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Beetwen Berlin and Moscow: Polish Western Thought in the Twenty-Year Interwar Period
2020
The article was submitted on 27.02.2020. This article is not primarily focused on presenting arguments and views held by Polish political groups with reference to the territorial shape of the Polish state after the First World War. Instead, its aim is to draw attention to actions taken by these groups towards the defence of Polish western lands. One of the key problems of Poland’s foreign policy after 1918 was the question of relations with its neighbours, chiefly Germany and Russia (and the Soviet Union). For many years, the most serious problem faced by post-Versailles Europe was that of the Germans striving to revise the legal order, to break their political isolation, and return to the …
Enjoying sameness and difference – competition and convergence of Latin American telenovelas and Swahili video films in Tanzania
2018
Since the early 2000s Latin American telenovelas have become a very popular and widely received genre in Tanzania. At the same time, a huge video film industry has developed with local films made i...
Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah
2021
With social media taking stand-up routines beyond their hitherto localised environments, there is growing irritation and backlash against comedians who supposedly tell unpleasant (or offensive) jok...
A Holonic Approach to Shakespeare: The Digital Reference System (DRS)
2012
Prefatory RemarksWhen hypertext was made available on the Internet after 1994 it shaped the concepts of public domain and free access. The web server and browsing system that Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau designed, determined the future digital, editorial and cultural developments for traditional audiences and digital natives alike. They quickly became the generalized interface tools and thus contributed to today's editorial standards. As they helped to create this innovative environment called the Internet, they also helped to establish many standards such as URL, URI, HTTP HTML or XML, which provided interoperability amongst different platforms and allowed internationalization.Shake…
Localising African popular music transnationally: ‘Highlife-Travellers’ in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s
2008
The paper argues that a critical toehold for understanding the formation, modernization, and popularity of Highlife in the 1950s is its transnational dimension. To corroborate this claim, the paper puts emphasis on Highlife musicians in the UK, especially London, during this time, their musical activities and productions there, and the effects of their journeys on popular music. The growing evidence that cultural practices and processes in different locales, across national and continental boundaries, were interrelated in the making of Highlife, asks for a multi-sited study of Highlife especially with regard to the musical creativity and productivity of 1950s and 1960s. It requires further …
Josep Pla: Seeing the World in the Form of Articles
2019
La apropiación de niños en España y Argentina. Dos políticas de la memoria
2015
A principios de 2002 se emitió en TV3 el documental Els nens perduts del franquisme, basado en las investigaciones del historiador Ricard Vinyes sobre las presas políticas y sus hijos en las cárceles franquistas. Hasta ese día las pocas noticias que se tenían de las apropiaciones venían del otro lado del Atlántico. Las dictaduras latinoamericanas de los años setenta habían marcado el mundo occidental con el fantasma de los desaparecidos y con el robo de sus hijos para “salvarlos” y reeducarlos. Este artículo tiene como objetivo un acercamiento a las consecuencias de los robos en la construcción de la memoria individual y colectiva de España y de Argentina. Para hacerlo se realiza un breve r…
A Modern Classic of Fantastic Art: José Hernández
2016
Jose Hernandez (Tanger, 1944-Malaga, 2013) es uno de los grandes maestros del arte fantastico con una extensa obra pictorica y grafica reconocida en todo el mundo. En un momento en el que el arte fantastico empieza a valorarse positivamente en museos y el ambito academico, Hernandez es un referente indispensable tanto en el ambito espanol como en el panorama internacional. Con una extensa obra desde los anos sesenta, su personal poetica proyecta un imaginario perturbador, onirico y grotesco habitado por monstruos y espectros que deambulan por misteriosos espacios, un universo muy relacionado con la tradicion de los pintores renancentistas y barrocos y la literatura fantastica.
Reality, Fantasy and Ideology in Pere Calders’Poetics
2019
L’article analitza el valor i el sentit dels conceptes «realitat» i «fantasia» en l’univers literari de Pere Calders, com a fonaments d’una actitud literaria que reivindica l’imaginari i el fantastic i s’enfronta a la literatura realista de caracter compromes o testimonial. En segon lloc, analitza les critiques de l’autor al cientifisme positivista i la seua reivindicacio de l’art i la literatura com a alternatives epistemologiques. L’aproximacio ideologica a l’obra caldersiana es completa amb l’analisi de dos exemples: «El primer Arlequi», com a oposicio al pensament religios, i «La ratlla i el desig», com a visio de l’exili en clau metaforica.
Praise of Difference: The Innocent Monsters of Teresa Colom
2019
Aquest article analitza l’element sobrenatural en La senyoreta Keaton i altres besties, un recull de contes de Teresa Colom, amb una especial atencio en els personatges dels nens, els quals tenen algun tret que els fa diferents i els emparenta amb la figura del monstre. Partint de la distincio entre el fantastic classic i el fantastic del segle XX, estudiarem el concepte de realitat en l’obra, una realitat mes oberta en que s’han superat els limits de la rao amb la inclusio dels somnis, l’art i el llenguatge. Tot seguit, ens centrarem en dues caracteristiques definitories d’aquestes besties: la innocencia inherent, sense prejudicis, aixi com el tipus de relacio –d’una banda, assimilacio i n…