Alicante Journal of English Studies / Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses: RAEI

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  Año 2025, Número Extraordinario 43. Texto Completo Ejemplar. Dedicado a: Special Isuue “Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives” coordined by Virginia Pignagnoli (University of Barcelona, Spain) and Laura Roldán-Sevillano (University of Zaragoza, Spain) / coord. por Virginia Pignagnoli, Laura Roldán Sevillano

  • Presentation

    • Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives: An Introduction

      Virginia Pignagnoli, Laura Roldán Sevillano

      • Texto completo

      págs. 7-16

      

  • Special Issue

    • The Spectral Afterlives of Slavery and the Fallacious U.S. Meritocracy in Jesmyn Ward’s and Quntos KunQuest’s Narratives of Prison

      Vanesa Lado Pazos

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 17-37

      

    • Problematizing the Fantasy of the Good Life in Akhil Sharma’s "Family Life" (2014) and Gary Shteyngart’s "Little Failure" (2014)

      Martyna Bryla

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 39-59

      

    • The American Dream, (Cruel) Meritocracy and DREAMers in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s "The Undocumented Americans"

      Amaia Soroa Bacaicoa

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 61-80

      

    • Confronting the Labor-Market and Housing Crises in Post-Recession U.S. Drama: Lisa D’Amour’s "Detroit" and Stephen Karam’s "The Humans"

      Ana Fernández Caparrós

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 81-99

      

    • Rivers Solomon’s "An Unkindness of Ghosts": Cruel Optimism and Meritocracy in an Engendered Critical Dystopia

      Merve Sarıkaya-Şen

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 101-118

      

  • Miscellaneous

    • Gossiping in an Internet Forum: A Corpus-Based Study of the Use of Anglicisms

      Carmen Luján García

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 119-138

      

    • The Role of Place in the Fluctuations of Ged’s Identity in Le Guin’s "Earthsea" Cycle

      Jon Alkorta Martiartu

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 139-155

      

    • Subjectivity Adrift: Jhumpa Lahiri’s "Whereabouts", Loneliness, and the Composite Novel

      Sergio López Sande

      • Resumen
      • Texto completo

      págs. 157-175