Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2019 - Nº 23
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The other 1960s: Re-assessing the enduring influence of neoconservatism in the United States
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The 1960s bequeathed to incoming generations of Americans a world in which neoconservatism became the intellectual spearhead ...
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A new intervention in the national imaginaty: The portrayal of the southwest in the novels of Paul Auster
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The article focuses on two novels by Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions (2002), Travels in the Scriptorium (2006), in ...
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A vulnerable sense of place: readapting post-apocalyptic dystopia in octavia butler's parable of the sower and Colson Whitehead's zone one
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Drawing on a number of theoretical works by space, trauma and dystopian studies scholars, this paper reconsiders the ...
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Things that happend in the dark: Readings of intimate partner violence in Stanley and Stella kowalski's relationship
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)This paper discusses the presence of intimate partner violence in the relationship established between the characters of ...
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Shakespeare's dramatic pattern of social change in Saroyan's the time of your life
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1939) employs a similar dramatic pattern of social change used in Shakespeare’s The ...
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I have lived in my own book: Patti Smith and the reconstruction of her public persona in life writing
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)In 2010, Patti Smith published her first memoir, Just Kids, winning the National Book Award for Nonfiction. The book recounts ...
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Redemption and home in the African American city upon a hill Hannah Crafts's the bondwoman's narrative
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The Bondwoman’s Narrative (1857) is a novel in which the black female slave Hannah Crafts aims at the remodeling of her ...
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Philanthropic classism: Americanization as a controversial rite of passage in Anzia Yezirska's fiction
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)At the turn of the nineteenth century, eastern European Jewish families migrated to America aspiring to fulfil the ...
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Disabled masculinity as a metaphor of national conflict in the cold war era: Orson Welles' the lady from Shangai, 1947
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Resisting censorship and American optimism in the postwar era, film noir emerged with some specific particularities which ...
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Two legged wombs: surrogacy and margaret atwood's the handmaid's tale
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Published in 1985, The Handmaid’s Tale is Margaret Atwood’s most famous work and her first dystopian novel, since all ...
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Urban indians in the short fiction of Sherman Alexie
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Although we still think of American Indians as riding horses, paddling canoes or hunting buffalo, the fact is that three ...
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Grotesque violence and humor in Gerald Vizenor's bearheart: the heirship chronicle
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)Gerald Vizenor seeks to challenge static definitions of Native American identity in his early novel Bearheart. To this ...
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Strange women teaching stranger things: mediumship and femane agency in nineteenth-century american spiritualist poetry
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)This article explores the paradoxes posed by American spiritualist poetry in relation to the female voice within ...
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Piercing together: body control, mutability and entertainment technology in infinite jest
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2019)The aim of this essay is to explore body representation and its significance in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite ...