The article analyzes the movies "Slumdog Millionaire" and "Trainspotting" by Danny Boyle highlighting its similarities and differences. It discusses how the movies depict social outcasts with a fairytale like narrative, and postcolonialism for global capitalism. It looks at the movies playing a ...
study how the gendered subaltern subjects of the global South are represented in the fictional works of three writers: Mahasweta Devi, Bessie Head, and Assia Djebar. Devi, Head, and Djebar write about disenfranchised groups of people whose ontological existences are marginalized and silenced by ...
What sorts of 'we's are produced by our scholarly interactions, methodological dilemmas and engagements in the world? Can a discernible anthropological 'we' even be said to exist? And, perhaps more challengingly, what is becoming, and can become, of this 'we' (or 'we's)? The answers ...
In“ Crisis in Orientalism” Edward W. Said exposes the limitations of Orientalism. Hecontinues to focus our attention to the enterprise of falsification of the East by the Western Orientalists. ... Said, here borrows from Foucault's views that all texts are politically informed, more so colon...
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This booklet was made sometime in the late 1960's, likely the summer of '67. While Abbie Hoffman claims that it was written by George Metesky, and this may... Discourse Markers are one of an uninvestigated aspect of language in old and modern Kurdish linguistics, that has not been give...
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Mas alla del futbol: La Bomba, the afrochoteno subaltern, and cultural change in Ecuador's Chota-Mira Valley Based on a 2007 Fulbright funded documentary film project; this dissertation concerns the highland Afro-Ecuadorian communities of the Chota-Mira valley. The afrochoteos are the direct des...
However, I don’t think this blog is going to be the place where I put those words. I’ve posted on Medium a bit recently, and those pieces are the kinds of things I would have once posted here, but I don’t know that that’s going to be the long-term solution. I will leave...
In the 19th century, it wasn’t just the Australians who had an affinity for the pairing. Avocados were so well known among the British that they were called “midshipman’s butter” or “military subaltern’s butter.” Even then, avocado toast was a dish for the fashionable. An 1843 dis...