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This paper analyzes anti-corruption research and the body of knowledge produced by researchers in Southeast Europe (SEE). It compares it to the extant global anti-corruption literature. We consider all available scientific outputs from the SEE region, indexed by the Elsevier Scopus bibliometric database, and employ the Elsevier SciVal software solution to analyze the productivity and impact of the regional anti-corruption research. We also consider the influence of international cooperation on regional scientific productivity and its impact. The bibliometric comparison of the global and regional research and the authors’ qualitative assessment of these differences are performed. We also identify the implications and future research priorities.

This paper analyzes anti-corruption research and the body of knowledge produced by researchers in Southeast Europe (SEE). It compares it to the extant global anti-corruption literature. We consider all available scientific outputs from the SEE region, indexed by the Elsevier Scopus bibliometric database, and employ the Elsevier SciVal software solution to analyze the productivity and impact of the regional anti-corruption research. We also consider the influence of international cooperation on regional scientific productivity and its impact. The bibliometric comparison of the global and regional research and the authors' qualitative assessment of these differences are performed. We also identify the implications and future research priorities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the emotional integration of the Indian population into a unified national identity due to Gandhi's Swaraj initiative. It examines the emergence of national consciousness in Odisha, focusing on the cultural and linguistic moorings of the people. The paper highlights the resilience of local identities within a national narrative, highlighting the catalytic impact of Gandhi's emotive rhetoric. It highlights the evolution of a sense of nationhood amidst colonialism challenges and the resilience of local identities within a national narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Region of Warmia and its capital city, Olsztyn, are examples of borderland that is referred to as an «interrupted country». The present study analyzes children’s books about Olsztyn that were published after 1989. The aim of the analysis was to identify the elements of regional cultural heritage in the evaluated books, the meanings assigned to the discussed locations, and the associated cultural heritage concepts. The study combines a functional approach to literary criticism with a pedagogical approach that makes a reference to place-based education. Despite the fact that the analyzed books contain numerous examples of Olsztyn’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage, they do not examine issues of multiculturality which are clearly present in the local landscape. Therefore the analyzed books play an important role in shaping children’s perceptions of Warmia. The very idea of presenting Olsztyn in children’s books seems commendable, but the manner in which the city’s cultural heritage is depicted does not do justice to the «interrupted country». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author strives for the (theoretically substantiated) conceptualization of the German literature of the Bohemian Lands (and Prague). The analysis of Eduard Goldstücker’s unsuccessful attempts to classify them as a national literature demonstrates that this does not lead to any results. But the concept of ‚minor literatures‘ by Gilles eleuze and Félix Guattari also offers no basis. Johannes rzidil’s diagnosis of ‚Hinternationalität‘, which is entirely compatible with the concept of regionality, seems more suitable. In principle, however, nothing is gained by understanding the German literature from the Bohemian countries as ‚regional literature‘. It is necessary to show in detail how the various ethnic groups in Bohemia differentiate themselves from one another, interact, and coexist with each other. This can only be achieved with an open concept of the region – such as the concept of ‚soft spaces‘ with ‚fuzzy boundaries‘ that has become established in human geography. Finally, it must be demonstrated in which acts of communication a phenomenon such as the literature of the Bohemian Lands has been established – only in case that such communication can also be demonstrated between the ‚Germans‘ and the Czechs we can speak of an intercultural region with reference to literature. The concept of the border is to be transcended by the concept of a horizon, in which it is not assumed that units are juxtaposed and thus demarcated from one another, and the production of which must always be proven anew in detail. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay argues that English departments in India have had two advantages that their counterparts in the west lack. First, the ability to speak and write correctly in English is understood as a social and professional resource and this prompts large numbers of college students to opt for an English major. Second, English literature has unfolded, historically among several highly developed literatures in our regional languages and this, in conjuction with post‐colonial theory, has opened up vast new fields of research for English professors in India. Improved salaries and research facilities after the mid‐eighties began attracting excellent faculty to our best English departments and, by the end of the twentieth century, some of these were poised to compete with the best departments of the world. Despite this, Indian universities are perenially plagued by political interference and corruption and this has made it impossible for several excellent departments and indeed entire universities to sustain excellence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Regional literature, specifically eye dialect, is conspicuously missing from language classrooms due to its non-normative orthography. Even native speakers of the language struggle with unconventional spellings as dictionaries become useless tools. Moreover, most readers lack intuition regarding regional speech phenomena or its orthographic representations. While we are all speakers of a dialect, many are only familiar with their regional variety. Salvadoran regional literature may feature “pue” instead of “pues”, “pos” in Mexican literature, and “po” in Chilean literature. All examples divert from the normative “pues” despite sharing the same contextual cues. In regional representations, “fue” is written as “jue” to convey the [ˈxwe] pronunciation of the word. These regional texts, like those written by Salvadoran author Salarrué, are extraordinarily interesting because they capture graphically the phonetic phenomena characteristic of languages in contact and/or dialectal variations such as elisions and aspirations, among others. In a study conducted by the researcher, it was found that heritage speakers of Spanish possess a unique background knowledge compared to native and non-native speakers. Along with linguistic decoding strategies, this proved to be beneficial for them when reading and understanding “Semos malos”. Heritage students (Group C) were able to ‘evaluate’ many types of ‘candidates’ and were well-equipped to understand global phonetic phenomena as portrayed in regional literature from other areas.

