Books by Patricia Garcia
This book explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on thei... more This book explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts. Across a range of geographical contexts, this volume builds on the new mobilities paradigm developed by literary scholars, sociologists and human geographers. The different chapters employ a cohesive framework that is sensitive to the intersecting dimensions of power and discrimination that shape urban kinetic features. The contributions are divided into three sections, each of which places the focus on a different aspect of urban mobility: Itinerant Subjects, Modes of Transport and Places of Transit, and Urban Liminalities.
This book explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the ... more This book explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. “Architectures”, “Encounters” and “Rhythms” make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of “urban fantastic” within and across the European traditions studied here.
Lo fantástico, nos dicen las compiladoras de este libro, "es una excelente vía para explorar nues... more Lo fantástico, nos dicen las compiladoras de este libro, "es una excelente vía para explorar nuestro miedo a lo desconocido, nos permite desestabilizar los códigos que trazamos para comprender y representar lo real", así como para subvertir las normas establecidas. En este libro se reúnen una serie de artículos sobre lo fantástico en la ficción latinoamericana y española. Siete textos que buscan ampliar y dar continuidad al volumen El monstruo fantástico: visiones y perspectivas, coordinado por David Roas y publicado también en esta colección. Expresiones del horror en la ficción hispánica nos propone un recorrido desde los mitos prehispánicos en la tradición de relatos mexicana hasta las piezas teatrales de la compañía Hijos de Mary Shelley, pasando por autores tan distintos (pero sin embargo unidos por un hijo común) como son César Aira, Samanta Schweblin, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, María Luisa Bombal o Fernando Iwasaki.
The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twent... more The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers’ works
have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
This book studies how conceptions of postmodern space
have transformed the history of the imposs... more This book studies how conceptions of postmodern space
have transformed the history of the impossible in literature.
This book conceptualizes and contextualizes the
postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s
comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of
the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed,
and conventional. García analyzes a global corpus of the
Fantastic, merging literary analysis with classical questions
of space related to philosophy, urban studies, and
anthropology. This book contributes to the Fantastic,
narratology, and Geocriticism and informs the
interdisciplinary debate on how we make sense of space.
"No hay duda de que vivimos buenos tiempos para lo fantástico en la cultura española: cada vez es... more "No hay duda de que vivimos buenos tiempos para lo fantástico en la cultura española: cada vez es mayor el número de escritores, directores y dibujantes que han optado por cultivarlo como vía de expresión privilegiada. Ello implica también un decisivo crecimiento del número de lectores y espectadores que consumen este tipo de obras y, en directa relación, una mayor atención a lo fantástico por parte de los editores, los productores cinematográficos y teatrales y, lo que también es esencial, los críticos. Buen ejemplo de ello son los diez trabajos recogidos en el presente volumen, que ofrecen una muestra de las más recientes investigaciones sobre lo fantástico".
Book Chapters by Patricia Garcia
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies, 2022
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to t... more Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline and a detailed outline of new directions in the field. It consists of 33 newly commissioned chapters that provide an outline of contemporary literary urban studies. The Companion covers all of the main theoretical approaches as well as key literary genres, with case studies covering a range of different geographical, cultural, and historical settings. The final chapters provide a window into new debates in the field. The three focal issues are key concepts and genres of literary urban studies; a reassessment and critique of classical urban studies theories and the canon of literary capitals; and methods for the analysis of cities in literature. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to the city in literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on city literature.
Collective chapter on teaching approaches and methods.
Ameel, L., García, P. et al. “Teaching Lit... more Collective chapter on teaching approaches and methods.
Ameel, L., García, P. et al. “Teaching Literary Urban Studies”, in Ameel, L. (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. New York; Oxon: Routledge, 11-25. [Q1 in SPI-Scholarly Publishers Indicators]
Press 'At long last, there is an anthology that makes great works in the fantastic by Hispanic wo... more Press 'At long last, there is an anthology that makes great works in the fantastic by Hispanic women writers accessible to an anglophone public. Women authors in Spanish-speaking countries have a long tradition of crafting powerful and original works in the fantastic genre-and an equally lengthy history of being unknown outside their borders. This judicious selection of short stories by five major figures offers excellent critical introductions and sensitive translations, and no doubt will be of use to scholars, students at all levels, and fans of fantastic fiction for years to come. Professors García and López-Pellisa are to be commended for this important volume.' Professor Dale Knickerbocker, East Carolina University The fantastic has been particularly prolific in Hispanic countries during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, largely due to the legacy of short-story writers as well as the Latin-American boom that presented alternatives to the model of literary realism. While these writers' works have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
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Books by Patricia Garcia
have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
have transformed the history of the impossible in literature.
