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Sherly. H, Ms Monica, and Dr Aseda Fatima.R. "Patriarchal Oppression in Pearl S Buck’s Novel The Good Earth." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 8, no. 2 (2020): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v8i2.10406.

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The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. American literature blossomed with the skillful and brilliant writer during 1900s. Pearl S Buck was born to the family of Presbyterian missionary in 1892 in West Virginia. Being a successful writer in nineteenth century, she published various novels and she was the first female laureate in America and fourth woman writer to receive Nobel Prize in Literature. Oppression is an element that is common in patriarchal society where the women are always subjugated by the men in the family. This paper is to depict the men’s oppression in the novel through the character Wang Lang and how the female character O-Lan is surviving from all the struggles that she faces from her own family members. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. Literature is the reflection of mind. It is the great creative and universal means of communicating to the humankind. This creativity shows the difference between the writers and the people who simply write their views, ideas and thoughts. American literature began with the discovery of America. American literature begins with the orally transmitted myths, legends, tales and lyrics of Indian cultures. Native American oral literature is quite diverse. The story of American literature begins in the early 1600’s, long before there were any “Americans”. The earliest writers were Englishmen describing the English exploration and colonization of the New World.

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Johnston, Anna. "Becoming “Pacific-Minded”." Transfers 7, no. 1 (2017): 88–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2017.070107.

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The travel writer Frank Clune saw World War II as a turning point in Australia’s consciousness, turning its inhabitants’ attention to the Pacific region. Similarly, the writer Ernestine Hill was delighted to find new American markets for her Australian books in wartime as troops were mobilized across the Pacific theater. In America, as Janice Radway has shown, the sentimental mode of “middlebrow personalism” enabled writers to engage their readers in wider geopolitical affairs. Middlebrow intellectuals, texts, and institutions were crucial in educating Americans about their evolving midcentury relationships with Asia, just as writers such as Clune and Hill educated Australians about the Pacific: a coalition of American and Australian mobilities and imaginaries in middlebrow midcentury print culture. This article examines the multiple ways in which these books and their writers “made Australia” in terms of a regional imaginary that extended across the Pacific during this period.

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Donaldson, Susan V., and Frederick R. Karl. "William Faulkner: American Writer." American Literature 62, no. 2 (1990): 344. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926937.

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SIMON, JUSTIN. "William Faulkner: American Writer." American Journal of Psychiatry 146, no. 12 (1989): 1621–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.12.1621.

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Holland, Sharon P. "Redefining the African American Canon Writer by Writer." Southern Literary Journal 45, no. 2 (2013): 121–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/slj.2013.0011.

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Glaser, Jennifer. "The Jew in the Canon: Reading Race and Literary History in Philip Roth's The Human Stain." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (2008): 1465–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1465.

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The evolving political landscape of a multicultural America grown disenchanted with the mythology of the melting pot had vast repercussions for the Jewish American literary imagination. Nonetheless, critical race theory has yet to take full stock of the role of Jewish writers in the debates over canonicity, representation, and multicultural literary genealogies occurring in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. Philip Roth's The Human Stain, published in 2000, directly engages questions of literary history, race, and the position of the Jewish writer and intellectual in the canon wars. By depicting the tragedy of an African American man who passes into whiteness by passing for a Jewish professor, Roth uses the trope of passing to simultaneously critique the puritan impulse he perceives at the heart of the multicultural academy and write himself into the multicultural canon taking shape at the time.

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Muttalib, Fuad. "The Characters of Children in Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”: A Comparative Study." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 3, no. 2 (2021): 166–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v3i2.567.

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This article tries to compare between two well-known American short stories, “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, from a comparative perspective. The author of the first of these stories is an African-American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. Alice Walker and the other story is written by an American short story writer, novelist and photographer, who wrote about the American South, Audra Welty. The specific reasons behind choosing these two short stories because they are written by women writers from different cultures, both deal with racial issues, but more importantly is that both include children characters that can add an attribution to be representations of the new African- American generation. Walker’s story includes the characters of two African- American daughters; Maggi and Dee, each of these characters behave in a different way, a behavior which consequently represents a special attitude towards the new generation of African- Americans. While in Welty’s story, we find the character of the grandson of the protagonist, Phoenix, who has a disease which deprived him from his ability to speak. This study analyses how these three characters provide different angles of seeing how the new generation of African- Americans is represented through a comparative outlook.

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Prihatika, Yusrina Dinar, and Muh Arif Rokhman. "DEBUNKING THE POST-RACIAL NOTION: A RACIAL PREJUDICE STUDY IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN ANGIE THOMAS’ THE HATE U GIVE." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 7, no. 1 (2020): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v7i1.62511.

