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SWIRSKI, PETER. "Literature as History: The Lives and Deaths of Richard Milhous Slurrie and Walter Bodmor Nixon." Journal of American Studies 43, no. 3 (November 11, 2009): 459–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875809990818.

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The enduring success of any roman-à-clef owes to the ghost of the real world lurking, like a palimpsest, behind the storyworld. Barring a few counterfactual twists, Richard Condon's Death of a Politician follows the chequered career of a dead-ringer for Richard Milhous Nixon through the war-scam 1940s, the red scare 1950s, and the freewheeling-dealing 1960s. Square the revisionist drive of Condon's political fiction with the premise of historical veracity, and you may wonder where sober fact ends and fiction begins. How much of Nixon lies in Walter Bodmor Slurrie? How much of Nixon's banker and confidant “Bebe” Rebozo lies in Slurrie's banker and confidant “Kiddo” Cardozo? How much of the Miami mobster Mayer Lansky lies in Cardozo's boss, Miami mobster Abner Danzig? How much of their crass venality and control is the figment of Condon's imagination? Better still, how much is true? In my article I set out to answer all these questions, using Condon's roman-à-clef as a springboard for analysis of salient aspects of the Nixon presidency and of American electoral politics in general.

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Leonard, Karen. "Sandhya Shukla. India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 3 (July 2005): 670–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750524029x.

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Sandhya Shukla has written a highly interdisciplinary comparison of Indian diasporic cultures in Britain and the United States. Specializing in Anthropology and Asian American Studies, she is particularly strong on historical and literary text analysis. She says, “The relational aspects of a range of texts and experiences, which include historical narratives, cultural organizations, autobiography and fiction, musical performance and films, are of paramount importance in this critical ethnography” (20). Contending that the Indian diaspora confronts “a simultaneous nationalism and internationalism,” she is celebratory about India and “formations of Indianness,” and uses phrases like “amazing force” and “wildly multicultural” (17). Her exploration shows “the tremendous impulse to multiple nationality that Indianness abroad has made visible” (14) and, “the amazing persistence of Indian cultures in so many places” (22).

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Mejía-Lemos, Diego. "Advisory Opinion OC-22/16." American Journal of International Law 111, no. 4 (October 2017): 1000–1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2017.91.

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On February 26, 2016, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) issued an advisory opinion requested by the Republic of Panama (Advisory Opinion). The request stemmed from “doubts among States” as to whether “legal persons, being legal fictions, are not as such entitled to rights” (Request) (para. 2). The Court unanimously held that legal persons are not entitled to rights under the American Convention on Human Rights (Convention) because Article 1.2 of the Convention establishes rights only in favor of natural persons. The Court, also unanimously, reiterated that indigenous and tribal communities are entitled to rights under the Convention. By majority vote, the Court held that labor union organizations are entitled to rights under the Protocol of San Salvador (Protocol). The Advisory Opinion is most significant for its finding regarding labor union organizations and for its analysis of how general international law relates to various aspects of the Inter-American system.

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Berger, Alan L. "AMERICAN JEWISH FICTION." Modern Judaism 10, no. 3 (1990): 221–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mj/10.3.221.

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Rubin, Derek. "Postethnic Experience in Contemporary Jewish American Fiction." Social Identities 8, no. 4 (December 2002): 507–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1350463022000068352.

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McMillan, Carl H., and Tamara V. Lavrovskaya. "North American Integration: Economic and Political Aspects." Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques 16, no. 2 (June 1990): 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3550975.

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Gil, Noam. "The undesired: on nudniks in Jewish American fiction." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17, no. 3 (November 24, 2017): 326–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2017.1406741.

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Rowe, John Carlos. "Buried alive: the native American political unconscious in Louise Erdrich's fiction." Postcolonial Studies 7, no. 2 (July 2004): 197–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1368879042000278870.

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Longden, Kenneth. "China Whispers: The Symbolic, Economic, and Political Presence of China in Contemporary American Science Fiction Film." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2018): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0014.

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Abstract China has long been present in Western science fiction, but largely through notions of Orientalism and depictions as the 'Yellow Peril'. However, with China's new ascendancy and modernization over the last 15 years, along with its investment and collaboration with Hollywood in particular, contemporary film in general, and contemporary science fiction in particular, has embraced this new China in ways hitherto unseen before. This essay examines three contemporary western/American science fiction films which each represent and construct China in slightly different ways, and in ways which reveal the West, and Hollywood's reappraisal of the relationship with China and its emerging 'Soft Power.'.

