Latin American and Latino Studies

This article takes a critical look at the established wisdom regarding the early twentieth century dispute between Canada and the United States over the contours of the Alaska Panhandle. In Canada, the affair is commonly recollected as having featured a sinister combination of American nationalist bullying and duplici…

• TUDOR ANDREI ONEA

This examination of the autobiographical collection American Indian Stories (1921) by Native American woman writer Gertrude Bonnin, considers the various strategies of resistance to assimilation that are used. Homi Bhabha's theory of the Third Space and of hybridity illuminates this study of a “liminal” writer (Fisher…

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The fourth century is the most vital turning point of ancient Christianity, because many changes took place at that period regarding the future fate of the Church. First of all, the century begins with the ‘Great Persecution’ of the Diocletianus, which intermittently continued for about a decade. Secondly, the end of…

This article deals with Sandra Cisneros’s (1954 – ) novel The House on Mango Street (1984) in terms of Chicana feminism, which emerged as a reaction against the male-dominated structure of Chicano Movement. In this sense, Cisneros’s novel can be regarded as a narration of how the Chicano society is built upon mythical…

• FATİME GÜL KOÇSOY

The female body and the social constructions that define it, can literally be “read’ in fiction and non-fiction, and in a genre which combines elements of both literary styles: the biographical novel. Ruthanne Lum McCunn's Thousand Pieces of Gold, which traces the life of Lalu Nathoy, a Chinese woman who migrated to t…

• TANFER EMIN TUNC

This study explores the evolving Arab-American identity in Diana Abu-Jaber’s influential novels, Crescent (2003) and Arabian Jazz (1993), through the interconnected lenses of exile, hybridity, and cultural negotiation. Drawing on postcolonial theory, particularly the insights of Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, the study…

• NİMETULLAH ALDEMİR

State of the Republic of Turkey the first time in 1924 in Paris participated in Olympiads, which is the most important of international sport organizations. For sports organization of young Republic of Turkey has been new, Turkish sportsmen couldn’t show any success in these Olympic Games. They gained an experience by…

Sandra Cisneros is one of the most prominent writers of American and Hispanic literary world. Her successful novel titled The House on Mango Street recounts the life, the milieu and the compelling experiences encountered by women from the eyes of Esperanza, the protagonist of the novel. However, there are a large numb…

Abstract This article considers how the temporality at work in Chick Strand's film Mosori Monika (US, 1970) breaks with the patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist narratives of genealogy, progress, and production. In Mosori Monika, an experimental ethnographic film that documents the swamps of Orinoco River in Venezuel…

• EKİN PİNAR

This article analyses the articulations and effects of cultural dislocation and trauma on the sisters’ construction of their female cultural identity in Julia Alvarez’s How The García Girls Lost Their Accents. This paper focuses primarily on Alvarez’s Sandra and Yolanda, those sisters whose sense of cultural dislocati…

• CAHİT BAKIR

This essay is an attempt to draw a broad sketch of El Movimiento Chicano, or “The Chicano Movement” in the United States (ca. 1965–1975) through an analysis of Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales’s poem “I am Joaquín” (1967) and its adaptation by Luis Miguel Valdez on the silver screen. As an outlet of Chicanos’ long-standing ra…

• İRFAN CENK YAY