Journal articles: 'Domestic fiction, American'

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Ruppel, Tim. "Gender Training: Male Ambitions, Domestic Duties, and Failure in the Magazine Fiction of T. S. Arthur." Prospects 24 (October 1999): 311–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300000405.

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Although T. S. Arthur'S extraordinary literary presence and popularity were acknowledged during the antebellum period, studies of both the American Renaissance and domestic fiction have failed to provide anything more than a passing reference to his fiction. Arthur's meager current reputation has been defined by a single work, the sensationalist temperance novel, Ten Nights in a Bar-room, And What I Saw There (1854). More generally, cultural historians have labeled Arthur as one of the “fictional eulogists of the self-made man” and a purveyor of the “rags to riches” myth. However, the magazine fiction that Arthur regularly produced for Godey's Lady's Book in the 1840s had nothing to do with either temperance or the myth of autonomous individualism. Instead, his tales focused on the relationship between behavior in the home and in the marketplace. Writing in the aftermath of the devastating Panic of 1837, Arthur sought to identify the causes of domestic disorder and economic failure. Significantly, his narratives of personal accountability asserted that failure and disorder were the inevitable results of deviations from emerging gender norms. The prospective urban merchant and domestic women who appeared prominently in his magazine fiction must learn that the management of troublesome bodies is the key to economic and domestic stability.

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Šesnić, Jelena. "“Uncanny Domesticity” in Contemporary American Fiction: The Case of Jhumpa Lahiri." Kultura Popularna 4, no. 54 (May 7, 2018): 94–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0011.6724.

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The argument contends that Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction – in particular her two novels to date, The Namesake (2003) and The Lowlands (2013) – features a combination of the elements of homeliness and estrangement, domestic and foreign, ultimately, self and the other, that evokes the Freudian concept of the uncanny. Placing it in the context of the diasporic family dynamics, prevalent in Lahiri’s fiction, the uncanny effect may be seen to reside in the unspoken secrets and repressed content passed on from the first to the second generation and disturbing the neat acquisition of the trappings of middle-class domesticity. Drawing on recent models of the “geopolitical novel” (Irr), the “new immigrant fiction” (Koshy) and the “South Asian diasporic novel” (Grewal), the reading engages with the irruption of the unhomely into the domestic space, sustained by immigrant families in the face of local and global disturbances.

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Xinyi, Ma, and Hua Jing. "Humanity in Science Fiction Movies: A Comparative Analysis of Wandering Earth, The Martian and Interstellar." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 1 (January 30, 2021): 210–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.1.20.

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Wandering Earth, released in 2019, is regarded as a phenomenal film that opens the door to Chinese science fiction movies. The Chinese story in the film has aroused the resonance of domestic audiences, but failed to get high marks on foreign film review websites. In contrast, in recent years, science fiction films in European and American countries are still loved by audiences at home and abroad, such as The Martian and Interstellar, which have both commercial and artistic values. It can be seen that the cultural communication of western science fiction movies is more successful than that of China. Taking the above three works as examples, this paper analyzes the doomsday plot, the beauty of returning home and the role shaping of scientific women in science fiction movies from the perspective of the organic combination of “hard-core elements of science fiction” and “soft value in humanity”, in an attempt to help the foreign cultural communication of domestic science fiction movies. As an attempt to facilitate the global development of Chinese science fiction, this paper concludes that certain Chinese traditional cultural spirit needs further spreading, that Chinese science fiction and humanity should be combined in a more natural way, and that in particular, female character need in depth and multi-dimensional interpretation.

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Yao, Xine. "Desire and Asian Diasporic Fiction: Democracy and the Representative Status of Onoto Watanna’s Miss Numè of Japan (1899)." American Literary History 35, no. 1 (February 1, 2023): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajac154.

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Abstract “Onoto Watanna,” the pseudo-Japanese penname of the mixed-race Chinese Winnifred Eaton, acts as a “Bad Grandma” of the Asian North American literary tradition. Building upon Susan Koshy’s and Lisa Lowe’s accounts of the Asian American novel, I approach Watanna’s Miss Numè of Japan (1899) as the “first Asian American novel” representative of an accommodationist, rather than resistant, tendency “Asian American” representation that anticipates the aggregate and disaggregate problems and possibilities of that political formation in US liberal democracy. The novel, a tale of interracial romances set in Japan, tracks the uncomfortable tensions and convergences of desire and Asian diasporic fiction that speaks to the heteronormative bourgeois construction of anti-Black settler colonial “Asian America.” By tapping into the seduction and marriage plot traditions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century (white) domestic fiction, Miss Numè racially recodes the genre’s processes of meaning-making about freedom, coercion, and material stability onto a comparative global stage. The romances allegorize negotiations between Japan and the US as two rising global imperialist powers, asymmetries of power coded as Asiatic racialized gender. Miss Numè traces fantasies of individualist desire inextricable from the novel’s status as a compromised origin for the Asian American novel and Asian Americanist coalitional politics.With this “bad” early entry in the Asian American literary tradition, the beginnings of a cross-ethnic Asian sensibility reveals the bourgeois fantasies of diasporic desire at its very emergence, not as a postlapsarian ossification.

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MORLEY, CATHERINE. "“How Do We Write about This?” The Domestic and the Global in the Post-9/11 Novel." Journal of American Studies 45, no. 4 (November 2011): 717–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875811000922.

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This article argues that far from marking a break in recent literary development, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 made less of an impact on American fiction than we often think. Critics have often accused writers after 9/11 of “retreating” into the domestic; in fact, domestic and individual narratives, often set against sweeping historical backgrounds, already dominated American writing in the late 1990s. At first, therefore, novelists handling the events of 9/11 framed them within the personal and the small-scale. In the last two years, however, writers such as Adam Haslett and Jonathan Franzen have begun publishing broader, more ambitious state-of-the-nation novels, explicitly addressing the United States' relationship with the Middle East and the impact of globalization. Yet in these novels, too, the global and the personal are tightly intertwined; again and again, writers are drawn to the domestic themes that have so often dominated American literature.

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Băniceru, Ana Cristina. "Gothicizing Domesticity – The Case of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Edgar Allan Poe." Romanian Journal of English Studies 15, no. 1 (December 1, 2018): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2018-0002.

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Abstract It is critical common knowledge that domestic narratives and the structure of traditional domesticity are subverted in Gothic fiction (Smith 2013). The household and its apparent security are threatened from within by unknown supernatural forces. What seems familiar becomes upsetting, strange and ‘unfamiliar’. Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman in “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and Edgar Allan Poe in “The Black Cat” give comparable views on American domesticity, both questioning two important aspects of domestic life (family and a blissful household). The two writers create a mad discourse in which the inexplicable and the uncanny infiltrate into reality and the sentimental domestic narrative is undermined.

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Anderson, Douglas, and G. M. Goshgarian. "To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance." Modern Language Review 89, no. 3 (July 1994): 738. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3735156.

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Hume, Beverly A., and G. M. Goshgarian. "To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance." American Literature 65, no. 1 (March 1993): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928088.

