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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 109–132.
Published: 01 April 2021
... a generative tension between the imperial national forms the author encountered in North Africa and the Black nationalist vision of Marcus Garvey’s Back-to-Africa campaign. Reading the dialectics of bad nationalisms and Black internationalisms, the article explores how the utopian promise for Black liberation...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 181–200.
Published: 01 April 2021
...David B. Hobbs Abstract Reassessing Claude McKay’s writing about North Africa, this article contends that McKay saw sites in this region as uniquely felicitous to staging conversations between global socialism and the Black diasporic avant-garde. His attention to site-specific interracial urban...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Maurophilia not only foregrounds Aslima’s associations with Spain and Morocco but also highlights McKay’s engagement with transhistorical Mediterranean diasporas, including the intra-African slave trade and Iberian Moriscos and conversos settling in North Africa following the Reconquista. This essay argues...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Nahir I. Otaño Gracia Abstract The representation of Africa and Iberia within the North Atlantic imaginary tends to highlight similar features—commodity and trade, the pilgrimage routes to Alexandria and Santiago de Compostela, crusading in Africa or Iberia, Africa and Iberia as Muslim territories...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (1): 269–271.
Published: 01 April 2018
.... Godric of Finchale, on the other; there has been less study of the complex relationship between commerce and mysticism in North Africa and non-European contexts during the twelfth century. The markets and ports of North Africa and Europe saw not only competition for prices but also competitive encounters...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 93–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
... York, Marseille, and, eventually, West and North Africa. After the amputation of his legs, he comes to experience New York as a space in which he has little control over surveillance that targets him, in part because his situation requires him to expose himself to a number of powerful parties in order...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 11–20.
Published: 01 April 2019
... . Pritchard Sara B. “ From Hydroimperialism to Hydrocapitalism: ‘French’ Hydraulics in France, North Africa, and Beyond .” Social Studies in Science 42 , no. 4 ( 2012 ): 591 – 615 . Putuma Koleka . Collective Amnesia . Cape Town : uHlanga , 2017 . Rediker Marcus . “ History...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 146–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., as discussed above, that she and Lafala are pigs wallowing in the mud. The alluvial, figured as mud, silt, the womb, and seaborne detritus, in North Africa as well as the Caribbean and Marseille, refers to life stripped to its most basic elements and celebrated as such: a collective, creative, embodied energy...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 201–217.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in chapter 9, a subplot concerning the threat posed to Aslima’s body by her pimp, Titin, is shown by McKay to be connected to her attempts to reconnect through Lafala with her nominal “homeland” in Arab North Africa. “Half-jokingly, half-seriously, Lafala had proposed to Aslima that she should return to his...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 57–62.
Published: 01 June 2005
... inated, but came to include in a parallel with Big Daddy s m em ories of his travels with his wife in Europe and North Africa three weeks touring the charm ing and seedy corners of Tangiers, Fez and Casablanca. 8 Indeed, Williams extended his stay in Italy, when he proceed ed to spend several...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... Islamic and constitutionally secular—personifies what Cheema describes as “the trans-Mediterranean diaspora that linked Iberia and North Africa from the eighth-century conquest of Iberia and Provence to the waves of expulsion of Iberian Moors, Jews, conversos, and Moriscos after the 1492 Reconquista.” Her...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 59–70.
Published: 01 March 2009
... history, w ith different religions laying claim to those layers. But where as Cervantes's Cide Hamete is lim ited to Europe and North Africa, Irving's Arab historian has m ore continents at his disposal. He is able to recount not only the Islamic past of Spain, but also the Native American past...
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English Language Notes (2009) 47 (1): 205–216.
Published: 01 March 2009
... dinates. Our Islamicist, w ith three distinguished teaching awards, specialized in gender, sex uality, and Islamic historiography; she taught an Islamic w orld that included Spain and North Africa, and had a m inor specialization in Greek Constantinople. One Indologist researched tem ple architecture...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 37–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
... , 90 – 101 . Auckland : Reed , 2007 . Ihimaera Witi . The Whale Rider . North Shore : Raupo , 2008 . Kindle. Lavery Charne . “ Drift .” In “Toxicity, Waste, and Detritus in the Global South: South Africa and Beyond,” edited by Gupta Pamila and Hecht Gabrielle...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 73–92.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., but they are posed in such a way as to produce the effect of an “exotic” space. In another scene, Aslima’s “primitive flamenco” ( RM , 108) again suggests a melding of African and European. Indeed, Aslima—described as “a child of North Africa out of Marrakesh, that city of the plain where savagery emerging from...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 75–96.
Published: 01 September 2014
... 1844.33 North S far in 1848 reprinted news fro m The N ew York Evangelist, w hich claim ed, "Large num bers of slaves, trained to war, and massacre in Africa, are ready to enlist in any schem e o f plunder and bloodshed, however small may be the prospect o f securing their freedom . They only need com...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 151–166.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to be central to the study of the history of the pre-Christian North Atlantic, in particular the ethnonationalist project of identifying evidence for long-standing cultural difference between northern European peoples and the peoples of southern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and all the territories...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 121–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and 2012, th a t are profoundly shaping the environm ental hum anities.33 These docum ents articulate over one hundred and fifty years of activism for intergenera tional justice conducted among Indigenous and ethnic m in ority groups in North and South America, Africa and throughout the Pacific Islands...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 18–27.
Published: 01 March 2002
... ichard Jo h n so n , with E. L. B urge (New York: C olum bia UP, 1977); Ja n e C hance, Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School o f Chartres, A. D. 433-1177 (Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1994), pp. 284-86. Some com m entaries included those by Remigius o f A uxerre (ca. 841-ca. 908), B...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 133–145.
Published: 01 April 2021
... aids in securing Lafala’s freedom. While McKay does not specifically name the Fabre Line in Romance in Marseille , the parallels between Dede’s story and Lafala’s invite special scrutiny of this company. The Fabre Line was the oldest passenger line connecting the Mediterranean with North America...
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