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Affidamento and (Pop)-Feminism: Advocating for Women’s Rights in The Handmaid’s Tale and Luna Nera 誓词与(流行)女权主义:在《使女的故事》和《露娜·奈拉》中倡导妇女权利

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2133447

F. Calamita

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Dalla parte di Eva: Female Alliances and Genealogies in Maria Rosa Cutrufelli’s Writing Practice 伊娃：玛丽亚·罗莎·卡特鲁菲利写作实践中的女性联盟与谱系

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2133446

S. Todesco

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Mothering, Migration and Intercultural Mediation in Anna Maria Dell’oso’s Songs of the Suitcase 安娜·玛丽亚·德罗索的《行李箱之歌》中的母性、迁移与跨文化调解

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2133463

Eliana Maestri

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Lire pour aimanter: la polymorphie spatio-temporelle du réel dans Made in China de Jean-Philippe Toussaint 阅读aimanter:让-菲利普·杜桑的《中国制造》中真实的时空多态性

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2114626

Dan Zhang

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Andrew Michael Ramsay’s Defence of Fénelon: Classical Poetics or Political Discourse? 安德鲁·迈克尔·拉姆齐为费内龙辩护：古典诗学还是政治话语？

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2114627

Claudia García-Minguillán

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Bolañesque Affects: Communities of Poets in Diego Trelles Paz’s El círculo de los escritores asesinos and Alejandro Zambra’s Poeta chileno bolanesque影响:迭戈·特雷莱斯·帕兹的El circulo de los escritores asesinos和亚历杭德罗·赞布拉的智利诗人中的诗人社区

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2114629

Rodrigo López Martínez

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Family, City, Revolution: The Locations of Black Belonging in the Poetry of Jesús Cos Causse 家庭、城市、革命：Jesús Cos Cause诗歌中黑人归属的定位

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2114628

C. James

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Becoming Menard? Geopolitical Readings and the Authorial Subject in César Aira 成为Menard吗?中国的地缘政治阅读与权威主题

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2021.1950360

Niall H. D. Geraghty

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Estebanillo González - A New Perspective on the Last Pícaro Estebanillo González -对过去的新看法Pícaro

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2055301

Sonia Fajkis

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‘Lenguaje e identidad en el Caribe colombiano: un estudio de la narrativa de Hazel Robinson’ “哥伦比亚加勒比地区的语言和身份：对黑泽尔·罗宾逊叙事的研究”

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Romance Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02639904.2022.2051907

L. López-Martínez

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