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The Writer as Memory Activist

Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.

July 2, 2025
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“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 2)

by Tom Ue Continued from Part 1 Your integration of The Taming of the Shrew when describing Rhoda and Everard is so clever, but have you thought about reading—as Gissing does—Widdowson’s and Monica’s story in terms of Othello? Yes, I…

Kevin Worrall
October 10, 2022
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The Writer as Memory Activist

“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 2)

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

Q&A with Daniel Behar, author of Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Trans media’s expanding horizons