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Modernism and modernist tendencies in the creative activity of local authors is one of the understudied areas in the Urals literature history at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Modernism is considered to be an insignificant literary movement in the Urals literature. However, detailed attention to his most active supporters among poets, writers, journalists and critics proves the opposite. This article is devoted to the creative heritage, artistic and aesthetic views and literary contacts of the famous Ural publicist, critic and ture of the early 20th century is determined. Special attention is paid to his understanding of symbolism in relation to the paradigm of the realism of the “populists” (narodniks), actively criticized in his articles. The author argues that Vinogradov’s symbolism did not have a philosophical and aesthetic foundation but stemmed from the same tasks of education and “sociality” that had become entrenched in regional literature. Particular attention is paid to Vinogradov’s relationship with his contemporaries, in particular with F. Sologub whose works became a guiding star for him. For the first time, the appendix to the article contains the full text of Vinogradov’s letter to Sologub dated October 27, 1916 (their personal acquaintance took place during Sologub’s tour of the Urals in 1916). This letter is a proof of the difficult conditions in which modernism developed in the Urals. At the same time it was often newspapers that, criticizing modernism, had assumed upon themselves the function of translating “public opinion”, while interests in it among the readers was strong and stable until the end of the Civil War. Vinogradov’s heritage, the number of publications of his articles and decadence feuilletons (or prose miniatures) in Ekaterinburg newspapers and magazines, their ideological, thematic, plot-driven and imagery homogeneity are proofs that modernism is an underestimated movement in the Urals literature. Vinogradov’s literary and critical work is one of the cases of a bold, self-sufficient, erudite statement by a writer, poet and symbolist critic who grew out of the left-democratic core of regional newspaper literature.

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What would it mean for the politically-dominant parties in a colonial or semi-colonial context to produce a minor literature? Is it even possible? This article seeks to address these questions in the context of Japanese-language literature in Manchuria and Manchukuo by introducing and analyzing the Manchuria-period writing of Takagi Kyōzō (1903-1987), focusing on his short story Fūjin (Dust in the wind), and by bringing to light the literary and political complexities associated with his self-perceived "minority." The article provides essential background to both Takagi as an individual and the Japanese-language Manchurian literary community in general, including a variety of earlier approaches to Japanese-language Manchurian literature. After establishing Takagi's literary upbringing by Fukushi Kōjirō (1889-1946) and the regionalism (chihōshugi) and "dialect poetry" (hōgenshi) movements of the 1920s and 30s, the article uses close reading of his literary and autobiographical work to argue that--despite his position of privilege on the continent as an ethnic Japanese national--Takagi both lacked agency as a historical subject and was well aware of his resulting complicated status in Manchuria. He demonstrated this understanding through the deployment of plant, animal, and other natural images, often literally de-humanizing his Japanese protagonists by reforming them into aspects of the continental landscape. The article concludes by gesturing toward resonances between Takagi's writing and the place of his Japanese contemporaries in Manchuria, as well as his representation of non-Japanese subjects in his writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the analysis of the ideas of Aladár Kuncz, a writer, literary critic and editor who defined Transylvanian Hungarian literature after 1918 in a European context. The concept of Transylvanism is discussed through the debates of the interwar period, and is situated within the context of Hungarian literary modernism. In the light of the Transylvanian literary ideas of the 1920s and 1930s, minority / regional literatures would have been directly related to a new concept of European and world literature beyond national literatures, along a line of thought that acknowledged the deterministic character of regionalism, and prioritized it also at the level of cultural memory, considering it to be primary over linguistic, national, and the changing geographical boundaries. These endeavours sought to revive an emphatic idea of Central Europe with its strict ideals of quality besides strong local, decentralized, yet transnational aspirations, while making them compatible with the preservation of linguistic and cultural ties with the three traditional Transylvanian nations. The article also discusses the reasons why, in the midst of the 1930s, facing political restrictions, the literary form of Transylvanism became outdated in the eye of the younger generations of the Hungarian community.

