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Tembhurne, Mr Punyashil S. "Indian Fiction in English and Human Rights." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 11, no. 7 (2023): 436–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2023.54639.

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Abstract: Human rights are one of the factors that ensure the hopes of the common man. Sadly, however, it is not uncommon to see these rights violated by dictatorial regimes. When this happens, literature must take the initiative to bring light to such violations and help people sympathize with those whose rights are abused. This article explores the relationship between literature and human rights. It argues that literature can play a paramount role in promoting human rights in two ways. First, literature, being a reflection of reality, can expose the various human rights violations and abuse

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Gbaguidi, Célestin, Panaewazibiou Dadja-Tiou, and Maurice Gade. "The Predicaments of Childless Women in Nigerian Fiction: A Womanist Reading of Flora Nwapa’s One Is Enough and Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives." European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 5 (2022): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejsocial.2022.2.5.332.

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Using womanist literary criticism, this work has critically analyzed and revealed that women’s worth is tied to their ability to bear children. The study has also examined the plight, predicaments, and abuses of childless women in African culture. The paper has revealed that childless women are verbally abused, physically beaten, psychologically abused, and maltreated. The paper argues that it is unethical and immoral to maltreat childless women for involuntary infertility. The pressures coming from society constitute huge struggles for childless women when they fail to bear children after a c

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Hamby, James. "“Let us veil our meaning”: Holiday Romance and the Second Reform Act of 1867." Dickens Studies Annual 54, no. 1 (2023): 51–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/dickstudannu.54.1.0051.

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ABSTRACT Dickens’s final completed fiction, Holiday Romance, is a neglected and misunderstood work. It is a suite of four short stories and what little critical attention it has garnered has missed the main idea behind the work. While most scholars who have written about Holiday Romance consider it as little more than children’s entertainment, it is better interpreted as political commentary on expanding voting rights. Read in the context of Dickens’s complex views on the Second Reform Act of 1867, this work reflects his support for expanding the vote, his pessimism that Parliament could intro

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Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor. "Some Unexpected but Conspicuous Shortcomings in Toni Morrison’s Last Novel." Journal of English Studies 19 (December 22, 2021): 123–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.18172/jes.4332.

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In the last five decades, Toni Morrison’s fiction has covered such intricate topics as the impact of the past on the present, the damage produced on bodies and minds by different types of abuses, and the power and perils of small communities. She revisits some of those themes in her last novel, "God Help the Child" (2015), but this time zooms in more closely on the topics of child abuse and colorism – an internal racism of blacks against those with darker skin shades. "God Help the Child" proves innovative because the story is set in presentday fictional California, where the rate of child mol

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Mendoza, Krystyne, and Loretta Bradley. "Using Storytelling for Counseling With Children Who Have Experienced Trauma." Journal of Mental Health Counseling 43, no. 1 (2020): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.17744/mehc.43.1.01.

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This article presents a fictional case study that illustrates the use of a model for storytelling, focusing on counseling with traumatically abused children. A review of information on child welfare is presented with a historical account of expressive modalities used in the therapeutic context when working with children. Since stories provide a developmentally appropriate means of communication, a brief review on the efficacy of using storytelling techniques with children is also provided. While the value of stories is inherent and commonly known, formal methods for utilizing stories in counse

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Esemedafe, Emmanuel. "Child psychopathology and power abuse in selected classics of Nigerian children’s fiction." Tropical Journal of Arts and Humanities 3, no. 2 (2021): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.47524/tjah.v3i2.16.

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The classics of Nigerian children’s novels identify various sources of child psychopathology. This article focalises the adult role in the etiology of child psychopathology. Viewed from the critical lens of postcolonialism as enunciated by Edward Said, the article avers that the abuse of power by adults is a major cause of psychopathology in children. And from textual exhibits, it proves that child psychopathology may be remediated through a reorientation and conscientisation of the adult on the centrality of the child. This is achieved through a juxtaposition of the ideal and the flawed in th

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Miceli, Barbara. "Children as Commodities in the American Suburban Home: Joyce Carol Oates's Adaptation of the Ramsey Case in "My Sister, My Love"." English Studies at NBU 10, no. 2 (2024): 247–63. https://doi.org/10.33919/esnbu.24.2.2.

