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Doubleness on the New York Contemporary Experimental Stage: Bodies and Technology

Transatlantica, 2018
“Doubleness on the New York Contemporary Experimental Stage: Bodies and Technology” explores the representations of bodies in a corpus of plays by New York artists from the “New American Avant-Garde.” Intermediality, or the co-presence or superimposition
Emeline Jouve
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Burnerverse

Journal of Festive Studies, 2023
Otherwise known as Black Rock City, Burning Man is a remote fire-arts gathering in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert that has catalyzed a global movement. An ephemeral community flowering in a desert, Burning Man is also a cultural proliferation of events that ...
Graham St John, Botond Vitos
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From Kitsch and Carnivalesque to Cultural Appropriations: Liminal Representations of Post-Apartheid White Identity in Die Antwoord’s Music Videos

Text Matters
Through their multi-dimensional artistic performances—manifesting in music, lyrics and videos—the South African rap-rave hip-hop duo Die Antwoord expresses the ethos of “Zef,” a white working-class Afrikaner post-apartheid culture. Zef is associated with
Tomasz Dobrogoszcz
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Aesthetic of carnivalesque: Johannisnacht by Uwe Timm and Lietuvis Vilniuje by Herkus Kunčius

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2019
Carnivalisation in literary prose has been gaining prominence both in Lithuanian and German literature. The present paper compares two novels, namely, Johannisnacht by Uwe Timm (1996) and Lietuvis Vilniuje by Herkus Kunčius (2011), related not merely ...
Violeta Katinienė
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“Let Me In”: Analyzing the Firefly Funhouse Match (2020)

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
The Firefly Funhouse Match is a professional wrestling match between WWE wrestlers John Cena and (the late) “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt at WWE’s Wrestlemania 36 (2020).
Kunal Debnath, Nagendra Kumar
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Flyktningedebatten i satirens estetikk

Barnelitterært Forskningstidsskrift, 2020
Hvordan brukes nonsens og satire i en utforsking av ulike stereotypiske oppfatninger om både flyktninger og nordmenn i barneboka Kurt koker hodet (2003)?
Ann Sylvi Larsen
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Between Humour and Violence: The Northern Irish Conflict in Michelle Gallen's Writing

Review of Irish Studies in Europe
A native of County Tyrone, Michelle Gallen has only recently emerged as a writer with her two novels Big Girl Small Town (2020) and Factory Girls (2022), but nonetheless she has managed to set the tone for a new kind of writing in the post-conflict era ...
Kübra Özermis
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‘The magical, the perfect politics of nakedness’: Wandering Bare across Social and Narrative Boundaries in Graham Swift’s Mothering Sunday

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2019
A pleasant rewriting of the fairy-tale, Mothering Sunday also gives Swift the opportunity to bind more closely than ever politics and aesthetics, as explicitly suggested by the key scene around which the whole novella stretches.
Pascale Tollance
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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