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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"U.S. fiction"”.
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Educational Encounters: (Re)Writing Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil and the U.S.
… identity in twentieth-century Brazilian and U.S. fiction through representations of education. Focusing primarily on Afro-descendant and women authors—including James Weldon Johnson, Rachel de Queiroz, Romeu Crusoé, Ralph Ellison, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Angela Jackson—I analyze how shifts in …
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Humanization of the Refugee as the Modern Subject in Mohsin Hamid’s <em>Exit West</em>
… concern of the global refugee crisis through the fictional novel Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. The novel tells the story of two protagonists who are portrayed as the modern subject that Hamid comes to humanize, which reflects on current society’s representation of the refugee as dehumanized or “the …
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Confronting modernity: urbanization and American fiction, 1880-1930
… examines both "realism" and "modernism" in U.S. fiction between 1880 and 1930 as reactions to the capitalist, industrial city, which serves as the site of the changes and the subject of the fiction. Urbanization made modernity manifest in three ways: the close proximity and racial diversity of …
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Beyond the Abyss: American Gaslight and Popular Literature
… to share and discuss their experiences. Popular fiction can bring a wide variety of voices into conversation, including those of women and color and marginalized women, and help women learn to empathize and better support each other in the face of societal oppression. This work provides examples …
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Narrative privacy : keeping secrets in contemporary Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American metafictions
… dissertation considers twenty-first century metafictional novels and short stories by Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American authors who use literary form to theorize the politics of ethnic privacy. These authors use metafictional strategies to situate the well-meaning desires of …
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The Politics of Male Friendship In Contemporary American Fiction
… far-reaching revival has registered in American fiction. The Introduction outlines how friendship has played a central role in the theory and practice of democratic politics since Aristotle suggested philia as fundamental to citizenship. In the U.S. context, male friendship in particular …
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'So many ways of being better': Contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help
… the relationship between contemporary US fiction and cultures of self-help in order to illuminate key concerns around selfhood and authorship. It seeks to question dominant understandings of the relationship between self-help and fiction which often fail to account for the irreducible …