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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Modern French Studding of the Biographical Texts: Prolegomena
Pitannâ Lìteraturoznavstva, 2014 The article deals with the main directions of the studding of the biography as a text in the modern French humanities. We described the structural and the functional peculiarities of the biographical text (discourse), particularly based on the fictional ...
Alina Hromyk
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Les épisodes autonomes : écarts formels et narratifs dans The X-Files et Buffy The Vampire Slayer
TV Series, 2019 TV serial genres have evolved since the emergence of the medium, they are becoming more refined, more complex, more hybrid, responding to the growing demands and spectatorial skills of its audience.
Elaine Després
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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The Novel And The Autobiography: Reflection On The Literary Paradox Of Genres In Rebecca Walker’s Black, White And Jewish (2001) And Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959) [PDF]
Akofena: This study focuses on the literary paradox including the African-American autobiography and the novel. It analyses the factual or nonfictional and fictional patterns of the autobiography and the novel respectively in Rebecca Walker’s Black, White and ...
Seydou CISSÉ
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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2022 No Billag – in Switzerland, the debate about the necessity and financial viability of public broadcasting has been sparked anew. Closely linked are questions about the public value of the SRG SSR and how much of Switzerland is actually portrayed on Swiss
Eva Spittka +3 more
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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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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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POLYSTYLE STRUCTURE OF M. SEMENOVA'S NOVEL «WHERE THE FOREST DOES NOT GROW»
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2014 The paper considers the problem of genres in the fictional Russian literature of the 20th – 21st centuries. With the example of M. Semenova’s novel “Where the forest does nOt grow” the author discusses the hypothesis of the implementation of several ...
K. S. Stepanova
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