U.S. Studies Online: The BAAS Postgraduate Journal

Issue 10, Spring 2007

Contents

“Reading Gender in Amy Bloom”

ALISON KELLY, UNIVERSITY OF READING

“‘Sloughing off the Old Skin’: Ideology, Folklore and the Invention of Tradition in the Tales of Washington Irving”

MICHAEL COLLINS, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

“Natural Disasters in America: The Northridge Earthquake (1994), Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the Relationships between Human Societies and the ‘Natural Environment'”

CLARE RUSSELL, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

“‘Ya Basta! – That’s enough!’: Gangbanging and Protesting; an analysis of the Political Subculture of Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running”

JOSEPHINE METCALF, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER