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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"minority literature"”.
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Moral development and children's literature
… were associated with selections from children's literature and arranged to constitute a program which operationalizes the Kohlberg theory of moral development. The program was reviewed for theoretical consistency. The program includes the following types of children's literature: fable, fairy …
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Writing the Indigenous: Contemporary Mayan Literature in Chiapas, Mexico and Palestinian Literature in Israel
This dissertation examines contemporary Mayan literature in Chiapas, Mexico (1983-2010) and Palestinian literature in Israel (1976-2010). It performs an understudied comparison between the literary traditions of two indigenous minorities emerging from the Global South and the Fourth World. This …
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Transgressive topographien in der turkisch-deutschen post-migrantenliteratur
… past two decades the contribution of postmigrant literature to Germany's literary landscape has attracted significant scholarly interest. This study investigates selected prose of Turkish-German authors. Six primary texts are reconceived as "transgressive" as they intervene in contemporary …
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Aesthetics, poetics, and cognition: a new minor literature by autists and modernists
… are still characterized in terms of lack—when literature by autists is analyzed at all. They are often treated as incoherent collections of juxtaposed fragments, which depict isolated protagonists struggling to unify their experience. This perspective is reminiscent of Uta Frith’s theory of …
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An Approach to the Study of American Indian Literature at the College Level
… materials of the American Indian tradition, such literature has been available for a number of years. The works of American Indians, whether individual or tribal, have generally gone unnoticed by the majority of teachers, who have usually favored non-Indian interpretations of Indian experiences. …
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Unveiling absences, or unsettling multiculturalism, in Antonio Casella's 'The Sensualist' and Venero Armanno's 'Romeo of the Underworld' and 'The Volcano'
Scopo di questo studio è stato quello di analizzare gli elementi gotici presenti nei romanzi in esame al fine di evidenziarne il rapporto con il concetto di liminality delle varie generazioni di migranti e come la stessa venga veicolata dalla stessa struttura narrativa. Dunque, un rapporto tra …
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In-Group, Out-Group, or All of the Above: The Advantages of Young Adult Literature for Empathic and Cognitive Engagement with Minority Protagonists
… use empathy with young adult novels featuring minority protagonists – that is, protagonists who are disabled, who are LGBT+, or who are of a minority race or ethnicity. In particular, this thesis focuses on the psychology theory of in-group and out-group categorizations, which demonstrates that …
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Versions of America: Reading American Literature for Identity and Difference
… paradigm that fixes these authors into an ethnic minority category. I then trace aesthetic and thematic content of short stories from both Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies and Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories to demonstrate how these stories resist this ethno-cultural pigeonholing. My …