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Bitter-sweet Diasporican : a fictional novel
(2022-05-20)
Bitter-Sweet DiaspoRican is a contemporary fictional novel written to portray the process and experience of being a young woman part of the Puerto Rican diaspora in New York. The piece explores the fields of gender studies ...
The vampire-friend in the house : Le Fanu's Carmilla, her secret, and the incitement to discourse
(2022-05-20)
This project questions assumptions among scholarship regarding the theme of homosexuality and the reactions it might have provoked to Victorian readers in Le Fanu’s vampire story Carmilla. Specifically considering Victorian ...
Samuel Selvon's shadow in Stuart Hall's discourse and the intertextuality in the works of Hall and Selvon : who influenced whom?
(2021-12-06)
The purpose of this research is to acknowledge an intertextuality in the London novels of Trinidadian writer Samuel Dickson Selvon, better known as Sam Selvon, and the cultural identity theories of Jamaican theorist Stuart ...
Caribbean legends and monsters : the transmogrification of Indigenous and African women in Caribbean folklore
(2021-12-03)
In the Caribbean, there exists an extensive archive of monstrous beings: from sensual mermaids to killer sea monsters; to zombies and jumbies; to cannibal Caribs and mestizo she-devils. Not all these monsters originated ...
Current efforts towards the preservation of the Garifuna language in Belize and beyond
(2022-11-16)
Even though it is an endangered language, Garifuna still stands as a strong marker of identity. This applies not only to the Central American countries where Garinagu live, but also to the diaspora that migrated to the ...
Virgin Islands English lexifier Creole and Politeness practices on the Island of Saint Croix
(2020-05-21)
This essay represents a multi-faceted overview of recent research on Virgin Islands English lexifier Creole. It summarizes and analyzes scholarly work on the historical development of Virgin Islands English lexifier Creole, ...
Through their eyes : childhood perspectives on immigration and exile in Cuban American authors Margarita Engle, Ruth Behar, and Adrianna Cuevas
(2023-05-18)
This literary research seeks to analyze the writing of second generation Cuban American authors Margarita Engle, Ruth Behar, and Adrianna Cuevas and how they incorporate personal experience, historical antecedents, ...
Creative writing manuscript : the inner conversations of a fairy tale princess
(2023-05-30)
The Inner Conversations of a Fairy Tale Princess is an ongoing YA novella that combines satire with Euro-American fairy tale tropes. The story follows a princess who grapples with her status as the least favored heir after ...
A scheduled return
(2023-05-30)
A Scheduled Return is a fictional novel written in the first-person perspective, with most of the text in the past tense, switching to the present in leaps in time to delve into the human unconscious experience, through ...
An autoethnographic study on linguistic-communicative challenges and myths of court interpreting
(2023-05-11)
The role of the interpreter is to facilitate understanding between two or more persons who do not share the same language. In the legal system, that understanding requires accuracy, completeness, impartiality, and maintaining ...