Extinction: Ideologies against indigeneity in the Caribbean
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Indigenous people from the Caribbean are removed from history altogether, as vanished population and similarly extinctions from Australia, New Zealand and North America are also noted from the nineteenth century works of early anthropologists and newspaper columnists. But surprisingly in the last three decades, communities, organizations, and individuals are announcing their presence as indigenous people in the contemporary Caribbean and its diaspora.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2006
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Mothers mild and monstrous: familial metaphors and the Elian Gonzalez case
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Elian Gonzalez case demonstrates the use of gendered metaphors to advance and defend contradictory nationalistic claims both on the left and on the right-metaphors that ultimately define and reduce women to their reproductive position.
Publication Name: Southern Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0038-4496
Year: 2003
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Faust's violence against the mothers
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Violence against mothers is apparent in Goethe's 'Faust' despite a fascination with the eternal-feminine aspects in women. Examples of coercion and transgression as well as mythological violence go beyond theatrical effect.
Publication Name: The German Quarterly
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0016-8831
Year: 1999
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