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Our America: migratory dreams in Pajtim Statovci’s My Cat Yugoslavia and crossing Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jesse van Amelsvoort, Enrico Dal Bosco
‘Europe was our America,’ the protagonist of Pajtim Statovci’s novel Crossing (2016) remarks as he prepares to leave Albania. In this novel and Statovci’s début, My Cat Yugoslavia (2014), character...
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Shaping pathways of the Musang King and Black Thorn in the Penang Island durian industry Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Penny Wong Pui Yan
A quick Google search about Penang durians will immediately showcase a diversity of durian varieties like Red Prawn, Green Skin, and Khun Poh, in the Penang durio-tourism industry. Durio-tourism at...
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Engendering ethics: recognition and inclusion of intersectional identities in queer communities when conducting population survey research Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Kim Andreassen, Leanda Denise Mason, Julian Chen
This paper delves into the critical importance of ethical considerations in research, with a primary focus on gender, sex, and sexual orientation. Recognizing the vulnerabilities and complexities i...
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On becoming a queer educator: reflections on queer perspectives and approaches in initial teacher education Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Siobhan Unwin, River Starcevich, Svarah Lembo, Madeleine Dobson
This paper will explores the experiences of embedding queer perspectives and approaches into Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Initial teacher education is a topic of great interest; however, little...
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Artistic referencing and emergent standards of peer recognition in Hollywood, 1930–2000 Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Katharina Burgdorf
How does an artwork's referencing of creative content affect its peer recognition? Artists constantly seek to balance the tension between originality and conformity. Previous research argues that peers tend to reward socially well-embedded artists that signal community involvement and literacy of established conventions. Another stream of sociological research argues that the criteria for peer recognition
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Print Dictionaries Are Still in Use: A Survey of Source Preferences by Polish Translators Int. J. Lexicogr. (IF 0.652) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Joanna Sycz-Opoń
The study aimed to investigate the sources used by modern translators, specifically whether they use traditional lexicographic tools or diverted their preferences to newer sources of information. Data was collected via an online survey. The sample consisted of 229 mainly Polish translators of various languages and specialisations. It was found that the most frequently used source was the search engine
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Freak out! At the acousmonium: François Bayle and the dynamics of the subject French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Sam Ridout
French electroacoustic music in the post-war decades has typically been associated with a high modernism that spurned popular or mass culture. This article situates electroacoustic music in the late 1960s and 1970s in relation to the transformation of the cultural field in this period, which unsettled clear divisions between high and low cultures. Attending in particular to the question of subjectivity
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Figured actions in the transformers action figure, nonnormative positivism, disability, and transformation Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Luke Moy
Fan studies has discussed the action figure as a significant avenue of franchise and fan expression. However, there has been little discussion about the ways the action figure affects the fan once ...
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The carceral in Tunisian popular culture French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Mohamed Chamekh
This article makes use of James Scott's theory of ‘hidden transcripts’ to study cultural works and relevant writings that document the history of the carceral in Tunisia. It contends that prisoners found in songs and writings hidden transcripts to resist authoritarianism, to denounce the miscarriage of justice and to communicate with the outside world. Prisoner cultural works and writings show that
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LGBTQ+ collecting institutions: the culture of strategic management, motivation and professionalization Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Rob Cover
This paper presents findings from an Australian Research Council Linkage Project investigating LGBTQ+ memory, migration and collecting institution practices. It analyses the ways in which minority ...
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Queering primary initial teacher education Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 David Rhodes, Matt Byrne, Jason Boron
This research was designed to raise awareness, access and understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, asexual/aromantic and others who sit outside of the hete...
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A philologist’s perspective on Artificial Intelligence – a case study into English Dialect Dictionary Online 4.0 Int. J. Lexicogr. (IF 0.652) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Manfred Markus, Monika Kirner-Ludwig
Our paper seeks to bridge the gap between a linguistic and a technological description of Artificial Intelligence, as we see chatbots and other representations pushing to the forefront of academic ways of working. We set out to venture a philologist’s perspective on AI, critically reflecting upon the extent and nature of a lexicographical software’s ‘intelligence.’ We shall discuss and demonstrate
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Embedded in this modern fast-paced society … can we hear silence? Analysing the presence of silence in a radio programme Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Luz María Gutiérrez-Menéndez
This article examines the notion of silence in the context of the current fast-paced society. The exploratory research project draws on observations relevant to every one of us, surrounded by the c...
