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- PublicationOpen AccessAn analysis of happiness and resilience in Souvankham Thammavongsa’s How to pronounce knife.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Casco-Solís, Sara; Sin departamento asociadoThis article examines the literary representation of the complexities of the refugee experience in five short stories from Souvankham Thammavongsa’s collection How to pronounce knife. Drawing on Sarah Ahmed’s (2010) notion of happiness, it investigates how the stories expose the harmful effects of neoliberal scripts on refugees’ wellbeing and interpersonal relations. Moreover, it highlights the characters’ refusal to comply with normative expectations that cast refugees primarily through discourses of trauma, pain, or suffering. Instead, Thammavongsa portrays a community of Lao refugees who, by resisting these prescriptive narratives, cultivate affective bonds of care and solidarity. I argue that such practices emerge as forms of relational resilience that challenge erasure and invisibility, offering alternative ways of imagining refugee life beyond dominant representational frameworks.
- PublicationOpen AccessBuilding resilience: narratives of care and healing in contemporary fiction.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Borham-Puyal, Miriam; Sin departamento asociado
- PublicationOpen AccessThe ethics of neoaustenism: from Jane Austen to Taylor Swift in the age of metamodernism.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Sánchez Cabrera, Alejandro; Sin departamento asociadoThis article introduces neoaustenism as a metamodern-feminist sensibility rooted in Jane Austen’s fiction and paradigmatically articulated today through Taylor Swift’s songwriting. While other metamodern-rooted discourses such as neoromanticism revive a largely male genealogy of longing and melancholy, neoaustenism retrieves a specifically feminine grammar of irony, self-reflexivity, and relational ethics. Grounded in affect theory and the ethics of care, the concept reframes vulnerability as a shared resource that turns personal wounds into collective agency. The article first situates neoaustenism within metamodern oscillation and the affective turn. It then traces a gendered genealogy of sentiment from Austen’s heroines to Swift’s layered lyrical voices, showing through close reading how Swift’s songwriting translates Austenian irony and care into pop rituals that foster horizontal communities through reflective nostalgia, audience co-authorship, and embodied practices. Finally, this article argues that neoaustenism holds potential beyond Swift and offers a critical horizon for (re)imagining feminine identity and resilience in neoliberal culture, thus inviting further interdisciplinary inquiry.
- PublicationOpen AccessL’éthique du care à l’épreuve de ses contradictions dans la pièce de théâtre L’homme à la sacoche de Jean-François-Farid Boukraba.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Raita, Camelia; Sin departamento asociadoEste artículo examina cómo la ética del cuidado, tal como se representa en L’Homme à la sacoche de Jean-François-Farid Boukraba, al elevar la palabra a principio fundador del acto de cuidar, podría paradójicamente dar lugar a un régimen de constricción lingüística. El análisis sugeriría que el habla impuesta se relaciona menos con el reconocimiento de la subjetividad que con su captura dentro de un mero simulacro de voz. Bajo estas condiciones, el cuidado podría promover una dinámica de agotamiento psíquico más que un proceso de reparación. El sufrimiento, resistente a toda articulación semántica, emergería como una fuerza muda que excede la relación terapéutica, mientras que el cuerpo paralizado reflejaría el borramiento progresivo del sujeto. Quedaría por preguntarse si la palabra no constituiría, no obstante, un último y frágil intento de resistir la completa desaparición del yo.
- PublicationOpen AccessRe-storying trauma through decolonial care in Tracey Lindberg’s Birdie.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) López-Serrano, Lucía; Sin departamento asociadoTracey Lindberg’s Birdie (2015) tells the story of Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman with a troubled past, who undertakes a healing dream journey in which she revisits experiences of abandonment and abuse rooted in intergenerational trauma caused by colonialism. In this paper, I suggest that Lindberg’s text reclaims care as a decolonial praxis that generates Indigenous resurgence. Situating care ethics within decolonial and Indigenous relational frameworks, I posit that the forms of care represented in the novel enact re-embodiment, reconfigure kinscapes, and tether personal healing to collective well-being and ecological responsibility. Drawing on Eva Jewell, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Glen Sean Coulthard, the article shows how Birdie aligns care with the regeneration of traditional knowledge and the refusal of heteropatriarchal-capitalist logics. Ultimately, Birdie models resilience as an adaptive, land-based capacity sustained through ceremony and reciprocity, demonstrating that decolonial care foregrounds Indigenous resurgence.
- PublicationOpen AccessSensibilidades más-que-humanas y afecto interespecie en Solo un poco aquí, de María Ospina Pizano.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2026) Barboza Arias, Luis Miguel; Sin departamento asociadoEste artículo analiza la novela Solo un poco aquí (Penguin Random House, 2023), de María Ospina Pizano, desde una perspectiva más-que-humana, atendiendo a los vínculos afectivos y sensoriales que configuran formas de coexistencia multiespecie. A través del estudio de cuatro relatos protagonizados por animales (perras, un ave migratoria, un escarabajo y una puercoespín), el texto explora cómo la atención a sensibilidades no humanas desplaza enfoques instrumentales y antropocéntricos del cuidado. En diálogo con autoras como Donna Haraway y Vinciane Despret, se argumenta que estas narrativas activan una ética relacional que permite repensar la responsabilidad, la comunicación interespecie y las condiciones de una futuridad compartida.
- PublicationOpen AccessSpeculative reworkings of the good life at the end times: care, resilience, and relational futures in Cherie Dimaline and Rebecca Campbell.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Fraile-Marcos, Ana Mª; Sin departamento asociadoTaking as a starting point the idea that literature can function as an epistemological medium in its capacity as a testing ground where experiments in the good life can be imagined, aesthetically realized, and critically interrogated, this article turns to speculative fiction as a genre suitable for the exploration of cognitive frameworks that may lead to hopeful futurities amidst the ground-shifting transformations of the Anthropocene, supporting not only the continuity of life, but also the good life. It examines the representation of the ethics of care at the Anthropocene’s tipping point in recent speculative fiction from Turtle Island/Canada, namely, Métis Cherie Dimaline’s young adult novel The marrow thieves (2017) and its sequel, Hunting by stars (2021), and settler Canadian Rebecca Campbell’s short story cycle, Arboreality (2022). It argues that they critique the modernist nature/culture divide underpinning the disasters of the Anthropocene while reworking the notion of the good life from alternative Indigenous and new materialist relational approaches.