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Animating Spirit: Wasted Image and Identity in Don DeLillo's Underworld
By Tso-wei Hsieh
REAL: Review of English and American Literature [Yingmei wenxue pinglun]
This paper first discusses Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulation and its implication, and examine how “modelized” characters are trapped in the “pixel” world. Then, it shows the process in which the subject tries to transform itself from the simulated “death” to the animated life.
"A Movable Feast:" Life Writings/Narrations in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt
By Jade Tsui-yu Lee
REAL: Review of English and American Literature [Yingmei wenxue pinglun]
Departing from the discussion of generic connotations of autobiography and autoethnography, the paper examines the novel’s intertexuality of multiple life writings and narrations and explores how the characters shape their life experiences and negotiate with foreign cultures, by bodily and sensory experiences, if not by language.
Fiction as Re-Construction of History: Narratives of the Civil War in American Literature
By Reinhard Isensee
American Studies Journal
Die Bush-Administration und die Reform von Corporate Governance
By Matthias Fifka
Amerikastudien / American Studies
Lessons To Be Learned: Die Bush-Doktrin, der Irakkrieg und die präventive Weltordnungspolitik der USA
By Jürgen Wilzewski
Amerikastudien / American Studies
- Callin’ out around the world: Isaac Julien’s new ethnicities
- The rise of the Black Internationale: Anti-imperialist activism and aesthetics in Britain during the 1930s
- The transformation of the Atlantic World, 1776-1867
- Entre los orígenes del rock Argentino y Colombiano. Bases para una historia comparada.
- Migraciones y Trayectos Identitarios en la Musica Popular. La Cultura del Consumo Musical en la Era Digital.
- The Death of Francis Scott Key and Other Elegies: Music and the New American Studies
- The Social and Cultural Construction of Abraham Lincoln in U.S. Movies and on U.S. TV
- Lincoln's Image in the American Schoolbook
- Indigenous Landscape Construction in America Sacagawea in Glancy's Stone Heart and Mojica's "Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: A Story of Sacajawea"
- Diaspora Politics and Aestheticized Landscape in Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust
- Two Wyomings Homophobic Crimes and American Historical Violence in Literary/Visual Brokeback Mountain
- El Norte, Latin American People's American Dream/Nightmare An Apocalypse/Revelation Road