Alice Walker is an American novelist, poet, and activist whose literary production is popular because of her treatment of African-American culture. Her novels are mainly focused on women and the most popular of all them ...

The interest on this topic comes from a personal experience. While I was living in Arkansas, Donald Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States. The recurrent slogan through his campaign, Make America ...

This work will deal with the topic of the American suburban mentality and its values after the Second World War, more concretely in the fifties and sixties. The suburban lifestyle, which changed the conception of the ...

From its very beggining, Irish Literature has been very connected to the ocean. Mythological creatures such as selkies, mermaids and what is known as merfolk in general, have constitued a crucial part of Irish folk tradition. ...

The aim of this study is to provide an introductory approach to Jamaican patois and its main characteristics. According to the “Cambridge Dictionary”, ‘patois’ refers to “the form of a language spoken by people in a ...

As a literary genre, the short story have often received less critical recognition in comparison with other narratives , most prominently, the novel. Insights offered both by critics and practitioners of the short story ...

En los trabajos que describen las particularidades del español de Galicia (Porto Dapena 2001 y Rojo 2005 entre los más recientes) se afirma que uno de sus rasgos sintácticos peculiares es el dativo ético, cuyo uso es ...

Over the course of time, the figure of the vampire has been associated to moments of individual, social, cultural and political crisis in the history of humanity. Sheridan LeFanu's "Carmilla" (1872) and Bram Stoker's ...

There can be no doubt that King Richard III is, perhaps, one of the most controversial kings of England, due to the shortage of contemporary records and chronicles and to his biased reputation as a result of physical and ...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the revival, preservation and study of the culture and tradition of the lsle of Man, which are claimed to be of Celtic and, to a lesser extent, Viking origins. The ...