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Mongia, Padmini. "Speaking American: Popular Indian Fiction in English." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 12, no. 1-2 (June 2014): 140–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1477570014z.00000000077.

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Fulton, Bruce, Heinz Insu Fenkl, and Walter K. Lew. "Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Fiction." Pacific Affairs 75, no. 4 (2002): 660. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4127398.

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Baym, Nina, Barbara Bardes, and Suzanne Gossett. "Declarations of Independence: Women and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction." Journal of American History 78, no. 1 (June 1991): 317. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2078147.

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Wajda, Shirley Teresa, and Susan S. Williams. "Confounding Images: Photography and Portraiture in Antebellum American Fiction." Journal of the Early Republic 19, no. 1 (1999): 164. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3124947.

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Craig, Campbell. "American Realism Versus American Imperialism." World Politics 57, no. 1 (October 2004): 143–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wp.2005.0010.

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This article reviews three recent books critical of America's new “imperial” foreign policy, examines whether the United States can properly be compared to empires of the past, and identifies three aspects of contemporary American policy that may well be called imperialist. It also addresses some of the main objections to recent U.S. foreign policy made by American realist scholars and argues that traditional interstate realism can no longer readily apply to the problem ofAmerican unipolar preponderance over an anarchical, nuclear-armed world.

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Serageldin, Samia. "Reflections and Refractions: Arab American Women Writing and Written." Hawwa 1, no. 2 (2003): 189–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920803100420333.

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AbstractAt a time when the American popular imagination is dominated by fun-house refractions of Arabs and Muslims as the ultimate "other," it is critical that these images be counterbalanced by unmediated, first-person, authentic reflections of the real-life experiences of writers of Middle Eastern heritage. This is where fiction and narrative non-fiction occupy a privileged position, creating an intimate, expansive space for empathy and identification, and serving generality through specificity.

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Mörth, Ingo. "Elements of Religious Meaning in Science-Fiction Literature." Social Compass 34, no. 1 (February 1987): 87–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003776868703400107.

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La science-fiction en tant que genre littéraire représente une sphère de significations sans doute marginale, encore qu'elle soit solidement associée à la vie quotidienne. En analysant son contenu, on perçoit qu'il existe des relations singulières et intenses entre la science-fiction et la religion. Elles concernent non seulement des éléments formels propres à la pen sée utopique, mais également les structures matérielles du monde dans ses dimensions temporelles, spatiales et sociales. Les thèmes de la science-fiction et de la religion ont des racines communes: les limites du monde vivant. Mais en permettant de surmonter les frontières de la vie quotidienne, de ses origines et de sa destinée, la science-fiction opère une sorte de désenchantement de la sphère du religieux en permettant de substituer une spéculation illimitée à l'affirmation divine traditionnelle et aux certitudes qu'elle contient. L'Auteur analyse ces aspects de la science-fiction à travers différents livres importants de science-fiction. Il utilise pour ce faire l'approche d'A. Schutz et de Th. Luckmann. La relation thé matique entre la science-fiction et la religion le conduit à établir en quoi la spéculation utopique de la science-fiction constitue un véritable « culte », notamment par l'observation du groupe social de ceux qui y croient et lui confèrent une plausibilité sociale. Des exemples de ceci sont empruntés aux cas de l'Eglise de Scientolo gie et de certains groupes centrés sur l'existence d'un inconscient collectif et de civilisations extra-terrestres.

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Pastourmatzi, Domna. "Researching and Teaching Science Fiction in Greece." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 530–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20613.

