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Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi (2018)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2018). Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi. Interventions, 20(4), 488-509. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1439397

While the cosmopolitan turn in political and literary theory encourages us to move beyond national frameworks, the Caucasus remains mired in ethno-national categories from the Soviet past. This essay examines how these categories are being mobilized... Read More about Memorializing Akhundzadeh: Contradictory Cosmopolitanism and Post-Soviet Narcissism in Old Tbilisi.

Review of Matteo Salvadore, The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 (Transculturalisms 1400–1700.) xi, 235 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017 (2018)
Journal Article
Marzagora, S. (2018). Review of Matteo Salvadore, The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 (Transculturalisms 1400–1700.) xi, 235 pp. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 81(1), 188-190. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X18000174

The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A Film Re-reading through its Script (2018)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (2018). The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A Film Re-reading through its Script. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 10, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17564905.2018.1437659

This text proposes an updated analysis of Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (1960) through the director’s theoretical contribution and the re-reading of his script. This film, made within the limits of reality and fiction, was instrumental in the cinematic lang... Read More about The Limits of Fiction: Politics and Absent Scenes in Susumu Hani’s Bad Boys (Furyōshōnen, 1960). A Film Re-reading through its Script.

The internal TR clusters of Acadian French: a hint from schwa (2018)
Book Chapter
Charette, M. (2018). The internal TR clusters of Acadian French: a hint from schwa. In G. Lindsey, & A. Nevins (Eds.), Sonic Signatures (18-32). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.14.c2

On the surface Acadian French appears to have word-initial and word-internal branching onsets. A closer look at the data however, reveals that no branching onsets can be followed by schwa. This fact leads me to propose that the TR clusters of Acadian... Read More about The internal TR clusters of Acadian French: a hint from schwa.

Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya (2018)
Book
Bevilacqua, D. (2018). Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315209128

Modern Hindu Traditionalism addresses Hindu traditions that resisted contact with both Neo-Hindu thought and views of “classical” Hinduism perceived to be outmoded. This book provides an in-depth understanding of Modern Hindu Traditionalism through t... Read More about Modern Hindu Traditionalism in Contemporary India: The Śrī Maṭh and the Jagadguru Rāmānandācārya in the Evolution of the Ramanandi Sampradaya.

Dog Barking at the Moon: Transcreation of a Meme in Art and Poetry (2018)
Journal Article
Bruno, C. (2018). Dog Barking at the Moon: Transcreation of a Meme in Art and Poetry. Journal of modern literature in Chinese, 14(2), 161-186

This essay explores the dynamics of transcreation in art and poetry, focusing on the image of a dog barking at the moon in four Taiwanese poems. By putting them in connection with each other and with other texts from different times and artistic trad... Read More about Dog Barking at the Moon: Transcreation of a Meme in Art and Poetry.

Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research (2018)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research. The Silk Road (Sofia), 4, 291-300

The current and continuing shifts in frequently contrasting „official” and popular stances multiculturalism and religious pluralism in Europe are clearly symptomatic of the growing crisis of state multiculturalism in Europe, a crisis increasingly vis... Read More about Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.

Method Directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a Comparative Approach across Paradigms (2018)
Book Chapter
Centeno, M. (2018). Method Directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a Comparative Approach across Paradigms. In A. Becker (Ed.), Yasujirô Ozu and the Aesthetics of his Time (125-152). Büchner-Verlag

This text seeks to assess Yasujiro Ozu´s filmmaking method in relation to that of Susumu Hani, which was theorised and put into practice through documentary films during the fifties. These filmmakers belonged to different generations and while Ozu, s... Read More about Method Directors. Susumu Hani and Yasujirō Ozu: a Comparative Approach across Paradigms.

Sociolinguistic spaces and multilingualism: practices and perceptions in Essyl, Senegal (2018)
Thesis
Goodchild, S. Sociolinguistic spaces and multilingualism: practices and perceptions in Essyl, Senegal. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores the perceptions and practices of multilingualism in Essyl, Senegal, by considering how these are used and construed in sociolinguistic space. Based on fieldwork conducted in the village of Essyl, in the Casamance region of southe... Read More about Sociolinguistic spaces and multilingualism: practices and perceptions in Essyl, Senegal.