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روايات أگادير, أحمد التوفيق

Dirassat

Title : Tales from Agadir

The city of Agadir is situated in strategic area for the Makhzen and the Iberian expansionists alike. The fusion of local cultures with that of the merchants and the colonizers brought about diversity and solidarity of the social fabric. Such affluence and prosperity is invoked in the tales about Agadir as a city of both resistance and integration.

“Oceania Is Us:” An Intimate Portrait Of Chamoru Identity And Transpacific Solidarity In From Unincorporated Territory: [Lukao], Maressa Park

The Criterion

Guåhan’s history of Spanish colonization and inflicted genocide, Japanese occupancy, and American militarization poses profound effects on CHamoru land, rights, physical health, and language survival. These include instances of “celebration colonialism” such as Liberation Day, in which CHamorus celebrate the date that the United States dropped 124 tons of bombs on Guåhan to liberate them from the Japanese ([lukao] 44). Through an analysis of his 2017 anthology from unincorporated territory: [lukao], this essay examines how Dr. Craig Santos Perez casts light on the complex inheritance of native CHamorus via an intimate portrait of diasporic CHamoru identity. Furthermore, I argue that …

Introducing The Medieval Globe, Carol Symes

The Medieval Globe

The concept of “the medieval” has long been essential to global imperial ventures, national ideologies, and the discourse of modernity. And yet the projects enabled by this powerful construct have essentially hindered investigation of the world’s interconnected territories during a millennium of movement and exchange. The mission of The Medieval Globe is to reclaim this “middle age” and to place it at the center of global studies.

Review Essay: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration And Colonization From The Mediterranean To The Atlantic, 1229-1492, De Lamar Jensen

Quidditas

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.