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Biltereyst, Daniel. "Resisting American Hegemony: A Comparative Analysis of the Reception of Domestic and US Fiction." European Journal of Communication 6, no. 4 (December 1991): 469–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0267323191006004005.

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CROWNSHAW, RICHARD. "Deterritorializing the “Homeland” in American Studies and American Fiction after 9/11." Journal of American Studies 45, no. 4 (November 2011): 757–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875811000946.

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Literary criticism has debated the usefulness of the trauma paradigm found in much post-9/11 fiction. Where critiqued, trauma is sometimes understood as a domesticating concept by which the events of 9/11 are incorporated into sentimental, familial dramas and romances with no purchase on the international significance of the terrorist attacks and the US's response to them; or, the concept of trauma is understood critically as the means by which the boundaries of a nation or “homeland” self-perceived as violated and victimized may be shored up, rendered impermeable – if that were possible. A counterversion of trauma argues its potential as an affective means of bridging the divide between a wounded US and global suffering. Understood in this way, the concept of trauma becomes the means by which the significance of 9/11 could be deterritorialized. While these versions of trauma, found in academic theory and literary practice, invoke the spatial – the domestic sphere, the homeland, the global – they tend to focus on the time of trauma rather than on the imbrication of the temporal and the spatial. If, instead, 9/11 trauma could be more productively defined as the puncturing of national fantasies of an inviolable and innocent homeland, fantasies which themselves rest on the (failed) repression of foundational violence in the colonial and settler creation of that homeland, and on subsequent notions of American exceptionalism at home and, in the exercise of foreign policy, abroad, then the traumatic can be spatialized. In other words, understood in relation to fantasy, trauma illuminates the terroritalization and deterritorialization of American history. After working through various examples of post-9/11 fiction to demonstrate parochial renditions of trauma and trauma's unrealized global resonances, this article turns to Cormac McCarthy's 9/11 allegory The Road for the way in which its spaces, places and territories are marked by inextricable traumas of the past and present – and therefore for the way in which it models trauma's relation to national fantasy.

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Donawerth, Jane. "Body Parts: Twentieth-Century Science Fiction Short Stories by Women." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 474–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20532.

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This essay is a feminist, historical exploration of body parts in short science fiction stories by women. In early-twentieth-century stories about prostheses, blood transfusion, and radioactive experiments, Clare Winger Harris, Kathleen Ludwick, and Judith Merril use body parts to explore fears of damage to masculine identity by war, of alienation of men from women, and of racial pollution. In stories from the last quarter of the twentieth century, the South American author Angélica Gorodischer depicts a housewife's escape from oppressive domestic technology through time travel in which she murders male leaders, while Eileen Gunn offers a critique of bioengineering and sociobiology, satirizing fears of women in modern business and of erasure of identity in global corporate structures. An end-of-the-century fiction by the African American Akua Lezli Hope imagines a black woman altered through cosmetic surgery to become a tenor sax and critiques technologies that transform women's bodies into cultural signifiers of social function and class.

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Salnikova, Anastasija N. "Lafcadio Hearn: Between Literature and Journalism." RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism 27, no. 2 (July 6, 2022): 371–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-9220-2022-27-2-371-379.

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The article is devoted to the early period of the work of the Anglo-American writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). It mainly includes American articles in periodicals. The topic is poorly studied in the domestic research field, as well as Hearn’s works in general, which leads to scientific novelty. The study was carried out with the help of intertextual and motive analysis of newspaper articles in identifying common plots of the writer’s work and references to other authors. It is noted that although Hearn became famous thanks to his stories and legends collected in Japan, he was formed as a writer in America. The article examines the features of Hearn’s style as a journalist: author’s masks (detective, comical narrator, whistleblower), playful communications with the reader, the presence of Gothic elements, references to literary works of favorite authors, common vocabulary, and combination of real facts with fiction. Hearn’s role as a forerunner of whistle-blowing journalism and new journalism is noted, and a series of articles on the tannery murder are examined. There is a movement from sensational and shocking articles to more calm meditative observations, from external to internal. Journalistic experience, as the study showed, significantly influenced Hearn’s literary activity (brevity of form, mixing documentary and fiction, elements of a detective story, subjective position of the narrator).

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Okker, Patricia. "The Home Plot: Women, Writing & Domestic Ritual, and: To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance." Studies in American Fiction 21, no. 2 (1993): 248–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/saf.1993.0004.

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Mitrea, Alexandra. "Representations of Pre- and Post-9/11 New York City in Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin." East-West Cultural Passage 21, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2021-0015.

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Abstract The article sets out to investigate the way in which Colum McCann depicts New York City in his 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin. While starting from the idea that the novel falls in the category of 9/11 fiction, the article will argue that it makes clever use of the technique of deterritorialization in order to look at the USA from an external point of view, interrogating in this way American international relations and extraterritorial citizenship, both before and after 9/11. The article will also argue that by starting from the trauma of 9/11, which is, however, circuitously tackled in the novel, McCann questions the myth of American exceptionalism, pointing at unresolved US domestic affairs, as well as harrowing external affairs, which have resulted in countless traumas.

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Knoper, Randall. "“Away From Home and Amongst Strangers”: Domestic Sphere, Public Arena, and Huckleberry Finn." Prospects 14 (October 1989): 125–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s036123330000572x.

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Despite Mark Twain's situating the story “forty to fifty years ago” and in a rural river valley, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn closely engaged daily dilemmas and concerns of a Northern, urban, middle-class audience. As Carolyn Porter has argued, the familiar comprehension of American fiction as fantasies of escape from society and history, as authorial efforts to light out for the territory, needs to be dislodged by a sensitivity to such writings as acute responses to their immediate context – a developing industrial and capitalist society and culture. Although Huck's world may appear cut off from the landscape and society of bourgeois city dwellers of the 1880s, and although there are not explicit references to industrialization or urbanization, the novel reproduces and addresses new features of daily life, alterations and stresses in private and public behavior and interaction that were being precipitated by the accelerated economic and demographic changes of the late 19th Century.

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Rust, Marion. ""Into the House of an Entire Stranger": Why Sentimental Doesn't Equal Domestic in Early American Fiction." Early American Literature 37, no. 2 (2002): 281–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/eal.2002.0020.

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Wodak, Ruth. "The glocalization of politics in television: Fiction or reality?" European Journal of Cultural Studies 13, no. 1 (January 29, 2010): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549409352553.

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This article investigates the ‘glocalization’ of the US TV popular drama series The West Wing, while focusing on one (in some ways) exceptional episode . Because politics is inherently linked to language, discourse and communication, I will take an approach from the perspective of critical discourse analysis (the discourse-historical approach), with a particular focus on elements of argumentation theory and rhetoric, and combine this with media studies. More specifically, I attempt to illustrate how a thorough understanding of the topoi operating within the complex dialogues and interactions helps to reveal the series’ (manifest and latent) political and didactic objectives, embedded in a longstanding tradition of conveying US American liberal values via films and TV.The episode analyzed in this article, Isaac and Ishmael (which was broadcast immediately after 9/11) is exceptional because it explicitly relates to salient real life events; its topical focus on the ‘war on terror’ shifts attention from US domestic politics to an issue that, according to US policy rhetoric, concerns the whole world. Thus, this episode links the debates taking place in one of the world’s most famous institutions, The White House, with those occurring in workplaces across the world: a truly ‘g/local’ moment. The interdisciplinary analysis allows insight into the intricate and complex discursive construction of new glocal narratives, particularly in times of political crisis, revealing which norms are projected and recontextualized both locally and globally, given the many translations of the series worldwide.

