Journal Category: IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
Editor’s Essay: Good-bye Homo Sapiens
Author: Alfonso J. García-Osuna, Hofstra University, USA Email: ijah@iafor.org Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.07 Citation: García-Osuna, A. J. (2018). Editor’s Essay: Good-bye Homo Sapiens. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.07
Classic Rock in the Year of Revolt: Using the Illusion of Life to Examine the Hits of 1968
Author: Thomas G. Endres, University of Northern Colorado, USA Email: thomas.endres@unco.edu Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.08 Citation: Endres, T. G. (2018). Classic Rock in the Year of Revolt: Using the Illusion of Life to Examine the Hits of 1968. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.08 Abstract This is not the first generation facing …
8½ and the Pitfalls of the Remake
Author: Alyssa Acierno, Hofstra University, Hempstead, USA Email: aaaci13@gmail.com Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.06 Citation: Acierno, A. (2018). 8½ and the Pitfalls of the Remake. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.06 Abstract This article seeks to provide an archetypal instance of the problematic phenomenon of film remaking. In analyzing Fellini’s 8½ and Marshall’s …
Language and Cultural Identity in Postcolonial African Literature: The Case of Translating Buchi Emecheta into Spanish
Author: Isabel Pascua Febles, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Email: isabel.pascua@ulpgc.es Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.05 Citation: Febles, I. P. (2018). Language and Cultural Identity in Postcolonial African Literature: The Case of Translating Buchi Emecheta into Spanish. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.05 Abstract This article aims to make a …
Tayeb Salih and Modernism’s Season of Migration to the South
Authors: Isra Daraiseh, Arab Open University, Kuwait M. Keith Booker, University of Arkansas, USA Email: m.keith.booker@gmail.com Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.04 Citation: Daraiseh, I., & Booker, M. K. (2018). Tayeb Salih and Modernism’s Season of Migration to the South. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.04 Abstract Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the …
Written in Auschwitz Case Study: Works Written in Auschwitz by Sonderkommando Participants, Polish Political Prisoners and Lili Kasticher
Author: Lily Halpert Zamir, David Yellin Academic College of Education, Israel Email: lilyzami@gmail.com Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.03 Citation: Zamir, H. (2018). Written in Auschwitz Case Study: Works Written in Auschwitz by Sonderkommando Participants, Polish Political Prisoners and Lili Kasticher. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.03 Abstract This study focuses on the works …
Overcoming the Challenge of Fake News
Author: Er-Win Tan, Keimyung Adams College, Keimyung University, Republic of Korea Email: erwintan@um.edu.my Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.02 Citation: Tan, E-W. (2018). Overcoming the Challenge of Fake News. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.02 Abstract The advent of the Internet and the Information Age was initially hailed as ushering in a new era …
Narratives of the Fake News Debate in France
Author: Angeliki Monnier, University of Lorraine, France Email: angeliki.monnier@univ-lorraine.fr Published: November 2, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.01 Citation: Monnier, A. (2018). Narratives of the Fake News Debate in France. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2.01 Abstract The objective of this article is to identify the topical repertoires, the underlying schemas that structure the fake news debate. …
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 5 – Issue 2
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 5 – Issue 2 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García Osuna, Hofstra University, United States of America Published: November 2, 2018 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.2 Articles Narratives of the Fake News Debate in France Angeliki Monnier, University of Lorraine, France Overcoming the Challenge of Fake News Er-Win Tan, Keimyung Adams …
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities
Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García Osuna ISSN: 2187-0616 Contact: ijah@iafor.org The IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities is an internationally reviewed and editorially independent interdisciplinary journal associated with IAFOR’s international conferences on the arts and humanities. Like all IAFOR publications, it is freely available to read online, and it is free of publication fees for …
Notes on Facing The Biographical Illusion Without Getting Lost in the Process
Author: Alex Pereira, The City University of New York, USA Email: alexander.pereira@kbcc.cuny.edu Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.01 Citation: Pereira, A. (2018). Notes on Facing The Biographical Illusion Without Getting Lost in the Process. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.01 Abstract This article claims that biography is an area of knowledge. The argument is …
The In-Between
Author: Cedric van Eenoo Email: Contact author via IAFOR Publications Office: publications@iafor.org https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.07 Citation: van Eenoo, C. (2018). The In-Between. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.07 Abstract A painting, a musical piece, a text and a film have in common an arrangement of distinct elements organized to produce the work and to generate …
Wallace Stevens’s “Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds”: Poeticizing the Imperfect?
