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War On Walls: The Role Of Political Murals In Northern Ireland, Julianne Martin

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Shifting Frameworks And Continued Influence: Grassroots Environmental Movements In Los Angeles, Matthew Chin

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Diastole, Charlaine Chen

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Diastole is the space between heartbeats. It is in this space that the heart actively rests, refills. These periods of relaxation are what allow the next heartbeat to occur. A heart without diastole is in heart failure. In medical training, we are raised on the myth that constant effort equals devotion, that rest is a luxury. A sense of guilt riddles me when I take a sick day, or when I feel I am not doing enough, fast enough. This work is a meditation on the nature of rhythm, and the rhythm of nature. These quiet spaces are not signs …

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An Education In Medicine, Angelina Hong

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

The path to becoming a doctor is an arduous and transformative process, and this poem attempts to illustrate a window into it. From the busy pre-med courses in college, to the rigorous academic expectations of medical school, the long work hours in residency, to finally trying to balance life and medicine as a busy attending physician—looking back, I am grateful for the unique opportunity. Not every day seemed positive at the time, but I now see that all the experiences, both good and bad, shaped who I am today and influenced my perception of the world and medicine.

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"I Don’T Know That You Can Do That Anywhere Else": The Role Rural College Towns Play In The Formation Of Queer Identity, Amy Mcdowell, Ryan J. Parsons, Julia Kraus

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education

Challenging dominant narratives suggesting that rural spaces are inhospitable to LGBTQ+ identities, this study examines how queer individuals navigate space, rurality, and queerness in Oxford, Mississippi, a historically conservative college town. Drawing on oral histories from the Queer Mississippi digital archive, we argue that rural institutions of higher learning (rural IHLs) and the college towns they are embedded in serve as critical sites of queer identity formation. The rural college town provides a unique space where LGBTQ+ individuals from both within and outside the South navigate self-discovery, social networks, and belonging. We highlight the transformative role of these spaces in …

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The Most Amazing Masks For Ali Bay!, Chouaib Halifi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article is a detailed introduction to a play which Domenico Badia Leblich wrote about Morocco in 1803 under the pseudonym of Ali Bey Al-Abbasi. It will deal with the mask and the ideological knowledge it implies to achieve ready-made results. All this is achieved through language and theatricalization, which require a fictional structure concealing the writer’s identity and the identity of the discourse inner circle where the political, the historical and the cultural are interwoven. The article will examine this issue through the biography of Domenko Badia the spy, and his biography in which he chose to disguise himself …

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The Heteronomy Of Fernando Pessoa, Filomena Iooss

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

In this article, we do not claim to be inventing the subject matter of Fernando Pessoa’s heteronyms, but rather we authentically collect a collection of information and ideas by feminist critics at various times. Given the huge bibliography accumulated about Pessoa and his creative work, this contribution will necessarily be very reductive. Therefore, our aim is to present a comprehensive and authentic view of such a topic. We will allow ourselves to wonder about Pessoa’s personality, his multiple masks and psychological and philosophical issues he raises, such as the self, the other, consciousness and isolation. His writings present accurate analysis …

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The Traveller And His Masks: The Example Of Pierre-Jean Grosley's Swedes, Antoine Eche

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

In this article, Antoine Eche will elucidate the motives that lead the writer- traveler to concealing his identity during the journey to a foreign country, and also after the publication of his travel narrative. He will therefore analyze the case of Pierre-Jean Grosley's account: Observation sur l'Italie et les italiens, by two Swedish gentlemen, translated from Swedish into French and published in 1764, by exploring in particular the relationship between the reader and the narrative text, which is established by the use of a pseudonym or an anonymous name. Thus, he will examine the question of manipulation and connivance, which …

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The Metaphorical Narrative Vision In Al-Tahir Jean Walis Padovani, Zahra Ibrahim

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Jean-Wallis PADOVANI did not write under a pseudonym or assume the part of any of his characters, but rather published the story of TAHER under his real name. Unlike his contemporaries, who, driven by hidden motives, had changed their names or otherwise disguised themselves in their writings in order to appropriate the identity of the indigenous people, members of their environment, or symbols of their culture, PADOVANI took a different alternative by choosing a narrative form that he cleverly exploited for equally camouflaged purposes. From his luxurious Parisian neighborhood, he dedicated to Jean THARAUD and his brother Jérôme a short …

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Between Knowledge And Disguise The Atlantic Desert With Spanish Eyes, Adel Jahil

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Travel literature is about the description of a country, where the traveller takes notes about his impressions and observations, according to his vision and psychological formation. However, this description mixes reality and imagination, narration and scientific, historical, geographic, social and psychological facts. Through such description, the traveller provides an image about the other in his text, as it is portrayed in the reviews of the 1886 Spanish expedition, which was designated to act for a scientific task in the Atlantic Sahara under the auspices of General Julio Cervera Baviera. Consequently, through its own viewpoint, the expedition provided positive and negative …

