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Where is “that American Joy”?: Ibi Zoboi's American Street (2017) as a Twenty‐First‐Century Political Novel about the Limits of the Haitian/American Dream by Roldán‐Sevillano, Laura

“…A product of American exceptionalism, the myth of the American Dream has always defended that the United States is the nation of upward mobility par…”
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Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives: An Introduction by Pignagnoli, Virginia, Roldán-Sevillano, Laura

“…Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives: An Introduction…”
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Haiti’s “Painful Truths”: A Postcolonialised Reading of Trauma in Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State by Roldán-Sevillano, Laura

“…Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxane Gay’s novel An Untamed State as a trauma narrative which…”
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The Double-Headed Arrow of Trauma: The Morally Traumatised Perpetrator in Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow by Roldán-Sevillano, Laura

“…Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) gave rise to much controversy when it came out, for this novella revolves around a traumatised Nazi doctor exiled in the US…”
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Breaking Silences around Postcolonial Sexual Violence: The Urgent Activist Role of Contemporary Haitian American Women’s Fiction by Roldán-Sevillano, Laura

“…This article offers an analysis of a three fictional narratives within a literary trend whereby, since the 1990s and early twenty-first century, some…”
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Haiti's "Painful Truths": A Postcolonialised Reading of Trauma in Roxane Gay's An Untamed State by Roldán-Sevillano, Laura

“…Drawing on a postcolonialised approach to the traditional trauma paradigm, this paper analyses Roxane Gay's novel An Untamed State as a trauma narrative which…”
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The Double-Headed Arrow of Trauma: The Morally Traumatised Perpetrator in Martin Amis's Time's Arrow/La doble flecha del trauma: el perpetrador moralmente traumatizado en Time's Arrow, de Martin Amis by Roldan-Sevillano, Laura

“…Martin Amis's Time's Arrow (1991) gave rise to much controversy when it came out, for this novella revolves around a traumatised Nazi doctor exiled in the US…”
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Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State: A Caribbean Rhizomatic Novel Reflecting the New Transmodern Paradigm by Roldan-Sevillano, Laura

“…This article explores Haitian American writer Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State (2014) as a novel that represents our intricate and rhizomatic transmodern era. In…”
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