Much academic literature has reflected upon the powerful capacities of culture in the construction of collectivities, the crucial role of the Other in any process of identity making, and the mutually constitutive character of the national and the international. All three aspects explain the fact that foreign cultural policy is often part and parcel of the consolidation of modern nations. Within this general framework, this article focuses on the strategies of cultural diplomacy conducted by peripheral collectivities. Specifically, this article links a focus on the peripheries with cultural diplomacy through the notion of invisibility and then exemplifies it through two Catalan historical projects spearheaded by Joan Estelrich: the foundation of Oficina d'Expansió Catalana, the first institution created to promote Catalan culture abroad, and the struggle to grant representation to Catalan culture at the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, a key body in the institutionalization of international cultural relations in the interwar period. Through the focus on Catalan cultural diplomacy, the place of peripheries in cultural institutions or organizations is problematized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an experimental model (prototype) of an electronic textbook for studying a narrative plot, based on the six-year-long wintering of the Pomors in the Arctic in the 18th century. The article describes the main stages of making a multimedia textbook. The article provides guidelines for selecting sources, dividing the material into sections, developing the textbook structure, implementing it in an electronic form, and making the best use of multimedia capabilities. A multimedia textbook can offer clarity of presentation, quick feedback and the flexibility to adjust it regularly as new information becomes available. The article describes the sections of the multimedia textbook, gives examples of tasks, explains the practical relevance of studying the ‘Arctic Robinsonade’ plot and proves the effectiveness of using a multimedia educational resource for distance learning on literature. The product developed may be used at schools and universities for mass study and testing, and self-study.

The discourses on 20th century Eastern European regional literatures are predominantly determined by the use of terminology and interrelationships of national and ethnic literatures, which originated in social and state organizational embeddedness. Besides, the majority–minority relation is significantly present in the discourse on these literatures, with this relation representing a – sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit – approach of colonization. If ethnic (or minority) literatures are not only examined as opposed to national (or majority) literatures, it might occur that ethnic literatures themselves often resorted to practices of colonization when describing the literary context. This paper aims at examining the processes of literary history writing of German and Hungarian literatures from Romania, and by looking at them from a transnational perspective, identifying the in-between space where the mutually oppressive spatial practices are eliminated.

This article discusses Mexican literary interventions on the Mexican-US-border, during the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century. Linked to the question what qualifies today’s literature written in the border region on the border as subject matter, it revisits the depiction of transfronterizo culture and borderlands in three novels written by Mexican authors of two generations: Luis Humberto Crostwaite’s La luna siempre será un amor difícil (1994), Heriberto Yépez’ A.B.U.R.T.O. (2005) and Yuri Herrera’s Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (2009). The article starts with a short introduction into the literature of the northern border, sketching out the determining views on the border/different approaches to the border space – Chicana/o views and the counter move/reaction from the Mexican side. In this discussion, Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera plays a crucial role. Anzaldúa’s border thinking captured the dynamics at the border and of the border connected to the embodied, lived experience (history, indigenous presence, sexuality), the act of remembering/recordar /remembrar the manifold affiliations through the flesh. Although Gloria Anzaldúa’s text is not at the forefront of the analysis, it has aesthetic and conceptual repercussions in all three novels.

