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(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
Diasporic dialogues: The role of gender, language, and revision in the neo-slave narrative
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
In this article I examine the creation of neo-slave narratives, or fictional texts written in the 20th and 21st centuries, yet set during an imagined period of American slavery or indentured servitude. In these novels the ...
Jacqueline Woodson’s narrative style in The Other Side: An African American picture book for children
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
The Other Side (2001) is a children’s story with multicultural characters and themes that can be regarded as an aesthetic exploration of the human experience in the process of the acquisition of knowledge. Following the ...
Koritha Mitchell. Living with Lynching
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
Anzaldúa and ‘the new mestiza’: A Chicana dives into collective identity
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
In this article I analyze how Gloria Anzaldúa’s seventh essay in Borderlands/La Frontera:The New Mestiza, titled “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness”, condenses and portrays a development towards the ...
Memory and language in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of mushrooms
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms (1994) highlights the difficulties encountered by Japanese when immigrating and living in Canada. This essay focuses on how Hiromi Goto uses linguistic codes to construct cultural identities ...
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(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
Wordarrows: The performative power of language in N. Scott Momaday’s non-fiction work
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
This article focuses on two non-fiction works by Native American author N. Scott Momaday: his 1969 historical memoir The Way to Rainy Mountain and his essay collection The Man Made of Words It specifically tackles performative ...
The voice of the cypresses. Cyrus Cassells and the poetry of Salvador Espriu
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)
“To the cypress again and again” is Cyrus Cassells’s poetic response to the work of Salvador Espriu, a poet whose reception has been limited by his belonging to a minority culture and his commitment to the Catalan language. ...
The use and abuse of language by a Chicano from Aztlán (both words unknown)
(Universitat Jaume I, 2012-12)