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Imagining a Better World: Black Futurity in Contemporary Afrofuturism and Speculative Fiction by Dyer-Johnson, Omara Samirah

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Contemporary South Asian American women's fiction: the "difference" by Assella, Shashikala Muthumal

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Lexical hedges: a study of cultural and disciplinary variation in academic research articles / Sarmad J. Mohammed by J. Mohammed, Sarmad

“…In terms of hedging functions, the results show that American authors employed more hedging function than Arabic authors in both disciplines. …”
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Deviation and mobility in female characters stimulated through ‘structure of feeling’ in selected American novels by Fejer, Azhar Noori

“…This thesis traces the development in the female character in the works of four selected American authors between the years 1850s – 1980. The female characters were not notable before the 1850s. …”
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Social oppression as an impetus of American cultural imperialism in terrorist by John Updike by Fakhrulddin, Saif Raed Nafia, Bahar, Ida Baizura

“…Terrorist (2006) by John Updike has been classified within the post-9/11 novel genre where many American authors depict their counter-narratives to the horrific event of 9/11. …”
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Social oppression and American cultural imperialism: the crisis of the Muslim Minority Groups’ Identity in Terrorist by John Updike by Fakhrulddin, Saif Raed Nafia, Bahar, Ida Baizura

“…Terrorist (2006) by John Updike has been classified within the post-9/11 novel genre where many American authors depict their counter-narratives to the horrific event of 9/11. …”
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Peter Eisenman: Case X Caso by Mancini, Francesco

“…"Peter Eisenman: Case X Caso", is a critical essay reflecting on the contemporary crisis of habitation based on the early work of Peter Eisenman. The American author's early projects of six small houses are investigated in light of the structuralist and postmodernist thought, comparing Eisenman's theoretical position with his original design documents and sketches.…”
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Beyond national literatures: Empire and Amitav Ghosh by Maxey, Ruth

“…But the idea of Ghosh as an Asian American author with a particular relationship to the United States and its national mythologies, has barely been considered. …”
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The portrayal of main female characters in three novels of Toni Morisson using the postcolonial feminism theoretical frame work by Nora, Sahari

“…The texts used are; (i) The Bluest Eye (ii) Sula, and (iii) Beloved, which are all written by Toni Morisson, an African American author in which the novels reflect and embody the lives of African American women during the postcolonial period. …”
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Mapping Eileen Chang’s novels with a computational analysis of themes and emotions by Ruikai Yuan, Ravichandran Vengadasamy, Zheng, Yu

“…This study applies Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modelling and sentiment analysis to eight English novels by Chinese-American author Eileen Chang. The research uncovers seven main themes, reflecting Chang’s focus on women’s lives, cultural intersections, and societal changes in 1940s Shanghai and Hong Kong. …”
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Feminine mystique and the patriarchal world in Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing by Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada, Bahar, Ida Baizura

“…This paper examines the relationship between women and men and how the women had to live, behave and react in 1960s America in the short story “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) by the twentieth-century American author, Tillie Olsen (1912-2007). The story revolves around the protagonist, ‘mother’, and her daughter, Emily, where the women are depicted as confined within constrained identities, having to live in a world where they have to be obedient and having to live up to men’s expectation. …”
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Towards A Transcultural Formation: A Postcolonial Reading Of Isabel Allende’s Selected Texts by Behabadi, Tahereh Zamani

“…This dissertation focuses on three contemporary self-representational novels by the Latin American author, Isabel Allende. From a dual, postcolonial and transcultural perspective, this work analyzes the thematic structures and mode of writing used by the author to create or re-create a zone for silenced and marginalized groups to speak out. …”
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The fluid and transcultural self: renegotiating the East Asian female identity in The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho by Syamsina Zahurin Shamsuddin, Ida Baizura Bahar

“…This paper examines how the contemporary Chinese-American author Minfong Ho (b. 1951) portrays Dara, the female protagonist of The Clay Marble (1991), in her practice of culture in Cambodian society in order to explore the Western perspective of the East Asian female identity as voiceless, submissive and hypersexual. …”
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Exploring feminist consciousness through music in Eileen Chang’s postcolonial narratives by Ruikai Yuana, Ravichandran Vengadasamy, Melissa Shamini Perry, Ruzy Suliza Hashim

“…This article explores how Chinese-American author Eileen Chang portrays the realization of female consciousness in women from post-colonial Hong Kong and Shanghai through music. …”
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When Women Terrorise: The Psychopathic La Femme Fatale in East of Eden by John Steinbeck by Mohan, Zahraa Abdullah, Bahar, Ida Baizura, Ujum, Diana Abu, Amin, Hasyimah Mohd

“…This study focuses on the issue of female psychopathy and the portrayal of an emotionally and mentally disturbed female character in East of Eden (1952) by the contemporary American author, John Steinbeck. Although female characters are like male characters regarding their psychological complexity, the issues of antisocial personality disorders and psychopathy have only been examined in previous studies concerning male characters. …”
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The Giver : a corpus-based analysis of word frequencies by Brandenburg-Weeks, Tara, Mohammed Abalkheel, Albatool

“…One of the texts and novels commonly used for extensive reading in high intermediate level English as a Second Language coursework in the United States is The Giver, a young adult novel written by American author Lois Lowry. Due to its importance, we chose to analyze the novel within the framework of word frequency counts through the lens of the percent of words a learner must know in order to understand the particular text. …”
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Fictions of law and custom: passing narratives at the fins des siècles by Moynihan, Sinéad

“…In Chapter One, I examine the relationship between the African American body-as-text and the African American author who produces a text in The Bondwoman's Narrative (date unknown), Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2000) and Percival Everett's Erasure (2001). …”
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