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Mens Rea and Narratives of Violence: The Guilty Mind in Twenty-First-Century American Literature Mens Rea与暴力叙事：21世纪美国文学中的罪恶心理

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6390

Joanna Wilson-Scott

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Confronting Colorblind Commodity Racism: Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment 面对无肤色歧视的商品种族主义:年轻的吉恩·李的《装运》

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6391

Seung-Mee Hwang

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Manifestations of Toxic Masculinity in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West 科马克·麦卡锡《血子午线》或《西方的晚红》中有毒男子气概的表现

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6392

A. Rezaie

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American Studies in Scandinavia – Special issue on the Arctic 斯堪的纳维亚半岛的美国研究——北极特刊

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-10-28 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i2.6398

American Studies In Scandinavia

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Flanking Maneuvers: The Counternarratives of the Military Unconscious in Phil Klay's “After Action Report” and “War Stories” 侧翼机动:菲尔·克雷《行动后报告》和《战争故事》对军事无意识的反叙事

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i1.6222

Ari Räisänen

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Interracial Homosocial Bonds and Interracial Heterosexual Romance in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Darkwater 杜波依斯《黑暗之水》中的跨种族同性恋纽带与跨种族异性恋

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i1.6223

Kanyl Go

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Transatlantic Monuments: On Memories and Ethics of Settler Histories 跨大西洋纪念碑：论移民历史的记忆与伦理

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i1.6221

Adam Hjorthén

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Ramón E. Soto-Crespo's The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction Ramón E.索托-克雷斯波的《白人垃圾的威胁和半球小说》

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i1.6526

E. Valovirta

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Nichole M. Bauer's (ed.) Politicking While Female: The Political Lives of Women 尼科尔·m·鲍尔主编:《女性的政治活动:女性的政治生活》

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i1.6525

Anne Mørk

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Racial Myths and the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan 种族神话与民权时代的三K党

IF 0.1 4区社会学

AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA Pub Date : 2021-04-30 DOI: 10.22439/asca.v53i1.6224

Niko Heikkilä

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