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Today, America is still busy with the problems of inequality, which include racial prejudice.The Hate U Give brings social issues that are rife to people of color, especially African Americans. In her novel, Thomas illustrates the injustice that had happened to the African American community because of the racial profiling that was carried out by white people. The writer uses descriptive analysis method in finding the meaning behind a literary work. The writer also conducts the study using Racial Prejudice theory by McLemore to see the types of prejudice in society. The writer also elaborates it with Du Bois’ Double Consciousness in analyzing racial prejudice towards African Americans. The study found out that perceived injustice is still often obtained by African Americans, where they still cannot have their rights as citizens in the United States, such as educational equality, economics, and legal protection. This prejudice is caused by the existence of social class conditions which are constrained by the majority race which tries to maintain its position as a 'ruler' in American society, the other factor is by the spreading Post-Racial ideology where the majority of people think that talking about racial issues is no longer relevant.

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Gaarden, B. "God and the American Writer." American Literature 73, no. 3 (2001): 671–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-671.

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Brown, John L., and Alfred Kazin. "God and the American Writer." World Literature Today 72, no. 2 (1998): 382. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40153859.

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Rawlings, Peter, and Alfred Kazin. "God and the American Writer." Modern Language Review 94, no. 4 (1999): 1084. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3737251.

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Reynolds, David S., and Alfred Kazin. "God and the American Writer." Journal of American History 85, no. 3 (1998): 1046. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2567233.

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Zahoor Hussain, Samiullah Khan, and Muhammad Ajmal. "A Corpus Stylistic Analysis of Abulhawa's the Blue between Sky and Water." Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review (RJSSER) 1, no. 4 (2020): 83–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.36902/rjsser-vol1-iss4-2020(83-93).

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Palestinian literature received significance after Nakba (1948 Palestine-Israel war) and Naksa (1967 Arab-Israel war) and it laid an impact on Palestinian writers and there emerged a new form of literature called Palestinian American literature which got recognition in the 1990s internationally. After Nakba and Naksa many Palestinian families migrated to America. These Palestinians wrote literature in English that is called Palestinian-American literature. The aim of the stylistic analysis of Abulhawa's work to trace out how the writer constructs reality through lexical categories. This thesis also analyzes the work of Palestinian-American writer Abulhawa's novel, The Blue between Sky and Water, and focuses specifically on how the writer achieves her aims. At the same time, this stylistic analysis of The Blue between Sky and Water shed light on the use of Arabic words in English fiction which represent the culture and identity of the Palestinian nation. It explores the dilemma of Palestine that they become a foreigner in their native land. The researcher employed a mixed-method approach to conduct the present study. The researcher used Corpus stylistics tools to analyze the novel. The researcher traced around 6288 concrete nouns and 1634 abstract nouns from the sample respectively. The extensive use of concrete nouns showed that the main purpose of the writer was to get homeland and this piece of writing was not only art for art sake rather art for life's sake. The researcher traced out around 1400 adjectives from the sample of study.

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Ahmad, Mumtaz, Fatima Saleem, and Ali Usman Saleem. "Black Bodies White Culture: A Black Feminist [Re]Construction of Race and Gender in Morrison's Paradise." Global Social Sciences Review V, no. IV (2020): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(v-iv).07.

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'This article intends to explore and expose through the analysis of Morrison's Paradise how the Afro American female writers [re]construct the potential of Afro American ecriture feminine to seek the true freedom and empowerment of black women by appealing them to 'write-through bodies'. To achieve this purpose, this article articulates its theoretical agenda, through the exploration of the work of the outstanding, widely acknowledged award-winning, English speaking Afro American female writer: Toni Morrison. Though it aims to highlight the significance and contribution of the Afro American female novelists towards broadening the frontiers of 'ecriture feminine', it does not aim to offer the generalized history of women writing in Afro American literature. It seeks to propose alternative ways of informed analysis, grounded in discourse and Feminist theories, to evaluate Toni Morrison's contribution to 'ecriture feminine'.

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Pun, Min. "Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Canonization of Toni Morrison." Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5, no. 2 (2017): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v5i2.18434.

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The paper aims to examine the anti-racist approach in pedagogy in relation to the issues of representations of African Americans in American schools, curricula, and literary canon. It has considered anti-racist pedagogy as a correct approach to creating a truly democratic society in a racist society like the United States of America. In order to address these issues, Toni Morrison has been considered the most successful African American writer who has attained canonical status within the mainstream of both African American and American literature. The paper has, thus, raised some of the vital issues related to the representations of African Americans in American schools, curricula, and the literary canons.Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 5(2) 2017: 15-24

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MacWatters, Kelly S. "Academic Writer." Charleston Advisor 21, no. 3 (2020): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.21.3.5.