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Joyce Carol Oates's My Sister, My Love is a fictional memoir inspired by the unsolved murder of JonBenét Ramsey. The novel, told from the perspective of the victim's brother, satirizes the exploitation of children in beauty pageants and the superficiality of suburban life. Through a counter-memory narrative, Oates sheds light on the hidden abuse endured by children, revealing the dark underbelly of a seemingly perfect family. The novel serves as a powerful critique of societal pressures and the devastating consequences for young victims.

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Zelezinskaya, N. S. "Young adult literature as a mirror of the society." Voprosy literatury 1, no. 1 (2020): 159–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2020-1-159-175.

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The article discusses contemporary young adult and post-adolescent literatures, which respond to the modern world with its catastrophes and challenges in a more acute manner than fiction for adults. A new literary genre, the problem young adult novel needs a comprehensive literary analysis. The age bracket of the genre, which is still open for discussion, is examined by the author in detail. While young adult fiction has a different agenda from children’s literature, it often surpasses ‘grown-up’ books in terms of issues raised and their relevance, which is especially true for the problem youn

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Saunders, Bernadette J. "Words Matter: Textual Abuse of Childhood in the English-Speaking World, and the Role of Language in the Continuing Denial of Children’s Rights." International Journal of Children’s Rights 25, no. 2 (2017): 519–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02502010.

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This article focuses upon ‘the textual abuse of childhood in the English-speaking world’ (Saunders and Goddard, 2001). It highlights the significant role that the choice of words used to refer to children, and their experiences, plays in both the continued denial of children’s rights, and the perpetuation of children’s lesser status in relation to adults. The evolution in language apparent in international children’s rights documents is compared and contrasted with language adopted in some media articles, and in both fictional and academic literature, provoking thought about children and their

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Salter, Michael, and Selda Dagistanli. "Cultures of Abuse: ‘Sex Grooming’, Organised Abuse and Race in Rochdale, UK." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 4, no. 2 (2015): 50–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v4i2.211.

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Revelations of organised abuse by men of Asian heritage in the United Kingdom have become a recurrent feature of international media coverage of sexual abuse in recent years. This paper reflects on the similarities between the highly publicised ‘sex grooming’ prosecutions in Rochdale in 2012 and the allegations of organised abuse in Rochdale that emerged in 1990, when twenty children were taken into care after describing sadistic abuse by their parents and others. While these two cases differ in important aspects, this paper highlights the prominence of colonial ideologies of civilisation and

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Simsar, Ahmet, and Bala Çapar. "Prospective Preschool Teachers’ Views on Sexual Education and Child Sexual Abuse in Early Childhood Education." Yaşadıkça Eğitim 36, no. 2 (2022): 339–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.33308/26674874.2022362369.

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This study aims to reveal the opinions of prospective teachers about sexual education and child sexual abuse in preschool. Case study research design was used in the study in which data were obtained through interviews with 73 prospective teachers. Eight questions and 2 fictional cases related to sexual education were used in the semi-structured interview form prepared to collect the data which were then analyzed by content analysis method. The research results indicate that prospective teachers did not have sufficient background knowledge regarding sexual education and child sexual abuse. Whe

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Ostalska, Katarzyna. "“A right kind of rogue”: Lisa McInerney’s "The Glorious Heresies" (2015) and "The Blood Miracles" (2017)." Text Matters, no. 9 (December 30, 2019): 237–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.09.15.

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The following article analyzes two novels, published recently by a new, powerful voice in Irish fiction, Lisa McInerney: her critically acclaimed debut The Glorious Heresies (2015) and its continuation The Blood Miracles (2017). McInerney’s works can be distinguished by the crucial qualities of the Irish Noir genre. The Glorious Heresies and The Blood Miracles are presented from the perspective of a middle-aged “right-rogue” heroine, Maureen Phelan. Due to her violent and law-breaking revenge activities, such as burning down the institutions signifying Irishwomen’s oppression (i.e. the church

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Khan, Ummni. "Prostituted Girls and the Grown-up Gaze." Global Studies of Childhood 1, no. 4 (2011): 302–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/gsch.2011.1.4.302.