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Creating careers in the kingdom of content. The platform-dependence and platform-ambivalence of digital cultural labour in Norway Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ole Marius Hylland, Heidi Stavrum, Mari T. Heian, Bård Kleppe, Kristine P. Miland
Cultural production is to an increasing degree characterized by digitalization, mediatization, platformization and the use of social media. In this article, we investigate how digital cultural labour is experienced by platform-dependent cultural producers. Based on qualitative in-depth interviews with more than twenty Norwegian content creators, we more specifically analyse how they describe and valuate
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Obituary: Patrick Wyndham Hanks Int. J. Lexicogr. (IF 0.652) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Michael Rundell
Though best known for his extensive and often transformative writings on lexicography and corpus linguistics, Patrick Hanks was also a career lexicographer with a strong track record of managing a string of groundbreaking dictionaries. His experience at the lexicographic coalface led him to question dictionary conventions, especially when the corpus data seemed to be at odds with traditional approaches
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Migrant arrests and deportations on fictional television during the Trump era (2017–2021): from tokenistic storytelling to narrative activism Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 César Albarrán-Torres
This article is a comparative analysis discussing the representation of migrant deportations, apprehensions, and raids by ICE in contemporary US television and streaming. The depiction of migration...
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Doing the Nutbush: how Australia got its very own line dance Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Panizza Allmark, Jon Stratton
The Nutbush dance is unique to Australia. It is danced to the Ike and Tina Turner track Nutbush City Limits released in 1973. It is a line dance. Anybody can join the line. This article explores th...
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Provocation in women’s filmmaking: authorship and art cinema Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jadie Stillwell
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Schemata of estrangement in Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed Language and Literature (IF 0.674) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Richard J Whitt
Ursula Le Guin’s novel The Dispossessed (1974) is the first literary treatment of anarchic utopianism, presenting the society on the moon Anarres as operating on social principles lacking any sort of State or governmental oversight (known in the novel as Odonianism). Scholarship on Le Guin’s novel has focused primarily on the overt political and philosophical aspects of the text, while the scant linguistic
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The persuasive mask of postfeminism: Claire’s hegemony and sexual politics in House of Cards Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Dragoș M. Obreja
This article focuses on a particular discussion in the sphere of TV series that revolves around women’s empowerment: the recurring confusion between feminist efforts to improve the condition of wom...
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Survival and speechlessness in Malabou: Oedipus or Eurydice?* French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Eva-Maria Aigner
How to speak of wounding, of survival? Regarding a new “recently adopted apocalyptic tone in philosophy” and the multiple crises of the twenty-first century this question, which has shaped Occidental philosophy after Auschwitz, seems to have gained increased urgency. In her book “The New Wounded” (orig. 2007) Malabou addresses this question of the (im)possibility of the symbolization of traumatic injuries
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The agonistic imagination: the illiberal and pluralist possibilities of contemporary BrexLit fiction Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Marc Farrant
This essay explores recent work of Zadie Smith (‘The Embassy if Cambodia’, 2013, and ‘The Lazy River’, 2019) and David Szalay (All That Man Is, 2016), as examples of BrexLit fiction, a term coined ...
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Farewell on screen: Uncertainty in parasocial relationships and breakups with fictional media characters✰,✰✰ Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Michelle Möri
Viewers form enduring bonds, or parasocial relationships (PSRs), with media characters. They suffer breakup distress when such relationships are dissolved and show emotional reactions similar to those from the dissolution of social relationships. Alongside definite and temporary breakups, this paper introduces the term , and the three breakup types are analyzed and compared. In a two-survey study with
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Countering durian plantationocene visuality and the erasure of natureculture histories in Malaysia Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Gaik Cheng Khoo, Rusaslina Idrus
Large-scale durian plantations are now a major threat, causing deforestation and displacing the Orang Asli, the aboriginal peoples of Peninsular Malaysia, from their customary lands. This paper foc...
