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    ArcticSummer_2

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Art of Compassionate Mimicry: Arctic Summer by Damon Galgut (Book Review)

    Author: Preti Taneja

    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[...]

    Dartmouth_shield

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured

    Ivy League Foundational Narratives and Academic Disciplinary Hierarchies

    Author: Silvia Spitta

    [H]e was considered the foremost of authorities on the Mexicans of Texas.  Hank Harvey had been born in New York City some sixty years before.  He had gone to grade[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Mapping the Image of the Jew in Postmodern Arabic Fiction

    Author: Seddik Gohar

    “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[...]

    Capoeida-Cuba

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Arts · Culture · Featured

    Rediscovering lo cubano Through Capoeira in Cuba

    Author: Annie Gibson

    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[...]

    Celeste-Liddle-2

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Intersectionality and Indigenous Feminism: An Aboriginal Woman’s Perspective

    Author: Celeste Liddle

    It is difficult to pinpoint a time when I began to associate race politics with gender politics personally, but I do know that it was quite early on in my[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Le voyage en tant que dessinateur d’une nouvelle cartographie de la chercheuse.

    Author: Juliana Coelho

    Le rêve de Bali et le rôle des artistes voyageurs Confrontés au questionnement sur leur expérience à Bali, une des îles les plus connues de l’archipel indonésien, plusieurs artistes brésiliens[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Laberintos de memorias: Una conversación con Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    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[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    “To Hell with that Man Business!”: Gender Anxieties in The Salt Mines and The Transformation

    Author: Darren Arquero

    Introduction Panning through the dismal space of out-of-service garbage trucks against a dreary city skyline, the opening scene of The Salt Mines (1990) introduces us to Sara, a self-identified Latina[...]

    DRC Book-1

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Book Review: The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Between Hope and Despair (Michael Deibert, 2013)

    Author: Soraya Aziz Souleymane

    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[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    False Ideas About ‘Activism’ in Egypt and the Case of Egypt’s Copts: Outside the State and Within the Economy of Power

    Author: Karim Malak

    ‘Activism’[1] and the ‘human rights agenda’ as espoused by international and local organizations have created several norms about ‘advocacy’ and the ‘universality’ of ‘religious freedom’ in Egypt. Yet these concepts[...]

    President-Bekolo-Featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Review of Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s “Le Président”

    Author: Amber Murrey

    “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

    Narrativas de Deslocamento na Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea

    Author: Marcus Brasileiro

    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

    Cartography of Mass City-zenry in Global Netscapes in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Short Stories ‘Los desaarraigados’ [‘The Uprooted’] and ‘La grieta’ [‘The Crevice’].

    Author: Indrani Mukherjee

    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[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Journal · Academic Journal: June 2014 (Issue: Vol. 2, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Souffrance ou héroïsme ? : Le sentiment des colons chinois dans la littérature chinoise au Tibet

    Author: Yue YUE

    En analysant des œuvres littéraires coloniales, Elleke Boehmer indique qu’au début du XIXe siècle, l’impérialisme britannique s’est identifié à Robinson Crusoë sur l’île sauvage qu’il s’efforçait de civiliser. Correspondant à[...]

    Zamora

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Labyrinths of memories: A conversation with Francisco Zamora Loboch

    Author: Martin Repinecz

    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[...]

    Copa_do_Mundo_postcolonialist

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Weird World Cup in the Land where Soccer is Everything

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Brazilian rapper Emicida, one of the most creative and perceptive pop artists in recent years, creates compelling drama in not only the content of what he says but also the[...]

    Copa_do_Mundo_postcolonialist

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Tem algo esquisito nesta Copa do Mundo, mas talvez não o que você pensa

    Author: Derek Pardue

    O rapper brasileiro Emicida, um dos artistas mais criativos e perceptivos nos últimos tempos, cria drama não somente nas suas letras mas também na dinâmica da sua voz. Na música[...]

    Terraferma-Featured

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Cineasti afrodiscendenti in Italia: Un doppio campo di battaglia

    Author: Leonardo De Franceschi

    Il dibattito pubblico sui temi dell’immigrazione e dei diritti di cittadinanza ha catalizzato in Italia per mesi l’attenzione dei media. Diverse le ragioni: anzitutto, la campagna di odio scatenata dall’estrema[...]

    Indian-Elections-featured

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    The Spectacle of Indian Elections and the West

    Author: Ritu Mathur

    Editor’s note: Given the timeliness of the content, this Academic Dispatch is an advance release of Issue II, Volume I, which will be released in full in the coming weeks. ****** The[...]

    stuart-hall-2

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Brazilian Take on the Writings of Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Negarra Akili Kudumu, editor. … I think that anyone seriously engaged in cultural studies, as intellectual practice,[...]

    stuart-hall-2

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Meus primeiros encontros com textos de Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    … penso que qualquer pessoa que se envolva seriamente nos estudos culturais como prática intelectual deve sentir, na pele, sua transitoriedade, sua insubstancialidade, o pouco que consegue registrar, o pouco[...]

    DFace-2-featured

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Revitalizing Power of Urban Art: The Case of Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by the author.   Santurce is an area that boasts a varied cultural and artistic scene. Formerly known[...]

    Colectivo Basta-featured

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured

    El arte urbano y su poder revitalizador: el caso de Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Santurce es un área que cuenta con una escena artística y cultural variada. Antiguamente un municipio por derecho propio conocido como San Mateo de Cangrejos, hoy día es un barrio[...]

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    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Haram: Staging Love & Revolution in Los Angeles

    Author: Ahmed Younis

    Article Photo Credits: Samira Idroos The Play There are moments in history when a single word can represent an existential struggle between self-perceived opposites. Haram is such a word in[...]

    Stuart_Hall

    Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Theorizing Lived Experiences: A Personal Reflection on Stuart Hall

    Author: Sara Salem

    Stuart Hall was undoubtedly one of the most important academics of our time. His work on culture, globalization, ethnicity and representation has not only influenced multiple fields within academia, but[...]

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