When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

“…War often occasions such moments, not just because of the moral and political turmoil that accompanies it or the physical damage it inflicts upon people and their environments, but also because of its absurdity; this latter feature, the absurdity of war, is captured by Stanislav Aseyev, a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer, in his books In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas and The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. In this essay, I argue that Aseyev’s reflections on Russian occupation, imprisonment, and torture demonstrate both the special value of Arendt’s “thinking” for those enduring war and violence and reveal a pre-moral-political capacity of “thinking” latent but never explicit in Arendt’s work: the power to cope with the absurd qua absurd.…”
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Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“…Jacobson’s school of descriptive translation is the theoretical framework for this review essay. The dataset include Adébáyọ Fálétí’s Basọrun Gáà, Ọládẹjọ Òkédìjí’s Àjà Ló lerù, and Akínwùmí Ìsọlá’s Ó Le Kú. …”
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The Power of Parody: Went With the Wind (1976), a Film Classic Revisited by The Carol Burnett Show (CBS, 1967-1978) by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…Rather than downplaying the over-romanticized Southern melodrama, the sketch proceeds through further exaggerations and distortions, seeking to shatter the cult text by spoofing, mocking, while paying a humorous homage to the evergreen background text. This essay argues that despite The Carol Burnett Show’s dodging of race issues, the way it demystifies and takes down the cultural monument named “Scarlett O’Hara”—by mingling it with other generic conventions, such as slapstick comedy—sheds light on how Gone With the Wind can also work as a revelatory intertext. …”
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“A Made Up Thing” Full of Depth: The Queer Belonging of Robert Duncan and New Narrative by Robin Tremblay-McGaw

“…This essay argues that Robert Duncan’s conception of his poet self as “a made up thing and at the same time a depth in which my being is” from The Years as Catches links his poetics to his sexuality and that Duncan, at the center of the San Francisco Bay Area “poetry wars,” becomes a source of grand permission in “queer belonging” for New Narrative writers, specifically Robert Glück and Bruce Boone. …”
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Unlocking the Potential of Chest MRI: Strategies for Establishing a Successful Practice by Kyubin Kim, Kun-Il Kim, Ji Won Lee, Yeon Joo Jeong

“…Despite the technical hurdles posed by cardiac and respiratory motion, advancements in sequence and scan techniques have enabled high-quality chest MRI examinations to be conducted across diverse clinical settings. This pictorial essay aims to offer comprehensive resources and strategies for radiologists to integrate chest MRI into clinical practice and to overcome its present challenges.…”
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A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis of Personal Names in Oǹdó by Sunday Olayinka Awolaoye

“…All these are what scholars have said about names in the standard dialect of Yorùbá. This essay explains the form and structure of personal names in the Oǹdó dialect. …”
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L’innovation à l’épreuve de l’anthropocène. Compte rendu de lecture de L’Innovation, mais pour quoi faire ? de Franck Aggeri by Agnès Labrousse

“…Attention to the mechanisms, indicators and other instruments of management in use is part of the contribution of a managerial-but-not-only perspective. This critical essay reviews the book’s main contributions and suggests a number of nuances, additions and extensions to revisit the history (of thought) of innovation, further integrate some of the contributions of ecological economics or contribute to decolonising the imaginaries of innovation. …”
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ACADEMIC WRITING AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA: GENRE APPROACH by T. В. Alenkina

“…In the focus of Russian teachers and researchers are the genres of academic writing which are important and interesting for students (e.g., essay, letter of recommendation, grant proposal etc), thus the genre approach is being applied. …”
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From Commons to Capital: The Creative Destruction of Coastal Real Estate, Environments, and Communities in the US South by Andrew W. Kahrl

“…But while histories of the Sunbelt recognize the role of vacation and leisure-based development in the region’s economic transformation in the second half of the twentieth century, the social and environmental effects of coastal development remain under-examined. This essay uses a case study of Daufuskie Island, a barrier island on the South Carolina coast, to demonstrate the ties that bound capital accumulation, racial injustice, and environmental degradation together in the making of the modern South, and to call attention to the critical role of local governments in facilitating the most predatory and unsustainable features of real estate capitalism. …”
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Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani by Karen McCluskey

