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Author Canelo, Maria José

Title Discourses That Matter : Selected Essays on English and American Studies
Published Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Contents Section I. Language as witness -- section II. Performative discourses -- section III. Exceptionalism and power -- section Ivolume Discourses of gender and identity -- section volume Discourses of race and ethnicity -- section VI. Literature and interculturality
Summary How can English and American Studies be instrumental to conceptualizing the deep instability we are presently facing? How can they address the coordinates of this instability, such as war, terrorism, the current economic and financial crisis, and the consequent myriad forms of deprivation and fear? How can they tackle the strategies of de-humanization, invisibility, and the naturalization of inequality and injustice entailed in contemporary discourses? This anthology grew out of an awareness ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Discourse analysis, Literary.
literary criticism.
Literary studies: general.
Humanities.
Cultural studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
Discourse analysis, Literary
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1299974031
9781299974036
9781443853286
1443853283