Reactive Ethnic Formations and Panethnic Identities: The Creation of Latinos in the United States by Ramón A. Gutiérrez

“…Specifically, it explores how individuals from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central America and South America came to think of themselves as tied politically as Latinos. This essay argues that such panethnicity can come from above, from state action to gather distinct national and ethnic identities, or it can come from below, from communities that band together for a common purpose.…”
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme by Mary Hawkesworth

“…This essay investigates the strange coincidence of the unprecedented growth of global feminism over the past four decades with recurrent proclamations of feminism’s death. …”
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From Fugitive Poses to Visual Sovereignty : The Photo-poetics of Leslie Silko’s Storyteller and Joy Harjo’s Crazy Brave by Audrey Goodman

“…This essay foregrounds Indigenous critical perspectives on the history of photography in the U. …”
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Towards “Autopoetics” (retour sur e-Rea 5.2 2007) by Hélène AJI

“…This short essay picks up where the 2007 issue of e-Rea on “Poetry and Autobiography” had left off. …”
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Italo Calvino in Spagna: presenze e assenze di uno scrittore altro by Chiara Giordano

“… This essay focuses on the fluctuating reception of Italo Calvino in Spain, in the period between 1959, when the Italian writer made his first trip to Majorca, and the present day. …”
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Extreme Temporalities in Experimental Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art by Blake Stevens

“…This essay explores the pedagogical value of teaching forms of electroacoustic music and sonic art such as drone composition and site-specific sound installations that exceed human perceptual capacities and that resist attempts at documentation and representation. …”
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The Philosomer by Anthony Gritten

“…Other questions are possible. This essay considers some of these questions. …”
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Vladimir Colin şi basmul militant (I) by Cătălin Sturza

“…Between Vladimir Colin signing the ideological pamphlet „Problemele și drumurile basmului cult” (1955) and the author of the novel “Babel” (1978), awarded the Europe Award for Best Novel at Stresa (Italy) and the Provincia di Trento Prize by the University of Padova for his contribution to fairytale creation (1980) there is quite a large gap. This essay follows the evolution of Vladimir Colin between the two waypoints and reviews some of Colin’s key texts – from his early ideological and theoretical essays to the short stories and novels that can be seen, in spite of the numerous flaws that are related to the ideological nature of the texts, but also to their uneven aesthetical value, as refference points for the Romanian Fantastic and Fantasy literature.…”
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The critical commitment of philosophy. On Marcuse’s critical project by Mauricio García Echeverri

“…The present essay is not intended to be something new about Herbert Marcuse. …”
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A Comparative Study of Olodumare, the Yoruba Supreme Being and the Judea-Christian God by Segun Ogungbemi

“…Rather, it is argued that they are not necessarily the same. Finally, the essay establishes that the Yoruba before the advent of Christianity had a philosophical concept of the existence of 016dumare, the Creator of everything that is in the primordial existence and the material world. …”
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Theoretical Model of Engagement in the Context of Brand Communities by Flávia D\u2019albergaria Freitas, Victor Manoel Cunha de Almeida

“…This essay proposes to refine the concept of consumer engagement in the context of brand communities. …”
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Mysticism and the Reformation: a brief survey by B. McGinn

“…Today a more adequate understanding of the mystical element of Christianity as a deeper awareness of God’s presence in the life of believers suggests a new evaluation of the relation of Protestantism and  mysticism, beginning Martin Luther, and continuing with figures like Johann Arndt, and a number of the “Spiritual Reformers,” such as Andreas Karlstadt, Sebastian Franck, Valentin Weigel, as well as the theosophical Lutheran Jacob Boehme. This essay is designed to reopen the question of the relation between Protestantism and mysticism. …”
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Modlitwa i gestyka religijna w poezji Jesienina by Jerzy Szokalski

“…The theme of this essay is to present some religious practices in the lyric poetry of Sergei Yesenin, especially the rites of the Orthodox Church along with many accompanying manifestations of the spiritual life and all kinds of gestures (mostly very distant) associated with the sphere of human religiosity. …”
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À la recherche de la femme idéale… Les stéréotypes de genre et de race dans le commerce de « promises par correspondance » by Gwenola Ricordeau

“…This essay deals with erotic fantasies in the advertising materials of the mail-order bride industry, which are distributed mainly on the Internet. …”
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How nonhumans are included in relationships by Trosper Ronald L.

“…Because consciousness extends to nonhumans, good relationships require including them. The essay describes six rules that are followed by those who wish to create and maintain good strong relationships, with examples of applying the rules both among humans and among humans and nonhumans. …”
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Needlework and John Ruskin’s “acicular art of nations” by Rachel M. W. DICKINSON

“…This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. …”
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The Demise of the Dollar? by Benjamin J. Cohen

“…The dollar offers unique advantages that are unmatched by any other currency. The essay begins with a review of the attributes that are most essential to the international status of a currency. …”
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The “Africanization” of an African Diaspora Household: Toyin Falola and the Idea of Diasporic Home-Making by Babatunde Jaiyeoba, Adeshina Afolayan

“… This essay is an exercise in the interrogation of cultural globalization, and how the idea of transnationalism generates identity responses. …”
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GRIGORY ANDREEVICH LEVITSKY by L. I. Orel, E. V. Truskinov

“…This article is a biographical essay about a prominent scientist - the cytogeneticist G. …”
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The Politics of Circularity in Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) by Guillaume Mouleux

“…In the wake of the worldwide box office and critical success of Todd Phillips’s movie Joker (2019) and of the controversies which accompanied its release, this article focuses on the notion of circularity both in the film’s storytelling and its interactions with the viewer, especially through the numerous intertextual references and evocations which are developed on screen. The point of this essay is to establish how circularity allows the film to deliver both macro- and micro-political statements, not only addressing issues relevant to society as a whole but also asserting against all odds the film’s place in the official canon of DC Comics. …”
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