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In the dreams our stuff is made of, Thomas M. Disch talks about the influence and pervasiveness of science Fiction in American culture and asserts the genre's power in “such diverse realms as industrial design and marketing, military strategy, sexual mores, foreign policy, and practical epistemology” (11-12). A few years earlier, Sharona Ben-Tov described science fiction as “a peculiarly American dream”—that is, “a dream upon which, as a nation, we act” (2). Recently, Kim Stanley Robinson has claimed that “rapid technological development on all fronts combined to turn our entire social reality into one giant science fiction novel, which we are all writing together in the great collaboration called history” (1-2). While such diagnostic statements may ring true to American ears, they cannot be taken at face value in the context of Hellenic culture. Despite the unprecedented speed with which the Greeks absorb and consume both the latest technologies (like satellite TV, video, CD and DVD players, electronic games, mobile and cordless phones, PCs, and the Internet) and Hollywood's science fiction blockbuster films, neither technology per se nor science fiction has yet saturated the Greek mind-set to a degree that makes daily life a science-fictional reality. Greek politicians do not consult science fiction writers for military strategy and foreign policy decisions or depend on imaginary scenarios to shape their country's future. Contemporary Hellenic culture does not acquire its national pride from mechanical devices or space conquest. Contrary to the American popular belief that technology is the driving force of history, “a virtually autonomous agent of change” (Marx and Smith xi), the Greek view is that a complex interplay of political, economic, cultural, and technoscientific agencies alters the circumstances of daily life. No hostages to technological determinism, modern Greeks increasingly interface with high-tech inventions, but without locating earthly paradise in their geographic territory and without writing their history or shaping their social reality as “one giant science fiction novel.”

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Dobson, Alan P. "Aspects of Anglo‐American aviation diplomacy 1976–93." Diplomacy & Statecraft 4, no. 2 (July 1993): 235–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592299308405884.

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Woods, Gregory. "The AIDS epidemic in American crime fiction, 1981–2001." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 2, no. 4 (December 2004): 487–504. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477570004048083.

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Bold, Christine. "Secret negotiations: The Spy figure in Nineteenth‐century American popular fiction." Intelligence and National Security 5, no. 4 (October 1990): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02684529008432077.

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Verdaguer, Pierre. "Borrowed Settings: Frenchness in Anglo-American Detective Fiction." Yale French Studies, no. 108 (2005): 146. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4149304.

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Roces, Mina. "Filipino Identity in Fiction, 1945–1972." Modern Asian Studies 28, no. 2 (May 1994): 279–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00012415.

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The Philippines in the immediate post-war years may be described as a nation in search of an identity. This preoccupation with what one journalist has dubbed ‘the question of identity’ spurred a sudden interest in the research and discussion of things Filipino: Filipino dance, theater, literature, language, music, art and cultural traditions. After four hundred and fifty years of colonial rule the Filipino intelligentsia began to wonder if indeed the western legacy of colonial rule was the annihilation of the very essence of Filipino culture. Under the aegis of American rule Filipinos were adamant about proving to their colonizers that they had been good pupils in western democratic ideals and were fit to govern themselves. From the 1920s to the early 1940s, the Filipino had become a sajonista (pro-American). The Japanese colonizers who replaced the Americans in the second world war were appalled not only at the pro-Americanism of the Filipino but at the magnitude of American influence absorbed by Filipino culture. In fact it was the Japanese who promoted the use of Tagalog and the ‘revival’ and appreciation of Filipino cultural traditions as part of the policy of ‘Asia for the Asians’. Once independence was achieved at last in 1946, the focus shifted. The nagging question was no longer ‘Are we western enough to govern ourselves?’ but its opposite—‘Have we become too westernized to the point of losing ourselves?’.

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Chatterjee, Choi. "Transnational Romance, Terror, and Heroism: Russia in American Popular Fiction, 1860–1917." Comparative Studies in Society and History 50, no. 3 (June 25, 2008): 753–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417508000327.

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Scholars of Russian-American relations in the late nineteenth century have long been concerned with the personalities and writings of university-based experts, journalists, diplomats, and political activists. We are well acquainted with the observations of various American commentators on the backward state of Russian state, society, economy, and politics. While the activities of prominent men such as George Kennan have effortlessly dominated the historical agenda, the negative discourses that they produced about Russia have subsumed other important American representations of the country. Since the period of early modern history, European travelers had seen Russia as a barbarous land of slave-like people, responsive only to the persuasions of the whip and the knout wielded by an autocratic tsar. Subsequently, Larry Wolff has shown that Voltaire and other Enlightenment philosophers created images of a despotic and backward Eastern Europe in order to validate the idea of a progressive, enlightened, and civilized Western Europe.

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Hashem, Noor. "Muslim American Speculative Fiction: Figuring feminist epistemologies, religious histories, and genre traditions." Muslim World 111, no. 2 (May 2021): 167–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12379.

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Cimmarusti, Rocco A. "EXPLORING ASPECTS OF FILIPINO-AMERICAN FAMILIES." Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 22, no. 2 (April 1996): 205–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.1996.tb00199.x.