This essay outlines a theoretical and conceptual framework to propose a counter-canon that allows us to situate some authors and works that document the possibility of identifying a maritime port chronotope in Chilean literature. This view is situated in the paradigm of the radical Enlightenment, articulated from a transoceanic and geophilosophical perspective of urban-port locations. An analytical battery is developed to address the contexts of production of the works, defining genealogies and critical cartographies from a geo-cultural perspective. From this, a corpus of works is delimited to give concrete consistency to the proposal of a counter-canonical maritime-port chronotope in the first half of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we focused on women writers and cultural workers whose archival collections are stored at the Petr Bezruč Memorial of the Silesian Museum. The works of the researched female writers provide valuable evidence of the literary and cultural life of northern Moravia and Silesia or Wallachia and are a means of depicting the cultural identity and memory of the region of the late 19th and 20th centuries. The text emphasizes the introduction of female authors and also provides detailed information about the specific content of individual collections. We also present the female writers' literary works in excerpts from documents stored in individual collections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Literary geography is an interdisciplinary subfield, which applies geographical approach to literary texts. The article deals with relations between space and literature, brief history and current discourse on literary geography and literary mapping and its application in terms of research of regional literature and in schools. The main aim is to point out interesting possibilities of using literary geography as interpretive approach, mostly because in Slovak context it is almost unknown and seldom used. Therefore, when dealing with literary geography we mostly followed current foreign works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Translation is a bridge between regional language and popular language of past, present contributing to the growth various cultures among the world. In a a multicultural country like India, its significance is more influential and also more effective par with the regional language literature. Multiple facets of Indian subcontinent come close from the corner to the corner through translation studies. As result, Writers from different languages and thoughts have started translating their vernacular literature into English and other languages. The voices of anguish, protest, resentment have focused a new dimension located from various folks of the regional literature. The present paper focuses on the movement literature in Translation carried out during Second Phase separate Telangana State Movement of India. Select poetry published during 2000 - 2015 is thrown light and found how effective movement poetry played its role in creating awareness and inspiring the people to take part in the formation of separate Telangana State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At 5 pm on 20 March 2020, venues were ordered to close and the British public sphere was radically altered by Covid-19. Responding to a sudden and enforced global behavioural shift, this microhistory of Nottingham's 'Blackdrop' collective raises urgent questions for British performance poetry outside of London. Where does the art form now belong; how does it respond to space; and can it be recreated digitally? Ultimately, finding robust answers to these types of questions will be instrumental in mapping a new public sphere for performance poetry - one which is appropriately funded, egalitarian and progressive. The 'public sphere' as a bourgeois concept is here broadened to accommodate performance poetry. Building on theoretical work by Jürgen Habermas, Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, Kamau Brathwaite, John Frow, and Cornelia Gräbner, this article deploys interviews and field research conducted between 2013 and 2020 to give an account of the lived experience of those working within the performance poetry scene in Nottingham. While the ecosystem in which performance poetry once thrived is cordoned off until further notice, an opportunity arises for the creation of a new infrastructure that is independent of the bourgeois public sphere from which the genre has historically been excluded. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The multifaceted, complex and historically variable relationships between the nation, the region and literature can be discussed from various points of view. In the paper, I focus on two aspects. The first one concerns the intertwining of national and regionalist ideas and its impact on the development of literary regionalism. The other one concerns regional literature as such and its contribution to the creation of a national narrative. In the paper, I demonstrate that the reference to the national context makes it possible to track once again the development of literary regionalism, as well as read regional works anew. This is linked to the contemporary revaluation of regional works and its treatment as an important voice in the debate on the civil society and the nation.

