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Colbert's America: Satire and Democracy

Sophia A. McClennen

In the period following the terrorist attacks, some journalists lost their jobs or were pressured for reporting news critical of the Bush administration. Anthony R. Dimaggio in Mass Media, Mass Propaganda: Examining American News in the “ War ...

Beyond Bolaño: The Global Latin American Novel

Héctor Hoyos

For a generational grouping based on the insightful figure of “forced global citizenship,” see Brantley Nicholson and Sophia McClennen, “The Generation of ' 72: Latin America's Forced Global Citizens,” A Contracorriente 10, no. 1 (Fall 2012): ...

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 Dialectics of Exile: Nation, Time, Language, and Space ...

Sophia A. McClennen

Paul Ilie describes the language of exile as "gra, phocentrism." which is the " indeterminate language of exile." "Everything passes uncritically into the vortex of language for its own sake — [Graphocentrism] denationalizes Spanish and ...