17 research outputs found
Modernity, World War I, and Appropriations of the Colonial Gaze in John Joseph Mathewsâ Sundown
No full textThe other history of cultural encounters through performance revisited: shifting discourses on Moroccan acrobatic entertainers in nineteenth-century America
No full textTheorising âAgreementâ: the moral bases of the emergent professionalism within the ânewâ management of education
No full textSam Selvon's, "The Lonely Londoners" and the structure of black metropolitan life
No full textThe paper argues that Sam Selvonâs novel The Lonely Londoners (1956), whilst offering a study of the metropolitan experience of post-war African and Caribbean immigrants to London, gives profound insights into the fundamental structure of Black metropolitan subjectivity generally. The theoretical work of Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall and, Paul Gilroy, among others, is used to illuminate particular aspects of the location of the Black subject in the London metropolis. The paper concludes by arguing that the novelâs rendering of Diasporic metropolitan life works with a dialectical shift in the perception of the character of the metropolis
Crossing the intercultural borders into 3rd space culture(s): implications for teacher education in the twenty-first century
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