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Klein, Jaime André, Angela De Fátima Langa, and Patrícia Luísa Klein Santos. "Violância Familiar em Gêneros Literários e não Literários." Revista de Ensino, Educação e Ciências Humanas 17, no. 4 (February 17, 2017): 286. http://dx.doi.org/10.17921/2447-8733.2016v17n4p286-291.

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Este artigo analisa a temática da violência familiar. Busca-se investigar, por meio da linha americana de comparatismo como método de análise e também utilizando noções de intertextualidade, de que forma a violência familiar é abordada em dois gêneros literários, um miniconto e umromance, e em dois gêneros não literários, duas charges. Pretende-se averiguar a intencionalidade desses objetos para com o leitor: chocar,fazer refletir, criticar ou sensibilizar. Tem-se como objetos de estudo um miniconto, de Flora Medeiros, o romance “Becos da Memória”,de Conceição Evaristo, e duas charges, uma de Janilton Nunes e outra de Arionauro da Silva Santos. Por meio do estudo realizado pode-se perceber que os agressores, geralmente, são os pais, cuja função seria garantir a segurança e a afetividade dos seus filhos. Ademais, destaca-se que a temática da violência está presente no cotidiano e na constituição da sociedade brasileira. Palavras-chave: Violência Familiar. Literatura. Gêneros Literários. Gêneros não-Literários. Intertextualidade. AbstractThis article examines the topic of family violence. The aim is to investigate, through the Comparatism American line as an analysis method and also using notions of Intertextuality, how the domestic violence is approached in two literary genres, a Flash fiction and a novel, and in two genres, non-literary, two chargers. The aim is to ascertain the intention of those objects to the reader: to shock, to make them reflect, criticize or raise awareness. It has as study objects a Flash fiction, byFlora Medeiros, the novel “Becos da Memória”, , by Conceição Evaristo, and two charges, one by Nandi and Janilton Nunes and the other by Arionauro da Silva Santos . Through the study carried out it is possible to realize that the attackers are usually the parents, whose function would be to ensure their children’s safety and the affection. Furthermore, the topic of violence is present in daily life and in the constitution of the brazilian society. Keywords: Domestic Violence. Literature. Literary Genres. Non Literary Genres. Intertextuality.

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Mart, Michelle. "The “Christianization” of Israel and Jews in 1950s America." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 14, no. 1 (2004): 109–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2004.14.1.109.

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AbstractIn the 1950s, the United States experienced a domestic religious revival that offered postwar Americans a framework to interpret the world and its unsettling international political problems. Moreover, the religious message of the cold war that saw the God-fearing West against atheistic communists encouraged an unprecedented ecumenism in American history. Jews, formerly objects of indifference if not disdain and hatred in the United States, were swept up in the ecumenical tide of “Judeo-Christian” values and identity and, essentially, “Christianized” in popular and political culture. Not surprisingly, these cultural trends affected images of the recently formed State of Israel. In the popular and political imagination, Israel was formed by the “Chosen People” and populated by prophets, warriors, and simple folk like those in Bible stories. The popular celebration of Israel also romanticized its people at the expense of their Arab (mainly Muslim) neighbors. Battling foes outside of the Judeo-Christian family, Israelis seemed just like Americans. Americans treated the political problems of the Middle East differently than those in other parts of the world because of the religious significance of the “Holy Land.” A man such as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who combined views of hard-nosed “realpolitik” with religious piety, acknowledged the special status of the Middle East by virtue of the religions based there. Judaism, part of the “Judeo-Christian civilization,” benefitted from this religious consciousness, while Islam remained a religion and a culture apart. This article examines how the American image of Jews, Israelis, and Middle Eastern politics was re-framed in the early 1950s to reflect popular ideas of religious identity. These images were found in fiction, the press, and the speeches and writings of social critics and policymakers. The article explores the role of the 1950s religious revival in the identification of Americans with Jews and Israelis and discusses the rise of the popular understanding that “Judeo-Christian” values shaped American culture and politics.

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Tanaseichuk, A. B., and O. Yu Osmukhina. "Problem of Periodization and Some Aspects of the Late Work of F. Bret Hart." Nauchnyi dialog, no. 2 (March 3, 2021): 244–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2021-2-244-258.

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The article is devoted to the discussion of the problem of periodization and the study of the features of the late stage of the work of the outstanding American prose writer Francis Bret Hart (1836—1902). The relevance of the article is due to the need to build a coherent and consistent history of the development of American literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, an important part of which is the writer’s prose heritage. The authors comprehend Western (J. Stewart, G. Scharnhorst, A. Nissen and others) and domestic (A. V. Vaschenko, L. P. Grossman, P. E. Schegolev, A. I. Startsev, V. A. Libman, E. Yu. Rogonova, A. B. Tanaseichuk) studies on biography and various aspects of the prose writer. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that for the first time in American studies a gap in the reception of F. Bret Hart's work was filled (the absence of clear criteria for periodization); the tradition of a disdainful attitude to the European period of his work, established in American literary criticism, is refuted, in particular, it is proved that in the stories and novels of the 1880s and 1890s Bret Hart boldly goes beyond the usual themes and images: the “Californian theme”, traditional for his early prose, takes on a new dimension — in the aspect of understanding national and gender psychology (“Maruga”); amorous and melodramatic collisions are combined with an appeal to science fiction (“The Secret of the Hacienda”).

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Uhlman, James Todd. "Dispatching Anglo-Saxonism: Whiteness and the Crises of American Racial Identity in Richard Harding Davis's Reports on the Boer War." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 19, no. 1 (November 5, 2019): 19–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781419000434.

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AbstractU.S. opinion of the Second Boer War (1899–1902) was highly divided. The debate over the war served as a proxy for fights over domestic issues of immigration, inequality, and race. Anglo-American Republicans’ support for the British was undergirded by belief in Anglo-Saxon racial superiority. Caucasian but non-Anglo Democrats and Populists disputed the Anglo-Saxonist assumptions and explicitly equated the plight of the Boers to the racial and economic inequalities they faced in the United States. They utilized Anglophobia, republican ideology, and anti-modernist jeremiads to discredit their opponents and to elevate an alternative racial fiction: universal whiteness. Reports written by the celebrity journalist Richard Harding Davis while covering the Boer War, along with a wide array of other sources, illustrate the discursive underpinning of the debate. They also suggest the effectiveness of the pro-Boer argument in reshaping the racial opinions of some Anglo-Saxon elites. Although Davis arrived in South Africa a staunch supporter of transatlantic Anglo-Saxonism, he came to link the Boers with the republican values and frontier heritage associated with the U.S.’ own history. The equation of the South African Republic's resistance against the British Empire with that of the U.S.’ own war of independence highlighted contradictions between Anglo-Saxonism and American exceptionalism. As a result, Anglo-Saxonism was weakened. Davis and others increasingly embraced a notion of racial identity focused on color. Thus, public reaction to the Boer War contributed to the ongoing rise of a new wave of herrenvolk democratic beliefs centered on a vision of white racial hybridity across the social and political divisions separating Americans of European descent.

