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An Estranged Perception: Metatheatricality of Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde was described by W. B. Yeats as “a man of action, a born dramatist.” Although people did not recognize him as a serious playwright until...
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Introduction
A structural approach to language dominated twentieth-century language studies until the early 1960s. As other scholars also began to explore new...
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Literature and Composition: Reading and Writing Revised
Paulo Freire underscored the importance of reading and deplored the limits of our uncritical contrasts and often denigration of reading in comparison...
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Voicing the Silenced Through African Tongues: An Examination of Moolaadé and Tumaini
This paper proposes to comparatively analyze two works written in African languages, namely Sembène’s movie Moolaadé (2004) and Momanyi’s novel...
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No Place to Die: Neoliberalism, Anti-Idyll, and Social (Im)mobility in The Serpent King
Class and geography profoundly influence rural youth’s opportunities and aspirations for social mobility (Carr & Kefalas, 2009). Neoliberalism...
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First-Person Verbal Aggression in YouTube Comments
To contribute to literature on hateful speech in social media communication, this chapter analyses verbal aggression in YouTube comments. Our text...
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Dystopian Ethics
This chapter addresses the nuance of dystopian ethics, applying theoretical insights from psychology, narratology and cognitive linguistics to the...
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Historicizing Literacy and Literacy Studies: Axioms and Lessons
The history of literacy matters. When an implicit appeal is made to history, often a series of dichotomous shifts constitutes the determinative...
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Decolonizing the Gaze: Intercultural Competence Urgency and Study Abroad Challenges in Africa
Some of the European and North American participants in study abroad programs in Sub-Saharan Africa seem to be driven less by the opportunity to...
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How Rebel Can Translation Be? A (Con)textual Study of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and Two Translations into Spanish
In just a few months, the publication of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Italian-born authors Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo (2016)...
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‘Love is Love’ and ‘Love is Equal’, Fansubbing and Queer Feminism in China
Despite a solid body of legislation defending women’s rights and interests, inequalities between genders remain a significant problem in various...
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Paratranslating Iraqi Women’s Stories Twice: With Reference to Alia Mamdouh’s Novel (1986/2000), Mothballs (1995) and Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad (2005)
Iraqi women writers have worked for decades to make Iraqi women and Iraqis visible and heard, including via pathways of translation. The pathways of...
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A Short History of a Mobilizable Postsocialist Body Politic: The Banja Luka Social Center
This chapter combines fragments from the interviews with some former members of the Sarajevo and Tuzla plenums reflecting on the February 2014...
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Being in This Together: Of Quarantined, Global Southern and Global Eastern Bodies in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This chapter seeks to extend the notion of peripheral selves onto the migrants and refugees from the MENASEA countries who are currently “stuck” in...
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Irony and Sarcasm as Tools of Contemporary Humor
Sarcasm and irony is a colloquial speech tool used by millions of people around the world every day. Both forms of expression are evidence of the...
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Conclusions and Prospects for Future Research
This chapter focuses on the results and partial conclusions that can be drawn from the previous translation analyses. Results cannot be clearly...
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L/G/B and T: Queer Excisions, Entailments, and Intersections
Narratives about LGBTQ+ lives and concerns in our field have not historically attended equally to all segments of the acronym. The simultaneous...
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Conclusion
In the context of today’s globalized world, educators need to re-conceptualize the notion of transcultural and trans-lingual literacy. In the present...
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Derogatory Linguistic Mechanisms in Danish Online Hate Speech
Based on a 400-million-word social media corpus, and exploiting linguistic annotation at the morphological, syntactic and semantic levels, this...
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Decolonizing a Future in a European Periphery Between Socialist Interruptions and the Postcolonial Present
This chapter discusses the peculiarities of the Bosnian socialist and decolonial claims and postcolonial, postsocialist, and peripheral present. She...