Jason G. Summers

Scholarship

My Academia.com page: http://ipfw.academia.edu/JasonSummers

Submitted:

• Paper on Borges, violence and McOndista writers.

In progress:

• Writing proposals on Latin American detective fiction and national identity, US/Mexican frontera and ecocriticism for 2009 MLA sessions.
• Writing an invited paper on Generation X and McOndista writers for an anthology.
• Revising a study of Ariel Dorfman's La muerte y la doncella.
• Revising a paper on popular culture and national culture in Pedro Almodóvar's 1993 film Kika.
• Revising an article on Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa and the Post-Boom.

Articles:

• "Pa’l norte / South of the Border: US Latinos and Mexicans Writing the Frontera."  Accepted for Border Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in Post-Colonial Literature.  Eds. J.K.S. Makokha, Jennifer Wawrzinek, and Russell West-Pavlov.
• "Al-Andalus as Cultural Mirror: Reading Goytisolo and Gala."  Ixquic 7 (Dec. 2006): 49-58.
• "Media-Portrayed Violence in Alberto Fuguet's Tinta roja." In press. Novels of the Contemporary Extreme. Eds. Alain-Philippe Durand and Naomi Mandel.  London: Continuum, 2006.  102-20.
• "Aspectos de la representación de las religiones afro-americanas en los textos negristas y afro-hispanos." Monographic Review/Revista Monográfica 15 (1999): 130-44.

Encylopedia Articles:

• "Isabel Allende", "Gabriel García Márquez", "Latina/o Literature", "Magical Realism", "Prison Literature" .  Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics.  Ed. M. Keith Booker.  New York: Greenwood P, 2005.  25-26, 279-80, 415-17, 447-48, 580-82.

Reviews:

• Esquivel, Laura.  Malinche.  New York: Atria Books, 2006.  Bookslut 55 (Dec. 2006).  Columns: "Fronera Ramera". <<http://www.bookslut.com/frontera_ramera/2006_11_010318.php>>.
• Palermo, Zulma, ed. El discurso crítico en América Latina II. Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 1999. New Comparison 29 (Spring 2000): 183-84.