Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos This issue is dedicated to the fond memory of Antonio Garnica Silva (1931-2016), first editor ofAtlantis (1979-1983) Vol. 38, núm. 2 Diciembre 2016 38.2 (December 2016) 38.2 (Diciembre 2016) EDITORS Dirección General Editor: Juan Camilo Conde Silvestre Universidad de Murcia Managing Editor: Laura Esteban Segura Universidad de Málaga Copy Editor Book Reviews Editor Nila Vázquez Javier Calle Martín Universidad de Murcia Universidad de Málaga EDITORIAL BOARD Consejo de Redacción BOARD OF ADVISORS Consejo Asesor Catherine Belsey Juan M. Hernández-Campoy University of Swansea Universidad de Murcia Celestino Deleyto Pilar Hidalgo Universidad de Zaragoza Universidad de Málaga Angela Downing John McLeod Universidad Complutense de Madrid University of Leeds Dirk Geeraerts Carmen Muñoz Lahoz University of Leuven Universidad de Barcelona Lawrence Grossberg Susanne Opfermann University of North Carolina Goethe-Universität Frankfurt BOARD OF REFEREES Consejo Científico y Evaluador Carlos ACUÑA FARIÑA José Francisco FERNÁNDEZ Jean-Jacques LECERCLE Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Universidad de Almería Université Paris Nanterre Mauricio D. AGUILERA LINDE Vita FORTUNATI Marta Sofía LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ Universidad de Granada Università di Bologna Universidad de León Mireia ARAGAY Pedro A. 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The Year’s Work in English Studies (Oxford Journals) Ulrichsweb (Online) Atlantis holds the Quality Seal for Excellence in Academic Journals awarded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (2014-2017) (Sello de Calidad de Revistas Científicas Españolas, fecyt) Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos 38.2 (December 2016) 38.2 (Diciembre 2016) Table of Contents • Índice Articles • Artículos The Comic Tragedy of Mere Men and Women: The Ambiguously Distracting Use of Laughter in The Castle of Otranto and Its Prefaces Ahmet Süner · Yaşar University ......................................... 11 “Shaving the Tale”: Barbers and the Narration of Racial Relations in Melville’s “Benito Cereno” and Chesnutt’s “The Doll” Marta Puxan-Oliva · Universitat de Barcelona .............................. 27 Tropes of Temperance, Specters of Naturalism: Amelia E. Johnson’s Clarence and Corinne Anna Pochmara · University of Warsaw ................................... 45 “I Am Just As Much Dead as He Is”: Community, Finitude and Sibling Intimacy in Katherine Mansfield Gerardo Rodríguez-Salas · Universidad de Granada ......................... 63 Ghostly Visitations in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women: Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway and Ali Smith Jorge Sacido-Romero · Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ................ 83 Encountering the Posthuman Animal: Revisiting Dian Fossey’s Gorillas in the Mist Claudia Alonso Recarte · Universitat de València .......................... 103 Searching for “A Different Kind of Freedom”: Postcoloniality and Postfeminist Subjecthood in Zadie Smith’s NW Lourdes López-Ropero · Universidad de Alicante ............................ 123 (Re)Imagining and (Re)Visiting Homelands in Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa Cristina Cruz-Gutiérrez · Universitat de les Illes Balears ..................... 141 Breaking Joy Division’s “Glass”: Reading Song Lyrics as Literature J. Rubén Valdés Miyares · Universidad de Oviedo ........................... 161 Anglicisms in Music Fandom Terminology: The Idiosyncratic Use of Self-Referential Nouns in the Language of Youth Amanda Roig-Marín · University of Cambridge ............................. 181 —7— 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS • ÍNDICE Interview • Entrevista “The Day Is Not Yet Done”: An Interview with Earl Lovelace by Maria Grau-Perejoan .............................................. 203 Reviews • Reseñas Daniel Morris. 2013. Lyric Encounters: Essays on American Poetry from Lazarus and Frost to Ortiz Cofer and Alexie reviewed by Antonio J. Jiménez Muñoz ................................... 217 Jordan Cofer. 2014. The Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor: Examining the Role of the Bible in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction reviewed by Marita Nadal .............................................. 223 David Rio. 2014. New Literary Portraits of the American West: Contemporary Nevada Fiction reviewed by Begoña Simal-González ..................................... 229 Josep M. Armengol. 2014. Masculinities in Black and White. Manliness and Whiteness in (African) American Literature reviewed by Esther Pujolràs