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When They Came For Me: The Hidden Diary of An Apartheid Prisoner

When Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, John Schlapobersky was a political prisoner in Pretoria and knew nothing about it – he was in solitary confinement. When he learnt about the landing, he looked for the moon without success from the window of his cell.

William Shakespeare

Widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist, William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. Shakespeare’s plays being translated in over 50 languages and performed across the globe for audiences of all ages. Shakespeare was also an actor and the creator of the Globe […]

Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in August

    

Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in October

Berghahn Journals: New Issues Published in August

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Issues Published in November

  Anthropology of the Middle East Volume 10, Issue 1 In this issue, we present contributions that deal with museums, museology and their approaches to the new social situations through which they must navigate.   Transfers Volume 5, Issue 3 This issue features a special section on settler-colonial mobilities   Social Analysis Volume 59, Issue […]

Solving the Mystery of Nancy Drew

The following is a guest blog post written by Michael G. Cornelius, author of the article Sexuality, Interruption, and Nancy Drew, which appeared in Volume 8, Number 2 of the journal Girlhood Studies.   It’s admittedly an odd thing, to be a Nancy Drew scholar.   Strictly speaking, “Nancy Drew Scholar” is not the official […]

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Issues Published in April

Journal of Romance Studies Volume 15, Issue 1 This issue includes articles on a range of topics.

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Issues Published in March

  French Politics, Culture & Society Volume 33, Issue 1 The contributions in this special issue represent a new wave of scholarship that brings the insights of recent post-Revolutionary historiography to the process of colonial transition.   Critical Survey Volume 26, Issue 2 This features articles which explore topics related to the many works of […]

Landscape as Literary Criticism in Jane Austen’s Fiction

The following is the third in a series of posts on Jane Austen. This is a guest post written by Anne Toner, contributor to a special issue of Critical Survey which is devoted to the subject of Jane Austen. Anne Toner is the author of the article titled “Landscape as Literary Criticism: Jane Austen, Anna Barbauld and the Narratological Application of the Picturesque.”    […]