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Regime Crisis in Indonesia: Facts, Fiction, Predictions
Asian Survey, 1981POLITICS IN General Soeharto's New Order over the past decade have been increasingly analyzed in terms of latent or impending crises threatening the survival of the regime. The list of advertised apocalyptic crises was swelled in May and June 1980 by news that a "constitutional coup d'etat" had been attempted, accompanied by plans to assassinate the ...
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The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction
2020The Crisis of Scale in Contemporary Fiction studies how globalization has transformed our relationship with scale and creates a problem of representation in fiction. After the Second World War, new geopolitical, economic, cultural, and technological developments radically changed the form of existing spaces such as the nation-state, while producing new
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Identities in Crisis: Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s New Orleans Fiction
Canadian Review of American Studies, 2004In recent years, critics have celebrated Caribbean theories of creolization for their creative and protean approaches to identity. E.K. Brathwaite’s version of creolization and Wilson Harris’s “creative syncretism” (his term for cross-cultural exchanges) have been hailed as powerful critical tools in dismantling destructive binaries and harmful ...
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Contemporary Crisis Fiction: Constructing a New Genre
2014What then is contemporary crisis fiction? What are its generic components? In this chapter, I endeavour to answer these questions by taking a closer look at the forms and stylistic features of these writings, instanced in particular in their use of first person unreliable narrators and crisis scenarios, as well as the subversive appropriation of ...
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Crisis of masculinity in recent American fiction
2010Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit bedient sich der Idee von Männlichkeit als einem Mythos, der eine kollektive Identität schafft, zur Analyse dreier zeitgenössischer US-Romane: Fight Club von Chuck Palahniuk, A Man in Full (Ein ganzer Kerl) von Tom Wolfe und Terrorist von John Updike.
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