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  • Monográfico Escritoras y Asia Oriental y Número 27
    No. 27 (2024)

    Monográfico Escritoras de Asia Oriental

    Las escritoras asiáticas son escasamente conocidas en España. Salvo contadas excepciones, muy poco se ha publicado en nuestra lengua sobre el movimiento feminista de Asia Oriental y las traducciones al español escasean. Las diversas culturas de China, Corea y Japón han producido textos literarios que, aunque prácticamente desconocidos en nuestro país, ofrecen una riqueza y un alcance similar a los de cualquier otra cultura de los cánones literarios del mundo occidental. El paso relevante para acercar nuestra relación con los estudios de género de Asia Oriental debe ser una determinación consciente de eludir las imágenes exóticas y lejanas. Frente a la tendencia tradicional a hacer de las mujeres chinas, coreanas y japonesas un “otro” agrupado, se debe fomentar un interés constante por hacer visible la diversidad y complejidad que existe en cada sociedad específica dentro de lo que denominamos Asia Oriental.

    Número 27

    En este número se incluyen diversos artículos de diferentes temáticas, siempre con la mirada feminista como eje de las investigaciones.

  • Voces líricas de ambos lados del Atlántico. La poesía escrita por mujeres en español en el siglo XXI (2000-2021)
    No. 26 (2023)

    Coordinan: Carmen Medina Puerta (Universitat de Lleida) y Alí Calderón Farfán (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla)

    El presente monográfico surge de la voluntad de crear un espacio de debate plural, rico y coherente en torno a la producción poética de las mujeres que escriben en español en la actualidad. Para ello, partimos de una perspectiva panhispánica, es decir, considerado necesario reflexionar sobre la escritura poética en español de las mujeres obviando momentáneamente las fronteras geográficas y políticas que las separan para centrarnos en los temas y cuestiones que las aúnan. Principalmente, dos son las razones que nos motivan a partir de esta perspectiva integradora. Por un lado, es evidente que la expansión de internet en el siglo XXI ha permitido acortar las distancias físicas y ha provocado que el diálogo de las manifestaciones literarias en español sea continuo y fructífero. Por otro lado, no se puede obviar que el siglo XXI ha venido acompañado de importantes agitaciones y demandas feministas que, a su vez, están teniendo evidentes repercusiones en el lenguaje y en las manifestaciones artísticas.

  • Gender studies from Latin America. Differences and sexual preferences in spaces of knowledge and knowing and Rewriting rewriting history on feminine spaces and new masculinities in masculinities in contemporary literature
    No. 25 (2022)

    Issue 25 (2022). Monograph dedicated to Gender Studies from Latin America. Differences and sexual preferences in spaces of knowledge and knowing.

    Coordinated by: Amalia Ortíz de Zárate and Rodrigo Browne, Universidad Austral de Valdia, Chile.

    In this issue, the following thematic axes are addressed: the vision of historical, political, cultural, social, etc. phenomena on sexuality, dissidence, identity and sexual preference from multiple perspectives (and formats), which allow us to outline the paths we are taking to give voice to these phenomena, and contribute to understanding them from an inclusive, multicultural and transdisciplinary perspective.

    Monographic Rewriting history: on feminine spaces and new masculinities in contemporary literature

    Editors: Maria Ayete Gil and Nuria Torres López.

    Let us take the gender lens out of the drawer, let us put it on and dare to face up to the malaise by looking around us and at ourselves. Only in this way can we become aware of the questioning under which, for some time now, identities and their places in the world have been living. Masculinity is in crisis, and with it, gender binarism. The social transformations brought about by the feminist movements of recent years have opened a new window: the debate around masculinity and its values. This debate has in turn produced a double movement: on the one hand, the vindication of another possible masculinity by men who do not identify with the gender roles imposed and the places assigned by patriarchy; on the other, a reactionary tendency to these other models, characterised by the defence of the hegemonic masculine practices that originated and continue to legitimise the unequal socio-cultural and political organisation that we inhabit.
    The new masculinities, in continuous revision, emerge as an alternative to the imperatives imposed by the dominant male gender model. "We are also victims of this cultural construct that functions as a model; we suffer its consequences", their banners declare. However, we also ask ourselves how these alternatives affect women. In other words, what is the relationship between these dissident masculinities and women? After all, their birth cannot be detached from the feminist movement. But does it go beyond it, and what is the place of women in the present debate?

