Citizen Hyde: Cosmopolitan Contradictions in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
As the British empire slowly crumbled at the end of the nineteenth century, London was inundated with countless new residents, raising paranoia about crime that was presumed to originate with newcomers...
View ArticlePolitics of Identity Formation: Impact Of Jean Paul Sartre’s Criticism Of...
This paper undertakes an analysis of Jean Paul Sartre’s “Black Orpheus” in context of the Négritude movement to understand its impact on creating a distinct identity for Africa and its diaspora. The...
View ArticleFeminist Forms and Borderless Landscapes in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
Pioneering Scottish novelist Ali Smith experiments with literary form and, in response to the contemporary climate crisis, she plants environmental themes into her poetic prose. Smith’s seasonal...
View Article“Challenge Accepted” Movement on Instagram: An Embodied Virtual Protest
This paper investigates whether social media provides an alternative protest forum minimizing bodily harm for vulnerable groups through an analysis of the “Challenge Accepted” movement on Instagram....
View ArticleCan We Approach the Subject of Child Sexual Abuse Ethically in Academia?...
This article is dedicated to the question of ethics. It addresses the ethical issues that arise when making the painful subject of CSA the central focus of an academic inquiry. The first section...
View ArticleCrafting Criminality: Into a Magical Dystopia with Delinquent Objects
The vivid social lives of street magicians’ paraphernalia narrate the conflicts that threaten their artform today. Here, we attend to the movements of the Maseit street magician’s objects to map the...
View ArticleJames Baldwin and Ernest Hemingway: The Expatriate Artist as Organic...
Intellectuals are a class of educated and gifted people (writers, scholars, scientists, artists) produced by society to perform social functions and assume a historical responsibility. Their...
View ArticleSelf-Derived Happiness, Defamiliarized: Ambiguity and Agency in Nella...
In Nella Larsen’s Passing, Clare Kendry plays a dangerous game. Only a little over half a century removed from the end of the American Civil War, in a time when white supremacy still defined the...
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