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Mourning the Nation: Grief as Political Resistance in Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

This study examines the representation of mourning as a form of political resistance in Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor. Moving beyond the conventional perception of grief as a private emotional experience, the novel reconfigures mourning as a collective, historical, and political act deeply embedded in Kenya’s postcolon...

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The silence in a radical field.

This first-person account interrogates the silence of mainstream community psychology in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We confront the gap between the field's stated commitments to social justice, prevention, and liberation, and its complicity through inaction. Silence is not neutrality but alignment with p...

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Subversive laughter: Incongruity, relief, and cultural critique in Longlegs (2024) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

This chapter examines the enduring cultural impact of Thomas Harris’ The Silence of the Lambs and Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation, alongside Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs, through the rarely examined angle of dark humour studies. While such films are not comedies broadly speaking, this chapter maintains that Demme and Perk...

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Constructing Morality Through Local Wisdom: A Goffmanian Dramaturgical Reading of Tatang Suhendra's Comic Strip ‘Siksa Neraka’ (Torment of Hell)

This study looks at a strand of Indonesian popular culture from the mid-1990s: comic strips that folded eschatological messages into their storylines. Images of heaven and hell became a central selling point, delivered through illustrated panels and short captions. Among the best-known titles from that era is Siksa Ner...

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EXPOSING THE MYTH OF CIVILISATION: A DECONSTRUCTIVE READING OF HEART OF DARKNESS AND APOCALYPSE NOW

This study offers a comparative analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now with reference to the ways in which they construct and interrogate the concept of civilisation. Spanning 80 years of cultural development, the two texts reflect how, under the pressure of various his...

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Women Who Dissent: Boundary-Breaking Narratives of Resistance in the Writing of Fatḥiyya Dabiš

This paper examines the intersection of literature and feminist resistance through an analysis of Fatḥiyya Dabiš’s Ṣamt al-nawāqīs (The Silence of the Bells, 2018) and Mīlānīn (Melanin, 2019). Using boundaries – textual, generic, social, and identity-based – and dissident writing as the guiding analytical frame...

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