  • Artistas y escritoras espectaculares
    No. 24 (2021)

    Feminism currently constitutes the great critical theory resistant to the neoliberal and patriarchal present. To continue contributing to feminist thought, it is necessary to continue researching to end the mutilated history that we know and recognize those great women who contributed quality artistic and scientific production. It is essential to raise the obstacles they had and the mechanisms that have excluded them from the books of our History. In addition, we must be aware of the role that women currently have both in the editorial and cultural circuits and in science. This issue of our magazine tries to make visible not only the creation of women but the problems they face. It also seeks to recover the writings, debates and mobilizations that they carried out against the social and family structure in which they lived because all this theoretical production and this knowledge is also feminist activism. The demand for gender equality continues to be very active in almost all disciplines and this publication aims to be a space where the speeches of our past referents dialogue with the concerns of our present struggle.

  • Relacionadas. Autoras, contextos y vínculos.
    No. 23 (2020)

    This issue focuses on the relationships of female writers, artists and intellectuals both with the events that defined their historical, social and cultural context, and their personal and professional circumstances. Among others, the following topics are addressed: the vision of historical events through female writers, intellectuals and artists of any era; female writers, artists and intellectuals in relation to the cultural movements of their time; sisterhood, collaboration or solidarity relationships between women creators; rivalries and enmities of women creators within the framework of patriarchal normativity; female creators and their relationships with the traditional canon; alliances and solidarity relations between genders between intellectual and inventive men and women.

  • Genealogías femeninas
    No. 22 (2019)

    This issue of the International Journal of Cultures and Literatures focuses on the figures of women who  have contributed with their lives and works to shaping the present we know, in fields such as activism and political participation, literature and thought, academy and university and the arts and show business. This number aims to be a tribute to the women who have paved the way for their successors, at the same time that it fosters identification with plural, peripheral models that attend to diversity and heterogeneity.

  • Destejiendo el Corpus
    No. 21 (2018)

    A patriarchal burden is installed along the whole process of representation and communication of the myths, and in the political and literary canon. The historical link between presence and truth is defined by an andrologocentric culture, and in the same consideration of the myths, many stereotypes about masculinity and femininity are perpetuated.

    For these reasons, in this special issue of the International Journal of Cultures and Literatures there is a need to unravel this supposed universal tapestry of our culture that has silenced any dissident or deviant voice.

  • En los márgenes del texto
    No. 20 (2017)

    This issue aims to dig into the margins beyond the literary canon, starting from a gender perspective to analyse different female aspects, most of them underestimated or even forgotten for a long time. The vindication of women in different research fields starts from the Querelle des Femmes until our days, addressing the study of female characters, authors and researchers that constitute a different way of thinking compared to the established order.

  • Mujeres desde la tramoya: artes escénicas y género
    No. 19 (2016)

    Women in the performing arts have been present almost and exclusively in the role of actresses. Their contribution to other areas has been systematically ignored and made invisible (authors, choreographers, directors, stage hands, costume designers, etc.). This issue aims to analyze the gender gap in this sector and to publicize female figures behind the scenes. Throughout history, the presence of women has been much lower than that of men in the creative process of the performing arts and at present the participation of women in the theater is still far from what would be desirable in terms of parity and equality.

  • Locas. Escritoras y personajes femeninos cuestionando las normas
    No. 18 (2016)

    This volume adopts a definition of insanity as a social construct, subject to historical and cultural changes, which has historically been used differently when applied to women. Female dissent has been described many times as "abnormality." Renaissance writers who aspired to be famous for their erudition or poetic culture were perceived as true "monsters", contradicting with their intelligence the imperfect, subaltern and deficient feminine nature. During Romanticism many writers chose a pseudonym to sign their works and to bridge the border between their public self as a writer and their private self as a morally respectable woman. At the beginning of the 20th century, professional writers are socially rejected, considered sick of imagination, hysterical or women of doubtful morality, knowing the scorn of literary criticism or their indifference.

    The texts that are part of this issue analyze the work of different writers in various languages ​​and their transgressive and marginalized female characters by the society in which they live, reflect on the literary representations of psychic pain and the stigma associated with psychiatric diagnoses and explores the relationships between creation and madness conjugated in feminine.

