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""Examines how the boundaries of the Latina/o public sphere are negotiated through mass media in twentieth and twenty-first century literature, incorporating conversations regarding gender and in regards to questions of access, production, distribution, and representation"--Provided by publisher"--

In 1996, Samuel Huntington argued that the end of the Cold War Era marked the end of global instability based on ideological and economic differences and preferences. However, he did not predict any kind of a peaceful future for humankind but maintained that future conflicts will arise from cultural differences. The clashes are inevitable, he claims, as long as one side (usually the West) insists on imposing universalism to other civilizations whose cultural awareness is on the rise. Ever since the Vietnam War, American military tacticians have believed that the knowledge and understanding of the enemy's culture will lead to victory, and American military academies and schools are dedicating more attention to cultural studies within their general strategy. This paper is based on the reading and analysis of several American fiction and non-fiction novels from the Vietnam and the Iraq Wars. Since all of these works are first-hand accounts of war experience and soldiers' cultural encounters with their 'adversaries', the research is focused on the (im)possibility of soldiers' true understanding and appreciation of different cultures/civilizations during wartime. It also suggests that knowing the enemy is to no avail if wars are fought with the goal of Westernizing other cultures.

Against the background of Gayatri Spivaks concept of "worlding," this article stages four encounters between a major representative of Argen­tinean literature (Echeverria, Sarmiento, Borges, Cortdzar) and a specific figuration of the Other (Nomad, Oriental, Hyperborean, Monster). It is argued that the target texts, all belonging to the "mainstream" of the Argentinean tradition, achieve their literary effect in a surprisingly invari­able manner. Whereas the foundational fictions of Echeverria and Sar­miento seem to solicit a Spivakian reading, the works of Borges and Cortdzar are commonly situated well beyond worldly concerns, in a context of postmodern, fantastic, subversive textual practices. However, when they are considered against the background of a national literature grounded on the politics of "worlding," traditional ideological schemes shine through the more sophisticated textual surfaces of these modern masters. Finally, the question is raised whether Cortázar's liminal unmask­ing of his own life-long fascination with monstrous otherness could be seen as a successful displacement of the traditional paradigm, or whether it amounts to yet another example of ideological aestheticizations of the "Other."

Spider Web, Labyrinth, Tightrope Walk explores the shifting functions of the network as a metaphor, model, and as an epistemological framework in US American literature and culture from the 19th century until today. The book critically inquires into the literary, cultural, philosophical, and scientific rhetoric, values, and ideological underpinnings that have given rise to the network concept. Literature and culture play a major role in the ways in which networks have been imagined and how they have evolved as conceptual models. This study regards networks as historically emergent and culturally constructed formations closely tied with the development of knowledge technologies in the process of modernization as well as with an increasingly critical awareness of network technologies and infrastructures. While the rise of the network in scientific, philosophical, political and sociological discourses has received wide attention, this book contributes an important cultural and historical perspective to network theory by demonstrating how US American literature and culture have been key sites for thinking in and about networks in the past two centuries

Con el objetivo de desactivar tanto los límites políticos, ideológicos y morales, como los diversos purismos, temores y binarios (a saber, 'mayoría / minoría', 'anglo / hispano', 'centro / periferia' y 'ellos / nosotros') derivados de las prácticas concretas de los siglos XIX y XX, abogo aquí por comprender las nuevas circunstancias estadounidenses producto de la creciente presencia hispana en el país, y repensar así los criterios que puedan redefinir el canon de la literatura latina y el de la literatura estadounidense de inicios del siglo XXI. ; This article seeks to examine and therefore disable the political, ideological and moral boundaries as well as the implicit purisms, fears and binaries ('majority / minority,' 'Anglo / Hispanic,' 'center / periphery' and 'they / we') that have characterized the concrete critical practices of the 19th and 20th centuries. I make the case for both understanding the new US contexts brought about by the growing Hispanic presence in the country, and rethinking the criteria to re-define the canons of Latino literature and US literature from the early 21st century.

"This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from contemporary novels through essays to film and transborder art activism. The focus on this abject figure is two-fold: first, to explore its potential to expose the processes of othering to which Latinxs are subjected; and second, to foreground its epistemic response to neocolonial structures and beliefs. Thus, this book draws on relevant sociological literature on the stranger to expose the political and social processes behind the recognition of Latinxs as 'out of place.' On the other hand, and most importantly, this volume follows the path of neo-cosmopolitan approaches to bring to the fore processes of interrelatedness, interaction, and conviviality that run counter to criminalizing discourses around Latinxs. Through an engagement with these theoretical tenets, the goal of this book is to showcase the role of the Latinx stranger as a cosmopolitan mediator that transforms walls into bridges"--

This document shows the search strategies for an article entitled, "Sleep Health in US Military Women: A Scoping Review of the Literature 2000 – 2018," to be published in the journal, Women's Health Issues. It includes strategies for Ovid Medline, Embase, Cinahl, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, and PsycInfo.

Global migration has resulted in a changing student body and a changing cohort of English professors. This new demographic often teaches in a manner that 'talks back' to cultural hegemony. How do students in the US academy respond when canonical texts are taught by someone perceived as outside the lineage and not pedigreed to teach the canon? Or when professors teach both canonical and postcolonial texts in their historical and political contexts, not shying away from the dialectic between literature and history or literature and politics? Literature classes provide, or should provide, students with the skills to read the world as text, to read it critically and in context. But whose text, what context, which literature and, indeed, whose world? An intersectional academic approach to literary texts that interrogates the positions of power from which writing and cultural expression originate can be seen as contaminative. But as Gayatri Spivak notes, the historian and the teacher of literature "must critically 'interrupt' each other, bring each other to crisis." This article explores how the clash of cultural, structural and subject positions can produce a new power/knowledge differential. It discusses the constitution of positionality and the problematics of ownership of the story and interrogates the consequences of a pedagogical approach that foregrounds more historicist/political readings of literary texts as one methodology.

A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate the key studies with the respect to the following questions. To what extent do the empirical relations in the existing literature help to identify asset price bubbles ex-ante or ex-post? Do the empirical studies have theoretical foundations? On the basis of that critique, I explain why the application of stochastic optimal control (SOC)/dynamic risk management is a much more effective approach to determine the optimal degree of leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals of a crisis are shown to be superior, in general, to those empirical relations in the literature. Moreover the SOC analysis provides a theoretical explanation of the extent that the empirical measures in the literature can be useful.

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In the last two decades, there have been exponential increases in Chinese loans and grants, particularly flowing to the Global South. The subsequent growth effects in the South have led to speculation about China's development models that govern its official finance and the overall macroeconomic effects. Consequently, a considerable body of research has investigated how different Chinese development policies affect the allocation patterns and outcomes in the Global South. This paper critically reviews related scholarly works, emphasising empirical literature. It identifies that the One China Policy is unanimously the most important strategy in explaining Chinese funding, although this policy tool may not be linked to trade with China and its humanitarian assistance. Chinese finance undermines efforts to promote good governance and contributes to political extortion and environmental degradation in recipient countries by not imposing governance reform conditionality on official financing. However, this argument must be carefully weighed against the positive impact of Chinese finance on health and economic growth, among other benefits. Despite intense research efforts, further research is still needed to understand vulnerabilities associated with China's development models. The information conveyed by the review will be of interest to foreign aid spectators seeking to learn from China's experience.

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