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Ancestrofuturism: Enchantment, Confluence, Vital Energy, and Living Writing

In this Case Study, Afro-Brazilian oral and literary traditions are introduced to an English-speaking audience through the lens of ancestrofuturism—a framework that bridges ancestral wisdom and future imaginaries—to demonstrate how Afro-Indigenous cosmologies resist necropolitical violence by redefining temporality, culture, and identity. Through the prism of Ailton Krenak’s ancestrofuturism, this Case Study examines the film Bacurau…

Provenance-by-Design for Humanities Databases

This insight uses gender data as a case study to examine practices of representing provenance information in digital humanities databases. It argues that, in the development of FAIR-compliant database systems, the emphasis on reusability and interoperability should not overshadow interpretability. This insight suggests that a “provenance-by-design” approach should be used by digital humanities projects, researchers,…

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Framing Narratives: Expanding the Narratological Frame Concept for the Study of the Premodern Arabic Tradition

The theory of frame narratives emerged to discuss modern Western fictional prose, often using the ‘Thousand and One Nights’ as a prime example. However, the Arabic literary tradition, especially before the age of print, provides a rich field to explore and expand this concept. Since the eighth century CE, Arabic writers and storytellers have created…

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