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“Cuentos, chistes y latines. Género discursivo oral, heteroglosia extrema y heterogeneidad cultural en Mulata de Tal de Miguel Ángel Asturias”. Latin American Literary Review.

by Daniel Ares López

Published in Latin American Literary Review. In press.

Colonial Narrative and Indigenous Consciousness in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Ignazio Silone’s Fontamara: A Partnership Study

by Stefano Mercanti

Voice and Memory: Indigenous Imagination and Expression
G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty (Eds.)

Written oral history: Dimensions of identity of Chukotka’s indigenous people in the works of Rytkheu

by Ivan Sablin

published in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 8, no. 1, 2012, pp. 27–41.

Through the examination of two autobiographic works of Chukchi writer, Rytkheu, this study demonstrates the research... more Through the examination of two autobiographic works of Chukchi writer, Rytkheu, this study demonstrates the research potential of indigenous literatures, offering a new perspective on the past and present of indigenous peoples. The study seeks to provide new interpretations of identity in Chukotka, the northeastern extremity of Asia, of the 1930s and 1940s and to contribute to the identity debate in indigenous studies. In the article identity is understood as a multidimensional whole, with the discussed dimensions being based on ethnicity, nationality, occupation and place of residence. The article pre-eminently addresses the identity of the coastal sea-mammal hunters of Chukotka.

Review of Melanie A. Murray, Island Paradise: The Myth. Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, 2009

by Enrica Picarelli

Appeared in Anglistica AION, 14.1 (2010)

“‘A way of happening, a mouth’: Public Transactions and Interior Spaces in the Poetry of Singapore,” Moving Worlds: A journal of Transcultural Writings Issue Vol. 10 no. 1 2010 (University of Leeds): 182-193.

by neil murphy

“Reading by Recipe: Postcolonial Theory and the Practice of Reading” in Richard Bradford (ed.) Teaching Theory. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: 146-161.

by neil murphy

Phenomenological Studies of Imagination in Poetry: An Introduction

by Arezou Zalipour

Published in 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, July 2010

The broad and dominant discipline of phenomenology has produced many studies of imagination. Phenomenological studies... more The broad and dominant discipline of phenomenology has produced many studies of imagination. Phenomenological studies examine imagination as a dimension of language
and explore the creative role of imagination in the creation of new meanings in language. This exploration has many implications in poetry where language is used creatively and
new meanings emerge from the creative and unexpected use of language by the poet. This paper aims to describe a phenomenological account of  magination in poetry by introducing the concepts that appear most relevant to imagination in poetry within the domain of phenomenological studies. In order to do this, the study focuses on the main tenets of phenomenological studies relevant to imagination in poetry, namely the concepts of ‘metaphor’ and ‘intentionality’. The discussion highlights the level of creativity of imagination in poetry in comparison with the reduction of imagining to perceiving in language. Likewise, the poetic image in poetry is also introduced as an image which is not a resume of the old meanings of perception. Phenomenology of imagination in poetic creation takes us beyond the pervious analyses of the characteristics of imagination as a creative faculty and helps to establish a link between creativity, meaning and imagination.

Reality Over Imagination in Muhammad Haji Salleh’s Rowing Down Two Rivers

by Arezou Zalipour

Zalipour, Arezou. 2010. Reality Over Imagination in Muhammad Haji Salleh’s Rowing Down Two Rivers. Journal of Malay Literature. Vol. 23, No.1.

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One important function of imagination is to understand reality. Imagination and reality are inherently related and... more One important function of imagination is to understand reality. Imagination and reality are inherently related and poetry is one zone where imagination and reality meet. Complementary changes in the nature of reality, as well as cultural and ideological configurations, especially in postcolonial writing which aim to reconstruct a sense of nationalism and nationhood, call for a re-evaluation of the concept of creative imagination perhaps differently from its earlier configurations. Having said that, this paper aims to raise the issue of the difference between the two ideologies of poetry with reference to the imagination and reality, and argues that the difference is related to the concept and state of imagination in the poem. This paper focuses on Muhammad Haji Salleh’s Rowing Down Two River (2000) to investigate the dominance of reality over imagination. The relevant concepts that relate reality to imagination in the domain of artistic creation will be used as the conceptual framework of this study. The analytical procedure will consist of examining the types of images and their associations in the selected poems in order to explore Muhammad’s mode of conveyance of the elements of reality. The analysis demonstrates that Muhammad’s overreliance on sensory images and idea images results in the dominance of reality over imagination in his poetry. The significant motifs in his poems in Rowing Down Two Rivers such as road, journey, the traveller, home, quest, and identity are embodied in words or descriptions denoting sensory experience which leads to familiar associations with Malaysian reality. Imagination in poetry is considered to be a human faculty concerned with creating autonomous aesthetic artefacts which can represent directly or indirectly the human experience. This study identifies that for Muhammad, this notion has now been turned into an agency that is used solely for nurturing and insulating the intellectualism and idealism of social Malaysian identity and life.

