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City-avoiding Concerns in the Poetic Thought of Swara Ilkhanizadeh and Ahmad Abdolmo’ati Hejazi
Swara Ilkhanizadeh was a famous Kurdish poet and Ahmad Abdolmo’ati Hejazi was a famous contemporary Arab poet of the twentieth century whose poetries criticize urban life mixed with industry and modernism, and a tendency to living in pure rural areas, As
Esmaeil Barwasi, Ali Gangiyan Khenari
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Kurdish Cinema as a Transnational Discourse Genre: Cinematic Visibility, Cultural Resilience, and Political Agency [PDF]
Within the last few years, "Kurdish cinema" has emerged as a unique discursive subject in Turkey. Subsequent to and in line with efforts to unify Kurdish cultural production in diaspora, Kurdish intellectuals have endeavored to define and frame the ...
Kocer, Suncem
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Streamology Contemporary Hawrami literature; poem
Some historians of Kurdish literature believe that the oldest poem written in Hawrami is the text of "Hormozgan Roman, Ateran Kozhan". Hawrami poetry has been written for at least fourteen centuries without interruption, even after the advent of Islam ...
Farshid Rostami, Kourosh Amini
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“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies
Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
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Juncos, Sparrows, and Crows in the Transnational Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim [PDF]
This essay explores Lim’s efforts to express and encourage inclusivity through the agency of her poetic imagination. As Lim renavigates the Pacific and other terrain and writes, she strives for a “utopian goal,” or to “voice authenticity as a ...
Newton, Pauline T.
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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Forms of Contemporary Poetry in Jalal Barzanji's Poems
Of course, every literary text in general and poetry in particular has two aspects and has (form) and (content). be of great importance, on the other hand; Forms of text, especially poetry, are constantly changing and are a reason for poets to renew ...
Kamaran Aba-bakr Khudhur Khoshnaw +2 more
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New Arabic Records From Cairo on Supernovae 1181 and 1006
ABSTRACT The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000–5000 year), the unusual star IRAS00500+6713 with a surrounding nebula (Pa‐30) has an expansion age not inconsistent with a SN Iax explosion in ad 1181 under the assumption that neither acceleration nor ...
J. G. Fischer +3 more
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Academic Affairs Happenings, Volume 1, Issue 1 [PDF]
The Newsletter is an ongoing publication that highlights the wide range of work in which RWU faculty and students are ...
Office of Academic Affairs, Roger Williams University
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Abstract This essay explores the disturbing presence of anti‐Black language and tropes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's recent, celebrated novel Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum. Drawing on Toni Morrison's classic analysis in Playing in the Dark, I argue Özdamar's anti‐Blackness is characterized by a double‐valence: on one hand, Özdamar's anti‐Blackness ...
Barbara N. Nagel
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