HASTAC Commons | Malin Lidström Brock | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/malinlidstrombrock/activity/ Activity feed for Malin Lidström Brock. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:15:34 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0ec73863f1367d1d87298024a5fceb9a Malin Lidström Brock's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1827475/ Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:38:43 +0000 0 ba765976edc383d01c084e8894378574 Malin Lidström Brock deposited Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726095/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:24:36 +0000 In Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2000) and Percival Everett’s Erasure (2001) multiculturalism is described as moralistic and essentialist; both novels present black American male protagonists who feel victimized by multiculturalism. Although critics have maintained that the two novels present a universalist view of American identity, in this cha…[Read more]

]]> 0 4900e642d073b875c5a2ab84d949b7ac Malin Lidström Brock deposited Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby Homes in the group Irish Literature and Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726094/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:24:32 +0000 This chapter examines the portrayal of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes in Stephen Frear’s film Philomena (2013) and the biography on which the film is based, the British journalist Martin Sixsmith’s account of Philomena Lee’s life and search for her son, who was given up to an American couple for adoption under coercive circumstances. Enforced a…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6a0eb4da903335e8589724decec29ca Malin Lidström Brock deposited Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby Homes in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726093/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:24:26 +0000 This chapter examines the portrayal of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes in Stephen Frear’s film Philomena (2013) and the biography on which the film is based, the British journalist Martin Sixsmith’s account of Philomena Lee’s life and search for her son, who was given up to an American couple for adoption under coercive circumstances. Enforced a…[Read more]

]]> 0 1aea711f54ae1c634f1b5b260361b004 Malin Lidström Brock deposited Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby Homes in the group English Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726092/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:24:23 +0000 This chapter examines the portrayal of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes in Stephen Frear’s film Philomena (2013) and the biography on which the film is based, the British journalist Martin Sixsmith’s account of Philomena Lee’s life and search for her son, who was given up to an American couple for adoption under coercive circumstances. Enforced a…[Read more]

]]> 0 432e62b02224048bc47e79019575a00d Malin Lidström Brock deposited Almost French: Food, Class, and Gender in the American Expatriate Memoir in the group American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1726091/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 02:23:49 +0000 This chapter explores links among food, class and gender in two memoirs written by contemporary American expatriates in France. The argument made is that references to French cuisine simultaneously create and resolve the tensions that arise in the texts when the authors describe their ideal and elitist lives to a presumed American female…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6a087e69d54c7fd74b442e926cccf9d Malin Lidström Brock deposited Beyond Multiculturalism: Invisible Men and Transculturality in The Human Stain and Erasure https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725968/ Tue, 02 Feb 2021 12:59:43 +0000 In Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2000) and Percival Everett’s Erasure (2001) multiculturalism is described as moralistic and essentialist; both novels present black American male protagonists who feel victimized by multiculturalism. Although critics have maintained that the two novels present a universalist view of American identity, in this cha…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a7f504798633d20a5438f31ce1aca31 Malin Lidström Brock deposited Philomena and Ireland’s Mother-and-baby Homes https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725893/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 21:09:38 +0000 This chapter examines the portrayal of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes in Stephen Frear’s film Philomena (2013) and the biography on which the film is based, the British journalist Martin Sixsmith’s account of Philomena Lee’s life and search for her son, who was given up to an American couple for adoption under coercive circumstances. En-forced a…[Read more]

]]> 0 873dbf0e329947f6f096be23c41c0ea0 Malin Lidström Brock deposited Almost French: Food, Class, and Gender in the American Expatriate Memoir https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725840/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:16:35 +0000 This chapter explores links among food, class and gender in two memoirs written by contemporary American expatriates in France. The argument made is that references to French cuisine simultaneously create and resolve the tensions that arise in the texts when the authors describe their ideal and elitist lives to a presumed American female…[Read more]

]]> 0 67b41e5d33ae2807611a3217d25142a0 Malin Lidström Brock's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1725666/ Sun, 31 Jan 2021 17:45:28 +0000 0