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Police‐perpetrated racism and health in African American and Black communities
Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2024.Abstract This brief review article focuses on police‐perpetrated racism against African American and Black (AAB) communities, typically in the form of police brutality, police violence, and aggressive policing. We assert that police‐perpetrated racism constitutes a racial justice and public health problem.
Lori S. Hoggard, Mariah T. Lutchman
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Thoroughly Modern Mina: Romance, History, and the Dracula Pastiche
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2019 Dracula pastiches have been popular for decades, but it is only since the 1970s that authors have regularly turned to imagining romances between Dracula and Mina Harker.
Miriam Elizabeth Burstein
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Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, 2012 A partir de la obra poética de José Ángel Valente construimos una estética de la disolución en la que todo parece disolverse en su propio interior y esta infiniversión crea una red que liga las problemáticas del infinito, el ritmo, la materia, la forma y el vacío.From the poetic works of José Ángel Valente we construct an aesthetic of dissintegration ...
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Queering the Romantic Heroine: Where Her Power Lies
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, 2012 This paper traces the evolution of the figure of the queer heroine in romance from the Middle Ages through contemporary fiction. We locate queerness not only in a female protagonist’s romantic and sexual preferences, but also in any other identity ...
Katherine E. Lynch +2 more
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Fantastic alterities and The Sandman [PDF]
, 2012 This article explores the ways in which the comics medium enhances our understanding of literary models of the Fantastic. It examines the presence and depiction of multiple worlds in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, with specific reference to the role of the ...
Round, Julia
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"We Are What We Are Supposed to Be": The Brothers Grimm as Fictional Representations [PDF]
, 2014 This article examines how the Brothers Grimm are fictionalized in German and Anglo-American media. While some representations revere and romanticize the iconic brothers for preserving the fairy-tale tradition, other depictions challenge the conventional ...
Donald Paul Haase
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Permeable borders, possible worlds: history and identity in the novels of Michèle Roberts [PDF]
, 2003 Since the publication of her first novel, A Piece of the Night, in 1978, Michele Roberts’ fiction has continually returned to epiphanic moments which elide divisions in time and space.
White, Rosie
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Spooks and Spanks; Unraveling Paranormal Romance\u27s Presence on BookTok [PDF]
, 2022 This research project examines the frequency at which the romance subgenre, paranormal romance, appears on the online social media subcommunity BookTok.
Bermudez, Lizzy
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Medieval Literature and Young Adult Fiction: A Comparison of Chaucer and Sarah J. Maas [PDF]
, 2017 The medieval works of Geoffrey Chaucer and the contemporary works of Sarah J. Maas employ three of the same themes: forbidden love, insta-love, and love triangles. These themes are based in the medieval literary tradition of courtly love as first written
Cuadrado, Dana
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Writing, as Mysterious as a Cat: a Critical Evaluation of Poe’s the fall of the House of Usher [PDF]
, 2017 Edger Allan Poe occupies a unique place in American Literature. A master of the horror tale and the patron saint of the detective story, Poe, in his supernatural fiction, usually deals with paranoia rooted in personal psychology, physical or mental ...
Maiti, A. (Abhik)
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