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The ‘Others’ In John Lanchester’S The Wall, Gregory White
The ‘Others’ In John Lanchester’S The Wall, Gregory White
Government: Faculty Books
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Refuge And Resistance: Theater With Kurds And Yezidi Survivors Of Isis, Ellen Kaplan
Refuge And Resistance: Theater With Kurds And Yezidi Survivors Of Isis, Ellen Kaplan
Theatre: Faculty Publications
This essay looks at ongoing efforts to revitalize arts and culture among the Yezidi and broader Iraqi Kurdish communities. The Yezidi are survivors of the 2014 genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS, also known by its Arabic acronym Da’esh) which resulted in mass killing, captivity and expulsion from their ancestral homeland of Mt. Sinjar in northern Iraq. They are part of the Kurdish people, who have engaged in centuries of struggle to protect their cultural and political identity, establish autonomy and ensure their security in the broader Middle East. After a brief overview of the Yezidi genocide and its …
“Gather Up The Reliques Of Thy Race” : Paynim Remains In Faery-Land, Tess Grogan
“Gather Up The Reliques Of Thy Race” : Paynim Remains In Faery-Land, Tess Grogan
English Language and Literature: Faculty Publications
Placing Sansfoy’s death and the disappearance of his body alongside The Faerie Queene’s other defeated paynims—the Souldan and Pollente, Pyrochles and Cymochles—reveals that Spenser’s poem breaks from epic tradition in its treatment of the enemy dead. The corpse desecration and immoderate mourning habitually practiced by Spenser’s foreign characters makes visible early modern English anxieties about the limits placed on grief and the rites owed to the departed. In Book II, classical ideals of universal burial are gradually supplanted by treatment determined by racial and religious difference. Guyon’s evolving response to the question of burial discloses the racial stakes of paynim …
On Recovering Early Asian American Literature, Floyd Cheung
On Recovering Early Asian American Literature, Floyd Cheung
English Language and Literature: Faculty Books
Beginning in the early 1970s, scholars have been recovering an Asian American literary archive. The first anthologies of Asian American literature defined the field in divergent ways. Some focused on US-born writers and a politics of cultural nationalism. Others embraced a wider range of writers and a variety of political positions. The second wave of anthologies and scholarly discussions reacted against more limited views of Asian American literature and extended the field to encompass more women writers, genres such as poetry and drama, works written before the 1960s, and authors from beyond those of East Asian descent. Depending on the …
Meridians 18:1, Ginetta Candelario
Meridians 18:1, Ginetta Candelario
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
Exemplifying Meridians’s mission to bring race and transnationalism into feminist conversation, the pieces in this issue illuminate what is at stake in our quests to grapple with settler colonial and imperialist legacies that flow through us. Like rivers, at times these legacies carry us along, at others they pull us under or require that we gather all our energies to swim against the current, and oftentimes these legacies demand that we remedy and protect them from the toxic wastes of earlier generations....
Women And Social Movement In Modern Empires Since 1820, Elisabeth Armstrong
Women And Social Movement In Modern Empires Since 1820, Elisabeth Armstrong
Study of Women and Gender: Faculty Publications
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