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Sanjay, Kumar Gowher Ahmad Naik. "Reflections of Modern Racism and Racial Politics: A Study of Paul Beatty's Slumberland." Multicultural Education 9, no. 7 (2023): 67. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8190102.
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<em>The present research paper depicts racial issues and stereotyping of blacks in Paul Beatty’s novel Slumberland. This novel reflects that racism has not completely eroded from the America society. Through the protagonist, Ferguson W. Sowell, Beatty portrays racial discrimination as characters suffer from racism and loss of identity. The novel emphasizes that people of colour are marginalized, victimized, demoralized, and oppressed in American society. It seemsracism has disappeared in the United States of America, but it is still prevalent in the minds of Americans. Through various stereotypical images, blacks in American society are dehumanized and demoralized. Beatty reflects that there are many negative stereotypes against black Americans. So, the objective of the paper is to show the various challenges of black people in American society through the novel Slumberland.</em>
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Zokirjonova, Madina Iqboljon qizi. "GENRE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FAIRY TALE IN THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL." Educational Research in Universal Sciences 1, no. 7 (2023): 127–30. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7507191.
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This article analyzes the genre transformation of the fairy tale in the modern American novel. Reference to the model of the fairy tale genre is very relevant for the American novel at the turn of the century. This is primarily due to the existence of moral trust, because in the modern situation semantic boundaries become an important factor of the authors’ constant interest in this genre. The appeal of modern American writers to the fairy tale genre is also determined by the tradition of using it in American literature to symbolically generalize and understand the problems of modern reality.
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Brooke, Patricia, and Patrick W. Shaw. "The Modern American Novel of Violence." South Central Review 19, no. 4 (2002): 163. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3190149.
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Lauter, Paul, and Linda Wagner-Martin. "The Modern American Novel, 1914-1945." American Literature 62, no. 4 (1990): 724. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927097.
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Khayriddinovna, Ganieva Orzigul, and Ashurova Nigina Aziz qizi. "ANTHROPOCENTRIC APPROACH IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN AND UZBEK NOVEL WRITING." International Journal Of Literature And Languages 4, no. 12 (2024): 55–59. https://doi.org/10.37547/ijll/volume04issue12-10.
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This article analyzes the application and significance of the anthropocentric approach in contemporary American and Uzbek literature, particularly in novel writing. The author delves into a theoretical analysis of the history of anthropocentrism, examining its role in literature and illustrating the topic with various examples. Special attention is given to personal identity, internal conflicts, and the meaning of life, emphasizing that humans are the central element and explaining how this relates to literature. Additionally, the article explores the commonalities and differences in the anthropocentric approach between American and Uzbek novel writing. Anthropocentrism remains an integral part of literary culture, directly influencing the modern interpretation of humanity.
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Fletcher, Katy. "Evolution of the Modern American Spy Novel." Journal of Contemporary History 22, no. 2 (1987): 319–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002200948702200206.
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Asiri, Khalid Mater. "Tayo in Ceremony: The Gray Area for Preserving Native American Culture." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 14, no. 12 (2024): 3814–19. https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1412.15.
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This paper examines the themes of cultural preservation and integration in Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel Ceremony, focusing on the character Tayo and his role in bridging the gap between Native American and modern American cultures. Historically, Native Americans have faced isolation, whether by choice or by force, leading to economic, social, and cultural challenges. Government policies such as the Dawes Act and efforts to assimilate Native Americans into modern American society through education and religious conversion have disrupted traditional ways of life and led to a legacy of mistrust and marginalization. Ceremony portrays a path forward, advocating for a balance between maintaining cultural integrity and embracing necessary changes for survival. The novel emphasizes the importance of cultural adaptation and integration, suggesting that Native Americans can thrive without losing their identities by engaging with the broader American society. Through Tayo’s journey of healing and his interactions with the medicine man Betonie, Silko illustrates the potential for cultural hybridity to foster resilience and understanding. By presenting a nuanced vision of coexistence, Ceremony calls for mutual respect and collaboration between Native Americans and modern Americans. The novel encourages a reimagining of cultural identity that is inclusive and adaptable, ensuring that Native American traditions remain vibrant and relevant in a changing world. This paper argues that cultural survival depends not on isolation but on the ability to adapt and integrate, creating a future where multiple cultures can coexist and enrich each other.
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Dworkin, Ira. "Radwa Ashour, African American Criticism, and the Production of Modern Arabic Literature." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 1 (2018): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.44.
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In 1973, at the suggestion of her mentor Shirley Graham Du Bois, the Egyptian scholar, activist, teacher, and novelist Radwa Ashour enrolled at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, to study African American literature and culture. Ashour’s 1975 dissertation “The Search for a Black Poetics: A Study of Afro-American Critical Writings,” along with her 1983 autobiography,Al-Rihla: Ayyam taliba misriyya fi amrika[The Journey: An Egyptian Woman Student’s Memoirs in America], specifically engage with debates that emerged at the First International Congress of Negro Writers and Artists in September 1956 between African Americans and others from the African diaspora (most notably Aimé Césaire) regarding the applicability of the “colonial thesis” to the United States. This article argues that Ashour’s early engagement with African American cultural politics are formative of her fiction, particularly her 1991 novel,Siraaj: An Arab Tale,which examines overlapping questions of slavery, empire, and colonialism in the Arab world.
