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Female Warriors, social injustice and the transformational force of anger in Jaye Wells’ Sabina Kane series
(UCOPress, 2023)
Urban fantasy heroines tend to be highly trained supernatural or magical beings who unapologetically use violence to achieve their goals. Their stories, often plotted as revenge narratives, are in many cases driven by ...
Nigerian women negociating beauty, power, and love in the romantic Web series "Skinny Girl in Transit"
(UCOPress, 2023)
Although Nigerians have historically been reputed for appreciating large body size, the increasing influence Western beauty standards has changed the social construction of plus-size bodies (Fausat and Ayodele, 2017). In ...
Romancing the university: Bipoc scholars in romance novels in the1980's and now
(UCOPress, 2023)
English-language mass-market romance novels written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) writers and starring BIPOC protagonists are a small but important group. This article is a comparative analysis of how ...
Adaptación y transformación del cuento de fantasmas victoriano: rastros de intertextualidad en «Los otros» de Alejandro Amenábar y «El orfanato» de Juan Antonio Bayona
(UCOPress, 2023)
Una serie de largometrajes de cineastas españoles de principios del siglo XXI, como es el caso de Los otros (2001) de Alejandro Amenábar y El orfanato (2007) de Juan Antonio Bayona, evocan, a la par que recrean, el cuento ...
“Healing is Like Falling in Love but Deeper": Romance and intertextuality in Junauda Petrus's "The stars and the Blackness between them"
(UCOPress, 2023)
This article examines Junauda Petrus’s The Stars and the Blackness Between Them (2020) – a literary debut telling the story of two black girls from different backgrounds falling in love with each other – in light of John ...
Maggie O'Farrell's «Hamnet»: an Imaginative Critical-Biographical Interpretation of William Shakespeare's «Hamlet»
(UCOPress, 2023)
The aim of this essay is to contribute to the understanding of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet (1603) by means of a critical reconsideration of biographical episodes such as the functional gap the playwright left in ...
Margin-alt: el ethos periférico y los márgenes a propósito de Javier García Rodríguez
(UCOPress, 2023)
Javier García Rodríguez es un autor cuya obra tiene base autobiográfica, pese a lo cual, la autoconciencia ficcional es un elemento clave. Todos sus libros configuran una misma obra, porque comparten un mismo autor implícito ...