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The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature

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John Morán González ... ways in which economic outmigration becomes encoded as abandonment of home and family; as John Riofrio points out, the opening story of the collection, “Ysrael,” reveals “an important detail about Dominican life: ...
Is Satire Saving Our Nation?: Mockery and American Politics

Is Satire Saving Our Nation?: Mockery and American Politics

S. McClennen

... Jeffrey Middents, Matt Jordan, Luz Kirschner, Lisa McLaughlin, Leerom Medovoi, Adam Miyashiro, Bill Mullen, Laurie Mulvey, Brantley Nicholson, Jessica O'Hara, John Protevi, Jennifer Reimer, Matthew Restall, Sam Richards, John Riofrio, ...
The Fiction of Junot Díaz: Reframing the Lens

The Fiction of Junot Díaz: Reframing the Lens

Heather Ostman

It is possible that most of these stories could be narrated by Yunior, although John Riofrio takes exception with “Boyfriend.” However, he states that “Aurora,” “ Drown,” and “Edison, New Jersey” “could be Yunior even if one factors in the ...
The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher ...

The Truly Diverse Faculty: New Dialogues in American Higher ...

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JIM LARIMORE want to begin this comment by thanking John Riofrio for taking us beyond the customary, safe, and alltoofamiliar boundaries of discussions about mentoring, which too often portray mentoring as a relationship between a ...
Reading Junot Diaz

Reading Junot Diaz

Christopher Gonzalez

John Riofrio compellingly argues that Drown is a novel. While I don't think the book has the unity and cohesiveness of a novel, I do support the idea that the stories cohere to a singular effect when read together. To my thinking, Drown is closer ...
Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the ...

Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the ...

John D. Riofrio

... and was dreaming of an eventual career in the military—likely had no idea the Marines were even there. According to Kieran Fitzgerald's documentary film The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández, the Marines, led by Corporal Clemente Bañuelos  ...
Beyond Borders: Immigration and the Construction of Latin@ ...

Beyond Borders: Immigration and the Construction of Latin@ ...

John Riofrio

This project thus focuses on four writers from Latin America, widely considered among the most influential of their generations---Jorge Franco of Colombia, Chilean-born Alberto Fuguet, Dominican-American Junot Diaz, and the formerly exiled ...
Trujillo, trauma, testimony: Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia ...

Trujillo, trauma, testimony: Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia ...

Roy Boland

In two articles about Diaz's earlier collection of short fiction Drown, John Riofrio and Jason Frydman have discussed the interstice of masculinity and ethnic identity and that could indicate that the critical reception of his work is already attuned ...
Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in ...

Macho Ethics: Masculinity and Self-Representation in ...

Jason Cortés

John Riofrio, “Situating Latin American Masculinity: Immigration, Empathy, and Emasculation in Junot Díaz's Drown,” ATENEA 28, no. 1 (2008): 27. 21. Díaz, Drown, 19. 22. In this footnote, the narrator echoes something that Oscar used to say ...
The Generation of '72: Latin America's Forced Global Citizens

The Generation of '72: Latin America's Forced Global Citizens

Brantley Nicholson

In his article on Ariel Dorfman's recent novel Americanos: Los pasos de Murieta, John Riofrio makes the compelling and innovative argument that in the Generation of '72, and Dorfman's work specifically, we witness a unique form of Latin ...
List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

List of Merchant Vessels of the United States, with the ...

United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics

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Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command

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... John • Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John Wilson, John - Wilson, John, the younger Wilson, John Edwards Wilson, John Gray - Wilson, John Jowitt - Wilson, John Nathaniel Wilson, John Richard Shepherd.
The American Shropshire Sheep Record

The American Shropshire Sheep Record

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... Rodger Andrew Mason John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John Logsdon John ...
An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

An Alphabetical List of the Poll, taken before John ...

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Official Register of the United States

Official Register of the United States

United States Civil Service Commission

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Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

Biennial Report of the Adjutant General: (1861-1866)

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Journal

Journal

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Says he served subpoenas on Samuel Lord, James Ellis, John J. Libert, John Jones, John Ruth, John Kirk, Lukens Kirk, Cornelius Tyson, M. Meglathery, John Williams, John Funk and Charles Coogler. Question by Mr. Bell.—What are the ...
A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

A History of the Western Division of the County of Sussex: ...

