Browsing Dissertations & Theses by Author "Arce, William"
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Building Cultural Bridges Across Generational Chasms: Comparing Chicano And Jewish American Literature
Rhea, Thomas (English, 2011-07-14)This study compares Arturo Islas's novel, The Rain God: A Desert Tale with Cynthia Ozick's novella, "Envy; or Yiddish in America." Specifically, I argue that during the 1970s, these authors fictionalized the discourse ... -
Inside Out: The Dialogics Of Codeswitching In Ana Castillo's So Far From God And Ibis Gómez-vega's Send My Roots Rain
Dye, Carla L. (English, 2014-03-12)In the process of narration, codeswitching, the use of words from one or more language by the same speaker within the same speech situation, reflects certain resistant strategies within the written text, forging a bridge ...