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The protagonists of the novel, Vedantika Ojha (12) and Cyka Ho (13), meet when the latter starts working as a domestic help in the former’s house. They live in a conflict-ridden town in India which is the site of one of the world’s longest ongoing guerilla rebellions, the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency. The girls seem to have little in common. Vedantika resides in a big house with razor spikes on the boundary walls. She is a queer neurodivergent 7th grader who has unstable relationships with everyone, including the reader. Cyka, who lives in the slums, is confident and charming. She stands up for herself because she knows that no one else will. She is all too familiar with the violent streets that Vedantika has so far been sheltered from. However, a closer look reveals that the girls share an absence. Cyka’s family was displaced from their village due to coal mining. She belongs to one of the indigenous tribes who have historically co-existed with nature without capitalizing on its resources. But their lands are now being taken over by the neoliberal government. Her people must revolt to survive. On the other hand, Vedantika’s mother has left her family to take up a job in Delhi. While Cyka pines for her village, Vedantika pines for her mother. Their respective losses become the basis of the bond that develops between them despite their dissimilar contexts.

Lingampally is a multigenerational family story that follows a single mother, Amulya Goli, as she navigates raising Vasanth, her self-assured, reckless son, in the Christian faith in a small village in Hyderabad, India. Absent a father figure, Vasanth struggles to know himself and embrace his manhood. In a tumultuous series of events, Amulya's past indiscretions return demanding justice, and she must sacrifice all that she loves to ensure her family's future. She secures the funds that allow Vasanth, his wife Boomika, and their sons Nikki and Hari to emigrate to Plymouth, England in the winter of 2001 to start a new life. There, in the midst of racial injustice and loneliness, the Golis must draw together as a family more than ever before.

A divorced dad returns home to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter, but there’s one problem: she’s a serial killer who feeds tourists to the local lake monster.

Dream Machine is a collection which constructs a body of contemporary mythology, grappling with themes of American paranoia, online identity formation, and bodily alienation. Stories such as "Offerings" and "Pareidolia" explore the digital commodification of the body, following characters who—through Instagram-sourced sugar daddies and nude art modeling, respectively—offer themselves up freely as subjects of voyeurism and surveillance. Other stories, such as "Network Support" and "Dream Machine" involve characters who abandon their physical forms to disappear into the internet, existing as free-floating data and radiant frequencies. "Downstream," "Grass So Green," and "Little White Crosses" engage with the stark landscape of a country starved of its spirituality, where conspiracies, hallucinations, and deathly apparitions seem to possess the same inherent logic as a blue sky. / Master of Fine Arts / Dream Machine is a short story collection.

The present study addresses three objectives: 1) to explore the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) persons who are coming in the United States as students and coming out about their sexual orientation, 2) to explore the cultural narratives that emerge in their disclosure process, and 3) to generate ways to support LGBQ international students. Research on the disclosure process for LGBQ persons have been comprised largely of white, middle-class individuals and families. This narrative inquiry broadens our understanding of how LGBQ persons from different cultures define and experience the coming-out process, particularly in the context of moving to a different country. Twelve LGBQ international students shared their coming in, coming out stories through interviews, journals, a timeline, online forum, and picture. Narrative analysis of their stories consisted of three methods: thematic, structural, and dialogic. These findings provide directions for future research, clinical practitioners, educators, and student affairs personnel working with international students. / Ph. D. / Imagine moving to a different culture. You arrive in a foreign land, where you are grouped into a racial category that represents many countries and cultures. You struggle to stay in contact with family and friends from your native country while trying to build connections and find support in your new home. On top of that, your sexual identity is non-heterosexual, and the social climate and level of acceptance toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) people in your new home is vastly different from your country-of-origin. This is a sliver of the experiences that LGBQ persons may face when moving to a different country. The present project explores the stories of LGBQ international students in the United States, in hopes of generating ways to support them. Twelve LGBQ international students shared their coming in, coming out stories. This broadens our understanding of how cultures shapes the coming-out process, particularly in the context of moving to a different country. These findings provide directions for future research, clinical practitioners, educators, and student affairs personnel working with international students.

<p>  </p> <p>Occasionally, the author appears as Rainer Maria Rilke in this collection of poems.</p>

The purpose of this thesis is to create a collection of short stories that are influenced by the author’s own upbringing. experiences, and heritage. This short story collection is about a community of characters that are influenced by their relationships with each other, their culture, and their faith. Each short story is a window into the lives of this Tampa community. This collection's purpose is to offer a glimpse at the struggle between faith and desires. It depicts the pitfalls and benefits of blind faith and its effects on marriage, the agony of Alzheimer's and the toll it takes on a family. It casts a new light on a Tampa tradition, and it shows how loss affects people in different ways. Most importantly, it is meant as an attempt to cliscove1: what forms an identity and makes an individual and a community special.