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Academic Writer is a digital learning tool designed by the American Psychological Association (APA) to enhance traditional learning and teaching methods. Originally launched in 2016 as APA Style Central and rebranded in 2019, APA’s Academic Writer supports curricula requiring the APA style of writing and citation.

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Martone, Eric. "Creating a local black identity in a global context: the French writer Alexandre Dumas as an African American lieu de mémoire." Journal of Global History 5, no. 3 (2010): 395–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022810000203.

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AbstractWestern expansion and domination through colonial systems served as a form of globalization, spreading white hegemony across the globe. While whites retained the monopoly on ‘modernity’ as the exclusive writers of historical progress, ‘backward’ African Americans were perceived as ‘outside’ Western culture and history. As a result, there were no African American individuals perceived as succeeding in Western terms in the arts, humanities, and sciences. In response, African American intellectuals forged a counter-global bloc that challenged globalization conceived as hegemonic Western domination. They sought to insert African Americans as a whole into the history of America, (re)creating a local black American history ‘forgotten’ because of slavery and Western power. African American intellectuals thus created a ‘usable past’, or counter-memory, to reconstitute history through the inclusion of African Americans, countering Western myths of black inferiority. The devastating legacy of slavery was posited as the cause of the African Americans’ lack of Western cultural acclivity. Due to the lack of nationally recognized African American figures of Western cultural achievement, intellectuals constructed Dumas as a lieu de mémoire as part of wider efforts to appropriate historical individuals of black descent from across the globe within a transnational community produced by the Atlantic slave trade. Since all blacks were perceived as having a uniting ‘essence’, Dumas’ achievements meant that all blacks had the same potential. Such identification efforts demonstrated African Americans’ social and cultural suitability in Western terms and the resulting right to be included in American society. In this process, African Americans expressed a new, local black identity by expanding an ‘African American’ identity to a wider range of individuals than was commonly applied. While constructing a usable past, African Americans redefined ‘America’ beyond the current hegemonic usage (which generally restricted the term geographically to the US) to encompass an ‘Atlantic’ world – a world in which the Dumas of memory was re-imagined as an integral component with strong connections to slavery and colonialism.

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Miller, Nicola. "Recasting the Role of the Intellectual: Chilean Poet Gabriela Mistral." Feminist Review 79, no. 1 (2005): 134–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400206.

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The life and work of Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1945, is examined as an example of how difficult it was for women to win recognition as intellectuals in 20th-century Latin America. Despite an international reputation for erudition and political commitment, Mistral has traditionally been represented in stereotypically gendered terms as the ‘Mother’ and ‘Schoolteacher’ of the Americas, and it has been repeatedly claimed that she was both apolitical and anti-intellectual. This article contests such claims, arguing that she was not only committed to fulfilling the role of an intellectual, but that she also elaborated a critique of the dominant male Latin American view of intellectuality, probing the boundaries of both rationality and nationality as constructed by male Euro-Americans. In so doing, she addressed many of the crucial issues that still confront intellectuals today in Latin America and elsewhere.

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Singal, Daniel J., and Frederick R. Karl. "William Faulkner: American Writer. A Biography." Journal of American History 77, no. 2 (1990): 628. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2079198.

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Quirk, Linda. "Bart Layton (writer-director), American Animals." Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada 56, no. 1/2 (2019): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/pbsc.v56i1/2.29947.

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Toledo-Pereyra, Luis H. "Richard Selzer: Premiere American Surgeon-Writer." Journal of Investigative Surgery 20, no. 6 (2007): 319–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941930701772108.

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Cobb, James C., and Frederick R. Karl. "William Faulkner: American Writer. A Biography." Journal of Southern History 57, no. 1 (1991): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2209906.

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Musa Jafarova, Sevil. "NOTES ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY." SCIENTIFIC WORK 15, no. 3 (2021): 63–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/64/63-67.

