bacci, Francesco title: Black Lives Matter: Police Brutality, Media and Injustice in "The Hate U Give," "Dear White People," and "On the Other Side of Freedom" date: 2020-11-30 words: 6370 flesch: 58 summary: his paper aims to explore the connection between activism and the use of social media in contemporary stories, belonging to different genres. Different genres address the same issues with a common ground: with the support and filter of social media, these stories reveal incidents of police brutality, and episodes traceable to the rise of #BlackLivesMatter. keywords: activism; brutality; freedom; hate; lives; matter; mckesson; media; people; police; starr; white cache: reden-1378.pdf plain text: reden-1378.txt item: #14 of 51 id: reden-1380 author: Bennett, Andrew title: Continuity through Renewal: John Dewey, the International Institute in Spain, and Resisting the Assault on the Humanities date: 2020-11-30 words: 6499 flesch: 45 summary: Volumen 2 Continuity through Renewal: John Dewey, the International Institute in Spain, and Resisting the Assault on the Humanities Andrew Bennett The International Institute in Spain his paper marks the relation between humanities education and democracy as one of mutual necessity, since the pragmatic value of each is dependent on the other to be recognizable and realizable. In order to present such a site in a manner befitting Dewey’s pragmatism, a lesser-known, local example of the value of humanities education is examined in this paper: that of the International Institute in Spain, located in Madrid. keywords: capital; continuity; democracy; dewey; education; humanities; humanities education; iie; institute; international; john; liberal; renewal; school; spain cache: reden-1380.pdf plain text: reden-1380.txt item: #15 of 51 id: reden-1381 author: Fernández Jiménez, Mónica title: The Hemispheric Approach of Julia Alvarez’s Novels date: 2020-11-30 words: 3628 flesch: 52 summary: While such approaches are accurate, specially in dismantling the exoticist—in Salman Rushdie’s view (67)—notion of multiculturalism, this is not the desirable approach to Julia Alvarez’s works, since her literature is not relegated to a United States setting; it also includes many chapters dealing with the locus specific situation of the characters’ homeland: the Dominican Republic. In In the Name of Salomé (2000) there is also more than one setting: the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba. keywords: alvarez; american; caribbean; dominican; julia; literature; novels; states; united cache: reden-1381.pdf plain text: reden-1381.txt item: #16 of 51 id: reden-1382 author: Marini, Anna Marta title: Icebox and the Exceptionality Intrinsic to Institutional Violence on the US-Mexico Border date: 2020-11-30 words: 3667 flesch: 48 summary: In the 2010s, security footage leaks and internal reports on the abusive handling of detainees in border facilities have emerged, often to be dismissed or minimized by ICE and CBP officials. The operation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities and the detention of Central American children at the US- Mexico border represent a transnational gray area in the extension of sovereign power, turning the border itself in a kenotic space of exception legitimated by the construction of a specific public discourse on immigration and national boundaries. keywords: american; border; children; detention; gang; icebox; immigration; movie; oscar; violence cache: reden-1382.pdf plain text: reden-1382.txt item: #17 of 51 id: reden-1383 author: Martinicorena, Sofía title: The Ideology of Self-making and the White Working Class in Rebecca Harding Davis’ "Life in the Iron Mills" date: 2020-11-30 words: 4029 flesch: 59 summary: This paper analyses the text’s depiction of the white working class and the ideological consequences of the myth of upward mobility and self-making, which are presented as an impossibility to Hugh Wolfe, the story’s main character. Although Hugh Wolfe is the main character in the novella, it seems that he is only an arbitrary example chosen from the many lives of the many white working-class industrial