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My Antonia: A Retrospective On An Immigrant Narrative, Sydney Werner Nov 2021

My Antonia: A Retrospective On An Immigrant Narrative, Sydney Werner

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Beginning with the early days of American literature, this work explores where the immigrant narrative has existed, and what said narrative may look like. When reading immigrant literature, there are typically three or four themes that present themselves among the immigrant characters and their community. Those themes are: a feeling of nostalgia towards, or affinity to the culture and of the immigrant’s home country, the theme of inclusion or exclusion by the larger society in the new country, and the theme of resilience, that is, how immigrants overcome adversities and bounce back challenge after challenge. A novel in particular where …


Premises And Problems: Essays On World Literature And Cinema, Luiza Moreira May 2021

Premises And Problems: Essays On World Literature And Cinema, Luiza Moreira

Monographs and Open Access Books

World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to critically interrogate world literature and cinema, Premises and Problems approaches this system from the perspective of languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position. This perspective raises new questions about the nature of literary hegemony and the structure of world literature: How is hegemony established? What are the costs of losing it? What does hegemony mask? How is it …


Ceramic Studio Practice: | Coca | Center Of Contemporary Artists | Craft Lab | Grottaglie, Italy, Christopher Southward Apr 2021

Ceramic Studio Practice: | Coca | Center Of Contemporary Artists | Craft Lab | Grottaglie, Italy, Christopher Southward

Comparative Literature Faculty Scholarship

Honorable Mention: Work Images included in support of 2021 Artist-in-Residence proposal | Center of Contemporary Artists | Craft Lab | Grottaglie, Italy