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Volume 3 Number 1 January 2010
New Essays for a New Century
During the seventies and eighties, academic articles tended to cling to models of reception offered by French critical theory and, to a lesser extent, by Russian formalism and Saussurian ...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Shusaku Endo: from the Silence of the East to the Silence of God
This essay examines several topics related to the problems of faith and, above all, of how people experience the limit(s) of their consciousness and of the world they live in. The main co...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Homage to a Father: Family Tradition and Revolution(s) in Palace Walk
Western readings of Palace Walk, the first volume of Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, tend to interpret the novel mainly along the lines of typical opposition between patriarchy/occupation and fe...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Liberation through the Acceptance of Nature and Technology in Octavia Butler’...
Contained within Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (1993) is the message that technology permits a false sense of freedom. Butler creates characters that exist within chaotic technolo...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Eliade’s Romanian Past: Religion and Politics
Mircea Eliade’s works now attract more critical attention than they did during his lifetime. This is evidenced by the volumes being published in different countries on Eliade’s literary a...
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American Jeremiads: The Winter of Our Discontent and Into The Woods
John Steinbeck’s fiction earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature, though more than that his writings reached a vast audience through filmed versions of his most read novels, including Th...
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Crossing the Genre Divide: Women and Ethics in the Detective Novels of Doroth...
Dorothy L. Sayers used the Harriet Vane character to explore themes that are more characteristic of the mainstream novel than the detective fiction of the Golden Age. Focus is on the four...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Close Encounters of the Third (Space) Kind: La guaracha del Macho Camacho and...
Friction in language is inevitable and unruly. Lexical, grammatical, and contextual issues require linguistic negotiation for both native and second-language speakers. This preoccupation ...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Book Review: Rebuild America: Solving the Economic Crisis through Civic Works
The book is a good case study as to how educators can transform theory into action that will improve society. Using this model, activists, scholars, artists, and citizens can take direct ...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
Book Review: Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Ana...
As an academic with interests in radical political theory but not a lot of background in anarchist studies, I found this book helpful if limited. The stated goal of the editorial board fo...
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Book Review: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industr...
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded confirms and explains the strings attached to philanthropic grants while presenting a global cross-section of modern political discontent. This book of s...
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Book Review: Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance
In the face of the global reach of ‘neo-liberalism’ and Thatcherite economics, it has been said that left-activists lack an effective counter response, preferably a hegemonic response tha...
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Book Review: The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas
“There is an opportunity before us to reinvigorate journalism and,with that, democratic governance in the United States. But we need to correctly understand the source of the problem to p...
From: Transformative Studies Institute
