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  • Review: Milteer, Beyond Slavery’s Shadow: Free People of Color in the South
  • “Seeming Strangeness”: Mina Loy’s Poetics of Disruption and Julia Kristeva’s Semiotic/Symbolic Model
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Author Beatrice Melodia Festa

Beatrice Melodia Festa

Beatrice Melodia Festa is a PhD researcher, Honorary Research Fellow in American Literature, and Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Verona. Her research interests include identity theory, technology and the new media, African-American narratives, and the relationship between literature and culture. She holds a Master’s Degree and a Double Joint Master’s (MA) in American Studies from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and The City College of New York. Among her recent publications are essays on cyberfiction, American literature and the new media, and prison narratives. Her research now prominently focusses on American prison literature, William Faulkner, and virtual identity in contemporary American novels.

Depictions of Shame: White Identity and Cultural Blackness in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner

Beatrice Melodia Festa
Articles, Issue 10 2020-21
It would be easy to argue that any critical discourse concerning the metaphor of “shame” in the South has to be interpreted in terms of race. As recent scholarly work has asserted, “Shame is used in America to ... Read More...
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