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Three Spanish Spies In The Maghreb Of The Century The Nineteenth, Abdelmouneim Bounou

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

At the end of the 19th century, imperialism mobilized a whole conquest arsenal which resulted in a significant increase of archival documents about Morocco, as few travelers ventured into a land that seemed to be symbolic of the unknown. The case of these three Spanish spies, who came to Morocco to spy on the Moroccan society, destabilize the country and thus create the conditions for a military intervention by Spain in Northern and Southern Morocco, reflects the development of European wars and colonial conquests in North Africa, where spying operations flourished throughout the 19th century. The endeavor was about collecting …

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Secret Explorations In Africa: Explorers, Spies And Travelers In Forbidden Regions, Aicha Al-Maati

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article summarizes Fernando Ballano Gonzalo’s Secret explorations in Africa in which he compiled his research on disguised travellers from various nationalities, whose passion for adventure and travel was greater than their fears. These travellers penetrated prohibited African regions with the aim of serving their countries’ governments, or with the desire and personal curiosity of exploring the ‘other.’ They came back with valuable information about the places they visited. They had been supernaturally capable of living spontaneously with a mask/ masks which the other was unable to take off or uncover. The travellers even find themselves sometimes unable to abandon …

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The Enemy Always Comes From The South, Abdelouahed Akmir Director Of The Center For Andalusian Studies And Civilizational Dialogue In Rabat

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This article will describe the dynamism of history which lacks cognitive follow-up, based on the idea of conflict between the North and the South, and on the assertions that often partake of this relationship. These contentions are rooted in the dominant culture, and contribute to orienting this relationship and its history. Among such assertions this article focus on is the fact that "the enemy always comes from the South." The scholar will try to deconstruct such an idea through two axes: The first will be concerned with the way in which this assertion has been established in the Spanish political, …

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Masking Colonial Imposture: When Mardochée Writes Back Against Charles De Foucauld’S Narrative, Ahmed Aziz Houdzi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Charles de Foucault is probably one of the most famous explorers who travelled through pre-colonial Morocco. His achievement is still considered as a milestone in the colonial historiography. However, surprisingly enough, the success and fame of this explorer considerably hide the essential role and the fundamental contribution of his travelling companion Mardochée Aby Serour. This article will examine, through Mustapha Kébir Ammi's novel “Mardochée”, the guide's position regarding the mission in which he undertook together with Charles de Foucault, alias Youssef Aleman. In “Mardochée” (2011), Kébir-Mustapha Ammi gives voice to this character which remained silent and deprived of the right …

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Translucent Masks, Eloquentfaces: Adrián Patroni An (Anti) Orientalist In Morocco, Ahmed Balghzal

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This paper will approach the representations of Morocco in the latin-American discourse, namely through De la Argentina a Marruecos by Adrián Patroni. It will determine the discursive bipolarity in this work which stands in between a critical view based on some basic assumptions of the Orientalist discourse and a deeply subjective assessment of the Moroccan culture that reproduces the same discursive phenomena that the author tries to deconstruct. Through a selective analytical approach, the study will show the impact of using the mask in a set of narrative strategies in order to deconstruct the structure of classical Orientalist writing, such …

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Marruecos Visto Por El Colonizador A Través Del Viaje De Julio Cervera Baviera, Nadia Baline

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

: Julio Cervera Baviera is a scientist, a politician and an adventurer. He is passionate about Africa. He was sent to Morocco in 1884 on a four-month expedition mission with the aim of a subsequent military occupation. This Spanish traveler described most of the details of the expedition in Expedición geográfico- militar al interior y costas de Marruecos, he himself wrote and published in Barcelona in 1885. This book provides a geographical description of the regions he visited, as well as the traditions of their people. Julio Cervera Baviera’s expedition left from Ceuta and arrived in Fez, Morocco, armed with …

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Who Are Pessoa’ English Heteronyms? A Review Of Maria Colom Jiménez’ Thesis Fernando Pessoa’S English Literary Characters, Mohamed Jalid

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

This paper aims at introducing Maria Colom Jiménez[1]’ thesis Fernando Pessoa’s English Literary Characters: A critical Study and Assessment of Personalities and Texts, which was presented in 2016 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctorate degree. Pessoa’s heteronyms (literary characters/ personalities) is presented herein not as pseudonyms, but rather as fictional characters that undertake, alongside or on behalf of him, the task of planning, thinking, creating and writing. Such an imaginary world is, according to Jiménez, the first literary endeavor that allowed him to develop what he called ‘drama emgente’ (drama in people). …

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Editorial (Arabic) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

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Editorial (English) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi