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Keep it locked (down): how Melbourne’s community radio stations performed scene functions in the context of the coronavirus pandemic Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Niamh Felton
While community radio scholars have been astute in documenting the democratic and socio-political value of community radio, there has been a lack of analysis towards its specifically musicalized ro...
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Account-sharing programme: beyond piracy streaming platforms in Indonesia Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Tangguh Okta Wibowo
Examining user practices at the centre of debates on video content consumption amidst the popularity of streaming platforms in Indonesia, this paper uses de Certeau’s work (1984) to understand the ...
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Annie Ernaux: politics lived and written French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ève Morisi
‘Annie Ernaux: Politics lived and written’ starts by outlining the aim and key terms of this special issue of French Cultural Studies dedicated to ‘Annie Ernaux: Writing, Politics’. It then provides an overview of her life, highlighting some of the ways in which the writer, who was born in 1940, experienced or witnessed first-hand the historical events, legal pressures, and socio-political realities
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Digital infrastructure, ultra-fast broadband, and citizenship in the Gigatown competition in the South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Holly Randell-Moon
Gigatown (2013–2014) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a town ‘The fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a ...
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Social capital and the intergenerational transmission of cultural capital: How parents’ social networks influence children's accumulation of cultural capital Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Andreas Roaldsnes
How does families’ social networks influence the transmission of cultural capital to their children? Earlier research on this process has mainly focused on within-family mechanisms, and the role of social capital as conceptualized by Pierre Bourdieu has here received little attention. This article explores this question through a study of parents’ social ties and parents’ and children's cultural, leisurely
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Correction Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-27
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 5, 2023)
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Migration and immigration in Europe and its edges Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Eralda L. Lameborshi
Literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century is often concerned with migration, immigration, and exile. Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, Michel Houellebecq’s Submission, and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit W...
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Book Review: Translation and Style (second version) Language and Literature (IF 0.674) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Wen Yongchao, Guo Qi
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Getting research funded: five essential rules for early career researchers Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Gilbert Caluya
Published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies (Vol. 37, No. 6, 2023)
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Models of Polysemy in Two English Dictionaries Int. J. Lexicogr. (IF 0.652) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Francis Bond, Marek Maziarz, Tadeusz Piotrowski, Ewa Rudnicka
In this paper we argue in favor of the radial semantic structure of polysemous entries from the New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE) and the Merriam-Webster dictionary. We formalized four polysemy theories as algorithms linking word senses into polysemy networks, considering the semantic similarity of dictionary definitions calculated using large language models. Chaining algorithms maximized similarity
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Review of Vine & Richards (2022): Stories, Storytellers, and Storytelling Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Yuan Ping
This article reviews Stories, Storytellers, and Storytelling 978-3-031-07234-5
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Review of Elimam & Fletcher (2022): The Qur’an, Translation and the Media: A Narrative Account Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani, Malek Al Refaai
This article reviews The Qur’an, Translation and the Media: A Narrative Account
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Emotional engagement in expressive writing Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Daphna Sabo Mordechay, Zohar Eviatar, Bracha Nir
HaCohen et al. (2018) identified three types of narratives that emerge in the context of integrating a difficult event into one’s life story. We use their identification while focusing on the quality of emotional involvement evidenced in texts, and combining it with an abstract-content text analysis. This allows us to quantify emotional engagement in Expressive Writing (EW) texts. We analyze personal-experience
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Forgiveness through Writing Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 John Patrick Crowley, Amanda Denes, Ambyre Ponivas, Shana Makos, Joseph Whitt
