Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2021 - Nº 25
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The Hipster Subculture and its Representation in Lena Dunham’s TV series Girls
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)Hipsters are considered as one of the most relevant American subcultures at present. How ever, the term hipsteris notoriously ...
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Corporeal Activism in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X: Towards a Self-Appropriation of US Afro-Latinas’ Bodies
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)Scholars have typically studied Chicanas/Latinas in the US and African American women separately. However, this ...
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Blowing Up the Nuclear Family: Shirley Jackson’s Queer Girls in Postwar US Culture
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)This paper intends to analyze the representation of girlhood as a liminal space in three novels by Shirley ...
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Between Hopelessness and Despair: Afropessimism and Black Nihilismin Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Works
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)Most of the criticism that Ta-Nehisi Coates received in the aftermath of the publication of his work Between the World and ...
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Slavery as National Trauma in Richard Ford’s “Everything Could Be Worse”
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)This article explores slavery as a national trauma in Richard Ford’s 2014 novella “Everything Could Be Worse.”First, ...
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Cosmopolitan and Border Experiences in the Global City of Zootopia
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)This paper analyses the Walt Disney’s animation film Zootopia(2016)within the context of contemporary cinematic representations ...
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Environment and The Somatic Body in Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes And Saints and Edwidge Danticat’sThe Farming of Bones
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)The paper offers a cross-cultural literary analysis of Chicana Cherríe Moraga’s Heroes and Saints(1992) and ...
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Identity As a Construct: Reading Blackness In Eugene O’Neill’sThe Emperor Jones
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)This paper aims to explore how racialized identities are typified as a modernist construct in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor ...
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The Hybridization of the Noir Genre as Expression of Ethnic Heritage: Rafael Navarro’s Sonambulo
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)In his ongoing comic book series Sonambulo, versatile artist Rafael Navarro has been able to channel his Mexican ...
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Race Consciousness, the Audacity of Equality, and Transcultural Criticism in Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)This article examines the role of the diasporic stand-up comic as a transcultural critic and the comedy set as an act of ...
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“The long roads to forgotten regretted nostalgias”:Traumatic Wounds in the Letters of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)When twenty- five- year-old Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald asked her husband Scott Fitzgerald to resume her ballet lessons, he saw ...
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Performative Subjecthoods: Lesbian Representationsin Split Britches’Belle Reprieve
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)Emerging postmodern theories of gender and sexuality frame the terms in which society has understood these ...
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Form and Perception of Nature in Elizabeth Bishop’s “Questions of Travel”
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry is acutely form-conscious and human perception informs its descriptions of nature; critics who ...