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Zokirjonova, Madina. "GENRE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FAIRY TALE IN THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL." GOLDEN BRAIN 1, no. 12 (2023): 99–103. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7902253.
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<em>This article analyzes the genre transformation of the fairy tale in the modern American novel. Reference to the past form of the fairy tale genre which is very relevant for the American novel at the turn of the century. This is primarily due to the existence of cultural belief, because in the modern situation semantic boundaries become an important factor of the authors’ constant interest in this genre transformation. The appeal of modern American writers to the fairy tale genre and adapting to the present literature is also determined by the tradition of using it in American literature to generalize and understand the problems of modern reality.</em>
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Murphy, Patrick D. "The Verse Novel: A Modern American Poetic Genre." College English 51, no. 1 (1989): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378185.
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Tatarinov, A. V. "World outlook strategy in the modern American novel." Rossiiskii Gumanitarnyi Zhurnal 4, no. 5 (2015): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.15643/libartrus-2015.5.8.
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Murphy, Patrick D. "The Verse Novel: A Modern American Poetic Genre." College English 51, no. 1 (1989): 57–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ce198911326.
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Abdulsamad, Zhiar Sarkawt, and Juan Abdullah Albanna. "Modernity and Personal Experiments in Walker’s The Color Purple (1982)." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES 5, no. 1 (2022): 52–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.25130/jls.5.1.5.
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Women in the modern era have been defined as being revolutionary and opposed to the traditional representation of their lives. Alice Walker (February 1944-) a Pulitzer Prize-winning figure is an African-American novelist, critic and poet who has vigorously defended women's modernist innovations and African American civil rights in her works. Her novel The Color Purple (1982) explores the African American female experience through the life and struggles of the narrator of the novel. What distinguishes The Color Purple is the very feature of psychological state of the heroine whilst struggling for her minimal rights of being a woman and black. The heroine of the novel Celie is revolutionary and anti-traditional. Walker planted her own personal experience within The Color Purple through the sufferings and traumatic life of the female characters.Walker through “Womanism”, a term coined by herself representing Black feminism, combines critical elements in The Color Purple, namely the importance of black history and heritage and the centrality of female creativity and competence in that heritage, which are often symbolized by quilts, sisterhood, liberation, self-identity, double consciousness and other symbols. Further through exhibiting African American woman’s twice-oppressed state, as they were double-discriminated racially and sexually by Americans, on the one hand by white Americans, on the other, by their fellow black male counterparts. The epistolary style of The Color Purple is probably an essential feature of modern literary output. The letters are used to manifest Celie and other characters’ lives to readers. Furthermore, within The Color Purple, Walker employs the very modern African American literary feature which is “Neo-Slave Narrative”. Through Neo-Slave Narrative, she displays her black female characters’ still-enslaved status in the modern era to form a juxtaposition between narrations of her fellow oppressed black women and Slave-Narrations of enslaved African Americans like Harriet Jacobs and Sojourner truth.
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Wang, Yuanjiang. "Asian Expatriation, to Balance in Mobility: The Construction of Asian Americans’ Multiple Identities in Shawn Wong’s American Knees." International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 9, no. 3 (2023): 224–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2023.9.3.409.
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American Knees is a novel that delves into the complex and diverse identities of Asian Americans in modern society, through the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese American. Raymond is deeply invested in preserving the history of Asian Americans, and strives to connect with his community and immigrant past in order to shape his own identity. However, Aurora Crane and Brenda pursue their identities through integration into American society, believing that ethnicity is not necessary for self-understanding. The clash of these contrasting perspectives, and the contrast between the cultural interpretations of San Francisco and Hawaii, lead to a realization that Asian American identity is pluralist and constantly evolving. In the novel, there are the juxtaposition of a heavy historical tone and rigid family stereotypes in the first half, and a lighter, more open plot in the second half. This duality highlights the complex nature of identity formation, with the two techniques complementing and supporting each other. Through the interweaving of history, reality, self, and other, the novel portrays the many attempts at self-realization and multiple identities of Asian Americans, which do not necessarily conflict, but rather offer infinite possibilities for the shape of ethnic identity. American Knees is not just a lighthearted portrayal, but a nuanced attempt to decode the complexities of Asian American identities.
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Trupej, Janko. "Responses to Gone with the Wind among Slovenians on the Other Side of the Atlantic." Acta Neophilologica 54, no. 1-2 (2021): 87–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.54.1-2.87-98.
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The article discusses the reception of the novel and the film Gone with the Wind in serial publications published by Slovenian immigrants in the United States of America. The analysis encompassed relevant articles that appeared in publications with different ideological orientations before the mid-1950s, i.e. until the onset of the modern African American civil rights movement. The reception by Slovenian Americans is compared with the contemporary general reception of the novel and the film in the United States. Taking the historical context into consideration, the article also endeavours to establish the reasons for the differences in the reception.
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Schieble, Melissa. "Reading Images in American Born Chinese through Critical Visual Literacy." English Journal 103, no. 5 (2014): 47–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ej201425137.
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The author of this article conveys how teaching Gene Yang’s graphic novel American Born Chinese from a critical visual literacy approach enables students to gain a deeper understanding of Yang’s commentary on historic and modern stereotypes of Asians and Asian Americans.
