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    Paula Sato

    Assistant Professor of French
    Campus:
    Stark
    Contact Information
    Email:
    psato1@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-244-3451

    Expertise

    Monster
    Literature
    Caribbean
    French
    Europe

    Publications

    • "Heroes, Monsters, Freedom and Bondage: Inclusion, Exclusion and Autonomy in Une tempête, Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature (March 2011).
    • "The Inclusionary Poetics of Severo Sarduy's Textual Transvestism," in The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Sexual Politics after Binarism, Benedict Ledente, Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Roberto Del Valle Alcala, eds.
    • "Seeing through the Evil Eye: Meiling Jin's Caribbean Counter-Gothic in Gifts from my Grandmother," in Asian Gothic: Essays on Literature, Film and Anime, Andrew Hock Soon Ng, ed. (McFarland, 2008).
    • "L'Orient et l'orientalisme dans Écrit en dansant de Severo Sarduy," in L'Orient dans le roman de la Caraibe, Mounia Benalil, ed. (CIDIHCA, 2006).
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