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Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
In an exploration of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984) as a survival narrative, I propose a theory of transformative narrativity, a...
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Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies
Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. In this book, I aim to...
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“Don’t Fence Me In”: Interiorized Outsides and Japanese American Concentration Camps
The family separation policy that peaked in the summer of 2018 has had an unintended consequence, that of recalling Japanese internment in the 1940s....
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Nonsecular Thirdspaces in Ayad Akhtar’s American Dervish and Homeland Elegies
The increase in the number of Muslim Americans today, particularly those born and brought up in the US, has resulted in the production of literary...
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Isamu: Becoming Nisei
Isamu checked into the desert asylum. Out there, the war was ongoing. They said it would be safer inside. Looking as he did like the enemy, he’d...
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Grief, Hospitality, and the Frontier in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland (2020)
Chloé Zhao’s award-winning film Nomadland (2020) is partially based on journalist Jessica Bruder’s Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First...
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Riding the Beast: Of Borders, Aliens, and Hospitality in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive (2019) and Tell Me How It Ends (2017)
In Borderlands/La frontera, published in 1987, Gloria Anzaldúa described the US-Mexico border as “una herida abierta,” an open wound where “the Third...
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Cartographies of Inclusion/Exclusion and Contested Belongings in Raquel Cepeda’s Bird of Paradise: How I Became a Latina
The rise of bordering processes within urban spaces underscores the need to re-evaluate a politics of space that reveals ethical lapses in...
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Hardly Workin; or, the Valences of Productivism in Campus Novels
This final chapter studies the academic novel’s thorough aversion to work. Whether their protagonists are faculty or students, the novels’ plots...
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Kneading Dreams: Material Imagination and Agency in Performative Clay Works
In the writings of Gaston Bachelard, clay or paste (la pâte) is seen as a basic component of materiality, which enables the material imagination—a...
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Motor of Darkness: On the Cartographic Visual Drive of Anthropocene Culture
This chapter explores the establishing, and subsequent reproduction, of modern western cartographic visuality. Such visuality has been a contributing...
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Algebraic Structures and Metaphor in Gravity’s Rainbow
This chapter examines intersections of mathematics and literature within encyclopedic narratives by Thomas Pynchon. My interdisciplinary approach...
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Trouble in Paradise: Pride and Prejudice as Vampire Romance
After Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight (2005), Austen fanfic authors have turned their hand to reimagining the greatest love story of all, Pride and...
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Analytical vs. Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia
It was almost a century ago that a double polarity emerged in the Russian episteme, and in particular in the theory of art and literature. The...
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Introductions to the American Campus Novel
The introduction establishes “Exemption” as the fulcrum for the campus novel’s ambivalent politics. The chapter explores unique arguments regarding...
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Pulsatile Choreography: Rhythm, (Dis)Enchantment, and Disimagination in Premodern Dance
This chapter explores sophisticated imaginative processes from a kinetic perspective. Specifically, I show how the pulsatile imaginary and...
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Introduction
This introduction provides the reader with an orientation throughout the unfolding dynamics of the book, conceived as an assemblage of essays,...
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Conclusion: An Unlikely Confluence
This conclusion considers the various ways in which Austen-vampire mashups reflect changing cultural conditions. First, they mark the collision of...
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The Economies of Theory and Resistance
Although contemporary theory reflects upon and registers the achievement of thinking literature and its related disciplines, that theory also ponders...