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Butenina, Evgenia M. "Russian Classics Updates in the Modern Russian-American Novel." Sibirskiy filologicheskiy zhurnal, no. 3 (September 1, 2014): 182–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/18137083/48/26.
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Langley, Jantz, and Ousley. "The Effect of Novel Environments on Modern American Skeletons." Human Biology 88, no. 1 (2016): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.88.1.0005.
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Pulatova, Diera Farxod qizi. "APPEARANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN POLITICAL SATIRICAL LITERATURE." International journal of word art 5, no. 5 (2022): 5. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7038302.
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This article discusses the appearance of American political satire from Breckenridge's novel "Modern Chivalry" to the contemporary period, highlights the characteristic features of American political satire. The purpose of this article is to review the main representatives of American political satire and their contribution to the formation and continuation of the American literary tradition. Also, the focus is on the American political satirical novel, which is a typically American genre and characterizes the development of the American political system. Since an increasing number of writers choose comic genres, the study of political satire seems relevant and promising.
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Syamsudin, Tiara Ananda, Mardliya Pratiwi Zamruddin, and Setya Ariani. "PREJUDICE TOWARDS AFRICAN-AMERICAN IN SMALL GREAT THINGS NOVEL." Ilmu Budaya: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Budaya 7, no. 4 (2023): 1421. http://dx.doi.org/10.30872/jbssb.v7i4.12152.
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Prejudice is a negative assumption towards others which is not certain to be right or wrong yet. One of the problems of prejudice that still exists in the modern era is prejudice against African Americans. This research aimed to reveal the kinds of prejudice experienced by African-Americans and the responses of African-American characters as the victims of prejudice. To conduct this research, the researcher used qualitative methodology. The data in this research were taken in the form of narrations and dialogues in Small Great Things (2016) novel written by Jodi Picoult which related to the negative actions of prejudice experienced by African-American characters and their responses to the prejudices that suitable with prejudice theory by Gordon Allport and the response to prejudice theory by Simpson and Yinger. The results showed that African-American characters in Small Great Things novel experience four kinds of prejudice, namely: antilocution, avoidance, discrimination and physical attack. Furthermore, the result also showed how African-American characters responded to the prejudices that they experienced, namely: aggression, acceptance and reformism. Therefore, the researcher concluded that prejudice based on individual beliefs can make someone behave negatively toward others and sometimes it can be manifested through hostile actions.
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Guerra-Cunningham, Lucia, and William L. Siemens. "Worlds Reborn: The Hero in the Modern Spanish-American Novel." Hispania 68, no. 4 (1985): 784. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/341995.
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Lundberg, Johan. "The American and the Clan." Advances in Social Science and Culture 3, no. 1 (2021): p47. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/assc.v3n1p47.
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The Henry James novel The American (1877) is analyzed on the basis of a conflict between the twoforms of liberty, which Isaiah Berlin in the end of the 1950s designated as negative and positive. Theconcept of negative freedom is in this interpretation of the novel connected to a contrast between thestate and the clan. With starting point in Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order (2011),and Mark S Weiner in The Rule of the Clan (2013), modern rule of law is in the analysis of the novelregarded as something radically different from clan society.Based on an understanding of the modern state as a guarantee for individual autonomy and liberty, inBerlin’s negative meaning, James depicts in The American, the problems of maintaining liberty, in thenegative sense, in a community organised around the clan.In the novel, the American protagonist Christopher Newman with his lack of prejudices represent forhis French fiancée Claire de Cintréa possible way to freedom. What Newman does, is to offer Claire theopportunity to move from the French aristocracy to the economically strong Americanbourgeoisie—from a kind of feudalism to capitalism. The proposed move coincides with thedevelopmental curve of the novel, which with respect to Claire runs from clan to state.In striking contrast to Newman’s optimized sort of freedom, where neither any internalized norms norany economic limitations prohibit the protagonist from acting in the way that he desires, Claire is thedaughter of a family that represents the old world, with all its limitations and restrictions on negativeliberty. In a highly concrete manner she is prohibited from acting as she wants. This is emphasized inthe question of who to marry.The analysis connects Claire’s family to the ultramontanists and legitimists circles of 19th centuryParisian aristocracy. The terms refer to the ultra-conservative and fiercely anti-liberal movements that,after the French revolution, turned against the modern state power that allegedly forced on the French Catholics secular values.Legitimism and ultramontanism are in the novel intimately connected to maintaining an organisationaround the clan. In contrast to the clan, rule of law, democracy and individual freedom is seen asconsequences of the framework of the modern, liberal state.
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Tariq, Sana, and Bahramand Shah. "Environment and Literary Landscape: An Ecological Criticism of Louise Erdrich’s Novel Tracks." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. I (2019): 158–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-i).21.
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Connecting the environment with societies’ cultures through literature has created a new awareness of environmental issues. The current environmental crisis is a product of modern human culture. The thought of using land as a commodity and disregard for environmental ethics has worsened the ecological crisis. The paper focuses issues of environment highlighted in Native American literature. The anthropocentric behavior of Euro-Americans is contrary to Native American idea of biocentrism. For American Indians, land is considered not merely a stage on which the act is played but also as an active participant in the drama with major role to play in the lives of the characters. This article applies Ecocriticism theory on Louise Erdrich’s fiction Tracks to generate an ecological criticism of the text. This paper highlights new ways of treating the natural world, putting responsibility on humans to see how their cultures are affecting environment.
