GINR. Monografíashttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1541932026-04-27T19:35:41Z2026-04-27T19:35:41ZGlocal Narratives of Resilience and HealingFraile Marcos, Ana Maríahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1577502024-12-03T01:02:22Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZThe introductory chapter to this volume proposes the term “glocal narratives of resilience” to draw attention to a category of cultural narratives currently emerging all over the world and not only staging the resilience discourses that have become a global phenomenon, but engaging aesthetically and ideologically in (re)shaping them. It is divided in three sections. The first part tracks the origins and development of various strands of resilience thinking from the second half of the twentieth century to the present, when resilience has become a pervasive idiom of global governance. It also explores the use of alternative terms to talk about resilience in specific geopolitical contexts. For instance, special attention is paid to the theorization of resilience in Indigenous thinking through the notions of survivance, resistance, refusal and resurgence, which constitute a counterpoint to hegemonic resilience discourse by both contesting and affirming processes of adaptation, survival and radical transformation. The second section focuses on the agency of cultural narratives of resilience and their function as cognitive mechanisms for the generation and/or contestation of received notions of resilience. Finally, this introduction presents a survey of the twelve chapters in this volume, situating them within the various theoretical frameworks delineated previously and tying them together.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Crisis of Love in Dionne Brand’s Love EnoughFraile Marcos, Ana Maríahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1576972024-11-15T01:02:56Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThis chapter argues that Dionne Brand’s novel Love Enough (2014) appears as an inquiry into the contemporary ethics and politics of love as practiced in the Canadian global city of Toronto. Together with the dismal depiction of an indifferent city, Love Enough hints at the possibility of creating Toronto’s urban space as the site for human sociability and cooperation directed at communal survival and self-fulfillment through the exploration of the interaction of various kinds of love, including Agape, Eros, Philia and Storge. For the analysis of love as an affective and political tool that combines romanticism dreaming with the awakening of political consciousness in the novel, this paper draws on the work of critical theorists Terry Eagleton, Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, Slavoj Žižek, Michael Hardt, Rosi Braidotti, Franz Fanon, George Elliott Clarke, and bell hooks.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Traffic of Affect in Michael Helm’s Cities of RefugeFraile Marcos, Ana Maríahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1576942024-05-08T00:01:32Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThis chapter analyses Michael Helm's novel through the lens of affect theory, humanitarianism, and urban studies. It posits that the novel registers both affective responses to the stranger while pointing that in our search for meaning in a highly chaotic globalized world, the traffic of emotions emerging from the city challenges conventional oppositions between analytical and affective reasoning. It aims to demonstrate that the novel links affect to aesthetics in the form of creative writing and story-telling, only to question the epistemological and ethical limits of the knowledge achieved through narrative.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZFree Will, Moral Blindness and Affective Resilience in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes LastFraile Marcos, Ana Maríahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1576932024-12-19T09:13:06Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZThis chapter suggests that Margaret Atwood’s speculative novel The Heart Goes Last reflects on the possibilities and limitations of affect to elicit resilience and positive social change. I posit that resilience—understood broadly as either the capacity of beings and systems to withstand adversity and endure by absorbing shocks and adapting to conditions of crisis, or as “the process of harnessing biological, psychosocial, structural and cultural resources to sustain wellbeing” (Panter-Brick and Leckman 335; emphasis mine)—emerges in Atwood’s novel as a new affect linked to anxiety and emphasizing the tensions between agency, free will, and moral blindness. The article draws on Zygmunt Bauman’s and Hannah Arendt’s philosophical analyses of the contemporary moment, and tracks the novel’s critique of the cold sensitivity underpinning resilience strategies in times of the crises inherent to the period of late modernity.
