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Ad Astra Per Aspera (To the Stars Through Difficulties)
Making use of epistolary form (“dear reader”), this essay engages the author’s embodied experiences—as a deaf girl in rural western Kansas, circa 1970, as a University of Kansas college student, and through co...
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Japanese Game Company Strategies for Entering China: Comparative Case Studies from 1989 to 2019
Since the end of the 1980s, numerous Japanese game companies have attempted to enter the Chinese market, now the world’s largest for online and smartphone games. While these companies had successfully outsourc...
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Transnational Identities and Translated Agencies: From Madame de Staël’s Corinne, ou l’Italie (1807) to Kym Ragusa’s The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (2006)
This chapter considers the entwined legacy of nineteenth-century transnational women writers with women writing today through the paired case studies of Germaine de Staël (1766–1817) and Kym Ragusa (1966–). Tr...
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Bees in Nineteenth-Century Lore and Law
The nineteenth century gave rise to a surprising proliferation of legal cases involving bees, but the depictions of bees in the law display an ambivalence about our relationship with bees. In some cases, invol...
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Introduction: The Dynamics of Truthfulness and Media
In this introduction to “Truth Claims Across Media,” we approach pressing questions related to facts and fakes, authority and authenticity, information and disinformation through an intermedial perspective. A...
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The Player and the Avatar: Performing as Other
This article considers the ethics of identity play in game worlds. Although previous scholarship has examined the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality operate in game worlds, there has been a lack of atte...
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“Loss is loss is loss”: Embodying the Family-as-Trauma in Julianna Baggott’s Pure (2012)
Julianna Baggott’s Pure trilogy of young adult (YA) dystopian novels, consisting of Pure (2012), Fuse (2013), and Burn (2014) depicts disabled and trans-corporeal bodies resulting from a nuclear disaster. Like Th...
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Introduction
Development challenges, such as underdevelopment, poverty, inequality, unemployment, and conflict confronting Africa require different role-players in the government sector, academics, non-governmental sector,...
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Milan Kundera in China
Among the foreign writers introduced to China in the new era, Milan Kundera might be considered as one of the most distinguished figures. Born in Czechoslovakia, a young and eventful Central European country (...
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On the Women’s Pages: Assimilation and Americanization
Despite the differences exhibited by the various publications in this study, they shared one characteristic: a dedication to becoming Americans, though what constituted “becoming American” varied from journal ...
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Pulling Our Strings: The Gothic Nostalgia of Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria
This essay looks at how Gothic Nostalgia offers a window into how a culture, at a particular moment, feels about and engages with the past and its own history. Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria is unique in that it is a...
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Social Media, Space and Place in South Africa: #egoli (Johannesburg) on Instagram
Instagram is one of the most popular social media apps, with 6-million users in South Africa. The photo-sharing app is a way for users to map their everyday lives via a curated selection of images. This Chapte...
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Correction to: Mourning and Resilience in Indian Ocean Life Writing
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Economic Versus Political Goals
This chapter analyses the first source of the party-state’s double-bind logic in the regulation of the ISM industry: the contradiction between economic objectives and political objectives. The two sets of obje...
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Adaptation and the Adapted Text
This chapter presents an overview of various approaches to adaptation, identifies categories of adaptations, and compares the unique aesthetic systems of theatre and film, which impose their own rules on trans...
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Italianness and Foundational Masculinity in Edward Dmytryk’s Rendition of Pietro Di Donato’s Christ in Concrete
This chapter analyses Edward Dmytryk’s Christ in Concrete (aka Give Us This Day, 1949), based on Pietro Di Donato’s novel Christ in Concrete. The author discusses the depiction of the Italian-American community a...
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Idols on Display: Pacific Object Lessons for the British Child
This chapter explores what evangelicals taught the British child through facilitating their engagement with the Pacific idol. Drawing on Parna Sengupta’s and Sarah Anne Carter’s work on the nineteenth-century ...