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Dudek, Mateusz. "Identity and transnationalism: Narrating the Haitian - American home in selected works by Edwidge Danticat." Crossroads A Journal of English Studies, no. 36(1) (2022): 82–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/cr.2022.36.1.06.

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In contemporary discourses, the lives of migrants are often marginalised and silenced. For this reason, bringing the theme of migrants’ identities to the foreground in literary research appears to be increasingly important. This article discusses the experiences of Haitian immigrants to the US as nar-rated by the Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat. I explore the theme of making a transnational home in her novel Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) and short stories from the collection Everything Inside(2019). The analysis is based on a combination of two theories: Steven Vertovec’s theory of transnation-alism and Paul Ricoeur’s philosophy of narrative identity, which enable interpreting intergenerational identity changes, certain methods of cultural reproduction, and “little” cultural cross-connectedness of “family and household” (Vertovec 2009: 3-18) in the context of personal identity understood as formed through narratives. This article focuses on the transition from a Haitian home to an American one as an important part of identity-formation processes. It also views a migrant’s journey as still incomplete after coming to the US and requiring “emplotting” (De Fina 2003: 17) its fragmented events into stories. The article attempts to demonstrate intangible ways of creating a transnational home and domestic methods of narrating and negotiating one’s cultural identity in Danticat’s fiction. I claim that Danticat’s works narrate personal experiences to generate a “refigured” understanding of time and transnational ties within the family sphere.

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Idem, Magdalena. "Fashion Writing in Women’s Magazines of Interwar Poland : Influences of the American Press." Zeszyty Prasoznawcze 65, no. 4 (252) (December 16, 2022): 83–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/22996362pz.22.040.16498.

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Dziennikarstwo modowe w czasopismach dla kobiet w międzywojennej Polsce: wpływy amerykańskiej prasy Artykuł przedstawia wpływ amerykańskiego dziennikarstwa modowego na polski rynek magazynów o modzie w okresie międzywojennym. Głównym jego celem jest zidentyfikowanie instrumentarium opisu mody w międzywojennych polskich magazynach o modzie lub w modowych rubrykach pism kobiecych oraz zmapowanie ich wariantywności według dwóch kategorii: elitarystycznej i demokratyzującej. W ramach tych kategorii omówione zostaną strategie opisu tekstualnego i wizualnego takie jak: „magiczne pisanie”, instruktaże poradnikowe, pisanie ironiczne oraz techniki właściwe dla literatury faktu, stosowane w ramach dyskursu modowego (fashion nonfiction). W badaniu zastosowano metodę opisowo-historyczną. Artykuł jest pierwszą w literaturze o dziennikarstwie międzywojennym w Polsce próbą wyeksponowania tezy, że dyskurs modowy w prasie krajowej naśladował sposób, w jaki o modzie pisano w pismach amerykańskich. This article examines the influence of American fashion journalism on the Polish market of fashion magazines in the interwar period. The main objective is to identify the strategies of fashion description in interwar Polish fashion magazines or fashion columns in women’s magazines and to map their variance according to two categories: elitist and democratising. Such tools of textual as well as visual description such as ‘magical writing,’ advice manuals, ironic writing and fashion non-fiction will be discussed. The article is the first attempt in the literature on interwar journalism in Poland to argue that fashion discourse in the domestic press mimicked the way fashion was covered in American fashion magazines.

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Dralyuk, Boris. ""As Many Street Cops as Corners": Displacing 1905 in the Pinkertons." Russian History 38, no. 2 (2011): 159–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187633111x566020.

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AbstractRenewed popular interest in the Pinkertonovshchina – pre-Revolutionary, Western-styled detective fiction – invites a closer look at this fascinating phenomenon. An examination of the original serial's reception among young readers holds out clues to the psychological motivations of those who devour popular cultural genres in times of social flux. Memoirs and letters by Valentin Kataev (1897-1986), Leonid Borisov (1897-1972), and Sergei Esenin (1895-1925), who had all experienced the first Pinkerton craze as 10- and 12-year-olds, indicate that these colorful, readily accessible parables of Manichean justice in exotic locales allowed young readers to displace their own anxieties about an all-too-confusing domestic situation in the wake of the 1905 Revolution and the subsequent "Reaction". In this, the Russian Pinkertons of the 1900s and '10s functioned in much the same way as American comic books of the 1940s and '50s – another cheaply priced, fixed-format, violent, and markedly graphic (i.e., visual) genre which captivated young readers during a highly reactionary period in their nation's history.

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Newman, Daniel Aureliano. "Your body is our black box: Narrating nations in second-person fiction by Edna O’Brien and Jennifer Egan." Frontiers of Narrative Studies 4, no. 1 (June 28, 2018): 42–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fns-2018-0004.

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AbstractFor a century, the disorienting effects of second-person narration have seemed peculiarly well suited to representing the experiential confusions and political contradictions of inhabiting a female body in times of national crisis. This essay examines such effects in Edna O’Brien’s A pagan place and Jennifer Egan’s “Black box,” very different narratives that similarly exploit the deictic and ontological uncertainties of second-person address. Second person in O’Brien’s novel participates in its depiction of a sexually naïve rural Irish girl confronting the conflicting pressures of enforced chastity and reproductive futurism in the name of the Irish State. Emphasis is placed on the narrative’s unusual use of past-tense second-person narration and its intriguing overlap with O’Brien’s nonfictional writings. In Egan’s story, the protean and multivocal second person suggests a sinister fusion of individual and governmental agency, effected through the protagonist’s cybernetically-enhanced body. The result is a deceptively simple critique of post-9/11 American foreign policy as an extension of paternalism and patriarchy in the domestic sphere. The patterns investigated in this paper shed light on other recent uses of the second person in other experimental narratives concerned with identity, self-formation among disenfranchised individuals, and resistance to political and cultural oppression.

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McClancy, K. "Embattled Home Fronts: Domestic Politics and the American Novel of World War I * Embattled Home Fronts: Domestic Politics and the American Novel of World War I * Masculinity in Vietnam War Narratives: A Critical Study of Fiction, Films, and Nonfiction Writings." American Literature 83, no. 4 (January 1, 2011): 875–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437306.

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Psomiades, Kathy Alexis. "Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor. Helen Fiddyment LevyJane Austen among Women. Deborah KaplanTo Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance. G. M. GoshgarianThe Daughter's Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel. Paula Marantz Cohen." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 20, no. 1 (October 1994): 188–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/494962.

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KITLV, Redactie. "Book reviews." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 83, no. 3-4 (January 1, 2009): 294–360. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002456.

