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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

The Ballets of Eugeniusz Morawski in the Context of the Search for Polish National Identity [PDF]

open access: yesPolski Rocznik Muzykologiczny, 2021
Abstract The topic of this article is Eugeniusz Morawski’s ballet music analysed in the context of the search for national identity in Poland after it regained independence in 1918. The author’s reflection is focused on two fully preserved ballet compositions written in the 1920s.
openaire   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, April 30, 1962 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1962
Volume 49, Issue 108https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4295/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Wounds and reinscriptions: schools, sexualities and performative subjects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Boys in school, homophobia, and forms of masculinity are currently the focus of significant debate in and about education and schools. Much of this discussion takes as given the sexual orientation, and therefore sexual identity, of the students of whom ...
Youdell, Deborah
core   +2 more sources

THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
wiley   +1 more source

Spartan Daily, March 8, 1961 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1961
Volume 48, Issue 80https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4134/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
core   +3 more sources

Nikolai Evreinov and Edith Craig as Mediums of Modernist Sensibility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Nikolai Evreinov (1870-1953) was a Russian playwright, director, and theorist of the theatre who played a leading part in the modernist movement of Russian theatre.
Smith, Alexandra
core   +1 more source

Are Wednesday's Children Full of Woe? Children's Differences in Personality Are Independent of Day of Birth

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Nursery rhymes, which are rich in literary devices, benefit children's language learning. Less is known about the influence that nursery rhymes' messages may have on children's development. We focused on “Monday's Child,” a popular nursery rhyme that alleges children's day of the week of birth forecasts their differences in ...
Emily Wood   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

National Dances of The Nutcracker : A Study of Racial, Cultural, and National Depictions in a Classical Ballet [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Character development is a large component of ballet performance that is integrated into each rehearsal process leading up to the show. In this year’s production of The Nutcracker, I danced the role of Chinese Soloist. As I began my character development,
Hunter-Mason, Meredith
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