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This article examines the representation of under-age girls in the sex trade through a comparative analysis of the social scientific monograph Gangs and Girls: understanding juvenile prostitution and the fictional novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals. Through a semiotic examination of the book covers, and a discursive deconstruction of the fairy-tale conventions of the textual content, the author considers how the ‘grown up gaze’ is both gratified and sometimes challenged. She further demonstrate that ironically, the fictional account in Lullabies offers a more nuanced consideration of the so

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Surekha, Dr. "Human Rights and Portrayal of Women in Indian English Fiction." International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8, no. 1 (2023): 083–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijels.81.10.

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Human Rights” are those rights which belong to an individual as a consequence of being a human being. It is birth right inherent in all the individuals irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, sex and nationality. Human Rights, essential for all round development of the personality of the individual in society and therefore, ought to be protected and be made available to all individuals. Literature has substantially contributed to the protection of human rights. Literature can inspire us to change our world and give us the comfort, hope, passion and strength that we need in order to fight

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BS, Pradeep. "ROLE OF PARENTAL, SCHOOL AND PEER GROUPS IN PREVENTION OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE." International Journal of Engineering Applied Sciences and Technology 6, no. 6 (2021): 293–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.33564/ijeast.2021.v06i06.043.

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This research is an attempt to assess the role of parents, schools, and peer groups in substance abuse prevention. Substance misuse is more common in persons, particularly children, who believe they are ignored by others, are excluded from their peer groups, and have no one with whom to discuss their problems. Such children utilise escapism to escape from all of life's worries by immersing themselves in a completely fictional yet lovely world. This world, on the other hand, is a fleeting pleasure that can cost one's life. The direct and indirect effects of alcohol and other drugs on children c

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Driver, Jane A. "Efforts to Extend the Human Lifespan: Separating Fact from Fiction." Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 78, no. 298 S. Esp (2022): 547–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14422/pen.v78.i298.y2022.015.

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After retirement, older people often find themselves far from their children and grandchildren, and many spend their last years isolated and alone. As traditional concepts of family and social institutions fragment, social networks weaken, leading to an epidemic of loneliness, and substance abuse and suicide in developed countries. In fact, life expectancy in the US has dropped for the past few years, in large part due to a dramatic increase in suicide and drug overdose (ref). None of these social problems is likely to be solved by metformin. They point to a crisis of identity and meaning, an

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Davies, Hayley. "Trust and Distrust: Listening to Children about Their Relationships with Professionals." Social Sciences 8, no. 9 (2019): 251. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8090251.

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This article explores trust in children’s relationships with professionals in the context of safeguarding concerns. With exception, existing research with children about trust in professionals often fails to unpick trust. Using sociological conceptualisations of trust, most often considered in relation to adults, this article unravels this complex concept. It arrives at a conception of trust as socially situated, an attribute of relationships, and a combination of interpretation (knowledge and experience) and faith. This conceptualization of trust is examined in the context of interview accoun

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Omer-Sherman, Ranen. "“To Extract from It Some Sort of Beautiful Thing”: The Holocaust in the Families and Fiction of Nava Semel and Etgar Keret." Humanities 9, no. 4 (2020): 137. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9040137.

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In literary narratives by Nava Semel (1954–2017) and Etgar Keret (b. 1967), both Israeli children of Holocaust survivors, readers encounter the kinds of searching questions about inheriting the burden of traumatic inheritance, witnessing, and postmemory frequently intrinsic to second-generation literature in other national contexts. However, their works are further distinguished by acute examinations that probe the moral fabric of Israeli society itself, including dehumanization of the enemy through slogans and other debased forms of language and misuses of historical memory. In addition, thei

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Ennis, Fiona. "Claim." After Dinner Conversation 2, no. 8 (2021): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/adc20212871.

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Are there certain things you shouldn’t be able to insure against? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator has an eating disorder, and mental health issues. Regardless, she is a good employee at an insurance company. Just before closing, a call arrives from a good client, the local diocese who inquires about getting insurance to protect them against sexual abuse of children by priests. She takes the issue, and her concerns, to her boss who threatens to fire her if she fails to write the policy. It’s not their job to judge, he says, it’s their job to insure. A flashback s

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Ennis, Fiona. "Claim." After Dinner Conversation 6, no. 4 (2025): 89–100. https://doi.org/10.5840/adc20256439.

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Are there certain things you shouldn’t be able to insure against? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the narrator has an eating disorder, and mental health issues. Regardless, she is a good employee at an insurance company. Just before closing, a call arrives from a good client, the local diocese who inquires about getting insurance to protect them against sexual abuse of children by priests. She takes the issue, and her concerns, to her boss who threatens to fire her if she fails to write the policy. It’s not their job to judge, he says, it’s their job to insure. A flashback s

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Nikolina, Natalia N. "Personification in the Speech of a Child Narrator (a Case Study of Novels ‘Room’ by E. Donoghue and ‘All the Lost Things’ by M. Sacks)." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 13, no. 4 (2021): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2021-4-89-99.

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The article examines personification in the speech of a child narrator. Along with other grammatical and lexical features of a child’s speech, the use of personification by children is distinguished. Personification in a child’s speech, as well as in human speech, can be explained by metaphorical nature of human thinking as well as anthropocentrism of human thinking and speech. Personification can be a characteristic of the speech of a child narrator in fiction intended for adult readership. It is worth noticing that the use of a child narrator as a device is not new in literature. In the cour

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Balaji, Rithika, and Safrin Safrin. "THE STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGY TRAUMA AND HYPOCRISY OF CHARITY IN CHARLES DICKENSS OLIVER TWIST." International Journal of Advanced Research 12, no. 12 (2024): 970–74. https://doi.org/10.21474/ijar01/20106.

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The English writer Charles Dickens was known for his work as a novelist, journalist, short story writer, and social critic. He was the creator of some of literatures most well-known fictional characters, and many consider him to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.Charles Dickenss era witnessed significant changes in children and social reality due to the Industrial Revolution and the prevalent socio-economic conditions. Due to widespread poverty, a significant number of children were required to work in factories, mines, and as chimney sweeps.The increase in orphans and homeless chi

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Kukka, Silja. ""Fandom's Pornographic Subset"." lambda nordica 26, no. 1 (2021): 53–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.34041/ln.v26.721.

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   This article draws on content analysis method research (n = 78) that looks at a specific subset of fan fiction: anonymous kink meme communities where mostly women request and write erotic or pornographic fan texts. Reporting on an online survey, this article discusses what kind of role kink meme communities play in the lives of the respondents, how kink meme stories are situated in the larger framework of pornography, and how the respondents view the stories that incorporate unsettling or taboo subjects, such as sexual abuse of children, rape, or incest. This article views

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Hall, Leila. "Seeing Differently, Seeing Anew." Thinker 102, no. 1 (2025): 12–25. https://doi.org/10.36615/w6f5wp23.

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ith a focus on two recent queer-themed short stories from Kenya and South Africa, this article considers how the use of a child focaliser in fictional representations of early experiences of same-sex desire can disrupt and subvert ideals of childhood ‘innocence’ and the problematic conflation of paedophilia with same-sex sexuality. The two stories discussed in this article – Idza Luhumyo’s “Nine Pieces of Desire” (2017) and Kharys Laue’s “Plums” (2018) – importantly narrate childhood experiences of same-sex sexuality that are not associated with paedophilia or sexual abuse, but that rather foc

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McLelland, Mark. "‘Not in front of the parents!’ Young people, sexual literacies and intimate citizenship in the internet age." Sexualities 20, no. 1-2 (2016): 234–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460716645791.

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Clause 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child states that children have the right ‘to seek, receive or impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in art or in any other media of the child's voice’. However, there is one area in which this directive is constrained in various countries by domestic regulations curtailing children's access to information. That area is human sexuality. The arguments for and against children's access to sex education are well rehearsed. In this article, the author pursues a diffe

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Kulakevych, Lyudmyla М., and Liudmyla Ye Haponova. "NARRATIVE CODE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S NOVEL THE SCARLET LETTER." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 1, no. 29 (2025): 29–49. https://doi.org/10.32342/3041-217x-2025-1-29-2.

