Lec. Dijla Gattan Shannan

Plagiarism and originality are two different forces in any discipline, especially in the academic field. They torment most of the writers, researchers, as well as scholars for they try to avoid plagiarism. Studies shed light upon them. But Kathy Acker turns the scales in her writings, especially in her two novels: Don Quixote and Great Expectations. The purpose of this paper is what makes an outstanding author as Acker "steal" titles of two famous texts by two famous figures as Cervantes and Dickens, why she "deconstructs" those two novels to "reconstruct" her own.

Anaya is the father of Chicano literature. The term 'Chicano Literature' is not easy to define, because it arouses controversy. First of all, Chicano refers to people who have mixing currents of Mexican and American life. The Chicano tradition is crossbred or hybrid. Historically speaking, this culture comes into being after the Mexican American war