Intertextuality in Andrea Levy's novel “Small Island”

Fabricating Unease: Intertextuality,

The subject matter of the nation is a usual staple on the menu of postcolonial Nigerian fiction. In this sense, the repertoire of Chinua Achebe’s art echoes an incurable preoccupation with Nigeria’s postcolonial condition as a nation. Also, this paper explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production of Achebe’s fiction, primarily his political novel about crisis plaguing intellectua...

Andrea Musacchio

refinements of this equipment. There was a direct analogy with the voltage clamp approach in nerve, but now length or force became the controlled parameter in place of voltage. This approach was applied in a quantitative study of the relation between the steady force produced by an active muscle fiber and its length: Huxley showed that force is proportional to overlap between the thick and thin...

Small Island States

Andrea Pimentel

SIR, We previously reported an autoinflammatory disease associated with nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain containing protein 2 (NOD2) gene mutations, designated as NOD2-associated autoinflammatory disease (NAID) [1, 2]. To date, none of the studies of NOD2 mutations have demonstrated spontaneous inflammation in NOD2-associated diseases [3]. Herein we report a patient with NAID to illust...

Small island biogeography in the Gulf of California: lizards, the subsidized island biogeography hypothesis, and the small island effect

Aim We used insular lizard communities to test the predictions of two hypotheses that attempt to explain patterns of species richness on small islands. We first address the subsidized island biogeography (SIB) hypothesis, which predicts that spatial subsidies may cause insular species richness to deviate from species–area predictions, especially on small islands. Next, we examine the small isla...