This article uses a comparative cultural studies approach to analyze two contemporary re-tellings of colonial history in the Americas: Spanish director Icíar Bollaín’s film, También la lluvia/Even Rain (2010), and US-Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago’s historical novel, Conquistadora (2011). La Lluvia offer case aesthetics agonistic mode remembering, although it is o...

Abstract This article argues that the defamiliarization caused by extensive repetition, termed ‘semantic satiation’ in psychology, was used ancient poets for specific effects. Five categories of repetition are identified. First, words undergo auditory deformation through syllable and sound as commonly etymologies. Second, a tradition emphatic proper-name is identified, which final instance name...

This article reads two narratives of catastrophe, Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds” (1983) and Ted Chiang’s “The Great Silence” (2015), in an attempt to explore how their concern with disaster destabilizes the binary human/nonhuman. Conjuring up visions transformation extinction before after stories interrogate humanist accounts subjectivity through focus on language consciousness, prompting us ...

defamiliarization, the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar, is the main function of artistic literature. paradox is one of its techniques. paradox is used either syntactically or semantically. ibn al-farid was a mystic sufi poet gifted by mystical perceptions in addition to his poetic talents....

Despite the growing prominence of locative media, its potential influence on our relationships to our places has not been well understood. Based on previous studies, this paper argues that locative media can affect our spatial relationships in various ways and thereby improve our sense of place. To understand how this can be accomplished it is important to examine the features and affordances o...

This paper argues that as poetics in the Song Dynasty developed, thinking mode and methods of written expression Chan Buddhism provided a theoretical reference creative practical experience for formation poetic theories. point is particularly evident “flexible method”, which was key theory Dynasty. The comprises three layers meaning: it advocates respecting forms, changing meaning those retaini...

Unlike most of the immigration novels created by contemporary Polish American female writers, How to Get into Twin Palms written Karolina Waclawiak, does not focus on hardships assimilation culture but depicts experiments with ethnic cross-dressing. a representative so-called one-and-a half generation immigrants from 1980s Solidarity wave, reinvents story as her protagonist, Zosia, resident Los...

Automation is once again raising concerns about the threat it poses to employment. Feminists in 20th century believed that technology could liberate women from undesirable labor. However, historically, industry and automation have not reduced women’s workloads but instead favored unpaid work, flexibility, work overload. Rather than mitigating care ecological crises, technological development ha...

In a global context characterized by growing complexity of the dynamics Chinese transnational mobility, we find need to resort new vocabulary understand localized artistic expressions related such dynamics. this article, focus on two artists, Musk Ming (1979–present) and Tony Cheung (1987–present), who live work across China Europe, reflecting how their life trajectories combine with transcultu...