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Ángel Rama contra la ciudad letrada: Prehistoria de un concepto

Latin American Research Review
A pesar de su abarcadora influencia, La ciudad letrada de Ángel Rama (1984) ha sido sometida en los últimos años a una intensa crítica que ha cuestionado la relación demasiado unívoca que el argumento planteaba entre escritura y poder, así como su ...
Miguel Martínez
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Building Belonging: Place‐Making Practices of Ghanaian Returnees in Accra's Creative Industries

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Ghanaian returnees in Accra's creative industries cultivate belonging through the creation of cultural venues. While return‐migration scholarship has largely emphasised returnees' psychic ‘in‐betweenness’ and cultivation of symbolic ‘third spaces’, this study explores the material and spatial practices through which ...
Amanda Haarman
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On Emerging British‐Latinx Art: The Case of Art Ubicua

Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The historicisation of Latinx art has been consolidated as a field of study in the United States. While categorising art by specific communities or geographic regions can sometimes marginalise artists, such classifications have also opened up opportunities in spaces that might otherwise remain exclusive and inaccessible.
Clara Garavelli
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Investigating cultural appropriation: An introduction, policy implications, and legal recommendations

Social Issues and Policy Review, Volume 19, Issue 1, December 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I propose a multidimensional model of cultural appropriation, including psychological antecedents of appropriation, policy‐level moderators, and implications for racial oppression. In terms of antecedents, I discuss how colorblind racism, aversive racism, and system justification contribute to two dimensions of cultural ...
Ariel J. Mosley
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Mimesis, Ethnopsychology, and Transculturation: Identifications in Birthday Celebrations among Banabans in Fiji

, 2017
n this chapter I shall consider mimesis as an integral component of transculturation. The term “transculturation,” which Fernando Ortiz ([1947] 1995) was the first to use, describes the processes of adoption, recontextualization, and reconceptualization ...
Hermann, Elfriede, Mageo, Jeannette
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TRAVELERS IN TRANSLATION: OF “LIMINAL SPACES” AND “LITERARY CONTACT ZONES”

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 365-374, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite the global visibility of the migrant as a key figure in discussions of human rights, the contours of the migrant as a subject of rights still remain unspecified. However, global human rights fictions, which are often rooted in autobiographical and biographical accounts, offer alternative subjectivities by producing narrative forms that
LAURA A. ZANDER
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Mismatching Perspectives and Pacific Transculturality

Coolabah, 2013
Increased critical consciousness and awareness of interculturality in a global and glocal context at the beginning of the twenty-first century has increasingly used the concept of transculturation when discussing modernities. Politically transculturation
Anne Holden Rønning
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MIGRATION, MOBILITY, AND BEING IN TRANSLATION

History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 396-404, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Drawing on an expanded concept of translation as process and practice, this contribution to the “Translation, Migration, Narrative” forum explores how migrants, as described by scholars such as Paul F. Bandia, embody “translated beings” who are marked both by agency and by constraint.
Peter Schneck, Julie M. Weise
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Transculturation : writing beyond dualism [PDF]

, 2011
This study focuses on three works by Chinese American women writers. It is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural investigation of transculturation. The prefixes “inter-,” “cross-” and “trans-” explored throughout suggest dynamism. The narrations of the
Cheng, M.
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American Space and European Theory. Dialogd in Literature and Painting

Revista de Culturas y Literaturas Comparadas, 2016
Primarily, the article approaches Alejo Carpentier’s poetics understood as the result of processes of transculturation that incorporate the author’s transoceanic contacts with the European avant garde movements, mainly French surrealism, and anthropology.
Cristina Elgue-Martini
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