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Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist and short story writer and journalist. His real name is Ernest Miller Hemingway. He is a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. He wrote his first articles in the school newspaper. In 1917, America was slowly joining World War I.Heminquey immediately enlisted in the army, but was not accepted because his left eye was weak. A year later, he entered the Red Crescent and volunteered to drive an ambulance. He was wounded in an explosion near the war, carrying an Italian soldier on his shoulder while he was wounded, and was wounded in the leg. After that, he was declared a hero in Italy and received the "Silver Medal of Honor". While in treatment in Milan, he fell in love with a nurse, and this love led him to write a masterpiece - "Goodbye, guns." Heminquey wrote mainly about his life experiences. This can be seen in "Goodbye, weapons". The writer, who reached the peak of his career with "Who the bells are ringing for", continued his life by participating in wars. Key words: famous writer, Chicago, Nobel laureate, author of short stories, story, old man, sea

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Kafes, Huseyin. "Construction of Stance through the Use of Retrospective Labels by American and Turkish Academic Writers." English Language Teaching 10, no. 11 (2017): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n11p87.

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In parallel with the recognition of the importance of writer presence in academic texts, there has been an increasing interest in writer stance. Yet, very little of this research has been devoted to the construction of stance through retrospective labels. Driven by this need, this study aims to investigate the construction of stance through retrospective labels by American and novice Turkish writers in their texts. Using a corpus-based methodology comprising of quantitative and qualitative procedures, this study analyzes the frequency counts of stance through retrospective labels and the functions associated with them. The results of this corpus-based research have revealed similarities as well as some marked differences between the two corpora. It seems that in addition to proficiency in English, educational background of novice Turkish academic writers have an impact on their construction of stance through retrospective labels. I suggest that the strategic employment of retrospective labels to create stance is a valuable rhetorical strategy for academic writers to construct convincing arguments.

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Foley, Barbara. "Renarrating the Thirties in the Forties and Fifties." Prospects 20 (October 1995): 455–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006165.

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Daniel aaron, writing about American literary communism at the turn into the 1960s, concluded that the literary radicalism of the 1930s had been one more “turn in the cycle of revolt” characterizing the generational politics of American writers since the early 19th Century. The American writer's “running quarrel with his [sic] society” springs “as much from his identity with that society as from his alienation,” Aaron argued. When this rebellion fails to sustain itself, the writer is “gradually absorbed into the society he has rejected.” Like earlier “experiments in rebellion,” the 1930s movement had its “ancestors and founders, its foreign prophets, its manifestoes, its saints and renegades.” It “be[gan] in joy and end[ed] in disillusionment,” although (here Aaron was probably alluding to the early signs of civil rights activity) “amidst its monuments and ruins are the shoots of rebellion to come” (20, 22).

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Qing, Zhao. "Song of Chinese American Females- A Traumatic Reading of The Woman Warrior." IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies 16, no. 3 (2020): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v16.n3.p6.

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Maxine Hong Kingston is a famous Chinese American writer, who is adept at interpreting the living conditions of Chinese American immigrants by making vivid and profound description. She writes several influential novels and the publication of her masterpiece The Woman Warrior makes her immediately renowned in the American literary circle. This paper is going to apply trauma theory to describe the Chinese females’ miserable fates, to further explore the causes of their trauma, and to focus on how they treat trauma, overcome trauma and become “woman warriors”.

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STEELE, BRIAN. "Inventing Un-America." Journal of American Studies 47, no. 4 (2013): 881–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875813001394.

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No writer is more closely bound up with our deepest sense of the meaning of the “American” than Thomas Jefferson and it is difficult to imagine America's national purpose without some reference to his words. Yet Jefferson's projection of American identity also assumed and even constituted, of necessity, the un-American and it is in this sense that the un-American provided the necessary contours of what became the “American.” Jefferson's various projects are often seen in tension with one another. But this dialectic between the American and the un-American helps reconcile many of them. Federalists, Jefferson believed, assumed that governing Americans demanded the force and corruption that had long kept Europeans in order, whereas Americans, he believed, had an experience of history that rendered them capable of transcending such political theory and practicing democratic politics. This paper explores this dialectic between the American and the un-American in Jefferson's thought as a problem of national self-definition and argues that Jefferson's overwhelming confidence about American identity rested to a large degree in the shudder produced by his experience of the other. Years before Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, Jefferson's project of defining the nation created the un-American, rendering Americans ever since profoundly, however paradoxically, ambivalent about the prospects for revolutionary republicanism abroad.

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Orlova, Olga Iu. "FOLKLORE MOTIVES AND THEIR REINTERPRETATION IN THE WORK OF AMERICAN WRITER L.F. BAUM." Volga Region Pedagogical Search 34, no. 4 (2020): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.33065/2307-1052-2020-4-34-30-35.

