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‘DIE WISSEN ALLE NOCH NICHT, WER DU BIST’: BODY NARRATIVE AND TRANS EMBODIMENT IN SABINE BERNARDI'S ROMEOS (2011)

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 184-202, April 2026.
Abstract This article examines the narrative structure of Romeos (Sabine Bernardi, 2011) through the lens of body narrative. While traditional body narrative emphasises the felt discomfort of being trapped in the ‘wrong body’, Romeos challenges this essentialist framework by foregrounding Lukas's trans identification and trans masculinities through an ...
Mingyuan Wan
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Fashioning Identity: A Technocultural Analysis of Igbo Women Designers’ Self-Presentation on Instagram

Social Media + Society
Using African Technocultural Feminist Theory (ATFT), this study explored how Nigerian Igbo women fashion designers use Instagram to perform digital identities.
Joy C. Enyinnaya
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Television and the popular: viewing from the British perspective [PDF]

, 2010
The academic discipline of television studies has been constituted by the claim that television is worth studying because it is popular. Yet this claim has also entailed a need to defend the subject against the triviality that is associated with the ...
Bignell, Jonathan
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KILLJOY POETICS IN ANTJE RÁVIK STRUBEL'S BLAUE FRAU (2021)

German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 217-242, April 2026.
Abstract Drawing on Sara Ahmed's concept of killjoy activism, I explore how Antje Rávik Strubel's Blaue Frau employs a killjoy poetics that refuses to brush over violence, asymmetry, injury and force. Instead, the novel intervenes in affective textures of happiness and reconciliation, and forms activist and ecological networks of resistance. I build on
Alrik Daldrup
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Unlearning the Colonial Gaze: Grada Kilomba and the Poetics of Disobedience

Arts
Since the mid-twentieth century, a profound reconfiguration of the epistemic ground of ‘art’ itself—aesthetic theory—has taken place. This review examines how modern logic and the inseparability of the modernity/coloniality pair have impacted aesthetic ...
Luciana da Costa Dias
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Mythological Recuperation and Performance as Agency for Genealogical Return in Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo

Genealogy, 2018
This paper is an examination of Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo (1990) as a unique example of how Blacks in the global diaspora trace their genealogical roots back to Africa.
Lekan Balogun
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Pleasure and meaningful discourse: an overview of research issues [PDF]

, 2000
The concept of pleasure has emerged as a multi-faceted social and cultural phenomenon in studies of media audiences since the 1980s. In these studies different forms of pleasure have been identified as explaining audience activity and commitment.
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‘Matters of Household Proffit’: Sixteenth‐Century Manuscript and Print Exchanges in Bodleian Library, Ashmole 1477☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 215-230, April 2026.
Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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'Chineseness': The work of Lo Yuen-yi in memory of the women of Nushu [PDF]

, 2016
One of the difficulties facing art historians and curators when approaching recently produced artworks is how to interpret such works within the dominant narrative of art history and its traditional axis of historical time and geographical place.
Foster, Nicola
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Reader Interaction with Graphic Devices in Early Modern English Printed Books☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 254-273, April 2026.
Abstract Research into marginalia or reader annotations has become a well‐established branch of early modern book studies, shedding light on one of the ways in which manuscript and print coexisted and interacted in this period. The present study sets out to discover how readers engaged with printed graphic devices and with texts that contain such ...
Aino Liira
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