In this article, Mary Amanda Stewart reflects on how classroom activities centred around the refugee experience informed her teaching of refugee students during an English language summer literacy program. Stewart…
This blog entry by Philip V. Bohlman discusses the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. Bohlman begins by discussing how ‘Stefania’, the song entered for the competition by…
In this short piece, Buthpitiya is introducing an extremely interesting nuance in Conflict Resolution. There is a tendency for people to think that peace automatically has positive meanings and implications. In the…
This entry to the library from The New Yorker is a collection of three short works of fiction by the South American author Jorge Luis Borges, with the first two particularly relevant as examples of ‘peace literature’:…
This entry to the library contains a translation into English of Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982. As a globally renowned Colombian author, most well-known for his…
‘‘History, Myth and Archetype in Borges’s View of Argentina” is an article written by R. K Britton and published in The Modern Language Review on the work of the highly renowned Argentinian author of the 20th century,…
‘Novel Truths: Literature and Truth Commissions’ is an article that was written by Paul Gready and published by Penn State University Press in Comparative Literature Studies. Within it, Gready examines the relationship…
The article begins by setting out the context of Northern Ireland following the Good Friday Agreement, arguing that the region had experienced a top-down peace process conducted primarily at the level of state…
This article discusses the character Beth March in Louisa May Alcott’s novel Little Women as well as Alcott’s sister, on whom Beth is based. It highlights the contrast between the events of the novel–Beth’s quiet…
This article is a personal essay on the power of storytelling in the face of violence, conflict, and grief. Author John Crowley, who is both an academic and a fiction author, specifically examines fantasy and escapism,…