Este número monográfico contribuye al discurso emergente al ocuparse de la creciente orientación simbiótica en la ecocrítica, la figura de la ecobruja como un agente resiliente y regenerativo ecofeminista para la curación planetaria, y el rol de las narrativas simbióticas posthumanistas en la reinvención de la vida más allá de lo humano. El punto de partida es la figura de la ecobruja -tanto real como imaginada- concebida como emblema de las reconfiguraciones imaginativas, éticas y epistemológicas que se necesitan en un mundo precario ecológicamente y en peligro. Situándose en la intersección de simbiosis, resistencia, y reparación, la bruja ecofeminista se transforma no solo en una metáfora sino en un referente epistémico de convergencias posthumanas, una fuerza visionaria para el Simbioceno, prohijando la repación ecológica y denunciando las injusticias eco-sociales sistémicas. A través de una alianza con lo más que humano, como se verá en los contenidos de los artículos, la posibilidad de una reparación de la tierra no solo se muestra posible, sino que se ritualiza, se narra y se promulga.

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Este número incluye varios ensayos que utilizan el Ecogótico como marco teórico para analizar la literatura y el cine. Los autores conforman el estado de la cuestión en la evolución de la relación existente entre el animal humano y el más que humano a través del miedo. Así, cuestiones como la alteridad, la emergencia climática y la presencia de lo sobrenatural se exploran en relación con la monstruosidad y el pensamiento decolonial, favoreciendo una actitud más posthumana para con los habitantes de la Tierra.

El Oeste americano se encuentra en el corazón de la fundación de la identidad estadounidense, y su historia y cultura dan todavía de sí para la reflexión académica de los investigadores, que intentan comprender el pasado, presente y futuro de su idiosincrasia. El Oeste yace ahí donde se pone el sol y la sombra de su mito cubre todo el mundo. Los ensayos de esta colección ofrecen una vista panorámica de los Western Studies, poniendo el énfasis en el marco internacional que ha caracterizado este campo en los últimos años.

The articles in this special issue show the many possibilities that the study of manuscripts offers across different subject areas and fully demonstrate the significance and impact of manuscripts on all realms of medieval and modern life, i.e., medical, political, private, etc. The issue will be helpful for readers to visualise some of the lines of research carried out within the label of Manuscript Studies.

Este número analiza las narrativas de Waste en la Norteamérica postindustrial.

This issue commemorates the centenary of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, a monument of modernist verse, offering new global perspectives of this epochal poem, one that has become a hallmark of modernity, and which remains an icon of our postmodern age. It is divided into two parts:  Part I comprises fourteen critical, scholarly essays of international and cross-cultural perspectives on Eliot’s poem, covering areas of interest ranging from poetry criticism to literary theory, translation studies and philosophy. Part II is dedicated to creative artwork, including poetry written by four poets from the USA, Spain and Mexico, paintings by two artists from Germany and Spain, and a special section on music (the recording of a recital titled “Then Spoke the Waste Land: Songs and Fragments,” performed in 2022).

This monography enriches the extant bibliography of the literature of the roaring twenties with new perspectives. Scholars from Spain, Germany, and Romania, who are at different stages of their career and who rely on different methodologies, look at the 1920s and their echo in the fiction of the time.

This special issue, devoted to “Cultural Representations of India and Indian Diasporas on Screen,” includes fourteen research papers, two interviews, four pieces of creative writing and three reviews that aim to assess and revisit portrayals of India and its diasporas on screen through different genres.

Este volumen, editado por Esther Pujolràs Noguer y Juan Ignacio Oliva, estudia las literaturas y culturas bañadas por el Océano Índico, trazando su diversidad, riqueza y las identidades multiculturales que aparecen en sus imaginarios. 

Este ejemplar, editado por Francisco A. Lomelí, Sophia Emmanouilidou y Juan Ignacio Oliva, se dedica a los retos contemporáneos en la literatura y cultura chicana, con algunas incursiones en otros autores hispanos. El lector encontrará una amplia selección de análisis críticos innovadores y también escritura creativa, un tributo y un artículo añadido. Temas como los estudios de género, la música, los derechos humanos, los traumas fronterizos, la ideología y la cultura se analizan para mostrar la vitalidad de la visión polifónica chicana de los EEUU (y por extensión del mundo occidental), que es capaz de transformar las actitudes centralizadoras y deconstruir las posiciones hegemónicas.