workers. keywords: american; class; davis; hugh; iron; life; mills; self cache: reden-1383.pdf plain text: reden-1383.txt item: #18 of 51 id: reden-1384 author: Ors Ausín, Alicia title: Jan Karski: el testigo incómodo del Holocausto ante Roosevelt date: 2020-11-30 words: 9460 flesch: 57 summary: (85) 76 Hitler y las prácticas nazis, además de la preocupación por la suerte de los ciudadanos burgueses que animan su discurso y despiertan sus inquietudes morales, existen millones de judíos de las clases trabajadoras y del ámbito rural, muchos de ellos analfabetos, pobres y sin recursos sociales, y son precisamente estos los que tienen más dificultades para poder salir de sus países y huír del nazismo. The New York Times publica en su página 6 la petición del secretario de Estado, Cordell Hull, para que los judíos de los países ocupados por los nazis sean considerados legalmente prisioneros de guerra, y que las Naciones Unidas admitan todos esos territorios bajo su control. keywords: alicia; ante; ausín; campos; como; con; contra; de la; de los; del; en el; española; este; estudios; europa; exterminio; guerra; hitler; holocausto; incómodo; jan; jewish; jews; judíos; karski; las; los; los judíos; más; nazis; new; norteamericanos; noviembre; ors; para; pero; por; porque; presidente; párr; que; reden; roosevelt; sobre; sus; testigo; times; una; unidos; united; york cache: reden-1384.pdf plain text: reden-1384.txt item: #19 of 51 id: reden-1385 author: Piñero Gil, Eulalia title: ‘This man is looking for a gesture’: John Dos Passos’s Transcultural and Transnational Views about History and Literature in "Rosinante to the Road Again" date: 2020-11-30 words: 9310 flesch: 51 summary: (11) Throughout the conversation, Dos Passos cleverly contrasts two radically different lifestyles and how the individual’s vision and experience is really significant for his own ‘This man is looking for a gesture’: John Dos Passos’s... However, Dos Passos soon detected ‘This man is looking for a gesture’: John Dos Passos’s... keywords: american; don; dos passos; epic; history; john dos; life; literature; modernist; quest; quixote; rosinante; society; spain; spanish; writer cache: reden-1385.pdf plain text: reden-1385.txt item: #20 of 51 id: reden-1408 author: Abele, Elizabeth title: Guillermo del Toro’s Political Fairy Tales date: 2021-11-11 words: 7764 flesch: 65 summary: “Guillermo Del Toro on the True Gothic Romance of Crimson Peak.” Through rich textual references, intersec- tions, and hidden subtexts, Del Toro creates new gothic fairy tales, with original protagonists, emerging from the margins. keywords: amphibian; del toro; eliza; fairy; fairy tales; films; giles; gothic; guillermo; guillermo del; hellboy; love; prince; red; tales; vol cache: reden-1408.pdf plain text: reden-1408.txt item: #21 of 51 id: reden-1422 author: Brown, Benjamin title: The Construction of the Gothic Heroine in George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968) date: 2022-11-15 words: 7647 flesch: 62 summary: When she is isolated from these male-led influences after the film’s opening attack and in the film’s concluding scenes, her own need for self-preservation allows her to take on the role of female Gothic heroine. Through the negative depiction of these two arguing male character the film satirises the patriarchal dominance of society through the tropes found in female Gothic narratives. keywords: barbara; dead; female; film; genre; gothic; heroine; living; night; romero cache: reden-1422.pdf plain text: reden-1422.txt item: #22 of 51 id: reden-1424 author: Psilopoulou, Katerina title: Writing the Grotesque in Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones" date: 2021-11-11 words: 7309 flesch: 60 summary: These animalistic, grotesque aspects of Southern Black life—and motherhood, in partic- ular—are punctuated by moments of literal bodily damage, leaving characters maimed and deformed, seemingly conforming with the original definition of the grotesque as a form of physical disfigurement. Thus, she revitalizes the genre while pioneering a new school of writing that shifts the focus from White subjects to the ongoing Gothicism of Black existence and the precariousness of Black lives in America. keywords: american; black; body; bones; esch; gothic; jesmyn; life; salvage; southern; vol; ward cache: reden-1424.pdf plain text: reden-1424.txt item: #23 of 51 id: reden-1428 author: Andres, Alberto title: Ghosts of Britain: a hauntological approach to the 21st century folk horror revival date: 2021-11-11 words: 7927 flesch: 58 summary: The past decade has seen an increase in the number and popularity of folk horror films. 