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Nopper, Tamara K. "The 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the Asian American Abandonment Narrative as Political Fiction." CR: The New Centennial Review 6, no. 2 (2006): 73–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2007.0008.

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Baccolini, Raffaella. "The Persistence of Hope in Dystopian Science Fiction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 518–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20587.

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It is widely accepted todaythat, whenever we receive or produce culture, we do so from a certain position and that such location influences how we theorize about and read the world. Because I am an Italian trained in the United States (specializing in American modernism) in the 1980s, my reading of science fiction has been shaped by my cultural and biographical circumstances as well as by my geography. It is a hybrid approach, combining these circumstances primarily with an interest in feminist theory and in writing by women. From the very beginning I have foregrounded issues of genre writing as they intersect with gender and the deconstruction of high and low culture. Such an approach, however, must also come to terms with the political and cultural circumstances that characterize this turn of the century.

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Mueller, Richard E., Richard G. Harris, and Thomas Lemieux. "Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages." Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques 32, no. 2 (June 2006): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4128730.

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Corry, Leo. "Introduction: Science in Latin-American Contexts – Historical Studies." Science in Context 18, no. 2 (June 2005): 173–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889705000438.

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This issue of Science in Context presents a collection of historical studies on various aspects of science and its practice as developed in Latin-American contexts. Relatively few scholars working in the history of science, and even in the more general field of “science studies,” have devoted their research to this field. Likewise, relatively little research has been done by scholars of Latin American studies on the cultural, political, and social impact of science, a field that is usually considered to be one of the central, defining aspects of modern, Western civilization.

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Simsone, Bārbala. "Zinātniskā fantastika kā ideoloģiskais ierocis." Aktuālās problēmas literatūras un kultūras pētniecībā: rakstu krājums, no. 25 (March 4, 2020): 165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.37384/aplkp.2020.25.165.

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Since one of the main characteristics of the science fiction genre is the modelling of future societies, often from the safe distance perspective drawing quite visible parallels with those of the present world, the discussion about political and social topics has been an integral part of the genre since the beginnings. Moreover, since science fiction, especially regarding the subgenre of utopia, allegorically projects a particular ideology in an imaginary world, certain propaganda was also frequent compound in the genre works. These factors were largely responsible for the fact that some political regimes, especially those of the 20th century, made direct and indirect use of science fiction as a powerful tool of ideological propaganda that helped to turn the thinking of readers, especially young people, in the direction favoured by the regime. Still, it must also be remembered that the presence of political ideas in the science fiction works as well as interpretation of these works has always been quite a complicated matter, and science fiction authors frequently found ways to circumnavigate the limitations set by censorship and include messages unflattering to the regime in their works. The paper provides an insight into the aspects of relationship between science fiction and ideology in contemporary literary theory, turns a particular attention to the practical aspects of these relationships as they formed during the 20th century in the literary space of Soviet regime – discussing original works as well as translations and literary criticism; finally, the paper outlines some topical ideological directions visible in modern science fiction works.

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The Review. "ASPECTS OF DISSEMINATION." International Review of the Red Cross 27, no. 257 (April 1987): 152–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020860400025286.

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The year 1977 may be considered a turning point for the dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law and the Principles and the ideals of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. If we briefly review events of that year, we see that from 21 to 30 March 1977 the first European Red Cross Seminar on the Dissemination of the Geneva Conventions, organized by the Polish Red Cross and the ICRC, was held in Warsaw. Representatives of European and North American National Societies and of the ICRC and the League attended the seminar which adopted the following principles:«Although dissemination of knowledge of international humanitarian law is a responsibility of governments, it should be a direct concern of the Red Cross in general and particularly of each National Society in its own country.

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Álvarez, Brianne Orr. "Vinodh Venkatesh, The body as capital: masculinities in contemporary Latin American fiction." Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes 41, no. 3 (September 2016): 464–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2016.1225684.

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Orr, David MR. "Dementia and detectives: Alzheimer’s disease in crime fiction." Dementia 19, no. 3 (May 28, 2018): 560–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1471301218778398.

