Xavier Herbert: Forgotten or Repressed? [PDF]
Xavier Herbert is one of Australia’s outstanding novelists and one of the more controversial. In his time, he was also an outspoken public figure. Yet many young Australians today have not heard of the man or his novels.
Conor, Liz, McGrath, Ann
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What Judges Need to Know: The Anti‐Factual Challenge and Judicial Review
Today, there is a ‘knowledge crisis’, informing ‘societies of doubt’. Looked at more closely, we are confronted with attacks on expertise and knowledge, on facts and truth, as one chapter in the autocratic playbook. This challenges the legal system in many ways, be it legislation and other types of regulation, or administration and governance, as well ...
Susanne Baer
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“How Can a Woman Who Has Been Raped Be Believed?”: Andrea Dworkin, Sexual Violence and the Ethics of Belief [PDF]
In June 2000, Andrea Dworkin, an American feminist activist and author, published an account of being raped in a Paris hotel room a year earlier. The story was met with widespread disbelief, including from feminist readers.
Serisier, Tanya
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The nature of libertine promises in Laclos's Les 'Liaisons Dangereuses [PDF]
This article suggests that the libertines Valmont and Merteuil privilege promises because their futural orientation implies a godlike control of people and events, and because promises offer the possibility of being broken, of further pleasure to be ...
McCallam, D.
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Abstract This article reconstructs the political trajectories of Chilean exiled women settling in Costa Rica. It analyses the manifestations and transmutations of their political praxis before, during and after the period of ostracism, based on life stories reconstructed through semi‐structured interviews with several women who began militancy before ...
Marcela Ramírez‐Hernández
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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL IN MEU PÉ DE LARANJA LIMA
This paper focuses on the analysis of the literary work Meu p de laranja lima, in which the author Jos Mauro de Vasconcelos relates his own childhood through a child character.
Katrym Aline Bordinhão dos Santos +1 more
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Transgressive bodies in the work of Julie Doucet, Fabrice Neaud and Jean-Christophe Menu: towards a theory of the 'autobioBD' [PDF]
As the comic book, and more precisely its exceptionally francophone doppelganger, la bande dessinée, begins to fulfil its potential as 'the Ninth Art', the range of styles, reading contexts, and genres which constitute the form as a signifying practice ...
Miller, A, Pratt, M
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Surviving the wreck : post-traumatic writers, bodies in transition and the point of autobiographical fiction [PDF]
In autobiographical fiction, the repetition of specific ‘unprocessed’ tropes wherein contextual meaning remains unclear can be likened to the symptomatic ‘flashbacks’ endured by victims of trauma. Virginia Woolf’s compulsive use of images of sea, mirrors,
Jensen, Meg
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Feminist geographies in unsettled times: Addresses from the 2025 Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture
Abstract Feminist geography is addressed and taken up (always differently) by scholars who compose and comprise it. The 2025 Suzanne Mackenzie Memorial Lecture was a tribute to difference and a celebration of transformation. Delivered in panel style, linked vignettes by eight feminist geographers from across colonial Canada on three prompts about ...
Michelle Daigle +7 more
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Aprender la historia de Cuba: los recuerdos de un esclavo centenario
Miguel Barnet's Biografía de un cimarrón is a paradigmatic example of mediate testimonial discourse aiming to rescue the voice of the oppressed and to be the conscience of a new cultural identity supported by the voice of Esteban Montejo.
Flavio Fiorani
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