ABSTRACT ‘Black hole’ is a metaphor used to describe a particular area of space. The purpose of this article is[…]
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BIRDS OF PREY (CREATIVE AND CRITICAL PIECE)
ABSTRACT ‘Birds of Prey’ is a long form poem that experiments with time-space compression and hybridization; its chronology and sense[…]
Read moreSECRETS, LIES AND UNRELIABLE NARRATION IN FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT’S THE SECRET GARDEN AND ALEXIA CASALE’S THE BONE DRAGON
ABSTRACT Secrets and lies are a reoccurring motif within children’s and young adult literature. Indeed, psychology considers the keeping and[…]
Read moreMASCULINITY AND COLONIALISM IN IRVINE WELSH’S MARABOU STORK NIGHTMARES
ABSTRACT The fiction of Irvine Welsh is perhaps renowned for its exploration of ideological constructs pertaining to working class culture[…]
Read more‘LOVE WILL SET YOU FREE’: ROMEO AND JULIET AND BADIOU
ABSTRACT This essay consists of a reading of Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, using French philosopher Alain Badiou’s ‘Theory of the Subject’[…]
Read moreRUMI AND SUFISM’S PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE
ABSTRACT Thomas Aquinas, the Western contemporary of Persian mystic and poet, Rumi, identified Divine love as the medium through which[…]
Read moreSAINT IRENAEUS AND CONFLICTING DOCTRINES OF DAMNATION
ABSTRACT This essay considers the contradicting doctrines of salvation posited by two of the early Church Fathers of the Christian[…]
Read moreFICTION WITH FRICTION: UNRELIABLE NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY?
ABSTRACT Storytelling and oral history are important and preserved aspects of the African identity. But restrictions and language barriers placed[…]
Read moreMEMORIALISATION AND REPRESSING THE MEMORY OF SLAVERY IN BERMUDA
ABSTRACT This paper is the result of three months research in Bermuda on the history, the memorialisation, and the lack[…]
Read moreDESPITE AN INTERNATIONAL BAN IN 1989, THE ILLEGAL TRADE IN ELEPHANT IVORY CONTINUES. CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO PREVENT IT?
ABSTRACT Trade in ivory has been occurring for centuries, but only recently have we noticed that the population of elephants[…]
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