James Dallaway

John Dolite. John Frampton. Nicholas Pole. John Hilley. Richard Haynes. John Windeby. Humphrey Hebster. Nicholas Pole. John Balman. William Barnard. John Hilley. John Balman. John Fust. Robert Seman. John Hilley. Humphrey Hebster.
Municipal Register, City of Nashua

Municipal Register, City of Nashua

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H; Mordough, Salma H. Mordough, Elbridge P. Brown, Thomas G. Banks, John Barney, Paris H. Hill. John W. Twiss. John Barney, John Barney. John Barney. John Barney. John Barney. John Barney. Salma H. MordoughSalma H. Mordough.
The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago

The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago

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RYA Ryan John, lab. r. 146 Wesson Ryan John, lab. r. 148 Forquer Ryan John, lab. r. 162 17th Ryan John, lab. r. 189 N. Paulina Ryan John, lab. r. 215 Kossuth Ryan John, lab. г. 239 Dashlel Ryan John, lab. г. 263 W. Huron Ryan John, lab.
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: a New and Complete ...

The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe: a New and Complete ...

John Foxe

Cowper, Humphrey Skinner, John Sneudnam, Richard Philips, John Celos: these nine persons were presented, for that ... Thomas Bele, John Sturgeon, John Wilshire, Thomas Symon, Ralph Clervis and his wife, James Banaster, Nicholas ...
Revised Zug/Zuck/Zouck/Zook genealogy

Revised Zug/Zuck/Zouck/Zook genealogy

Harry D. Zook

John Joseph Zuck b 1846, d 1926 633 John Joshua Zook m Peachey, Frances S 226 John K Zook m King, Fannie 293 John K Zook m Miller, Lydia 190 John K Zook b 1849, d 1850 324 John K Zook m Sullivan, Louisa 553 John K Zook m Mast ...
The Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the ...

The Journal of the Senate of the ... General Assembly of the ...

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John McMackin, Ohio, John Korby, Kentucky, Wm. B. Ewing, Iowa Ter., Joseph Powel, ge John Ferguson, Ohio, W. W. Southgate, 44 Wm. S. Hatch, . G4 John S. Findlay, 44 Gen. T. Worthington, 40 John W. Leathers, 64 George Walker, ...
Persecution expos'd, in some memoirs relating to the ...

Persecution expos'd, in some memoirs relating to the ...

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Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological ...

Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological ...

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1378 Ellias Spilley... ... Wm. Earlingham, Wm. Coomb ... ... John Staines. 1379 John Stockes ... ... John Steaves, Thomas Knape ... John Barstable. 1380 Walter darby... ... Robt. Caddiner, Wm. Somerwell ... John Cannings. 1381 Wm. Cannings .
The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe

The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe

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Cowper, Humphrey Skinner, John Sneudnam, Richard Philips, John Celos: these nine persons were presented, for that ... Thomas Bele, John Sturgeon, John Wilshire, Thomas Symon, Ralph Clervis and his wife, James Banaster, Nicholas ...
The American Shorthorn Herd Book

The American Shorthorn Herd Book

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Rhynas & Wells John Eicher ._ John Eicher John Hickey John Hickey A. B. Lindsay A. B. Lindsay John Wurm John Eicher Rex Aistrope Nick Sloan Tens. Lillemoe Jens. Lillemoe Thos. A. Laur Fred Silfrank John Mumaw & Son James F. Hast ...
Transactions ...

Transactions ...

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Moody—John Woodall—Edw. Edwards —James Evans John Humphreys—John Vaughan—Sam. Franks—Rob. Gray —John Poyner ' 1887 Jon. Bowen—W“ Morgan—Edw. Edwards—John Poyner John Humphreys—John Woodall—Rob.
The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex

The History, Antiquities, and Topography of the County of Sussex

Thomas Walker Horsfield

John Wincent. Thomas Russel. Thomas Neele. John Coke. Richard Fust. William Fernhurst. Henry Grenelefe. John Smokyn. William Lade. The same. John Hilley. John Dolite. Nicholas Pole. Richard Haynes. Humphrey Hebster. John Balman.
HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOUNTEERS, 1861-5; PREPARED IN ...

HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOUNTEERS, 1861-5; PREPARED IN ...

SAMUEL P. BATES

Casper Fechier William Woter George Moter Casper Diehl John H. Wendel John Bolender Peter Bettinger John Ebertz Valentine Gintling Adam Salzmann.... William Hamm Jacob Husser John Viehman John Merz George Bischoff John Walter, ...

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