Examinando por Autor "Ibarrola Armendariz, Aitor"

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    Family secrets and narrative structure in Celeste Ng’s «Everything I Never Told You»
    (Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. AEDEAN, 2021-12) Ibarrola Armendariz, Aitor
    Celeste Ng’s novel Everything I Never Told You (2014) has been said to combine some stock ingredients of literary thrillers with other less customary features that complicate its classification in that genre. Although we learn from page one that the protagonist of the novel, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee, is dead, discovering who is behind the possible murder of this Chinese American girl proves to be one of the lesser mysteries in the story. While the reader remains intrigued by the forces/people that may have driven Lydia to her demise, other enigmas—related to the other members of the Lee family—keep cropping up and turn out to be closely linked to the protagonist’s fate. This article explores the secret-saturated structure of the novel, which moves back and forth between the Lees’ speculations about Lydia’s death, the impact that the event has on their lives and the protagonist’s own version of the story. Ng delves deep into the issues of gender, race and other types of otherness that spawn most of the secrets driving the story. Assisted by theories expounded by Frank Kermode, Derek Attridge and other scholars, the article highlights the centrality of family secrets as a structuring principle in Ng’s novel.
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    A postmodern twist to the Western film tradition in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by the Coen brothers
    (Universidad de La Laguna, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2024) Ibarrola Armendariz, Aitor
    Although the Coen brothers had already made films related to the Western genre, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is a different venture, since they wrote the script of this anthology movie comprising six stories themselves. Besides delving into some of the themes that they have dealt with in their filmography–mortality, ethics, violence, justice, etc.–they also provide the film with a number of postmodern twists that hint at an effort to work through some of the problems posed by the mythology of the American West. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs contains the use of intertextuality across various art forms, a parodic treatment, and the inclusion of unusual perspectives that are all typical of postmodern aesthetics and politics of representation
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    “The Sin Eaters” by Sherman Alexie: a dystopian island in a mostly auspicious archipelago
    (Universidad de Valladolid, 2023-10-18) Ibarrola Armendariz, Aitor
    The belated publication of Sherman Alexie’s story “The Sin Eaters” as part of the collection The Toughest Indian in the World(2000) is worthy of the interest of biographic-textual scholars for its singularity. Not only did the author delay its appearance due to the very sinister tone of the story, but he decided to include it at the very heartof a collection, which isvery different both stylistically and thematically. Paradoxically, however, the dystopian vision of the United States in the late 1950s offered by “The Sin Eaters” is an effective“counterweight” to the rest of the materials compiled in the collection. Assisted bythe ideas of experts in the field of dystopian fiction, the article analyzesthe story as an adequatecounter part and complement to the other, more promising, pictures offered in the volume.