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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism.
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
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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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Kinkon biobib: life and work of Dom Sylvester Houedard [PDF]
, 2012 Bio-bibliographical essay on British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator, concrete poet and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–92). Based on scarce published materials and primary sources, this chronology emphasises artistic over religious and other ...
Grandal Montero, Gustavo
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Integration of Local Poetic Voices: an Interview with Lawson Fusao Inada [PDF]
, 2018 An interview with Lawson Fusoa ...
Almaguer, John Rafael +1 more
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines image–text relations in German illustrations of gambling around 1800, specifically focusing on the card game Pharo and the artist Johann Heinrich Ramberg. It shows Ramberg's technique of reuse and variation as well as the degree of satire in the designs and their accompanying descriptive or fictional texts.
Waltraud Maierhofer
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Sensibility of Urdu Ghazal in 21st Century
بازیافتGhazal is the most famous genre of literature in Urdu poetry that has maintained its existence and identity in all eras. In this research paper, the poetry collections and magazines published during the last twenty-three years have been discussed.
Khalid Mahmood sanjarani
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NEVİZADE ATAYİ’S UNKNOWN POEMS
Zeitschrift für die Welt der Türken, 2016 Recent studies have been showing that how important the poetry magazines are in terms of our classical literature. Some of the magazines are exclusive in point of having same poetic forms and genres. Some of them contain many poets’ diwan.
Mesut Bayram DÜZENLİ
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The Critical Stylistics of Shams Kasmaei's Poetry [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2018 Shams Kasmaei is the first Persian modernist poet. His poems were published in modernist magazines and women's rights advocate’s journals during Khyabani's government in Azarbaijan.
Mohammadmehdi Zamani, Korosh Safavi
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