Cristina Alsina RIsquez

University of Barcelona | UB · Department of English and German

One of the most recurrent tropes in the US fiction emerging out of the experience of the War in Vietnam is the description of the feeling of estrangement of the soldiers. Thrown into a hostile and inscrutable landscape, deprived of the tools —linguistic or cultural—to read the geographical and human landscape, most returning veterans refer their fe...

El Nexus 2017.2 (edición a cargo de Cristina Alsina Rísquez) consta de: – un texto en homenaje a H. D. Thoreau, a cargo de Eulalia Piñero Gil (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid); – un texto en homenaje a Derek Walcott, a cargo de Jesús Varela-Zapata (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela); – un texto en homenaje a Jonathan Swift, a cargo de José Fr...

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Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007), a novel that addresses the effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on specific individuals, and Zero K (2016), a philosophical novel only indirectly related to 9/11 and the world order emerging from it, reflect on memory and/or language loss and the challenges said losses pose for the definition of “the human”. In bo...

One of the most significant traits of the scholarly literature on the artistic representations of the American War in Vietnam is the silence it keeps, with very few exceptions, about the veteran and G.I. peace movements, one of the most intense war-related public processes to unfold during the war years. By not referring to the nature of G.I. disse...

Most of the fiction that was produced by soldier-writers after the American War in Vietnam has been characterized as therapeutic, with its main objective understood to be healing the wounds caused by the traumatic experience of war. This approach has tended to individualize the experience of particular soldier-writers and to conceive of their ficti...

Birulés, Fina y Fuster, Àngela Lorena (2014) Más alla de la filosofía: Escritos sobre cultura, arte y literatura Madrid: Trotta, 216 p. ISBN 978-84-9879-531-8

A fierce national outcry for righteously waging war has long dominated American culture. From at least the wildly popular Spanish-American War and the US military invasion of the Philippines that infuriated Mark Twain, right up to the current Global War on Terrorism, this is a deadly, dark current coursing throughout American history. Meanwhile, di...

If campaigns are times for political representatives to consult or negotiate with a citizenry, then the ways that a public conversation is conducted matters. In this study, all campaign stories in two national newspapers over the last 2 weeks of Campaign 2000 were sorted by dominant issues and examined for public commentary on those issues. About 6...