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The Malaysian dilemma: negotiating sexual diversity in a Muslim-majority Commonwealth state
No full text‘Buggery’ and the Commonwealth Caribbean: a comparative examination of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago
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Sexual orientation, gender identity and human rights in the Commonwealth: from history and law to developing activism and transnational dialogues
No full textUnited Kingdom: confronting criminal histories and theorising decriminalisation as citizenship and governmentality
No full textReligious institutions and actors and religious attitudes to homosexual rights: South Africa and Uganda
No full textBeyond cross-cultural sensitivities: international human rights advocacy and sexuality in Jamaica
No full textAleister Crowley, Marie de Miramar & the True Wanga
Get PDFThe article is centred on that curious line from Aleister Crowley's (or Aiwass's) Book of the Law (Book I, line 37): "the obeah and the wanga."
A copy of an obscure Theosophical pamphlet, 'Obeah Simplified; or, the True Wanga,' (dated c1895) is held in the Yorke Collection, with pencilled emendations (in what appeared to me to be Crowley’s handwriting).
It seemed entirely possible that a young Crowley had first come across the terms 'obeah' and 'wanga' via this pamphlet; the idiosyncratic interpretation of these terms by its pseudonymous author ‘Cassecanarie’ dovetail nicely, in my opinion, with Crowley's own understanding (as evinced in e.g. the New Comment).
Marie de Miramar, Crowley's unfortunate second wife, the 'High Priestess of Voodoo' also features in this article; an examination of her life, and also the influence (such as it is) of Voodoo - and, more generally, of African Diasporic religions - upon Crowley's thought and writing
Direct Speech in the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : A Linguistic Analysis
No full textThe fifteenth-century collection of short stories entitled Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles is notorious for offering a reproduction singulièrement habile [...] de la langue alors parlée (Paris 1913). The present article proposes a linguistic analysis of spoken language as portrayed in MS Glasgow Hunter 252, the only extant manuscript copy of the collection. Consideration is firstly given to a number of noteworthy syntactic constructions, which cross-comparison with the electronic corpus Frantext Moyen Français (218 texts dated between 1330 and 1500) shows to be exceptionally attested. The use of these constructions may stem from the author’s noted efforts at conversational realism. The article then focuses on the dialectological evidence found at the phono-graphematic, morpho-graphematic and lexical levels, with particular attention to possible instances of linguistic stereotyping
