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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 92–105.
Published: 01 November 2023
... socialism Zanzibar Tanzania print culture Just days after seizing power in January 1964, Zanzibar's new revolutionary regime began publishing a sequence of newspaper editorials that alleged islanders were the victims of a series of deceptions perpetrated by the former colonial power. The state...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 60–74.
Published: 01 November 2023
... interesting when I started to use them to create my work was the way that these objects are passed along from hand to hand, from one generation to the next—to pass something along, print the collective imagination. One of the core tenets of my work is the representation and movement throughout time...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (1): 51–71.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., so-called scientific objectivity. This conceptually rich image is also, as an image, playful and whimsical. It unites contraries: sharp outline, blurred within. Figure 1 Naiza Khan, Building Terrain II, 2012. Giclée print, 60 × 100 cm. © Naiza Khan. Figure 1 Naiza Khan, Building Terrain...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 3–12.
Published: 01 May 2024
...? The archipelago as a theoretical concept has been increasingly discussed and deployed by historians, social scientists, and literary and cultural studies scholars since the second half of the twentieth century. The term originated in classical Greece to designate the Aegean waters, but, since the beginning...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 22–34.
Published: 01 May 2024
... a long period of years, a kind of timebri of one's livin(g), one's culture, one's selection of elements of that culture.” 1 Yet with and through this disastrous loss, he also reflects, “it's amazing what you are able to reconstruct and in a sense form new bridges from the older work. . . . And how...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 10–16.
Published: 01 November 2024
... is that the Arab Gulf region is one of mixed populations, in which cultural exchanges manifested in an impressive variety of processes and patterns pertaining to borrowing and assimilation, forced and voluntary migrations, and adaptive strategies, none of which can be fully understood without incorporating Africa...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 74–87.
Published: 01 November 2024
... truly occult, and which every Arabian of worth must hold in abhorrence.” He further observed that the “inhabitants of Oman are peculiarly skilled in this execrable science.” 20 The proficiency of Omanis in occult sciences did not arise in isolation but flourished amidst a culture of learning, popular...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 50–68.
Published: 01 November 2024
...-understandings going through stages of transformation. This dynamism continued into abolition and post-slavery as communities of former slaves engaged with different political and cultural environments and developed strategies to cope with or make the most creative and advantageous use of them. 5...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (1): 34–47.
Published: 01 May 2024
... history as a site of cultural exchange and imperial ambition. This article presents a close reading of Igabia Scego's Italian-language novel Adua (2015), arguing that a localized iteration of the Indian Ocean monsoon, the rainstorm, organizes the novel's narrative, structure, and epistemology. This “storm...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 106–119.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., which are necessary to move things, such as multilingualism, the ability to act as cultural brokers, or proficiency in transport means and logistics. Another aspect of this internal dimension relates to the things that move through and temporarily halt at these hubs. During their stays in hubs...
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Monsoon (2023) 1 (2): 2–25.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., SG, REU//515, FR 320 1COL 515/ 6007, ANOM. 58 Griffiths, Hanes Madagascar , 44–45, 110–11 ; Campbell, David Griffiths , 701, 726, 727–28, 764–65, 878 . 57 Finaz, June 1855, quoted in Oliver, True Story of the French Dispute in Madagascar , 265–66 ; see also Bouvié, “Les cultures...
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Monsoon (2024) 2 (2): 32–49.
Published: 01 November 2024
... cultured pearls. 36 That combined with the Great Depression between 1929 and 1931 meant that two-thirds of the capital of entrepreneurs in Bahrain simply evaporated. 37 As to dates, while successive droughts between 1917 and 1927 were having a devastating effect on local date production, Californian...
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