Browsing by Subject "Relationality"

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    Across the shadowy landscape of memory: a relational reading of liminal traumas in Anita Rau Badami’s Can you hear the nightbird call?
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Llano Busta, Andrea; Universidad de Oviedo. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana.
    Liminal trauma narratives provide access to the formal representation and the affective dimension of trauma. Anita Rau Badami’s multigenerational and transnational novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2006) is a case in point, in which in-betweenness is not merely a source of affliction but may develop into a stepping stone to a belated understanding of past tragedies in twentieth-century India and Canada. Through a relational and dialogical approach encompassing Indra’s net, postmemory, rhizomatic theory, and multidirectional memory, liminality is addressed in the family and historical spheres, tracing vertical and horizontal connections between characters and episodes, which, it is argued, challenge event-based models of trauma studies, stress the importance of emotional alliances, and promote the establishment of communities of memory. Ultimately, chronologies and hierarchies are discarded in favour of network arrangements as the most suitable way to deal with interconnected traumas.
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    Engarces del término precariedad con las nociones estéticas de visualidad, relacionalidad y liminalidad
    (Murcia: Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad de Murcia, 2018) Cancio Ferruz, Arturo; Vegas Moreno, Natalia
    En los últimos tiempos, el término precariedad ha adquirido una notoria centralidad en innumerables circuitos discursivos, siendo uno de ellos el del arte contemporáneo. Así, en determinadas prácticas artísticas y, en consecuencia, en los procesos dialécticos de aproximación a las mismas, se vienen planteando tanto dispositivos formales como estrategias conceptuales, para abordar y cuestionar el fenómeno de la precariedad. En este texto, analizamos de manera crítica algunas de las ideas formuladas en torno a la cuestión de la precariedad en arte contemporáneo, más concretamente relacionadas con las nociones de visualidad (Ross, 2008), relacionalidad (Bourriaud, 2009) y liminalidad (Van Gennep, 2008). De este modo, examinamos principalmente de que maneras se vinculan, en las tres perspectivas teóricas propuestas, los aspectos artísticos y los ético-políticos del hacer en arte, con el fin de localizar aquellas proposiciones que más se acerquen a una idea de equilibrio en la producción ético-estética de la precariedad (Gielen, 2015). Encontramos que, mientras en las concepciones vinculadas a la visualidad y la relacionalidad prevalecen los aspectos puramente artísticos, con respecto a los ético-políticos, la liminalidad pone en cuestión de manera radical cualquier consenso sistémico y jerárquico de las instituciones sociales, debido a su carácter antiestructural (Diéguez, 2009).
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    Exactly why are slurs wrong?
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, ) Thaddeus Metz
    This article seeks to provide a comprehensive and fundamental account of why racial epithets and similar slurs are immoral, whenever they are. It considers three major theories, roughly according to which they are immoral because they are harmful (welfarism), because they undermine autonomy (Kantianism), or because they are unfriendly (an under-considered, relational approach informed by ideas from the Global South). This article presents new objections to the former two theories, and concludes in favour of the latter rationale. Deeming slurs to be wrong insofar as they are unfriendly is shown to capture the advantages of the other theories, while avoiding their disadvantages.
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    If you weren’t my friend I wouldn’t know who I was : care virtues and the relational self in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Carregal-Romero, José
    Abstract: Set in contemporary Ireland, Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) focuses on the relationship dynamics between characters who struggle with intimacy and human connection, against the backdrop of the individualist ethos and existential anxieties induced by current neoliberal systems. Drawing on care ethics, vulnerability and relationality theory, this analysis of Beautiful World underscores how Rooney constructs her characters’ psychological evolution through their progressive, albeit irregular, adoption of care virtues within relationships. The analysis shall apply Khader’s taxonomy of care virtues (2011), which include “loving attention” –a willingness to appreciate and accommodate the particular nature of the other–, “the transparent self” –an awareness of how our self-interests block our recognition of the other’s needs–, and “narrative understanding”, a desire to engage with the other’s personal history so as to make decisions that promote his/her well-being.
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    Multiplicity, relationality, and petal avatars: Thatgamecompany’s Flower as an identity model
    (Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-11-17) Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco; Filología Inglesa
    This article explores non-human looking avatars as models for alternative conceptions of identity. Thatgamecompany’s Flower is used here as the specific example of a more general model for Game and Cultural Studies scholars to think about the representation and reproduction of relationality and identity through avatars that are not designed to resemble human or animal-like beings. The avatar is discussed here in relation to its visual and aural configuration, the actions it affords, and the way controls are designed around it. Flower breaks with many of the standards and expectations that can be found in most games and, in doing so, it puts forward a notion of identity as an entanglement of humans, nonhuman beings, and objects. Game and Cultural Studies scholars interested in finding a broader, more diverse way of discussing identity representations will find here a useful resource
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    Speculative reworkings of the good life at the end times: care, resilience, and relational futures in Cherie Dimaline and Rebecca Campbell.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Fraile-Marcos, Ana Mª; Sin departamento asociado
    Taking as a starting point the idea that literature can function as an epistemological medium in its capacity as a testing ground where experiments in the good life can be imagined, aesthetically realized, and critically interrogated, this article turns to speculative fiction as a genre suitable for the exploration of cognitive frameworks that may lead to hopeful futurities amidst the ground-shifting transformations of the Anthropocene, supporting not only the continuity of life, but also the good life. It examines the representation of the ethics of care at the Anthropocene’s tipping point in recent speculative fiction from Turtle Island/Canada, namely, Métis Cherie Dimaline’s young adult novel The marrow thieves (2017) and its sequel, Hunting by stars (2021), and settler Canadian Rebecca Campbell’s short story cycle, Arboreality (2022). It argues that they critique the modernist nature/culture divide underpinning the disasters of the Anthropocene while reworking the notion of the good life from alternative Indigenous and new materialist relational approaches.