This volume celebrates the forty years of life of RCEI, devoting its contents to the figure of Prof. José S. Gómez Soliño. His works on Historical Linguistics, Functional (Discourse) Grammar and African Studies are measured by the recognition received outside the limits of the Canarian archipelago. A representative group of scholars, contemporary colleagues and former disciples, participate in this tribute with contributions related to the three mail fields of interest of  Prof. Gómez Soliño.

This special issue on “Restoration Fiction (1660-1714)” hopes to contribute to further discern the achievements of this traditionally neglected period of the English novel, offering a glimpse into the literary richness and potential of mid- and late-seventeenth-century fiction.

This issue entitled “Canadian Fictions of Globality” aims at analyzing how a minute, singled-out field of sociological overtones ingrained in the dynamics of globalization is being engaged within the fictional (and critical) literary production ascribed to present-day Canada. The scholarly responses tackle globality from various angles: is it a condition of the postmodern present? Is globality a fiction of newness worth appending to cultural manifestations for marketing purposes? Is the presumed irrelevance of borders so apparent? Which new mechanisms are adopted to demarcate community boundaries anew after their transgression? The Canadian narratives selected by the contributors for this volume embody a groundwork for the materialization of global imaginaries and a plethora of answers to the questions above.

A series of articles that closely focused on the communicative/dialogical relationship between humans and Nature, and the agency of Nature. The issue examines old and new understandings of the agency of Nature/matter, and of what counts as speech. The issue also juxtaposes the premodern idea of a ‘language of nature’ as featured in aesthetics and literature in the 18th and 19th centuries with the new understandings of the concept in the context of ecocritical debates on nature’s agency.

This special issue is devoted to British India’s Partition and its effects in literature, culture, language and the other fields in the scope of the journal, offering thoughts about Partition as a process more than an historical event.

This monograph contains various articles which, from a variety of theoretical perspectives and frameworks, show the importance of discursive practices in establishing the interpreter’s professional identity, his or her recognition, society’s expectations regarding the interpreter’s professional activity, and the public perception of the social need for the linguistic services provided and the priority given to them in public policies.

This issue tackles bodily matters in British Fiction, having into account topics such as Gender inequalities in Neo-Victorian literature, and using strategies like affect theory, spatial constructions, queerness or deconstructing pornography.

Female corporealities in Contemporary Literature and Culture are analysed in this issue, coedited by Pilar Cuder-Domínguez & Justine Tally, paying special attention to Gender issues of oppression and violence exerted upon women in Irish, South asian, Afroamerican or US minority texts.

This issue tackles the evolution of women in scientific contexts, such as medicine, transmission of science, scientific writing, translation and censorship, lexical richness in women authors, or travel literature. 

Since its standardization, understood as it being acknowledged as a valid language, the “imposition” of English started. This issue deals with this gradual establishment by considering the creation of grammars and dictionaries for the instruction of native and non-native speakers, the development of a scientific English writing and the early and more recent displacement of other vernaculars, to conclude with the EU failure to o enhance multilingualism advocating countries to prioritize the teaching and use of English over other “minor” languages.

This issue addresses the Indian Diaspora from the perspective of literary and cultural studies, including topics such as East African Asian women, South Asian Muslims in the UK,  current feminism in India, or authors such as Hanif Kureishi or Salman rushdie.

Issue edited by Sally Burgess and devoted to the use of English as a means to communicate research results.

This issue of RCEI is devoted to the construction of alternative images and non-standard representations of  Ireland in literary, historical and cultural studies. It consists of a bunch of fourteen essays that portray an ample scope of the diversity of revisions, reinventions and rewritings that the Emerald Isle has produced and that offer an-“Other” gaze to the seemingly overwhelming monolithic idea of the island as a traditional, catholic, somewhat monotonous and provincial society.

This issue analyzes the representation of masculinity from diverse points of view, not only the literary, but also the sociologic and philosophic ones. It starts from the reflection of masculinity in the pervasive use of the first person, in different narratives, to then move towards a discussion of old and new theories such as those involving the dismantling of the gender binary. Following this line, it considers the construction of both masculinity and femininity  togethet with a new process of gendered social change.