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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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The Hybridization of the Noir Genre as Expression of Ethnic Heritage: Rafael Navarro’s Sonambulo
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)
In his ongoing comic book series Sonambulo, versatile artist Rafael Navarro has been able to channel his Mexican American cultural heritage by creating a unique blend of narrative genres. In his work, Navarro ...
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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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Identity As a Construct: Reading Blackness In Eugene O’Neill’sThe Emperor Jones
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)
This paper aims to explore how racialized identities are typified as a modernist construct in Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones(1920). To this end, the notion of whiteness is identified as a mediated construct ...
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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 (2001) raises questions about the constitution of identity and its relation to place. The play ...