This paper is concerned with ‘local’ literature as diff erent from ‘regional’ one, local literature being addressed to a smaller, inward audience of a local community. The paper presents statistics on the number of books published in Warsaw suburban microregion, their types and genres, as well as on institutions, publishers and sponsors involved in their production. First, preliminary observations show that the number of locally published books increases yearly — this tendency is visible particularly in the last six years. The most popular genres are memoirs and history books, but the scope of local literature is much wider and encompasses such genres as novels, essays, guide books, poetry and many other. Institutions involved in the publishing process are mostly local societies, libraries and town councils and distribution channels comprise mainly local fairs and events, cultural centres, libraries and parish kiosks. The paper sketches prospects for future investigation in local literature, drawing attention to the problems of taxonomy and new types of relations between author/creator and auditory/consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Culture is the soul of a nation and literature can shed light on the understanding of a nation's culture. This paper focuses on the translation of Taiwanese literary and historical literary works in Vietnam, and how it has shifted the Vietnamese readers' perception of Taiwanese literature. Previously, Taiwanese culture and literature were only vaguely perceived, and often viewed as regional literature by Vietnamese readers. However, Taiwanese literature has been increasingly translated in Vietnam in the recent years. This gradually shifts the Vietnamese readers' perception of Taiwanese culture, bolstering their understanding of Taiwan's native literature. With the increasing presence of translated literary works in Vietnam, the culturally distinct native spirit embodied in Taiwanese literature has attracted the attention of Vietnamese readers. As such, Taiwanese literature is being recognized as an independent literary entity in Vietnam. On this basis, we anticipate that Taiwanese culture and literature will become an important research topic in the Vietnamese literary academia that is worth exploring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present world of globalized literary communities, the discourse of Translation Studies has flourished and outgrown to become the dominant discourse in the researchbased literary arena. And yet, it is surprising that the larger chunk of the translations that have come into being belong to the genre of fiction. The translators from different regions and cultures take immense pride in translating the poetry, shortstories, novels, drama, and likewise all the fictional literary works. It is rare to see the modern-day translators taking pleasure in indulging themselves in the world of literary non-fiction, that has adorned the world of literature, and has provided a different dimension to its evolution. The present research attempts to provide a rationale scientifically, regarding the need and urgency to give the non-fictional works (in this case, the Gujarati essays)their due credit, as it has the capability to unfurl not only the aesthetic capacities of our canonical as well as popular writers, but at the same time, it will put forward the critical and intellectual mind-set of our authors. Modern-Westernphilosophy and critical writing have taken much pride in being the sole-survivor of rationality and logic, now, today is the time to reveal the 'creatively' written personal narratives that contain all the intellectual, and critical expertise of our regional authors in front of the world. Translation being a much-anticipated way and tool to achieve this goal, it is the need and urgency for the translators to accept this challenge and handle the front. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guantánamo as a sitewhose legal contortions and human rights abuses have global reach and urgency has long been the focus of themany scholars, lawyers, and activists who have fought to keep its detention centers in the public eye. And yet, alongside advocates who have insisted on the site's urgentmoral ties to theUnited States, Europe, theMiddle East, and the international community broadly defined--and in defiance of both aUS war on"terror" and aCuban war on"imperialism"--there havepersisted smaller-scale gestures aimed at situating theGuantánamonaval base as geographically continuous with, and affectively connected to, Cuba. This article reads the poetry of MohammedelGharani and Ibrahimal-Rubaish, former detainees included in Marc Falkoff's collection Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak, and of José Ramón Sánchez, longtime resident of the Cuban city of Guantánamo, as a formof regional literature produced on contested ground. It proposes that, when read across the dividing line and between languages, poetry presents a more intimate and locally specific Guantánamo than the widely known version. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Chinese "native-soil literature" has constantly been interacting with world literature due to its modern consciousness. Due to a deep spiritual connection with Chinese culture, society and history, it is the best entrance to perceiving the rich connotation in modern Chinese literature with regard to the issues of China and world, tradition and modernity. It is an excellent sample for studying modern and contemporary Chinese indigenous literature, which provides us with valuable experience about how to inherit and develop Chinese literature in the dimension of indigenousness, nation, and the world. It is also an effective dimension to explore contemporary "Chinese problems". By far, most existing studies are limited to the internal study of "native-soil literature", ignoring the characteristics in its early theoretical construction as well as the social environment, historical context and cultural motivation, which all contributed to the occurrence of the concept "native-soil literature". This article examines the origin of "native-soil literature" from the perspectives of sociology, history and regional culture, to explore the reason why it is named "native-soil literature". It also investigates the "Chinese experience" in the development of "native-soil literature", and its rich connection with Chinese literature and world literature in the process of evolvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article considers some meaningful and artistic features of the creativity of young Russian- speaking writers of Kazakhstan on the example of the anthology «Nihilist», published by Pavlodars literary society «Mercury». Self-reflection, subjectivization and anthropocentricity are the characteristic features of the creativity of this authors.

The aim of the article is to problematize the use of the term ‘minority’ literature. The term proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari proves to be too narrow and applicable only to a part of the variety of minority literatures. The aim of the article is therefore to provide a new definition of ‘minority literature’ by taking into ac-count literature written by two minority groups, Slovenes living in Italy and Ital-ians living in Slovenia and Croatia. The article even goes a step forward and poses the question whether ‘minority literature’ could be regarded as a completely inde-pendent supranational literary system.

The paper brings up the challenge that the literary works authored by the "fourth-wave" emigrants face when entering the contemporary Russian literature. It is noted that the meaningful character of the Russian-speaking diaspora and the talented writers it comprises may be leading to local Russian-language literatures emerging outside Russia. A hypothesis is put forward that in the nearest future their interaction with the metropolitan Russian literature will develop following a classical regional model. An issue of establishing factors to identify such local literatures is discussed to distinguish them as advanced artistic phenomena. In conclusion, an effort is made to formulate the working principles to be applied for using the non-metropolitan Russian literature as a soft power resource.