Research has identified that writing can help individuals find forgiveness for their romantic partners in the wake of relational transgressions, but little is known about the actual narrative components that bring about changes in forgiveness. The current study sought to investigate the narrative components that contribute to month-long changes in forgiveness for romantic partners who have recently
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Pre-adolescents narrate classroom experience Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Isabella Fante, Colette Daiute
This study applies sociocultural narrative theory and method to integrate children’s perspectives into research on classroom climate. Sociocultural narrative theory explains how individuals use expressive genres to make sense of environments, how they fit, and what they would like to change. This study incorporates such theory and method into a qualitative research design, applying quantitative analysis
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Employable identities Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Emily Greenbank
Navigating the labour market in a new context can be a challenge for any migrant, and particularly so for former refugees, who are often unable to find employment appropriate for their qualification and experience levels. This study takes an Interactional Sociolinguistic approach to exploring how three former refugees navigate employability in narrative, from the social constructionist perspective
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Ta as an emergent language practice of audience design in CMC Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Kerry Sluchinski
This study examines the use of ungendered third person Chinese pronoun ta in digital first-and-third person voiced discourses (i.e. small stories). The study asks what implications the script choice ta, as opposed to gendered 他 ta ‘he’ and 她 ta ‘she’, has for audience design and the facilitation of character empathy. The study draws on 131 digital texts from celebrity verified accounts on social media
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Narrating organisational identity Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
Organisational identity may be understood as the result of communication processes, e.g. in the form of narratives and stories, that continuously intertwine and compete for the right to define the organisation (Boje, 1995; Humle & Frandsen, 2017). This understanding forms the background of the article which analyses the narrative struggles in a local Danish airport whose collective identity was challenged
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The power of narrative Narrative Inquiry (IF 1.289) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ariana F. Turner, Henry R. Cowan, Rembrandt Otto-Meyer, Dan P. McAdams
Much of the research on narrative identity has used the Life Story Interview (LSI) to better understand the person through the story they construct of their life. However, the effect that the LSI has on participants has not yet been examined. Study 1 looked at 163 middle-aged adults who completed a measure of self-reported positive and negative affect both immediately before and after being interviewed
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Ernaux vue par les écrivain.e.s transfuges et/ou féministes : littérature et insoumission French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Aurélie Adler
RésuméLauréate du Prix Nobel, Annie Ernaux est une écrivaine consacrée mais elle est en outre considérée comme une représentante des dominé.e.s, avec toutes les ambiguïtés que ce terme de « représentante » recouvre. Si la réception de l’œuvre demeure clivée en France, force est de constater que le programme qui a en partie guidé l’œuvre d’Ernaux – « venger ma race et venger mon sexe » – participe d’une
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Les récits de filiation d’Annie Ernaux dans la perspective du care French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Raissa Furlanetto Cardoso
RésuméDepuis la deuxième décennie du XXIe siècle, les études littéraires françaises et québécoises ont identifié une « littérature (du) care », un ensemble d’œuvres dont certains traits rejoignent la perspective féministe du care. En partant d’une suggestion de Larroux (2020), cet article s’intéressera aux deux récits de filiation « laborieuse » d’Annie Ernaux, La Place (1983) et Une femme (1988),
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A deep dive into the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Tony H. Grubesic, Edward Helderop, Bhajleen Kaur
This paper explores the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock, a genre of music that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is currently experiencing a resurgence of popularity in the United States and beyond. In addition to using formal social network analysis to explore the development and transformation of Yacht Rock's collaborative musical network through time, we identify its most influential
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Vive la république européenne? Reading The European Balcony Project as artistic counter-public Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Anke S. Biendarra
The article first contextualizes the European Balcony Project (EBP), a manifesto written by authors Ulrike Guérot, Robert Menasse, and theatre director Milo Rau who subsequently put it up for discu...
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Beyond a queer utopia: interrogating misogyny in transnational boys love media Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Divya Garg, Xiaofei Yang
Boys love (BL) media, a transnational Asian genre centring on male couples, is gaining global attention and academic discussion. As a queer genre, BL has received much positive attention due to its...