This book conceptualizes and contextualizes the
postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s
comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of
the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed,
and conventional. García analyzes a global corpus of the
Fantastic, merging literary analysis with classical questions
of space related to philosophy, urban studies, and
anthropology. This book contributes to the Fantastic,
narratology, and Geocriticism and informs the
interdisciplinary debate on how we make sense of space.
Book Chapters by Patricia Garcia
Ameel, L., García, P. et al. “Teaching Literary Urban Studies”, in Ameel, L. (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. New York; Oxon: Routledge, 11-25. [Q1 in SPI-Scholarly Publishers Indicators]
have done much to establish the Hispanic fantastic in the international literary canon, women authors from Spain and Latin America are not always acknowledged, and their work is less well known to readers. The aim of this critical anthology is to render Hispanic female writers of the fantastic visible, to publish a representative selection of their work, and to make it accessible to English-speaking readers. Five short stories are presented by five key authors. They attest to the richness and diversity of fantastic fiction in the Spanish language, and extend from the early twentieth to the twenty-first century, covering a range of nationalities, cultural references and language specificities from Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Argentina.
have transformed the history of the impossible in literature.
This book conceptualizes and contextualizes the
postmodern, fantastic use of space that disrupts the reader’s
comfortable notion of space as objective reality in favor of
the concept of space as socially mediated, constructed,
and conventional. García analyzes a global corpus of the
Fantastic, merging literary analysis with classical questions
of space related to philosophy, urban studies, and
anthropology. This book contributes to the Fantastic,
narratology, and Geocriticism and informs the
interdisciplinary debate on how we make sense of space.
Ameel, L., García, P. et al. “Teaching Literary Urban Studies”, in Ameel, L. (ed.). The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies. New York; Oxon: Routledge, 11-25. [Q1 in SPI-Scholarly Publishers Indicators]
of the infinite and their narrative expressions? This article explores the
infinite in two aesthetic paradigms: the horror of the infinite in classical
Greece, and Romanticism’s glorification of the unlimited. It argues that
these two approaches paved the way for a third, a “relational infinite”
that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. To illustrate
this third paradigm, I draw on the works of Argentine author Jorge
Luis Borges and on other fictions of the fantastic genre that make the
boundless and endless a key element of the plot.
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IVUYYGFDFUY3ET4ASYW6/full?target=10.1080/14753820.2022.2142026
Los estudios teratológicos más conocidos muestran una notable falta de atención al lugar físico que ocupa el monstruo. Este artículo propone un desplazamiento del eje tradicional de análisis centrado en el cuerpo del monstruo para abordar el espacio—en concreto la ciudad—como motor caracterizador de la figura monstruosa. Se toma la novela Sin noticias de Gurb (Eduardo Mendoza [1990]) para abordar la alteridad monstruosa insólita no sólo como reflejo crítico de la Barcelona preolímpica sino también, en un sentido más amplio, como resistencia al modelo contemporáneo de ‘ciudad-marca’.
While the relevance of the writings of the young Nietzsche to studies of the supernatural in fiction might not be immediately obvious, this comparative literature article argues that Nietzsche’s view on the Dionysian can enrich the analysis of the forms and structures of the modern literary fantastic. The philosophical concepts of limit as logos and of conflict with the hegemonic paradigm of literary realism are the cornerstones of the argument presented here. These two aspects are examined in relation to a series of nineteenth-century French, English and Spanish fantastic short stories. The final section illustrates how this theory of the Dionysian fantastic can be applied to “Le Horla” (Maupassant, 1887), one of the most influential texts in the history of modern fantastic literature.
