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World History and Global Studies
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- “Politics, Protests, and Popular Culture: The Global Legacy of Akira Toriyama and His Dragon Ball”
- “Underprepared but Overperformed: Explaining the Enigma in Study Abroad”
- Review of Chasing Greatness by Anatoly Reshetnikov
- Review of Black Sun by Julia Kristeva
- The Clash of Trade Ideologies: Revisiting the Battle of Liaoluo Bay through the Lens of Hans Putmans’ Interpretation of Vrijen Handel and the Ming Tributary System
- Pursuing the Global in a Local Setting: Particularistic Silences in the Teaching, Deconstructing, Researching, and Writing of Asian History
- South Asian Migration and Colonial Records: Some Challenges in Reconstructing the Bengali Historical Migration
- The First and Second Taiwan Strait Crises in Cold-War Asia: An Overview
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Ambivalent Encounters: Childhood, Tourism, and Social Change in Banaras, India. Jenny Huberman. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780813554068 BabicAmbiReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: NSR concludes its 2015-2016 publication schedule. A Keynote Address and Reflections – by Professor Hong-Ming Liang, NSR editors Bryce Gadke and Sara Tomlinson. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports [The North Star Reports global areas of…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Norway – More From Two: Observations of Politics – by Jonia Gordon. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports Editor’s Note: this is a part of a special series from Jonia Gordon, a talented student who is…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Iron Range, Minnesota – Home on the Range – by Molly Enich. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports [First picture: Chisholm High School, built 1912] “Cabin country” is what people from the Twin Cities refer to…
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Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. Gary Wilder. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780822358503 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History SedaFreedomReviews Spring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: “Brain Travel” – by Matthew Breeze. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports Over spring break I had the pleasure of going home and relaxing with friends and family. I thoroughly enjoyed the time and the relaxation…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Monte Gordo, Portugal – Fresh Sea Food – by Catherine Kolar. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports It was late February and even though classes had only started a week or so earlier I was ready…
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Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. Kathleen Du Val. New York: Random House, 2015. ISBN: 9781400068951 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History. HerbertIndepReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The Middle Ground…
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Cosmopolitan Africa: 1700–1875. Trevor R. Getz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199764709 UtietiangCosmoReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Macau, China – Portuguese in China (and the World)? The Lusophonia Festival in Macau – by Marin Ekstrom. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports [A Brazilian mannequin dressed similarly to national icon Carmen Miranda] [The brightly…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: New Zealand – Permaculture and the Environment – by Delaney Babich. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports One of the most intriguing lessons I learned while studying abroad was the idea of permaculture, and its impressive…
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Empire’s Children: Child Emigration, Welfare, and the Decline of the British World, 1869-1967. Ellen Boucher. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781107041387 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History HenryEmpireReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016…
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Teaching Africa: A Guide for the 21st-Century Classroom. Brandon D. Lundy and Solomon Negash. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780253008213 FlemingTeachingReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Norway – The Bergen Trip – by Jonia Gordon. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports Editor’s Note: this is a part of a special series from Jonia Gordon, a talented student who is studying in Oslo,…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Cyprus – Reflections – by Samuel Bunting. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports I will be the first person to admit that going abroad was something that never appealed to me. Sure, I had listened to…
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Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510. Kim M. Phillips. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. ISBN: 9780812245486 DoaneBeforeReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Colonial Africa, 1884–1994. Dennis Laumann. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9780199796397 MooreColonialReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: The Matriarch and Traditions, Death and Change – by Cheyenne S. Lemm. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports (A four generation picture. [left to right] My grandma holding my niece, my mom, and my sister.) Like…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – “The Native Speaker” – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports I will be leaving my university before the end of the Fulbright grant…
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Industrial Eden: A Chinese Capitalist Vision. Brett Sheehan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674967601 This essay is a part of our series, Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History BecklinIndustrialReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ann Waltner (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org…
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Ongoing Forum: Using Book Reviews as a Teaching Tool – University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Department of History, History 8015 – Scope and Methods of Historical Studies Professor Ann Waltner (with input from students in History 8015, University of Minnesota, fall 2015) The book reviews which follow are the first installment of a series…
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Abstract: How can world historians take advantage of interdisciplinary general education requirements to introduce new students to the methods and uses of history? When survey courses are not institutionalized, specialized courses that draw on individual faculty members’ expertise and fit into general education curricular niches may be the best option. This essay describes my efforts…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Tanzania – Service Learning – by Paul Schulzetenberg. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports Editor’s Note: Many thanks to photographer Adam Bridge for the permission to use his photos for photos # 1 and 4. That…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – Trash Collection – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports When our cleaning lady decided to take a week off after Christmas, I and…
