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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Wharton, In Morocco , 53 . 11 Picker, Racial Cities , 24 . 10 McKay, A Long Way from Home , 299–300 . 9 Cullen, “The Dark Tower,” 273 . 8 While this article will concentrate on the use of panorama re-creations in colonial exhibitions, Nancy Bentley finds that “elaborate...
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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
..., “was largely aimed at warding off violent successions,” but in North Africa it also had the effect of excluding claims to self-determination 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...
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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
.... Hobbs’s “Lyric Commodification in McKay’s Morocco” profits from a familiarity with the history of the Maghreb that the editors of Romance in Marseille cannot be said to possess. More specifically, Hobbs’s essay complements Cheema’s in traveling between McKay’s novel and his Moroccan-set verse...
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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...
FIGURES
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to anybody in Marseille,” Lafala’s pleasure is tempered by his recognition of risk: “He became afraid of this happiness. . . . But this time he wasn’t going to fall that way like an overripe fruit. No, not for Aslima” ( RM , 34). His determination to repatriate her to Morocco despite her protests...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 146–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
...; this gentleman is a big official. I am nothing” ( RM , 22). Swallowed up by a white world, Lafala drifts along, buffeted by the whims of others. Lafala’s love interest, Aslima, also exhibits a constrained sense of agency that can be attributed to her status as a sex slave in Morocco and as a prostitute...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
..., 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 Asian , 115 . 61 Psalmanazar...
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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 (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 (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
... 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 with queer writers, including Paul Bowles and Charles...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2020
..., and had ridden in Morocco. He was at Ayash and at Atalia, When they were won, and in the Mediterranean He had been at many a noble expedition. He had been at fifteen mortal battles, And fought for our faith at Tlemcen Three times in formal duels, and each time slain his foe. This same worthy knight...
FIGURES
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 201–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... fortune) refusing to pay McKay for work he had done for her Negro Anthology in the late 1920s, as recounted in chapter 29 of his autobiography 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...
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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
... a stark departure in several senses. Not only was it set in rural Jamaica rather than in a metropolitan hub, but it centered on a female protagonist and followed a far more traditional, linear plot than his previous novels. Writing in Morocco in the early 1930s, though certainly keen to repeat...
