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Geopolitical Imaginaries: Croatian Diasporic Writers in North America 地缘政治想象:北美克罗地亚散居作家

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378817

Jelena Šesnič

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Staging the Postsocialist Woman: Saviana Stănescu’s Alternative Transnations 演绎后社会主义女性:萨维安娜·斯特洛内斯库的另类跨国

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378861

Oana Popescu-Sandu

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“There Is No Such City”: The Myth of Odessa in Post-Soviet Immigrant Literature “没有这样的城市”:后苏联移民文学中的敖德萨神话

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378839

A. Wanner

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Transnationalism in Contemporary Post-Soviet North American Literature 当代后苏联北美文学中的跨国主义

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378850

A. Katsnelson

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Between Homeland and Hostland: Women Migrants’ Agency in US Post-Yugoslav Novels 在祖国与祖国之间:美国后南斯拉夫小说中的女性移民代理

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378828

Tatjana Bijelić

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Transnational American Studies: A Postsocialist Phoenix 跨国美国研究:后社会主义凤凰

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378795

Joseph Benatov

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Postsocialist Fiction and Frameworks: Miroslav Penkov, Lara Vapnyar, and Aleksandar Hemon

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378806

Ioana Luca

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Introduction: Postsocialist Literatures in the United States 导论:美国后社会主义文学

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2019-03-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7378784

Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Ioana Luca

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Virginia Woolf, Charles Darwin, and the Rebirth of Tragedy 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、查尔斯·达尔文与悲剧的重生

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7298974

Manya Lempert

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History of a Shiver: The Sublime Impudence of Modernism by Jed Rasula (review) 颤抖的历史:现代主义的崇高厚颜无耻杰德·拉苏拉(书评)

IF 0.1 3区文学

TWENTIETH CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.1215/0041462X-7299884

Enda Duffy

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