Author：Mary Luz Estupiñán Serrano

Abstract: Clarice Lispector is one of the most important Brazilian writers of the 20th century. In her writings, she explores the limits of the Portuguese language and creates her own literary style. The article will map some of her aesthetic searches that are, at the same time, vital. The article is organized through two moments: a biographical one, in which relevant aspects of her life that will have an echo in her work are indicated; and another focused on her fiction writing, in which the aesthetic commitment of her books is highlighted. The Hour of the Star is the title of her latest novel, a title read by Hélène Cixous as an anticipatory metaphor for her

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Author：Oliva Roy

Abstract: In the Post-Independence era, the prolific playwrights of India started using the aesthetic form of theater to contest authoritarian structures, and to voice their anti-establishment dissent. Utpal Dutt, a pioneering figure in Modern Indian Theater, used the medium of drama for propaganda and political conscientization of the oppressed. The indefatigable thespian contributed significantly towards the formation of modern Bengali theater, as his plays voiced his intransigent protest against the authoritarian government and concurrently, showed his impressive experimentation with different dramatic techniques, theatrical devices and theatrical genres. Dutt’s anti-establishment play, Nightmare City presents

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Author：Jiayan Mi, Jason Toncic

Abstract: This essay examines Raymond Williams’s autobiographical novel Border Country, the first novel of his ambitious “Welsh Trilogy.” The aim of the essay is twofold. Firstly, it analyzes the unsettling issue of how a bio-regional place (native place) shapes polyvalent identities in a historically changing environment and how the boundary that crisscrosses the passages of life is redrawn through narrative re-circumscription and optical revision. Secondly, the essay calls this trope of internalizing “border-crossing” into question in the context of global diaspora and critically problematizes Williams’s identity politics as schizophrenic split from British post-colonial empire.

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Author：Jon Woodson

Abstract: Cecily Swanson argues that “modernism’s Gurdjieff craze in fact played a surprising role in the development of an overlooked canon of popular autobiographies: Muriel Draper’s memoir, Music at Midnight; Margaret Anderson’s memoir, My Thirty Years’ War; and Kathryn Hulme’s autobiographical novel, We Lived As Children.” Swanson reads Draper, Anderson, and Hulme because they wrote as esotericists, while she divorces the memoirs from any overt esoteric influences, contents, or aesthetics. There is no need to search further for the source of the mode of the popular autobiographies by Anderson and

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Author：Jia Yi, Jinxian Wu

Abstract: The dissemination of Alexander von Humboldt’s ideas in China can be traced back to the late Qing dynasty, where a few articles in English-language newspapers served as the earliest means of exposure. However, the reach and availability of these articles were highly limited. It was not until the Republ...

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Abstract: Vol. 7 No. 1 June 2023 Notes on Contributors

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