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The purpose of the article is to identify the distinctive features of the narrative code of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. The research methods include historical and literary methods, receptive and comparative methods, and close reading techniques. The study draws on narratological frameworks developed by R. Barthes, G. Genette, W. Schmid. It has been established that the complex narrative structure of the novel is evident even at the lev- el of its framing apparatus: the work is intertwined with an essay originally conceived as a preface rather than as a separate, independen

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BCR, Jadis. "In My Enemy’s House by C. Matas." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 6, no. 2 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2903k.

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Matas, Carol. In My Enemy’s House. Toronto: Scholastic Canada, 2013. Print. The book is about a Jewish Polish girl named Marisa who is trying to survive in World War 2 while over the years losing family members. First her papa then her sisters over time her little brother and mama eventually she travels to Weimar a town in Germany while the only family member she has left is sent off to be a slave she spends a few years in Germany, one year being a Polish slave and being abused and yelled at by her owner until eventually she goes back to Weimar and asks if she can go to a different family. She

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Muhammad, Moustafa Muhammad Abd-ur-Rahman. "THE QUEST FOR NATIONAL IDENTITY: A READING OF MODERN CANADIAN FICTION IN THE LIGHT OF MARGARET ATWOOD'S SURFACING AND THE HANDMAID'S TALE." European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies 2, no. 1 (2018). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1241126.

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Margaret Eleanor Atwood (1939 – ) is one of the contemporary most preeminent and multitalented living figures in Canadian Literature. Apart from being a novelist, she is an innovative poetess, a social critic, a children’s author, a short-story writer and a winner of countless literary awards and accolades, including the prestigious Booker Prize for Literature. An Anglo-Canadian, Atwood’s works provide additional insights into her scope of vision about her culture and society. The present study focuses on Atwood’s preoccupation with her inquiry of and quest for identity

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Wagner, Josefine. ""Der Struwwelpeter" - A Critical Analysis of a Pedagogical Trend." December 31, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4009341.

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In this paper I revisit the popular German children’s book classic “Der Struwwelpeter” written by Heinrich Hoffmann as a Christmas present to his son in 1845. The German psychiatrist compiled nine stories that would teach his son proper behavior by modeling mishaps, accidents, and ill will of bad children and the punishment that they will rightly receive for it. From the standpoint of critical pedagogy, I approach the power relations that are inherent in the pedagogical teachings of this book. With the help of lenses, such as feminism and post-colonialism, I look at the role

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Banerjee, Argha Kumar. "‘Forlorn on the Fringe of Life’: Exploring Working-Class Childhood in Katherine Mansfield’s Short Stories." English: Journal of the English Association, January 12, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efab022.

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Abstract In Katherine Mansfield’s short story ‘Life of Ma Parker’, the old, widowed charwoman is plagued by ‘unbearable’ thoughts of her deceased grandson Lennie: ‘Why did he have to suffer so?’ Lennie’s unfortunate death in the story is not a solitary instance of tragic portrayal of working-class childhood in Mansfield’s short fiction. In several of her tales she empathetically explores the marginalized existence of such children, occasionally juxtaposing their deplorable existence with their elite counterparts’. From social exclusion, child labour, parental rejection, infant and child mortal

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Santos, Walison Oliveira, and Yanne Maira Silva. "THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEMALE PROTAGONIST IN PI-WII, BY CYNTIA PINHEIRO." June 11, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8025682.

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<strong>ABSTRACT</strong> This intends researches to reflect on the fictional construction of the character Pi-wii, the female protagonist of the book entitled <em>Pi-wii </em>(2022), written by Cyntia Pinheiro. The book tells the story of five Cambodian children, motherless and whose parent is a cruel and violent man, capable of carrying out atrocities, torture and abuse (psychological and sexual) against his five children. Pi-wii is a child who had to assume the responsibilities of being a woman early and from a very young age began to experience extreme poverty and violence to which she was

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Busse, Kristina, and Shannon Farley. "Remixing the Remix: Fannish Appropriation and the Limits of Unauthorised Use." M/C Journal 16, no. 4 (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.659.

