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From Locus Classicus to Locus Lumpen: Junot Díaz’s “Aurora”

Ana Maria Manzanas-Calvo
- 07 Apr 2016 - 
- Vol. 39, Iss: 2, pp 39-52
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In this paper, the Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach (CHA-II) was used to study the relationship between Spanish and American cultural studies, with the goal of developing the Frontiers of Hospitality in Spanish-American Cultural Studies.
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Research funds for this article were provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology through the research project “Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach” (ref. FFI 2012–31250), directed by Prof. Jesus Benito Sanchez, and by the Regional Government of Castilla y Leon through the research Project “The Frontiers of Hospitality in Spanish and American Cultural Studies,” ref. SA342U14.

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从“功能对等”理论评析The House on Mango Street的两译本

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Relationship between code-switching and emotional identity in Junot Diaz’s short stories

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors check whether Yunior, character/narrator in three short stories by Junot Diaz (2012), reduces the use of codeswitching (Cs) to Spanish (his first language, L1) from the first chronological story to the third one: Invierno, Nilda, and The Pura Principle, respectively.
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The Line and the Limit of Britishness: The Construction of Gibraltarian Identity in M. G. Sanchez’s Writing

TL;DR: Sanchez's novels and memoir situate themselves in this liminal space of multiple cultural traditions and linguistic contami-nation as mentioned in this paper, and the writer anatomizes this space crossed and partitioned by multiple and fluid borders and boundaries.
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Code-Switching, Language Emotionality and Identity in Junot Díaz’s “Invierno”

TL;DR: In this paper, a short story from This Is How You Lose Her (2012) is read, with a focus on the oral code-switches that the bilingual Latino/a characters make from English (their second language (L2) to Spanish (their first language) to explore the relationship between CS, language emotionality and identity.
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