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David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Trevor Burnard)Louis Sala-Molins, Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment (R. Darrell Meadows)Stephanie E. Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Stephen D. Behrendt)Ruben Gowricharn, Caribbean Transnationalism: Migration, Pluralization, and Social Cohesion (D. Aliss a Trotz)Vilna Francine Bashi, Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World (Riva Berleant)Dwaine E. Plaza & Frances Henry (eds.), Returning to the Source: The Final Stage of the Caribbean Migration Circuit (Karen Fog Olwig)Howard J. Wiarda, The Dutch Diaspora: The Netherlands and Its Settlements in Africa, Asia, and the Americas (Han Jordaan) J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat, Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children &Violence in Haiti (Catherine Benoît)Ginetta E.B. Candelario, Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (María Isabel Quiñones)Paul Christopher Johnson, Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa (Sarah England)Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler & Cécile Accilien (eds.), Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (Jean Muteba Rahier)Tina K. Ramnarine, Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora (Frank J. Korom)Patricia Joan Saunders, Alien-Nation and Repatriation: Translating Identity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature (Sue N. Greene)Mildred Mortimer, Writings from the Hearth: Public, Domestic, and Imaginative Space in Francophone Women’s Fiction of Africa and the Caribbean (Jacqueline Couti)Colin Woodard, The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down (Sabrina Guerra Moscoso)Peter L. Drewett & Mary Hill Harris, Above Sweet Waters: Cultural and Natural Change at Port St. Charles, Barbados, c. 1750 BC – AD 1850 (Frederick H. Smith)Reinaldo Funes Monzote, From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba: An Environmental History since 1492 (Bonham C. Richardson)Jean Besson & Janet Momsen (eds.), Caribbean Land and Development Revisited (Michaeline A. Crichlow)César J. Ayala & Rafael Bernabe, Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History since 1898 (Juan José Baldrich)Mindie Lazarus-Black, Everyday Harm: Domestic Violence, Court Rites, and Cultures of Reconciliation (Brackette F. Williams)Learie B. Luke, Identity and Secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889-1980 (Rita Pemberton)Michael E. Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae (Shannon Dudley)Garth L. Green & Philip W. Scher (eds.), Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival (Kim Johnson)Jocelyne Guilbault, Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics (Donald R. Hill)Shannon Dudley, Music from Behind the Bridge: Steelband Spirit and Politics in Trinidad and Tobago (Stephen Stuempfle)Kevin K. Birth, Bacchanalian Sentiments: Musical Experiences and Political Counterpoints in Trinidad (Philip W. Scher)

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LeBlanc, Ronald D. "The Mikoyan Mini-Hamburger, or How the Socialist Realist Novel about the Soviet Meat Industry Was Created." Gastronomica 16, no. 2 (2016): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2016.16.2.31.

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This article examines Boris Pilnyak's attempt to answer Commissar Mikoyan's “social mandate” for a work of Socialist Realist fiction that would glorify the achievements of the newly modernized Soviet meat industry in general and of the recently constructed Mikoyan meat-packing plant in particular. Pilnyak's Meat: A Novel (1936), which reads like a Soviet(ized) version of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1907), shows how under a socialist system the negative features of the tsarist-era meat business can be eliminated in Stalinist Russia without having to sacrifice industrial efficiency or worker productivity. The novel failed to please the Party leadership, however, because the author did not respond earnestly enough to Mikoyan's “social mandate.” Pilnyak provided a parodic, tongue-in-cheek pastiche of a Socialist Realist novel rather than a genuine one. This article shows how Commissar Mikoyan's aspiration to have a literary monument erected to the Soviet meat industry, which he had worked so diligently to modernize and expand, culminated in the publication of The Book about Tasty and Healthy Food (1939), the famous cookbook and household guide, which projects numerous Socialist Realist images of material abundance, good taste, and scientific nutrition that were associated during the Stalin years with an ideal (and idealized) cuisine that never really existed in the USSR. The food commissar's abiding desire to produce a domestic version of the American hamburger was likewise realized through his creation of the “Mikoyan cutlet,” which generated a veritable revolution in the system of public food service in his country.

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Antoszek, Patrycja. "The Uncanny Tapestry of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lovely House”." Kultura Popularna 4, no. 58 (December 30, 2018): 80–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.8087.

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The essay discusses Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lovely House” (1952), in which uncanny architecture and supernatural elements combine to express the writer’s concerns about very real horrors of domesticity and femininity in mid-century America. In Jackson’s story it is the idealization of domesticity, its power to entrap as well as the idea of selfhood established by domestic fictions, which are the greatest sources of anxiety experienced by many American housewives, ideally immobilized and isolated in their lovely suburban homes. The paper argues that Jackson’s story not only continues the tradition of the Female Gothic but also complicates the idea of patriarchal domination by showing women as prisoners of domestic fictions woven by themselves.

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Young, Elizabeth. "Canine Uncanny Zone (Adrienne L. McLean, ed., Cinematic Canines: Dogs and Their Work in the Fiction Film; Ann-Janine Morey, Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves: Vintage American Photographs; Philip Howell, At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian." Humanimalia 7, no. 2 (March 20, 2016): 131–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9669.

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MESSENT, PETER. "Discipline and Punishment in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." Journal of American Studies 32, no. 2 (August 1998): 219–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875898005854.

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Beltings and beatings play a prominent role in Twain's boy fictions. In “The Story of the Bad Little Boy” (1865), Jim is “always spanked…to sleep” by his mother and, instead of a good-night kiss, “she boxed his ears when she was ready to leave him.” While in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884–85), when Huck stays with pap in the cabin in the woods, “by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it. I was all over welts.” It is the prevalence of such punishments, and attempted punishments, in Tom Sawyer's young life that provides the starting-point for my present analysis of childhood discipline and its fictional representation in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). For to focus on the different types of punishment Tom undergoes, the supervisory controls which are placed over him, and the way he responds to them, is to suggest a reading of Twain's novel as illustrative both of the changing forms of domestic discipline being introduced in America in the 1830s and 40s, and the spaces in which that discipline functions. In pursuing this line of inquiry, I build on previous work on the development of modern American social regulation in the antebellum period, and particularly that by G. M. Goshgarian and Richard H. Brodhead.

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Glăvan, Gabriela. "The American Beserk. Young Terrorists as Archetypes in Contemporary American Culture." Romanian Journal of English Studies 16, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 71–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2019-0009.

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AbstractFrom Philip Roth’s characater Merry Levov in American Pastoral to real-life figures such as the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre, the young domestic terrorist has become the archetype of a dramatic and unpredictable social and political climate. This paper intends to explore the real and fictional avatars of this contemporary anti-hero, its dynamics and specific place in contemporary imagination.

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Fama, Katherine. "‘Home Feeling in the Heart’: Domestic Feeling and Institutional Space in the American Progressive Era." Emotions: History, Culture, Society 6, no. 1 (June 22, 2022): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2208522x-02010147.

