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AI in American Literature
"Narratives that proclaim AI technologies’ objectivity, predictive ability, infallibility, and inevitability circulate across the tech industry, media, and popular culture. These narratives mislead publics.." – By Jennifer Rhee
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Conservatism in 19th-Century Latin American Literature I: Social Order and the Traditional Family
"While 19th-century Latin American literature is often characterized as predominantly liberal in literary and cultural studies, it also served as a battleground for the ideological conflict between liberalism and conservatism..." – By Andrea Castro and Kari Soriano Salkjelsvik
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