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« Désirer désobéir » : politique et stylistique d’un vivre autrement chez Annie Ernaux French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Carole Bourne-Taylor
RésuméChez Annie Ernaux, l’alliage « désirer désobéir » (que j’emprunte à Georges Didi-Huberman) cristallise un engagement motivé par l’indignation et porté par une révolte créatrice – contre les indignités, contre le « désengagement de l’État », contre un déclinisme mortifère. L’opposition d’Ernaux au pouvoir dépasse la simple protestation ; comme chez Camus, qui demeure une de ses inspirations, une
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Annie Ernaux : « engager » la littérature, essai de positionnement théorique French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Maryline Heck
RésuméLa volonté de faire une littérature qui soit, en quelque manière, politique est constamment réaffirmée tout au long du parcours d’écrivaine d’Annie Ernaux. En puisant surtout dans ses écrits réflexifs et déclarations lors d’entretiens, on s’attache à proposer un essai de « situation théorique » des discours méta-poétiques de l’autrice touchant à cette question du politique, afin de voir quelles
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Annie Ernaux: future prospects and the politics of time French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ann Jefferson
This article considers the elaboration of time as part of the formal construction that relates writing and politics in Ernaux's work. Beginning with her claim that ‘Écrire, c’est créer du temps’, particular attention is paid to the role of the future in Ernaux's ‘lived time’, especially the future as anticipated in the past. Her accounts of the past, in both fiction and autobiographical writing, show
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Poïétique et politique du littéraire : Annie Ernaux, une écriture « au-dessous de la littérature » ? French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Elise Hugueny-Léger
RésuméDans Une Femme (1987), Annie Ernaux affirmait se situer « au-dessous de la littérature » : dans quelle mesure ce positionnement, maintenu par l’autrice au fil des décennies, est-il compatible avec sa consécration ? Cet article envisage la publication des Années (2008) comme un tournant qui a été suivi de nombreux textes dialogiques et collaboratifs s’éloignant de formats littéraires consacrés
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A commitment that ruffles feathers: the attacks against Annie Ernaux's political stances French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Gisèle Sapiro
This article was written in response to the attacks on Annie Ernaux following the announcement by the Swedish Academy of its decision to award her the Nobel Prize in Literature on 6 October 2022. In particular, it discusses the accusation of anti-Zionism, more or less explicitly conflated with antisemitism. Through the analysis of texts signed by Ernaux, the article demonstrates that this accusation
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Retour à Oxford avec Annie Ernaux: casting light on class migrant experience French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Lyn Thomas
The documents added to the new edition of Ernaux's Retour à Yvetot (2013, 2022), written during her student years, represent the process and affects of class transition, without the benefits of hindsight, experience, and the readings in sociology, particularly of Bourdieu, that inform her literary texts. I analyse them here both in relation to Ernaux's published works, particularly La Honte and Mémoire
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Reimagining postcolonial identities: The Blancs-Matignon of Guadeloupe French Cultural Studies (IF 0.286) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Mahadevi Ramakrishnan
Mariette Monpierre's and Michel Reinette’s 2022 documentary, Les Derniers Blancs Matignon de Guadeloupe, and Estelle-Sarah Bulle’s 2018 novel, Là, où les chiens aboient par la queue emblematize the complexities involved in reimagining postcolonial identities in Guadeloupe, especially that of the Blancs-Matignon. They are a mostly White, endogamous, and isolated group who have had a discreet existence
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The racial formation not taken: Occupational careers and the making of jazz album covers, 1950–1969 Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Barış Büyükokutan
How are racial representations created? I compare two kinds of jazz album cover from the 1950s and 60s to show that the production of culture approach has untapped potential for answering that question. After demonstrating that photographic and modern art-based work constructed Blackness in different ways, I account for photography's domination of the sleeve by focusing on the structure and history
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Professional patios, emotional studios: Locating social ties in European art residences Poetics (IF 1.857) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Nikita Basov, Dafne Muntanyola-Saura, Sergi Méndez, Oleksandra Nenko
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Jack Johnson’s quiet activism Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ian Collinson, Brent Keogh
Singer-songwriter Jack Johnson is known for his laid back, inoffensive and seemingly uncontroversial music; however (perhaps paradoxically), he is also known for his environmental activism and acco...
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Digital intimacy performed in celebrity voice tweets: forging authenticity amid context collapse Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Seryun Lee
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has been used as one of the primary media used for communication and intimacy between celebrities and their geographically dispersed fans. Within online environmen...
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Moving beyond deficit media figurations of young people: troubling the contemporary ‘youth crime crisis’ Continuum (IF 2.139) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Stewart Riddle, Andrew Hickey, Celmara Pocock, Alarnah McKee, Danika Skye, Rachael Wallis
It is common for the media to cast young people as dangerous and delinquent, particularly when those young people derive from marginalized backgrounds. Moral panics are fuelled and sustained by the...