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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 one hand, it underlines the significant role of women instrumentalists and bandleaders in the ...
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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 50s” in the United States, dig underneath and bring to the fore the silenced (hi)stories concerning ...
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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 as a “dumb blonde” and plagued with humor, not only to twist the traditional gender paradigm of female ...
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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 perspective. Her revenants and hauntings are not just individual, but also historical, political and ...
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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 what at the time was considered ―disreputable genre material‖ into a work of fiction that could yield ...
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Review. Rocío Cobo Piñero. Sonidos de la diáspora. Blues y jazz en Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, y Gayl Jones
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2015)
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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 were extremely disturbing issues for Euro-American society. Women such as Eunice Williams, Mary ...
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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 directed towards social welfare during the Progressive era, achieved political prominence during the New ...
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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 multilingual writing. In “Invierno,” This Is How You Lose Her (2012), Díaz presents a crossing of spatial ...
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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 ideals. The literary impact of these biased ideas is considerably evident in the fairy-tale genre, ...