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Abstract Writing on either side of the emotional watershed of the 1920s, Jane Addams and Anzia Yezierska documented and fictionalised the domestic institutional spaces of the American Progressive Era, from settlements to charity homes. Writing from the perspectives of settlement administrator and immigrant resident, each found emotions central to the era’s crossing of domestic and public spheres, professionalisation of charity and social work, and encounters between middle-class and labouring-immigrant cultures. Their writings portrayed the institutional home as host to the conflicting expressions of middle-class workers and immigrant occupants, a crucible of emotional cultures. Each argued for the importance of emotional encounters and empathy in institutional domestic space, writing back to the dominant professional constraints on women’s emotional expression in the era. Addams and Yezierska advocated for emotional knowledge and drive, challenging the exile of emotional logic and language from women’s emerging public roles. The value and expression of public emotions – as Yezierska’s fictions suggest – proved possible unevenly, along lines of institutional power.

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Parsons, Amy. "Oceans at Home: Maritime and Domestic Fictions in Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Writing by Melissa Gniadek." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 41, no. 1 (March 2022): 166–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0011.

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McArthur, Jan G. "Using Fiction to Suggest Regional Differences in the Ways Selected Antebellum Rural Americans Experienced their Domestic Space." Journal of Interior Design 11, no. 1 (May 1985): 23–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-1668.1985.tb00045.x.

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Palat, Ravi Arvind. "Convenient Fictions, Inconvenient Truths: A Comment on Öniş and Bayram." New Perspectives on Turkey 39 (2008): 85–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0896634600005070.

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Ziya Öniş and İsmail Emre Bayram seek to assess whether the rapid rates of growth experienced by the Turkish economy since it weathered a severe crisis in 2001 as measured by several indices—high levels of investment, especially foreign investment; sustained “export orientation;” increased outlays for education, research and development; sustained economic and political stability, and “favorable regional dynamics” as the European Union (EU) enlargement process—are merely a flash in the pan or sustainable over the long-run. To do this they cast the Turkish trajectory against the “miracle economies” of East Asia, as well as some other middle-and low-income economies in Latin America and elsewhere. Based on this analysis, they conclude that while there are some serious concerns—low domestic savings rate, large deficits in the current account, tapering off the EU accession process, dependence on foreign capital and export markets— long-term sustainable growth can be achieved in Turkey if these vulnerabilities are addressed.

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Clemmer, Richard. "Operationalizing Peirce’s Syllabus in terms of icons and stereotypes." Semiotica 2021, no. 239 (February 4, 2021): 265–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2018-0152.

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Abstract Peirce’s Syllabus is examined and used to interpret metaphoric iconic stereotypes applied to Indigenous people: “noble savage,” “bloodthirsty savage,” “domestic dependent nation,” “vanishing race,” “Indian tribe,” and “ecological Indian.” Efforts on the part of the Indigenous to replace the these stereotypes with different icons such as “Native American,” “First Nations,” and, most recently, “water protectors,” are also examined. The usefulness of representamen categories from Peirce’s Syllabus, “rhematic,” “Argument,” “dicent,” “indexical,” “qualisign,” “legisign,” and “sinsign,” is demonstrated. Greimas’ observations about the functions of modalities are brought in to explain how graphic images and portraiture, fictional and memoir narratives, legal discourses, and popular media representations implement various sections of the Syllabus. Putting Peirce’s Syllabus into action confirms its ability to perform dynamic, diachronic, and diagrammatic functions.

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LUCA, IOANA. "“The Americans Are Coming!?” Postcommunist Reconfigurations of the US in California Dreamin’ (Endless)." Journal of American Studies 48, no. 3 (January 27, 2014): 819–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875813002521.

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My article focuses on the film California Dreamin’ (Endless) in order to examine the way the movie problematizes and brings in dialogue contemporary overlapping and contradictory Romanian ideologies in relation to the US. By taking the movie as a lens for the Romanian context, my paper analyzes how the US is signified and decoded in the aftermath of communism in Romania. I discuss how the movie envisions a continuous questioning and interrogation of the precommunist past and the postcommunist present upon which images, perceptions, fictions, and appropriations of “America” are predicated in the post-1989 Romanian context. My argument is that by mapping the overlapping terrain of the foreign and the domestic past and present, the film critically reconfigures the space between the US and one of its main supporters in the “New Europe.” It explores axes of local, national, and international interests, pointing to the contradictory, ambiguous sociocultural representations that accrue to “America” as it is caught up in itineraries and mis/translations across a “Second World” site. I contend that the dialogic examination Romania–US that the movie successfully achieves can become an ideal model for approaching the US in the Eastern European space.

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Lee, A. J. Yumi. "Repairing Police Action after the Korean War in Toni Morrison’s Home." Radical History Review 2020, no. 137 (May 1, 2020): 119–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01636545-8092810.

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Abstract Narrating the fictional story of an African American veteran of the desegregated Korean War, Toni Morrison’s 2012 novel Home links the violence of US military “police action” in Korea to the long history of police violence at home. This article argues that Home’s critical portrayal of the Korean War punctures two enduring 1950s myths: the myth of a peaceful domestic “color-blind” society and the myth of heroic US military intervention abroad. The article reads Home as an allegory that invites readers to imagine forms of justice outside of a policing framework, both globally and domestically, through its narrative of repairing trauma and harm through community care rather than punishment or retribution. This reading shows that Morrison’s rewriting of the 1950s in Home places the contemporary idioms of police and prison abolition and transformative justice in a broader historical and global imaginative frame.

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Rodachin, V. M. "Hybrid War and the National Security of Russia." Humanities and Social Sciences. Bulletin of the Financial University 9, no. 4 (December 4, 2019): 93–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.26794/2226-7867-2019-9-4-93-99.

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The article is devoted to the military conflicts of the XXI century and the existing approaches to their understanding of the foreign and domestic scientific literature. The subject of research is the phenomenon and theory of “hybrid war”, which originated in the late 1990s — early 2000s, and are widely used in current conditions. The founders of the term, theoretical concept and military doctrinal foundations of “hybrid war” are American military experts. The article reveals the stages of formation of the theory of hybrid war, the existing militarytheoretical and political-ideological approaches to the characterisation of its essence. The author emphasised the unfounded nature of the accusations against the Russian Federation about the “annexation of Crimea”, the implementation of “hybrid aggression” in the South-East of Ukraine and other regions. Further, the author presented the analysis of real, not fictional signs of “hybrid war”. The author concluded that hybrid wars are a new instrument of aggression of the neo-Imperial Western powers against sovereign States as opposed to the hegemony of the United States in the crisis of the unipolar world order. The necessity of improving the system of national security of Russia taking into account the USA and NATO unleashing against our country “hybrid war” and its possible escalation is substantiated.

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Jatmika, Sidik. "US vs China Rivalry in the Biden Era by Bambang Cipto." WIMAYA 3, no. 02 (December 26, 2022): 114–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.33005/wimaya.v3i02.84.

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This book provides a thorough analysis of the dynamics of international relations between the United States and China during the first term of Joe Biden's presidency. In his book, Cipto makes the case that the United States has to be more cautious while preserving its relationship with China, particularly during the Biden administration when it is important to protect both domestic and global interests. As the subsequent president of the United States, Joe Biden exercised prudence when dealing with China in a new rivalry. Biden has specific demands to improve the role of the United States in the international world after being considered to have experienced a setback in the era of Donald Trump's leadership with his "America First" policy. In addition, Donald Trump openly launched a trade war strategy with China which increased tensions between the two countries. The efforts made by Joe Biden can be likened to the efforts of “Rambo”, a fictional character who represents United States patriotism in “cleaning up” all forms of international threats. But this time what they faced was not an ordinary threat, this special thread can be reimagined as a dragon that had just awakened and could pounce at any time and turn terrifying. Therefore, instead of using firearms blindly as the films illustrate, Rambo must be able to dance beautifully to face the rise of the dragon.

