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This article discusses play and playfulness in Lynda Barry’s autobiographical comics/instructional work What It Is (2008). The term ‘playfulness’ is commonly used in two primary but distinct ways, namely in a phenomenological sense concerning a free attit... see more

In 1998, the American anthropologist Will Roscoe referred to pre-colonial North America as “the queerest continent on the planet” (Roscoe 1998, 4), expressing a more universally accepted idea that before settlers arrived in North America, Indigenous peopl... see more

In 1998, the American anthropologist Will Roscoe referred to pre-colonial North America as “the queerest continent on the planet” (Roscoe 1998, 4), expressing a more universally accepted idea that before settlers arrived in North America, Indigenous peopl... see more

This essay explores narrative crises in Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial novel Midnight’s Children by displaying the dynamics of its (re)solutionist mechanisms.The main argument is that neither narratives of textual closure nor of open-endedness can be reduc... see more

Feminist critics have identified the social constructedness of masculinity and have explored how male characters often find themselves caught up in a ceaseless quest to propagate and live up to an acceptable image of manliness. These critics have also exp... see more

AbstractThis article investigates whether there is a theoretical framework for the notion of oral literature that is common to both oral theory and literary theory. The notion of oral literature has, within oral theory, generally been put to an anthropolo... see more

Drawing on John Rivière’s view that female masquerade could be considered either as submission to dominant social codes or as resistance to patriarchal norms, my research paper seeks to represent masquerade as women’s submission to the patriarchal constru... see more

This essay explores narrative crises in Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial novel Midnight’s Children by displaying the dynamics of its (re)solutionist mechanisms.The main argument is that neither narratives of textual closure nor of open-endedness can be reduc... see more

This essay examines three texts, printed respectively in 1590, 1651 and 1682, which are concerned to establish a relationship between the symbolic image of an anthropomorphic body and the reader’s understanding of individual life in its fundamental orient... see more

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