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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSince creative productions, especially in the literary forms, are expected Li to keep pace with the radical transformations that have a direct or indirect impact on the modes of thinking and living and consequently on...
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From:New West Indian Guide (Vol. 85) Peer-ReviewedRivke Jaffe believes discussion of what to do in Jamaica should move from the question of who rules (the analytic foundation of Meeks's essay) to that of "how do we rule." Doing so, she writes, would make it "possible...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 31, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAgnant, Marie-Celie. "Ecrire pour tuer le vide du silence." Canadian Woman Studies/ les cahiers de la femme. Special Issue: Women and the Black Diaspora, vol. 23, no. 2 (Winter 2004), pp. 86-91. The author traces her...
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From:Nawa: journal of language and communication (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores the representation of Afropolitanism in Taiye Selasi's debut novel Ghana must go (2013). The purpose of the article is to explore Afropolitanism using Selasi's (2005) essay "Who is an Afropolitan?"...
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From:EHumanista (Vol. 20) Peer-ReviewedThis article discusses the "Tur Ivri", the 'Hebrew column' of the weekly Judeo-Spanish El Tiempo, which was published in Tel Aviv (Israel) between 1950 and 1967. The "Tur Ivri" was written by the 'Berit Ivrit Olamit'...
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From:The Australian Journal of Jewish Studies (Vol. 24) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Shlichim from Israel who go to a Diaspora Jewish community share, in most cases, very little, from a cultural perspective, with the local Jewish community. While Shlichim come from a distinctly Israeli...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 38, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines the ways in which two important recent narrative feature films by British women directors, Bhaji on the Beach and Welcome II the Terrordome, challenge conceptions of "black" British filmmaking,...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the controversy over the Beijing Olympics-themed float for the 2008 Pasadena Rose Parade in the broad context of China's public diplomacy and contentious international politics involving the...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 42, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedEdwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker (2004) and Myriam Chancy's The Spirit of Haiti (2003) both confront and are formally shaped to reflect the condition of "dyaspora." The Haitian transnational community, which spans...
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From: France Today[(essay date 2015) In the following review, Bisson calls Black Bazaar an “uproarious novel” that “wittily portrays the African diaspora in Paris, stressing its diversity despite the unity of color.”] There are...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article expands on literary critic Veve A. Clark's discussion of the marasa concept as a mythical theory of textual relationships based on the Haitian Divine Twins by connecting the concept to its African origins,...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article compares changing imaginations of African nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and the black diaspora through the lens of literary genre in two popular magazines, South Africa's Drum and its lesser-known...
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From:Contemporary Review (Vol. 294, Issue 1706)INDIANS and Pakistanis were all Indian until 1947 when Pakistan was formed out of British India. Indian Americans are not to be confused with American Indians. The former are Americans who have a background in the...
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From:The Australian Journal of Jewish Studies (Vol. 24) Peer-ReviewedM. Avrum Ehrlich (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture 3 volumes. Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2009. This is a very well-produced, valuable, and rather unusual three-volume...
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From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBlack Canadian writers have devised various terms to situate themselves and their imagined community in relation to the African motherlands and to map out their black identities on North American soil. Among these...
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From:Hispanofila (Issue 175) Peer-ReviewedQUEEN Esther stands out as a symbol of transformation for early modern Iberian subjects and those who participated in the Sephardic Diaspora. Since its Hebrew origins, the book of Esther has been told and retold in...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 10, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe Department of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley is an intellectual community committed to producing, refining and advancing knowledge of people of African heritage in the United...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 7, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedZimbabwe experienced negative publicity between 2000 and 2008 as a rogue state and ailed state. However, in her album "Wenyasha ndeWenyasha" Fungisai Zvakavapano-Mashavave, a gospel musician contested the negative...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn her article "Personal Geography, floating Identities and Inter-Asian Migration in Stories by Migrant Workers in Taiwan," I-Chun Wang discusses narratives by migrant workers with the purpose of looking into their...
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From:Asian Ethnology (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the life of second-generation Tibetans in India and Switzerland. Descendants of Tibetan refugees often feel a responsibility to get politically involved for Tibet or to maintain Tibetan values and...