Asian American and Pacific Histories

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The use of food as American war propaganda finds its origins in the First World War, when anti-German sentiment prompted Americans to rename German foods. The First World War also signifies an important turning point in the history of American food consumption because it represents a shift in eating habits, culinary p…

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Food has been an inextricable part of American warfare since the inception of the nation. From the traveling cooks of the Revolutionary War, to the advent of canned provisions during the Civil War,...

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Edward Said genel olarak, Batılı toplumların Doğu ülkeleri üzerindeki güç ve iktidar oluşturmak için kullandığı hegemonik ilişkilerin bütününü oryantalizm olarak tanımlamaktadır. Zaman içinde oryantalizm düşüncesi çeşitli biçimlere evrilerek farklı coğrafyalarda yeniden tanımlanmıştır. Bu bağlamda son yıllarda özellik…

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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…

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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…

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 paper examines Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee through Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory and Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory. It argues that Caruth’s notion of trauma - as an event not fully experienced in the moment but reemerging through involuntary repetitions and disruptions - explains Dictee’s non-linear,…

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Despite the passage of three-quarters of a century since its publication in 1936, critics and biographers still grapple with how to place Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (GWTW) within southern literature. While some hail GWTW as an example of the 'Great American Novel', others see the work as contributing to th…

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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…

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