  • Cuerpos Ultraoceánicos
    No. 17 (2015)

    There are no fictions without bodies, which become the support of literature, in turn, an extension and representation of bodies. The body is always verbalized and interpreted. No body can escape its representation. Reflection on the body, its desires, conflicts and representations in different writers are the focus of this monographic issue that pays special attention to the cultural constructions of Latin America, especially Chileans. The textured body and the embodied text constitute the core of the different analyzes that reflect on texts outside the literary canon in a disturbing and subversive exercise that challenges and confronts America and the West with their roots, their beliefs and their disembodied ghosts.

  • Escritoras y personajes femeninos cuestionando las normas
    No. 16 (2015)

    Many writers from different cultures are characterized by their insubordination to social norms and textual norms that rigidly encode literary genres and cage writing. Many of his texts are shown as incomplete, imperfect, and irrelevant from the canonical point of view. The volume reflects on the marginalization of women writers in different languages ​​and literatures, on the presence of women writers in the literary canon and on the need to question the norms that govern canonization in the literary system. The authors' texts pose different challenges to literary history and its androcentric categories, therefore, from a didactic point of view, the need to reformulate programs and subjects in different educational settings to include female writers and the diversity of the who are carriers.

  • Mujeres en la vida pública
    No. 15 (2014)

    The area of ​​women par excellence is private life. Every public sphere was in principle excluded for her until the beginning of the 20th century, including study and writing, which although they could be exercised from home or from the convent, projected the female figure symbolically outside the domestic sphere. This volume analyzes the difficulties faced by women in being able to join social life through a series of literary texts and sociological studies developed in different cultural contexts. Not only the struggle for public space, but also the arduous struggle for symbolic and cultural spaces are the concern of many writers of the past and present.

  • Escrituras en los márgenes (suplemento)
    No. 14 (2013)

    This issue reflects and analyzes the marginalization of women writers in different languages ​​andliteratures, the presence of women writers in the literary canon and the need to recover texts by authors to integrate them into the different manuals and anthologies that make up textbooks in education. The writers have been cultural agents whose authorship has been rejected due to their condition as women, they have suffered marginalization, curse and discrimination within cultural history. His works have not been sufficiently valued by male literary critics and many times they have been eliminated from the publishing market. This marginal condition, however, has allowed many writers the freedom to ignore the codified rules of literary genres and the rules of patriarchal behavior, the result of which is unorthodox texts where utopia is possible and the germ of future innovations.

  • Ausencias. Escritoras en los márgenes de la literatura
    No. 13 (2013)

    The writers in the literature manuals are configured as "Absences". When Marina Zancan points out that the literary tradition is the “history of a masculine thought, not only because of the absence of female writers, but also because that tradition has codified the feminine, through themes, styles and scale of values”, she seems to answer implicitly to the question “Who owns the canon? and who does the canon serve?The writers' texts, which have always been considered minor, contradict a hierarchical logic that the texts collected in this volume put into discussion: the binary logic that separates masculine / feminine, art / no art, canonical / non-canonical discourses, culture / nature. If women writers are condemned to the margins of culture, that space also turns into contestation, subversion, experimentation and creativity.

  • Escritoras del mundo e iconos femeninos
    No. 12 (2012)

    In different literatures there is a constant confusion between the writers and the female characters and icons created by the writers. The writers have to affirm themselves by breaking precisely the feminine stereotypes constructed from an androcentric perspective. This volume aims to analyze the relationships between writers of different languages ​​and cultures and the female icons that are produced and reproduced within their cultures of belonging.

  • Máscaras femeninas: personajes y autoras
    No. 11 (2011)

    Theater is a literary field that takes place in the public space, for this reason the participation of women will be hampered by social and moral norms. Since actresses were able to go on stage in the 16th century, women have actively participated in the writing of plays, both religiously and secularly, creating female characters that often became alter egos of their authors. . A call is made in this issue to contribute with analysis of plays and theater writers, especially unpublished or little studied.

  • Mujeres en escena
    No. 10 (2011)

    This issue analyzes the subversion implied by the participation of women in the theater, either from their position as authors of plays, or as characters. The theater allows and represents a cultural environment in which women have a greater margin of agency, in the sense that they can embody characters that transgress social rules. Opposing visions between female characters seen from an androcentric perspective and from a feminine / feminist perspective are fostered.