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. It is generally considered that the genre of the literary fairy tale in Europe expressed itself amply in the age of romanticism and used folklore imagery and motifs, as many other literary genres. But the folklore of Native Americans is also known to be ignored by authors in the USA. At the beginning the European folk tales served as the basis for the literary fairytale in the United States. Nonetheless, by the 20th century the authors had decided to create their own national fairy tale tradition. The article deals with the problem of folklore motifs reshaping in the collection entitled “American Fairy Tales” by L.F. Baum. There are some recurrent folklore motifs in the fairy tales: the motif of the forbidden door, the magical object, etc. At the same time, imagery of natural objects typical of North America (corn fields, huge cities with apartment houses) add some new traits to the national variant of the fairytale.

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Krupnick, Mark. "God and the American Writer. Alfred Kazin." Journal of Religion 79, no. 2 (1999): 354–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/490449.

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Jung-hoon Jang. "Native American Writer: Overturned Native/Foreign Consciousness." Journal of English Language and Literature 53, no. 1 (2007): 99–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.15794/jell.2007.53.1.005.

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Hsieh, Hsin-Chin. "Repositioning Taiwan: Historical Representation and Transformative Identity in Taiwanese American Literature." Translocal Chinese: East Asian Perspectives 14, no. 1 (2020): 37–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24522015-01401004.

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Abstract This article investigates how Taiwanese American writers represent Taiwan history in literary works with a focus on a female perspective as a way of reconstructing identities and repositioning Taiwan on a global scale. With the case studies of the first-generation Taiwanese American writer Joyce Huang’s Yangmei Trilogy (2001–2005) and the multiethnic second-generation writer Shawna Yang Ryan’s Green Island (2016), this article employs Shu-mei Shih’s “relational comparison” as a theoretical approach to analyze generational differences and transformative identities in these novels and argues that these authors’ writings on Taiwan history in the United States embody the transnational connection between the homeland and the host state. More importantly, by adopting similar historical materials and distinct narrative strategies, these novels demonstrate the involved multifaceted political meanings and cultural interventions by situating Taiwan in the related national, transnational and world histories and in doing so connect and compare Taiwan with other parts of the world.

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Rodden, John. "“The Rope That Connects Me Directly with You”: John Wain and the Movement Writers' Orwell." Albion 20, no. 1 (1988): 59–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4049798.

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No British writer has had a greater impact on the Anglo-American generation which came of age in the decade following World War II than George Orwell. His influence has been, and continues to be, deeply felt by intellectuals of all political stripes, including the Marxist Left (Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson), the anarchist Left (George Woodcock, Nicolas Walter), the American liberal-Left (Irving Howe), American neoconservatives (Norman Podhoretz), and the Anglo-American Catholic Right (Christopher Hollis, Russell Kirk).Perhaps Orwell's broadest imprint, however, was stamped upon the only literary group which has ever regarded him as a model: the Movement writers of the 1950s. Unlike the above-mentioned groups, which have consisted almost entirely of political intellectuals rather than writers—and whose members have responded to him as a political critic first and a writer second—some of the Movement writers saw Orwell not just as a political intellectual but also as the man of letters and/or literary stylist whom they aspired to be.The Movement writers were primarily an alliance of poet-critics. The “official” members numbered nine poets and novelists; a few other writers and critics loomed on the periphery. Their acknowledged genius, if not leading publicist, was Philip Larkin, who later became Britain's poet laureate. Orwell's plain voice influenced the tone and attitude of Larkin's poetry and that of several other Movement poets, especially Robert Conquest and D. J. Enright. But Orwell shone as an even brighter presence among the poet-novelists, particularly John Wain and Kingsley Amis, whose early fictional anti-heroes were direct descendants of Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) and George Bowling in Coming Up for Air (1939).

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Sathiya, M., and S. Ramya. "NATIVE AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE IN LINDA HOGAN’S MEAN SPIRIT." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 4, no. 1 (2016): 185–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v4.i1.2016.2863.

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This Paper focuses on the Native American’s struggles and problems through their color and racial discrimination. Linda hogan, a native American and Ecofeminism, a renowned writer. Her novels fully based on the problems of Native Americans, particularly “Mean Spirit” she discussed in an elaborate way and Women also combined together nature and themselves with an effective way.

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Faqih, Achmad, and Muh Arif Rokhman. "SPIRITUAL HIBRIDITY OF NATIVE AMERICAN IN LOUIS EDRICH’S THE ROUND HOUSE: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 7, no. 2 (2020): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v7i2.62748.

