Re-imagining the History of British Abolition: The New Historical Consciousness in Winsome Pinnock’s Rockets and Blue Lights by Xiting Qiao

“…The juxtaposition of historical and social texts reflects Pinnock’s awareness of the fictional nature of historical texts, and reveals the continuing impact of the transatlantic slave trade. …”
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THE PERFORMATIVE FUNCTION/POWER OF LITERARY DEVICES IN JUDITH: A SPEECH ACT CONTRIBUTION by R.S. Hobyane

“… The compositional brilliance of the book Judith has, in research on it, been overshadowed by debates on its fictional nature, historical inconsistencies, canonical debate, gender and moral/ethical issues. …”
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Quel est le but de tout cela ? - Les « causes finales » dans Bouvard et Pécuchet by Atsushi Yamazaki

“…This study analyzes the “Causes finales” and “Nihilisme” sequence in chapter VIII, examining not only the “Philosophie” file but also the novel’s drafts, in order to highlight Flaubert’s montage and collage of quotations in his fictionalization of philosophical discourses.…”
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Exiles and Their Ethico-political Responsibility: by Mohammad Akbar Hosain

“… Written in the form of a memoir, Shaila Abdullah’s novel Saffron Dreams (2009) is the fictional representation of a young Pakistani-US Muslim young woman who lost her husband in the terrorist attack of 9/11. …”
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O a(u)tor e suas "interversões" em Retrato desnatural, de Evando Nascimento by Fabíola Padilha

“…This paper aims at proposing a reading of the supposedly fictional book Retrato desnatural (diários - 2004 a 2007), by Evando Nascimento, published in 2008, by observing the way through which the author, in consonance with the notion of “writable text” by Roland Barthes, entertains a dialogue with diverse artistic lan- guages (plastic arts, music, theater, cinema, literature) as well as with the western philosophy. …”
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“Welcome to the White Man’s World”: An English Translation of Isaac Oluwole Delano’s Historical Novel Aiyé D’Aiyé Òyìnbó by Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…The story is purely fictional but based on our various experiences in the Yoruba society.  …”
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Poéticas do dilaceramento e da desolação: Bernardo Carvalho e Sergio Chejfec by Paulo César Thomaz

“…This work consists of an analysis of how the Brazilian and Argentine contemporary narrative, specifically the romances Teatro (1998) by the Brazilian writer, Bernardo Carvalho, and Los incompletos (2004) of the Argentine Sergio Chejfec, fictionalize different poetics of the contemporary experience, with emphasis mainly on impossibility and impediments to transform the lived moment in narrative material.…”
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Poétique de l’espace insulaire dans The Wedding de Dorothy West by Corinne Duboin

“…I will examine how Dorothy West reconstructs the referential space of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachussets, in her last novel, The Wedding (1995). By focusing on her fictional mapping of the island and its black enclave, the Oval, my aim is to explore West’s poetics of space with relation to her criticism of the black upper class of the Os.…”
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Trauma Talk by Siri Husvedt

“…At the crossroads between theoretical reflections, autobiographical and fictional writings by the author, memories and dreams, not to mention essays by philosophers, psychoanalysts and neuroscientists, this extremely personal and creative paper aims at defining the specificity of trauma narratives – such an endeavor being conceived as essentially paradoxical. …”
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La ficcionalización del erotismo en los cuentos de Germán Espinosa by Orlando Araújo Fontalvo

“…In order to understand the nature of this recurrence it is necessary to revise carefully the short fictions in which eroticism manifests itself as an unassailable force, through an impulse knowing no rest nor respite, revealing an anomic society at its deepest and darkest.…”
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Narrative Environment of Malgudi: Space, Autonomy, and Belonging by Gouthaman K J, Nandini Pradeep J

“…A world, real or fictional, the entities that compose the world, and their relations with each other exist and undergo changes in space and time. …”
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A New Look at the Structure of Genitive and Attributive Similes with a Special Emphasis on Hafez’s Poems by Meysam Hajipour, Enayatollah Mahmoodi

“…Simile is one of the most important and useable fictional elements in prose and poem. This fictional element has been the poets’ and educators’ means to show their artistic skills in various ways. …”
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« Des gens dans la carte ». Une géographie des individus pour enseigner les questions migratoires by Pascal Clerc

“…This text proposes to introduce "people in the map" to teach the complexity of migration. based on life stories and fictional forms of discourses.…”
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Histórias de índios entre assimilação e resistência: O rastro do jaguar by Rita Olivieri-Godet

“…This work is inserted in the fictional line of questioning of the historical formation of the country. …”
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Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…This essay sketches the history of the Barbary conflict and considers three fictionalized accounts of Barbary encounter as secular conversion narratives, two of the three demonstrating how even despotic slaveholders could learn to embrace commerce and sentiment.  …”
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Baldwin, l’homotextualité et les identités plurielles : une rencontre à l’avant-garde by Jean-Paul Rocchi

“…Using psychoanalytical, sociological and semiological frames, this essay aims at showing how the process of writing in Baldwin’s fictional and non-fictional works inverts binarisms and dislocates the origin so as to oppose every attempt at defining identity. …”
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La construction du personnage dans la presse people by Marc Lits

“…The celebrity magazine, as a specific press genre, focuses its attention on public figures portrayed as fictional heroes. What was already an established practice in the world of entertainment now invades the political universe, as increasingly witnessed in celebrity magazines.…”
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Alice’s Non-Anthropocentric Ethics: Lewis Carroll as a Defender of Animal Rights by Anna Kérchy

“…Lewis Carroll’s Victorian nonsense fairy-tale fantasies Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) provide plenty of fictional reformulations of the Victorians’ ambiguous relationship with animals. …”
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Houses of Horror or Magical Kingdoms? Past Times Revisited with Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar by Lois Marie Jaeck

“…In the three short stories to be examined, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes and Julio Cortázar incorporate Pre-Columbian beliefs and customs into colonial and post-colonial Latin American reality. Their fictional mergers of past and present insinuate the reversibility/ambiguity of dreams/representation with physical reality. …”
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Le mot et le geste by Johann Chaulet, Sébastien Roux

“…Drawing on auto-ethnography, this article accounts for his practices and feelings; it describes a fictional “night” – based upon a recollection of previous experiences with sexual and affective partners. …”
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