Book Review - Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination by Amanda Fickey

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O imigrante como um subversivo prático-político, possibilidade de um “novo mundo” – o projeto universal-cosmopolita dos Direitos Humanos em contraposição à Soberania territorial (The immigrant as a subversive political agent, possibility of a ...) by Carlos Enrique Ruiz Ferreira

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O imigrante como um subversivo prático-político, possibilidade de um “novo mundo” – o projeto universal-cosmopolita dos Direitos Humanos em contraposição à Soberania territorial (The immigrant as a subversive political agent, possibility of a “new world” – the universalcosmopolitan project of Human Rights as opposed to territorial sovereignty) by Carlos Enrique Ruiz Ferreira

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ORAL HISTORY AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE: Posse and Once Upon a Time in Mexico by Adam Wadenius

“…He points to a resurgence of films from the 1990’s that, in an era of multi-culturalism, hybridity, and counter-strategies, have functioned to redefine the codes of the traditional Western, bringing to life the postmodern Western. The subversive politics of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995), and Maggie Greenwald’s The Ballad of Little Jo (1993), are two such examples.…”
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ORAL HISTORY AS POLITICAL RESISTANCE: Posse and Once Upon a Time in Mexico by Adam Wadenius

“…He points to a resurgence of films from the 1990’s that, in an era of multi-culturalism, hybridity, and counter-strategies, have functioned to redefine the codes of the traditional Western, bringing to life the postmodern Western. The subversive politics of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man (1995), and Maggie Greenwald’s The Ballad of Little Jo (1993), are two such examples.…”
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On Angela Carter’s Subversive Panorama by Çelik Ekmekçi

“…On the basis of her viewpoint on feminism, Carter paves the way for her subversive politics and her autonomous narrative qualities are shaped accordingly. …”
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Profecía y mesianismo en la España de Felipe IV: El caso del padre Francisco Franco (Zaragoza, 1648-1651) by Doris Moreno

“…Pedro Isabal presented himself in Zaragoza as the anointed King with a message that contained a strong subversive political message. Father Franco was one of his most important supports and for this reason he was processed by the Inquisition. …”
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Del debate a la propaganda política mediante la Querella de las Mujeres en Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, Diego de Valera y Álvaro de Luna by Florence Serrano

“…In fact, as far as ideology is concerned, the two latest works can be read as rewritings which tend to replace the subversive political lesson contained in Juan Rodríguez del Padrón’s treatise…”
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Ethnicity, Identity and Cartography: Possession/Dispossession, Homecoming /Homelessness in Contemporary Assam by Parag Moni Sarma

“…Often identified as a flash point in the subversive politics that question the logistics of the Indian nation, North East India is emerging as a cartographic domain that posits questions of internal colonialism and hegemony. …”
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William Byrd and the limits of formal music analysis by Cvejić Žarko

“…Writing in 1962, Joseph Kerman was the first to speculate about potentially subversive political meanings in the Cantiones sacrae of the English Renaissance composer William Byrd, his two collections of motets published in 1589 and 1591, “voicing prayers, exhortations, and protests on behalf of the English Catholic community”. …”
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Belief in YHWH as Identity Marker in Pre-exilic Israel by GIORGIO PAOLO CAMPI

“…The reading will show how identity construction processes in Deut 13 make a deliberate use of religious belief as a marker of collective identity, and how they ultimately depend on inner social articulations within Israel rather than on subversive political or theological claims against the Assyrian power. …”
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“The Subtle Craft of the Devil”: Misogynistic Conspiracy Theories and the Secret Society of Pregnancy Cravings in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s <i>Vampirism</i> by Michael Grant Kellermeyer

“…In my analysis, I explore vampire literature’s early history, its place within Gothic literature, the prominent role of female vampires, their relationship to gender anxieties exacerbated by the Romantic Era’s subversive political movements, and the way in which Hoffmann’s cynical story operates as a misogynistic conspiracy theory aimed at the secret female space of reproduction, symbolized by Aurelia’s cannibalistic pregnancy cravings. …”
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J. B. Priestley, artiste de propagande à la radio : au service de quelles idées ? by Cécile Vallée

“…His galvanising propaganda consisted in praising the qualities of the ordinary citizen, painting an idealised picture of the “soldiers” on the home Front and of their fight, in promoting the values for which they were fighting and, at the same time, demonising the Nazi enemy, but it sometimes verged on subversive political ideology. His obvious attempts at propagating the vision of a New Jerusalem with its socialist innuendoes were judged as going against the war effort and against national unity. …”
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Esprit français et contre-culture latino-américaine chez Copi by Lionel Souquet

“…If his work can be termed «minor» it is only in the Deleuzian sense, for its apparent superficiality is but a mask hiding its highly significant, subversive, political and revolutionary nature.…”
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The Subversive Songs of Bossa Nova: Tom Jobim in the Era of Censorship by Priore, Irna, Stover, Chris

“…First-generation bossa nova artists, however, were able to avoid such persecution because their music was generally perceived as apolitical.2 This essay challenges this perception by analyzing the ways in which iconic bossa nova composer Antônio Carlos (“Tom”) Jobim inscribed subversive political thought through musical syntax and lyrical allegory in several of his post-1964 songs. …”
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Rumor, diplomacy and war in Enlightenment Paris by Ewing, T

“…Responding to subversive political verses or to an official declaration hawked on the city streets, they experienced the pleasures and dangers of talking politics and exchanging opinions on matters of state, whether in the café or the wigmaker’s shop. …”