Browsing Revista de estudios norteamericanos - 2019 - Nº 23 by Title
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...