The Social Use of Yorùbá Personal Names
Names, 2010 This study examines the principles and practice involved in the clipping of Yorùbá personal names based on the preference of either the addressee or the speaker.
Reuben O Ikotun
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Idylls of socialism : the Sarajevo Documentary School and the problem of the Bosnian sub-proletariat [PDF]
, 2010 This historical overview of the Sarajevo Documentary School considers the films, in the light of their recent re-emergence, as indicative of both the legacy of socialist realism (even in the context of Yugoslav media) and attempted social engineering in ...
Aitken I. +21 more
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“Suffered Side by Side”: Dynamics of Trauma and Nostalgia in Post-Communist Romania
DiffractionsHow do trauma and nostalgia interact in Romania today? What stories about the communist past do their discourses enable? In the wake of 1989 up until today, the trauma-of-oppression narrative has dominated public and official discourses as the legitimate
Claudia Partac
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¿Saturno devorado por sus hijos? Sobre si las máquinas amenazan a los libros
Educare Et Comunicare, 2018 La experiencia del cambio se divide entre la euforia y la nostalgia. El libro-objeto creó hábitos, afectos, espacios, conductas y un modo de pensar que la digitalización altera irreversiblemente.
Víctor H. Palacios Cruz
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“some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us”: David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium [PDF]
, 2014 This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban’s philosophical perspectives and Mitchell’s inter-textual genre-
Adorno T. W. +37 more
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The Girl Who Fell to Earth: Sophia Al-Maria’s Retro-Futurism
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2017 This article reads Sophia Al-Maria’s aesthetics of Gulf Futurism as a mode of retro-futurist nostalgia, nostalgia not for the past but for the future.
Mike Frangos
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Copts, Islamists and Jews:Gender, minorities, hybridity (and its limits) in two novellas by Bahaa Abdelmegid [PDF]
, 2016 Bahaa Abdelmegid's novellas Saint Theresa and Sleeping with Strangers feature a range of intertwined relations: sexual, commercial, as neighbours, and as colleagues between Jews, Christians and Muslims in Egyptian society since 1967.
IRVING, SARAH
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Towards a Poetics of Detachment: The Role of Nostalgia in Patrick Kavanagh’s Christmas Poems (1939-1943) [PDF]
Estudios IrlandesesBetween 1939 and 1943, Patrick Kavanagh wrote a series of poems around the theme of Christmas that set forth the enabling role of nostalgia in the transmission of hope in times of trouble. Commonly experienced as a longing for the past, nostalgia appears
Isabelle Fratani
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From made in Italy to etno-chic. Some thoughts on costume design in contemporary Italian cinema (class, gender and national identity) [PDF]
, 2016 This article outlines an overview of the relationship between costume and film in contemporary Italian cinema, with particular reference to class, gender and ideological discourse.
Minuz, Andrea
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Determining the Reliability and Validity of the Persian Version of a Sports Nostalgia Questionnaire
Annals of Applied Sport Science, 2016 Marketers apply a variety of approaches to attract customers and gain more profits. One method is the utilization of nostalgia marketing. The use of nostalgic sport characters has not been sufficiently studied.
Alireza Elahi +2 more
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