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Russian Military Prose 1990– 2000th

open access: yes, 2015
Formation of a new war prose occurred in the conditions of an undeclared war, to form a stable anti-militarist public consciousness, which has made significant adjustments in the modern historical reconstruction.

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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

open access: yesGender &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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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Figura tatălui în proza lui Danilo Kiš

open access: yesACROSS
The present research focuses on elements of the father figure in Danilo Kiš's prose from a stylistic and semantic perspective. In the micro-novel, the figure of the father is a complex one, being at the centre of attention.
Tatjiana Petrika
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawing on visual and textual archival and newspaper sources, this article explores representations of settler women as maternal guardians of the ...
Lauren Brown
wiley   +1 more source

A Critical Review of Dr Reza Anzabinejad’s Edition of Maghamate Hamidi [PDF]

open access: yesمتن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2015
Maghamate Hamise is a literary master piece written in prose by Ghazi Hamidudin in the Twelfth century. Maghame is a well-known genre of narrative and story-telling. The Persian maghame was adapted with some modifications from the Arabic maghame.
Mukhtar Ebrahimi, Ali Yari
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &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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The unexpected in Juan Ramón Jiménez

open access: yesÉtudes romanes de Brno
Although Juan Ramón Jiménez is well-known especially due to his lyrical poetry, he is the author of numerous prose texts, among which many of them are narrative. Both forms frequently include unusual elements related to what the poet calls "the invisible
Laia Olivé
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A Critical Analysis of “Studies in Modern Arabic Literature (Prose)” [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2019
Over the last century, Contemporary Arabic prose has changed widely, so studying its formation and evolution requires careful and comprehensive research because of the geographic extent and the subject.
Alireza Kahe
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Premodern Korean Literary Prose: An Anthology

open access: yes, 2018
This anthology presents new translations of Korean prose works from the tenth to the nineteenth century. It offers insight into past Korean societies by highlighting genres that have largely not been translated, such as diaries, short fictional ...

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