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Researching Kashmir: Power, Position, and Ethics
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 104–122.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Mona Bhan; Mohamad Junaid; Hafsa Kanjwal Abstract This roundtable discusses the future of research in critical Kashmir studies through a close consideration of questions of power, ethics, and positionality that have come to the fore in recent years. [email protected] [email protected]...
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Of Pandemic and Life’s Propositions
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 187–188.
Published: 01 April 2022
...; and “Thinking through the Pandemic: A Symposium”—explore the multifarious and multidimensional nature of the COVID-19 pandemic across different planes of human existence. The pandemic has influenced a change in the perception of history and of the ways humans perceive themselves and their positionality...
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Ghostly Outlines
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 225–228.
Published: 01 April 2021
... London by weaving together documentary fragments. His acknowledgment of his positionality and the limits of his archive lead him to engage performance artists to respond to the advertisements; this is the type of creative act against the grain of historiography that Smallwood encourages. Scholars...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of research in critical Kashmir studies through a close consideration of questions of power, ethics, and positionality that have come to the fore lately. Beginning with a discussion of their own complex positionalities, Bhan, Junaid, and Kanjwal detail how their own locations have shaped their scholarly...
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“She Was Raised on Blood”: Technological Anxieties, Animal Intimacies, and Evolutionary Impulses in Marebito
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 121–135.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of how Marebito , like many other works of J-horror, situates its protagonist as a model of postmodern subjectivity by virtue of his shifting positionality in relation to the technologies that have become part and parcel of modern life. It then traces how his technological obsession gradually gives way...
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Fashions and Wars: Negotiations of Liberal Humanism in E. M. Forster’s Writings, 1915–1925
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (2): 69–91.
Published: 01 October 2022
... for liberal humanism. His lightly ironic narrative tone and tendency to downplay his own uncomfortable positionality open his work to such criticism. However, the records he kept of El-Adl point to a deeper, humbler, stringently honest humanism. His experiences in Egypt, and later in India, brought him...
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Arctic Nation
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (1): 72–81.
Published: 01 April 2019
... and to attempt to solidify human positionality in measurable terms. Mishuana Goeman calls this process “colonial spatialization,” or the “nationalist discourses that ensconce a social and cultural sphere, stake a claim to people, and territorialize the physical landscape by manufacturing categories...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 April 2021
... on Romance in Marseille at sea. Zainab Cheema’s “Mooring Aslima” foregrounds the waters of the Mediterranean along with “the Moroccan sex worker whom Lafala loves and leaves over the course of the novel.” The “in-between positionality” of Aslima—both courtesan and true lover, Arab and African, faithfully...
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Queer Mormonism: Deuterocanonicity and Discursive Subversion
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 127–137.
Published: 01 September 2012
... ophobic politics."7 Nikki Sullivan makes a sim i lar point; invoking David Halperin, she asserts, "since queer is a positionality rather than an identity in the humanist sense, it is not restricted to gays and lesbians, but can be taken up by anyone w ho feels marginalized as a result of the sexual...
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Forging a Borderlands Baroness: Latinx Identity and Racial Uncertainties in the 1895 Peralta Land Grant Trial
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 55–66.
Published: 01 October 2018
...-century borderlands. The nearly successful transformation of Peralta-Reavis from a poor, mixed-race, illegitimate child into a wealthy Spanish baroness is a testament to the unstable positionality of late nineteenth-century Latinx people in general, and women in particular, and the far-reaching...
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 September 2014
... ry he had o rig in a lly set out to assess from an im passioned, but critica l distance. Thus, throu gh th is nuanced m ethod o f reflexive analysis, he traces how the postcolonial object is m ed i ated by the positionality of the critic, a double bind seen to structure dissent-as-praxis. Finally...
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Mooring Aslima: Afro-Orientalist Diaspora in Claude McKay’s Pan-Atlantic Mediterranean Modernism
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in Marseille the entanglement of Spain and Morocco emerges through the diasporic figure of Aslima, the Moroccan sex worker whom Lafala loves and leaves over the course of the novel. 4 In this essay I read Aslima’s in-between positionality in Marseille through the framework of trans-Mediterranean diaspora...
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The Self-Fashioned Writer’s “Confession”: Margery Kempe, Sylvia Plath, and Me
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 114–130.
Published: 01 November 2024
... with threads of themselves as living people. For these critics, their positionalities and experiences with texts are inextricably intertwined with the theorizing they offer in response. Still, I had not yet witnessed a critic confess to embodied, soul-searching, life-altering encounters with their primary...
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Decolonial Futures: Diasporas, Occupied Homelands, and Struggles for Sovereignty
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 123–142.
Published: 01 October 2023
... sovereignty is really close to my heart. I teach a course on that, so I’m glad Meta brought that up. I’m an anthropologist, so my research also considers my positionality, and there is agonizing and painstaking self-reflection all the time. We need to think about who we are in our research. Why is it that I’m...
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The Materiality of light in Medieval Italian Painting
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 119–136.
Published: 01 September 2015
... manuals between the Com positiones variae and Cennino Cennini's II Libro dell'arte (ca. 1390), which is o f course not surprising.54 But we also find s im ilar instructions and references to gold leaf in painting in treatises on m inerals and metals, indicating a shared interest in the m aterial...
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Pink Film, Red Politics: Koji Wakamatsu's Revolutionary Pornography
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (1): 123–139.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., "The Fantastic Trajectory," 51-52. 33"The Place o f Marginal Positionality: Legacies of Japanese Anti-M odernity," in Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art, ed. Fran Lloyd (New York: Reaktion, 2004), 144. 34 "[W akam atsu] demonstrates that the youth are unable to find meaning in u ltra-left...
