Browsing by Subject "Revisionism"

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    Beat myths in literature. Revisionist strategies in Beat women
    (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-09-22) Encarnación Pinedo, Estíbaliz; Filología Inglesa
    Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. Using the metaphor and the critical lens of looking back, an act infused with feminist implications after Adrienne Rich (1972), the volume focuses on poetry, fiction, and autobiographical writing to analyze the different ways in which Beat women used revisionist discourses to refashion the Beat Generation and establish themselves as literary and artistic subjects. Offering the first comprehensive study of the use of mythology in the Beat Generation, Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women focuses on the specific re-writing or revisioning of mythical texts. As such, it studies the ways in which Beat poets incorporate mythology into their works, both through the feminist reinvention or appropriation of ancient myths, but also by debunking more contemporary myths used to contain women in particular social and artistic roles. Furthermore, this volume expands Rich’s notion of re-vision, considering memoirs and autobiographies as factual and fictional re-interpretations of history. Seen through the eyes of revisionist studies and the poets’ investment in “personal myth”, the book establishes new points of entrance into works that allow us to explore the feminist, political, and poetical relevance of the work of Beat women
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    España debe saber (Eduardo Manzanos, 1977). Un ejemplo cinemagráfico de revisionismo histórico en la reciente democracia de nuestro país.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2022) Sanz Ferreruela, Fernando; Lázaro Sebastián, Francisco Javier
    Poco antes de la celebración de las primeras elecciones generales democráticas en España tras casi cuarenta años de dictadura, se estrenó el largometraje documental España debe saber (Eduardo Manzanos, 1977). Su desarrollo se articula en función del formato de entrevista, una fórmula que se había popularizado dentro de este género a partir de ejemplos tan paradigmáticos como La vieja memoria (Jaime Camino, 1977), que, desde una visión netamente de izquierdas trataron de ofrecer las causas y las posteriores consecuencias de la Guerra Civil y la dictadura que aconteció después. Manzanos planteó un particular ejercicio de revisionismo sobre el período anterior de la historia española, mediante la presencia de diferentes testimonios como el de Gonzalo Fernández de la Mora o José María de Areilza, entre otros. Con la particularidad añadida de que la película que pretendemos estudiar se trata de una auténtica réplica a lo expuesto en el film de Jaime Camino antes citado; afirmación que no resulta descabellada dado que encontramos un claro precedente orientado en este sentido en la propia trayectoria de Manzanos con la película ¿Por qué morir en Madrid?, surgida como respuesta clara al film antifranquista Morir en Madrid (Mourir à Madrid, Frédéric Róssif, 1963).
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    Shifting the mythic discourse: ambiguity and destabilization in Joanne Kyger’s The Tapestry and the Web
    (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2020-05-20) Encarnación Pinedo, Estíbaliz; Filología Inglesa; Facultad de Letras
    The Homeric Penelope, long hailed as a feminist icon just as much as an example of submissive wife, has been the focus of numerous revisions and interpretations ranging from the reactionary to the most subversive. This article analyzes Joanne Kyger’s revision of the mythic discourse in The Tapestry and the Web (1965) by studying two of the main strategies used by the poet: subtle shifts of focus and the use of alternative sources. Building from Joseph Campbell’s concept of the monomyth, which gave the poet the aesthetic freedom to move within Homer’s text, the article examines Kyger’s use of the mythic discourse to undermine the prevalence of patriarchal narratives and question their position as established categories. Operating inside and outside the Homeric construct, Kyger’s collection perpetuates and subverts the classical myth in a move that anticipates contemporary – feminist – revisions and adaptations.