This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
This paper is one of the attempts to show how each East-Asian regional country's memory of the war has been related to the post-war literatures and movies restricted by the structure of the Cold War. In particular, this paper takes up the issue of how th
This article explores the poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim alongside her critical writings. Lim has a successful career as an Asian American poet, novelist and academic after having left Malaysia, where non-Malay Anglophone writers suffer multiple exclusion
Che Guevara's Socialism and Man in Cuba ( 1965) hails the creation of 'a new man', or a new revolutionary identity for all Cubans. This article examines the politics of gender in the creation of this identity in the first decade of the Cuban revolution
This article explores the relationship between fiction and the post-war intellectual history of American liberalism. The theme of betrayal which operates at a number of levels, both political and personal, in Philip Roth's I Married A Communist is shown
This article presents a case study class' response to Mildred Taylor's now classic and widely read novel, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry. Through data collected during one school year, the ways urban, adolescent students use their contemporary lenses to in
Faith Ringgold, best known for Tar Beach, her 1991 Caldecott award winning picturebook, has been addressing social issues in her art since the early 1960s. The purchase of her Tar Beach story quilt by the Guggenheim Museum demonstrates the acceptance of h
The scientific community has begun using new information and communication technologies to increase the efficiency with which publications are disseminated. The trend is most marked in some areas of physics, where research papers are first circulated in t
This article examines the challenges that faced two storytellers when developing an oral retelling of Homer's Iliad for use with children aged 9-11. Drawing on evidence from two schools in a deprived area of London the discussion explores the extent to w
Our paper argues that genre is more than the packaging of a message: it is integral to both the story told and the reader's response, Drawing on formalist and behaviourist approaches, we suggest that the fairy tale, a traditional and universally familiar
Aim To study the composition of fauna in Greece and adjacent areas around 3000 years ago based on the knowledge of Homeric man about the animal kingdom. Location Greece and adjacent areas. Method Analysis of information derived from a thorough study of th
The leading hypothesis for the analysis of the novel The Knife, by Vuk Draskovitch, establishes links among the concepts of procreation, kinship, national identity and genocide. Symbols of procreation and of kinship make up a framework for the notions of
In the Ottomans, translation activities took place without much significance until the 18th century. Due to the dominance of religion and the closed society structure, mostly texts on Islamic civilization and arts from Arabic and Persian were translated i
Musician's focal dystonia is a motor dysfunction that appears in artists after years of repetitive and fine movements during performance. This is the condition most feared by musicians because it leads to difficulties in controlling movements, which can
The cinema, his synthetic character, and the dialogue that it establishes from the origin with other arts as literature, has not stopped offering a wide space of synergies for the adaptation practice and for the study of confluence areas between image and
This article situates Taslima Nasrin, the controversial writer from Bangladesh, in a particular political and religious moment in the history of Bangladesh, to analyse the difficult relationship the postcolonial state shares with a writer whose work delib