4 In an attempt to avoid Anglocentrism, it ought to be stated that folk horror film existed before the Unholy Trinity. keywords: britain; century; film; folk; folk horror; ghosts; hauntology; horror; horror revival; midsommar; music; past; revival; time cache: reden-1428.pdf plain text: reden-1428.txt item: #24 of 51 id: reden-1430 author: Gorrill, Kerry title: Schizoid Masculinity and Monstrous Interiors in American Haunted House Narratives date: 2021-11-11 words: 7678 flesch: 54 summary: However, Bauer defines this space as one in which men conceal their homosexuality and so does not account for the role of the heterosexual male in Gothic domestic spaces. In narratives written post-2000, the representation of domestic space becomes more complex and explicitly threatening for a protagonist whose fears and anxieties have become more terrifying in a world of vanishing solutions. keywords: american; century; danielewski; gothic; haunted; home; house; jack; laing; male; protagonist; schizoid; space; world cache: reden-1430.pdf plain text: reden-1430.txt item: #25 of 51 id: reden-1532 author: González, Sara; Pedro, Dina title: 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media date: 2021-11-11 words: 1072 flesch: 39 summary: The author demonstrates how this is more frequent in comics where the hero presents Gothic or Gothic-like traits, and how such a phenomenon is used to communi- cate the abject, itself a key feature of Gothic narratives. As the title implies, Coraline’s adventure is read as a coming of age narrative that uses Gothic tropes and elements to give shape to Coraline’s anxieties, as well as convey her struggles with growing up. keywords: culture; gothic; media; shades cache: reden-1532.pdf plain text: reden-1532.txt item: #26 of 51 id: reden-1678 author: Melodia Festa, Beatrice title: Flânerie and the Transnational Deterritorialization of 9/11 in Teju Cole’s Open City date: 2022-11-15 words: 10014 flesch: 54 summary: In the section of Open City set in New York Cole insists—recalling post-9/11 scenarios such as those of Foer and DeLillo—upon retrieving and examining national grief. For this reason, it needs to be recalled an observation Teju Cole made on September 11 in an interview for The Hemingway Society, he stated, I feel very fortunate to have written Open City and to have been so well rewarded for it. keywords: 9/11; american; city; cole; flânerie; flâneur; julius; new; novel; post-9/11; september; teju; teju cole; terrorism; vol; york cache: reden-1678.pdf plain text: reden-1678.txt item: #27 of 51 id: reden-1691 author: Lafontant, Kworweinski title: The Boondocks: Archetypes of Black Masculinity in a White World date: 2022-11-15 words: 7272 flesch: 59 summary: The Boondocks: Archetypes of Black Masculinity in a White World REDEN vol. 4, no. 1 (2022) ISSN 2695-4168 | DOI: 10.37536/reden.2022.4.1691 110 THE BOONDOCKS: ARCHETYPES OF BLACK MASCULINITY IN A WHITE WORLD Kworweinski Lafontant University of South Florida ABSTRACT With American society being dominated and shaped by White men, Black masculinity takes on new shapes and forms as Black men seek survival within their surroundings. Through The Boondocks, a comic strip that has been syndicated into a TV show, five different archetypes of Black masculinity take the spotlight through the main characters in a satirical world virtually void of Black women in emphasis of the dynamics of Black men. keywords: archetypes; black; boondocks; community; culture; granddad; huey; masculinity; men; tom; vol; white cache: reden-1691.pdf plain text: reden-1691.txt item: #28 of 51 id: reden-1762 author: BATISTA, ALEJANDRO title: Of Monsters