Alaina Kaus
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alaina Kaus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alaina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaus |
| SIGNATURE | KAUS A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reimagining the Southern Gothic
Monique Truong’s second novel, Bitter in the Mouth (2010), enacts the Gothic literary tradition of the American South on a transnational and transcultural scale. Reviewers frequently locate the novel within the US South's literary history, noting its many allusions to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) and comparing it to the work of writers Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor (Hoffman; Shea 52; Steelman). As part of …
A View from the Vietnamese Diaspora
This essay argues that GB Tran’s graphic memoir Vietnamerica unsettles a moralizing trend that has dominated cultural remembrance of the American War in Vietnam and its surrounding history. Castigating all nations involved, Tran’s work refuses to articulate this long period of conflict as a fight between good and evil
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A View from the Vietnamese Diaspora
This essay argues that GB Tran’s graphic memoir Vietnamerica unsettles a moralizing trend that has dominated cultural remembrance of the American War in Vietnam and its surrounding history. Castigating all nations involved, Tran’s work refuses to articulate this long period of conflict as a fight between good and evil
Reimagining the Southern Gothic
Monique Truong’s second novel, Bitter in the Mouth (2010), enacts the Gothic literary tradition of the American South on a transnational and transcultural scale. Reviewers frequently locate the novel within the US South's literary history, noting its many allusions to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) and comparing it to the work of writers Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, and Flannery O’Connor (Hoffman; Shea 52; Steelman). As part of …
Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Comics and Graphic Narratives (1 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (1 works) · Diaspora (1 works)