“…Despite the existence of an abundance of religious cults in Venice, in the 13th and 14th centuries only three local beati attained official recognition by the Republic: the bishop and martyr Gerardo da Venezia (d. 1046); the doge Pietro Orseolo (d. 976), and the Domincan friar Giacomo Salomani (d. 1314). This essay examines their state-sponsored imagery, in San Marco and elsewhere, to shed light on the reasons why these three Venetian holy men were singled out as worthy of attention by their government. …”
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Femmes, artistes et immigrantes : la discrimination multiple à l’égard des écrivaines contemporaines de la diaspora africaine by Zoly Rakotoniera Rakotondravelo

“…Indeed, much of contemporary African writing emanates from writers living and working outside the countries in which they were born. This essay explores aspects of the literary status of English-speaking African women writers in the diaspora based on the question: How does the intersection of race and gender influence the identity and status of African women writers who have immigrated to Northern countries? …”
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Pionieri in paradiso by Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini

“… The essay reflects on the processes of redefining the forms of living in a rural community, Trequanda (in the province of Siena), which has experienced a partial repopulation since the 1970s with the arrival of individuals (couples and families of various ages) from diverse socio-cultural and geographical backgrounds. …”
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Estado e proteção social no Cone Sul da América Latina: um panorama do século XXI by Nayara Cristina Bueno, Lislei Teresinha Preuss

“…In order to reflect on the relationship between the State and social protection in the beginning of the 21st century, this essay presents an overview of the conflict between capital and labor to directing the State, through social protection / public social unprotection. …”
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The Drama of Hunting by Mátyás Szalay

“… In this short essay I demonstrate that the contemporary discussion on animal rights has some problematic presuppositions concerning the role of philosophy. …”
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Revisões da masculinidade sob ditadura: Gabeira, Caio e Noll by Idelber Avelar

“…In Brasil the Abertura period coincided with the consolidation of the gay movement, divorce laws, the beginning of the massive incorporation of middle- class women to the wage labor force, increasing visibility of transvestites, and overall the marked decadence of the ideal man promoted by the military regime. This essay discusses the ways in which Gabeira, Caio, and Noll remembered, anticipated, allegorized, cut through, and/or ignored that context, and thus situated themselves in different ways vis-à-vis the revision of masculinity that took place at the turn of that decade. …”
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Faire mémoire par le trait ou les tribulations latino-américaines de Charlie by Frédérique Langue

“…In an adverse context for freedom of thought in the so called public sphere (both in Europe and Latin America), this essay explores the sense that is supposed to have from Latin America one of the "recent disasters" of present times, as was the attack against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. …”
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The Last and Latest Dickens by Clotilde De Stasio

“…The central theme is opium and drug addiction—a contemporary obsession: it is an interesting coincidence that an essay by Robert Tracy focusing on this aspect (‘Opium Is the True Hero of the Tale’) was published in the same year as The Last Dickens. …”
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Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

“…Although Wordsworth’s country rambles have often been associated with the kind of patriarchal culture epitomised by Woolf’s father Leslie Stephen (who even penned an essay entitled “In Praise of Walking”), the London perambulations recounted in Book VII of The Prelude present suggestive analogies, as well as contrasts, with Woolf’s Modernist city heuristics. …”
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The problem of respect in environmental philosophy by Barbora Baďurová

“…The term respect is frequently used in ordinary communication however it also has a significant role in philosophical discussions focused on environmental ethics. This essay deals with the ambiguity of the term respect. …”
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Christian gacaca and Official gacaca in Post-genocide Rwanda. by Philippe Denis

“…Lesser known is the Christian gacaca, a conflict resolution mechanism, also inspired by the traditional gacaca, which was established during the same period by the Catholic Church of Rwanda as part of the synodal process leading to the celebration of the 2000 Year Jubilee. This essay describes, on the basis of archival documents and oral testimonies, the genesis of the Christian gacaca and examines how it related to the official gacaca. …”
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