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Who’s Afraid of the Kitchen? Representations of the Kitchen in Three US Films, The Children’s Hour , Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Blue Jasmine 谁害怕厨房？厨房在三部美国电影中的表现：《孩子们的时刻》、《蒂凡尼的早餐》和《蓝色茉莉》

American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2025-06-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2025-0004

Estella Cioban

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From Race Crisis to Race Celebration: Online Body Politics and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theateri 从种族危机到种族庆祝:在线身体政治和阿尔文·艾利美国舞蹈剧院

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0016

M. Alexandru

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Staging Race and Gender in the Era of Contemporary Crises: Dramas of African American Women Playwrights 当代危机时代的上演种族与性别:非裔美国女剧作家的戏剧

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0017

Ifeta Čirić-Fazlija

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Roy Youdale. Using Computers in the Translation of Literary Style: Challenges and Opportunities. Routledge, 2020. ISBN: 978-0-367-14123-3. Paperback £39.99 罗伊Youdale。计算机在文学风格翻译中的应用:挑战与机遇。劳特利奇,2020年。ISBN: 978-0-367-14123-3。平装£39.99

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0024

Alexandra Mitrea

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The Activism of Dance Performance in Appalachia: Utilizing the Arts to Address Social and Environmental Crisis and Injustice in the Mountains 阿巴拉契亚地区舞蹈表演的行动主义:利用艺术来解决山区的社会和环境危机和不公正

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0021

Theresa L. Burriss

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The Fall of the House of Weston and the Crumbling of the American Dream in Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County 在特蕾西·莱茨的《八月:奥塞奇县》中，韦斯顿家族的衰落和美国梦的破灭

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0020

Raluca Moldovan

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Reviews: Arleen Ionescu and Maria Margaroni, eds. Arts of Healing: Cultural Narratives of Trauma. London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020. Pp. 320. ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3 (paperback); 978-1-78661-098-0 (electronic) 评论:Arleen Ionescu和Maria Margaroni编。治疗的艺术:创伤的文化叙事。伦敦:Rowman and Littlefield, 2020。320页。ISBN 978-1-78661-097-3(平装本);978-1-78661-098-0(电子)

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0023

Dragoş Ivana

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Staging (during) Crisis: Indigenous Zoomlets in the Pandemic 危机(期间)的分期:大流行中的土著Zoomlets

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0015

C. Waegner

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Editors’ Note: Crises on Stage: Imagining New Worlds 编者按:《舞台上的危机:想象新世界

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0014

F. Londré, D. Benea, Ludmila Martanovschi

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The N-Word and Other Sticky Issues: Considering Alice Childress’s Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Relationship in Black and White in the Black Lives Matter Era n字和其他棘手的问题:想想爱丽丝·蔡尔德里斯的结婚戒指:黑人的命也是命时代黑人和白人的爱/恨关系

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American, British and Canadian Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.2478/abcsj-2022-0018

T. L. Bennett

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