Humanity, Nature, and the Supernatural in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Sabri Mnassar

“…In its study of Irving’s representation of the natural environment, the essay claims that nature is portrayed as a character that is not only omnipresent but also more powerful than human beings and their attempts to dominate and subdue it. …”
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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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Cinephemera Round Trip. Postcards for and by Anselmo Ballester by Stefania Babboni, Sara Martin

“…The essay analyzes the postcards by Anselmo Ballester, the famous painter, illustrator, and poster designer. …”
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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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„Rasse mit Stil“ by Marcus Hahn

“…Man is “the race with style”, according to Gottfried Benn’s essay Dorische Welt (1934), a text providing a transition between his political commitment to National Socialism and his ‘inner emigration’. …”
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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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Theorizing American Studies : German Interventions into an Ongoing Debate by Sabine Sielke

“…Partly due to the transdisciplinary agenda of the field, the development of American Studies has been accompanied by intensive debates about methods and theories. This essay relates a—necessarily reductive—narrative about how, throughout its history, German American Studies has intervened into and contributed to these debates; and how, with the emergence of parameters and politics of difference, on the one hand, and poststructuralist thought and notions of différance, on the other, the early debate on methods of American Studies transformed into discussions of theories of American literature, culture, history etc. …”
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Avatars de Napalm Girl, June 8, 1972 (Nick Ut) : variations autour d’une icône de la Guerre du Vietnam by Anne LESME

“…This essay examines and analyses the iconic status of Nick Ut’s Vietnam photograph Napalm Girl (“Vietnam Napalm”, 1972) and its recycling in postmodern art and various media. …”
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The Trump Phenomenon and the Racialization of American Politics by Serge Ricard

“…Barack Obama’s election was atypical, not Trump’s. The following essay attempts to throw light on the permanence of the race factor in American society, its impact on the 2016 election, either by means of its unabashed activation or through a coded rhetoric, its centrality in the Trumpian discourse, the heyday of white nationalism under a President prone to stoking the flames of division and prejudice, together with the disquieting signs of a “new civil war” in a disunited nation.…”
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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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Non-Fictional Interwar Narratives by English Writers by Barbara PUSCHMANN-NALENZ

“…George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia (1938) about the Spanish Civil War and the end of the 1930s connects his personal report about a war with his criticism of the conservative British establishment. His essay displays the writer’s engagement with politics and socialism added to his fascination with Spain. …”
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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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The visual resonances of a Harari Qur’ān: An 18th century Ethiopian manuscript and its Indian Ocean connections by Sana Mirza

“…Focusing on the Khalili Qur’ān, this essay will explore Harar’s nuanced engagement and selective participation in networks of artistic circulation and exchanges and their role in the formation of a Harari visual idiom within the burgeoning globalization of 18th-century Ethiopia.…”
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Archivi della giustizia e Archivi della follia by Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Rapetti

“…The essay analyses the events relating to the construction of the psychiatric unit of the new city public hospital of Cagliari, in Sardinia, through the cross-examination of sources. …”
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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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Writing, Dreaming, and Freedom: Rokeya Hossain at the Limit of Reform in colonial Bangladesh by Parna Sengupta

“…Drawing on the work of Hélène Cixous, I look at Rokeya’s experimentations with genre through her use of the waking dream, a narrative frame which allows her to draw attention to the act of composition as related to forms of inspiration and states of consciousness that are not reducible to a discourse of rationality or reform. The essay then suggests that another entry point to understand the waking dream is its place within the Islamic tradition, where dreams are often the vehicles through which the pious receive revelation, guidance and knowledge.…”
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