The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…Intending to add a new interpretation to this long list, the current essay argues, first, that Dracula belongs to a character-type that I will define as the “demi-immortal Oriental.” …”
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Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk by Aaron Jaffe

“…This essay interprets Richard Powers' sixth novel Gain with reference to the German sociologist Ulrich Beck's concept of “second modernity.” …”
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Arte e criação artística em contexto urbano: um estudo de caso de política pública em Porto Alegre (RS, Brasil) by Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha, Cornelia Eckert

“…It is worth mentioning the performance of one of its coordinators, who reports her experience with the origins of the contest and its unfolding as a public policy. It is a reflective essay on the place of public art in the contemporary urban space.…”
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Relíquias da casa velha: literatura e ditadura militar, 50 anos depois by Tânia Pellegrini

“…This essay tries to relate specific actions of the military regime in the field of culture to the effective consolidation of a cultural industry in Brazil. …”
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Los desafíos de la emigración centroamericana en el Siglo XXI by Manuel Ángel Castillo

“…This essay presents the recent migration problems Central American populations. …”
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Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming by Virginia Scharff

“…Historians have long puzzled over the fact that the earliest victories for women’s voting rights in the United States were won in the American West, far from the most prominent centers of women’s political activism. This essay argues that women won the vote in Wyoming Territory in 1869 due to a convergence of the post-Civil War politics of Reconstruction and the dynamics of white supremacist settler colonialism. …”
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American Studies in Europe or : Brother, can you paradigm ? by Rob Kroes

“…Il comporte deux parties, l'une proposant une définition du paradigme des études américaines dans une perspective internationale, l'autre à travers des études d'images publicitaires essayant de montrer comment la culture de masse américaine influe sur les cultures européennes.…”
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Lost Happiness — Loss of Life Satisfaction in the Corona Crisis by Michael Ahlheim, Stefan Bruckmeyer, Kai A. Konrad, Lisa Windsteiger

“…Building on the data collected by Windsteiger et al. (2020) and their internet interviews at the peak of lockdown measures, and looking at specific population subgroups, this essay illustrates that many solo self-employed and women report a significant decline in life satisfaction, and that these effects are strongest where solo self-employment coincides with economic losses and childcare responsibilities for women with children of dependent age.…”
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In a historic environment, design with order an ostensible disorder by Emanuele Walter Angelico

“…The essay examines the relationship between the built and its regeneration. …”
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Resurgent Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Anti-Liberal Agenda: Challenges for South Africa’s Constitutional Democracy by Dale Wallace

“… Against the background of changes in the religion-state relationship in South Africa since 2009, this essay provides the foundational history of a resurgent fundamentalist Christian alliance that seeks to exert influence in politics, state institutions, and civil society. …”
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O deslocamento inaugural de Laços de família by Carlos Magno Gomes

“…This essay presents a reading of women’s place in the tales “Amor” and “Os laços de família”, from the collection Laços de família (1960), by Clarice Lispector. …”
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First Female Travel Journalist Meets First Lady: Mary Pos and Eleanor Roosevelt Speak on Women’s Roles and Intercultural Understanding by Babs Boter

“…Mary Pos, self-proclaimed first female travel journalist from the Netherlands, met Eleanor Roosevelt first in 1937 during a women-only press conference at the White House, and then in 1950 when Roosevelt visited Amsterdam. This essay examines Pos’ published and unpublished reports of these encounters in order to see which professional and psychological forces were at work in the transnational and gendered arena of journalism in the late 1930s and early 1950s. …”
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Más allá de la conmemoración: la independencia de México de 1821 by Manuel Chust, Joaquín E. Espinosa Aguirre

“…2021 represents for Mexico the opportunity to reevaluate the history of its nation state, which emerged two hundred years ago, but also to recover and submit to review ancient characters that have been considered as "consumers", and who, for better or worse, played a prominent role in the later stage of Independence War. This essay offers a short review of the historical production in the bicentenary year organized by academic and governmental institutions, and analyzes as well the official discourse with which the regime carried out the whole pandemic commemoration.…”
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Aira como autor de si-próprio? by Luciene Azevedo

“…The essay intends to discuss the relationship between the constitution of a work and the development of an authoral fi gure, discussing the relationship between the process of elaboration of the literary workings, available to be read by inspecting the work, and the outline of a trajectory of formation of an author’s name, what is done in order to relativize the simplicity of a direct association between work and life. …”
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Rückschritte, Irrwege by Simon Godart

“…Alongside his essay on Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin published a text by Carl Gustav Jochmann in the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung in 1939, « The Regressions of Poetry », in a strongly abbreviated version and accompanied by an introduction. …”
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Dysfonctions mécaniques dans les interstices de l’infrastructure by Paul Fabié, Joaquin Ruiz Zubizarreta

“…This ethnographic essay proposes a reflection on machines from the interstitial geographical situations in which two Guarani peoples on either side of the Paraguay-Brazil border are reduced. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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Venezuela such as an example of a stable dictatorship in Latin America by Alejandro Diaz Castro

“…Abstract   The following article aims to analyse the current situation in Venezuela, identifying some helpful information written by academics on this topic. Thus, this essay will focus on the five stages a government faces when it loses legitimacy, as described by Samuel Huntington in his book Democracy's third wave. …”
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The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers: The Dynamics of a Failed Publication by Lauri Leinonen

“…According to Orderic Vitalis, William did not complete the work due to “unfavourable circumstances”, probably related to the latter’s connection to the Conqueror. The essay contributes to two burgeoning scholarly discussions, on authorial publishing and on why some works failed to find readers.…”
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A paper Caliphate: understanding the Islamic State through its documents by Diogo Bercito

“…The Islamic State is a terror organization that distinguishes itself from other similar groups by the establishment of a bureaucratic structure that projects the image of a state. This essay investigates documents produced in Iraq under the banner of the caliphate. …”
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