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South Central Review
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ISSN (Print) 0743-6831 - ISSN (Online) 1549-3377
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Female Martyrdom as Hybrid Resistance in Ana Castillo’s So Far from
God
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  Abstract: For a novel hailed for its dynamic Chicana feminism, Ana Castillo’s So Far from God (1993) portrays a remarkably harrowing account of violence against women. The novel presents an empowered vision of women who succeed in escaping or subverting their oppressive circumstances through extraordinary means. This empowerment, however, is temporary. Set in the Mexican-American town of Tome, New Mexico, the narrative revolves around protagonists Sofia (Sofi) and her four daughters, Esperanza, Caridad, Fe, and La Loca, who experience powerful resurrections only to be punished for their empowerment through violent martyred deaths. It is on this note that the novel ends, as Sofi’s loss of her daughters leads her to establish ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
The American Red Cross and the Making of Ernest Hemingway
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  Abstract: The impact of World War I on Ernest Hemingway’s writing, and his own harrowing experiences on the front lines in Italy in 1918, has been linked to everything from his hardboiled narratives to his spare rhythms to his traumatized protagonists. Yet scholars have also disputed the extent or shape of this influence, with many cautioning that the relationship between Hemingway’s wartime experience and his subsequent literary output is oblique at best. Michael Reynolds’s groundbreaking and meticulous 1976 study, Hemingway’s First War, argued that it was not the experience of the war itself but Hemingway’s extensive postwar reading and military and medical study that provided the background for a novel like A Farewell to ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
The Changing Landscape of Intellectual History
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  Abstract: The origins of intellectual history as a distinct field cannot be stated with complete confidence, for either its theory or practice. The choice of any single figure as the founder of intellectual history would be subject to legitimate criticism, but Giambattista Vico might be the least controversial figure to be awarded this honor. Benedetto Croce identified him as the first historian to recognize “the unfolding of the human mind in history” as the master variable in the social lives of men and women. Vico’s commanding insight in The New Science (1744) Croce labeled “the intellectual backbone” of serious historiography in modern times.1 Certainly, this book is one of the most important pioneering works about the ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
Almost Heaven: Call Me by Your Name as a Queer Earthly Paradise
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  Abstract: Luca Guadagnino’s 2017 coming-of-age queer romance Call Me by Your Name is a two-hour cinematic journey that takes viewers to a dream-like place while challenging portrayals of queer spaces in film and literature. Based on Andre Aciman’s 2007 novel of the same name, the story is centred around a relationship between the precocious seventeen-year-old, Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), and a twenty-four-year-old visiting grad student, Oliver (Armie Hammer), who spends six-weeks at the Perlmans’ sixteenth-century villa assisting Elio’s professor father, Sami Perlman (Michael Stuhlbarg). Under the hot Italian sun, Elio and Oliver’s friendship builds into a romance while they lounge by the water, read, write, and play ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
Resistance Nostalgia: Jorge Semprún and the Long 1968
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  Abstract: I don’t know how to make a young man today understand—or even if it is possible, let alone if it is useful, for a boy of seventeen who would be in his final class of philosophy—, now that communism is nothing more than a bad memory, an object of archaeological research at most, how can we make him feel, with all his soul, with all his body, what it would have been for a generation which turned twenty at the time of the Battle of Stalingrad, the discovery of Marx [. . .] Impossible to communicate the meaning and the knowledge, the flavor and the fire of this discovery of Marx, at the age of seventeen, in the Paris of the Occupation.I would never dare to give advice to younger generations. But it is true that ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
Tzvetan Todorov: Thinker and Humanist ed. by Henk de Berg and Karine
Zbinden (review)
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  Abstract: As a critical overview of the life and work of the Bulgarian-born French scholar, writer, and intellectual Tzvetan Todorov, this collective volume1 explores some of the main facets of Todorov’s long, wide-ranging, highly productive career. Henk de Berg and Karine Zbinden effectively retrace over five decades of Todorov’s writing on literature, criticism, history, memory, anthropology, ethics, painting, aesthetics, politics, and more. They bring richly deserved attention to one of the most accomplished minds of recent years, who has been relatively neglected ever since he parted ways with the putative luminaries of the 60s and 70s. Noting Todorov’s epistemological and human modesty, the editors point out that he ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
Notes on Contributors
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  Abstract: HAKYOUNG AHN is a Lecturer at Soongsil University in South Korea. Her research examines global rape culture at the intersections of class, sexuality, and race in contemporary transnational literature. She is the author of “Queer Eyes and Gendered Violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India,” published in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 55.5 (June 2019); and “Masculine Failure: Rape Culture and Intergeneration Trauma in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” published in Kate Rose’s Displaced (Routledge, 2020).NATHAN BRACHER is Professor of French at Texas A & M University. He focuses on history, memory, and narrating the past in Contemporary France. Recent articles include “Matters of Principle for ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00
Books Received
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  Abstract: Scholars interested in reviewing for South Central Review should contact Book Review Editor Christopher Bundrick (bundrick@sc.edu). Please indicate which book you would like to review and include a summary vita and your preferred mailing ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-03-25T00:00:00-05:00