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Louis Edrich is a contemporary Native American writer who writes The Round House. The novel portrays the complexities of individual and cultural identity, focuses on the exigencies of marginalization and cultural survival, which happened to Native Americans, as well as concerns about spirituality and the hybrid form of religion, known as spiritual hybridity. Spiritual hybridity appears to be common practices for Native Americans after the arrival of European and the massive spreading of Christianity. This study is conducted to probe the representation of the spiritual hybridity of Native Americans. The novel is examined using Bhabha’s theory on Hybridity. The dialogue and narration in the form of words, phrases, and sentences in the novel are treated as a data source representing the spiritual hybridity of Native Americans. The analysis results in the representation of the spiritual hybridity of Native Americans,which can be considered as their defense against Christian hegemony. Besides, the representation of spiritual hybridity, as a form of third space, occurs due to a mixture of religious beliefs committed by Native Americans after experiencing religious oppression or discrimination. Spiritual hybridity can be concluded as a new pattern of the struggle and resistance of Native Americans to fight for their tradition. Nowadays, spiritual hybridity for Native American remains a form of resistance towards Christian hegemony.

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deGategno, Paul J. "Replying to a Crisis: James Macpherson's The Rights of Great Britain Asserted against the Claims of America." Britain and the World 11, no. 2 (2018): 195–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/brw.2018.0299.

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The chaotic period of the American Revolution engaged many writers on both sides of the Atlantic arguing for and against the claims of the American colonists. One of the most popular and effective statements of the British position regarding the rebellion emerged from James Macpherson, poet of Ossian, historian, and government writer. As an accomplished literary talent in the service of politics, Macpherson wrote the pamphlet, The Rights of Great Britain Asserted against the Claims of America (1775), designing a persuasive appeal to the British public for preserving order and supporting the Monarchy. Macpherson displays a controlled, often dispassionate voice in dealing with the American rebellion, while seeking humane solutions with creativity, conviction, and agility in an environment of popular discontent and political instability. Finally, as a poet, he insisted on balancing the historian's empirical demand for facts with sensitivity and a liberal spirit of dialogue often in opposition to the dominant opinion of his King and ministers.

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Chittiphalangsri, Phrae. "Trauma, Repressed Memory, and the Question of ‘Authenticity’: Reading see Under: Love and Beloved Through Bhabha." MANUSYA 8, no. 4 (2005): 43–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/26659077-00804003.

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Trauma and the repressed memory of Jewish Holocaust survivors and African- American slaves are issues that require the notion of ‘authenticity’ in fictional representation. The Zionist discourse demands that Holocaust fictions be written by true witnesses of the genocide and with respectful seriousness, for the Holocaust is a sacred, incomparable phenomenon in Jewish history. In the same manner, the Black American narrative needs authenticity to articulate the Black’s own voice, which has been predominately constructed by White Americans since the early history of America. David Grossman’s See Under: Love (1999) nevertheless deals with the problem of ‘authenticity’ in describing the Holocaust, despite the fact that the writer never experienced the Holocaust directly and even wrote it in a postmodern, humorous, and fantastic manner. Likewise, Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) introduces a new way to write an authentic African- American narrative, i.e. magical realism. This essay explores the problem of authenticity by applying Homi K. Bhabha’s cultural theory to analyse it in four parts. The first part investigates the causes and the culturally specific backgrounds of the Zionist and the American Africanist’s views towards ‘authenticity’ in literary representation. The second part clarifies the argument by situating ‘authenticity’ in Bhabha’s framework of the pedagogical. The third part furthers the argument by detailing the performative use of the fantastic and magical realism to render the effect of liminality. The last part concludes the notion of ‘authenticity’ by pointing out the supplementary aspect of Bhabha’s theory when applied to the two novels.

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Magdy, Zainab. "“Going Easily Under”: Waguih Ghali’s Diary of Depression." Transfer. Reception Studies 5 (December 31, 2020): 159–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.16926/trs.2020.05.06.

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Egyptian Anglophone writer Waguih Ghali (192? – 1969) has been mostly known for his novel Beer in the Snooker Club (London: Serpent's Tale, 1987) up until his diaries appeared in an online archive dedicated solely to his unpublished papers. A few years ago, the American University in Cairo published Ghali’s diaries into two volumes under the title The Diaries of Waguih Ghali: An Egyptian Writer in the Swinging Sixties (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2016, 2017). They were released to readers and fans, playing the role of a long awaited second work and also satisfying the general curiosity around his life before his suicide in the late sixties. In May 1964, Ghali started keeping his diary as an attempt to deal with his depression which culminated in his final entry being his suicide note: the trajectory Ghali’s diary takes is that of ‘feeling bad’. Ghali struggles with bouts of depression and although is unable to write more fiction, continues to write about his almost daily battle with mental illness in the practice of keeping the diary. His diaries reveal various emotions that stem out of his depression: sadness, disgust, anger, loneliness, and heartbreak. This paper will trace the affective outpourings of Ghali’s depression within the genre structure of the diary taking into consideration that his diary is not only a diary of depression but also of exile. The paper will attempt to understand how exile as a state of being affects Ghali’s emotional state. Moreover, by connecting how Ghali writes about ‘feeling bad’ in the form of a diary, the paper questions the relationship between his practice as a diarist to his display of such feelings.

