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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 in Muṣṭafā al-Kīlānī’s ‘Mayār’ (2017): A Contemporary Tunisian Perspective on Literary Framing Between Theory and Practice

Theories of narrative framing often resort to the ‘Arabian Nights’ as a prime example of how frame tales and embedded tales interact. This contribution aims to move beyond the classical understanding of narrative framing by exploring a contemporary Tunisian example. In his novel ‘Mayār: sarāb al-jamājim thumma māʾ’ [Mayār: The Mirage of Skulls, then Water]…

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