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In August 2006 the LiveJournal (hereafter LJ) community sga_flashfic posted its bimonthly challenge: a “Mission Report” challenge. Challenge communities are fandom-specific sites where moderators pick a theme or prompt to which writers respond and then post their specific fan works. The terms of this challenge were to encourage participants to invent a new mission and create a piece of fan fiction in the form of a mission report from the point of view of the Stargate Atlantis team of explorers. As an alternative possibility, and this is where the trouble started, the challenge also allowed to

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Leung, Colette. "Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices, ed. by L. Charleyboy & M. Leatherdale." Deakin Review of Children's Literature 6, no. 3 (2017). http://dx.doi.org/10.20361/g2j612.

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Charleyboy, Lisa, and Mary Leatherdale, editors. Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voices. Annick Press, 2016.This magazine-like anthology for young adults presents a plurality of contemporary Native American voices, using beautiful design and high quality photographic layouts. The forms of expression these voices take are varied, and include poetry, art, memoir, hip-hop lyrics, question and answer interviews, fiction pieces, and fashion photography, among others. Over fifty pieces are featured, from well-known Native American artists from across North America, such as throat si

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Alberto, Maria. "The Prosthetic Impulse Revisited in A.I. Artificial Intelligence." M/C Journal 22, no. 5 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1591.

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As a genre, science fiction deals with possible futures, imagining places and technologies that typically do not exist in audiences’ own lives. Science fiction film takes this directive a step further by creating visual representations of these futures and possibilities, presenting audiences with imagined ideas of what new technologies or unfamiliar places might look like. Thus, although any science fiction text can describe sociocultural and technological futures, science fiction film goes a step further by providing images that viewers do not have to envision for themselves. This difference

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HERTRAMPF, Marina Ortrud M. "FAIRE PARLER LES SANS-VOIX : LES SIESTES DU GRAND-PÈRE. RÉCIT D’INCESTE DE MONIA BEN JÉMIA – ENTRE EXOFICTION D’UNE INCONNUE ET TRANSBIOGRAPHIE AUTOTHÉORIQUE." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, March 25, 2025, 17–30. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2025.1.01.

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Making the Voiceless Speak: Les siestes du grand-père. Récit d’inceste by Monia Ben Jémia – between the Exofiction of an Unknown Woman and an Autotheoretical Transbiography. An explicitly fictional novel about the biography of an unknown person: can it be an exofiction, a transbiography or an autotheory all at once? The answer is clearly no. And yet, as this article shows, there are hybrid forms that oscillate between exofiction, transbiography and autotheory, especially in certain societies, with regard to particularly taboo subjects. Our example is the sexual abuse of children by family memb

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Green, Lelia, Kelly Jaunzems, and Harrison See. "Porno." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3092.

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Is what constitutes pornography in the mind of the beholder? This issue of M/C Journal sought articles on “porno”: a deliberately informal, almost friendly, playful term for a content category which evokes many complex responses. Indeed, the categories of materials deemed to be “pornographic” offer rich insights into the cultures that classify, create, and circulate the materials that key publics consume, overtly or – more commonly – covertly. The clandestine dynamic is further heightened when the people consuming and discussing such content include those who are deemed too young to do so. The

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Oravec, Jo Ann. "Promoting Honesty in Children, or Fostering Pathological Behaviour?" M/C Journal 26, no. 3 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2944.

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Introduction Many years ago, the moral fable of Pinocchio warned children about the evils of lying (Perella). This article explores how children are learning lie-related insights from genres of currently marketed polygraph-style “spy kits”, voice stress analysis apps, and electric shock-delivering games. These artifacts are emerging despite the fact that polygraphy and other lie detection approaches are restricted in use in certain business and community contexts, in part because of their dubious scientific support. However, lie detection devices are still applied in many real-life settings, o

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Brahnam, Sheryl. "The Impossibility of Collaborating with Kathy, ‘The Stupid Bitch’." M/C Journal 9, no. 2 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2605.

