Translating Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks: Just another ‘Rep & Rev’? by Kathinka Salzmann

“…This article explores some of the main challenges one has to deal with when translating a play whose language — African American Vernacular English — is linked to a specific context and culture, as is the case with Topdog/Underdog (1999), by the African American dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks. …”
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‘We’re All Mad Here’: Alienation, Madness, and Crafting Tom Waits by Nadia López-Peláez Akalay

“…This paper will focus on how Tom Waits constructs his personae through an identification with the disappointments of society: the underdog, and, more particularly, the alcoholic underdog. …”
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Cantinflas, Patriota de la patria e Insurgente del detalle by Héctor Ruiz Rivas

“…For he embodies far more than the typical Mexico City underdog and witty rogue the audience usually identifies him with. …”
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Shoot Straight, You Bastards! Australians in the Boer War: the Breaker Morant Case by Martine Piquet

“…The fairness of the court-martial has since been disputed and, rightly or wrongly, Morant has become a folk hero in Australia, as a symbol of the reckless defiance of the underdog towards the authorities. This article tells the story of this singular episode of the Second Boer War and reflects on a few aspects of its perception in Australia.…”
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Quebec separatism in Canadian utopian fiction and the quest for a postcolonial future by Ralph Pordzik

“…Cet article propose une lecture de The Underdogs (1979), une satire politique de William Weintraub, qui permet de démontrer le sens des fictions moins impliquées dans la poursuite d’allégories englobantes d’une identité nationale que dans la célébration d’une diversité culturelle et sociale propre à un contexte multiculturel. …”
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Genera Mixta in Herbert George Wells’s Industrial Romance ‘The Cone’ (1895): Realism, the Uncanny Fantastic, the Industrial Sublime and the Tragic by Françoise Dupeyron-Lafay

“…The industrial sublime coexists with a generalized sense of melancholy, shown as the new social disease affecting middle-class characters—and no longer the working-class underdogs or ‘Hands’ of previous texts—in a disfigured world deserted by God. …”
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