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Full-Text Articles in Creative Writing
"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman
"A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics And Identity In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, Rachel Norman
Faculty Publications
This essay explores Junot Díaz's only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry's complicity in maintaining the nation's ethnocentric expectations in regards to English as the only acceptable language of publication. By introducing the work of several sociolinguists into the discussion, examining the use of African American Vernacular and “nerdish” alongside the Spanish, and reviewing Díaz’s relationship with his editors, I provide a more nuanced reading of the ubiquitous code-switching throughout Oscar Wao and suggest that beyond …
Matilde Ros Leaves The Jungle, Susana Beatriz Camacho Vivar
Matilde Ros Leaves The Jungle, Susana Beatriz Camacho Vivar
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
When Matilde defies her mother and abandons her privileged life in a South American capital to fight for environmental justice in the Amazon jungle, she never imagines her journey will bring her right back to where she started. As she insists on freeing herself, four other women around her do the same, defining their freedom when class, gender and race may still get to tell them who they are.
El Más Fuerte De Los Ruidos, Gianfranco Giusseppe Languasco Bellido
El Más Fuerte De Los Ruidos, Gianfranco Giusseppe Languasco Bellido
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Tesis para optar por el título de Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing.
The Run, Jose A. Valdez
The Run, Jose A. Valdez
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Thesis is a fiction story about Mexican Americans involved in drug smuggling in the US
Brújula Quebrada, Julio Antonio Molinete
Brújula Quebrada, Julio Antonio Molinete
Open Access Theses & Dissertations
Brújula quebrada o la reinvención del dolor, es un cuaderno de poesía en el cual se aborda el fenómeno del exilio, de la diáspora. Verso a verso es la historia de un diasporante signado por la angustia, el rechazo y el desprecio. Pero más que un poemario personal, deviene en un pedazo de la historia contemporánea cubana. Esa en donde los hijos de la Isla se ven obligados a escapar en pos de la libertad, un derecho que se hace esquivo aun en la tierra de la libertad.
Motherland, Melanie Joy Mignucci
Motherland, Melanie Joy Mignucci
Senior Projects Spring 2016
A novella about Puerto Rico.
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.