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American Orientalism and Cosmopolitan Mixed Race: Early Asian American Mixed Race in the American Literary Imagination [PDF]

, 2012
This paper offers and initial examination of representations of Asian American mixed race during the long period of Asian exclusion and enforced anti-miscegenation when racial mixing was legally proscribed. I argue that this literature must be understood
Poulsen, Melissa Eriko
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Heiko Motschenbacher, New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca

Iperstoria, 2014
Review of New Perspectives on English as a European Lingua Franca, by Heiko Motschenbacher.
Paola Vettorel
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Depictions of Elderly Blacks in American Literature [PDF]

, 1985
Portraits of elderly Afroamerican men and women abound in American literature and vary from stories which present a mythic primordial character who symbolizes emotional stability, experiential wisdom and a community\u27s cultural and historical heritage,
Deck, Alice A.
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Daniel Chacón, Hotel Juarez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops

Iperstoria, 2014
Recensione di Hotel Juarez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops, di Daniel ...
Erminio Corti
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The Effects of Media on the American Perceptions of Islam from 2001-2012 [PDF]

, 2018
This study seeks to understand the correlation between the average American\u27s understanding of a Muslim and the portrayal of Muslims in relevant news events.
Pustelak, Brently
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Chantal Mouffe, Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically

Iperstoria, 2014
Recensione di Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically, di Chantal ...
Alice Cristini
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Airborne Toxicity in Don DeLillo’s White Noise

Open Cultural Studies
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the world came to realize the significant relationship between air and human health. This pandemic, which changed the course of many lives, demonstrated how air serves as a transmitter of viruses ...
Ömerali Uslu Mine
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[Review of] Paul Lauter, et aI, eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature [PDF]

, 1990
For years editors of standard American literature anthologies have presented undergraduates with a narrow view of the American literary experience. Their anthologies have reflected the predominant view of the academy, which has maintained a traditional ...
Urrea, Barbara
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Looking for Kunta Kinte: Alex Haley's Roots and African American Genealogies

Iperstoria, 2014
As the 30th anniversary 2006 edition recalls, Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family was a big popular success: in 1976, the year it was published, “the book sold over one million copies” and in 1977 the miniseries created out of it “was ...
Elisa Bordin
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Location and Landscape in Literary Americanisms: H. L. Davis and F. Scott Fitzgerald [PDF]

, 2009
Well into the twentieth century, western American literature was still dismissed as regional or was boxed in by the genre expectations of pulp Westerns.
Sumner, David T.
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