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Regarding World(S): A Review Of Elisha Cohn’S Milieu: A Creaturely Theory Of The Contemporary Novel (2025) And Daniel Wright’S The Grounds Of The Novel (2024), Katarzyna Bartoszyńska

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World Literature According To Its Poster Children, Jernej Habjan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Some of the most influential pronouncements on world literature have been made by the kind of authors who are most likely to emerge as representatives of world literature once we agree on a definition, including Goethe, the young Marx, Tagore, Gorky, Hesse, Kundera, and the distinguished signatories of the manifesto for a world-literature in French. Breaking out of this vicious circle by referring to the authority of pure theorists of world literature is not the solution, as this would only pull us into a new vicious circle where most of these theorists would mostly remind us of the names that …

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A Crisis For Utopia: Jameson, The Collective, And The Future Of World Literature, Trevor Jackson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Working with Fredric Jameson’s influential discussions of utopia and world literature, the essay suggests that the prospect of utopia is frightening and also possibly boring insofar as it threatens to drain away the already waning possibility of experience in a postmodern, globalized world. In this world, resentment of the present seems to go hand in hand with a nostalgia for a fictitious past, underscoring the difficulty of conceptualizing new social, cultural, and economic arrangements. Viewing world literature as a possible source of a new utopian thought, a utopia unlimited to its contemporary dystopian guises, the essay retraces Jameson’s pronouncements on …

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Milan Kundera As A Representative And A Theorist Of World Literature, Lucija Mandić

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The article traces the evolution of Milan Kundera’s notion of world literature across his career, contextualizing his writings within major historical events, including the so-called liberalization of Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, the post-1989 transition of the former Soviet bloc, and the turn of the millennium. Throughout the years, but particularly after his own immigration to France in 1975, Kundera consistently tied the notion of world literature with that of Central Europe to emerge with a conceptual framework that enabled him to position (semi-)peripheral European literatures within the Western canon. In his influential 2005 essay “Die Weltliteratur,” Kundera ultimately reframed the …

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Against Pleonexia: Auerbach, World Literature, And The End Of History, Simon During

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Erich Auerbach’s essay on world literature, written in the early postwar period, has become central to our understanding of the field. This essay contextualizes Auerbach on world literature by approaching it through his larger project, which it thinks about in relation to scholars rarely considered in this context. These scholars are the French literary historians and critics Hippolyte Taine and Remy de Gourmont, and the German historical sociologist Alexander Rüstow. To place Auerbach at an intersection of these very different figures turns out to be illuminating. It both enlarges our sense of him and helps us better understand why he …

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Small Nations, Big Debates: Empowering The Slovenes As A Subject Of World History In The Critical 1930s, Marko Juvan

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The article looks at how Slovene intellectuals and writers in the 1930s attempted to redefine the role of a small nation within the world-system in the face of global economic crisis, authoritarianism, imperialism, and the threat of fascist expansion. Three central interventions are examined in detail: firstly, Josip Vidmar’s culturalist defense of Slovenia as a nation defined by its intellectual and artistic achievements, which is contrasted with Edvard Kardelj’s Marxist reinterpretation of the Slovene national question as part of a broader anti-imperialist struggle; secondly, Anton Ocvirk’s peripheral model of comparative literary history, which emphasizes the creative contribution of small literatures …

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The Proletarian Moment In World Literature, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

During the interwar period (1918–1939), an international literary movement emerged in relation to internationalist and socialist politics and political struggles. Writers around the world saw themselves as contributors to a new proletarian moment within the historical unfolding of world literature. This movement was international, and writers situated on the peripheries of both the capitalist core and the emerging socialist world looked toward revolutionary Russia and other centers of the socialist world. This paper focuses on three such authors, the American Richard Wright, the Argentinian Roberto Arlt, and the Icelander Halldór Laxness. During the interwar period, all three were involved in …

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Zheng Zhenduo And The Problem Of Priority In World Literature, Daniel M. Dooghan

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This essay investigates how Zheng Zhenduo (郑振铎 1898–1958) developed a theory of world literature in response to threats to China both politically from without and culturally from within. Centered on an analysis of his 1922 article “A View on the Unification of Literature” (Wenxue de tongyiguan 文學的統一觀), the essay argues that although Zheng believed like many of his contemporaries in the transformative effects of reading world literature in translation, that does not constitute the entirety of his theorization of world literature. Instead, he accepted the first-move advantage of other national literatures in defining both world literary standards and literature …

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Beyond The Great Wall: Zheng Zhenduo’S “Unification” Of World Literature At The Juncture Of China’S May Fourth And Post-World War I Era, Wenxin Liang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