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Gourmets in the Land of Famine: The Culture and Politics of Rice in Modern Canton. Seung-Joon Lee. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780804772266 KumarGourmetReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Jill Gaeta (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Museums, Monuments, and National Parks: Towards a New Genealogy of Public History. Denise D. Meringolo. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. ISBN: 978558499409 HeidbrinkMuseumsReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Island Queens and Mission Wives: How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai’i’s Pacific World. Jennifer Thigpen. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781469614298 SkilesIslandReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era Through World War II. Elliot Young. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN: 978146912966 WendlandAlienReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – “It’s Not Bad, It’s Just Different …” – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports I work with another organization that pairs individuals that…
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The Ancient Asheville Project: Making Ancient and Medieval World History More Meaningful Abstract: This essay introduces an assignment that leverages the local community and the interests of students to make learning about ancient and medieval world history more meaningful and engaging and helps students to better grasp the commonalities and differences between the ancient or…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Norway – Oslo to Bergen: A Train Ride – by Jonia Gordon. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports Editor’s Note: this is a part of a special series from Jonia Gordon, a talented student who is…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – The carnival of Pasto – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports (Most floats are incredibly tall and detailed like this one. They may…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: The Foods of Costa Rica & Nicaragua- by Mackenzie Sherrill. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports After traveling this past summer to both Costa Rica and Nicaragua for a medical service trip, one aspect of the…
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Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love. Simon Blackburn. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press. 2014. ISBN: 9780691161426 This essay is a part of our series, Philosophy and the World SusztakMirrorReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – Health Deliveries – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports In terms of health, my term in Colombia has been horribly unsuccessful. In the…
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Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice. Carol C. Gould. Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN: 1107607418 This essay is a part of our series, Philosophy and the World PilchmanInteractiveReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Ashley Dressel (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access…
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The Middle Ground Journal Ongoing Forum on: Philosophy and the World Editors: Dr. Ashley Dressel and Dr. Hong-Ming Liang The Middle Ground Journal welcomes philosophical work on topics that may be of interest to both philosophers and to those working in the areas of world history and global studies. Such work includes, but is not…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Learning Through Song – by Tayler Boelk. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports [Source of image, see: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Fitzgerald,_1971,_3_of_4_(restored).jpg] Everything I learned about the Edmund Fitzgerald, a famous Great Lakes shipwreck, I learned through song. I can…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Minnesota, USA – The Magic Bus, Family and World History – by Marin Ekstrom. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports The Ekstrom family has always been a bit of an anachronistic bunch. For example, my father…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – The Perception of Backpackers – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports I’ll admit it. When I was in high school I often dreamed…
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Spying in America: Espionage from the Revolutionary War to the Dawn of the Cold War. Michael J. Sulick. Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2012. ISBN: 9781589019263 SchmollSpyingReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal.org Edited by Karen Rosenflanz (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Food, Global Connections, Family History – by Nick Lozinski. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports Living in the Twin Cities offers a wide variety of different opportunities. There are several colleges and universities to further your…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: US Thanksgiving and Family History – by Carley Nadeau. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports First came Joseph Nadeau, then Napoleon, Fredrick, Clayton, Craig and lastly me, Carley. Joseph was the first of our family to…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – Air Travel in Colombia – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports Colombia isn’t a big country. About 1.15 km2. For comparison (because that…
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British Children’s Literature on Crimean War: Alfred Henty’s Jack Archer: History of Crimea This essay is a part of our series, Literature and the World In this article the author analyses G. A. Henty’s Jack Archer: History of Crimea (1883) not only as one of the few British novels directly using the ‘Crimean’ storyline, but…
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Heroism and Gender in War Films. Edited by Karen A. Ritzenhoff, Jakub Kazecki. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. ISBN: 9781137364531 ByabarttaHeroismReviewsSpring2016themiddlegroundjournal Edited by Martin Pflug (c) 2016 The Middle Ground Journal, Number 12, Spring, 2016. http://TheMiddleGroundJournal.org See Submission Guidelines page for the journal’s not-for-profit educational open-access policy.
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: Studying in Washington, D.C., USA – by Ana María Camelo Vega. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports People say life is a book. Every step you take becomes a word, a sentence, or even a paragraph…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: U.S. Mexican Border – Asylum Seekers and Legal Aid – by Kathryn Marquis Hirsch. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports [Photo 1: The border fence between Brownsville, Texas, USA and Matamoros, Mexico. It’s very tall and…
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Originally posted on The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy: A Fulbright Teacher in Bogota, Colombia, A Special Series – Amazonas: The Open Border – by Laura Blasena. The North Star Reports: Global Citizenship and Digital Literacy, at NorthStarReports.org and facebook.com/NorthStarReports (Capybara in Spanish is chiguiro. The nature reserve threw their food waste…
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Child Soldiers Revisited: Conscription and Choice in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun This essay is a part of our series, Literature and the World Child soldier peripheralization in the Global South is explored though the narrative devices of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and Ken…
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