and Women: Two Female Characters and Trans/Posthumanism in HBO’s Lovecraft Country date: 2022-11-15 words: 8239 flesch: 58 summary: TRANSCENDING THE TEXT As we can see, while the traditional image of women in the small screen has tended to be one of frailty and subordination, in Lovecraft Country female characters are the focal point of sev- eral of the ideas developed in the series. Keywords: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, Lovecraft Country, Science Fiction, African American. keywords: american; black; characters; christina; country; dee; female; fiction; hbo; lovecraft; posthumanism; science; series; women cache: reden-1762.pdf plain text: reden-1762.txt item: #29 of 51 id: reden-1811 author: Marini, Anna Marta; Weinstock , Jeffrey Andrew title: The American Gothic: An Interview with Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock date: 2022-05-15 words: 7086 flesch: 69 summary: It’s part of a kind of general inversion of Gothic narratives where the traditional monster isn’t the monster: those who pur- sue the monster are the monster. Keywords: American Gothic, popular culture, goth music, horror, interview. keywords: american; american gothic; andrew; culture; gothic; jeffrey; music; popular; things; way; weinstock cache: reden-1811.pdf plain text: reden-1811.txt item: #30 of 51 id: reden-1812 author: Álvarez Trigo, Laura; Aldana Reyes , Xavier title: Digital Gothic: An Interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes date: 2022-05-15 words: 7826 flesch: 67 summary: XAR: To answer the first question: yes, both The Social Dilemma and Don’t F**k with Cats es- sentially play out like horror films. I guess this might sound a bit controversial, but to address the issue of what role the Gothic has come to play in all of this, I feel horror films about technology have become social realism. keywords: aldana; desktop; digital; doi; films; footage; gothic; horror; human; internet; media; reden; reyes; technology; vol cache: reden-1812.pdf plain text: reden-1812.txt item: #31 of 51 id: reden-1813 author: Álvarez Trigo, Laura; Heise-von der Lippe , Anya title: Posthuman / Cyber-Gothic: An Interview with Anya Heise-Von Der Lippe date: 2022-05-15 words: 7332 flesch: 67 summary: So, in a way, what gothic horror narratives do is explore the flip side of that, they’re not necessarily looking at technology as this huge utopian thing, where we might be- come better posthumans—or transhumans –, but I think they look very much at what can go wrong, what might happen if we adopt technologies too quickly, or unthinkingly, if we adopt the wrong technologies, what might get lost if we take the wrong pathways. I think I’m the only person in that volume who actually works on gothic horror, and also the chapter I wrote is not necessarily from a gothic perspective but from a dystopian perspective. keywords: cyber; gothic; horror; human; posthuman; sense; technology; way cache: reden-1813.pdf plain text: reden-1813.txt item: #32 of 51 id: reden-1814 author: Fernández Jiménez, Mónica; van Leeuwen , Evert Jan title: Pernicious Properties: From Haunted to Horror Houses: An Interview with Evert Jan van Leeuwen date: 2022-05-15 words: 8008 flesch: 75 summary: My interest in both that article and the book I am working on right now (an extended study for which that article laid the foundations) has to do more with the present and the function of houses and haunted houses, or horror houses as I call them, in the present. Keywords: American Gothic, popular culture, haunted house, horror, interview. keywords: american; film; gothic; haunted; horror; house; leeuwen; novel; people; story; text cache: reden-1814.pdf plain text: reden-1814.txt item: #33 of 51 id: reden-1816 author: Martinicorena, Sofía; Corstorphine , Kevin title: The Gothic and National Domesticity: An Interview with Kevin Corstorphine date: 2022-05-15 words: 6703 flesch: 70 summary: Kevin Corstorphine | Gothic and National Domesticity REDEN vol 3, no 2 (2022) So, who owns Kevin Corstorphine | Gothic and National Domesticity REDEN vol 3, no 2 (2022) keywords: american; corstorphine; culture; domesticity; gothic; horror; house; idea; kevin; past; vol