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Öhrn, Magnus. "I pojklandet." Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap 39, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 34–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.54797/tfl.v39i1.12190.

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In the Land of Boys: A Primary Mapping of Boys’ Territory in Swedish Children’s and Young Adult Literature In »Boy Culture: Middle-Class Boyhood in Nineteenth-Century America« the historian E. Anthony Rotundo explores a »free nation« of boys; a distinct cultural world with its own rituals and values, set in its own boundaries and often free from adult intervention. In my article I argue that a similar, fictional boy’s nation can be found in Swedish literature for children and young adults, especially in boy’s books of an earlier date. In this first attempt to map this literary version of the boyhood territory, I concentrate on watery domains (such as the strip of shore and the lake), the forest, and the streets and backyards of the city. I also discuss the range of activities connected to the different areas of the boy land in terms of masculinity. Furthermore, I examine the alien (indoor) territories: the domestic world of women, and school—the place where the confrontation between boy culture and male authority often takes place. In the conclusion I discuss the boy land in more contemporary literature, and suggest that the landscapes has changed, that the inhabitants are getting younger, and that its borders and rituals are being challenged by a variety of girl characters— but that the concept of a boyhood territory is still a going concern.

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Nicholls, J. G., R. R. Stewart, S. D. Erulkar, and N. R. Saunders. "Reflexes, fictive respiration and cell division in the brain and spinal cord of the newborn opossum, Monodelphis domestica, isolated and maintained in vitro." Journal of Experimental Biology 152, no. 1 (September 1, 1990): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.152.1.1.

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1. The entire central nervous system (CNS) was isolated from 1- to 4-day-old newborn South American opossums (Monodelphis domestica). At this stage the CNS has only an embryonic forebrain (two-layered) and no cerebellum and corresponds to a 14-day rat embryo. Its eyes, ears and hind-limbs are only at an early stage of formation. The isolated CNS preparations continue to develop and to produce electrical signals for up to 4 days in oxygenated Krebs' fluid at 23 degrees C. 2. The longitudinal axis of the CNS showed markedly different stages of development. More neuroblast cells were present in the proliferative zone in lumbosacral than in cervical or thoracic regions of the cord. 3. The progeny of dividing cells were labelled in isolated preparations by applying bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU) to the bathing solution for 2 h. Stained precursor cells were observed in CNS that had been left in Krebs' fluid for 4 days before applying BrdU and also in CNS that had been exposed to BrdU shortly after dissection and then left for 4 days. 4. Compound action potentials were evoked from the isolated CNS by stimulation with extracellular electrodes. Compound action potentials increased in amplitude with stronger stimulation and showed discrete peaks of conduction velocity. All electrical activity was eliminated reversibly by 0.1 mumol l-1 tetrodotoxin applied to the bathing solution. Block and recovery occurred with a half-time of approximately 5 min. High concentrations of magnesium (20 mmol l-1) reversibly blocked slower components of the volley. 5. Reflexes in cervical and thoracic segments of the spinal cord continued to function in isolated preparations. Stimulation of a dorsal root evoked bursts of impulses in the appropriate ventral root. Spontaneous and evoked activity in ventral roots was eliminated reversibly by 20 mmol l-1 magnesium. 6. In thoracic segments, spontaneous rhythmical bursts of action potentials were recorded. Burst activity was correlated with respiratory movements of the ribs in semi-intact preparations in which a few ribs and muscles were left attached to the isolated CNS. 7. At raised temperatures of 28 degrees C compared to 23 degrees C both spontaneous and evoked electrical activity were reversibly reduced. 8. Together these results show that the isolated CNS of the newborn opossum survives well in culture. The preparation offers advantages for pharmacological and physiological studies of spinal reflexes, for analysis of the mechanisms underlying rhythmical respiratory activity and for following the time course of CNS development in vitro.

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Dadzie, K. K. S. "Trade and Development Report, 1992 An Overview." Foreign Trade Review 27, no. 1 (April 1992): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0015732515920107.

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The world economy has been suffering its most severe recession since the World War-II. Production has fallen in the United States and flattened in Japan. Western Europe is stagnating: the boost provided by German unification has petered out, while high interest rates remain. Growth has picked up in Latin America, but remains slow there and in other developing regions, other than parts of Asia. Central and Eastern Europe are suffering a precipitous fall in living standards; the transition process is proving much more painful than anticipated. Overall, signs of improvement are scant. The unexpected severity of the global recession reflects the presence of debt deflation in a number of industrialized economies - a process not experienced since the Great Depression. Household and business expenditures are being reduced, the flow of credit is shrinking, and confidence is being eroded. Econometric forecasts, by taking little or no account of the domestic debt overhang, have tended to paint an overoptimistic picture. A private sector weighed down by debt and high long-term interest rates will not generate stability or growth unaided. Governments must resume their responsibilities, by acting to foster a return to financial stability and to stimulate the level of economic activity. No single country can solve the macroeconomic problem on its own: the situation demands improved coordination. Without a swift policy response, cumulative forces may be unleashed, damaging all countries. World economic recovery is especially important for developing countries, for without sustained export growth further bouts of instability can be expected, including an intensification of threats to democratic institutions in countries where these have been established or re-established only recently. Many developing countries, as well as countries in transition, have unilaterally undertaken a fundamental change of direction towards greater openness in trade. For them to succeed in pursuing outward-oriented strategies, developed countries need to follow suit by relaxing their own import restrictions. A successful conclusion to the Uruguay Round is therefore highly important. Improved development performance will also require further policy effort at home. The need for reforms is inescapable, but these should be introduced thoughtfully, on the basis offa ct, not fiction.

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Ford, Lexie Marilyn. "A Reasonable Possibility of Refoulement: The Inadequacies of Procedures to Protect Vulnerable Noncitizens from Return to Persecution, Torture, or Death." Texas A&M Law Review 9, no. 1 (December 2021): 209–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/lr.v9.i1.5.

