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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Transnational Studies"”.
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BITING OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW: GERMAN-BRAZILIAN CULTURAL CANNIBALISM
… cannibalism within the field of cultural and transnational studies and in conversation with other concepts, such as Fernando Ortiz’s transculturation, the melting-pot metaphor (both in the US and in Germany), the European Willkommenskultur, and the now popular cultural appropriation. Through …
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Entangled mobility in nineteenth-century American literature
… American Literature,” refocuses studies of nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and expansion on impaired mobility and bodies. As I show, both pro-imperial and anti-imperial writers as diverse as Robert Montgomery Bird, Herman Melville, Harriet Jacobs, and Harriet Beecher Stowe find in …
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Migrant Families in Ireland: Understanding the Culture Landscapes of Transnational Family Life
… presented in the popular media and academic studies as being somewhat problematic. While this study acknowledges some of the difficulties facing Ireland‘s migrant population, I attend in particular to some of the more everyday and ordinary things done as part of living here, some of which …
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Transiti, Dilatazioni Mnestiche e Identità in The Road to Fez di Ruth Knafo Setton
Nell’intento di recuperare le eredità più complesse e la capacità di reazione di scritture dove più in evidenza sono i processi di migrazione tra America e Marocco, nel primo capitolo definiremo il profilo di una minoranza, i transiti e le erranze presenti e passate dei sefarditi, in quello …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
… late capitalism, in the United States and on the Transnational Stage. It introduces a performative approach derived from Somatics and forms of improvisation to further elucidate notions of presence as culture in this particular context. It also includes storytelling elements that I feel necessary …
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A Drop in the Bucket: Transnational Philanthropy for Development Work in India by the Indian American Community
<p>The role that diasporas play in development has received focus from academic scholars, policy planners, and politicians in developing countries, especially within the context of globalization and cross-border flows of human capital. India has drawn a lot of attention for these issues because of …
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The Performance of Intersectionality on the 21st Century Stand-Up Comedy Stage
… intersectional activism at the National Women’s Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her call continues to challenge current stand-up comics to acknowledge intersectionality, particularly the perspectives of women of color, and to encourage comics to actively intervene in …
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Country of Illusion: Imagined Geographies and Transnational Connections in F. Scott Fitzgerald's America
… often planting tropes of transregional and transnational significance in his “local color” fictions, using US place to address sociopolitical topics. When Fitzgerald wrote about his native Midwest, he contrasted its pastoral past with its rapidly urbanizing present; in taking up this theme, …