Martin Urdiales Shaw

Martin Urdiales Shaw
University of Vigo | UVIGO · Department of English, French and German Philology

PhD English & American Studies

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Introduction
I am Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of English, French and German at the U. of Vigo, Spain, where I teach since 2000. I belong to the NETEC research group (see www.netec.webs.uvigo.es). I specialize in ethnicity in American literature and culture, American literature and globalization, Jewish American fiction, 1930s urban fiction, graphic novels and Holocaust studies, having published on Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Michael Gold, Clifford Odets, and Art Spiegelman, among others.
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December 1999 - present
University of Vigo
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  • Professor (Associate)

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Publications (17)
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This article proposes a reading of Gary Shteyngart’s celebrated novel Super Sad True Love Story (2010), a text that straddles the dystopian and the satiric in its depiction of a quasicontemporary America, from the perspective of Waste Studies. Through the problematic relationship between its two main characters, Shteyngart’s novel articulates the w...
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Professor Victoria Aarons brings together in this volume prominent critics in the field of American Jewish literature. Organized in three sections—I. Concepts; II. Contexts; III. “New” Forms and Histories—The New Jewish American Literary Studies aspires to provide a comprehensive, contemporary, evaluation of this field through a highly interdiscipl...
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REVIEW OF Witness Between Languages (Davies, Peter)
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Edward Dahlberg's childhood, adolescence and youth, narratively fictionalized in two early autobiographical novels, Bottom Dogs (1930) and Flushing to Calvary (1932) is markedly and recurrently informed by the influence of urban sites and institutional spaces. As the article discusses, a number of these spaces are pivotal to the development of Dahl...
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This article examines the ways in which languages occur in the discourse of Auschwitz survivor Vladek Spiegelman, both in the graphic memoir Maus and in the interview transcripts used by Art Spiegelman as original oral source for his father's story. Drawing from contrastive analyses of the ocurrences of German, Nazi-Deutsch, Polish, and Yiddish in...
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This article addresses a meeting of the minds between the American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and the French author Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893). Although these authors belonged to opposing literary trends (romanticism versus realism/naturalism), their storytelling shared unmistakable thematic and formal interests. This paper begins by loo...
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Dans cet essai, je me propose d’examiner la plupart des nouvelles que Henry Roth a écrites entre 1940 et 1980 comme autant de signes de la difficulté qu’il éprouve alors à se situer et (se) représenter dans l’espace. Ce qui me permettra de tracer une « cartographie de la perte » chez lui. Par “perte” j’entends aussi bien le malaise de Roth par rapp...

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