Author: Ikram Hili, University of Monastir, Tunisia Email: ikram_hili@hotmail.com Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.08 Citation: Hili, I. (2018). Wallace Stevens’s “Flawed Words and Stubborn Sounds”: Poeticizing the Imperfect? IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.08 Abstract Contradictions and paradoxes are characteristic features of Wallace Stevens’s poetry; these traits prompt judgments of him as a …
New Naturalism of Herzog and Deleuze
Author: Mehdi Parsakhanqah, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran Email: mehdi.parsa.kh@gmail.com Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.09 Citation: Parsakhanqah, M. (2018). New Naturalism of Herzog and Deleuze. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.09 Abstract This article reviews distinctive elements of Werner Herzog’s naturalism and endeavors to analyse it within a philosophical framework that has Gilles Deleuze’s …
W. B. Yeats’ “September 1913” as an Elegy: Generic Deviation
Author: Lamia Jaoua Sahnoun, University of Sfax, Tunisia Email: jaoua.lamia07@gmail.com Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.06 Citation: Sahnoun, L. J. (2018). W. B. Yeats’ “September 1913” as an Elegy: Generic Deviation. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.06 Abstract A literary work is most often characterised by formal, thematic and stylistic features. The distinction between …
Locating and Relocating Cultural Engagements in a Transnational Age
Author: David Bell, University of Otago College of Education, New Zealand Email: david.bell@otago.ac.nz Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.05 Citation: Bell, D. (2018). Locating and Relocating Cultural Engagements in a Transnational Age. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.05 Abstract How do the visual phenomena of Japan live in transnational communities today? How can they …
The Past is Present and Future: Recurring Violence and Remaining Human in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series
Author: Alaa Alghamdi, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia Email: alaaghamdi@yahoo.com Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.04 Citation: Alghamdi, A. (2018). The Past is Present and Future: Recurring Violence and Remaining Human in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.04 Abstract J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of seven novels span …
Verbally Constructed Reality and Alternative Realities through Communication – An Exploration
Author: Paul Rastall, Independent Scholar, UK. Formerly, University of Portsmouth, UK Email: paul.rastall@googlemail.com Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.03 Citation: Rastall, P. (2018). Verbally Constructed Reality and Alternative Realities through Communication – An Exploration. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.03 Abstract Science tells us that reality as we experience it and ultimate physical reality …
The Indivisibility of Change: The Challenge of Trauma to the Genre of Coming-of-Age Narratives
Author: Nicole Frey Buechel, University of Zurich, Switzerland Email: nfrey@es.uzh.ch Published: June 1, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.02 Citation: Buechel, N. F. (2018). The Indivisibility of Change: The Challenge of Trauma to the Genre of Coming-of-Age Narratives. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1.02 Abstract Evie Wyld’s novel All the Birds, Singing (2013) draws attention to the …
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 5 – Issue 1
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 5 – Issue 1 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García Osuna, Hofstra University, United States of America Published: June 1, 2018 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.5.1 Articles Notes on Facing The Biographical Illusion Without Getting Lost in the Process Alex Pereira, The City University of New York, USA The Indivisibility of …
Sense and Senselessness of War: Aggregating the Causes, Gains and Losses of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–1970
Author: Johnson Olaosebikan Aremu Department of History and International Studies Ekiti State University, Ado- Ekiti, Nigeria Lateef Oluwafemi Buhari Department of History and International Studies Ekiti State University, Ado- Ekiti, Nigeria Email: Johnson Olaosebikan Aremu Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.06 Citation: Arema, J. O., Buhari, L. O. (2017). Sense and Senselessness of War: Aggregating the …
Photography and Visual Representations of the American War in Viet Nam
