Antoni Maestre-Brotons

Antoni Maestre-Brotons
  • Catalan Studies / English Studies
  • Senior Lecturer at University of Alicante

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Introduction
Antoni Maestre-Brotons currently works at the Catalan Studies Department, University of Alicante. Antoni does research in Catalan literature and culture, gender and queer studies. His current project is 'Gender and sexuality in Catalan cinema and literature.'
Current institution
University of Alicante
Current position
  • Senior Lecturer
Additional affiliations
February 2017 - July 2017
Durham University
Position
  • Visiting Scholar
February 2014 - present
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
October 2000 - present
University of Alicante
Position
  • Professor (Associate)

Publications

Publications (39)
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The poems of Pepe Sales (Barcelona, 1954-1994) are marked by his experience as a homosexual, drug addict and AIDS sufferer. He was a key member of the Barcelona counterculture, along with Pau Riba, Pau Malvido and Genís Cano, and has gone down in history as one of the poètes maudits of contemporary Catalan literature. The aim of this article is to...
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Enric Herce’s Estació Boira (2018) is one of the most outstanding examples of Catalan cyberpunk fiction. It constructs a complicated detective noir plot which unfolds in hyperspace, developing a large cyberpunk repertoire that ranges from all kinds of technological devices and lives — cyborgs, androids — to the perverse interests of multinational c...
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Ressenya sobre el llibre de Catalina Mir, Vint-i-dues aproximacions a la traïció com a tema literari. Per a una anàlisi global de Vint-i-dos contes de Mercè Rodoreda», Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, 2021, 92 p. ISBN: 978-84-121134-4-0.
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“Àngels i monstres" és un estudi sobre els personatges masculins en els contes de Mercè Rodoreda, que fins ara no havien rebut tanta atenció crítica com els femenins. Més que una anàlisi narratològica, el llibre proposa una interpretació de la masculinitat tal com es representa en la narrativa breu de l'escriptora. Una idea fonamental de l'estudi é...
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This article analyzes how a neoliberal understanding of identity shapes gay subjectivity, body, affect, and intimacy in digital environments, particularly Instagram. This social media has become one of the most relevant elements of gay subculture in Western countries, including Spain. Neoliberalism usually reduces gayness to a sort of global market...
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Las primeras autobiografías de gays escritas en Francia, a finales del siglo XIX, se elaboraron a instancias de las autoridades para determinar si sus acciones eran delictivas o patológicas. Tales textos conferían a la homosexualidad un significado médico y jurídico. Además, las autobiografías gays y lésbicas describen el proceso de salir del armar...
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Cesc Gay’s film Truman (2015) is among the contemporary cinematic representations of aging and disability that counteract the broader discourse of cultural pluralism (basically nation, ethnicity, gender and sexuality) in Spanish/Catalan film studies (Marr 2013). In particular, Gay examines how a man deals with the impending death of a friend. As De...
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"La damisel·la santa" és un relat de Raimon Casellas que la crítica considera el primer exemple de prerafaelitisme en la literatura catalana. La narració es basa en determinades obres del pintor i escriptor prerafaelita Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), concretament el poema "The Blessed Damozel" (1850) i el relat "Hand and Soul" (1869). El relat...
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RESUMEN El objetivo de este estudio es examinar el uso (eventual o continuado) que la comunidad gay extranjera residente en España hace de la red social Instagram. Concretamente, se indaga en la noción de transnacionalidad, a la que aluden las interacciones en diferentes niveles que se producen entre origen nacional o étnico y país de acogida, y qu...
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Objectius: exposar els darrers avenços i les noves tendències en la investigació pionera en llengua i literatura catalana, en els àmbits de corpus, lingüística, sociolingüística, literatura, història, estudis culturals, tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació (TIC) i ensenyament multilingüe.
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Catalan Studies are basically focused on national/linguistic identity, but the recent debate on Catalan identity triggered by the current pro-independent process in Catalonia may help reshape this academic field. A more diverse approach to Catalan culture should consider sexuality, which has traditionally been banished from literary analysis as a ‘...
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The films of Cesc Gay (Barcelona, 1967) draw a complex portrayal of the collapse of hegemonic or traditional masculinity. In most cases, the male characters of the films are trapped between a conservative pattern—which is tied to patriarchy, marriage, family and heterosexuality—and a more flexible prototype that breaks away from conservative gender...
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"L’adolescent" és una novel·la de l’escriptor modernista Alfons Maseras publicada en 1909. Conta la història de Ninniur, una dona famosa per la seua bellesa que s’enamora bojament de Nerakim, un adolescent de setze anys, fill del seu marit Nabustarath, que és intendent de la reina mare Nitocris de Babilònia. El capítol explora la figura de la dona...
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This essay explores how, like other science fiction and fantasy novels, 'Typescript of the Second Origin' relates to 1970s counterculture, radical politics and anti-establishment movements. Pedrolo, a leftist and pro-independence strongly committed author, echoes the radical left’s breakaway from the bourgeois reactionary way of life and consumer s...
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L’aprenentatge de la soledat, de David Vilaseca (2008), és una obra que planteja qüestions sobre l’escriptura, la identitat i la sexualitat. Basant-se en la teoria cultural, la psicoanàlisi i la teoria queer, el narrador-protagonista, David —alter ego de l’autor— construeix una identitat homosexual a través del seu diari. Més que confessar la condi...
