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- 1From:Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn their Anthology, Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience, Hatch and Stout argue that Edwards' strand of Christianity is more critical to the American experience than many modern thinkers may realize. They claim...
- 2From:World Literature Today (Vol. 97, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBridget Pitt, author of the novel Eye Brother Horn, reflects on how South Africa's colonial history, and the entanglement of nature conservation with social inequality and violence, means that many efforts to connect...
- 3From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 32, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThere is a document from my first book, Sex and the Family in Colonial India, that continues to haunt me because it represents an important omission in how I explained sexuality in colonial India. The document I am...
- 4From:Canadian Literature (Issue 250) Peer-ReviewedIn her travel narrative Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), British writer Anna Jameson criticizes the Americans at Sault Ste. Marie for "considerably encroach[ing] on the cemetery" of the local...
- 5From:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn December 1940, 1,580 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-controlled Europe survived a long journey to Haifa only to be deported by the British Mandate authorities in Palestine to the British colony of Mauritius. Using this...
- 6From:Twentieth Century Communism (Issue 23) Peer-ReviewedThis article outlines the nature of Cypriot mines and mine owners between 1914, when the British directly annexed Cyprus, and the Second World War, and the terms on which the British allowed foreign companies to function...
- 7From:New England Review (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNote: Flora Shaw, a British woman, suggested the name "Nigeria" to the British colonialists because the term is shorter, thus a better fit for a real estate property in place of the previous Royal Niger Company...
- 8From:Journal of Nonprofit Education and Leadership (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe nonprofit sector in Hong Kong has developed under unique historical circumstances, including the introduction of the nonintervention policy by the British colonialism and the political transition to the Chinese...
- 9From:Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History (Vol. 9, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper revolves on the carceral practices of Morton Hall IRC (Immigration Removal Centre) and of the role of visual imagery in the campaigns against them. Morton Hall is located in Lincolnshire, a rural county in...
- 10From:Prairie History (Vol. 00, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn 1877, Algernon Heber-Percy travelled to Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, and British Columbia to hunt. Six years later, he visited the Ottoman vilayets of Beirut and Syria. He recorded his trips in three works:...
- 11From:The Dalhousie Review (Vol. 102, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN 1908 INDIAN REVOLUTIONARY TARAKNATH DAS asked for Leo Tolstoy's support in the struggle against British colonialism. Tolstoy's reply, published in the newspaper Free Hindustan, encouraged Indian people not to...
- 12From:Early Theatre (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI analyze Shakespeare's racialization of noise in The Tempest as an acousmatic phenomenon and suggest how the acousmatic--sound whose source remains hidden--is imagined as a weapon of resistance that the racialized...
- 13From:Language In India (Vol. 22, Issue 5)Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss manages to explore every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence (Mishra, 2006). Like Naipaul, Desai...
- 14From:Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article is concerned with the memory of the Uganda Railway in Kenya. Built during the heyday of British imperialism at the end of the nineteenth century, the colonial railway has been a highly contested...
- 15From:Islamophobia Studies Journal (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIslamophobia in India, with the coming to power of BJP, a Hindutva (Indian nationalist) party, is on the increase. To understand Islamophobia in India, the approach in this article diverts from studies that focus on...
- 16From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedE.M. Forster's A Passage to India, hereafter (API), offers us an opportunity to realize the mentality of the white imperialist and the grotesque picture of the colonizer-colonized relationship; this picture implies...
- 17From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhat would it mean to undiscipline Victorianists, as well as Victorian studies? This essay uses Roderick A. Ferguson's The Reorder of Things to answer this question. Engaging Ferguson, this essay argues that it is not...
- 18From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay is a critical folklore study concerning the traditional practices at Anawan Rock in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Anawan Rock is the site of the surrender of Annawon, a captain of the Wampanoag people who were...
- 19From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 64, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn 2021, I taught an introductory literary seminar in which students read the folklore of colonized subjects and supernatural fiction by writers of color who had lived under British rule or Western imperial influence. We...
- 20From:Research in African Literatures (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAfter being a British protectorate for nearly sixty years, in 1960, Nigeria gained independence the same year A Dance of the Forests was published. The play, which expresses ambivalence toward radical changes with...