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Black Comedy through iconoclastic Characters in Vile Bodies by Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh [PDF]
Akofena: This research is a descriptive analysis of black comedy through iconoclastic characters in Vile Bodies written by Evelyn (Arthur St. John) Waugh. To do so, the study has been achieved on J.A.
Jean Paul OMBANDA
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Gothic Ontology and Vital Affect in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk
JAm It!, 2022 This essay turns to the writing of William James in “A Word of Pure Experience” as a methodological framework for reading The Souls of Black Folk. While most readings of Souls emphasize the unfolding of black consciousness, or the mind, this essay ...
Austin James Bailey
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The Rise and Normalisation of Blessee/Blesser Relationships in South Africa: A Post-Colonial Feminist Analysis [PDF]
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2022 Since 2015, young urban black women in South Africa have been posting images of luxury items on social media platforms such as Instagram. These women claim that their luxury items are gifts from their ‘blessers’/wealthy men in exchange for sex and ...
Ruvimbo Zawu
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Spirituality of liberation: A conversation with African religiosity
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014 The arrival of a salvationist, authoritative religiosity through Western Christianity in South Africa, in the company of a capitalist modernity, did not only dismantle and subvert the African indigenous dispensation of religiosity.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Taşköprizade on the (Occult) Science of Plague Prevention and Cure [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2020 The genre of the plague treatise, still little studied, testifies to the cultural transformations that swept western Eurasia after the Black Death apocalypse of the mid-fourteenth century, with recurrent outbreaks for centuries thereafter. Ottoman contri-
Matthew Melvin-Koushki
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The Baroque: the intellectual and geopolitical reasons for a historiographical erasure
Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2012 “The Baroque: the intellectual and geopolitical reasons for a historiographical erasure” highlights the need for a new way of conceptualizing the Baroque, taking into account the period’s plurality of discourses and diverging tendencies, specifically in ...
Jesús Pérez-Magallón
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Invertendo a “Passagem Atlântica”1: O “regresso” de Richard Wright a África
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2006 In this paper, I intend to examine how Richard Wright’s conflictual sense of “return” to Africa in Black Power revolutionizes and subverts the “Middle Passage” on a voluntary voyage to the origins that never really were.
Ana Luísa Saraiva
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Secreting Blackness in the Poetry of D.S. Marriott
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, 2018 In this article, I read D.S. Marriott’s readings of Frantz Fanon’s statement ‘I secreted a race’, in an attempt to perceive the secreting blackness of Marriott’s poetry.
Nisha Ramayya
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Mengukur Gerak-Laju Modernitas: Trayek Timur dan Barat WTBOS
PuitikaThe text discusses the trajectory of colonial modernity in two distinct "routes" connected to the Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto (WTBOS). Both routes entered the historical stage due to the discovery of abundant coal deposits. The focal point
Deddy Arsya
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The Illumination of Black Twitter
Media TheorySocial networks are simultaneously information and media platforms, but Blackness becomes understood differently depending upon which frame is deployed.
André Brock
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