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This collection, which transports readers from the age of manuscripts to the digital word, is a good demonstration not only of the current vitality of studies of Catalan language and literature, but also of the variety of interests and theoretical approaches and the diversity of origin of Catalan researchers. The studies are focused primarily on th...
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Albert Serra ha convertido su obra cinematográfica en una reflexión sobre la vejez masculina, o más bien el envejecimiento de ciertos arquetipos masculinos, a juzgar por los protagonis-tas de las películas, que suelen ser hombres ancianos: Don Quijote, los Re-yes Magos, Casanova o Luis XIV. Este artículo explora concretamente la sexualidad a partir...
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This article explores how, like other science fiction and fantasy novels, Typescript of the Second Origin relates to 1970s counterculture, radical politics and anti-establishment movements. Pedrolo, a leftist and pro-independence strongly committed author, echoes the radical left’s breakaway from the bourgeois reactionary way of life and consumer s...
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The film Joves (2004) presents three interconnected stories of young men in Barcelona, providing a bleak portrayal of violent young masculinity, which masters all the spaces where the characters move, tracing a descending course from the apex of the financial world (shaped by verticality and order) to the chaotic, enclosed underworld of night life,...
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Ressenya sobre el llibre de Vicent Simbor (ed.), Ironies de la Modernitat. La ironia del Modernisme al Noucentisme , Barcelona, Publicacions de l’Abadia de Montserrat, 2015, 277 pp., ISBN: 978-84-9883-811-4.
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In classic gothic fiction, vampires were conceived of as a monster to be destroyed; however, in the last forty years novels, films and TV series tend to assimilate them to human society. This process is known as domestication or regeneration. As a metaphor for sexual, racial, gender or class difference, this adaptation represents, according to Fouc...
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Popular culture and the film industry have changed our perception of the past. But perhaps more relevant is the way they show history to be an area of conflict where meaning is continually negotiated. Among the fictional narratives that deal with the Spanish Civil War, non-realist novels, films, comics and videogames comprise a special category. Wh...
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La crítica ha subratllat el caràcter metaficcional de l’obra de Pere Calders, que reelabora molts dels tòpics de la literatura fantàstica en els seus relats, sovint mitjançant l’humor i la ironia. Tanmateix, des d’una perspectiva psicoanalítica, aquest diàleg amb la tradició es pot comprendre també com una exploració del significat que la fantasia...
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De la Transició sorgeixen els dos grans projectes per a l’Espanya i la Catalunya del postfranquisme basats en la idea de “normalitat”: la normalitat democràtica i la normalització cultural i lingüística catalana. Aquests projectes desbanquen els plans rupturistes de la contracultura i l’esquerra radical. Considerats com un “excés” o un “residu” de...
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The cultural meaning of music is produced by musicians, critics, musicologists, audience, and record industry. According to Pierre Bourdieu, this meaning is related to the symbolic value of music as a field where social fights take place to raise cultural capital. Specifically, the discourse on contemporary popular music, as shown in newspaper arti...
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Aquest llibre és una introducció a la narrativa breu de Sergi Pàmies, un dels escriptors més destacats de la literatura catalana actual. L’escriptor s’ocupa dels aspectes essencials de la vida i de la narració, de manera que l’esquematisme de l’espai i dels personatges coincideix amb un interès cada cop més poderós per les preocupacions i els senti...
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Although comic has a long tradition, only after the seventies can its influence be traced in literature. Then the famous debate between what Umberto Eco called apocalyptic and integrated regarding mass culture took place, which led the youngest authors to refuse tradition and academic yardsticks about literary quality. The most daring writers will...
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Entrevista a Edgar Cantero.
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In postmodernist fiction and new journalism, parody is used to combat the manipulation of classical literary and journalistic genres, based on objectivism as a commonplace, which usually impose an unequivocal vision of facts preventing any kind of dissidence. This shrewd control of language, revealed in clich use, also characterizes political disco...
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The aim of this article is to analyse which role fiction plays in columns, specifically the practice known as self-fiction in the literary research field. It consists of the creation of a fictitious personality with the same name and surnames as the author's. On the other hand, I will study why columns and short fiction can be swapped. This researc...
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Antoni Maestre focalitza el diari surrealista de J. V. Foix com «una de les obres que més s’allunya de les directrius canòniques del gènere». I proposa així una revisió d’aquest text d’aparença híbrida («un diari escrit en prosa poètica o un conjunt de proses poètiques en forma de diari»), amb una atenció específica a l’originalitat. En efecte: el...
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El objetivo de este artículo es investigar qué papel ejerce la ficción en las columnas, concretamente la práctica que, en el campo de los estudios literarios, se conoce como autoficción y que consiste en crear una personalidad ficticia con los mismos nombres y apellidos del autor. Por otro lado, analizaré el intercambio que se suele producir entre...

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