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Speculating Ancestor(ie)s: The Cavernous Memory of White Innocence and Fluid Embodiments of Afrofuturist Memory-Work

open access: yesHumanities, 2020
Enduring legacies of racial violence signal the need to reconcile with the past. This paper comparatively explores various speculative works that either reinforce a paradigm of White innocence that serves to deny such legacies or center critical dialogue
Javier Ernesto Perez
doaj   +1 more source

Nothing but a Pack of Cards: Semi-fictitious Persons and Flopping Jellyfish in Elizabeth Bowen [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Taking the wildly conflicting critical evaluations of Elizabeth Bowen\u27s final novel, Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes (1969) as its starting-point, this essay argues against \u27interpreting\u27 both the novel and its \u27monstrous\u27 heroine in ...
Hoogland, Renée C.
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Michelangelo, Leibniz and the Serpentine Figure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In his lectures from 1987, Deleuze draws an analogy between Michelangelo‟s figures and Leibnizian substances by claiming that neither are essences but rather sources of modifications or manners of being.
Bellosi Luciano   +13 more
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Mind the Archival Gap: Critical Fabulation as Decolonial Method

open access: yes, 2023
This article tackles a question long deemed impossible and unthinkable: how can sociology come to grips with the colonial past and present, situating the uprooting and re-composition of families and biographies in the longue durée of enslavement and its aftermaths?
openaire   +2 more sources

Leer ficción es bueno para el desarrollo cognitivo, emocional y social [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
On October 3, 2013, Science published an article with the provocative title ”Reading literary fiction improves theory of mind”. While the results of the study may have come as a surprise for brain researchers and cognitive psychologists, literary ...
Nikolajeva, Maria
core   +1 more source

Colonial Trauma in Márquez and Rushdie’s Magical Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children are hallmarks of the genre of magical realism. A typically problematic genre in terms of classification, this article looks at magical realism from a Freudian
Miller, Rachel
core   +1 more source

Jurists and journalists: impressions and judgements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The process of finding evidence of what truthfully happened in a conflictive situation interests jurists and journalists but in different ways. When the work of journalists and judges are concerned the paradox is at stake.
Sette Lopes, Mônica
core  

Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
wiley   +1 more source

Rosana Paulino and the Art of Refazimento: Reconfigurations of the Black Female Body in the Land of Racial Democracy

open access: yesBrasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 2019
This essay analyzes the historical and aesthetic significance of the visual art project Assentamento(s) (2012-2013) by Rosana Paulino. Her work re- inscribes the black female body into the historical narrative of Brazil, complicating long ...
Flavia Santos de Araújo
doaj   +1 more source

Black Fugitivity in the Sporting Workplace: The Story of Eniola Aluko

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Being a Black fugitive involves constant movement: to find and cultivate spaces of safety and hope. In this paper, I curate a sporting archive about the UK Black women's elite football player Eniola Aluko to read her as a Black fugitive. I demonstrate how she traversed a racist and anti‐Black sporting workplace—where she was unfairly demonized
Aarti Ratna
wiley   +1 more source

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