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Literature
Regenia Gagnier
Summary: This article discusses the reading habits of students raised on social media towards English literature, as well as the role of English/American literature in countries such as the PRC, India, Australasia, and the USA. The article also explores the relationship between the English language and other global and local languages, and the importance of decolonising efforts. Additionally, the article examines how state apparatuses in different countries affect language and literature teaching.
LITERATURE COMPASS
(2023)
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Literature
Xiaoling Yao
Summary: This article presents a case study of Borneo in Yongping Li's novel, "The End of the River," to examine its colonial legacy and cultural identity within the context of postcolonial literary studies. The article argues that Li's portrayal of Borneo as a dynamic interactive space goes beyond national borders and ethnicity, offering a process of affective identification. By analyzing the novel using postcolonial geo-humanities and literary cartography, the article highlights the author's identification with the textured and affectively charged Borneo.
JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING
(2023)
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Literature
Russell M. Hillier
Summary: The article suggests that engaging with John Milton's Paradise Lost in Cormac McCarthy's novels The Passenger and Stella Maris helps in understanding the duology. These novels present the Western siblings, Bobby and Alicia, as a new Adam and Eve in a corrupted world. McCarthy counteracts his distrust of language by revitalizing Milton's motif of Adam and Eve's handclasp and offering an alternative form of human connection beyond language, portrayed through acts of care. McCarthy's duology teaches readers through negative examples to appreciate life's precious gifts by revering nature, loving others, nurturing children, and showing kindness to fellow passengers in our shared lives.
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Fatima Borrmann
Summary: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, eugenics advocated for human intervention to correct the perceived distortion of the 'natural' evolutionary progress. This article discusses how this idea is portrayed in two novels, highlighting the tragedy of marrying a 'defective' partner and the burden it places on the healthy individuals.
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Literature
Longyan Wang
ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS
(2023)
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Literature
Eui Young Kim
ANQ-A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES NOTES AND REVIEWS
(2023)
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Literature
Monika Szczepaniak
Summary: Maron's novel "Flugasche" explores environmental issues through the portrayal of the emotional and behavioral reactions of the characters, particularly the main protagonist Nadler, to the poisoned atmosphere in B city. It highlights the devastating consequences of environmental violence and the resulting fear, anger, shame, and compassion, which drive thoughts, decisions, commitment, and resistance against unfair air distribution.
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Literature
Laura Bissell
Summary: This project uses diary writing as a research methodology to study the diaries of 11 women writers. By reading diaries, studying about diaries, and keeping a diary every working day, the author aims to understand how the diary form has allowed these women to write themselves and contribute to knowledge about women's lives and feminism. The essay explores the diary form and the experiences of women in these journals, highlighting the conflict between societal expectations and individual desires for self-development, creativity, and a meaningful life. The diary becomes a space for rebellion and self-expression, offering a private life of thought and opinion. By curating a lineage of women's diaries, the author examines affinities and connections, and the role that diaries play in writing the self and understanding women's writings about their own lives. The author's diary is presented as part of this ongoing feminist work.
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Literature
Isabelle Hesse
Summary: This article explores the use of the collaborator as a literary figure and critical tool in Mischa Hiller's Shake Off and Ahmed Masoud's Vanished: The Mysterious Disappearance of Mustafa Ouda. It argues that these political thrillers redefine the collaborator as a figure of division and ambivalence, allowing for engagement with local subtleties. The works also offer insights into broader trends in Palestinian writing, emphasizing non-heroic characters and highlighting the complexities of the Palestinian cause.
JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING
(2023)
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Literature
Dzidzai Masunga, Dean van der Merwe
Summary: This study explores the implementation of Grade R children's literature curricula at early childhood development centers in Johannesburg. The research found that these curricula aim to develop children holistically, teachers use various methods in teaching, and pay attention to classroom contexts.
SCRUTINY2-ISSUES IN ENGLISH STUDIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
(2023)
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Literature
Shan Zhong, Na Lin
Summary: This study examines the presentation of violence in children's literature and translated children's books for young readers using Peter Pan as an example. The analysis focuses on two Chinese translations by Shiqiu Liang and Jingyuan Yang. The study finds that while violence in Peter Pan is retained in both translations, there are differences in how it is manifested. Liang's translation stays more faithful to the source text, while Yang's translation livens up the language to align with children's language and emphasizes the identities and behaviors of the characters. These different interpretations of violence stem from their different expectations for the readers.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE-EAST & WEST
(2023)
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Literature
Gregory B. Lee
Summary: This article explores the works of three women poets who use a Hong Kong Chinese imaginary to create a unique poetic context. Their English poems integrate Cantonese images and linguistic elements to challenge the postcolonial condition of their poetry. The poems represent a local and personal expression, reflecting the everyday life while seeking poetic resolutions to the constraints of postcolonial subjecthood in the Chinese-British borderlands.
JOURNAL OF POSTCOLONIAL WRITING
(2023)
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Literature
Cao Shunqing, Liu Shishi
Summary: This article points out that Western scholars have dominated the definition of the concept of civilization and the writing of civilization history, resulting in a severe Western-centric tendency in current civilization history writing. Therefore, the article calls for the goal of rewriting civilization history, starting from the root of discourse narration, discourse speaking, and discourse interpretation, to establish a Chinese discourse and develop a Chinese viewpoint on the history of civilizations.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE-EAST & WEST
(2023)
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Literature
Joseph R. Wiebe
ISLE-INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
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Literature
Constanza Castro Benavides
Summary: Costumbrista literature is both a strategy and expression of nation formation in 19th-century Latin America, and a powerful lens for understanding urban visions of literate elites during liberal reforms and the expansion of a capitalist market economy. Despite being dismissed as inconsequential, it reveals the anxieties of elites about the effects of the market economy, commodification of daily life, and changes in their own experiences of time.
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Literature
Marcin Leszczynski
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Emily Lorraine De Montluzin
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Literature
Jungsoo Kim, Rok Sim
Summary: This paper investigates the transitive out of -ing construction and offers a construction-based account of it. Based on analysis of 725 examples, it reveals the specific usage patterns of the construction in real-life contexts and explains its grammatical properties and variations within the framework of Construction Grammar.
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Literature
William Baker
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Literature
Junaid Shah Shabir
Summary: This article traces the transition of Agha Shahid Ali from a postcolonial Indian poet to an anti-colonial Kashmiri-American poet and highlights the importance of his works to contemporary debates on postcolonial literature, especially for Western and subcontinental scholars who may not be familiar with his poetics.
