Paisajes después de la batalla

Sobre la base de un riguroso y sistemático análisis del dossier genético de la novela Paisajes después de la batalla (borradores autógrafos, recortes de prensa, sinopsis), conservado en la Diputación Provincial de Almería, Bénédicte Vauthier se adentra en el taller de escritura de Juan Goytisolo en un estudio genético verdaderamente pionero en las letras hispánicas contemporáneas peninsulares. Después de presentar el estado de los archivos y la peculiar manera de escribir de J. Goytisolo, B. Vauthier vuelve sobre la composición original de Paisajes después de la batalla, analiza cómo el autor incorporó estilísticamente el material ajeno que entró en la composición de la obra (recortes de prensa) o la informó implícita o explícitamente (intertextualidad de Gustave Flaubert, Walter Benjamin, Karl Kraus, Leila Sebbar, Lewis Carroll). Finalmente, en la óptica de una «poética de transición entre estados», B. Vauthier se interroga sobre el sentido de la supresión que Goytisolo operó en la nueva edición de su obra (2006), que se vuelve a publicar aquí respetando esta decisión de «poda». Ilustrados por numerosos facsímiles y autógrafos, los preliminares vienen seguidos de una edición crítica de la novela que permite la localización exacta

Gender in Theology and Religion: a Success Story?! Report from a Conference

In January 2011 some fifty scholars from different parts of Europe met in Groningen, the Netherlands for an expert meeting entitled Gender in theology and religion: a success story?! to analyze the factors that contribute to the successful mainstreaming of gender in a theological discipline and to reflect on the future of gender studies in theology and religious studies. Different speakers highlighted the many successes of gender studies in theology and religious studies: its power to 'trouble' the disciplines and their heuristic categories; its contribution to the development of other disciplines such as queer studies and postcolonial studies; the many PhD studies produced; the number of significant publications that had appeared over the last years. All indicate that gender studies in theology and religious studies have matured. But the participants also pointed towards the ambiguity of the success of gender studies in the academy: the indeterminacy of the institutional position and positions of gender studies in the theological disciplines in seminaries, departments faculties and universities; the lack of male scholars’ engagement in gender studies, which is expressed by their absence in these studies and/or the low reception of gender studies publications in their disciplines. Both ambiguities represent a danger for the future of gender studies, according to the participants in the meeting. In order to further the success of gender in theology and religion they formulated the following recommendations: to analyze the position of these studies in their institutions from the perspective of the implied audience (church, academy, ordinary theologians); engage men in gender studies; embrace the cultural turn in religious studies; develop interdisciplinary cooperations with gender studies in the humanities; engage creatively with the changing role of religion in contemporary society; analyze whose perspective one follows and authorizes in the perception of theology, religious studies and gender studies themselves; record the history of women’s and gender studies in theology and religion, and honor and celebrate the successes.