My project explored the gothic short story across cultures. I wanted to look at the work of three different authors whose work could be categorized as gothic. I started with Gabriel Garcia- Marquez. I had already read his story “A … Continue reading
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This is my final post about the gothic short story across cultures. My first post can be found here, my second here, and my third here. The gothic short story can be found in many different cultures from Latin American, … Continue reading
This is my third blog post exploring the gothic short story across cultures. My first blog post can be found here and my second post can be found here. I will be looking at the work of Edgar Allan Poe. … Continue reading
This is the second installment of my exploration of gothic short stories across cultures. My first post can be found here. This post will explore the work of Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya in terms of his culture. I will be … Continue reading
In her Article entitled “Isolation and Stigmatization in the Development of an Underclass: The Case of Chicano Gangs in East Los Angeles” Joan W. Moore traces the development of youth gangs in East Los Angeles. She identifies four key instances … Continue reading
There are a lot of interesting similarities between the novel “What You See in the Dark” and the film Psycho. In this blog post i will compare some of the characters from the novel with some of the characters form … Continue reading
This is the first installment of a series of blog posts I will be posting about the gothic genre in terms of different cultures. I will be looking at the work of the Latin American author Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Chicano author … Continue reading
I found this article online about a Vietnam War veteran who just recently received a medal of honor for his time as a soldier. Obama recently gave out 24 of these medals to soldiers from World War II, the Korean … Continue reading
Vietnam can be seen as a sort of gothic space in the novel “Gods Go Begging.” It is a place where a diverse U.S. army is forced to fight together. The army includes African Americans, Native Americans and Mexicans fighting … Continue reading
I found this video online in which Cherrie discusses her own identity as a queer chicana. She gives her own definition of the term “chicano/a” which I found interesting since we are working to form a definition of the term … Continue reading