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Esta pesquisa insere-se no campo dos Estudos Literários, em uma perspectiva interdisciplinar com os estudos de gênero e diversidade sexual e visa contribuir com as investigações desenvolvidas no âmbito do Grupo de Pesquisa “Estudos sobre a narrativa brasileira contemporânea” (CNPq/UFT), coordenado pelo Prof. Dr. Flávio Pereira Camargo. Seu objetivo geral é fazer uma análise da relação entre homoerotismo e homossociabilidade no romance Em nome do desejo, de João Silvério Trevisan, de modo a evidenciar os desdobramentos da relação homoafetiva entre Abel e Tiquinho, os dois protagonistas do romance, no espaço do Seminário, que é, por excelência, um espaço estritamente masculino, homofóbico e disciplinador dos corpos, das identidades e dos desejos daqueles que o habitam. Esta pesquisa é de cunho bibliográfico e teórico, através da qual realizamos um exercício de hermenêutica em relação à narrativa Em nome do desejo, de João Silvério Trevisan. Para tanto, o embasamento teórico e crítico parte, principalmente, de uma perspectiva pós-estruturalista de modo a evidenciar que a literatura, de modo geral, conduz à alteridade, ou melhor, leva ao reconhecimento de que o outro pode e tem o direito de ser diferente e que nós não devemos ser indiferentes, negligentes ou preconceituosos a qualquer aspecto constituinte da identidade do outro com relação à nossa identidade. A literatura homoerótica pode ser uma via para compreender o outro, uma vez que este outro está discursivamente representado no texto literário, na narrativa homoerótica. Por isso, propomos uma reflexão sobre a abertura da crítica literária à discussão do homoerotismo na literatura, uma vez que há resistências desta crítica sobre a literatura de vertente homoerótica, que é capaz de revelar ao seu leitor aspectos constitutivos da identidade gay. Além disso, procuramos evidenciar questões diversas referentes à homossociabilidade e às amizades masculinas como forma de sociabilidade para driblar o preconceito, a homofobia e a hostilidade latente em nossa sociedade. Para embasar nossas reflexões sobre o tripé literatura, homoerotismo e homossociabilidade nos baseamos em Antonio Candido (1970, 2006, 2007), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva e Carlos Eduardo Fernandes (2011), Dreyfuss e Rabinow (2010), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985), Didier Eribon (2008), Flávio Camargo (2011, 2012), Guacira Lopes Louro (2007, 2008, 2010), José Carlos Barcellos (2006), Judith Butler (2008, 2010), Jurandir Costa (1992), Kathryn Woodward (2000), Mário César Lugarinho (2008), Rick Santos (1997), Terry Eagleton (2006) e Tzevetan Todorov (2010), entre outros autores e críticos que se ocupam dessas questões. / This research falls within the field of Literary Studies in an interdisciplinary perspective with gender studies and sexual diversity and aims to contribute to the investigations carried out under the Research Group "Studies on contemporary Brazilian narrative" (CNPq / UFT) coordinated by Prof. Dr. Flávio Pereira Camargo. The objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between homoeroticism and homosociability in the novel Em Nome do Desejo, by João Silvério Trevisan, in order to highlight the consequences of the homoaffective relationship between Abel and Tiquinho, the two main characters of the novel, in the space of Seminar, which is, par excellence, a strictly male space, homophobic and disciplining of bodies, identities and desires of those who inhabit it. This research is bibliographic and theoretical, through which we undertook a hermeneutic exercise in relation to the narrative Em Nome do Desejo, João Silvério Trevisan. Thus, the theoretical part and critical is based mainly in a poststructuralist perspective in order to show that literature in general, leads to otherness, or rather leads to the recognition that the other can and has the right to be different and that we should not be indifferent, negligent and prejudiced to any constituent aspect of the identity of the other with respect to our identity. The homoerotic literature can be a way to understand the other, because this other is discursively represented in literary text in homoerotic narrative. We therefore propose a reflection on the opening of the literary criticism to the discussion of homoeroticism in the literature, since there is resistance of this literary critical to homoerotic literature, which is able to reveal to the reader constitutive aspects of the gay identity. In addition, we seek to highlight various issues relating to homosociability and male friendships as a form of sociability to dribble prejudice, homophobia and latent hostility in our society. To support our reflections on tripod of literature, homoeroticism and homosociability we rely on Antonio Candido (1970, 2006, 2007), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011), Antonio de Pádua Dias da Silva e Carlos Eduardo Fernandes (2011), Dreyfuss e Rabinow (2010), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1985), Didier Eribon (2008), Flávio Camargo (2011, 2012), Guacira Lopes Louro (2007, 2008, 2010), José Carlos Barcellos (2006), Judith Butler (2008, 2010), Jurandir Costa (1992), Kathryn Woodward (2000), Mário César Lugarinho (2008), Rick Santos (1997), Terry Eagleton (2006) and Tzevetan Todorov (2010), among other authors and critics concerned with these issues.