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The negotiation of identity looms large at the nexus of the colonial past and the postcolonial reality, and it is an important exercise for nations and citizens seeking separation and[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
“…the upshot is that while we now feel we know nearly everything that African states societies, economies, are not, we still know absolutely nothing about what they actually are…” (Mbembe[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured · Global Perspectives
En octubre del 2001, publicamos un estudio lexicográfico sobre la penetración del español americano en la lengua italiana contemporánea. En el léxico estudiado, se documenta la “crónica” de los últimos[...]
"Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Arts · Creative · Featured
Si l’on s’en tient à l’étymologie, le mot expression – dérivé du latin tardif expressio « action de faire sortir en pressant », du verbe exprimere (de ex et premere)[...]
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Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani is often compared to William Faulkner, Bertolt Brecht, and occasionally, to Arab authors such as Yahya Haqqi, all bound together as allegorists. The Palestinian novella, Men[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine · Releases
Towering over the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the recently completed African Renaissance Monument casts a long shadow that stretches out across the surrounding suburb of Ouakom. Ahead of these three[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: December 2014 / January 2015 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 2) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Releases
« Il faut liquider l’héritage de Mai 68 » : est-ce possible aujourd’hui ? Ce phénomène historique semble être désormais enraciné dans la culture et l’histoire françaises, comme s’il était[...]
"Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Featured
The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak, discusses the complexities presented by political upheaval and cultural stereotype. Shafak portrays two families, one Armenian and one Turkish, who share strong cultural[...]
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Travelling with Joseph in the Wake Black Gay Genius, an anthology edited by Steven Fullwood and Charles Stevens, opens with a meditation, a series of haunting questions that linger and will,[...]
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Dr. Amanda Rogers, a member of our editorial board, recently delivered a lecture titled “The Strategic Success of ISIS Propaganda” at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, where she is currently an[...]
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Image Credit: Wikipedia On my last trip to NYC, I was overwhelmed with Homeland season four’s new advertisement campaign plastered on almost every public bus in the city. The American[...]
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Image Credit: Lesley S. Curtis Haiti was postcolonial before postcolonial was cool. As the result of the first successful slave revolt in the Americas, Haiti declared its independence in 1804[...]
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* All photos courtesy of the Frye Art Museum At present, the exhibitions The Unicorn Incorporated (Curtis R. Barnes) and Your Feast Has Ended (Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, Nicholas Galanin, and Nep[...]
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Edwin Morgan Forster’s A Passage to India haunts writers with the implications of what can be achieved by what is not said. Damon Galgut ventures into this territory with his[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives
“We aforetime grant to the children of Israel the Book (Torah) the power of command, and prophet-hood, We gave them for sustenance, things good and pure, and we favored them[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Featured
When members of the Cuban capoeira group Caiman Capoeira were asked what the world should know about their group, almost unanimously they responded, “Let the world know that in Cuba[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine
Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], o “Paco” para los que lo conocen, es uno de los escritores más conocidos de Guinea Ecuatorial. Nacido en 1948 en la isla guineana de Annobón, su[...]
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Michael Deibert’s The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair is a 260-page well-researched book compiling Congo’s struggles dating back to the 15th century (the moment when the Congolese[...]
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The artist Peter Clarke was one of the first people I met on my arrival to Cape Town. As I remember it now, the impact of the quiet, careful elder[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Creative · Magazine
Note: This article is a sister piece to the creative submission, Vistas. The two submissions are meant to be viewed in concert. Writing in 1961, on the eve of both[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts
“I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I[...]
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“When will it end? 1982-201?” The open-ended question – with the last digit intentionally left out – fills the final screen of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s most recent film, Le Président (2013). The question[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives
Notas introdutórias O conceito de viagem, de acordo com Caren Kaplan, Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement (1996), se transformou em uma referência a movimentos populacionais, bem como em[...]
"Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives
While traditional storytelling was based on oral renderings as imagined by a narrator, now the trends are often based on the visual readings of events as imagined by the availability[...]
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Francisco Zamora Loboch[1], or simply “Paco” to those who know him, is one of Equatorial Guinea’s best-known writers. Born in 1948 on the Equatorial Guinean island of Annobon, his life[...]