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Due primarily to increases in individuals fleeing violence and turmoil in Central America, over 40% of noncitizens arriving in the United States are put on a fast-track removal process and subsequently claim fear of returning to their home countries. A decade ago, the number was only 5%. This influx of asylum-seekers at the border has led to tension between those who wish to protect them and those who view such migrants as “invaders.” In 2019 and 2020, the Trump Administration proffered sweeping regulatory changes with the aim to substantively and procedurally restrict noncitizens’ access to protection from persecution and torture in their home countries. Although not all of these proposals may ultimately go into effect, it is vital to explore the legality of such provisions lest they reappear in subsequent administrations. Pursuant to domestic and international law, the United States is subject to the non-refoulement obligation, which prohibits forcibly returning a refugee to a country that threatens their life or freedom. All humans have the fundamental right to not be returned to a country where they will be persecuted or tortured, regardless of their legal status in the country where they seek protection. In the United States, noncitizens facing qualifying persecution or torture upon return to their home countries are entitled to protection in the form of statutory withholding of removal (“withholding”) or withholding or deferral of removal pursuant to the Convention Against Torture (“CAT protection”). This Comment argues that noncitizens vindicating their non-refoulement rights by seeking withholding or CAT protection must receive stronger procedural protections because of the fundamental interests at stake. Specifically, two issues are addressed. First, the use of the “reasonable possibility” standard of proof at the fear screening stage, a practice expanded in recent years, is inappropriate and a violation of the non-refoulement obligation. This standard is suited for final determinations on the merits, not threshold screenings. Because of the well-documented problems with fear screenings, even absent an increased standard of proof, this practice would result in an impermissible risk that individuals with valid claims would be returned to face persecution, torture, or even death without ever being fairly heard. Second, the unique position of these noncitizens, from legal and humanitarian perspectives, should entitle them to Constitutional Due Process Clause protections. Because their right to non-refoulement is not subject to the discretion of the Executive, the denial of due process cannot be justified by the “entry fiction,” the legal doctrine that gives certain noncitizens inside the United States limited constitutional protections because the law considers them to be detained at the border.

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Jardine, Michael, Graham Parry, Ivan Roots, Robert Shaughnessy, Mark Bayer, R. C. Richardson, Ivan Roots, et al. "Reviews: Northern English: A Social and Cultural History, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household, Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories, the Uses of History in Early Modern England, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660, the Arts of the Anglican Counter Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776, the Social Life of Money in the English Past, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England, Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction, the Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918, Thomas Hardy, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War, Mass Observation and Everyday Life. Culture, History, Theory, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s, Local Shakespeare's: Proximations and Power, Angela Carter: A Literary LifeKatieWales, Northern English: A Social and Cultural History , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xvii + 257, £50.JohnN. King, Foxe's ‘Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xviii+ 351, £60.00JoanThirsk, Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads, Fashions 1500–1760 , London, Hambledon Continuum, 2007, pp. xx + 396, £30CatherineRichardson, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: The Material Life of the Household , Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. xii + 235, £50.00DermotCavanagh, StuartHampton-Reeves, and StephenLongstaffe,(eds), Shakespeare's Histories and Counter Histories , Manchester University Press, 2006. pp. ix + 243, £50.PaulinaKewes (ed.), The Uses of History in Early Modern England , Huntington Library, 2006, pp. ix + 449, £26.95MarcusNevitt, Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary England, 1640–1660 , Ashgate, 2006, pp. xii + 218, £45.GrahamParry, The Arts of the Anglican Counter Reformation: Glory, Laud and Honour , Boydell Press, 2006, pp. xi + 207, £45AldenT. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776 , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xxv + 337, £35DeborahValenze, The Social Life of Money in the English Past , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. xv + 308£43.JanFergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England , Oxford University Press, 2006. pp. xii + 314. £60.00TilarJ. Mazzeo, Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, pp. xiv + 236, £36.ArthurRiss, Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii + 238, £45.SimonDentith, Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain , Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. viii + 245, £48.00.DavidA. Zimmerman, Panic!: Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction , University of North Carolina Press, 2006, pp. 294, $22.50 pb.DanBivona and HenkleRoger B., The Imagination of Class: Masculinity and the Victorian Urban Poor , Ohio State University Press, 2006, pp. 256, $39.95PhilipWaller, Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918 , Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 1181, £85.ClaireTomalin, Thomas Hardy , Penguin Press, 2007, pp. 512, $35BrianShelmerdine, British Representations of the Spanish Civil War , Manchester University Press, 2006, pp. 185, £55NickHubble, Mass Observation and Everyday Life. Culture, History, Theory , Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. xi + 250, £45.VictoriaStewart, Narratives of Memory: British Writing of the 1940s . Palgrave2006, pp. 218, £45.MartinOrkin, Local Shakespeare's: Proximations and Power , Routledge, 2005, x + 220, £18.99.SarahGamble, Angela Carter: A Literary Life , Palgrave2006, pp. viii + 239, £47." Literature & History 17, no. 1 (May 2008): 78–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/lh.17.1.7.

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"To kiss the chastening rod: domestic fiction and sexual ideology in the American Renaissance." Choice Reviews Online 30, no. 03 (November 1, 1992): 30–1357. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/choice.30-1357.

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Raj, V. Sahithi. "Alice Walker’s Treatment of Bildungsroman in The Novel “The Color Purple”." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH, August 28, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v10i8.11346.

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Author, poet, essayist, biographer, and activist, Alice Malsenior Walker is a multi-faceted African-American literary figure. This Pulitzer Prize-winning author has written extensively about racial and gender problems. Her best-known work is The Color Purple (which won her the Pulitzer Prize for fiction). Alice Walker's personal experiences as a representative of African American women authors have influenced her distinct psychological perspective. In her work, she often employs the symbolism that is popular in dark literary works. Presently in domestic academia, there are only a small number of research on the novel's creative features and expression approaches that concentrate only on the novel's symbolic meanings of the colour picture. The book has an overall focus on the construction of language, the execution of voice, the evaluation of sexual orientation, and the redefining of identity of the narrative's female characters, particularly heroine Celie. The Bildungsroman thesis states that a character's environment, experiences, issues, and oppression all contribute to his or her psychological strength. A bildungsroman is a novel that aims to mould the reader's mind and soul via their experiences in the world. She draws inspiration from Alice Walker's The Color Purple.

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Vagmita, Veeksha. "Special Connections Between Strangers: Viewing Chitra Divakaruni’s Fiction Through a Maternal Lens." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH, October 28, 2022, 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v10i10.11361.

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Indian American writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has an enviable body of work. She has covered a range of themes, including the search for identity and heritage, immigration, mother-daughter dynamics, domestic abuse, palace intrigues, the impact of 9/11, mother-love, and the bonds between sisters. Through a nuanced exploration of the dynamics between strangers,she brings to the fore possibilities of love, cooperation, and emotionally sustaining interactions. The special connections have a soothing effect and, at times, a subversive edge. They can challenge hetero-normative conventions: two Indian immigrants discover the happiness promised by lesbian love. They can disregard the law: a young Indian woman develops an instant and irrepressible attachment for a lost child, whom she takes in without the knowledge of the authorities. They can counteract the forces of hate: a yoga practitioner stabilises an artist disturbed by 9/11 and its aftermath. The connections chosen for this analysis have a distinct maternal component, i.e., they involve holding, protection, nurturance, and what Sara Ruddick calls “attentive love”. Through an application of Ruddick’s concept of “maternal thinking”, I will examine and explicate the rationality of care that informs the interactions between strangers in Divakaruni’s fiction. After a broad engagement with Divakaruni’s oeuvre, this paper will take a deep dive into the short story “A Perfect Life” (1995) and the novel Queen of Dreams(2004). By forging unique connections between her characters, Divakaruni broadens the scope of what is possible. She also reveals the different ways in which the maternal can manifest itself.

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