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Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs (2017)
Journal Article
Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs. C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings, 5(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.14

This paper considers the visions of Scottish identity projected in twenty-first century, post-devolution Scots literature, and seeks to read them against Paul Gilroy’s Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) which examines the protean identities of post-impe... Read More about Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs.

The year of the penguin (2017)
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Bekerman, M. (2017). The year of the penguin

A reflection on the global political trends and aspects of discrimination in the current climate or right-wing tendencies and isolationism in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk) (2017)
Journal Article
Loubser, J. (2017). Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk). Journal of World Popular Music, 3(2), 289-295. https://doi.org/10.1558/jwpm.v3i2.28305

When the first edition of Christopher Ballantine’s Marabi Nights appeared in 1993, I was delighted. As a young musician at the time, this book, along with David Coplan’s In Township Tonight! South Africa’s Black City Music and Theatre (1985) and Veit... Read More about Book review: Christopher Ballantine. 2012. Marabi Nights: Jazz, ‘Race’ and Society in Early Apartheid South Africa, 2nd edn. Scottsville: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 280pp. ISBN 978-1869142377 (pbk).

The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe (2017)
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Bichet, M. (2017). The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe

The present paper explores the way intertextuality is dealt with in the latest English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949). Intertextuality was described by Genette as a ‘piège à traducteurs’ (1982: 295-6), or as “a trap for t... Read More about The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe.

Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960 (2017)
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Barnett, N., & Smith, E. (2017). Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960. Labour History Review, 82(1), 51-76. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2017.3

This article is concerned with different factions within the British peace movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, each of which gave the word ‘peace’ a different meaning. We argue that the movement was made up of several, often contradictory sect... Read More about Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960.

Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions (2017)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2017). Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions. Renewal, 25(3-4),

Theresa May has sought to construct a distinctive social policy offering during her time as Prime Minister, but remains stymied by a toxic combination of triangulation and austerity. Labour must demonstrate the vacuity and incoherence at the heart of... Read More about Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions.