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This paper explores how contemporary non-European artists navigate their complex hybrid identities in a globalised world, with a focus on Moroccan artists Lalla Essaydi and Hassan Hajjaj. Both artists engage with materia...

The study focuses on the perception of hybridity as a reality in the literary and translation space. It identifies the hybridity of authorship (inspiration by another author, the blurring of boundaries, the overlapping o...

This article seeks to analyse the manner in which Korean immigrants navigate their identities in Japan. It evaluates how the characters in Min Jin Lee’s novel Pachinko have hybrid identities, and it goes further to exp...

Abstract The present work discusses the evolution of the development and international insertion strategies adopted by nations in the African continent since the mid-20th century, period during which they began to achiev...

Acclaimed by many as one of the most gifted essayists and stylists in American letters these last few decades, Richard Rodriguez has left an indelible imprint on the tradition of autobiographical writing of the nation. R...

   This article attempts to read Khaled Hosseini’s fiction, The Kite Runner with the theoretical frame of Postcolonialism.  The researcher aims to bring out the hybrid attitude of the characters that reflects the e...

Cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism takes the center stage in the postcolonial studies  which reflects the complexities of identity, cultural hybridity, and globalization. This paper explores how Vikram Seth’s novels...

Diasporic narratives have enriched the oeuvre of post-colonial studies since the late 20th century, with Indian diasporic writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, Salman Rushdie, and Amitav Ghosh contributing significantly to its gro...

This paper looks into the artful way in which Salman Rushdie makes the human body the site of the nation’s conflicts in The Moor’s Last Sigh. I argue that the Moor’s story is a well-wrought „suture” of the woun...

Background: the cultural clash between East and West when Dars visited Vienna in the 1960s. Purpose: Analyze the postcolonial form and crisis of masculinity experienced by Dars in Yusuf Idris' novel Vienna. Method: U...

Technological disruption, extended working lives, and the rapid growth of non-standard employment are eroding front-loaded education models and intensifying the need for continuous, work-based learning. Within this conte...

Abstract Background The prevalence of diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is growing rapidly. Qualitative research on experiences of type 2 diabetes in SSA is emerging, but no qualitative synthesis has been attempted. T...

Purpose. The article aims to analyse the historical transformation of Kharkiv University from the imperial era to the present day through the lens of postcolonial theory, particularly the concepts of Homi Bhabha, demonst...

En este trabajo se comparten los primeros análisis de datos obtenidos en el marco de una investigación posdoctoral sobre experiencias de los/as jóvenes acerca del único programa social de empleo –denominado Empezar...

This article explores the history of medicine in the Ryukyu Islands from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, positioning the archipelago within intersecting Chinese, Japanese and Western imperial orders. It argu...

This research contributes to ongoing, multi-faceted, and much-needed discussions about food systems change amidst rising rates of food insecurity in Canada (and globally). It does so by providing a comparative content an...

Studying anthropology in Stockholm in the 1990s meant taking stock of the transnational turn within the discipline. I don’t know whether this was ever coined as an actual turn in its own right or whether it became subs...

This article explores the gopniki, a post-socialist youth subculture, from an interdisciplinary perspective between culture and digital media. Drawing from theories of subcultural style and aesthetic performativity, and ...

This article argues that the ideological recomposition that has followed Aleksandar Vučić’s first tenure in 2012 has blurred the lines between the various political ideologies Serbia has been associated with over the...

Literature has long been a vital vehicle for the exploration of complex ideas and the advancement of discourse in human civilization. Jean Rhys' novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, stands as a pivotal work that significantly enric...