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Author: Robert Lashley
Publisher: Mr Lashley's Office
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Total Pages: 101
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Author: Robert Lashley
Publisher: Mr Lashley's Office
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Total Pages: 101
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Author: Christopher González
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2015-12-19
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0822981246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDominican American author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz has gained international fame for his blended, cross-cultural fiction. Reading Junot Diaz is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works. It explores the totality of his work and provides a concise view of the interconnected and multilayered narrative that weaves throughout Diaz's writings. Christopher Gonzalez analyzes both the formal and thematic features and discusses the work in the context of speculative and global fiction as well as Caribbean and Latino/a culture and language. Topics such as race, masculinity, migration, and Afro-Latinidad are examined in depth. Gonzalez provides a synthesis of the prevailing critical studies of Diaz and offers many new insights into his work.
Author: Jenna Blum
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0151010196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrudy Swenson, haunted by her German heritage, embarks upon a deeper investigation of her past and uncovers secrets her mother has kept hidden for five decades.
Author: Benjamin Nugent
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0743288017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engaging study of the nerd in American popular culture and throughout history discussed in such contexts as the rise of online gaming, the science fiction club, ethnicity, Asperger's syndrome, autism, and high school and college debating.
Author: Mary Botham Howitt
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Published: 1857
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stacey Olster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-09
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1108394094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Introduction to Contemporary American Fiction explores fiction written over the last thirty years in the context of the profound political, historical, and cultural changes that have distinguished the contemporary period. Focusing on both established and emerging writers - and with chapters devoted to the American historical novel, regional realism, the American political novel, the end of the Cold War and globalization, 9/11, borderlands and border identities, race, and the legacy of postmodern aesthetics - this Introduction locates contemporary American fiction at the intersection of a specific time and long-standing traditions. In the process, it investigates the entire concept of what constitutes an “American” author while exploring the vexed, yet resilient, nature of what the concept of home has come to signify in so much writing today. This wide-ranging study will be invaluable to students, instructors, and general readers alike.
Author: Jason Cortés
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2014-12-18
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1611486386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMasculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one—a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances. Because of its opacity and instability, masculinity, like more recognizable systems of oppression, resists discernibility. In Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in Latino-Caribbean Narrative, Jason Cortés seeks to reveal the inner workings of masculinity in the narrative prose of four major Caribbean authors: the Cuban Severo Sarduy; the Dominican American Junot Díaz; and the Puerto Ricans Luis Rafael Sánchez and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá. By exploring the relationship between ethics and authority, the legacies of colonial violence, the figure of the dictator, the macho, and the dandy, the logic of the Archive, the presence of Oscar Wilde, and notions of trauma and mourning, Macho Ethics fills a gap surrounding issues of power and masculinity within the Caribbean context, and draws attention to what frequently remains invisible and unspoken.
Author: Richard Bowdler Sharpe
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Published: 1897
Total Pages: 420
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Published: 1903
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2016-01-26
Total Pages: 833
ISBN-13: 0804172706
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