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“Scenes of Mockery”: Puppetry in Mohammed ben Abdallah’s The Trial of Mallam Ilya and Gerald Vizenor’s Waiting for Wovoka “嘲弄的场景”：穆罕默德·本·阿卜杜拉的《马拉姆·伊利亚的审判》和杰拉德·维泽诺的《等待沃沃卡》中的木偶戏

European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.4000/13qwm

Cathy C. Waegner

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Gerald Vizenor and Kojo Laing in Weberian Flights of Reenchantment: Ambivalent Spatial and Temporal Modernities in Ghana and White Earth 杰拉德·维兹诺和科乔·莱恩：《韦伯的再魅飞行：加纳和白色地球的矛盾时空现代性》

European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.4000/13qwn

James Mackay

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Reading Resurgence: Indigenous North American and Ghanaian Relationalities in Literature 阅读复兴：北美原住民与加纳文学的关系

European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.4000/13qwl

Vanessa Evans

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Mosaic of History and Memory in Alexander Motyl’s Novel Fall River 亚历山大-莫蒂尔小说《秋河》中的历史与记忆马赛克

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European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.21031

Marta Koval

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Nomadic Memory in Aleksandar Hemon’s Memoirs 亚历山大-赫蒙回忆录中的游牧记忆

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European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.21071

Rubén Peinado-Abarrio

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Imitation, Mimicry, and the Performance of Americanness in Nabokov’s Pnin 纳博科夫《普宁》中的模仿、模仿和美国性的表现

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European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.21164

Annika M. Schadewaldt

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Looking Backward, Looking Forward: An Interview with John Z. Guzlowski 回顾过去，展望未来：约翰-古兹洛夫斯基访谈录

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European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.21193

Izabella Kimak

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Gendered Geographies of the European East in the American Cold-War Literary Imaginary 美国冷战文学想象中的欧洲东部性别地理学

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European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.20991

Martyna Bryla

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The Image of Central European Immigrant in Popular Fiction and Its Adaptations: A Case Study of the Detective Murdoch/Murdoch Mysteries Series 通俗小说中的中欧移民形象及其改编：侦探默多克》/《默多克之谜》系列个案研究

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European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.20949

Biljana Oklopčić

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Introduction. Memory, Identity, Belonging: Narratives of Eastern and Central European Presence in North America 导言。记忆、身份、归属：东欧和中欧人在北美的叙事

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European Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.4000/ejas.20906

Izabella Kimak, Mateusz Świetlicki

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