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The Dynamics of Reading Genre Fiction: Researching and Teaching Interpretive Practices
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 2, April/May/June 2026.Conceptual model positioning genre fiction as a site for studying how narrative form organizes reader interpretation, identifying four dynamics—iterability, narrative interest, serialization, and spectacle—to guide empirical research on reading processes.
Robert Jean LeBlanc, Amy Stornaiuolo
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue S1, Page 104-120, March 2026.This essay examines the spectres haunting ideas of egalitarianism among Tashelhiyt‐speaking communities in the Moroccan High Atlas: first, the tyrant, an obvious frontal threat to ideas of equality; and then the vastly more complex figure of the thief (amkhar).
Matthew Carey
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The methods of power transferring in Iranian Folktales [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2019 . Introduction King, prince, and queen are among the most frequently used words in Iranian folktales. Several folktales are about theses fictional characters.
Mostafa Saadat
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DECEPTIVE SANCTITY: The Geopolitics of Shrines and Concealed Antiquities in Afghanistan
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 82-106, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores a widely circulated legend in Afghanistan in which foreigners are believed to create shrines to conceal buried antiquities. It represents one of several narratives in which locals express mistrust of foreign motivations and geopolitical deception.
SHAMIM HOMAYUN
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Dagens Rødhette i en flerkulturell kontekst – mulighet for en ny identitet?
Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2013 The starting point for this article is the tendency in recent Norwegian children’s and Ya fiction to thematize cultural encounters in an increasingly multicultural and globalized world. The picturebook Little Miss Eye Flap (Skylappjenta, 2009) written by
Hanne Kiil, Elise Seip Tønnessen
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Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January/June 2026.Short Abstract This article critically examines the role of Indigenous knowledge and mobile livelihoods in contemporary climate adaptation practices, highlighting how these efforts often risk perpetuating colonial power structures and sedentary biases.
Nuhu Adeiza Ismail +10 more
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ILCEA, 2014 This paper studies The Folktales of mugwort [Polynnye skazki] by Yuri Koval’, based on his mother’s childhood memories. We will focuse on two apparently contradictory aspects of this text: the realism of the context and the wonderful aspect of folktales.
Laure Thibonnier
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Nima's “Incomplete” Humans: Storying Adolescents’ Black Inhabitations in Accra
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.Abstract In this article, I story adolescents as “incomplete” human beings whose inventive modes of storytelling and inhabiting community space shape a “black sense of place” in the Nima neighbourhood of Accra, Ghana. In collaborative arts‐based research with Spread‐Out Initiative NGO, Nima adolescents share stories and narrate experiences that witness
Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.In Mariana Enriquez's Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night), the insistence on narrating putrid wounds and hewn limbs seeks to reinvigorate stagnant tropes, to highlight the corporeal cruelty obfuscated by the ghostly. This article explores the association between textures and emotions, specifically questioning what it can lead to when remains ...
Ana María Villaveces Galofre
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Amazonian fish migration as a social–cultural–ecological process
People and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 12, Page 3297-3312, December 2025.Abstract In this study, we highlight the rich perspectives and explanations of fish migration held by Indigenous groups across the Amazon. We present the aspects of Indigenous cosmological stories, drawing from our exploratory review of cultural ethnographies and grey literature, as well as the authors' own experiences. We ask, how do Amazonian peoples
LuLu Victoria‐Lacy +6 more
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