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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

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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