Visioning the Body Mosaic: Enchanted Transracial Selfhood in Postsecular American Literature by Erick Sierra

“…Twentieth-century literature and theory have offered no shortage of challenges to the unity of personal identity. …”
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La forêt comme clôture : l’enfermement de l’habitat par la forêt by Claire Labrue

“…In the twentieth century, rural spaces such as the French middle mountains have been the scene of forestry reconquest and urban desertion, to the point that urban and forestry spaces are starting to interface and overlap. …”
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Calvin's sudden conversion (subita conversio) and its historical meaning by H. B. Lee

“… In Calvin research of the Twentieth Century, different approaches towards the question about Calvin’s ‘conversion’, as mentioned in the introduction to his commentary on the Psalms, have been followed. …”
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Écrire l’histoire des femmes musulmanes en Europe du Sud-Est. Archives associatives et trajectoires d’engagement en Bosnie dans la première moitié du xxe siècle by Fabio Giomi

“…This article examines the possibilities and limitations of the archives of voluntary associations for writing the history of Muslim women during the first half of the twentieth century. The specific context under scrutiny is Yugoslavia, and more precisely Bosnia-Herzegovina, where public archives hold almost no ego-documents related to Muslim women. …”
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La Pensée technocritique de Gaston Bardet by Antoine Perron

“…The architect and urban planner Gaston Bardet (1907-1989) is probably one of the most original and prolific French urban theorists of the twentieth century. After being marginalized in the 1950s and 1960s, his work has been the subject of several articles and scientific papers since the late 1970s. …”
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I manoscritti etiopici della Biblioteca Statale di Montevergine a Mercogliano, Avellino by Alessandro Bausi

“…The manuscripts date to the nineteenth (non post 1895 CE, Cod. 24, Praise of Mary and Gate of Light) and to the beginning of the twentieth century (1907/1908 CE, Ms. 3, Image of the Twenty-Four Heavenly Priests and Ethiopian Psalter). …”
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A brief agricultural history of cannabis in Africa, from prehistory to canna-colony by Chris S. Duvall

“…Second, several formal markets for cannabis developed under colonial regimes, although colonialists more widely suppressed the crop. Third, twentieth-century drug laws changed the economics of production, causing cannabis farming to become particularly attractive to resource-poor farmers. …”
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Activisme culturel au Centre Georges-Pompidou. Le photoreportage exposé (1977-1997) by Assia Quesnel

“…During the final quarter of the twentieth century, photography progressively enjoyed cultural and artistic legitimisation in French institutions. …”
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Juifs d'Istanbul, territorialités d'une communauté entre recompositions et dislocations by Yoann Morvan

“…The origins and locations of the community, quite homogeneous from the time of Ottoman Empire, become more complex through twentieth century. Nowadays, behind an apparent optimism, the situation of the Jewish minority is more and more worrying because of internal and external reasons: attacks increase of anti-Semitism and political and geopolitical contexts damage the confidence; in the same time the community’s cohesion is breaking down due to urban sprawl. …”
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Violence, Politics and Religion: A Case Study of the Black Panther Party by Sergio García-Magariño, Aaron Yates

“…The majority of US Black social movement organizations during the second half of the twentieth century had explicit ties to either Christian or Islamic religious institutions. …”
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THE APPROACHES TO REALITY IN VŨ TRỌNG PHỤNG’S WORKS FROM MODERNISM VIEWPOINT by Kiều Thanh Uyên

“…This shows his receptiveness to modern trends as well as his attempts to update Vietnamese literature to catch up with trends in world literature in the first half of the twentieth century. This paper examines and analyzes the approaches to reality in the works of Vũ Trọng Phụng. …”
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Re-imagining Africa: revisiting Rider Haggard’s legacy in modern times with particular reference to South Africa by Lindy STIEBEL

“…Rider Haggard (2009), a commissioned volume, which also evaluated Haggard’s legacy both in terms of academic interest and popular culture in the later twentieth century. My interest in writing this current piece is to look again at Haggard a decade on and update my earlier findings with contemporary references to Haggard, in terms of his literary, popular culture and academic legacies.…”
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La ciudad escenográfica: centro y margen en Buenos Aires by Agnese Codebò

“…By analyzing the texts of Enrique Gómez Carrillo and Jules Huret (travelers who visited Argentina during the celebrations of the Centenary of Independence), the hygienist chronicles of Gabriela Laperrière de Coni, as well as the most recent studies of James Scobie and Jorge Liernur, this article proposes an understanding of Buenos Aires at the turn of the twentieth century as a scenographic city. It was as such that the city would manifest itself in its reading as a continuous entity promoted by the oligarchic elite during the urban modernization, which, on the one hand, produced the elegant Avenida de Mayo, and on the other, the aporias of urban poverty symbolized by the Barrio de las Ranas. …”
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Paul Baudoüin, Georges Pradelle et l’association « la Fresque » by Marie Monfort

“…Paul Baudoüin (1844-1931) played a very important part in the revival in fresco painting in the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1888, he began to experiment painting in fresco. …”
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İNSAN VE DOĞA İLİŞKİSİ ÜZERİNE by Kubilay Aysevener

“…The world of the late twentieth century is experiencing a global ecological crisis such as Global warming, the explosion of human population. …”
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Le communalisme ou l’avenir de la Commune de 1871 by Pierre Sauvêtre, Frank Noulin, Jean-François Wagniart

“…The reference to the Commune of 1871 comes back as a reference to contemporary movements, but following a usage that contrasts with those made by the left in the twentieth century. It is no longer a question of overcoming the weaknesses of the Commune, but of asking the Commune how to go beyond certain dead-ends in left-wing traditions such as left-wing republicanism, Marxism or anarchism. …”
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Cenas cotidianas: cultura de consumoe mídia em contos de André Sant’Anna by Ligia Bezerra

“…Ianalyze the stories in question within the context of Brazilian literature’s extensive dialogue with mass culture that has been in place since the beginningof the twentieth century, and which has often produced critiques of consumerculture. …”
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The ANC and its use of history to build its brand by Ronald Irwin

“…The party has specialised in associating itself with the “collective memory” of the South African people, ensuring that the ANC has been strongly associated with the South African struggle narrative of the twentieth century. This is the heart of the “good story” that has kept the ruling party in power since 1994 and made it very difficult for other political groupings to claim to have played a major role in the struggle for freedom in South Africa. …”
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Literary and cultural chracter of Cemil Seitabla Kermenchikli (1891–1942) (part 2) by Ismail Kerimov

“…Cemil Kermenchikli is one of the brightest Crimean Tatar poets of the early twentieth century, who played a significant role in the development of the national poetic word in the Crimea. …”
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Zadie Smith’s NW or the art of line-crossing by Vanessa GUIGNERY

“…The argument will draw from David Lodge’s metaphor of the crossroads (when he wondered which directions the novelist of the second half of the twentieth century could take), as well as from Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of lines of “segmentarity” and lines of flight, along which individual and collective lives are ordered or fractured. …”
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