These characters and interpretations provide an interesting level of historical queer representation on a larger scale, whether or not they are actually queer.
Each author’s language “is sent, failing, on a wandering journey of endless mediation,” unable to cement and bring home a fixed meaning, leaving their works at the meeting point of music and language.
How do we reconcile our present identity with continuous movement of time, the incessant production of personal history? How do medium and genre modulate the expressions of this existential quandary?
In this paper, I will use modern-day settler-colonial nations of Liberia and occupied Palestine (Israel) to expose the underpinnings and strategies of environmental destruction that further the accumulation of empire.
”In search of a bride for their son, elderly women “sometimes look for tall, blonde and white women. You find this not only in Jordan, but also in Syria and in Iraq,” Hijazi says.