Narrating cultural identity

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Lenke Németh
Gabriella Varró

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Németh, Lenke, and Gabriella Varró. 2011. “Narrating Cultural Identity”. AMERICANA E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary 7 (1). https://www.americanaejournal.hu/index.php/americanaejournal/article/view/45280.
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Lenke Németh

Lenke Németh, Assistant Professor at the North-American Department of University of Debrecen, Hungary, teaches courses in contemporary American drama, American culture and literature, Transnational studies, and the methodology of teaching American literature. Her research interests include postmodernism in contemporary American drama, cultural identity in post-multicultural drama, gender identity in female playwrights’ drama. She has published several articles on these topics as well as a book “All It Is, It’s a Carnival”: Reading David Mamet’s Female Characters with Bakhtin (2007). Email: nemeth.lenke@unideb.hu

Gabriella Varró

Dr. Gabriella Varró is currently assistant professor at the North-American Department of the University of Debrecen, Hungary. She teaches courses in American drama history, comparative drama studies, American popular culture, and American literary history. Her research pertains to contemporary American drama with a special emphasis on the relevance of Sam Shepard for American drama and theater history, and is currently working on a monograph related to the field. She has published widely on American blackface minstrelsy, and on modern American drama from a comparative perspective. She is author or co-author of two monographs: Signifying in Blackface: The Pursuit of the Minstrel Sign in American Literature (2008), and Jim Crow örökösei: Mítosz és sztereotípia az amerikai társadalmi tudatban és kultúrában [The Heirs of Jim Crow: Myth and Stereotype in American Social Consciousness and Culture] (2002). Email: gabriella.varro@gmail.com