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Bleak Bodies: Genetically Engineered Women in Louise O'Neill's (Anti-)Utopian Patriarchal Satire Only Ever Yours
(Peter Lang, 2021) Machado Jiménez, Almudena
In the latest years, Louise O’Neill (1985-) has drawn in the reading community with her novels, which depict the stark reality of rape culture in our contemporary society. Particularly, her debut masterpiece Only Ever Yours (2014) makes use of a feminist dystopian scenario to explore the origins of female brainwashing and subjugation that stigmatize women’s nature. The community of O’Neill’s novel brilliantly pushes to the limit the nightmarish day-to-day of young girls and their pressure to become compliant patriarchal women, by immersing them since their creation in an educational centre until they reach seventeen. For this, the author presents a two-fold method of feminine conditioning: pre-natus, with the aid of genetic engineering and artificial birth, and post-natus, since girls undergo isolation and strict indoctrination of the patriarchal standards in female educational centres. After this period of internment, their destinies are fixed for the rest of their lives, either as companions or as concubines, but always silenced and ready to give pleasure to men. This community of eves ironically reflects the phenomenon of ‘sorority without solidarity’, persistent in the creation of patriarchal utopias and that turns as an obstacle for the understanding of what feminism should be. Only Ever Yours necessarily disturbs the mind of the reader and denounces the need to understand feminism not as a homogeneous bloc, but as unity in diversity and mutual understanding, in order to fight back against patriarchy from within.
Discriminación de fake news desde bachillerato hasta postgrado: estrategias interdisciplinares para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico
(Tirant Lo Blanch, 2020) Caballero Aceituno, Yolanda; Machado Jiménez, Almudena; Orrequia Barea, Aroa; Ráez Padilla, Juan
El presente capítulo contiene un estudio cuyo origen está en la fase inicial de ejecución del proyecto de innovación docente "Generando redes de pensamiento crítico: materiales y herramientas para el análisis de la realidad y sus discursos", financiado por la Universidad de Jaén, un proyecto guiado por el deseo de restaurar en el alumnado roles activos en cuanto a la adopción de posturas crítico-creativas personales y de llevarlo a desentrañar, a través de estrategias de análisis reflexivo, la anatomía de los discursos que condicionan nuestra percepción de la realidad y nuestra (des)movilización a la hora de promover iniciativas transformadoras que contribuyan a desestabilizar la homogenización de pensamiento. La cultura que promueve el pensamiento en serie quiere trazar un destino social único y encuentra en los medios de comunicación y en las redes sociales un medio de difusión óptimo. Para contrarrestarla, proponemos estrategias que configuren como posibles otros destinos que confluyan en el trabajo por el bien común.
You Speak Newspeak: Linguistic Strategies to Fight Orwellian Dystopia in the Classroom
(Dykinson, 2020) Machado Jiménez, Almudena
The Orwellian dystopia depicted in 1984 is well known for the suffocating use of surveillance technology and the deification of Big Brother’s iconography. These manipulative techniques only control the environment and actions of the citizens, who eventually find shelter in their minds. Hence, language becomes a dwelling for dissidence, a space of resistance. To prevent this potential form of transgression, the Ingsoc regime creates Newspeak, based on linguistic reductionism and doublethink. The use of this artificial language aims to condition the discourse of future generations according to the ideological stance of the government. Orwell’s critic on the notion of doublespeak can be extrapolated to current political campaigns or the news media, whose biased discourse distorts the message and persuades the audience. This paper aims to present connections between Newspeak of 1984 and contemporary tactics of misinformation using doublespeak. Particularly, linguistic strategies are designed in the classroom to help students detect common patterns of manipulation and overcome possible dystopian scenarios. To convey this research, I recur to theories of linguistic relativity that expose the influence of language on reality. Furthermore, I articulate how the use of literary criticism can be used as a tool to deconstruct the correlations between language and thought. The design of activities that test students’ knowledge on doublespeak (e.g. strategic use of euphemisms, ambiguous constructions, etc.) exemplifies the parallelism between our contemporary society and the Orwellian dystopia, as well as it invites learners to reflect about their personal perception of the world through language. Students’ awareness of the linguistic impact on global politics makes them understand that philology is not only a subject of study but it is also a space for critical thinking and global competence, in which they can build promising utopias.

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