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When the Boat Comes In: Myth, Reification, and the Changing Face of Simón Bolívar in Venezuelan Politics and Culture (2016)
Book Chapter
Roberts, N. (2016). When the Boat Comes In: Myth, Reification, and the Changing Face of Simón Bolívar in Venezuelan Politics and Culture. In M. G. Shanahan, & A. M. Reyes (Eds.), Simón Bolívar : travels and transformations of a cultural icon (215-229). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813062624.003.0013

Eugenio Montejo’s poem “Nostalgia de Bolívar” (1976) depicts Simón Bolívar as the (symbolic) essence of the Venezuelan land and people. But both are also emptied of this essence, as, within the poem, Bolívar departs to sea on a boat. “Bolívar” become... Read More about When the Boat Comes In: Myth, Reification, and the Changing Face of Simón Bolívar in Venezuelan Politics and Culture.

A systemic centenary of Russian poetic translation (2016)
Journal Article
Tyulenev, S. (2016). A systemic centenary of Russian poetic translation. Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 3(2), 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/23306343.2016.1184499

This article analyses systemic properties of Russian poetic translation as exemplified by the online collection Vek perevoda [A Century of Translation]. The compiler of the collection, the poet and translator Evgenii Vitkovskii (Witkowsky), describes... Read More about A systemic centenary of Russian poetic translation.

Semanitka gorya v finale Shestoy sinfonii Nikolaya Myaskovskogo [The semantics of grief in Nikolay Myaskovsky's Sixth Symphony] (2016)
Book Chapter
Zuk, P. (2016). Semanitka gorya v finale Shestoy sinfonii Nikolaya Myaskovskogo [The semantics of grief in Nikolay Myaskovsky's Sixth Symphony]. In Y. Vlasova, K. Zenkin, & M. Karachevskaya (Eds.), Dvadtsatïy vek. Muzïka voynï i mira: Materialï mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii [The Twentieth Century. Music of War and Peace (231-238). Progress-Traditsiya

Postcolonial Ecologies: The Cross-Pollination of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies (2016)
Journal Article
Perez Trujillo, A. (2016). Postcolonial Ecologies: The Cross-Pollination of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies. The Trumpeter: Journal of Ecosophy, 32(1), 38-54

This paper will argue in favour of an intersection of interests between postcolonial and environmental studies, a convergence built on the relevance of hegemony in fully understanding the notion of place espoused by environmentalists. It explores the... Read More about Postcolonial Ecologies: The Cross-Pollination of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies.

Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012. (2016)
Book
Ward, S. (2016). Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012. Amsterdam University Press

As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example o... Read More about Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City 1957-2012..

Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations (2016)
Journal Article
Nitschke, C. (2016). Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations. Humanities, 5(2), Article 45. https://doi.org/10.3390/h5020045

In his adaptation of Robinson Crusoe, Campe sets out to examine the legitimacy of his contemporary social reality (in Europe in the broadest sense) by tracing its origin back to the most basic roots conceivable. The experimental character of his book... Read More about Joachim Heinrich Campe’s Robinson the Younger: Universal Moral Foundations and Intercultural Relations.