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The Fountainhead of African Identity-crisis: A Post-colonial Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

open access: yesRainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture
The African society in the present era is vexed by horrendous altitudes of identity-crises. This marks the unyielding discriminatory and stereotypical outlooks that persist in marginalising African identities despite the various efforts that emerged to ...
Malesela Edward Montle
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Book review: Sexuality and social justice in Africa: rethinking homophobia and forging resistance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
"Sexuality and Social Justice in Africa: Rethinking Homophobia and Forging Resistance." Marc Epprecht. Zed Books. July 2013. --- The persecution of people in Africa on the basis of their homosexual orientation has recently received considerable coverage ...
Lee, Jia Hui
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Book Review: Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
A review of Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by Rajiv ...
Rukmani, T. S.
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cosmopolitanism [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper was presented as part of Rethinking the Postcolonial in the Age of the War on Terror joint symposium, by the MnM Centre in conjunction with the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Diasporas and Reconciliation Studies, at the University of South ...
Barry Hindess
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Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2011
A review of Edwidge Danticat, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. The Toni Morrison Lecture Series (Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010).
Alicia E. Ellis
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Colorism, Mimicry, and Beauty Construction in Modern India

open access: yesJurnal Hubungan Internasional, 2018
Colorism adalah bentuk politik warna kulit. Mempertahankan warna berarti melestarikan politik diskriminasi. Di negara pasca-kolonial India, warna kulit menjadi simbol kekayaan dan kelas sosial.
Baiq Wardhani   +2 more
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Avel·li Artís Gener, post colonialism and translation [PDF]

open access: yes
Avel·lí Artís-Gener, conegut amb el sobrenom de Tísner, fou un home de lletres complet compromès amb la llengua i la literatura, i la traducció va ser una més d’aquestes activitats intel· lectuals amb què podia ser útil a la cultura catalana.
Galera, Francesc
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Hostage videos in the War on Terror

open access: yes, 2008
About the book: The bodies of the dead or the soon to be dead litter the media landscape and they frame the representation of war, terror and conflict in the modern age. What are the meanings carried and conveyed by these war bodies on screen?
Hill, Andrew
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