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Sana, Tariq. "Environment and Literary Landscape: An Ecological Criticism of Louise Erdrich's Novel Tracks." Global Social Sciences Review 4, no. 1 (2019): 158–63. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361993.
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Connecting the environment with societies’ cultures through literature has created a new awareness of environmental issues. The current environmental crisis is a product of modern human culture. The thought of using land as a commodity and disregard for environmental ethics has worsened the ecological crisis. The paper focuses issues of environment highlighted in Native American literature. The anthropocentric behavior of Euro-Americans is contrary to Native American idea of biocentrism. For American Indians, land is considered not merely a stage on which the act is played but also as an active participant in the drama with major role to play in the lives of the characters. This article applies Ecocriticism theory on Louise Erdrich’s fiction Tracks to generate an ecological criticism of the text. This paper highlights new ways of treating the natural world, putting responsibility on humans to see how their cultures are affecting environment.
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Sana, Tariq, and Shah Bahramand. "Environment and Literary Landscape: An Ecological Criticism of Louise Erdrich's Novel Tracks." GLOBAL SOCIAL SCIENCES REVIEW (GSSR) IV, no. I (2019): 226–34. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).21.
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Connecting the environment with societies’ cultures through literature has created a new awareness of environmental issues. The current environmental crisis is a product of modern human culture. The thought of using land as a commodity and disregard for environmental ethics has worsened the ecological crisis. The paper focuses issues of environment highlighted in Native American literature. The anthropocentric behavior of Euro-Americans is contrary to Native American idea of biocentrism. For American Indians, land is considered not merely a stage on which the act is played but also as an active participant in the drama with major role to play in the lives of the characters. This article applies Ecocriticism theory on Louise Erdrich’s fiction Tracks to generate an ecological criticism of the text. This paper highlights new ways of treating the natural world, putting responsibility on humans to see how their cultures are affecting environment.
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Davydova, Tatiana T., and Еlena V. Kulikova. "Ethnic worlds in E.V. Rudashevsky’s prose." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 2 (March 2021): 124–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.2-21.124.
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The article deals with the research of Russian and American so called ethnic worlds (cultural backgrounds) in the novel «Bessonitsa» (“Insomnia”) by E.V. Rudashevsky. The other of the novel is a representative of YA literature in modern Russian literature. The relevance of the research is due to the investigating a possible links between American and European cultures in the novel, and the comparison of the American and Russian value systems. The article examines the genetic links between “Insomnia” and new journalism, a popular trend in the US press in the 1970s, as well as American cinema and the work of European writers, artists, and film Directors. Much attention is paid to the generic nature of the novel, the form of the narrative, the problems and images of the characters. The research results make the following conclusions: the idea to describe and compare different ethnic and cultural worlds is characteristic of Rudashevsky’s novel; the depth of Den's inner world disclosure makes the work an important event in modern Russian prose; the poetics of “Insomnia” is largely based on the thematic and aesthetic settings of the American new journalism.
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Oliinyk, Iryna, Mykola Petrovsky, Larysa Ruban, Liudmyla Shevchenko, and Yulia Sviatiuk. "French loan words in modern American fiction." Revista Amazonia Investiga 11, no. 58 (2022): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.34069/ai/2022.58.10.14.
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The paper deals with the origins of modern English vocabulary and shows the relevance of the influence of French on its modern state. The article makes a survey of scientific literature studying French heritage in English lexis. An overview of linguistic and historical data is provided to show the framework within which linguistic borrowing from French was made possible. A number of loanwords are mentioned that appeared under different historical circumstances. The article analyses borrowed words that kept their meaning they had in French, as well as those ones which experienced semantic transformation. The paper concentrates on the fact that frequency of English words having French roots is high enough in the novel by J. Grisham and they form a thick layer of common words. The article demonstrates, what kind of impact the change in culture-specific concepts had on the meaning of the words borrowed from French and highlights possible prospects of such kind of studies. The paper emphasizes semantic layers of loan words and shows that finance vocabulary, the vocabulary of law and politics and the vocabulary of health are closely connected with borrowings from French.
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Pokotylo, Mikhail. "American thriller novel as an effective means of scientific communication." E3S Web of Conferences 273 (2021): 11031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202127311031.
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In the modern world, the problem of the perception of science in society is relevant, and it is impossible to expect scientific breakthroughs and the introduction of new technologies into everyday life without its solution. Anti-scientology views have taken root in society with the active assistance of the media. In this regard, it seems useful to analyse the features of the science image formation by means of fiction. The purpose of the article is to study the possibilities of using the genre of the American thriller novel as a means of scientific communication that can inspire society’s confidence in science. To achieve the stated purpose, the analysis of the peculiarities of the science perception in modern society is carried out; the methods of communication between scientists and society are considered, and the specific features of the thriller genre are revealed. The author came to the conclusion that the genre nature of the thriller novel makes it possible to tell mass audience about new technologies in a fascinating way, take a fresh look at scientific achievements, comprehend the moral principles of science, and build trust in innovative technologies in modern society.
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Akhmedov, Rafael. "Factors of International Dominance of American Science Fiction of the 20th Century." Bulletin of Gulistan State University 87, no. 3 (2021): 45–53. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7348031.
