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From:Daedalus (Vol. 140, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHip-hop, created by black and Latino youth in the mid-1970s on the East Coast of the United States, is now represented throughout the world. The form's core elements--rapping, deejaying, breaking (dance), and graffiti...
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From:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 83. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Short FictionEast, West 1994Other Major WorksGrimus (novel) 1975Midnight's Children (novel) 1981Shame (novel) 1983The Satanic Verses (novel) 1988Haroun and the Sea of Stories (juvenilia)...
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From: The Canadian Fiction Magazine[In the following excerpt, Hatch traces the development of Gallant's short fiction from the beginning of her career to the 1970s, focusing on characterization.] [In Mavis Gallant's] early writing is a strong romantic...
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From:Tikkun (Vol. 25, Issue 1)BARACK OBAMA IS A BRAND. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, armies of corporate lobbyists grease the palms of our elected officials,...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN A SMALL BOOK SOLD ON A DOWNTOWN CAIRO street in 2002, at a stall that spilled across the pavement, a dialogue between female university students enacts the question of whether hijab is essential to the practice of...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the eyes of its original publisher, Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting is, in its most basic terms, a novel about "heroin addicts on a run-down Edinburgh estate" (McLean qtd. in Redhead xv). This seems difficult to...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 78, Issue 4)In Stand Up and Cheer !, a bizarre 1934 Hollywood movie remembered today mostly for the sensational performance of the five-year-old Shirley Temple, President Roosevelt appoints a Broadway impresario to his cabinet as...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 43, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN SEXUAL FUTURES, QUEER GESTURES, AND OTHER LATINA LONGINGS , Juana María Rodríguez makes a paradigmatic observation about gestures common to Latinxs: "We point with our lips, flirt with our eyes, and shimmy our...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 117, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed<1> The owners of Esther's Haircutting, the salon in Tarzana where Britney Spears shaved herself bald in 2006, knew immediately that the relics of her breakdown were sacred. The sweepings from their floor along with a...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor contemporary media scholars, convergence means more than technologies or content coming together in one box. (1) It instead alludes to the convergence of content across media platforms, and the joining together of...
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From:Afro-Hispanic Review (Vol. 29, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCena 1--Os bailes Osalao do Rui ficava na esquina da Miguel Tostes com Casemiro. Um edificio a direita de quem sobe para a Independencia. Era um dos varios que existiam naquele tempo. Tinha uma escadaria imponente...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 10, Issue 2-3)In the United States this phenomena can be documented and verified by how much European--Americans "borrowed" from all the great cultural creations--the "lindy hop" dance, the great music, fashion, art, the hip use of...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date September 1988) In the following essay, Binnie considers Friel's plays and his involvement with Field Day Theatre Company, drawing parallels to the work of Bertolt Brecht.] In the ancient and troubled...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 2. )Any movement for change born out of the desire of a social minority to be heard and acknowledged will generate a literature which both articulates political goals and reflects the internal realities of the group. This...
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From:Novels for StudentsCritics and reviewers have found a lot to say about Kogawa's first novel because of its wondrous poetic prose and its successful attempt to express the Canadian hybrid as art. The most popular theme to pick up on in the...
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From: Yiddish Literature: Its Scope and Major Writers , UngarIsaak Bashevis Singer grew up with little of his brother's insurgence and social idealism, and therefore never experienced the latter's bitter disillusionment. More cynical than romantic, and with a firmer grasp of the...
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From: Black American Literature Forum[In the following excerpt, Ojaide examines African and Western influences in Soyinka's poetry.] A survey of Wole Soyinka's influences reveals the admixture of indigenous and foreign qualities in the poems. These...
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From: Essays in CriticismIn Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novel Heat and Dust (1975) two stories alternate, the story of a young English girl who goes to India in search of her family history, and the story of her grandfather's first wife, Olivia. The...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)The Ambassadors was the first written of Henry James's three late "major phase" novels. James himself regarded it "as, frankly, quite the best, `all round,' of my productions" (Preface). After the shorter "experimental"...
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From: The New English Literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing WorldWith the publication of Things Fall Apart (1958) Nigeria had the classic book that would serve as a point of reference and comparison for future writing. The novel was not only more competent than anything that had...