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Full-Text Articles in English Language and Literature
Tiger Shell, Christopher Sinnett
Tiger Shell, Christopher Sinnett
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Poetry is everything. A poem is a shell filled with a sliver of poetry. Life goes in, life comes out. These shells are filled with what we know, and deep inside, what we do not know. The ocean goes in and out. Art is in the shell. The poet enters, does not perform, does not act, does not do. The poet is.
Punto Ciego, Adelmar Alvin Ramirez
Punto Ciego, Adelmar Alvin Ramirez
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Ciudad Juarez, another type of history shown through newspaper articles and headlines, going against the stereotypical values of violence and feminicides.
"What, To A Prisoner, Is The Fourth Of July?": Mumia Abu-Jamal And Contemporary Narratives Of Slavery, Luis Omar Ceniceros
"What, To A Prisoner, Is The Fourth Of July?": Mumia Abu-Jamal And Contemporary Narratives Of Slavery, Luis Omar Ceniceros
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Writing from a specifically Black postmodern perspective, former death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal composes his multimedia slave narrative as a postmodern Neo-slave narrative. From the Atlantic slave-trade to the United States prison-industrial complex, from Quobna Ottobah Cugoano to Mumia Abu-Jamal, the slave narrative exists as a critique against oppressive State powers and a collective affirmation of interiority and embodied significance. For Abu-Jamal, his incarceration is indicative of an ever-pervasive capitalist power-structure that in the past has, in the present is, and in the future will control designated groups of made marginalized masses in order that preeminent capitalist beneficiaries preserve elite …
El Paso Odyessy, Tafari Amin Nugent
El Paso Odyessy, Tafari Amin Nugent
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El Paso Odyssey not only attempts to give an accurate reflection of everyday American life within a particular timeframe but, also attempts to give characters the ability to speak for themselves. The audience must judge and interpret the authenticity and accuracy of the language throughout the text and if the veracity of the dialogue rings true, the narrative story has succeeded on some level.
A House All White And Empty Against The Night Sky, Jesus J. Silveyra
A House All White And Empty Against The Night Sky, Jesus J. Silveyra
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No Longer Mourn, Riley Welcker
No Longer Mourn, Riley Welcker
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This novel is a coming-of-age story about a young woman named Eva who searches for the truth about her father's murder and in the process discovers more about herself than she could foresee. Intending to confront the man who murdered her father, she flies from her home in Norway to the State Correctional Institution in Idaho, but what she learns is totally unexpected. In an attempt to navigate her prejudice against him, the man tells a dual story that reveals his history with her parents and the dramas of a past she never knew. She then receives the shock of …
Una Fosa Para Ana María, Diana V. Esparza Lara
Una Fosa Para Ana María, Diana V. Esparza Lara
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No abstract provided.
Fake Empire, Dennis Wilfredo Gonzalez
Fake Empire, Dennis Wilfredo Gonzalez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This a collection of short stories based in my experience as a Peruvian American Writer
The End Of Celebrity, Alex O'Meara
The End Of Celebrity, Alex O'Meara
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
A novel about a movie star who becomes involved in an act of terrorism.
Peer Review In A Graduate Writing Class: Case Studies Of First-And Second- Language Students, Petcharat Saenpoch
Peer Review In A Graduate Writing Class: Case Studies Of First-And Second- Language Students, Petcharat Saenpoch
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
This research explored peer review strategies of L1 (native speakers of English) and L2 (non-native speakers of English) graduate student writers from different disciplines. The focus was on how they revised their writing and which strategies they used. The study was conducted in a Graduate Writing Workshop class at a public university on the U.S. - Mexican border in the United States of America. Five participants were selected as case studies. The researcher collected data by recording face-to-face peer review sessions, observing the class, interviewing the instructor and students, collecting the students' reflections, and gathering the students' writing drafts. The …