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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 April 2021
...” does not depend on a specific owner. Instead, we get the sense that resistance has a real, sanguinary cost. Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 lyric urban sonnet Morocco modernism What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Zainab Cheema Abstract In Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille , the entanglement of Spain and Morocco emerges through the diasporic figure of Aslima, the Moroccan sex worker. This essay examines McKay’s Maurophilia, which he circuitously refers to as “Afro-Orientalism” in his various writings...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... by local members of indigenous groups because many of these territories, like Morocco, were governed by external colonial rule rather than by their own political units. 3 The French protectorate in Morocco, to which I will return, was largely emboldened by its own administrative measures of intervention...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 253–257.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of the Almoravid dynasty, which had its roots in Morocco and spread north into the Iberian Peninsula, relying principally on the Mediterranean Sea as its means of conquest. In other words, the very physical geography of the Mediterranean—and not just the people and traditions it has been host to—facilitated...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... those stories, and a more diverse and inclusive program of stories, into our series.” 12 In view of its capacious, militant cosmopolitanism—composed in Spain and Morocco and set in Manhattan and Marseille—it is fitting that the fascination with Romance roamed beyond New York literary culture...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 121–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
... audience back and fo rth around the globe from set locations in the US, Mexico, and Morocco as it sharply raises questions about the role th a t American nationalism and exceptionalism play in exacerbating social and environm ental injustices in a range of sites. Iñárritu tells the story of a w ealthy Am...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 12–37.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.” 43 The “African streak” McKay felt in Spain was also apparently strong enough to prod him in the direction of Africa itself, and he soon landed in Morocco to continue his ill-fated novel. There, the “vulgar fiction of white superiority” frayed immediately as he...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 1–20.
Published: 01 October 2022
...://bespoke.reture.net/#/designers . 48 See Hass, “How an Early Twentieth-Century English Guild Is Inspiring a New Generation.” 49 For a link to LRNC’s collection, see https://lrnce.com . Almost everything in Laurence Leenaert’s collection is sourced from Morocco, and sustainability is key...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
... . 27 Gilliom, Overseers of the Poor , 105 . 28 McKay had observed and was “not at all upset by the lingering forms of [female] slavery still practiced in Morocco” ( Cooper, Claude McKay , 251 ). 29 By the 1920s the British Foreign Office and other European nations were increasingly...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 146–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in Marseille while living in Morocco. It renders a sense of diasporic mobility that is nearly as shifting and mutable as the sea itself. East and West, past and present, mingle sharply in Aslima’s hallucinatory nocturnal vision on the Marseille wharf. As she sits near the shoreline, overlooking the bay...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Morocco and disparagingly compares the Hebrew pronunciations of “some of them whom I met with by chance in the Portuguese synagogue” with the “antient pronounciation” he observed from “conversing with some Morocco Jews” ( M , 227–28). 60 Keevak, Pretended...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (1): 19–32.
Published: 01 September 2003
..., and the impressive alliance of Bajazeth, the Emperor of Turkey, with the Kings of Fez, Morocco, and Argier on the other. In the midst of this mutual male harassment is Zenocrate, whose unexpected presence in this and other martial scenes she will appear in every scene in which Tamburlaine does throughout the rest...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 103–113.
Published: 01 March 2014
... order and entailed m ovem ent between contiguous spaces.The w o rld that is w ritten down, however, is not that w o rld.T he poem organizes space so that "N orth's as near as W est" (as Bishop says o f "The M ap 16 Canada is adjacent to Italy, and Morocco neighbors M exico and Ireland.This is accom...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... view, a call for queer dignity emerges as an auxiliary politics of Romance . That new politics may well have taken its lead from McKay’s experience living in Morocco, which his biographer, Wayne Cooper, explains was a place where sexual fluidity invited not only new experiences but also contact...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., Above (knights of) all nations in Prussia; He had campaigned in Lithuania and in Russia, No Christian man of his rank so often. Also he had been in Grenada at the siege Of Algeciras, and had ridden in Morocco. He was at Ayash and at Atalia, When they were won, and in the Mediterranean He had been...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 201–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... A Long Way from Home (1937). McKay writes: “Meanwhile I had come to the point of breaking down while working on my novel in Morocco; and besides I was in pecuniary difficulties. Nevertheless, I wrote an article for Miss Cunard’s anthology and forwarded it to her on her return to France. Miss Cunard...
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English Language Notes (2004) 42 (2): 11–28.
Published: 01 December 2004
... Launcelot of his own connection with a non-Christian, a Moor, like another Moor, the Prince of Morocco, whose departure Portia called a gentle riddance, in another gentile/gentle pun. Both these Christians feel the taint of their sexual connection with the outsiders of their society. Launcelot s double...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
... and followed a far more traditional, linear plot than his previous novels. Writing in Morocco in the early 1930s, though certainly keen to repeat the commercial success of Home to Harlem , McKay had evidently tired of producing the picaresque narratives that had made his name as a novelist. Coupled...