Author: Er-Win Tan, Senior Lecturer, Department of International and Strategic Studies, University of Malaya Ted Engelmann, Independent Scholar, Veteran of the American War in Viet Nam (1968-1969), and Freelance Embedded Photographer in Iraq (2008) and Afghanistan (2009) Email: erwintan@um.edu.my Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.05 Citation: Tan, E-W., Engelmann, T. (2017). Photography and Visual Representations of …
Transgression, Desire, and Death in Mai Al-Nakib’s “Echo Twins” and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
Author: Shahd Alshammari, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait Email: alshammari.s@gust.edu.kw Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.04 Citation: Alshammari, S. (2017). Transgression, Desire, and Death in Mai Al-Nakib’s “Echo Twins” and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 4(si). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.04 Abstract This paper addresses the theme of transgression in …
Arthur Hugh Clough’s “Amours De Voyage”: A Poetic Account of the 1849 Siege of Rome
Author: Cora Lindsay, School of Education, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Email: Cora.Lindsay@Nottingham.ac.uk Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.03 Citation: Lindsay, C. (2017). Arthur Hugh Clough’s “Amours De Voyage”: A Poetic Account of the 1849 Siege of Rome. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 4(si). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.03 Abstract In this paper I talk about Arthur Hugh Clough’s …
The First World War and Women as the Victims of War Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s Novels
Author: Mahinur Aksehir-Uygur, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey Atalay Gunduz, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey Eda Burcu Cetinkaya, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey Email: mahinuraksehir@yahoo.com Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.01 Citation: Aksehir-Uygur, M., Gunduz, A., Cetinkaya, E. B (2017). The First World War and Women as the Victims of War Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s Novels. IAFOR …
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 4 – Special Issue
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 4 – Special Issue Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García Osuna, Hofstra University, United States of America Published: December 12, 2017 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si Articles The First World War and Women as the Victims of War Trauma in Virginia Woolf’s Novels Mahinur Aksehir-Uygur, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey Atalay …
Life and Death in Verses Case Study: The Writings of Lili Kasticher, the Only Woman who Wrote in Auschwitz
Author: Lily Halpert Zamir, David Yellin Academic College of Education, Israel Email: lilyzami@gmail.com Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.02 Citation: Halpert Zamir, L. (2017). Life and Death in Verses Case Study: The Writings of Lili Kasticher, the Only Woman who Wrote in Auschwitz. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 4(si). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.si.02 Abstract This paper focuses on …
Book received: Curtis L. Carter. (Ed.). (2017). Unsettled Boundaries: Philosophy, Art, Ethics East/West. Milwaukee: Marquette UP
Reviewer: Alfonso J. García Osuna, Hofstra University, United States of America Email: ijah@iafor.org Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.2.08 Citation: García Osuna, A. J. (2017). [Review of the book Unsettled boundaries: Philosophy, art, ethics East/West, by Curtis L. Carter. (Ed.)] IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.2.08
The Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States
Author: Ashok Bhusal, The University of Texas at El Paso, United States of America Email: abhusal@utep.miners.edu Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.2.07 Citation: Bhusal, A. (2017). The Rhetoric of Racism and Anti-Miscegenation Laws in the United States. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.2.07 Abstract Systemic discrimination against minority groups in the United States’ justice …
Youth Entrepreneurship Support Interventions in Africa: The Role of the Family: A Critical Review
Author: Bernard Elphas Sakala, Department of Commerce and Development Studies University of Africa (UoA), Lusaka, Zambia Email: bernsakala@yahoo.com Published: December 8, 2017 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.2.06 Citation: Sakala, B. E. (2017). Youth Entrepreneurship Support Interventions in Africa: The Role of the Family: A Critical Review IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.4.2.06 Abstract Unemployment Poverty and Inequality …