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Evans, Martin Asta. "Black and White Propaganda Triggering the War in Afghanistan." NOTION: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Culture 2, no. 2 (2020): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.12928/notion.v2i2.2862.

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Lone Survivor Film highlights on the American propaganda in Afghanistan war. In analyzing the topic, the writer has two objectives of the research. They are to analyze the American propaganda in Afghanistan war and to describe the situation of Afghanistan war as reflected in Lone Survivor film. This research is done under an interdisciplinary approach, as it applies American multidisciplinary studies. The writer uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data adopted from the scenes and dialogues of the film Lone Survivor. The result of this research is that propaganda in the film Lone Survivor can be classified into black and white propaganda. The black propaganda is shown as American pretends to have noble heart in some scenes in the film, in contrast with the truth that they have hidden agenda. Those are to change the audience’s view about America. The white propaganda in the film is shown when American tries showing to the world that there are some bad fact about Ahmad Shah group. Also there are some interesting situation between American soldiers and Taliban rebels which are found in Lone Survivor film.

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Salaita, Steven. "The Arab Americans." American Journal of Islam and Society 24, no. 2 (2007): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v24i2.1548.

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Since 9/11, Arab Americans have been the subject of much discussion inboth popular and scholarly forums. Books on the suddenly visible Arab-American community have been published recently or are forthcoming, andcourses dealing with Arab Americans are gradually entering university curricula.This interest is cross-disciplinary, having become evident in numeroushumanities and social science fields.Yet this interest is bound largely to the political marketplace of ideas, foran emergent Arab-American studies existed well before 9/11 and had been onthe brink of increased visibility on the eve of 9/11. It took 9/11, however, forthis body of scholarship to generate broad attention. In addition, 9/11 alteredthe trajectories that had already been established, though not as dramaticallyas an unaffiliated observer might believe. Gregory Orfalea was among thegroup of scholars and artists who were assessing Arab America before 9/11through his work as a writer and editor. Orfalea continues his contribution tothat project with his latest book, The Arab Americans: A History, a voluminoustext that mixes exposition, commentary, and analysis.The author’s cross-disciplinary book will be of interest to students andscholars in the humanities and the social sciences, for it contains elements ofhistoriography, sociology, literary criticism, memoir, and anthropology. Theintroduction and first chapter recount a trip he took as a young man in 1972with his jaddu (grandfather) to Arbeen, Syria, his grandfather’s hometown.Subsequent chapters explore a number of sociocultural and political issuesof interest to the Arab-American community, including the politics of theArab world, activism (historical and contemporary) in Arab America, therelationship between Arab Americans and the American government at boththe local and federal levels, religious traditions in Arab America, and theinstability and diversity of Arab-American identity ...

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Corkin, Stanley, and Phyllis Frus. "An Ex-centric Approach to American Cultural Studies: The Interesting Case of Zora Neale Hurston as a Noncanonical Writer." Prospects 21 (October 1996): 193–228. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006530.

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The authors of these passages share more than a belief in the efficacy of the category of “race” and a need to assert pride in their African-American heritage. Both have, of late, experienced notable recognition and affirmation from constituencies that typically evince little interest in black Americans and their culture. Zora Neale Hurston is one of only three or four 20th-century writers who have achieved canonical status, with the result that her works invariably appear in courses offered in American literature or American Studies, not just in more narrowly de-fined courses, such as African-American Writers or American Women Writers. Clarence Thomas, as the second black Supreme Court Justice, holds the highest position in government ever held by an African American. Arguably, his judicial position and her supreme reputation are the result of the affirmative action and desegregation programs (and in his case, the “multicultural” mandate) they oppose. Perhaps their opposition to these programs is what fits them for this crossover appeal. In effect, they deny the reality of the effects of segregation – unequal funding, and therefore poorer education and continuing secondary employment, housing, and so on – on most black Americans.

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Fry, John J. "Laura Ingalls Wilder: American Writer on the Prairie." Annals of Iowa 74, no. 3 (2015): 331–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/0003-4827.12220.

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Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth. "“April in Arizona”: Nabokov as an American Writer." American Literary History 6, no. 2 (1994): 325–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/6.2.325.

