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Transhumanism and the Anthropocene in Becky Chambers’A Closed and Common Orbit
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
Transhumanism has been rising in both popularity and influence on western societies and philosophical thought. Dreams of mind transfer, immortality, or cloning as well as the fear of sentient and ...
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Brady Harrison and Randi Lynn Tanglen, editors. Teaching Western American literature [Review]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
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Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxationin a World with No Rest nor Relaxation: Narrative Prosthesis and Hyperreality
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
The representation of a form of disability in literature can be used not only as a way of distinguishing the character and setting the narration in motion but as a metaphor of social and individual ...
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Discursive Constructions of Waste and Slow Violence In Ann Pancake’s Strange as this Weather Has Been
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
This paper addresses the representation of environmental destruction in the Appalachian coalfields in the novel Strange as this Weather Has Been (Ann Pancake, 2007). Pancake’s book follows the disbandment of a family ...
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Sarah E. Farro’s True Love(1891):Plagiarist Reconfigurations of Ellen Wood’s The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863)
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
In 1891 Sarah E. Farro was hailed as “the first negro novelist” with the publication of her novel True Love, a story featuring white English characters set in England. Scholars have believed that Farro’s ...
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Decolonial Hope against the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of The Sea Light (2013)
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
Este artículo explora la última novela de Edwidge Danticat, Claire of the Sea Light(2013),como una respuesta a las ideologías modernas/coloniales que siguen emanando de las predicciones de una ...
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“The forces that came together to infl ict thatpain”: Class, Race, and Sexuality in Ellen Feldman’s Scottsboro
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
In the infamous Scottsboro case (Alabama, 1931), nine black youths were falsely accused of raping two low-class white girls that happened to be sexually promiscuous with both white and black ...
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Poetry in Pandemic Times: Mourning Collective Vulnerability in Sue Goyette’s Solstice 2020. An Archive
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
Focusing on Canadian poet Sue Goyette’s collection Solstice 2020. An Archive(2021),this article examines how dealing with the effects of a global pandemic through the medium of poetry can act as a powerful catalyst ...
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William l. Andrews. Slavery and class in the American South: a generation of slave narrative testimony 1840-1865.[Review]
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
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Narrating The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Transhumanism and Critical Posthumanismin Catherine Lacey’s The Answers
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2022)
Recent scientific break throughs under the wing of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, particularly in the realm of biotechnology, have prompted an integral redefinition of the human, looking tow ardthe posthuman state. ...