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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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American Double / American Psycho and the Writer’s Block [PDF]

Литература двух Америк
The article focuses on American fiction and detective thrillers where the writer and his double feature as central characters. Such a combination has not previously received special attention.
Irina V. Golovacheva
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Looking For Black Religions In 20th Century Comics: 1931-1993 [PDF]

, 2019
Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity ...
Chireau, Yvonne Patricia
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“CONSCIENCE AND THE ENDS OF HUMANITY: CHRISTIAN HUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE”

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The astonishing speed of the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked reflections by theologians and philosophers on what distinctiveness, if any, human beings possess as individuals and as a species. This article addresses this question with respect to an ancient idea in Christian thought reaching back to St.
William Schweiker
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“Pet Sematary” as Cultural Value

Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
This article offers a review of Shelley McMurdo’s monograph Pet Sematary (1989), devoted to the first film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1983 novel, directed by Mary Lambert, and published in the Devil’s Advocates series.
Alexander V. Pavlov
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Nuclear Holocaust in American Films [PDF]

, 1989
Ordinary people shudder at the thought that people in positions of power might do whatever they think they can get away with. But that is often the way it is in the real world, and the risks go even higher when opportunity is ...
Byrne, Edmund
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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The Mechanics of Fear: Organic Haunted Houses in American Cinema

Transatlantica, 2013
Most haunted house narratives, whether literary or filmic, are based on the same basic principle of intrusion of some outside, usually unidentified force which sows the seeds of chaos and destruction within the boundaries of a home.
Anne-Marie Paquet-Deyris
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Dying to be Seen: Snuff-Fiction's Problematic Fantasies of "Reality" [PDF]

, 2011
The mythic Snuff film has remained a persistent cinematic rumour since the mid-1970s. The discourses that surround Snuff are preoccupied by two factors: (a) the formal aesthetic, and (b) their alleged role as a kind of titillating pornography.
Jones, Steve
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