Contemporary literature from China: new voices and discourses

Rethinking Clientelism: Demands, Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Brazil

New Voices, New Topics

The Annals has published an increasingly broad range of computer history scholarship over the past decade, but there are still many topics that remain unexplored, and some scholars conducting meaningful research in the field have yet to publish in this journal. These were the guiding thoughts as we had a phone conversation about a possible workshop to focus on new topics and new authors (to the...

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...

Reconstructing “nation” (minzu) discourses in China

Due to the great gap between the official “nation” (minzu 民族) discourse-policy goals of the Chinese government and the social realities of ethnic relations in China, it is necessary for the leadership, academics, and the public in China to review the historical process involved in creating the “nationality” discourse dynamics of the past century. Chinese need to understand the nature of “nation...

Standardisation and the Question of Identity: On The Dominant Discourses on Contemporary Iranian Art

This article deals with the discourse of cultural globalisation and related issues such as the global market and cultural industry, which emerged as recent seminal factors within the context of Iranian culture, art and artistic practice during the recent history of Iran. Moreover, it seeks to explore the inevitable issues drawn from the process of globalisation, namely the forces of standar...