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Wolfe, R. Dietz. "From the Nephew of American Writer Thomas Wolfe." Appalachian Heritage 35, no. 4 (2007): 59–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0063.

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Aparicio, Carlos Hugo. "American Literature in My Life as a Writer." ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews 10, no. 2 (1997): 11–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08957699709602266.

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Wong, Elaine. "Yone Noguchi’s Impersonation in “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl”." Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices 16, no. 4 (2019): 580–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2618-897x-2019-16-4-580-594.

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The first Japanese person known to write and publish an American novel, Yone Noguchi disguises as a Japanese female diarist to counter the orientalist representations of Japanese cultural and feminine images in early twentieth-century United States. His impersonation in “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl”, however, results in a conflicting androgynous voice in which the male competes with the female, as well as in a number of contradictions that compromise characterization and plot development. Situating Noguchi in cultural and historical contexts, this essay examines his identity and reception as a translingual writer of English, and the contradictions found in the novel.

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Manh Ha, Quan. "Trey Ellis's Platitudes: Redefining Black Voices." Ethnic Studies Review 32, no. 1 (2009): 55–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2009.32.1.55.

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Trey Ellis has emerged as a prominent African American writer of the late-twentieth century, despite the small number of his published works. “The New Black Aesthetic,” an essay that he first published in CaUaloo in 1989, one year after the publication of his first novel, Platitudes, stands as a manifesto that defines and articulates his perspective on the emerging black literary voices and culture of the time, and on “the future of African American artistic expression” in the postmodern era.1 According to Eric Lott, Ellis's novel parodies the literary and cultural conflict between such male experimental writers as lshmael Reed and such female realist writers as Alice Walker.2 Thus, Ellis's primary purpose in writing Platitudes is to redefine how African Americans should be represented in fiction, implying that neither of the dominant approaches can completely articulate late-twentieth-century black experience when practiced in isolation. In its final passages, Platitudes represents a synthesis of the two literary modes or styles, and it embodies quite fully the diversity of black cultural identities at the end of the twentieth century as it extends African American literature beyond racial issues. In this way, the novel exemplifies the literary agenda that Ellis suggests in his theoretical essay.

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Fiedler, Leslie Aaron. "Isaac Bashevis Singer ; or, the American-ness of the American Jewish Writer." Caliban 25, no. 1 (1988): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/calib.1988.1209.

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Kovačević Petrović, Bojana. "El impacto del boom latinoamericano en los escritores serbios." Acta Hispanica 21 (January 1, 2016): 143–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2016.21.143-156.

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In this work we want to show the strong links between Spanish-American and Serbian writers, through the books translated from Spanish and works written in Serbian. Assuming that each writer is above all a good reader, and considering the importance of translation for literature in general, we have investigated the influence of Borges, Cortázar, Fuentes, García Márquez and Vargas Llosa on Serbian writers since the 1950s until today. Through authentic testimonies - interviews made for this research - and the reviews and analysis of books and particular texts influenced by the authors of the boom, we will present a creative variety and authentic literary creation of a small country with many translations and dedicated writers, and show that the great impact of Spanish-American literature in Serbia began half a century ago and never ceased.

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Van Delden, Maarten. "Carlos Fuentes, Mexico, and the United States." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 128, no. 3 (2013): 723–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900123041.

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The United States looms large in the Latin American literary imagination. From Domingo Sarmiento and José Martí in the nineteenth century to Octavio Paz and Alberto Fuguet in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, many Latin American writers have depicted the United States in their writings and pondered the cultural and historical significance of their powerful neighbor to the north. But perhaps no Latin American writer has had as close—and complicated—a relationship with the United States as Carlos Fuentes. Fuentes was a fierce critic of American culture and United States foreign policy; at the same time, there was much that he admired about the United States, and it was clear that he was eager to have his voice heard here.

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HUTCHISON, ANTHONY. "Representative Man: John Brown and the Politics of Redemption in Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter." Journal of American Studies 41, no. 1 (2006): 67–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875806002751.

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Aside from William Faulkner it is difficult to think of a white twentieth-century American writer who has negotiated the issue of race in as sustained, unflinching and intelligent a fashion as Russell Banks. Whilst the impulse to produce novels on the grand scale shows little sign of diminishing, authors opting to place race at the very centre of their great American fictions remain relatively rare. With a couple of notable exceptions, most of the major works produced by white American authors over the past decade – whether by elder statesmen such as Updike, DeLillo or Pynchon or younger writers such as Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace – appear to quarantine the topic.

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