In “Maritza la fugitiva”, Eliécer Pardo enters into a time and place that raise a generous and open staging and scene so that the question of Fate is almost an enormous paradox from which pain and cruelty have not managed to remove the mystery that contains all destiny, all life. […]
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Paper graveyards
“Paper graveyards” is a collection of essays by Eduardo Cadava, a professor at Princeton, that sees photography as invested with a migratory potential, the ability to shift away from itself and form new relations with other media. Sean Sheehan Cadava’s approach could be regarded with suspicion, another postmodernist […]
Minorities and their identity
Recognition and integration are two sides of the same coin. A minority, a community or a Diaspora can’t be asked to integrate if they are not recognized. Claudio Chipana In official statements much is said about the need for minorities to integrate and to respect ‘British values’ in […]
Living on lies
The patch of waste ground was covered over with tufts of grass, and isolated old stones, relics, remains of some dwelling which had once stood on the site. Steve Latham I used to walk home past this land on my home from going to the shops, when I […]
Identity and the legacy of slavery
In one very interesting piece of Dutch research, alienation and loneliness were analysed under four helpful identity types: ‘integrated identity, (an identity with both their ethnic group, and wider society), ‘separated identity’ (a strong ethnic identity, but weak national identity), ‘assimilated identity’ (a strong national identity only) and ‘marginalized identity’ […]
















