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Monthly Archive: June 2018

New Article: National Identities, Personal Crises: Amnesia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant

Catherine Charlwood Published Online: 2018-04-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0004 Abstract This article considers how Ishiguro’s 2015 novel about mass forgetting in post-Arthurian Britain adds to debates about what it means to be a human living within a society....

New Article: Escaping National Tags and Embracing Diversity: Third Culture Kid Songwriters

Jessica Sanfilippo-Schulz Published Online: 2018-04-14 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0003 Abstract Nowadays, more and more writers cannot be classified according to one single nation. Whereas in Imagined Communities Anderson describes the development of nations and national belongings, in Third...

MASHREQ VS. MAGHREB Exhibition, Kuwait, October 19, 2011 | © Courtesy of Patrick Makhoul/Flickr.

New Article: Feminism and Postmodernism in Kuwaiti Women’s Fiction: Four Novels by Fawziyya S. al-Sālim

O. Ishaq Tijani Published Online: 2018-05-17 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0007 Abstract This article comparatively examines the first four novels of Fawziyya Shuwaysh al-Sālim (b. 1949): al-Shams madhbūḥa wa-l-layl maḥbūs (1997), al-Nuwākhidha (1998), Muzūn (2000), Ḥajar...