in Spain and Latin America since the nineteenth century, it is not as clear whether
these writers are fairly represented in the corpus available to readers. To what extent
are women authors part of the fantastic canon? Are there female reference points for
new generations of women writers? To explore processes of canon formation in the
literature of the fantastic from a feminist perspective, this article gathers paratexts
from 110 anthologies. Employing a quantitative approach with regard to indexed
authors, the first section addresses specific questions related to gender and the
fantastic in the Hispanic context by analysing statistical data. The empirical study is
complemented by an analysis of how the female author is presented and constructed
through the discourse in introductions, forewords and other paratextual materials
of these anthologies.
considered in reader-oriented approaches to literature and in
cognitive psychology research, the potential of connecting the
reader’s affective dimension to literary texts in the teaching of L2
writing skills has not been properly explored. This observation
formed the primary motivation to develop and implement a new approach to L2 Spanish writing, centred on the intertextual
dimension of the written text and on affective responses to
reading. Based on this experience, a variety of questionnaires and practical strategies are offered here to guide literary readings as a basis for developing L2 writing skills. The rewards and challenges of implementing this approach, as the final section will show, might serve as referential background for educators seeking to promote creative writing in L2 education.
However, as argued in this article, the sense of homelessness that predominates in Ballard’s work is often accompanied by an urge to re-territorialise through and within the literary text. Therefore, the analysis seeks move away from the widely analysed tropes of postmodern alienation in the fiction of J.G. Ballard to focus on the mechanisms of making space for an alienated character. A shift in focus from the physical environments where the action takes place (buildings, colonies, neighbourhoods) to the concept of literary worlds (Doležel 1998) is performed in order to provide an innovative interpretation of Ballard’s creative geography.
Using the example of two of Ballard’s most critically acclaimed short stories – “Motel Architecture” (1978) and “The Enormous Space” (1989) – this article explores the transformation of the postmodern ‘non-place’ into a utopian enclave. The literary analysis engages with the narrative concept of one-person worlds, a narrative typology that is inextricably related to the symbolic trope of the microcosm and the socio-urban concept of the privatopia.
precise the object’s loss –“
Emily Dickinson
“Convertir la palabra en la materia
donde lo que quisiéramos decir no pueda
penetrar más allá
de lo que la materia nos diría” (José Ángel Valente)
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Expressions, Research, Orientations: Sexuality Studies and Fringe Urban Narratives present this joint international conference that explores interdisciplinary approaches to Night Studies, with a particular focus on urban environments. Our conference builds on recent scholarship on the urban night in multiple cultural contexts and explores its intersections with Sexuality Studies.
Our conference builds on recent contributions of literary scholarship on mobility (Marian Aguiar, Charlotte Mathieson and Lynne Pearce) and is rooted in the new mobilities framework developed by the sociologists and geographers. This framework is sensitive to the intersecting dimensions of power and discrimination that shape urban kinetic features. We invite scholars across disciplines and geographical contexts with an interest in examining how (im)mobility in the city is constructed and narrated by intersections of race, nationality, disability, class, gender, sexual orientation and other social categories and status markers. We are particularly interested in work that addresses liminal or queer identities, urban borderlands (alleyways, bridges, roads, borders between neighborhoods) and experiences that operate in or between peripheral urban environments, from post-industrial zones in capital cities to (sub)urban environments that are situated outside the canonized capitals of modernity and postmodernity.
Abstract: The spatial turn is a theoretical approach that places emphasis on space and place in disciplines linked with social sciences and the humanities. While never ignoring the fact that we are temporally bound beings, during the past few decades, the use of this approach in different fields of study has increasingly emphasised the importance of spatiality in understanding the history of the human being and of its relation with the environment. The subject is challenging, because it demonstrates that space is no longer a neutral concept and cannot be considered independent from that which it contains, and therefore neither can it be considered as immune to historical, political and aesthetic changes. Ideas of the reciprocal causal relationship between subjects and their environments have been common currency in spatially oriented disciplines (e.g. archaeology. geography, history, urban studies). Instead, other areas, and especially the ones focused on the study of antiquity through textual evidence
En "Sobretextos", el espacio como pilar significativo dentro del universo del fantástico postmoderno. Ya puedes descargar nuestra entrevista a Patricia García, Profesora de la Universidad de Notthingham.
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