RT Journal Article
T1 Under Bech's eyes: emotional geographies of the European East in John Updike's short stories.
A1 Bryla, Martyna Marika
K1 Updike, John (1932-2009) - Crítica e interpretación
K1 Literatura - Historia y crítica
AB John Updike’s short stories about Henry Bech’s diplomatic adventures in the European East have been analysed mainly in the context of the Cold-War balance of power and Updike’s ambivalent attitude to communist Russia. While the hard-boiled politics constitute the backdrop of Bech’s cultural mission, the three stories which I discuss in this essay entertain tensions between the official and the personal, which in turn shape the protagonist’s representations of Eastern European others. Accordingly, by combining imagology with elements of geocriticism and affect studies, this essay explores how cultural patterns of perceiving alterity are intertwined with emotions to produce Bech’s emotional geographies of the European East, which in mapping the other reflect back on and consolidate Bech’s American self.
PB Universidad de Sevilla
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33834
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/33834
LA eng
NO Martina, B. “Under Bech’s Eyes: Emotional Geographies of the European East in John Updike’s Short Stories”. Revista De Estudios Norteamericanos, no. 22, Sept. 2019, https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/article/view/10500.
NO https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ESTUDIOS_NORTEAMERICANOS/about
NO The research carried out for the writing of this essay has been financed by the author’s post-doctoral research grant from Universidad de Málaga, Spain and by a research project awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (ref. number: FFI2017-86417-P).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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