ListarInglés: estudos lingüísticos e literarios, Grao en por tema "Gender"
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An Immigrant Black Woman in America: An Intersectional Analysis of Adichie’s Americanah
(2021)[Abstract] Americanah is a novel written by the renowned author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published in 2013 and it deals with Ifemelu, a young Nigerian woman who voluntarily emigrates to the United States in ... -
Beyond Gender: Sex, Class, and Ethnicity in Kate Chopin’s Short Stories
(2022)[Abstract] The object of study of this dissertation are three short stories by one of the most representative writers of nineteenth-century American literature, Kate Chopin. The author is specially appreciated by ... -
Every Person Needs their Own Pronoun: An Approach to Singular They in English
(2020)[Abstract] Over the past few years, there has been an increasing tendency to make language more inclusive, which consists of avoiding the use of the masculine gender as a generic form to refer both to men and women. This ... -
Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself: A Feminist and Gender Studies Approach
(2023)[Abstract] The object of study of this BA thesis is Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, published in 1861. My aim is to demonstrate that, apart from race, gender conforms a crucial ... -
Hedging in Academic Texts: a Cross-Linguistic Comparison between English and Galician
(2018)[Abstract] This final dissertation offers an approach to the concept of hedging and its socio-pragmatic implications with three different aims. First, it attempts to shed some light on this linguistic strategy, whose ... -
Twelfth Night’s Performances: An Analysis of Gender Presentations and Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama
(2022)[Abstract] Literary works are quite relevant in the study of a certain period’s social attitudes and concepts such as gender and sexuality. This is especially true for drama as it provides a way to observe the characters ...