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Visual Disability and the Pursuit of Normality in Preeti Monga’s Biographical Novel The Other Senses

Authors: Kowsalya G., Bishop Heber College, India Dhanabal C., Bishop Heber College, India Email: kowsyguru@gmail.com Published: December 31, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.04 Citation: Kowsalya, G., & Dhanabal, C. (2022). Visual Disability and the Pursuit of Normality in Preeti Monga’s Biographical Novel The Other Senses. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.2.04 Abstract For Ancient Greeks, beauty

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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

Editor’s Introduction

Welcome to the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities – Volume 9 – Issue 1 Most of the authors that have contributed to this issue demonstrate a grounding on a critical model whose imprint on the major areas of humanist analysis is uncontested: feminist theory. Thus, several articles may seem to present similar types of

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Dangerous Femininity: Looking into the Portrayal of Daphne Monet as a Femme Fatale in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress

Author: Prerana Chakravarty, Tezpur University, Assam, India Email: prerana.liza@gmail.com Published: July 29, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.05 Citation: Chakravarty, P. (2022). Dangerous Femininity: Looking into the Portrayal of Daphne Monet as a Femme Fatale in Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1.05 Abstract The phrase “femme fatale” is a well-known

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IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 1

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 9 – Issue 1 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Published: July 29, 2022 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1 Introduction Welcome to this issue of the IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities Most of the authors that have contributed to

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Graphic Queering of Mental Illness: Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness as Counter Discourse

Author: M. N. Shobitha, Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai, India Email: shobi.shifui@gmail.com Published: February 4, 2022 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.8.2.03 Citation: Shobitha, M. N. (2021). Graphic Queering of Mental Illness: Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness as Counter Discourse. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.8.2.03 Abstract Eating disorders have been understood predominantly as a female malady

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IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 8 – Issue 2

IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities: Volume 8 – Issue 2 Editor: Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna Hofstra University and The City University of New York, United States Published: February 4, 2022 ISSN: 2187-0616 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.8.2 Articles Resilience in Times of Need Jytte Holmqvist, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom Hemingway and Mussolini: A Study in Contrasts

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Selected Bollywood Films as Sites of LGBTQ Contestation, Assertion and Cultural Disruption

Author: Sumati, PG Govt. College for Girls, India Email: sumati05@gmail.com Published: September 14, 2020 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijmcf.7.1.03 Citation: Sumati (2020). Selected Bollywood Films as Sites of LGBTQ Contestation, Assertion and Cultural Disruption. IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijmcf.7.1.03 Abstract Films function both as forms of cultural production as well as systems of representation and

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Welcome to Volume 7 – Issue 2 – IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film

The IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication and Film (JMCF) is associated with IAFOR’s MediAsia, FilmAsia and EuroMedia annual conferences. JMCF is committed to publishing peer-reviewed scholarship that explores the relationship between society, film and media – including new and digital media, as well as to giving a voice to scholars whose work explores hitherto unexamined

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The No-Touch Taboos: An Understanding of Sexuality and Gender in the Indian Context

Author: Anna Maria George, Independent Researcher, Kerala, India Email: annus.maria@gmail.com Published: June 05, 2020 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.7.1.09 Citation: George, A. M. (2020). The No-Touch Taboos: An Understanding of Sexuality and Gender in the Indian Context. IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijah.7.1.09 Abstract The sensation of touch and the need for physical contact are fundamental in

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Negotiating Identity: Sexuality and Gender in Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing (2017)

Author: Nurayn Fola Alimi, University of Lagos, Nigeria Email: fnurayn@unilag.edu.ng Published: December 24, 2019 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.8.1.01 Citation: Alimi, N. F. (2019). Negotiating Identity: Sexuality and Gender in Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing (2017). IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.8.1.01 Abstract “Sexuality” and “gender” are two cultural indexes regarded by gender and culture

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IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 8 – Issue 1

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship: Volume 8 – Issue 1 Editor: Bernard Montoneri, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan Published: December 24, 2019 ISSN: 2187-0608 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijl.8.1 Articles Negotiating Identity: Sexuality and Gender in Olumide Popoola’s When We Speak of Nothing (2017) Nurayn Fola Alimi Riding the Centaur Metaphor from Past to Present: Myth, Constellation and

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Sexualization of the Journalism Profession: TV Representation of Female Journalists’ Intellect, Labor, and Bodies

Author: Ivana Cvetkovic and Kimberly R. Oostman, University of New Mexico, USA Email: icvetkovic@unm.edu Published: August 17, 2018 https://doi.org/10.22492/ijmcf.5.1.06 Citation: Cvetkovic, I,, & Oostman, K. R. (2018). Sexualization of the Journalism Profession: TV Representation of Female Journalists’ Intellect, Labor, and Bodies. IAFOR Journal of Media, Communication & Film, 5(6). https://doi.org/10.22492/ijmcf.5.1.06 Abstract The representations of journalists