Silence with Teeth: The Operations and Implications of Silence in Gish Jen’s Typical American

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-227
Author(s):  
Julie Yang
Keyword(s):  
Typical American

scholarly journals THE CITY, THE DESERT, THE ROAD: AMERICAN CHRONOTOPES IN DELILLO’S UNDERWORLD

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Slađana S. Stamenković
Keyword(s):  
Don Delillo ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Road ◽  
The City ◽  
American Authors ◽  
Typical American

In the contemporary discussion of the concept of space, there is a tendency to employ space to make a comment about the society that inhabits it. Regarding this and the prose of the contemporary American authors, the theory of Bakhtin’s chronotope may be one of the most legitimate ways to depict the society of contemporary America. In the fiction of Don DeLillo, one could discuss three typical American chronotopes: the city, the desert, and the road. The said chronotopes may be interpreted within the scopes of Bakhtin’s original chronotopes. They operate on both individual and mutually overlapping levels. In one way or the other, the American chronotopes mentioned seem to function as the ultimate Nowhere, space where the modern characters go to disappear in DeLillo’s prose.

scholarly journals Adverse Effects of Sodium Chloride on Bone in the Aging Human Population Resulting from Habitual Consumption of Typical American Diets

2008 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 419S-422S ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda A. Frassetto ◽  
R. Curtis Morris ◽  
Deborah E. Sellmeyer ◽  
Anthony Sebastian
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Chloride ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Human Population ◽  
Typical American

A UNIVERSITY DESIGN STUDY OF PROTECTION FACTORS IN TYPICAL AMERICAN HOUSES

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Robinson ◽  
R. S. Reynolds ◽  
C. A. Burre ◽  
R. E. Faw
Keyword(s):  
Design Study ◽  
Typical American

scholarly journals Controlled drinking: a typical American debate?

Addiction ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 90 (9) ◽  
pp. 1173-1175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Bühringer ◽  
Heinrich Küfner
Keyword(s):  
Controlled Drinking ◽  
Typical American

scholarly journals Time to Face the Music: Musical Colonization and Appropriation in Disney’s Moana

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Western Music ◽  
American Film ◽  
American Composers ◽  
Musical Characteristics ◽  
Western Ethnocentrism ◽  
Typical American

Despite Disney’s presentation of Moana as a culturally accurate portrayal of Polynesian culture, the film suffers from Western ethnocentrism, specifically in its music. This assertion is at odds with marketing of Moana that emphasized respect for and consultation with Polynesians whose expertise was heralded to validate the film’s music as culturally authentic. While the composers do, in fact, use Polynesian musical traits, they frame the sounds that are unfamiliar within those that are familiar by wrapping them with Western musical characteristics. When the audience does hear Polynesian music throughout the film, the first and last sounds they hear are Western music, not Polynesian. As such, the audience hears Polynesian sounds meld into and then become the music that defines a typical American film. Thus, regardless of Disney’s employment of Polynesian musicians, the music of Moana remains in the rigid control of non-Polynesian American composers. Rather than break new ground, Moana illustrates a musical recapitulation of white men’s control and marketing of the representations of marginalized people. Moana’s music is subject to appropriation, an echo of how colonial resources were exploited in ways that prioritize benefits to cultural outsiders.

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