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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Bless Me"”.
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
… <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow and develop in a context where they need to build bridges between …
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Paraíso, caida y regeneración en tres novelas chicanas
… of three well-known chicano novels: Pocho, Bless Me, Ultima and Peregrinos de Aztlán. The approach is the utilization of the "paradise-fall-regeneration" pattern as a means to study the three stages of the principal characters' development. By identifying and characterizing this process …
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Resilience: Appalachia's Journey to Hope and Restoration
Resilience comes from many sources for everyone. It is usually described as an ability to withstand and overcome difficult challenges and come back stronger. In September 2024, many of my Appalachian communities faced Hurricane Helene, a life altering event that no one could have anticipated being …
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From rituals to films: a case study of the visual rhetoric of Igbo culture in Nolywood films
… argues that Nollywood films help to provide a time and a place for resolving deep-felt tensions in an increasingly modern world while affirming an authentic African [Igbo] identity. The way contemporary video films are produced brings these films close to the dominant emotional and identity …
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Adolescent time: Adolescence and the formation of Chicano literature
… Theories of assimilation and concerns over Mexican-American cultural inauthenticity animate much of Chicano literature and its criticism, yet my research aims to focus on the liminal space during which Mexican-American adolescent males negotiate complex ideological forces on their way toward …