2021-01-01T00:00:00Z‘Who's going to look after the river?’: Water and the Ethics of Care in Thomas King's The Back of the TurtleFraile Marcos, Ana Maríahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1576912024-12-16T17:40:34Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThis paper analyses the trope of water in Thomas King’s latest novel The Back of the Turtle from an ethics-of-care perspective that puts in conversation Indigenous ethics, feminist care ethics and environmental ethics. I suggest that King’s focus on water offers a harsh—even if often humorous—critique of the anthropocentric, neoliberal extractivist mentality while proposing a transcultural ethics of care. Consequently, my analysis of the novel draws on the dialogue taking place in the realm of the Environmental Humanities in Canada and beyond about the centrality of water (See Cecilia Chen, Janine MacLeod and Astrida Neimais’ Thinking with Water; Dorothy Christian and Rita Wong’s Downstream: Reimagining Water; Astrida Neimanis’ Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology; Stacy Alaimo’s Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times, as well as on Indigenous epistemologies that eschew anthropocentrism in favour of attentive caring for the interconnected needs of humans and non-humans within interdependent ecologies, and feminist environmental care ethics that emphasize the importance of empowering communities to care for themselves and the ecologies that sustain them.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZResilient Stereotypes in Recent Crisis Novels from SpainFraile Marcos, Ana Maríahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1576882024-07-09T11:19:19Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZAfter the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2008, the hegemony of the politics of financial debt was largely perceived in Southern Europe as an internal colonisation, with Germany as the leading economic power. According to this view, Southern Europe became the trial ground for neoliberal late capitalism. The unequal impact of the crisis on the different European economies resulted in the unwelcome reactivation of old stereotypes that hinder the European process towards transnational economic, social and cultural convergence. This contribution considers fiction as a privileged space for the nuanced representation of the complexities characterising the current moment of European liquid modernity and presents the novel as an important arena for critical reflection. It discusses a selection of recently published novels from Spain, which, set in the aftermath of the construction boom and the unveiling of systemic corruption, register the multiple negative consequences of the European austerity policies and grapple with the resurfacing of the stereotypical constructs of national identities through humour, satire, and social and political critique. Among the authors considered are Almudena Grandes, Germán Gullón, Rafael Chirbes, Luis García Jambrina, and Belén Gopegui.
2021-01-01T00:00:00ZGlocal Narratives of ResilienceFraile Marcos, Ana Maríahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1576862024-12-02T08:11:21Z2020-01-01T00:00:00ZResilience discourse has recently become a global phenomenon, infiltrating the natural and social sciences, but has rarely been undertaken as an important object of study within the field of the humanities. Understanding narrative in its broad sense as the representation in art of an event or story, Glocal Narratives of Resilience investigates the contemporary approaches to resilience through the analyses of cultural narratives that engage aesthetically and ideologically in (re)shaping the notion of resilience, going beyond the scales of the personal and the local to consider the entanglement of the regional, national and global aspects embedded in the production of crises and the resulting call for resilience. After an introductory survey of the state of the art in resilience thinking, the book grounds its analyses of a wide range of narratives from the American continent, Europe, and India in various theoretical strands, spanning Psycho-social Resilience, Socio-Ecological Resilience, Subaltern Resilience, Indigenous survivance and resurgence, Neoliberal Resilience, and Compromised Resilience thinking, among others, thus opening the path toward the articulation of a cultural narratology of resilience.
2020-01-01T00:00:00ZCritical Dystopias in Spanish: memory as an Act of ResilienceFraile Marcos, Ana MaríaNoguerol Jiménez, Franciscahttp://hdl.handle.net/10366/1407392023-06-13T03:17:03Z2019-01-01T00:00:00Z[EN] The lines in the epigraph, “But where there is danger, / A rescuing element grows as well” (Hölderlin 71), highlight a quality of resilience that can be observed in the capacity of human beings for endurance and recovery when they find themselves under extreme pressure. The present chapter approaches the study of human resilience through the lens of memory and its centrality in the recovery of individual and collective self-esteem by focusing on a selection of recent “critical dystopias” (Moylan) written in Spanish. We suggest that the selected works can be understood as ascribing to the “ethics of defeat” (Amar Sánchez) and “reflective nostalgia” (Boym), at the same time as they investigate the potentiality of “cultural agencies” (Sommer) for the development of resilience. Furthermore, we argue that the chosen dystopian narratives reject the consensus ethics characteristic of contemporary writing (Rancière) and defend, instead, an ethics of conviction (Badiou).
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