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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Reflection of Classic Culture and Literature in Mohammad Reza Shafi\'ee Kadkani’s Poem

open access: yesLiterary Arts, 2014
The literary legacy for a nation provides guarantee for its identity and personality literary tradition appears the basis of modernity in any realm especially literary modernity, for if otherwise, the literary modernity would be transitory and ...
yusef aziziyan, Taghi pournamdariyan
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“The Colored Soldiers”—The Poem You Never Knew Existed

open access: yes, 2015
I’m a poetry guy. When I expect to have some free time, I tend to carry a small book of poems somewhere on my person. I also have eclectic tastes, so the subject and the substance of my little pocket anthologies changes.
LaRoche, Matthew D.
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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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The return to the strophic form: a new discipline in Russian poetry (the 1990-2000s)

open access: yesФилологический класс, 2011
The article examines the changes in the strophic patterns of the Russian poetry of the last decades. The author argues that the contemporary Russian poetry has departed from the traditional poetic forms towards free verse and heteromorphous verse.
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The Cowl - v.49 - n.6 - Oct 23, 1985 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol 49 - No. 6 - October 23, 1985.

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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &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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The People Shall Not Dwell Alone: The Hebrew Bible in Light of Chinese Classics

open access: yesReligions
This article compares the similar texts in historiography, legend, poetry, and law between the Hebrew Bible and Chinese classic works, emphasizing the mutual reflection and illumination of the two in terms of culture.
Lupeng Li
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