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Aspects of Jamaican patois through the lyrics of dancehall music
(2018-10-26)
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 ...
Make America Great Again: American identity through its texts
(2018-11-06)
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 ...
Selkies, Mermaids, and Other Human-Animal Merfolk in Contemporary Irish Poetry
(2018-11-06)
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. ...
Black Women in Alice Walker´s "The Color Purple"
(2018-11-07)
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 American Dream in the 1950s and 1960s: The lmportance of the Suburban Lifestyle
(2018-11-07)
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 ...
The Postcolonial Short Story: Katherine Mansfield and Jean Rhys
(2018-11-05)
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 ...
El dativo ético como muestra de oralidad fingida en el libro de Elena Quiroga Viento del Norte
(2018-11-05)
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 ...
Crisis and Liminality in Irish and North American Vampire Stories: “Interviewing Contemporary Vampires”
(2018-10-24)
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 ...
Harriet Ann Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl' and Frederick Douglass’ Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave', in the History of American Slave Narratives
(2018-11-22)
Harriet Ann Jacobs is considered as one of the most influential African American women writers. The publication of her slave narrative “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” (1861) caused an unprecedented scandal in the ...
Not for Old Fogies: A Look at the Flapper in Fitzgerald’s Literary Production
(2018-11-06)
In the aftermath of the First World War, a new chapter in the North American history was being written. Together with the economic prosperity came the social, artistic and cultural changes, which portray the characteristics ...