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Bardem in Bond

Posted on December 3, 2012

Joint Blog Post with Fiona Noble Shadows and Mirrors: Otherness and Stardom in Skyfall *Spoiler alert   In his seminal work Orientalism, Edward Saïd exposes the constructedness and mutual dependence of the categories of the West and the Orient.  His claim is as follows: as much as the West itself, the Orient is an idea…

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Juárez: A dangerous place to be a woman

Posted on March 23, 2012

Sam Hawken The Dead Women of Juárez London: Serpent’s Tail, 2011. *This contains some spoilers* If you want a review without spoilers see, Mrs Peabody’s excellent blogpost: http://mrspeabodyinvestigates.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/17-sam-hawken-the-dead-women-of-juarez/ According to the attorney general’s office in Mexico the number of femicides in Juarez are the following: 18 in 1993; 19 in 1994; 36 in 1995; 37 in…

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How to tame terror or, can you love war?

Posted on January 6, 2012

El Salvador is not one of my areas of specialisation.  It is not a country that has received much attention outside of the field of post-conflict, trauma specialists, and those interested in the US sphere of interest, on the one hand, and literature, in particular those interested in the work of the poet and Revolutionary…

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