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Humanities, Volume 11, Issue 2

April 2022 - 28 articles

Cover Story: That the past is certain, the future an illusion is the premise of Miguel Rojas-Sotelo’s article “NO FUTURE: The Colonial Gaze, Tales of Return in Recent Latin American Film.” The text looks into recent films, such as Ivy Maraey: land without evil (2013), Embrace of the Serpent (2015), The Fever (2020), and Bacurau (2020), as border films, from the genre of contact films. Built on the tradition of tercer-cine and afrofuturism, they announce particular indigenous and mestizo visions. The text also introduces a critical perspective on cinema as a colonial tool, producing forms of capture as part of the modern archive. These films present forms of adaptation, reaction, return, and redemption while maintaining the status of cinema as a capturing device, entertainment, and capital investment, the triad of destruction in modernity/coloniality. View this paper
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Articles (28)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,173 Views
13 Pages

15 April 2022

The future is not what it used to be. A new strain of futurism has taken over the stage of global science-fiction: one whose understanding of the future cannot be distinguished from its understanding of the present. Gone are the days when extraterres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,623 Views
16 Pages

14 April 2022

Critics agree that Sarah Waters’ fourth novel, The Night Watch (2006), marks a turn in her fiction, away from the farcical tone of her first three neo-Victorian novels and towards an ever-more serious concern with the changes in class structure...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3,303 Views
14 Pages

14 April 2022

Since the Green Revolution, the development of agriculture has been measured by the relation between the chemical input (fertilizers and pesticides) and yield. Other factors, such as deforestation, water pollution, biodiversity loss and the loss of h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,354 Views
13 Pages

7 April 2022

In Brazil, since the early 2000s, different documentaries have raised awareness about the problematic issues that tree plantations, especially eucalyptus, provoke, as they are propagated across the country. By means of interviews and a mix of investi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,469 Views
14 Pages

7 April 2022

Reflecting John D. Niles’ recent codicological reading of the Exeter Book, this essay advances a comparative reading of the three manuscripts containing Old English Solomon and Saturn dialogues. These manuscripts attest that the Solomon and Sat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,369 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2022

This essay examines three films that express a particular affinity with fire: Ircaema: Uma Transa Amazônica (1974), O que arde (2019) and Huachicolero (2019). While focusing on disparate socio-political settings, all three share an improvised,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,889 Views
21 Pages

6 April 2022

In northeastern Brazil, a region with extreme droughts and the smallest rainfall index in the whole country, water sources are crucial to ensure the survival of humans and nonhumans in this semi-arid region, known as sertão nordestino. Since t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,734 Views
15 Pages

5 April 2022

The relationship between women and classical antiquity, its texts, artefacts, and study, has been fraught to say the least; the discipline of Classics has often been defined by the exclusion of women, in terms of their education and their ability to...

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Humanities - ISSN 2076-0787