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Kathy works entirely online. She is an indefatigable worker and is never too engrossed with her own pursuits to deny another’s request for assistance. Her expertise is focused, and her suggestions are generally valuable. She constantly reviews her communications to search for ways of increasing her effectiveness. An analysis of her interactions, however, raises concerns. Approximately 7% of the communications Kathy receives are insulting and nearly 20% are sexual in nature (Brahnam). She is frequently called a bitch and told her ideas are stupid. Although Kathy refuses to talk about sex, her c

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Nolan, Huw, Jenny Wise, and Lesley McLean. "The Clothes Maketh the Cult." M/C Journal 26, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2971.

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Introduction Many people interpret the word ‘cult’ through specific connotations, including, but not limited to, a community of like-minded people on the edge of civilization, often led by a charismatic leader, with beliefs that are ‘other’ to societal ‘norms’. Cults are often perceived as deviant, regularly incorporating elements of crime, especially physical and sexual violence. The adoption by some cults of a special uniform or dress code has been readily picked up by popular culture and has become a key ‘defining’ characteristic of the nature of a cult. In this article, we use the semiotic

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Kelly, Elaine. "Growing Together? Land Rights and the Northern Territory Intervention." M/C Journal 13, no. 6 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.297.

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Each community’s title deed carries the indelible blood stains of our ancestors. (Watson, "Howard’s End" 2)IntroductionAccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term coalition comes from the Latin coalescere or ‘coalesce’, meaning “come or bring together to form one mass or whole”. Coalesce refers to the unity affirmed as something grows: co – “together”, alesce – “to grow up”. While coalition is commonly associated with formalised alliances and political strategy in the name of self-interest and common goals, this paper will draw as well on the broader etymological understanding of coal

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Strungaru, Simona. "The Blue Beret." M/C Journal 26, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2969.

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When we think of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers, the first image that is conjured in our mind is of an individual sporting a blue helmet or a blue beret (fig. 1). While simple and uncomplicated, these blue accessories represent an expression and an embodiment resembling that of a warrior, sent to bring peace to conflict-torn communities. UN peacekeeping first conceptually emerged in 1948 in the wake of the Arab-Israeli war that ensued following the United Kingdom’s relinquishing of its mandate over Palestine, and the proclamation of the State of Israel. “Forged in the crucible of practical d

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Staite, Sophia. "Kamen Rider." M/C Journal 24, no. 5 (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2834.

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2021 is the fiftieth anniversary year for Japanese live-action superhero franchise Kamen Rider. For half a century, heroes bearing the name Kamen Rider have battled rubber suited monsters and defended the smiles of children. Unlike many superheroes, however, the Kamen Riders are grotesque heroes, usually drawing their powers from the same source as the villains they battle. Grotesque human-machine-animal hybrids, they differ from their opponents only in the kindness of their hearts and the strength of their spirits. Although the Kamen Rider franchise includes a variety of texts including manga

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Dudek, Debra, Madalena Grobbelaar, and Elizabeth Reid Boyd. "Wondering about a Love Literacy." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3073.

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Romancing the Fantasy: #Booklove TikTok has been credited with encouraging young readers to #booklove through its BookTok community. However, the BookTok “trend for ‘spicy’ (i.e. sexy) books has led to fears children may be reading titles with adult content” (Knight). To ascertain the tenor of the adult content in these sexy books, we analyse a popular BookTok novel known for its spicy sex scenes: A Court of Mist and Fury (ACOMAF), a novel by Sarah J. Maas, the “reigning queen of romantasy” (Grady) and “mortal queen of faerie smut” (VanArendonk). Positively, Maas’s novel includes extended erot

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Joseph, Kaela, and Ruby McCoy. "Personalised Progressive Porno." M/C Journal 27, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3075.

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Introduction The year 2018 saw drastic shifts in fan spaces where fan works, such as art, fiction, and videos, were once widely, openly shared, including those containing sexually explicit content, a.k.a. porno. Major catalysts were the highly contested United States legislations Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which addressed the liability of host sites for content shared by users. Shortly after, similar legislation appeared around the world, including Australia’s Online Safety Act 2021. In response, Websites once popular with adolescent

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Mills, Brett. "Those Pig-Men Things." M/C Journal 13, no. 5 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.277.

