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“Silence was all the boy ever got”: the silent treatment of trauma in The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
2023
Sueños y violencias, migrantes latinoamericanas en su paso por México
2019
Reperti su alcuni Artropodi fitofagi in colture di rilevente interesse economico in Sicilia.
2001
Representing the Haitian diaspora in Russell Banks’s Continental Drift, from Port-de-Paix to Little Haiti: a celebration of the margins
2021
International audience; Russell Banks’s 1985 novel Continental Drift tells the intertwined stories of Bob Dubois, a white American man who decides to try his luck in Florida, and the Haitian Vanise Dorsinville, who is forced to leave her island with her son and her nephew to flee Jean-Claude Duvalier’s dictatorial presidency. In this paper, I study how, in the chapters dedicated to the Haitian diaspora, Banks chooses to adopt an ex-centric point of view to give a voice to those whose history and culture have largely been ignored by American society and literature. Vanise is a figure of in-betweenness, caught between Haiti and the United States, between land and ocean, and even between life …
The Army Game Project : creating an artefact of war
2009
The role of the agreement as a tool for management of property relations in cases of cross border marriages and civil unions/partnerships registered …
2021
The essay examines the role of the agreement as a tool for managing property relationships in crossborder marriages and registered partnerships, in light of EU Regulations 1103 and 1104 of 2016, on the property regimes of international married or registered couples. The main prerogative of such acts is the recognition of the parties? freedom to choose the court and the applicable law. The law governing the matrimonial property regimes, or the property consequences of registered partnerships, has universal scope. This agreement in the form envisaged, which is backed by the need for legal certainty and predictability of the applicable rules, means that the spouses, in family problems which ha…
Understanding small sports under globalization : a study on women’s American football: the global dynamics of women’s American football involving Fin…
2023
With more attention given to women’s sports, this study focuses on the research gap in women's American football as a heavily under-researched field. The paper aims to examine the global dynamics of women's American football by highlighting the position of the sport in opportunities, challenges, and development process. The study investigates the environment of women's American football by asking the following questions: How is women's American football functioning in the USA and in Finland? What is the nature of international competition in the IFAF Women's World Championship? And what are the challenges and opportunities presented in women's football globally, in Finland, and in the USA? …
Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum
De Laet's critical confutation of Hugh Grotius treatise which argued that Native Americans came from Norway, Ethiopia and China.
Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum
De Laet's critical confutation of Hugh Grotius treatise which argued that Native Americans came from Norway, Ethiopia and China.
Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Responsio ad dissertationem secundam Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum
De Laet's response to Hugo Grotius who, resentful about De Laet's confutation on his previous work, had published a second treatise in an attempt to refute De Laet's arguments.