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The Absurdity Of Liberation In Moroccan Prison Narratives, Hakima Choukri 2025 University of Abdelmalek Essaadi

The Absurdity Of Liberation In Moroccan Prison Narratives, Hakima Choukri

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Moroccan prison narratives have been credited with major political and social changes, yet their existential value is equally worth acknowledging. The prison narratives of Aziz Binebine, Mohamed Raiss, Malika Oufkir, and Fatna El Bouih, to mention but a few, are fraught with existentialist patterns that are uncovered upon reading them comparatively. One pattern that persists through these narratives is the absurdity of liberation. Borrowing Camus’ concept of the absurd, this article highlights the absurdity of the post-prison chapter for being nothing more than an extension of the prison episode that makes the impossibility of freedom acutely felt. The absurdity of …


Captivity, Resistance And Political Consciousness In Walid Daqqa’S Prison Literature, Ashjan Ajour 2025 Birmingham City University

Captivity, Resistance And Political Consciousness In Walid Daqqa’S Prison Literature, Ashjan Ajour

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article examines the prison literature of the Palestinian intellectual Walid Daqqa who has been serving a life sentence for resistance since 1986 in Israeli prisons. From the depth of his experience he writes about his conceptualization of captivity, colonial violence, the resistance of the Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system and the construction of Palestinian national imagination in his book Consciousness Molded: or The Re-Identification of Palestinian Torture (2010) Published in Arabic and his first young adults novel The Story of the Oil’s Secret (ikayat Sir al-Zeit) published in 2018 in Arabic. Daqqa has become …


Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing From Captivity, Basil Farraj 2025 Birzeit University

Palestinian Prisoners: Smuggling Freedom, Writing From Captivity, Basil Farraj

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article discusses writings by Palestinian political prisoners and the broader body of prison literature situating them as practices of ‘smuggling freedom’ from Israel’s carceral regime, shedding light onto their political and social meaning. Through discussing writings by prisoners, the article points to a long history through which Palestinian prisoners confronted the Israeli regime’s torture and violent practices, and its broader project of eliminating the political nature of captivity. The article argues that prisoners’ writings reveal much about the dynamics of carceral power and violence, and the logic behind the confrontation practices used by prisoners in Palestine and beyond. These …


New Approaches To Mena Prison Literatures After 2011, Anne-Marie McManus 2025 Forum Transregionale Studien

New Approaches To Mena Prison Literatures After 2011, Anne-Marie Mcmanus

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Translanguaging: Old Wine In A New Bottle, Or New Wine?, Kristin Lems 2025 National Louis University

Translanguaging: Old Wine In A New Bottle, Or New Wine?, Kristin Lems

Faculty Publications

The conversation about translanguaging is creating waves around the world, and Illinois is no exception. This column serves to remind the reader of some of the antecedents to this influential concept (“old wine”), predicts how this movement may affect your education setting (“new bottle”), and lays out a few of the aspects of translanguaging that may indeed be “new wine.”


#35 Understanding In Lao, Victoria Gill 2025 Lesley University

#35 Understanding In Lao, Victoria Gill

Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This piece is a celebration, an interpretation, and translation of Lao words and of the Lao language as poetry. This poem dissects and discuss the differences between how the word "understand" is conceptualized and embodied in the Lao language versus English. Further, it shows how in Lao, there are even deeper nuances between what it means "to know" versus "to understand" in Lao.


Chaucer’S Complaint To His Purse And Authority In The World, Paul A. Olson 2025 University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Chaucer’S Complaint To His Purse And Authority In The World, Paul A. Olson

Department of English: Faculty Publications

Chaucer’s Complaint to His Purse concerns more than the poet’s financial need under the new Lancastrian administration. It speaks to the limits of Henry IV’s royal authority and, through irony, to the limitations of Chaucer’s purse’s power. Underlining royal limits, Chaucer petitions the king as one who holds office through election and line but not con-quest, which is Henry’s position on his office as well. In speaking iron-ically of the purse’s authority, the poet addresses the gold that the mon-arch might grant him as if it constituted a human or divine patron, but he does so in a hierarchy of …


Lgbtq+ Maine Timeline (Sources Included), Megan MacGregor 2025 LQBTQ+ Collection Advisory Committee, University of Southern Maine

Lgbtq+ Maine Timeline (Sources Included), Megan Macgregor

USM Libraries & Learning Scholarship

This timeline is in no way complete. If you would like to add something to the timeline please reach out to Megan MacGregor ([email protected]) with the event AND a source showing that it happened.


