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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Multiethnic Literature"”.
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Be Our Guest - International Students in Contemporary Multiethnic Literature
This thesis looks at the literary representation of the international student in two different novels to uncover the true nature of the US’s “hospitality” from the Cold War Era until now. To demonstrate this, I use Derrida’s framework of hospitality, close readings of Susan Choi’s novel The Foreign …
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Pedagogy and profit: Multiethnic literature, gender and young adult publishing
… major eras within the history of young adult literature, each of which responded to changing notions of citizenship. Chapter Two is a case study of <em>The House on Mango Street</em> (1984) by Sandra Cisneros that examines the effect of texts popularized by young readers on commercial and …
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"Seeking 'Free Spaces Unbound': Six ""Mixed"" Female Adolescents Transact With Literature Depicting Biracial Characters"
… female adolescents' responses to biracial literature---how biracial female youth make their voices heard, express their beliefs, explore their world, and understand their position in the world through literacy. The findings also broaden previous notions of multicultural education, the role …
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Homeplace of Hands: Fractal Performativity of Vulnerable Resistance
… together performance studies, feminist theory, multiethnic literature, personal story and poetry to communicate vulnerable resistance as a strategy for social transformation and selfhood. Vulnerable resistance as a way of being embodies a praxis of homeplace enacted through five modes I’ve …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… transnationalist studies to bear on comparative multiethnic literature, suggesting that American identities were fashioned in multiethnic as well as international matrices. Chapter one argues that William Apess's <italic>Eulogy on King Philip</italic> (1836) marshals source material by Washington …
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Lebanon to Detroit and the Places In-Between
<p>I am from Dearborn, Michigan, home to one of the largest populations of Arab immigrants in the United States. This mixing of cultures, of peoples, of identities has informed my writing in many ways. Narrative themes of immigration, exile and isolation inspire my writing and my thesis represents …