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Empowering interstitial spaces and intersectionality in the writings of Judith Ortiz Cofer
(2018)
This study contains a critical analysis of Judith Ortiz Cofer‟s selected works. It offers a portrayal of a voice in the diaspora that successfully transcends the voice of victimization and empowers the uncertain position ...
A feeling or something more: Love as a liberating force in Their Eyes Were Watching God, Sula and The Women of Brewster Place
(2011-05)
Love. The word itself has become a cliché and literary works dealing with it run the risk of being presumptively categorized as sentimental fiction. In academia there is an uneasiness surrounding the topic. However, in ...
Stepping away from the river: La llorona as a symbol of female empowerment in Chicano literature
(2010)
La Llorona is a much-maligned yet ever popular cultural icon in Mexican tradition. Her story is one of punishment and pain and it is oft told as a warning to children and adults who are considering breaking the cultural ...
Escape through the literary borderlands: A postmodern examination of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
(2015)
This thesis explores how Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, can be considered a postmodern trickster text that merges the literary and artistic ...
Shamanism in "Manfred" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
(2019-07-11)
The American and French Revolutions spurred class-consciousness across Britain, which caused a political division that resulted in the persecution and condemnation of radicals. Under these dangerous circumstances, Byron ...
Teaching William Blake's The Songs of Innocence and of Experience to university ESL students with reader-response and Freirian pedagogy
(2006-11-28)
This study examines the use of reader-response theory and Freirian pedagogy in
the teaching of selected poems from William Blake’s The Songs of Innocence and of
Experience to university ESL students in Mayagüez, Puerto ...
I’m in America: Critically exploring Latino cultural identity in West Side Story for English classrooms
(2015)
Race, culture and identity, alongside portrayals of the Puerto Rican culture, are themes which are highly intertwined in the Broadway musical West Side Story. Starting from its Broadway premiere to its eventual film ...
Listening to the voices of the Caribbean: Introducing Caribbean children’s literature into the English classroom in Puerto Rico
(2012)
This study assesses the general knowledge eighth graders from Western Puerto Rico have of their neighboring Caribbean islands. It also examines interests and provides a base for the material selected for the creation of a ...