The Negative Impact Of Book Banning On American Students, Andrew Carruthers 2025 Kennesaw State University

The Negative Impact Of Book Banning On American Students, Andrew Carruthers

Emerging Writers

The purpose of this research article is to analyze the impact of book banning on American K-12 students in the United States of America and to convey the negative effects of that impact. Book banning is a form of censorship that involves the restriction and/or prohibition of a book, typically by removing it from a library, bookstore, or school reading list. American book banning in the modern era is typically carried out with the intent of shielding the American youth from content considered to be inflammatory, controversial, and/or inflammatory. This article argues that this method is counterintuitive and also serves …


Toward A Welcoming Classroom: Assessment Of Student Perceptions Of Writing Education In Introductory Honors College Courses, Hilary K. Snow 2025 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Toward A Welcoming Classroom: Assessment Of Student Perceptions Of Writing Education In Introductory Honors College Courses, Hilary K. Snow

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This study examines student perceptions of an introductory-level writing program in honors at a large, public R1 university. Author considers the efficacy of pedagogical interventions aimed at identifying gaps in the experience of writing for students from BIPOC and first-generation backgrounds and at developing more inclusive teaching practices. Collective revisions to the program’s writing philosophy, objectives, and rubrics helped instructors gain clarity and consistency across sections. A two-part survey was conducted at the beginning and end of the semester, and metrics were calculated for all respondents (N = 176) and targeted subgroups (n = 37; n = 30). …


Eros And The Sublime: Tools For Reaching Toward An Altered Ecological Consciousness, Aineka Carlson 2025 University of Montana, Missoula

Eros And The Sublime: Tools For Reaching Toward An Altered Ecological Consciousness, Aineka Carlson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This thesis explores connections between the Kantian sublime and Anne Carson’s ideas regarding “eros.” Since Kant’s Critique of Judgement was published in 1790, the Kantian sublime has grown in popularity and been utilized by theorists and creative writers alike. While the Kantian sublime is often associated with nature in popular culture, there are certain egocentric and phallocentric elements of this mode of thinking that might inhibit a biocentric mindset. Through a character study of Oryx from Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake, this thesis draws relations between the subjugation of women, nature, and the ways in which the popularized …


Family Foreign Language Education Planning Research In China : Key Issues And Future Directions, Hao Xu 2025 Chulalongkorn University

Family Foreign Language Education Planning Research In China : Key Issues And Future Directions, Hao Xu

PASAA

No abstract provided.


How Does The Bangkok Post Transform Press Into News Stories?, Jenjira Jitpaiboon, Jonathan Newton, Passapong Sriprachan 2025 Chulalongkorn University

How Does The Bangkok Post Transform Press Into News Stories?, Jenjira Jitpaiboon, Jonathan Newton, Passapong Sriprachan

PASAA

No abstract provided.


Unveiling The Distinction Of Near Synonymy : A Corpus-Based Analysis On Attempt, Endeavor, Strive, And Try, Piyapong Laosrirattanachai, Piyanuch Laosrirattanachai 2025 Chulalongkorn University

Unveiling The Distinction Of Near Synonymy : A Corpus-Based Analysis On Attempt, Endeavor, Strive, And Try, Piyapong Laosrirattanachai, Piyanuch Laosrirattanachai

PASAA

No abstract provided.


English Textbooks In The Modern World : Cultural Representation In An Efl Textbook From Vietnam, Khoi Tan Minh Vuong, Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk 2025 Chulalongkorn University

English Textbooks In The Modern World : Cultural Representation In An Efl Textbook From Vietnam, Khoi Tan Minh Vuong, Wannapa Trakulkasemsuk

PASAA

No abstract provided.


Integrating Corpus-Based Methods To Determine Grammatical Topics For Teaching English Writing In The Thai Context, Raymund T. Palayon, Yenying Chongchit 2025 Chulalongkorn University

Integrating Corpus-Based Methods To Determine Grammatical Topics For Teaching English Writing In The Thai Context, Raymund T. Palayon, Yenying Chongchit

PASAA

No abstract provided.


Coherence In L2 Narrative Paragraphs Through The Lens Of Rhetorical Structure Theory, Suppathat Wuthikhamprapan, Prapatsorn Tiratanti 2025 Chulalongkorn University

Coherence In L2 Narrative Paragraphs Through The Lens Of Rhetorical Structure Theory, Suppathat Wuthikhamprapan, Prapatsorn Tiratanti

PASAA

No abstract provided.


Exploration Of The Effects Of Sharing Critical Incidents On Tertiary Level Efl Learners’ Learning And Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Duygu İşpınar Akçayoğlu 2025 Chulalongkorn University

Exploration Of The Effects Of Sharing Critical Incidents On Tertiary Level Efl Learners’ Learning And Self-Efficacy Beliefs, Duygu İşpınar Akçayoğlu

PASAA

No abstract provided.


A Course In English Language Teaching, Third Edition, Poonyavee Navetra 2025 Chulalongkorn University

A Course In English Language Teaching, Third Edition, Poonyavee Navetra

PASAA

No abstract provided.


Pronunciation : The Big Picture, Donna M. Brinton 2025 Chulalongkorn University

Pronunciation : The Big Picture, Donna M. Brinton

PASAA

No abstract provided.


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