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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 133–147.
Published: 01 September 2014
... o f an im perial cartographic im pulse asso ciated w ith globalization as she vivid ly brought to light the political, economic, and social inequalities and upheavals resulting from such m apping in her aw ard-w inning 2006 novel H a lf o f a Yellow Sun.2 In this novel, set against the historical...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 184–186.
Published: 01 April 2022
... reciprocated. The enthusiasm with which so many Americans, among others, are embracing a “return-to-normal” narrative offers additional cause for wariness about the prospect of pandemic-induced social progress. The tendency among the global elite to prioritize some people’s suffering, some people’s lives, over...
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English Language Notes (2008) 46 (2): 155–174.
Published: 01 September 2008
... the popular superhero com ic books published by Marvel and DC strained against the lim itations o f a medium w idely perceived as children's entertainment. It was this period o f creative ferm ent and social disorder that ushered in the current era o f graphic novels w ith self-evident literary aspirations...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 88–92.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Alfred Lutz Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century “Women's Fiction” and Social Engagement . Paula R. Backscheider , ed. Baltimore and London : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2000 . Pp. xiii + 273. 0-8018-6236-1. Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 88...
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English Language Notes (2004) 41 (3): 66–73.
Published: 01 March 2004
...Terry W. Thompson Copyright © 2004 Regents of the University of Colorado 2004 66 English Language Notes OF TWO CLASSES : SOCIAL DARWINISM IN RICHARD CONNELL S THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Winner of the prestigious O. Henry Award for Short Fiction in 1924, The Most Dangerous Game is the only...
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English Language Notes (2011) 49 (1): 131–137.
Published: 01 March 2011
... n is m . It th u s m a p s social re la tio n s in a new w ay, a w a y th a t opens the tra d itio n a l fa m ily and kinship stru cture to re la tio n sh ip s and co n nections betw een strangers w h o share the sam e po litica l view s, and it tra n sfo rm s priva te in tim a cy into a p u blic...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 27–39.
Published: 01 March 2010
... ig h t go "against his ow n class sym pathies and political prejudices" to dispassion ately, disinterestedly represent social truth s.2 N otw ithstanding the im plied censure of Harkness's class p erspective, th is piece o f advice is co n so n a n t w ith th e em p h a sis on a sci entific basis...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 58–72.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Eric H. Newman Abstract This essay argues that the queer romances at the margins of Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille operate as sites of possibility for a happy, egalitarian social relation that is longed for but not otherwise accessible in the novel. The essay contends that this novel, read...
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English Language Notes (2018) 56 (2): 124–142.
Published: 01 October 2018
..., the coffeehouse, and the theater (also homes and the union hall). These Cuban (and Spanish and Italian) cultural and social values were passed on from one generation to the next within the community, and even to non-Cubans, via reverse assimilation. The outcome was an ethnic American social identity whose impact...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 43–57.
Published: 01 October 2019
... of reforming the social structures that discredit women’s reason. In the prison reverie quoted above, Maria is momentarily absorbed by a “sublime sensibility that renders the consciousness of existence felicity.” Wollstonecraft thus raises the Rousseauian prospect that the happiness of her female solitary...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Nicole Stamant Abstract Performing what Michele Elam calls “a refusal of historical amnesia,” Danzy Senna and Emily Raboteau expose how social justice and hospitality are constructed in and around what Pierre Nora calls lieux de mémoire . Engaging particular sites of memory in the American South...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (1): 214–225.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., whether told in film, social media, or oral tradition. As a particularly salient example, the essay considers Mohawk director Karahkwenhawi Zoe Hopkins’s adaptation of Star Wars: A New Hope in Star Wars Tsyorì:wat IV—Yonhská:neks (2013) in a comparative analysis with both the Navajo-language Star Wars...
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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): 93–108.
Published: 01 April 2021
... constraints under which characters in Romance navigate the social world of Quayside, the city’s international working-class quarter. The article argues that McKay depicts an important moment in which state and corporate actors create networks of transnational surveillance that aim at securing an advantageous...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 12–37.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., the Bolshevik Revolution and the burgeoning of its stiflingly bureaucratic Thermidor under Stalin, the various theoretical and programmatic complications that issues of race and gender posed for international socialism alongside the promises and disappointments of emancipatory politics writ large. However...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 39–66.
Published: 01 April 2022
... looks like when located not on the level of the individual but on the level of a culture, as Shakespeare depicts in Hamlet . Our window into these early modern cultures of drunkenness is sociological studies of American college fraternities plus social-learning theories that explain how one person—one...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 82–100.
Published: 01 April 2022
.... With their blend of introspection and self-deception, Psalmanazar’s Memoirs (1764) index the changing social and cultural roles of opiates and the concept of addiction in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Regents of the University of Colorado 2022 Formosa...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
... all addictions have in common the attempt to experience an appetitive effect (satiety), preoccupation, loss of control, and negative or undesired consequences, including physical danger, social complaints, or inability to carry on one’s life roles, the meaning of addiction has not always been...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 40–50.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Kelly L. Bezio Abstract This essay explores the potential for literary history to be useful as a part of epidemiological sleuthing. It considers how an imperative to employ social determinants of health frameworks incites movement away from epidemiological plots, particularly the forward trajectory...
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (2): 23–38.
Published: 01 October 2023
... as prose, made prominent contributions to the literary and political debates about the purposes and potentialities of poetry as a socially aware public form in an anti-imperial context, a theme that animated multiple Urdu and Persian literary circles from the 1930s. [email protected] Copyright...
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