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Now Published: Volume 8 – Issue 12 – IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 8 – Issue 2 Editor-in-Chief: Holger Briel, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), China Published: December 30, 2023 ISSN: 2187-4905 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.2 Dear Readers, If a few issues ago I had expressed the hope that there might be a let-up of crises for humanity in the …
Welcome to Volume 8 Issue 2 of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies
Dear Readers, If a few issues ago I had expressed the hope that there might be a let-up of crises for humanity in the cards, the last few months have taught us otherwise. If anything, existing crises have intensified or stretched to incorporate even more inhabitants of this planet. Besides the immeasurable pain and suffering …
Folklore Goes to War: Folksongs, Yangge and Storytelling in Communist Bases during the Second Sino-Japanese War
Author: Selina Gao, Murray State University, USA Email: sgao2@murraystate.edu Published: December 30, 2023 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.2.03 Citation: Gao, S. (2023). Folklore Goes to War: Folksongs, Yangge and Storytelling in Communist Bases during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.2.03 Abstract All across the world, folklore studies are often closely tied to the emergence of modern nation states and …
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 8 – Issue 2
IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies: Volume 8 – Issue 2 Editor-in-Chief: Holger Briel, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), China Published: December 30, 2023 ISSN: 2187-4905 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijcs.8.2 Editor’s Introduction Welcome to this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Holger Briel, Editor-in-Chief, IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies Articles “Blame it …
Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines
Author: Suravi Roy, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, India Email: suravi.roy@skbu.ac.in https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.02 Citation: Roy, S. (2022). Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.02 Abstract The central image in Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Shadow Lines (1988) is that of the “upside-down house”. The “upside-down house” was a …
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 2
IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 2 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Published: December 31, 2022 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2 Articles Is an Explanation a Reason? Paul Rastall, Independent Academic, UK Cartographies of Difference: Inventing Difference in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow …
Nationalism and the Three Arrows – The Conservative Activism of Japan’s Shinzo Abe
Professor Joel Campbell of Troy University discusses the political history of Japan and how the Abe Government’s proclivity for nationalism and their Three Arrows economic strategy are affecting the nation.