Lorraine Ryan
Lorraine Ryan is a Birmingham Fellow. Her research publications focus on Contemporary Spanish Literature, Cultural and Collective Memory in Contemporary Spain, Contemporary Spanish Women's Writing, and the sociology of memory. She was awarded the prestigious 2013 ‘Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award’ by the AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), for her article, 'The Development of Child Subjectivity in La lengua de las mariposas.' This article was published in the September 2012 issue of the leading American journal, Hispania. In 2015/2016, she is a visiting fellow to the IMLR (Institute of Modern Language Research) and she will also serve as a consultant on countermemory to the Georg Eckert Institute for International School Textbook Research in Leipzig, Germany.
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This book situates Grandes´s novels within gendered, philosophical, and mnemonic theoretical concepts that illuminate hidden dimensions of her much-studied work. Lorraine Ryan considers and expands on existing critical work on Grandes´s oeuvre, proposing new avenues of interpretation and understanding. She seeks to debunk the arguments of those who portray Grandes as the proponent of a sectarian, eminently biased Republican memory by analysing the wide variety of gender and perpetrator memories that proliferate in her work. The intersection of perpetrator memory with masculinity, ecocriticism, medical ethics and the child’s perspectives confirms Grandes’ nuanced engagement with Spanish memory culture. Departing from a philosophical basis, Ryan reconfigures the Republican victim in the novels as a vulnerable subject who attempts to flourish, thus refuting the current critical opinion of the victim as overly-empowered.
The new perspectives suggest that Grandes is committed to a more pluralistic idea of memory culture, whereby her novels generate understanding of multiple victim, perpetrator and gender memories, an analysis that produces new and meaningful engagements with these novels. Thus, Ryan contends that Grandes´s historical novels are infinitely more complex and nuanced than heretofore conceived.
Table of Contents
Introduction
• Cultural Memory in Contemporary Spain.
• Authorial Motivation
• Memory and Spatiality: Theoretical Framework.
• Memory and Spatiality in Spain: A History.
Chapter One: Degenerative Rurality, Fertility, and Post-Transitional Justice in Dulce Chacón´s Cielos de barro.
Chapter Two: The City and the Body in Ángeles López's Martina, la rosa número trece.
Chapter Three: The Nullification of Domestic Space in Alberto Méndez’s 'Los girasoles ciegos.'
Chapter Four: Spatial Assimilation and the Corruption of the Child in Emili Teixidor´s Pan Negro.
Chapter Five: A Resistant Barcelona: Postmemorial Work and Hidden Transcripts in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s La Sombra del Viento.
Chapter Six: Rurality and the Second Space in Bernardo Atxaga´s El hijo del acordeonista.
Chapter Seven: Rememory, Hybridity, and In-Between Space in José María Merino's La Sima.
Conclusion
Authorial Motivation.
Memory and Spatiality.
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Papers by Lorraine Ryan
The Adela Zamudio Prize is conferred by the American organisation, Feministas Unidas. The article, entitled "Maternal Identities and Abject Equivalence in Biutiful" was published in the 2018 Hispanic Studies of the MLN. Dr. Ryan will be awarded her prize, one year´s free membership of the association, a 200 dollar cheque and a plaque, at the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle in 2020.
This is the second international prize for Dr. Ryan, who was previously awarded the AATSP´s (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) "Outstanding Scholarly Publication Prize" in 2013.
Citation:
Lorraine Ryan; Writing the Ineffable: Postwar Female Employment and Domestic Violence in Carmen Laforet’s Nada, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2017. Advance Access.
https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx035
This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to be a man in present-day Spain? How has masculinity evolved since Franco’s dictatorship? What are the dynamics of masculinity in contemporary Spanish culture? How has hegemonic masculinity been contested in cultural productions? This volume is comprised of sixteen essays that address these very questions by examining literary, cultural and film representations of the configurations of masculinities in contemporary Spain. Divided into three thematic units, starting with the undermining of the monolithic Francoist archetype of masculinity, continuing with the reformulation of hegemonic masculinity and finishing with regional emergent masculinities, all of the volume´s essays focus on the redefinition of Spanish masculinities. Principal themes of the volume include alternative families, queer masculinities, performative masculinities, memory and resistance to hegemonic discourses of manliness, violence and emotions, public versus private masculinities, regional masculinities, and marginal masculinities. This exploration not only produces new insights into masculinity, but also yields nuanced insights into the recuperation of memory in contemporary Spain, the reconfiguration of the family, the status of women in Spanish society, and regional identities.
This book situates Grandes´s novels within gendered, philosophical, and mnemonic theoretical concepts that illuminate hidden dimensions of her much-studied work. Lorraine Ryan considers and expands on existing critical work on Grandes´s oeuvre, proposing new avenues of interpretation and understanding. She seeks to debunk the arguments of those who portray Grandes as the proponent of a sectarian, eminently biased Republican memory by analysing the wide variety of gender and perpetrator memories that proliferate in her work. The intersection of perpetrator memory with masculinity, ecocriticism, medical ethics and the child’s perspectives confirms Grandes’ nuanced engagement with Spanish memory culture. Departing from a philosophical basis, Ryan reconfigures the Republican victim in the novels as a vulnerable subject who attempts to flourish, thus refuting the current critical opinion of the victim as overly-empowered.