cache: reden-1816.pdf plain text: reden-1816.txt item: #34 of 51 id: reden-1817 author: Orrù, Marica; Howarth , Michael title: Children’s Gothic: An Interview with Michael Howarth date: 2022-05-15 words: 6239 flesch: 69 summary: Many of these Gothic children’s books are important because they offer well-rounded characters that children can relate to and themes that children can understand, thus reminding child readers they are not the only ones who harbor some of these thoughts. Gothicism also externalizes our internal fears, and so it takes ab- stract ideas like grief or anger and it puts them in concrete terms that children can understand. Children, especially young children, have a difficult time verbalizing abstract ideas. keywords: book; characters; children; gothic; literature; people; stories cache: reden-1817.pdf plain text: reden-1817.txt item: #35 of 51 id: reden-1818 author: Fuchs, Michael; Tidwell , Christy title: The Anthropocene, Nature, and the Gothic: An Interview with Christy Tidwell date: 2022-05-15 words: 7070 flesch: 73 summary: Think of films such as Snowpiercer (2013) and The Day After Tomorrow (2004): these are science fiction films, but they have elements of ecohorror, too. The quick second question is: you mentioned the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and noticed how ecohorror texts often engage with images and figures of deep history such as Cthulhu or Christy Tidwell | The Anthropocene, Nature, and the Gothic REDEN vol 3, no 2 (2022) keywords: anthropocene; ecohorror; gothic; human; jurassic; movies; nature; science; vol; world cache: reden-1818.pdf plain text: reden-1818.txt item: #36 of 51 id: reden-1822 author: Dang, Trang; Parker , Elizabeth ; Poland , Michelle title: The EcoGothic: An Interview with Elizabeth Parker and Michelle Poland date: 2022-05-15 words: 8510 flesch: 66 summary: It was here, too, that Professor Hughes introduced me to Michelle—a brilliant speaker who was working not only on Gothic Nature, but on Gothic forests. She is the founding editor of the open-access journal Gothic Nature: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic and television editor for The Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. keywords: american; ecogothic; elizabeth; fears; film; forest; michelle; nature; parker; poland; vol; woods cache: reden-1822.pdf plain text: reden-1822.txt item: #37 of 51 id: reden-1824 author: Fuchs, Michael; Bishop, Kyle William title: Zombies and the American Gothic: An Interview with Kyle William Bishop date: 2022-05-15 words: 9088 flesch: 74 summary: In the last few years, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in heroic father figures, not only in zombie films but post-apocalyptic narratives more generally. Curiously enough, horror films and zombie films are not only catalyzed by warfare, they also appear during economic hardship. keywords: american; bishop; dead; films; gothic; horror; kyle; lot; narratives; romero; zombie cache: reden-1824.pdf plain text: reden-1824.txt item: #38 of 51 id: reden-1825 author: Marini, Anna Marta; Ní Fhlainn , Sorcha title: Vampire and Monster Narratives: An Interview with Sorcha Ní Fhlainn date: 2022-05-15 words: 8136 flesch: 65 summary: How- ever, it’s likely that vampire bodies will still engage in horrifying modes of dying and disin- tegration. But when we’re looking at revisions of Dracula that come later, in the 20th century, or indeed even concerning other vampires... keywords: american; body; fhlainn; gothic; monster; narratives; sense; snf; vampire cache: reden-1825.pdf plain text: reden-1825.txt item: #39 of 51 id: reden-1832 author: Barba Guerrero, Paula ; Wester, Maisha title: African American Gothic and Horror Fiction: An Interview with Maisha Wester date: 2022-05-15 words: 9172 flesch: 70 summary: She is author of African American Gothic: Keywords: African American Gothic, horror, Black bodies, race politics, ghosts, interview. keywords: african; american; american gothic; body; fiction; film; gothic; horror; racial; terms; ways; wester cache: reden-1832.pdf plain text: reden-1832.txt item: #40 of 51 id: reden-1833 author: Marini, Anna Marta ; Ajuria Ibarra , Enrique title: The Gothic and the Ethnic Other: An Interview with Enrique Ajuria Ibarra date: 2022-05-15 words: 8352 flesch: 66 summary: I have ex- plored La Llorona and her portrayal in Mexican and Hispanic American popular culture be- fore, while trying to understand what she represents in Gothic terms. Gothic fiction has also been used to delve into—as you were saying—transnational context and relations. keywords: ajuria; american; border; del; enrique; film; gothic; ibarra; idea; identity; llorona; mexican; mexico; toro; vol cache: reden-1833.pdf plain text: reden-1833.txt item: #41 of 51 id: reden-1834 author: Dang, Trang; Edwards, Justin title: The Anthropocene and the Gothic: An Interview with Justin Edwards date: 2022-05-15 words: 6759 flesch: 58 summary: The transformation of the body and the body is essential to Gothic narratives, going back to the 18th century. Stevenson was writing around the time of Jack the Ripper and the ways in which the urban location, the urban space, can create a certain anonymity for people that then leads on into the 20th century and in Gothic narratives about the serial killer. keywords: american; anthropocene; body; gothic; human; things; ways cache: reden-1834.pdf plain text: reden-1834.txt item: #42 of 51 id: reden-1835 author: Fernández Jiménez, Mónica; Punter, David title: The Dark Thread: An Interview with David Punter date: 2022-05-15 words: 8198 flesch: 73 summary: This is all part of an evening’s entertainment and not many early Gothic writers would have thought of themselves specifically or entirely as Gothic writers. There are many critics far more expert than I am on the US dimension: Charles Crow, Maisha Wester, Marilyn Michaud and Bernice Murphy, for example, have written very pow- erful books on US Gothic. keywords: book; course; david; fiction; gothic; kind; punter; terror; way cache: reden-1835.pdf plain text: reden-1835.txt item: #43 of 51 id: reden-1837 author: Drewitz, Tana-Julie title: Redefining Humanity: Posthumanism in the American Science Fiction Narratives of Octavia Butler's Dawn and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice date: 2022-11-15 words: 8492 flesch: 53 summary: Human exceptionalism establishes a primacy of human over non-human animals, while also creating social hierarchies within the human realm. Protagonist Lilith Iyapo wakes up on an unknown spaceship which turns out to belong to the aliens who kept her and other humans asleep for 250 years in suspended animation after a nuclear war rendered planet Earth uninhabitable. keywords: ancillary; butler; dawn; fiction; human; humanity; justice; leckie; lilith; narratives; posthumanism; science; science fiction cache: reden-1837.pdf plain text: reden-1837.txt item: #44 of 51 id: reden-1838 author: Regueira Martín, Andrea Sofía title: Good Morning, Winner: Subverting Girl Nerd Stereotypes in Booksmart (2019) date: 2022-11-15 words: 8681 flesch: 65 summary: Despite the prevalence of this character type, girl nerds are scarce. Even though this lack of girl nerds can be attributed to the pressure for women—both real and fictional—to conform to beauty standards, it also reflects stereotypes regarding women’s scientific and technical inclinations. keywords: amy; booksmart; doi; films; gender; girls; martín; molly; morning; nerd; protagonists; regueira; school; sofía; stereotypes; vol; winner; women cache: reden-1838.pdf plain text: reden-1838.txt item: #45 of 51 id: reden-1843 author: Marini, Anna Marta; Álvarez Trigo, Laura title: Introduction date: 2022-05-15 words: 619 flesch: 36 summary: With the idea of bringing a fresh ap- proach to online events and the traditional keynote format, the 50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture conference involved a series of interviews with renowned scholars working in the field of Gothic studies, who discussed various aspects of contemporary expressions and functions of the Gothic in popular culture texts. Above all, these discussions highlight how the Gothic continues to be alive and well 1 PopMeC Research “50+ Shades of Gothic | Keynotes.” keywords: culture; gothic cache: reden-1843.pdf plain text: reden-1843.txt item: #46 of 51 id: reden-2038 author: Martínez-Guillén, Sara title: Disability and Comedy: Challenging Stereotypes Onscreen date: 2023-05-15 words: 7785 flesch: 62 summary: However, they seldom become main characters in mainstream media and in particular in comedy films, as their body doesn’t belong to the acceptable norm. The films examined challenge the REDEN 4.2 (2023) | Sara Martínez-Guillén 57 establishment of the socially constructed normal body, they do so through the perspec- tive of disabled characters and the development of their narrative, starting from the prem- ises of their plots. keywords: characters; comedy; disability; films; humour; people; power; scotty; superiority; tyler; zak cache: reden-2038.pdf plain text: reden-2038.txt item: #47 of 51 id: reden-2041 author: Övermann, Cora title: Of Blackboards and Bathrooms: Space as Metaphor for Power Relations in Hidden Figures (2016) date: 2023-05-15 words: 8341 flesch: 64 summary: It is Al who eventually grants Katherine access to the data. Keywords: space race, spatial analysis, gatekeeping, intersectionality, 1960s America. keywords: characters; figures; film; gender; group; katherine; paul; race; space; stem; task; women; work cache: reden-2041.pdf plain text: reden-2041.txt item: #48 of 51 id: reden-2057 author: Álvarez Trigo, Laura; Tiburcio Moreno, Erika title: Introduction: STEM in US Popular Culture: Assessing Gender Discourse, Stereotypes and Mainstreaming date: 2022-11-15 words: 887 flesch: 52 summary: The objective of this dossier is to offer an overview of different contemporary ap- proaches in US popular culture to the inclusion of gender and sexual diversity in STEM-re- lated narratives. In “With Great Power Comes Gender Diversity: Superpowers and STEM Stereotypes in Marvel Comics,” Igor Juricevic (Indiana University South Bend) analyzes gender representa- tion by looking at the portrayal of STEM-related skills in Marvel comics. keywords: characters; culture; gender; stem cache: reden-2057.pdf plain text: reden-2057.txt item: #49 of 51 id: reden-2062 author: Rivero-Vadillo, Alejandro title: Solarpunk Cyborgs against Cyberpunk’s Pessimism: The Evolution of the Feminist Cyborg Archetype from Moxyland, to “Solar Child” and “For the Snake of Power” date: 2023-05-15 words: 8143 flesch: 47 summary: Keywords: feminist cyberpunk, solarpunk, feminist cyborg, STEM female cyborgs. The models that described the female techno-humans of old, produced dur- ing the different waves of feminist cyberpunk, are finding their own space in contempo- rary solarpunk short stories, although with new concerns in mind. keywords: alejandro; cyberpunk; cyborg; female; feminist; gender; human; post; power; reden; rivero; solarpunk; stories; technology; vadillo; women cache: reden-2062.pdf plain text: reden-2062.txt item: #50 of 51 id: reden-2131 author: Wilson Borrell, John Marc title: Bloodletting: Seductive Monstrosity and the Interplay between Waking and Dreaming in Bloodborne date: 2023-05-15 words: 7758 flesch: 53 summary: It is notable that the denizens of Bloodborne follow predictable, ritualized patterns when they are unaware of the hunter’s presence. In Bloodborne, the player- character controls an avatar referred to as a “hunter” during their sojourn in the oneiric, perverse world called Yharnam. keywords: bloodborne; borrell; game; gothic; human; hunter; john; marc; monstrosity; narrative; player; reden; wilson; yharnam cache: reden-2131.pdf plain text: reden-2131.txt item: #51 of 51 id: reden-2159 author: Bordun, Troy Michael; Sarkar, Prapti title: [Book Review] Gendered Defenders: Marvel's Superheroines in Transmedia Spaces date: 2023-05-15 words: 1711 flesch: 57 summary: In the concluding chapter of Part 1, Carstarphen develops the idea of “trans/linear feminism” (28), or the choice that female readers make to read Marvel superheroines in a distinctive way from male readers. In Part 2, the authors bring feminist theories to read Marvel superheroines. keywords: authors; book; chapter; marvel; superheroines; transmedia cache: reden-2159.pdf plain text: reden-2159.txt