Contemporary Belarusian Literature

Transcultural Literature and Contemporary World Literature(s)

In her article "Transcultural Literature and Dagnino argues that within the emerging field of transcultural literary studies and despite the inevitable issues raised by categorization, we may classify transcultural literature domain of world literature(s). Dagnino presents transcultural perspective in the fields of proceeds by outlining the main conto respect to (im)migrant and postcolonial lit...

Understanding Belarus: Belarusian Identity

My attempt to respond to these questions stems from my field observations and familiarity with scholarly studies and other material. Anthony David Smith’s classic volume on ethnic origins of nations and Miroslav Hroch’s perceptive book on national movements in Europe’s ‘small nations’ are of special importance. A quintessential piece on Belarusian identity is Yanka Kupala’s play ‘Tuteishiya’; w...

Binging: a prevalence study in Belarusian universities

Background The extent of binging (≥5 drinks/session) largely contributes to the burden associated with alcohol use in most countries [1-3]. Binging among undergraduate students in Belarus is a major public health problem, leading to violence, injury, unsafe sexual activities, as well as conduct problems. The high level of alcohol-related problems in this country is caused by combination of fact...

Attributes of Articles Impacting Contemporary Accounting Literature

feminine voice in iran’s contemporary literature

this article considers literature with all its literary obligations as a narration of language and analyzes two generations of authors while focusing on the gender variable. in this research two pairs of literary texts within the period of forty years are analyzed using discourse analysis and speech from formalist school of literature, in order to extract the literary and gender features. the a...