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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 society and to gain self–assertion through a deeply Christian commitment and a total and honest ...
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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 discourses of upward mobility and religious tolerance widely spread throughout their Russian villages. ...
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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 made the genre a countercultural phenomenon in the late 1940s. The possibilities offered by these ...
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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 end, he fills the novel with grotesquely violent and humorous scenes which give the work a seemingly ...
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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 Smith’s relationship with avant-garde photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as 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 Tempest (1611). In Shakespeare, the pattern includes the isolation of a group of characters by washing ...
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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 Jest (1996). By doing so, it will correlate (ab)use and domination of entertainment to the description ...
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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 nineteenth-century culture. Due to the associations between the passive and sensitive feminine ideal, as ...
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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 of rightwing political thought and action. To this day, politics and policy making retain a ...
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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 out of four Native Americans now live in cities. The migration from the backwoods and reservations ...