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The article analyzes the factors that influenced the development of American science fiction as dominant in this genre, and as confirmation of the hypotheses put forward, the author’s own research results as well as the opinions of leading literary critics are presented. Modern SF since 1945 was primarily an American phenomenon, and much of the genre was written either by Americans or by authors who adopted the American idiom. This dominance was the product of various related factors which include mainly the English language that became the world language of literature and science and many other fields after the war and the geographical concentration of writers, publishers and readers in America including even foreign writers and immigrants. More important was the process of dynamic social and economic change that moved through American society feeding new perspectives and arousing interest in the future. Apart from the negative and positive effects of this process of change, the American society of the post-war decades was a society of all opportunities and which welcomed new technology, which enjoyed novelty with a strong curiosity about the prospect of more change, and which was looking for more expansion and more success. It was within this environment that SF developed into an American model to be exported and imitated all over the world. It is then worth exploring the major factors lying behind the creation of this unique model and its international dominance. In spite of its short history, the success of American SF during the post-war decades was the result of the various factors already discussed, and if it came to sweep the international scene as one of the most widely popular literary genres in the modern world, it was not only with its iconic figures in both novel and film who became idols for modern fans and readers or its themes that have explored the urgent concerns of humanity about the future, but it was incontestably with its iconic characters that have become distinctive symbols of the genre.
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García, Angelina, Rodrigo Nores, Josefina M. B. Motti, et al. "Ancient and modern mitogenomes from Central Argentina: new insights into population continuity, temporal depth and migration in South America." Human Molecular Genetics 30, no. 13 (2021): 1200–1217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab105.
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Abstract The inverted triangle shape of South America places Argentina territory as a geographical crossroads between the two principal peopling streams that followed either the Pacific or the Atlantic coasts, which could have then merged in Central Argentina (CA). Although the genetic diversity from this region is therefore crucial to decipher past population movements in South America, its characterization has been overlooked so far. We report 92 modern and 22 ancient mitogenomes spanning a temporal range of 5000 years, which were compared with a large set of previously reported data. Leveraging this dataset representative of the mitochondrial diversity of the subcontinent, we investigate the maternal history of CA populations within a wider geographical context. We describe a large number of novel clades within the mitochondrial DNA tree, thus providing new phylogenetic interpretations for South America. We also identify several local clades of great temporal depth with continuity until the present time, which stem directly from the founder haplotypes, suggesting that they originated in the region and expanded from there. Moreover, the presence of lineages characteristic of other South American regions reveals the existence of gene flow to CA. Finally, we report some lineages with discontinuous distribution across the Americas, which suggest the persistence of relic lineages likely linked to the first population arrivals. The present study represents to date the most exhaustive attempt to elaborate a Native American genetic map from modern and ancient complete mitochondrial genomes in Argentina and provides relevant information about the general process of settlement in South America.
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Xia, Wei, and Zhizhou Zhang. "Genomic Data Disclose Potential Information on Evolutionary Interactions among Different Human Populations and Novel Education Technology Development." Advances in Economics and Management Research 8, no. 1 (2023): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.56028/aemr.8.1.20.2023.
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Study on language gene polymorphism patterns (LGPP) across different population genomes could provide incentives to develop novel education technology and important information on human evolution. In this study, as a preliminary observation, we adopted 148 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites from 13 language genes, each with 4-13 SNPs. These SNPs were screened across 112 whole genome sequences (including 59 ancient genomes ranging from 2000 BP to 120000 BP) from five continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America). We found that five distinct LGPPs featured across human evolution history, in which LGPP-1 may be the oldest version shared by animals and primitive hominins, though data also showed that LGPP-1 is still existing in some modern human populations. Asian and African possessed all LGPP types while European seemed lacking in the LGPP-2. Surprisingly, African samples had a relatively larger evolutionary distance from animals than other populations in LGPP1-4, while in LGPP-5 (the modern human type), some African samples had a relatively small evolutionary distance from animals than other human populations. Except for LGPP-2, all other LGPPs contained Asian, African and European, suggesting that there were vigorous interactions among these three continents all the time during human evolution. In this study, ancient American samples were only found in LGPP1-3, suggesting that either mutual migration among different continents happened much earlier than expected, or ancient Americans had little interactions with other populations after migrating into the America land.
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Altwaiji, Mubarak. "Post 9/11 American Novel: Political Orientations in Representing Arabs." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22, no. 1 (2019): 63–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2019.22.1.63.
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September 11, 2001 has been the most aggressive day in the history of modern America. The physical and psychological damages caused by the attacks left a unique experience of the day in the mind of American writers. Therefore, if literary and political orientations changed after the 9/11, novel's subject matter and themes changed too, because novel is a reflection of its social and political context. This study examines the assumption implicit in the dominant conceptions that novel serves the state's politics in its pursue of interests through representations and misrepresentations of other nations. This study examines how American novel expresses solidarity with the state and its politics, ignoring its imperial and hegemonic attitude towards other nations. Novel has become the most effective genres to represent the feelings of the nation and the concern of the country. Analysis will refer to two novels, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Falling man, which directly deal with the moments of destroying the World Trade Centre and manifestly identify the terrorists, their culture, their religion and their intentions. Tendency to such themes allows American novel to follow the mainstream politics without grappling with the state's ideologies, interests and politics. Discussion will focus on the Foucauldian approach to literature and power and on the implications of using the Foucauldian approach to the study of imperial literature.
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Rutkowska, Małgorzata. "We Don’t Know What We Want”: The Ups and Downs of Global Travel in Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002)." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 32/1 (October 2023): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.32.1.03.
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Dave Eggers’s You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) can be read as a (post) modern voice in the ongoing debate on educational, transformative and redemptive po- tential of foreign travel for the young Americans in the late 1990s. The article focuses on representation of global travel experience in the novel employing American Old World journey conventions on the one hand and tourism-travel dichotomy on the other. The backpackers in Eggers’s novel can be characterized as drifters. Their encounters with otherness most often result in confusion. All in all, the novel downplays the role of travel in the globalized, homogenized world at the turn of the 21st century.
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Gelfant, Blanche H. "The Modern American Urban Novel: Nature as "Interior Structure" (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 37, no. 4 (1991): 760. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0536.
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Lane, Joseph H. "The Stark Regime and American Democracy: A Political Interpretation of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men." American Political Science Review 95, no. 4 (2001): 811–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055400400031.
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Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men is a political novel that deserves the serious study of political scientists interested in understanding the formative effects of American democracy. A careful reading of the novel that is informed by the classical approach to the analysis of regimes reveals the close connection between the politics of Willie Stark and the politics of modern American democracy. Furthermore, by viewing Stark's actions through the eyes of Jack Burden, a perceptive narrator who is moving toward self-knowledge, we can gain insight into both why modern democracies encourage the formation of a debilitating nihilism among their citizens and the prospects for countering these effects.
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Ameen, Carly, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Sarah K. Brown, et al. "Specialized sledge dogs accompanied Inuit dispersal across the North American Arctic." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1916 (2019): 20191929. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1929.
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Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of the Inuit were the first to introduce the widespread usage of dog sledge transportation technology to the Americas, but whether the Inuit adopted local Palaeo-Inuit dogs or introduced a new dog population to the region remains unknown. To test these hypotheses, we generated mitochondrial DNA and geometric morphometric data of skull and dental elements from a total of 922 North American Arctic dogs and wolves spanning over 4500 years. Our analyses revealed that dogs from Inuit sites dating from 2000 BP possess morphological and genetic signatures that distinguish them from earlier Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and identified a novel mitochondrial clade in eastern Siberia and Alaska. The genetic legacy of these Inuit dogs survives today in modern Arctic sledge dogs despite phenotypic differences between archaeological and modern Arctic dogs. Together, our data reveal that Inuit dogs derive from a secondary pre-contact migration of dogs distinct from Palaeo-Inuit dogs, and probably aided the Inuit expansion across the North American Arctic beginning around 1000 BP.
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Shchepacheva, Inna Vladimirovna. "Multiculturalism in Teju Cole's Novel "Open City"." Litera, no. 3 (March 2023): 190–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8698.2023.3.40056.
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The object of the study is the modern American multicultural prose of the late XX-early XXI century, the subject of the study is the situation of multiculturalism. The research material is the novel "Open City" by the modern American writer of Nigerian origin Teju Cole, published in 2012. The purpose of the study is the relevance of this study due to several factors. Firstly, at this stage, both in foreign and domestic literary studies, one can observe a continuing interest in highlighting various features of multicultural literature in the United States. Secondly, today T. Cole is a significant author in the modern literary space of the USA. The novel we are analyzing is distinguished by its appeal to the iconic trends of modern US literature and is an interesting material for research in the context of the designated topic. If the work of many representatives of the multicultural prose of the USA of the late XX-early XXI century became the subject of scientific research, the work of Teju Cole is practically not studied. In this regard, the novelty of our research lies in the fact that for the first time in Russian literary studies, an analysis of the novel "Open City" is provided from the point of view of the functioning of various cultures and their influence on the formation of the identity of the protagonist. As a result of the research, we come to the conclusion that the novel highlights the multicultural situation in which the main character finds himself. Such a situation causes a mental crisis in the mind of the hero, since he cannot fully feel his belonging to any of the cultural components.
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Llamas, Bastien, Lars Fehren-Schmitz, Guido Valverde, et al. "Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas." Science Advances 2, no. 4 (2016): e1501385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501385.
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The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far as southern Chile by 14.6 thousand years ago (ka), shortly after the Pleistocene ice sheets blocking access from eastern Beringia began to retreat. Genetic estimates of the timing and route of entry have been constrained by the lack of suitable calibration points and low genetic diversity of Native Americans. We sequenced 92 whole mitochondrial genomes from pre-Columbian South American skeletons dating from 8.6 to 0.5 ka, allowing a detailed, temporally calibrated reconstruction of the peopling of the Americas in a Bayesian coalescent analysis. The data suggest that a small population entered the Americas via a coastal route around 16.0 ka, following previous isolation in eastern Beringia for ~2.4 to 9 thousand years after separation from eastern Siberian populations. Following a rapid movement throughout the Americas, limited gene flow in South America resulted in a marked phylogeographic structure of populations, which persisted through time. All of the ancient mitochondrial lineages detected in this study were absent from modern data sets, suggesting a high extinction rate. To investigate this further, we applied a novel principal components multiple logistic regression test to Bayesian serial coalescent simulations. The analysis supported a scenario in which European colonization caused a substantial loss of pre-Columbian lineages.
