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When seventeen-year-old Jimena realizes she is undocumented, she decides the best path forward is to find an American to marry her.
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REVISION OF ETHNIC IMMIGRANT FICTION PATTERNS IN MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE BY FRANCINE PROSE
The paper discusses the changing role of ethnicity in immigrant narratives withthe example of Francine Prose's novel My New American Life (2011). It is amultidimensional work of fiction which presents ethnicity as a cultural and social asset. Thenovel brings into play and revisits a tradition of the novel of manners. It uses Americancultural and social stereotypes to tailor the main character’s new identity of existential in-betweenness. and to represent the American realities of the Bush-Cheney era through thefilter of the protagonist’s perspective as a semi-legal alien of a suspicious ethnicbackground. The paper problematizes the geopolitical challenges of immigration that thenovel’s characters deal with in post-9/11 America. The article argues that in the novel,immigration is presented as a process with a distinct social dimension, prioritizing safetyand welfare over the values of democracy and personal freedom.
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TRANSCULTURALITY IN SICILIAN CRIME FICTION: THE CASE OF CAMILLERI AND PIAZZESE
[...]they are a powerful example of the re-emergence of the Mediterranean as a transnational region (Ben-Yehoyada 2017). By making use of the concept of third space (Bhabha 1994), in this article I argue that they both endorse Braudel's concept of the Mediterranean Sea as a crossroads of cultures and Maalouf s idea of an inclusive Mediterranean identity (1998, 90). [...]they are a powerful example of the «re-emergence of the Mediterranean as a transnational region» (Ben-Yehoyada 2017). According to Homi Bhabha's concept of hybridity (1994), cultural dimensions can no longer be understood as being homogeneous or self-contained. For Bhabha, cultures are never unitary in themselves, nor simply dualistic, and meaning is produced in interstices that shift «theoretical concern away from the monolithic building blocks of culture- nation, race, class, colonizer, colonized-toward a reading of the \"in-between\" spaces, the spaces in excess of the sum of the parts of social and cultural differences» (ivi, 114).
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Parachute kids
After their two-week family tour of Los Angeles, ten-year-old Feng Li Lin and her older brother and sister learn they will remain in California while their parents return to Taiwan, forcing them to navigate a new school, a new language, bullies, racism, and the pressures of running a household.
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Panadrilo
Abandoned by her husband turned talking-crocodile, a woman must now find her own way to migrate to the US in order to reunite with their daughter.
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“You make me miss Pune so much”: memory making and documenting in a Virtual Zenana
PurposeThe purpose of the study is to look at memory making and the documenting of memories, as a part of the document and information experience of women belonging to the Indian diaspora in a leisure context.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative research approach was inspired by institutional ethnography, and data are collected through semi-structured interviews and by collecting comments posted on five fan fiction blogs.FindingsEarly observations show that memory making and documenting of those memories is a part of the document experience of the research participants. It also points to the role of social interactions in that experience as well as the recording of one's document experience in the making or deriving of document meaning.Originality/valueThis study aims to contribute toward conceptual growth in the area of information and document experience. It also aims to address a gap in the literature that looks at cultural memory evocation and how it is documented, as well as looking at the interplay between affordances of new media, memory making and documentary practices especially with respect to virtual communities. And when looked at through the prism of migration and leisure, it can be even more interesting.
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White Womanhood and/as American Empire in Arrival and Annihilation
American science fiction stories, such as U.S. historical narratives, often give central place to white, Western male subjects as noble explorers, benevolent colonizers, and border-guarding patriots. This constructed subjectivity renders colonized or cultural others as potentially threatening aliens, and it works alongside the parallel construction of white womanhood as a signifier for the territory to be possessed and protected by American empire—or as a sign of empire itself. Popular cultural narratives, whether in the world of U.S. imperialism or the speculative worlds of science fiction, may serve a religious function by helping to shape world-making: the envisioning and enacting of imagined communities. This paper argues that the world-making of American science fiction can participate in the construction and maintenance of American empire; yet, such speculative world-making may also subvert and critique imperialist ideologies. Analyzing the recent films Arrival (2016) and Annihilation (2018) through the lenses of postcolonial and feminist critique and theories of religion and popular culture, I argue that these films function as parables about human migration, diversity, and hybrid identities with ambiguous implications. Contact with the alien other can be read as bringing threat, loss, and tragedy or promise, birth, and possibility.
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'All This Shit Was Also the Border': Mediation and Generic Borders in Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Detective Fiction
Paco Ignacio Taibo II's José Daniel Fierro novels Leonardo's Bicycle (1993) and Life Itself (1987) use \"foreignness\" to explore the expectations and restrictions of the detective genre; the inconsistencies of identity, nationalism, and race; and the duality of the border. The term \"foreigner\" operates in Taibo's Frontera Dreams as a crucial metaphor for the out-of-place loner who can no longer return to the comforting certainties of law and order. Just as genre produces the outsider whose alienation results from expectations of generic conventions, the \"foreigner\" in Taibo also results from the border and the harsh realities of race and difference.
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The Issue of Historical Works in American Literature
This article discusses the issue of literary perception of historical reality and the creation of a mature work as one of the constant problems of literature, it is about paying special attention to comparative-typological analysis of the unity of form and content, composition and plot, system of characters, historical truth and to the fiction in the study of historical works in today's globalization.The article provides an analysis of advanced examples of American literature, information on folk art thinking and cultural development. First of all, it is necessary to clarify the concept of \"historical work\". Because in the process of studying the sources devoted to the study of historical works, we have observed that there is no clear statement in world literature in the approach to the concept of \"historical work\". There John Smith recounts the impressive stories of Princess Pocahontas who saved him and some other Englishmen from death. [...]in this country called New England, the genres of historical works, memoirs and historical novels were founded even during the British colonial period.In 1625, William Strachey's historical account of the shipwreck in Bermuda was published. [...]the writer introduced folklore (proverb, parable, adage,
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