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.