Browsing Hispanic Studies by Title
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Accommodating the Third Space in a Fourth Society: BDAFRICA, a groundbreaking source for the analysis of African Literature Reception in Spain
(2018)Inherent features of African postcolonial literature have hampered reception quan- tification, which is even more often neglected in countries with limited experience of African decolonization processes. This has been ... -
Adapting to climate change through disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: lessons from the Global South in tackling the Sustainable Development Goals
(Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 2022)Developing resilience in conditions of extreme geographic and economic vulnerability, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have learned to share what works for adaptation on the ground through transnational Disaster Risk ... -
An exploration of the esoteric and music in the novels and short stories of Julio Cortázar
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Far from being polar opposites, esoteric elements and musical motifs complement one another in enriching our construal of the prose fiction of Julio Cortazar. Although numerous studies deal with discrete esoteric themes ... -
Citizenship and self-representation in the public letters sent to General Primo de Rivera in Spain, 1923-1930
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Hispanic Studies, 2018)The six-year dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) was a crucial episode in Spain?s twentieth-century history. Amid the post-war crisis of Spanish liberalism, which saw new sections of the population ... -
Co-production of Climate Services: A diversity of approaches and good practice from the ERA4CS projects (2017?2021)
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Connecting People to Climate Change Action: Informing Participatory Frameworks for the National Dialogue on Climate Action (C-CHANGE)
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2022)Ireland has committed to becoming a net-zero and climate-neutral economy by 2050. The Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act set this ambition in legislation, while the Climate Action Plan defines the pathway ... -
Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)Examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas. Considers opportunities to address global challenges in the context of ... -
Crossing the border between postcolonial reality and the `outer world': Translation and representation of the third space into a fourth space
(2019)Stemming from poststructuralist interpretations of space and following Bhabha’s third space enunciation, in this paper we have coined the term fourth space and used this concept as a heuristic tool to address the need ... -
Decalogue of the Characteristics of Postcolonial Literature: A Proposal of a Taxonomy for Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature Studies
(2021)This paper aims to offer a classification proposal of the features that are typically found, to a greater or lesser extent, in postcolonial texts in any language. In spite of the fact that this tax- onomy model is based ... -
Defining & redefining the margins : an exploration of the discourse of post-coloniality in the verse of Nicolás Guillén, Pablo Neruda & Ernesto Cardenal
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2000)History teaches us that the imposition of hegemonic structures of the colonial centre can only be truly effective and complete when the cultural personality of the dominated community has been displaced. Aspects of the ... -
Design and implementation of a database of Postcolonial African literature published in Spain
(2016)This paper evidences the absence of a repository or databa- se that scompiles the publications of Postcolonial African writing in Spain, thus precluding comprehensive quantitative or qualitative studies on the impact ... -
Dialogues with history : discourses of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Dictatorsip in the Spanish novel (1996-2011)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2014)Drawing upon the novelistic and linguistic theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis investigates the narrative strategies used by four novels to inscribe, challenge or subvert current and past discourses about the Spanish ... -
Digital resources in praxis and research in humanistic translation: The case of the BDAFRICA database
(Comares, 2023)This research highlights the need for a revolution in the convergence between Humanistic Translation and Digital Humanities. It is true that the Translation practice has already led the inclusion of electronic resources, ... -
Down Mexico Way : identity, community and deracination in post-1960s Mexico and Chicano cinema
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2001)Much attention has been paid to the complex and frequently antagonistic relationship between Mexico and the United States. These neighbouring nations share the longest border in the world and have had close contact over ... -
Eco Artivism in Galician Feminist Fiction: Teresa Moure's A intervención (2010)
(Legenda - Modern Humanities Research Association, 2023)If small literatures have been consistently banished to the margins of history, their women’s voices have been doubly silenced. Narrative by women writing in the language of Galician from the non-state Atlantic nation ... -
Elementos barrocos en la obra esperpéntica de Valle-Inclán : una cala quevedesca
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Hispanic Studies, 2005)Critical writing on the work of Valle-Inclan has focused mostly on its relation to aesthetic tendencies of his time, with the intention of assessing it in the context of European art. By contrast, his interest in Baroque ... -
Estraga-festas divertidas: O humor como ferramenta de resistencia no audiovisual galego feminista
(Edici�ns Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2025)Tal como afirma Juan F. Egea, a comedia xoga un rol importante ao facernos reflexionar sobre cuestións de xustiza social se consideramos «not what causes laughter but rather what laughter causes in us» (2013: 28). Como ... -
Feminisms at Work: The (Re)Production of Gender and Culture in Contemporary Galicia
(2022)Dynamic, multifaceted and multimodal feminist and woman-led artistic production has made its mark in the Galician cultural sphere in recent years. Non-canonical artistic formulations located on the fringes of, and often ... -
Francophone African literature in Spain: A quantitative study based on the BDAFRICA database
(2022)This article intends for the first time to show quantitative data regarding the reception of French-speaking African literature in Spain. Since it was not searchable in any repository, we have used the BDAFRICA bibliographic ...