This article examines Chinese literary scholar Zheng Zhenduo’s 1922 essay “A View on the Unification of Literature” (Wenxue de tongyiguan 文學的統一觀) as a counter-narrative to both imperial isolationism and post-World War I nationalist fragmentation. Writing at the intersection of China’s May Fourth Movement and the global post-war crisis, Zheng developed a theory of world literature that challenged both Goethean Eurocentrism and the compartmentalization of comparative literary studies. Through systematic analysis of Zheng’s theoretical writings, editorial projects, and pioneering work on folk literature (suwenxue 俗文學), this article demonstrates that Zheng’s project of “the unification of literature” operated on three …

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An Arc Stretched Between East And West: World (Or Universal?) Literature In Maxim Gorky’S Publishing Utopias, Francesca Lazzarin

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The Vsemirnaia Literatura publishing house was founded in Petrograd by Maxim Gorky less than a year after the October Revolution. Aligned with the objectives of the new regime, its mission was to translate and publish a substantial body of European and Asian poetry and prose, thereby contributing to the broad cultural education of the emerging Soviet generations. These ambitions clearly reflect a key element of Gorky’s conception of culture as well: for Gorky, culture in its broadest sense (encompassing literature, art, music, and science) had the potential to unite humanity under the ideals of peace and harmony. Within this new …

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A World Without Literature? Tagore’S Words For His Times And Ours, Salmoli Choudhuri

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In 1907, Rabindranath Tagore delivered a lecture on world literature to an audience in Calcutta, the then capital of British India. Amid powerful and intersecting forces—colonialism and nationalism, industrial modernity and mass poverty—Tagore’s position on literature was neither disengaged nor defensive, insofar as he related it to the human condition and the capacity for world-making. Far from staking a representational claim to world literature on behalf of Indian or Bengali literature, I argue in this article, Tagore reconceptualized the idea from its earlier canonical formulation by Goethe. He departed from dominant nineteenth-century philosophies that conceived the world as a spatial—and …

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War On Walls: The Role Of Political Murals In Northern Ireland, Julianne Martin

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An Education In Medicine, Angelina Hong

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"I Don’T Know That You Can Do That Anywhere Else": The Role Rural College Towns Play In The Formation Of Queer Identity, Amy Mcdowell, Ryan J. Parsons, Julia Kraus

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SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

The Heteronomy Of Fernando Pessoa, Filomena Iooss

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The Traveller And His Masks: The Example Of Pierre-Jean Grosley's Swedes, Antoine Eche

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The Metaphorical Narrative Vision In Al-Tahir Jean Walis Padovani, Zahra Ibrahim

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Between Knowledge And Disguise The Atlantic Desert With Spanish Eyes, Adel Jahil

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Three Spanish Spies In The Maghreb Of The Century The Nineteenth, Abdelmouneim Bounou

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Secret Explorations In Africa: Explorers, Spies And Travelers In Forbidden Regions, Aicha Al-Maati

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

The Enemy Always Comes From The South, Abdelouahed Akmir Director Of The Center For Andalusian Studies And Civilizational Dialogue In Rabat

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Masking Colonial Imposture: When Mardochée Writes Back Against Charles De Foucauld’S Narrative, Ahmed Aziz Houdzi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Translucent Masks, Eloquentfaces: Adrián Patroni An (Anti) Orientalist In Morocco, Ahmed Balghzal

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Marruecos Visto Por El Colonizador A Través Del Viaje De Julio Cervera Baviera, Nadia Baline

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Who Are Pessoa’ English Heteronyms? A Review Of Maria Colom Jiménez’ Thesis Fernando Pessoa’S English Literary Characters, Mohamed Jalid

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Editorial (Arabic) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Editorial (English) Disguise Representations(S), Chouaib Halifi

SOROUD: The journal of Literacy Criticism

Regarding World(S): A Review Of Elisha Cohn’S Milieu: A Creaturely Theory Of The Contemporary Novel (2025) And Daniel Wright’S The Grounds Of The Novel (2024), Katarzyna Bartoszyńska

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

World Literature According To Its Poster Children, Jernej Habjan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

A Crisis For Utopia: Jameson, The Collective, And The Future Of World Literature, Trevor Jackson

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Milan Kundera As A Representative And A Theorist Of World Literature, Lucija Mandić

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Against Pleonexia: Auerbach, World Literature, And The End Of History, Simon During

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Small Nations, Big Debates: Empowering The Slovenes As A Subject Of World History In The Critical 1930s, Marko Juvan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

The Proletarian Moment In World Literature, Anna Björk Einarsdóttir

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Zheng Zhenduo And The Problem Of Priority In World Literature, Daniel M. Dooghan

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Beyond The Great Wall: Zheng Zhenduo’S “Unification” Of World Literature At The Juncture Of China’S May Fourth And Post-World War I Era, Wenxin Liang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

An Arc Stretched Between East And West: World (Or Universal?) Literature In Maxim Gorky’S Publishing Utopias, Francesca Lazzarin

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

A World Without Literature? Tagore’S Words For His Times And Ours, Salmoli Choudhuri

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture