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The Girls Are Alright: Examining Protective Factors of US Black Culture and Its Impact on the Resilience of Black Girls and Women 《女孩们都很好:美国黑人文化的保护因素及其对黑人女孩和妇女适应力的影响

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0148

Bennefield Zinobia, Jackson Taylor

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Topoanalysis and the City Space in the Literary Writings of Amitava Kumar 地形分析与库马尔文学作品中的城市空间

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0143

A. Anand, P. Tripathi

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Mental Health Strategies Informed by Black Feminist Thought 黑人女性主义思想影响下的心理健康策略

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0151

V. N. Oliphant, Deja Broyles, Déjà N. Clement, LaRicka R Wingate

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Black Feminist Organizing and Caribbean Cyberfeminisms in Puerto Rico 波多黎各的黑人女权主义组织和加勒比网络女权主义

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0149

M. Stephens

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The Plural/Singular in Pierre Huyghe’s Interventions in the 1990s 20世纪90年代皮埃尔·于格《干预》中的复数/单数

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0161

Kamil Lipiński

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The Potentials and Occlusions of Zhonghua Minguo/Taiwan: In Search of a Left Nationalism in the Tsai Ing-wen Era 中华民国/台湾的潜在与闭塞：寻找蔡英文时代的左民族主义

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2020-0131

Mark McConaghy

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Posthumanist Cultural Studies: Taking the Nonhuman Seriously 后人类主义文化研究:认真对待非人类

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2020-0138

Florian Cord

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Erotizing Nabokov’s Lolita in Arabic: How Translation Strategies Shift Themes and Characterization of Literary Works 用阿拉伯语侵蚀纳博科夫的《洛丽塔》：翻译策略如何转换文学作品的主题和特征

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0163

Bassam Al Saideen, Ahmad S. Haider, Linda S. Al-Abbas

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Painting, Interpretation, Education: Tables of Knowledge in the Imagines of Philostratus the Athenian 绘画、阐释、教育：雅典人斐洛斯特拉图斯想象中的知识表

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0158

Jørgen Bakke

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Fansubbers’ Subtitling Strategies of Swear Words from English into Arabic in the Bad Boys Movies 《坏男孩》电影中范苏伯脏话英译阿拉伯语的字幕策略

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Open Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1515/culture-2022-0156

Omair Al-Zgoul, S. Al-Salman

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