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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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Narrative acquisition: From oral discourse production to written text comprehension
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные наукиThis article explores the classical concepts of phenomena such as personal narrative, fictional narrative, and narrative discourse. An overview of the globally accepted typology of oral narrative genres was provided.
I. Balčiūnienė, A. N. Kornev
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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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Trust and Knowing in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Fictional Genres and Metacognitive Disruptions [PDF]
This dissertation investigates how constructions of trust can be undermined or reinforced by examining trust’s entanglement with our compulsive and subjective desire to know in nineteenth-century American literature. Specifically, I analyze how different
Van Gilder, Jessica Marie
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Textual Stylistic Variation: Choices, Genres and Individuals [PDF]
, 2010 This chapter argues for more informed target metrics for the statistical processing of stylistic variation in text collections. Much as operationalized relevance proved a useful goal to strive for in information retrieval, research in textual stylistics,
Jussi Karlgren, Karlgren, Jussi
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural barometers of success, the country was entering a newly ‘postfeminist’ era.
Sarah Crook
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to explore how non‐elite Chinese women navigated surveillance, humiliation, and limited opportunities to have their grievances recognized.
Alison Fong
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Si par un mal étrange est atteint un personnage
Itinéraires, 2013 This article studies the relationship between narrativity and fictionality in the highly metatextual novel Le Mal de Montano from Catalan writer Enrique Vila-Matas.
René Audet
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Hybrid genres: fieldwork, detection and the method of Bruno Latour
, 2005 This article explores tensions in the study of innovation, the practice of fieldwork and the narratives these produce, particularly as represented in the work of Latour.
T. Austrin, J. Farnsworth
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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