As represented in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, music and dance shed light on issues of race and ethnicity in the culture of the 1920s.Although having African-American origins, jazz music can create a racial rift.Fitzgerald's decision to incorporate "white jazz" can be seen as a way for Gatsby to eliminate his ethnic past and belong to the same social group as the Buchanans.This is similar to the way he changes his name from James Gatz to Jay Gatsby in order to dissociated himself from his supposed Jewish roots.This paper will examine how identity, jazz music, dance, and musical instruments not only represent the 1920s American culture, but also exemplify racial otherness and Gatsby's attempt at cancelling this otherness .

Tibetan English fiction emerges with Tibetan exile and, like other postcolonial writings, is deeply concerned with national construction and the retelling of Tibetan recent history.In their historiographic ways, both Tsewang Pemba's Idols on the Path (1966) and Jamyang Norbu's The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes (1999), engage the Tibetan Buddhist heritage to tell the histories of Tibet in a heterodox, self-reflective and playful manner.More recent works of fiction are no exception and Thubten Samphel's Falling through the Roof (2008) and Tsering Namgyal Khortsa's The Tibetan Suitcase (2013) also engage their Tibetan Buddhist heritage to mediate the recent, and less often, the remote past.This paper focuses on how the singularly Tibetan Buddhist gter ma (lit.treasure, i.e. a text written in the past that has been 'unearthed' or 'discovered') is re-appropriated and re-engaged in contemporary Tibetan English fiction.

The paper is focused on jargon and slang, whose use may affect the way businesspeople think and develop professional relations.To clear up possible misinterpretations, I have analyzed a corpus of slang expressions, colloquialisms, clichd words and phrases in the business lexicon.My research is a linguistic approach to jargon/slang terms, which takes into account their positive or negative connotations.

While readings of American Pastoral, Philip Roth's 1997 masterpiece, primarily revolve around the protagonist, "Swede" Levov, and the tragic fall of his American Dream, this paper will examine the community values, expectations, pressures, de-/il-lusions behind that process.In the turbulent 1960s, the romantic tradition of American pastoral utopias is shattered by harsh socio-historical realities and the radicalization of public discourse.