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Fictional representations of dementia have burgeoned in recent years, and scholars have amply explored their double-edged capacity to promote tragic perspectives or normalising images of ‘living well’ with the condition. Yet to date, there has been only sparse consideration of the treatment afforded dementia within the genre of crime fiction. Focusing on two novels, Emma Healey’s Elizabeth is Missing and Alice LaPlante’s Turn of Mind, this article considers what it means in relation to the ethics of representation that these authors choose to cast as their amateur detective narrators women who have dementia. Analysing how their narrative portrayals frame the experience of living with dementia, it becomes apparent that features of the crime genre inflect the meanings conveyed. While aspects of the novels may reinforce problem-based discourses around dementia, in other respects they may spur meaningful reflection about it among the large readership of this genre.

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Clarke, Patricia. "The Queensland Shearers' Strikes in Rosa Praed's Fiction." Queensland Review 9, no. 1 (May 2002): 67–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600002750.

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Novelist Rosa Praed's portrayal of colonial Queensland in her fiction was influenced by her social position as the daughter of a squatter and conservative Cabinet Minister, Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, and limited by the fact that she lived in Australia for much less than one-third of her life. After she left Australia in 1876, she recharged her imagination, during her long novel-writing career in England, by seeking specific information through family letters and reminiscences, copies of Hansard and newspapers. As the decades went by and she remained in England, the social and political dynamics of colonial society changed. Remarkably, she remained able to tum sparse sources into in-depth portrayals of aspects of colonial life.

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Pavlova, Maria. "The military-political aspect of Polish-American relations in 2020." Russia and America in the 21st Century, no. 2 (2021): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s207054760015883-8.

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The article examines key aspects of political and military cooperation between Poland and the United States in 2020. The main attention is paid to on-going discussions about Poland's involvement in NATO nuclear programs and the development of the idea of creating a base for the permanent deployment of the US troops in Poland.

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Knighton, Andrew. "Around Quitting Time: Work and Middle-Class Fantasy in American Fiction (review)." Cultural Critique 56, no. 1 (2004): 213–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cul.2003.0060.

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Blatchford, M. F. "Cyber against punk: Greg Bear’s Queen of Angels as metamorphosed cyberpunk." Literator 15, no. 3 (May 2, 1994): 55–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v15i3.677.

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Recent American science fiction (which commercially dominates world science fiction) incorporates two schools of thought, ‘cyberpunk' and ‘hard SF’. which may be read to embody, respectively, radical/liberal and patriotic/ conservative propaganda. This article, after attempting to define aspects of these schools, examines Queen of Angels by Greg Bear (who before producing that text had been a proponent of hard SF). This text is shown to have strong elements of cyberpunk (possibly, to judge by one critical review, appealing to a cyberpunk audience) but to have transformed and inverted the radical and liberal themes of cyberpunk into conservative themes. The text thus illuminates philosophical and technical differences between the schools. It is suggested that the imagery of cyberpunk, and perhaps that of science fiction in general, is liable to such reversals of ideological significance.

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Abrahams, Paul f. "Regional Aspects of Anglo-American Polish Policy During World War II." Australian Journal of Politics & History 34, no. 3 (June 28, 2008): 369–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8497.1988.tb01186.x.

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Freedman, Carl. "Polemical Afterword: Some Brief Reflections on Arnold Schwarzenegger and on Science Fiction in Contemporary American Culture." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 119, no. 3 (May 2004): 539–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081204x20631.

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The 2003 Guber natorial recall campaign in California was a perfect political storm. The extraordinary result—the democratic removal of a sitting governor before his term expired (for the first time in California history and the second time in United States history) and his replacement by a bodybuilder turned movie star with not the slightest governmental experience—depended on the improbable conjuncture of several factors, each pretty odd in itself: the special severity with which the Bush recession hit the California economy, largely because of the latter's unusual dependence on high-tech corporations; the California power crisis engineered by Enron and other denizens of the Houston energy industry; the astonishing charmlessness of Governor Gray Davis, whose political career had been based not on attracting strong loyalty or admiration but on fund-raising, negative campaigning, and convincing core Democratic constituencies that he was marginally less repellant than Republican alternatives; the willingness of the multimillionaire United States congressman Daryl Issa to spend two million dollars of his own money to get the recall on the ballot in the first place; and, of course, the overwhelming star power of Arnold Schwarzenegger. One might suppose that the evident contingency of the whole matter precludes finding historical importance in it. It is after all possible, even likely, in what Guy Debord brilliantly analyzed as la société du spectacle, for an event to be sensational without being tremendously significant.

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Brown, Robert A. "POLICING IN AMERICAN HISTORY." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 16, no. 1 (2019): 189–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x19000171.

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AbstractThis article examines the historical evolution of policing in America with a focus on race. Specifically, it is argued that racial bias has deep roots in American policing, and reforms in policing and American society have not eliminated the detrimental experiences of Blacks who encounter the police. Historical information and contemporary empirical research indicate that, even when legal and other factors are equal, Blacks continue to experience the coercive and lethal aspects of policing relative to their non-Black counterparts.

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Dove, Patrick. "The Untimely Present: Postdictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning (review)." Cultural Critique 49, no. 1 (2001): 183–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cul.2001.0009.

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Bachman, David. "Aspects of an Institutionalizing Political System: China, 1958–1965." China Quarterly 188 (December 2006): 933–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741006000506.

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This article uses newly available Chinese sources to take a different look at aspects of the Chinese political system and the Chinese state during 1958 to 1965. While not challenging the literature on elite power issues, it demonstrates that much more was going on within the Chinese state than has been widely appreciated. In particular, the article focuses on the formal legal process, where it appears that the use of courts was extensive throughout the per-Cultural Revolution period and where the verdict of not guilty, not punished occurred more frequently in China than it did in American federal criminal cases; on the growing breakdown of the Party elite; and on China's preparation for war, basically an ongoing process of the Chinese state from 1962 on, with extensive militarization even earlier.

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Phegley, Jennifer. "Images of the Woman Reader in Victorian British and American Fiction (review)." Victorian Studies 48, no. 1 (2005): 171–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vic.2006.0049.

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Compton, John W. "The Emancipation of the American Mind: J.S. Mill on the Civil War." Review of Politics 70, no. 2 (2008): 221–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670508000314.

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AbstractScholars have generally traced J.S. Mill's interest in the United States to the commercial and democratic aspects of American society. Yet Mill also suggested a third respect in which America was unique: it was the only existing nation founded on the basis of “abstract principles.” This insight provides the key to a fuller understanding of Mill's various writings on America. In his early essays, Mill worried that America's founding principles and institutions were beginning to take on the characteristics of dogma: they were universally accepted, but no longer discussed. Mill responded optimistically to the Civil War because he believed the struggle to extinguish slavery would ultimately restore the meaning or vitality of the founding principles of liberty and equality. With the nation thus “regenerated,” Mill predicted that Americans would soon recognize and address other illiberal aspects of American society, including the subordinate status of women.

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Gardell, Mattias. "‘The Girl Who Was Chased by Fire’: Violence and Passion in Contemporary Swedish Fascist Fiction." Fascism 10, no. 1 (June 24, 2021): 166–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116257-10010004.

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Abstract Fascism invites its adherents to be part of something greater than themselves, invoking their longing for honor and glory, passion and heroism. An important avenue for articulating its affective dimension is cultural production. This article investigates the role of violence and passion in contemporary Swedish-language fascist fiction. The protagonist is typically a young white man or woman who wakes up to the realities of the ongoing white genocide through being exposed to violent crime committed by racialized aliens protected by the System. Seeking revenge, the protagonist learns how to be a man or meets her hero, and is introduced to fascist ideology and the art of killing. Fascist literature identifies aggression and ethnical cleansing as altruistic acts of love. With its passionate celebration of violence, fascism hails the productivity of destructivity, and the life-bequeathing aspects of death, which is at the core of fascism’s urge for national rebirth.

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Shlikhter, A. "«Green» Strategy of American Corporations." World Economy and International Relations, no. 7 (2013): 12–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2013-7-12-21.

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To date, the American corporate management has fully understood that the neglect of ecological business aspects can merely provide temporary benefits. The "Green Strategy” is important not only for companies' image, but also for their robust margins in the long run. The principle "pollutant pays" is really applied in the U. S. environmental management practices. This article aims to analyse the " Green Strategy”implementation by American and foreign companies operating inside the U. S. territory.

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Pierson, Paul, and Eric Schickler. "Madison's Constitution Under Stress: A Developmental Analysis of Political Polarization." Annual Review of Political Science 23, no. 1 (May 11, 2020): 37–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050718-033629.