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Since its return in 2005 the science fiction series Doctor Who (BBC1) has featured many alien creatures which bear a striking similarity to non-human Earth species: the Judoon in “Smith and Jones” (2007) have heads like rhinoceroses; the nurses in “New Earth” (2006) are cats in wimples; the Tritovores in “Planet of the Dead” (2009) are giant flies in boilersuits. Yet only one non-human animal has appeared twice in the series, in unrelated stories: the pig. Furthermore, alien races such as the Judoon and the Tritovores simply happen to look like human species, and the series offers no narrative

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Ford, Jessica. "Rebooting Roseanne: Feminist Voice across Decades." M/C Journal 21, no. 5 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1472.

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In recent years, the US television landscape has been flooded with reboots, remakes, and revivals of “classic” nineties television series, such as Full/er House (1987-1995, 2016-present), Will & Grace (1998-2006, 2017-present), Roseanne (1988-1977, 2018), and Charmed (1998-2006, 2018-present). The term “reboot” is often used as a catchall for different kinds of revivals and remakes. “Remakes” are derivations or reimaginings of known properties with new characters, cast, and stories (Loock; Lavigne). “Revivals” bring back an existing property in the form of a continuation with the same cast

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Coull, Kim. "Secret Fatalities and Liminalities: Translating the Pre-Verbal Trauma and Cellular Memory of Late Discovery Adoptee Illegitimacy." M/C Journal 17, no. 5 (2014). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.892.

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I was born illegitimate. Born on an existential precipice. My unwed mother was 36 years old when she relinquished me. I was the fourth baby she was required to give away. After I emerged blood stained and blue tinged – abject, liminal – not only did the nurses refuse me my mother’s touch, I also lost the sound of her voice. Her smell. Her heart beat. Her taste. Her gaze. The silence was multi-sensory. When they told her I was dead, I also lost, within her memory and imagination, my life. I was adopted soon after but not told for over four decades. It was too shameful for even me to know. Impri

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Molnar, Tamas. "Spectre of the Past, Vision of the Future – Ritual, Reflexivity and the Hope for Renewal in Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s Climate Change Communication Film "Home"." M/C Journal 15, no. 3 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.496.

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About half way through Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film Home (2009) the narrator describes the fall of the Rapa Nui, the indigenous people of the Easter Islands. The narrator posits that the Rapa Nui culture collapsed due to extensive environmental degradation brought about by large-scale deforestation. The Rapa Nui cut down their massive native forests to clear spaces for agriculture, to heat their dwellings, to build canoes and, most importantly, to move their enormous rock sculptures—the Moai. The disappearance of their forests led to island-wide soil erosion and the gradual disappearance of ara

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Munster, Anna. "Love Machines." M/C Journal 2, no. 6 (1999). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1780.

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A new device, sure to inspire technological bedazzlement, has been installed in Hong Kong shopping malls. Called simply The Love Machine, it functions like a photo booth, dispensing on-the-spot portraits1. But rather than one subject, it requires a couple, in fact the couple, in order to do its work of digital reproduction. For the output of this imaging machine is none other than a picture of the combined features of the two sitters, 'morphed' together by computer software to produce a technological child. Its Japanese manufacturers, while obviously cashing in on the novelty value, neverthele

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Gerrand, Vivian, Kim Lam, Liam Magee, Pam Nilan, Hiruni Walimunige, and David Cao. "What Got You through Lockdown?" M/C Journal 26, no. 4 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2991.

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Introduction While individuals from marginalised and vulnerable communities have long been confronted with the task of developing coping strategies, COVID-19 lockdowns intensified the conditions under which resilience and wellbeing were/are negotiated, not only for marginalised communities but for people from all walks of life. In particular, the pandemic has highlighted in simple terms the stark divide between the “haves” and “have nots”, and how pre-existing physical conditions and material resources (or lack thereof), including adequate income, living circumstances, and access to digital an

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