  • Mistic@s
    No. 9 (2010)

    Spirituality brings together both canonical theological elements and those of popular and massive religiosity, and refers to the intellectual and affective dimensions of the relationship with the divine as well as the methods and traditions that allow the construction of a relationship with oneself in an interior space. . Mystical texts: hagiographies, spiritual epistolary, autobiographies, spiritual diaries, mystical writings, exemplary lives and poetry, among others, whose models appeal to direct dialogue with God, lack a tradition of analysis from a gender perspective. Many of the texts written by men or women have not been sufficiently valued from a literary point of view and from a secular sphere. This volume aims to collect little-known authors and mystical works through the critical analysis of their texts, placed in a tradition of feminine spirituality that goes far beyond the conventual walls, in different literatures and historical periods that can account for the heterodoxy of this literary genre.

  • Las mujeres en las escrituras antiguas
    No. 8 (2009)

    Feminist theology is presented as a dissident exegetical practice that gives new interpretations to sacred texts. This volume aims to contribute to make visible the female dissidence present in these texts and to analyze the role that women play in them. The women protagonists of the Bible have not only had a fundamental role in the history of salvation, but their figures have transcended the religious sphere to become lay models in many of the successive literary texts. Valuing the different study perspectives of these women and texts in which they are not protagonists, from a feminist perspective means knowing and critically evaluating the views and interpretations with which these women have been presented throughout history: their relationship with texts and their modification to respond to different social, religious, and political historical contexts.

  • Lo femenino fuera de lugar: Mujeres, Literatura y Exilio
    No. 7 (2008)

    Exile has always been a literary theme told from a male perspective. The exiled writers were silenced and forgotten by literary history, not only because of their political status as dissidents but also because of their status as women who broke the norms of conduct and the models imposed by the femininity of the state. Many women writers suffered exile status in the 20th century due to political changes in Europe. His works, tinged with a strong autobiography, have been scarcely published, republished or studied. The textual particularities of female exile are analyzed in this volume from an intercultural and ambivalent perspective, as an imposed exile and consciously chosen internal exile, as Virginia Woolf argued: “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, I don't want a country. As a woman, my country is the whole world ”.

  • Hispanoamericanas en papel
    No. 6 (2007)

    The different contributions that analyze the works of little-known writers from South America, in whose geography Chile occupies the South of the South. The volume makes known especially writers related to the indigenous oral cultures of this country and new poetic voices and narratives that carry non-hegemonic visions. The importance of fixing the work of these writers on a more durable and less ephemeral medium than the voice gives its name to the volume and underlines the existence of new critical perspectives applied to these new texts incorporated into written culture.

  • Feminismo e Interculturalidad
    No. 5 (2006)

    This volume relates the intercultural debate, which has a long history in other areas of research, such as ethnicity and the decolonization of peoples, with the literature written by women from feminist perspectives. Some of the articles present link decolonization with feminism, others de-patriarchalize epistemological models, hierarchies and marginalization through the analysis of works and characters. The different analyzes bet on the recognition of the invisible knowledge, the cultures considered subaltern, legitimizing them, analyzing the impositions of "outsiders" and the relationships between hierarchically disparate worlds. Black, indigenous or lesbian women, who constitute the characters of some works, aim to make visible the differences in the construction of subjectivity in a critique of the subject constructed by feminism white and western hegemonic.

  • Estudios culturales y de género. Puentes entre Sudamérica y Europa
    No. 4 (2006)

    This monographic issue aims to bring together different South American and European university interventions on cultural and gender studies. Cultural studies existed as a discipline at least since the mid-1960s in England, and in the 1980s it became part of literary criticism. Some of the issues that arose in this interrelation could not be addressed without the perspective of gender studies, such as the relationship between literature and the symbolic dimension of the social world, the specific qualities of literary discourse, and the dialogue between literary texts and social texts.

  • Monográfico en italiano: Mujeres y ciencia
    No. 3 (2005)

    This special monographic issue has been the result of collaboration with the Department of History of Science at the University of Bari, Italy. The contributions with which different women in Europe have contributed to science are reviewed, from chemistry to virology, through gynecology and other sciences in a period that spans from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution. Making these figures visible is essential to create a new History of science that is not biased by gender stereotypes that make women's contributions and their scientific profiles invisible, thus preventing the identification of young women with these types of icons.

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