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Traversing the Temporal Borderlands of Shakespeare 穿越莎士比亚时代的边界

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0028

Ruben W. Espinosa

引用次数: 1

Coloring the Past, Considerations on Our Future: RaceB4Race 涂色过去，思考我们的未来:种族

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0018

Margo Hendricks

引用次数: 5

Making Race in the Early Modern East Indies 近代早期东印度群岛的种族

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0024

S. Ng

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引用次数: 1

Historiography, Periodization, and Race: Italy between Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Europe and Africa 史学、分期与种族：古代与中世纪之间的意大利、欧洲与非洲

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0022

Nicole Lopez‐Jantzen

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引用次数: 1

A Wrinkle in Medieval Time: Ironing out Issues Regarding Race, Temporality, and the Early English 《中世纪的皱纹:消除种族、时间性和早期英语的问题》

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0019

M. Rambaran-Olm

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引用次数: 7

Race and Periodization: Introduction 种族与分期：简介

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0017

Urvashi Chakravarty, Ayanna Thompson

引用次数: 3

Ill-Will as Racialized Affect: Early Modern Volition, Critical Race Theory, and Shakespearean Ill-Will 作为种族化情感的恶意：早期现代自愿、批判种族理论和莎士比亚的恶意

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2021.0026

Carol Mejia Laperle

引用次数: 0

Recovering Franz Kafka's Asbestos Factory 恢复Franz Kafka的石棉工厂

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2022.0002

Arthur Rose

引用次数: 0

Postcritique and the Problem of the Lay Reader 后批判与外行读者的问题

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2022.0006

Tobias Skiveren

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引用次数: 3

Intricate Intimacies: Reading the Transatlantic Queer in Dinaw Mengestu's All Our Names 错综复杂的亲密关系:读迪诺·门格斯图的《我们所有的名字》中的跨大西洋同性恋

IF 0.9 2区文学

New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2022.0003

Cajetan Iheka

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引用次数: 1