The new perspectives suggest that Grandes is committed to a more pluralistic idea of memory culture, whereby her novels generate understanding of multiple victim, perpetrator and gender memories, an analysis that produces new and meaningful engagements with these novels. Thus, Ryan contends that Grandes´s historical novels are infinitely more complex and nuanced than heretofore conceived.
Table of Contents
Introduction
• Cultural Memory in Contemporary Spain.
• Authorial Motivation
• Memory and Spatiality: Theoretical Framework.
• Memory and Spatiality in Spain: A History.
Chapter One: Degenerative Rurality, Fertility, and Post-Transitional Justice in Dulce Chacón´s Cielos de barro.
Chapter Two: The City and the Body in Ángeles López's Martina, la rosa número trece.
Chapter Three: The Nullification of Domestic Space in Alberto Méndez’s 'Los girasoles ciegos.'
Chapter Four: Spatial Assimilation and the Corruption of the Child in Emili Teixidor´s Pan Negro.
Chapter Five: A Resistant Barcelona: Postmemorial Work and Hidden Transcripts in Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s La Sombra del Viento.
Chapter Six: Rurality and the Second Space in Bernardo Atxaga´s El hijo del acordeonista.
Chapter Seven: Rememory, Hybridity, and In-Between Space in José María Merino's La Sima.
Conclusion
Authorial Motivation.
Memory and Spatiality.
""""""""
The Adela Zamudio Prize is conferred by the American organisation, Feministas Unidas. The article, entitled "Maternal Identities and Abject Equivalence in Biutiful" was published in the 2018 Hispanic Studies of the MLN. Dr. Ryan will be awarded her prize, one year´s free membership of the association, a 200 dollar cheque and a plaque, at the MLA Annual Convention in Seattle in 2020.
This is the second international prize for Dr. Ryan, who was previously awarded the AATSP´s (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) "Outstanding Scholarly Publication Prize" in 2013.
Citation:
Lorraine Ryan; Writing the Ineffable: Postwar Female Employment and Domestic Violence in Carmen Laforet’s Nada, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2017. Advance Access.
https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqx035
This collection of essays explores cultural phenomena that are shaping masculine identities in contemporary Spain, asking and striving to answer these compelling questions: what does it mean to be a man in present-day Spain? How has masculinity evolved since Franco’s dictatorship? What are the dynamics of masculinity in contemporary Spanish culture? How has hegemonic masculinity been contested in cultural productions? This volume is comprised of sixteen essays that address these very questions by examining literary, cultural and film representations of the configurations of masculinities in contemporary Spain. Divided into three thematic units, starting with the undermining of the monolithic Francoist archetype of masculinity, continuing with the reformulation of hegemonic masculinity and finishing with regional emergent masculinities, all of the volume´s essays focus on the redefinition of Spanish masculinities. Principal themes of the volume include alternative families, queer masculinities, performative masculinities, memory and resistance to hegemonic discourses of manliness, violence and emotions, public versus private masculinities, regional masculinities, and marginal masculinities. This exploration not only produces new insights into masculinity, but also yields nuanced insights into the recuperation of memory in contemporary Spain, the reconfiguration of the family, the status of women in Spanish society, and regional identities.
This event is held under the auspices of the Word/Music/Image research group in the School of Modern Languages in the University of Birmingham.
Registration is required.
Once you have registered, you will be given direct access to the event. You will also be able to view the abstracts.
Programme (Please note that this might be subject to change)
12:00-12:10: Introduction. Dr. Lorraine Ryan (UoB)
Session 1. Theory
12:10-12:30: Dr. María Roca Lizarau (UoB): " Hard Feelings: Gendered Emotions and Postmigrant Identities in the Novels of Deniz Utlu and Fatma Aydemir."
12:30-12:50: Mr Niven Whatley (PhD student, UoB). "Looks Deceive: The Use of Aesthetics in the Representation of Female Immigrants in Spain."
12:50-13:10. Dr Antonia Wimbush (University of Liverpool). "Mothers and Maids: Migration, Gender, and Race in the French Caribbean."
13:10-13:30: Professor Jenny Phillmore (UoB). "“We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-based Violence and COVID-19."
13:30-14:00: Panel discussion based on questions from attendees.
14:00-14:15. Break.
14:15-14:45. Keynote: Professor H. Rosi Song (University of Durham): "Shifting the Conversation: Migration and Gender in the Hispanic World."
14:45- 15:05: Discussion based on questions from attendees.
Session 2: Funding and Practice.
15:05-15:25: Rebecca Laughton (Women for Refugee Women/Royal Central School of Speech and Drama). "#Set Her Free! Cultural Capital as Resistance: Evaluating the Contribution of Drama Work to Campaigning and Protest with Asylum Seeking Women in The UK".
15:25-15: 40: Professor Sara Jones (UoB) Information Session on Research Grants
15:40- 15:50: Questions and discussion.
15:50. End of Workshop.