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Citrawati, Farina D., and Nurdien H. Kistanto. "Anxiety, a Psychoanalisis Study on Amory Blaine, the main character of This Side of Paradise, a novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald." E3S Web of Conferences 317 (2021): 03012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202131703012.
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This Side of Paradise (first published in 1920) is the debut novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the famous modern novelist in twentieth-century America. This novel is concerned with a modern industrial society that created a new culture that broke the tradition; one of the elements of this culture is the emergence of anxiety. This paper aims to describe the process of self-acceptance of Amory Blaine, the main character of This Side of Paradise. Amory Blaine faced anxiety in his early mature life as a part of the World War I aftermath. At the exact moment, many old American values should be broken. Using Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis theory, it was found that This Side of Paradise was the expression of the author’s anxiety, Fitzgerald, when experiencing his self-acceptance. Anxiety is the main theme of this novel, besides the breaking tradition. This study applies a descriptive qualitative method that shows anxiety as a specific psychological disease in the modern industrial era, which correlates to the progress of industrial activities. The complexity of modern life has become a trigger for people living with anxiety. The undetected disease could also be a product of the anxious world. In this decade was what we named Covid-19 and its pandemic.
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Polovinkina, O. "ENGLISH MODERNISM AND AMERICAN ‘TOURISTS’." Voprosy literatury, no. 1 (September 30, 2018): 209–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2018-1-209-224.
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In recent years, modernist studies have tended to nationalize issues, putting forward specific features of American and British modernist writings. This article treats Anglo-American modernism in terms of ‘the inverted conquest’ (A. Mejias-Lopez) with America ‘wrestling cultural authority from its former European metropolis’. The article starts with the subject of periphery and centre changing places, first in the imagination of American writers and then in reality. In F. M. Ford’s novelThe Good Soldierthe situation is seen as if the American would absorb the English. An American John Dowell outmatches and ultimately disparages ‘the good soldier’ and a superior Briton Ashburnham. The novel is analyzed as a result of pushing together two ways of writing - English and American (Jamesonian). Louis MacNeice treats the ‘Americanization of poetry’ inModern Poetry: A Personal Essay(1938). InAspects of Modern Poetry(1934) Edith Sitwell affirms the triumph of T. S. Eliot’s early poetry over ‘the bareness of the line’ in Housman’sA Shropshire Lad, famous for its poetical Englishness. A sort of latent urge to reaffirm Englishness against advancing Americanism is obvious in Virginia Woolf’s essays on American writers.
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Rose, Natalie. "Modern Melodrama: How the American Telenovela Jane the Virgin Updates the Sentimental Novel." Journal of Popular Culture 52, no. 5 (2019): 1081–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12849.
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Giemza, Bryan Albin. "The Kingfish in Fiction: Huey P. Long and the Modern American Novel (review)." Southern Cultures 11, no. 1 (2005): 96–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scu.2005.0004.
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McParland, Robert. "Transfer Points: Artistic Intersections and Cultural Transitions in John Dos Passos's Fiction of the 1920s." Cultural Intertexts 10, The Roaring (20)20s (2020): 70–85. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4322245.
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John Dos Passos conveyed multiple intersections of art and culture and the spirit of the 1920s in his prose. His novel Manhattan Transfer is characterized by intermediality: a combination of theatre, film, and visual art. With this novel, Dos Passos became a chronicler of American life. A passionate critique of modern society runs through Manhattan Transfer. The city is presented in this novel as a site of cultural intersections and transition and this focus is matched by the fragmentary qualities of the text. From his war novel Three Soldiers through his city novel Manhattan Transfer, Dos Passos places his readers in the swirl of the human currents of his time and argues for the human spirit against the forces of a mechanistic world that would crush them. The harshness of the vibrant city is illustrated through the strivings and affairs of these immigrants, Broadway stage performers, journalists, and business aspirants. The relationships between Dos Passos’ experimental fiction and modern art and film are explored, along with the cultural transition of the American 1920s.
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Busyeiri, Muhammad Latif, and Nasyafka Dinanti. "Lifestyles during The Roaring 20s of America in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby." Lililacs Journal : English Literature, Language, and Cultural Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2021): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/lililacs.011.05.
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Literature is the result of human interaction and culture in which they reflect or imitate the condition of the era they were written in. Due to this reason, some literature is able to function as a way for modern-day readers to have an understanding on how life was like in the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is one such novel that contains similar condition during the roaring 20s of America. The novel contains different lifestyles of the American people during the time and revealed the harsh reality of those who were idolizing The American Dream. Using sociological approach, this study aims to learn about the social condition during the roaring 20s of America. Lifestyles during the roaring 20s of America in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is chosen as the title of the study to find out the lifestyle that existed during the roaring 20s of America as reflected in The Great Gatsby. The result of the study shows that different lifestyles that existed during the roaring 20s of America as shown in The Great Gatsby are wealthy lifestyle, modest lifestyle criminal lifestyle, hedonistic lifestyle, impoverished lifestyle. And surrounding factors such as different social class and social gap that existed during the time.
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Rață, Irina. "“Only the Gods are Real”: The Mythopoeic Dimension of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods." Romanian Journal of English Studies 13, no. 1 (2016): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0006.
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AbstractThis paper aims to address the mythopoeic aspect of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, so as to disclose the elements of American cultural identity embedded in the novel. It is an attempt to analyse its legends, myths, folklore, popular culture figures, intertwined with Old World mythology, assessing their viability as modern myths, through the lens of formalist and structuralist reading.
