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A Specific Guide to the PhD Dissertation VIVA
Martín-González, Juan José
(2023-06-22)
The day of your VIVA is probably one of the most important and stressful days in the life of a PhD student. Students are often assaulted by manifold questions: “how will it work?” “Who will be there?”, “how will I feel?”, ... -
Adapting Victorian Gypsies for the Screen: Ethnicity, Otherness and (In)visibility in Neo-Victorian Popular Film
Martín-González, Juan José (2016-09-06)
This paper aims at analysing the presence of gypsy characters in two neo-Victorian popular films, namely Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman (2010) and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows (2011). The cultural construction ... -
“África, India y el Océano Índico: Relaciones afroasiáticas en la literatura africana”
Martín-González, Juan José (2021-09)
En su obra Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India and the Afrasian Imagination (2013), Gaurav Desai usa el término “imaginación afroasiática” como forma de protesta en contra del etnocentrismo que ha caracterizado al ... -
Aquatic Cartographies: Oceanic Imaginaries, Histories and Identities,
Martín-González, Juan José (2022)
In her volume The Invisible Empire: White Discourse, Tolerance and Belonging (2009), Georgie Wemyss has discussed lascars as a case study of what she calls the ‘Invisible Empire’ (2009: 3). Unacknowledged and unremembered ... -
Britain and Consensus Politics, 1945-1955 : Myth or Reality?
(2020-09-03)This study lies within the framework of the years 1945-1955, which correspond to Clement Attlee’s Labourite and Winston Churchill’s Conservative administrations. Many analysts claim that, after World War II, a tacit ... -
Cultural Haunting and the Trace of the Colonial Other in Arthur Conan Doyle's Short Fiction
Martín-González, Juan José (2017-09-28)
In Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain (2002), Susheila Nasta argues that “the arrival in Britain of several generations of black and Asian 'immigrants' in the period following decolonization and ... -
'I Have Every Reason to Love England': Black (neo)Victorianism and Transatlantic Fluidity in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Martín-González, Juan José (2016-12-13)
Within neo-Victorianism, or contemporary fiction which rewrites the Victorian age, Marie-Lousie Kohlhe has pointed out a critical “reluctance to engage head-on in cross-cultural comparisons, which seem essential ... -
“I Was Never So Unmanned Before”: (Emasculating) Imperialism and the Late Victorian Crisis of Masculinity in Fin-de-Siècle Fiction
Martín-González, Juan José (2015-07-14)
The Victorian Fin de Siècle was a period characterized by decay, anxiety and identity fragmentation. Within the convolution of race, gender and class which was evinced in those decades, the crisis of masculinity outstands ... -
Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism(s) in Adulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea (2001)
Martín-González, Juan José (2022-11)
The recent Nobel Prize winner for literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah, is considered one of the most distinguished chroniclers of the Indian Ocean.That is the case of By the Sea (2001), an epic narrative criss-crossing three ... -
(Neo)Victorian Globalisation and Sino-Indian Relations in Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011)
Martín-González, Juan José (2019-01-16)
In light of renewed perspectives on Victorian global politics and international relations, this paper provides a close reading of Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011). Set in 1839, this second instalment in the so-called ... -
'The Sea is History': Transoceanic Perspectives on the Neo-Victorian Maritime Novel
Martín-González, Juan José (UMA Editorial, 2019-10)
This PhD thesis examines a selection of postcolonial neo-Victorian novels in the context of oceanic migration during the nineteenth century. The Victorian period (1837-1901) in Britain features today as a fulcrum point for ... -
The Enemy Within’: Liminality, Otherness and Neo-Victorian Gypsies
Martín-González, Juan José (2016-01-13)
Gypsies, or Romanies, are a collective against whom, for centuries, white Europeans have posited a series of racial prejudices and stereotypes. Qualified alternatively as criminals, child kidnappers, or tricksters, gypsies ... -
Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy.
Martín-González, Juan José (Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2021)
Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy studies Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies (2008), River of Smoke (2011) and Flood of Fire (2015) in relation to maritime criticism. Juan-José Martín-González draws upon the ...