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Book Review: Understanding American Hegemony 书评:理解美国霸权

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.83561

Z. Atmantika

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Representation of NCLB Implementation Program and Its Impact on Hispanic Students: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Media Reports NCLB实施计划的代表性及其对西班牙裔学生的影响:媒体报道的批判性话语分析

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-23 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.81504

Riris Yusrina, A. Munandar

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Seeing Muslim Men and Women Hermeneutically: A Liberal-Feminist Study on Amina Wadud’s Qur’an Exegesis 解读穆斯林男女:阿米娜·瓦杜德《古兰经》释经的自由-女性主义研究

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-23 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.78363

Dahlia Kartika Ariesita, Galant Nanta Adhitya

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Constructing Identity among Chinese American through Jean Kwok Novels Mambo in Chinatown: Postcolonial Study 从郭炳湘小说《唐人街的曼波》看华裔美国人的身份建构:后殖民研究

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-23 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.73760

Melly Andani, Elin Eprilin Fitrian Miela Putri

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American Influence on Youth Culture: Representation Analysis on Punk Subculture in Indonesia 美国对青年文化的影响:印尼朋克亚文化的表征分析

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.74853

Yunia Dewi Fathmawati, I. Adi

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William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries on Neo-Nazi Violence Language Usage in Social Media Propaganda “Unite The Right” Rally 威廉·路德·皮尔斯关于新纳粹暴力语言在社交媒体宣传中使用的特纳日记“团结右翼”集会

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.81330

Yesaya Parasian Pratama

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Poverty and Unemployment in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: A New-Historicism Study 《玛吉:街头女孩》中的贫困与失业:新历史主义研究

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.80028

Krisna Sujiwa, Salsabila Bunga Sangsthita, Pandu Wiguna Restu

{"title":"Poverty and Unemployment in Stephen Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets: A New-Historicism Study","authors":"Krisna Sujiwa, Salsabila Bunga Sangsthita, Pandu Wiguna Restu","doi":"10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.80028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.80028","url":null,"abstract":"This paper will analyze poverty and unemployment in America that is portrayed in Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and the parallels connection between the story and the era in the US at that time. The researchers apply the Neo-Historicism approach to analyze the issue since it helps the researcher answer the research problem by analyzing the historical event, social problem, time and place that become key components. The researcher also employed a qualitative descriptive method to analyze the primary data, that is the novel by Stephen Crane entitled Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, while the supporting data were taken from books, articles, journals, online sources, and other sources. The outcome demonstrates the existence of societal problems like unemployment and poverty, which Stephen Crane makes the novel's primary problem. Researchers discovered a resemblance between Maggie's poverty and unemployment and the historical period in the USA at the time. What Crane shows in his novel is that not all Americans, especially those in New York during the industrial revolution, have happy lives. Moreover, a large number of people experience unemployment and poor condition, which is made worse by the industrial revolution and the American Panic of 1893. These issues resemble the societal issues that are presented in the book.","PeriodicalId":269997,"journal":{"name":"Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129155940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Remembering Baraka’s Dutchman: A Comparative Study of Absurd Dramaturgy on the Racial Absurdity 追忆巴拉卡的荷兰人:种族荒谬性的荒诞戏剧比较研究

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.82858

W. S. Aji, Anna Sriastuti

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The Thoughts Construction of President Donald Trump in Making Foreign Policy to End the War between the US and Taliban 美国总统特朗普制定结束美塔利班战争外交政策的思想建构

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-22 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.82630

M. Ikhsanudin

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Understanding Life and Death Meaning through the Character of Edna Pontelier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening 从凯特·肖邦《觉醒》中埃德娜·庞特利埃的角色看生与死的意义

Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-21 DOI: 10.22146/rubikon.v10i1.73758

Elin Eprilin Fitrian Miela Putri

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