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Dashko, Elena L. "STUDYING THE MODERN LITERARY PROCESS AT THE LESSONS ON FOREIGN LITERATURE AT THE UNIVERSITY." Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology 26, no. 4 (2022): 176–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2022-4-176-185.
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The paper presents the stages of work on the block &quot;Modern Foreign Literature&quot; as part of the discipline &quot;History of Foreign Literature&quot;. The main trends in Western European and American prose are highlighted. The following genres are characterized: anti-utopia, transformer novel, myth novel, philological novel; phenomena: neorealism, seterature (in particular, fanfiction). The specificity of fantastic literature at the present stage is determined. Common features for the literature of the late 20th – early 21st centuries are traced: intertextuality, hypertextuality, openness, polyvariability of ideas, mythologism.
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Dash, Dr Bipin Bihari. "EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE IN BHARATI MUKHERJEE’S NOVEL JASMINE: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES." Journal of English Language and Literature 09, no. 02 (2022): 37–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.54513/joell.2022.9206.
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Bharati Mukherjee was a Calcutta born an Indian American Canadian writer and professor emeriti at the University of California, Berkely. She is one of the promninent and leading Indian women writers in English. Like Kamala Markandaya, Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai, she is well recognised as a diasporic novelist in the literary arena. She is a representative novelist of Asian immigrants. Her experience as an expatriate in America and Canada forms the main source of her creative writing and literary talents. Her oeuvre comprises novels, short stories, nonfiction prose, socio-political commentaries, journal articles and interviews. The present novel’s title, the character, Jasmine, continually sheds lives to move into other roles. She gets uprooted and re-routed thrice in a new world and establishes a new identity. Jasmine dislocates from Indian traditional conventional life and relocates with modern liberal American life. She is an innocent, diffident woman who has become a fighter, adapter and adventurous in America. Through her novel, Bharati Mukherjee presents Jasmine as a Phoenix who rises from her ashes again and again in the form of different names and characters. She clearly exhibits the life of an Immigrant Indian as well as woman and the obstacles. She needs to break for the transformation of her life in an alien land. The major theme is about Jasmine's love story and the minor one is about her struggle in life. This paper analyses the existential experience of Jasmine in the foreign culture.
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Pulatova, Diyora F. "Genre peculiarties in Christopher Buckley’s novel “The White House Mess”." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 1 (January 2024): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.1-24.125.
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This article considers the debut novel of the contemporary American satirist Christopher Buckley. In particular, author of this article states that this novel typologically belongs to “a political farce novel”. Thus, the analysis is done accordingly to the characteristics of the mentioned genre type. Consequently, in the article the main bias is made on the political component of the narrative, therefore satirical images are not fully presented in the article. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the problem of genre originality of the modern American political satirical novel. The result of this article is the thesis that political satirical novel is the genre that allows writers to most fully reveal their visions of political mechanisms and identify patterns within the political system.
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Li, Melody. "Nightclub as a Liminal Space: Space, Gender, and Identity in Lisa See’s China Dolls." Humanities 7, no. 4 (2018): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7040126.
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Nightclubs flourished in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1930s when it became a nightlife destination. To Chinese Americans, however, San Francisco nightclubs became a new site at the time for them to re-explore their identities. For some, visiting these nightclubs became a way for them to escape from traditional Chinese values. For others, it became a way to satisfy Western stereotypes of Chinese culture. Lisa See’s China Dolls (2015) describes three young oriental women from various backgrounds that become dancers at the popular Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco in the late 1930s. Through the three girls’ precarious careers and personal conflicts, Lisa See proposes the San Francisco nightclub as both a site for them to articulate their new identities beyond their restricted spheres and a site for them to perform the expected stereotypical Asian images from Western perspectives. It was, at that time, a struggle for the emergence of modern Chinese women but particularly a paradox for Chinese-American women. The space of the Chinese-American nightclub, which is exotic, erotic, but stereotypical, represents contradictions in the Chinese-American identity. Through studying Lisa See’s novel along with other autobiographies of the Chinese American dancing girls, I argue that San Francisco nightclubs, as represented in Lisa See’s novel, embody the paradox of Chinese American identities as shown in the outfits of Chinese American chorus girls—modest cheongsams outside and sexy, burlesque costumes underneath.
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Cappucci, Paul. "Driving Through the Fog of Modernity: Mosquito Extermination, Progress, and The Great American Novel." William Carlos Williams Review 42, no. 1 (2025): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.5325/willcarlwillrevi.42.1.0001.
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Abstract William Carlos Williams’s The Great American Novel challenges readers’ expectations about the purpose and structure of a modern novel. Williams asks us to think about what is “great” and what is “novel” in American literature as he draws upon a variety of references and voices. This article examines one of those references—the narrator’s foggy ride home from the Bergen County Mosquito Extermination Commission. Williams’s direct mention of the commission highlights his active involvement with a pioneering ecological effort in New Jersey to combat mosquito infestation. In support of the cause, Williams served as the Bergen County commission’s secretary from 1916 into the 1930s. It is through this service that he learned invaluable lessons about the difficulty of making progress in this type of work. Since progress is a key word in The Great American Novel, this article considers the ways that Williams’s work on the commission, including papers he delivered at its annual meetings, informs his representation of progress and modernity in this experimental novel.