Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2015 - Nº 19
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Review. Rocío Cobo Piñero. Sonidos de la diáspora. Blues y jazz en Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, y Gayl Jones
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Pixar’s New Fairy Tale Brave: A Feminist Redefinition of the Hero Monomyth
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)Literature has been traditionally shaped by the paradigm of Western culture, characterized by the hegemony of white, male ...
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The (Mis)Education of “The American Girl” in Europe in Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)Set during the “Roaring Twenties,” Anita Loos‟s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes revisits the myth of “The American Girl,” dyed ...
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All-Woman Jazz Bands and Gendered Beboppers: Gayl Jones and Gloria Naylor’s Jazz Fiction
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)Traditionally, jazz has been identified with male performers and writers. Thus, the aim of this article is twofold: on the ...
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The Complex Interrelations of Home, Body, Identity and Otherness in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)Juxtaposing two terms, at once separated by and connected through a slash, the title of Tony Kushner‟s play Homebody/Kabul ...
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Hybrid Subjects and Fluid Identities in Women’s Indian Captivity Narratives: the Stories of Frances Slocum and Olive Oatman
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)During the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, adoptions of white children by Native American tribes and interracial marriages ...
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Women’s Network behind Frances Perkins’s Appointment
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)This article explores and analyses a particular group of middle-class social reformers who, sharing a mutual kinship ...
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Literary Monuments: Home as a Commemorative Novel.
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)When asked about the genesis of her novel Home, Toni Morrison argues that it was her intention to “take the scab off the ...
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Repurposing ‘Disreputable Genre Materials:’ E.L. Doctorow’s Subversion of Hegemonic Gender Configurations in Welcome to Hard Times
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)Welcome to Hard Times (1960) is not a conventional Western. The novel constitutes E.L. Doctorow‘s first attempt to turn ...
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Walking out on Language: Verbal Spaces in Junot Diaz’s “Invierno”
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)Junot Díaz has gained much attention for his pervasive themes of social, cultural, and linguistic identity through his ...
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The Haunted House in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)In A Mercy Toni Morrison tackles the multilayered and strikingly powerful Gothic “haunted” house metaphor from a female ...