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All Poetry by Paulo Leminski: Translated by Charles A. Perrone and Ivan Justen Santana
No full textPaulo Leminski. All Poetry. Translated by Charles A. Perrone and Ivan Justen Santana. Hanover, CT: New London Librarium, 2022.Hardcover: 18.95. 348 pages. ISBN: 9781947074651
The Unknown Enemy: Counterinsurgency and the Illusion of Control by Christian Tripodi
No full textReview of: The Unknown Enemy: Counterinsurgency and the Illusion of Control by Christian Tripodi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. (300 pages
(Re)negotiating Empire: A Postcolonial Reading of the Narrative of Refugee Experience in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
No full textThis paper considers narratives of refugee experience in postcolonial scholarship. Investigating refugee experiences is indispensable to understanding how postcolonial theory applies to narratives that represent involuntary mobilization. It elucidates how the refugee experience casts an idiosyncratic outlook on the Western and Orientalist formulations, bringing to light a renegotiation of the dynamics of the distinction between the two. Looking at Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, I argue that Hope challenges the naturalized authenticity of Western superiority by employing the refugee trope as a rhetorical counter-narrative of core paradigms of Eurocentrism, contesting the Western ideologies that consolidate this naturalized Western superiority by establishing a parallel paradigm of power between the two locales—West and East
Speaking Personally
No full textJulianne Schultz, ed. A Revealed Life: Australian Writers and Their Journeys in Memoir. Sydney: ABC Books, 2007.
Chester Eagle. The Well in the Shadow: A Writer's Journey through Australian Literature. Yarraville: Transit Lounge Publishing, 2010.
C.A. Cranston and Robert Zeller, eds. The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Penelope Hanley. Creative Lives: Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2009.
Adrift But Within Sight of the Shore: Criticism of Australian Film
No full textFrench, Lisa, and Mark Poole. Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute. St. Kilda West, Victoria: AU: Australian Teachers of Media, 2009.
Mayer, Geoff, and Keith Beattie, eds. The Cinema of Australia and New Zealand. London: Wallflower Press, 2007.
Moran, Albert, and Errol Vieth. Film in Australia: An Introduction. Cambridge UP, 2006.
Simpson, Catherine, Renata Murawska, and Anthony Lambert, eds. Diasporas of Australian Cinema. Chicago: Intellect Books, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Vanderbent, Saskia. Australian Film. Harpenden, Herts, UK: Pocket Essentials, 2006.
 
London Is [Not] the Place for Me: The Failure of the Immigrant Dream in Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia
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Modern Anti-Trafficking Legislation and Harmful Traditional Practices: Haiti’s Restavek System
No full textThis article presents a historical and contemporary overview of child domestic servitude in Haiti and an analysis of legislation that protects children from labor exploitation and trafficking. The range of criminal sanctions addressing the issue of child domestic servitude has created an unpredictable legal terrain for how these cases are resolved, allowing for prosecutors and judges to apply any one of the various applicable laws of choice with vastly disparate sentencing outcomes for abusers, recruiters, and parents