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We present a “developmental” approach to understanding why rising polarization in the United States has not been self-correcting but instead continues to intensify. Under specified conditions, initial increases in polarization may change the meso-environment, including such features as state parties, the structure of media, and the configuration of interest groups. These shifts can in turn influence other aspects of politics, leading to a further intensification of polarization. This analysis has four important benefits: ( a) It directs our attention to the meso-institutional environment of the American polity; ( b) it clarifies the features of the polity that have traditionally limited the extent and duration of polarization, and the reasons why their contemporary impact may be attenuated; ( c) it helps us analyze asymmetrical, or party-specific, aspects of polarization; and ( d) it provides an analytic foundation that connects discussions of American politics to the comparative politics literature on democratic backsliding.

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Blashkiv, Oksana. "Vagaries of (Academic) Identity in Contemporary Fiction." Journal of Education Culture and Society 9, no. 1 (June 27, 2018): 151–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15503/jecs20181.151.160.

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Aim. The article attempts to look at question of academic identities through the prism the academic novel. This literary genre emerged in English and American literature in early 1950s and centers on the image of the professor. In Slavic literatures the genre of the academic novel appears roughly in early 1990s, which is directly connected with the change of the political order following the fall of the Berlin Wall and disbanding of the Soviet Union. Contemporary Ukrainian literature with its post-Soviet heritage presents a unique source for the study of academic discourse. Methods. An interdisciplinary approach which combines sociological investigation of academic identity (Henkel 2005) and hermeneutic literary analysis is used for this study. In this respect three novels from the contemporary Ukrainian literature – “University” (2007) and “Kaleidoscope” (2009) by Igor Yosypiv, and “Drosophila over a Volume of Kant” (2010) by Anatoliy Dnistrovyj – are chosen for analysis. Results. Analysis of the novels shows that the literary representation of academics’ lives goes in line with the sociological findings, which, in defining a successful academic, put a strong accent on a discipline and academic institution. The interpretation of Yosypiv’s novels about a Ukrainian nephrologist at the American Medical School suggests that protagonist’s academic success is rooted in the field of applied science as well as an American institution of higher education, while Dnistrovyj’s novel sees a failure of a philosophy professor in the crisis of the Humanities as survived in post-Soviet Ukraine. Conclusion. The given novels of Igor Yosypiv and Anatoliy Dnistrovyj show that in case of academic identity theme, the academic novels support sociological studies, i.e. the discipline (Applied Sciences and Humanities) as well as the university rank (American vs. post-Soviet) play a decisive role in scholars’ academic life. This in its turn proves that the academic novel, like in the time of its emergence in the 1950s, continues to be a literary chronicler of higher education.

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Candreva, Debra. "Conrad and the American Empire." Perspectives on Politics 7, no. 2 (May 15, 2009): 317–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592709090835.

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Joseph Conrad offers some of the most notoriously contested writing on imperialism in nineteenth-century literature. In this article, I use two of his stories (“An Outpost of Progress” and Heart of Darkness) to argue that his critique of imperialism is as relevant today as it was in his own time.Conrad's critique of imperialism is twofold. First and most simply, he condemns it as an economically exploitative endeavor. Second, and more importantly, he rejects the “idealistic” claim often invoked to justify imperialism as the bearer of progress, enlightenment, and other supposedly universal liberal values. This second critique causes Conrad the most difficulty, largely because his rejection of idealism is only partial. I argue that the most controversial aspects of his work are manifestations of a philosophical struggle between universalistic idealism on the one hand, and relativistic skepticism on the other. In this, Conrad contends with a problem that historically has challenged both liberalism and its conservative critics alike. Moreover, it continues to challenge both perspectives today, particularly in the debate over so-called American imperialism.

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Adamik, Verena. "Making worlds from literature: W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Quest of the Silver Fleece and Dark Princess." Thesis Eleven 162, no. 1 (February 2021): 105–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513621993308.

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While W.E.B. Du Bois’s first novel, The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), is set squarely in the USA, his second work of fiction, Dark Princess: A Romance (1928), abandons this national framework, depicting the treatment of African Americans in the USA as embedded into an international system of economic exploitation based on racial categories. Ultimately, the political visions offered in the novels differ starkly, but both employ a Western literary canon – so-called ‘classics’ from Greek, German, English, French, and US American literature. With this, Du Bois attempts to create a new space for African Americans in the world (literature) of the 20th century. Weary of the traditions of this ‘world literature’, the novels complicate and begin to decenter the canon that they draw on. This reading traces what I interpret as subtle signs of frustration over the limits set by the literature that underlies Dark Princess, while its predecessor had been more optimistic in its appropriation of Eurocentric fiction for its propagandist aims.

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