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Caribische zoektochten’ in de hedendaagse Nederlandse literatuur – Enkele inzichten uit de postkoloniale en feministische literaire theorie

by Martina Vitackova

Deze bijdrage neemt onder de loep de positie van blanke vrouwen in de postkoloniale samenleving. Aan de hand van een... more Deze bijdrage neemt onder de loep de positie van blanke vrouwen in de postkoloniale samenleving. Aan de hand van een korte analyse van twee voorbeelden van de hedendaagse postkoloniale literatuur in het Nederlands, geschreven door vrouwelijke auteurs, worden theoretische opvattingen uit het gebied van postkoloniale en feministische (literaire) theorie verduidelijkt. De analyse van de personages van Ada in Nelleke Noordervliets Pelican Bay en Janera in Gezandstraald van Aliefka Bijlsma laat in de praktijk zien hoe ambivalent de positie van een blanke vrouw op de botsing van de as van gender en ras kan zijn. Tevens zal een oplossing voor de postkoloniale identiteitscrisis aangeboden worden, met behulp van de theorie van Homi Bhabha, en in de praktijk aangewezen op de voorbeelden van de personages van Ada en Janera.

"Postcolonial/Transcultural/Transnational: American Studies, American Literature, and the World"

by Ruth Mayer

Forthcoming in American Studies Today: Recent Developments and New Perspectives. Ed. Erik Redling. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012.

Prosaic Imagination in Contemporary Personal Poetry

by Arezou Zalipour

Arezou Zalipour. 2011. “Prosaic Imagination in Contemporary Personal Poetry”. Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 68-86. ISSN 1905 - 856X.

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Contemporary poets are inspired to write about their personal lives and experiences. This can be considered as a... more Contemporary poets are inspired to write about their personal lives and experiences. This can be considered as a reaction to T. S. Eliot’s idea of a poem as “impersonality,” or the trend of hiding a personal life behind a poem’s mask. The willingness to write personal poetry goes back to the breakthrough of the American Confessional Movement of the late 1950s. It established a tradition in poetry that has evolved and survived until today. Personal poetry is an attempt to express concerns about the individual’s worth and the value of life in a modern and seemingly strange world. The contemporary poet’s choice of writing about himself and his life has influenced the nature of creative imagination in contemporary poetry. This tendency affects and limits the manifestations of creative imagination in poetry.This paper aims to investigate and discuss this phenomenon. The conceptual framework consists of the
examination and discussion of types of images and features of poetic imagination in the selected samples of contemporary personal poetry. The significant contribution of the study is conceptualisation of the prosaic imagination as a dominant mode of creative imaginatio

Edward Said's cultural influences on and of his "ORIENTALISM"-Paper presentation

by Susanna Iacona Salafia

This presentation wants to overview the cultural influences "on“ and “of” Edward Said‘s work "Orientalism“... more This presentation wants to overview the cultural influences "on“ and “of” Edward Said‘s work "Orientalism“ “by” and “on” other academicians and scholars till our days. The work, published in 1978, is considered “the Bible” of the post-colonial theories . Said has been influenced by some scholars but has, on his turn, influenced a new generation of thinkers in their approach to the “East” world-
The Michel Foucault’s poststructuralism, the J.P Sartre “non-essentialist theory” and the S. De Beauvoir “contructionist” view are the philosophical theories recognizable in or behind the “Orientalism” critics of the stereotypes and clichés bulit up by Western scholars on Oriental world and people. But should Said be criticized through the same theorethical categories he adopted in criticizing the western Orientalism?

"The Inquisition the realm of Fear"- by Toby Green-book review

by Susanna Iacona Salafia

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"Strategic Empathizing: Techniques of Bounded, Ambassadorial, and Broadcast Narrative Empathy"

by Suzanne Keen

Civilización y barbarie. La instauración de una ‘diferencia colonial’ durante los debates del siglo XVI, y su encubrimiento como 'diferencia cultural'

by Patricio Lepe-Carrión

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Reflexiones en torno a la instalación de la colonialidad en Chile. Evangelización, educación, y reproducción de la 'diferencia colonial' en el siglo XVII

by Patricio Lepe-Carrión

En editorial para ser publicado en el libro colectivo "Colonialidad/Decolonialidad del poder saber: miradas desde el sur". Universidad Austral de Chile.

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