Angles

Angles http://journals.openedition.org/angles Revue semestrielle en anglais consacrée au monde anglophone – Semi-annual journal in English dedicated to the Anglophone world 21 | 2026 – Borders in the English-Speaking World: Mapping and Countermapping

Introduction [Full text]

Gwendolyne Cressman, Timothy A. Heron and Marianne Hillion
Part I. Shifting Colonial frontiers
- On the Borders of the Imaginary, “Erring” on the Side of Hope: Western Mapping, Exploration and the Jeffersonian Design [Full text]
  
  Florent Atem
- Anomalous Borders, Geographical Knowledge, and the Inner Line in India [Full text]
  
  Charuta Ghadyalpatil
Part II. Unsettling territorial boundaries
- Dynamic borderscapes and creative countermappings in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (2018) [Full text]
  
  Annalena Geisler
- Claiming Space: Aboriginal (Re)mappings of Contemporary Australia [Full text]
  
  Justine Seran
- Interruption and Solace: Medicine Lines in Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence (2021) [Full text]
  
  Benjamin David
Part III. Literary, mystical, and mythological crossings
- Restoring Wonder: Mystical Counter-Mapping in the Work of Arthur Machen [Full text]
  
  Sophie Mantrant
- Another Break in the Wall [Full text]
  
  Audrey Robitaillié
Part IV. Artistic contributions: alternative maps
- Ghost borders: Mapping the Disappearing Strasbourg-Kehl Borderlands [Full text]
  
  Donna Akrey, Taien Ng-Chan, Lee Rodney and Michael Darroch
- Mapping Resistance and Resilience [Full text]
  
  Jeff Thomas
- Archiving Erasure: Countermaps from Delhi [Full text]
  
  Swati Janu
Varia
- A Performative Intermedial Analysis of The Willow Song [Full text]
  
  Giuseppe Pantano
- How Donald Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Kamala Harris’s first name support the hypothesis that loanwords exhibit distinct phonological properties [Full text]
  
  Pierre Fournier

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/10711 2026-04-01 20 | 2025 – Re-Narrating Black History in Contemporary Visual Arts

Re-Narrating Black History in Contemporary Visual Arts [Full text]

Clémentine Tholas, Antonia Rigaud and Anne-Claire Faucquez
Black Diaspora in relation to Africa
- Returns to Africa: Diasporic Artistic Practices and the Memory of Slavery [Full text]
  
  Androula Michael
  
  Retours à l'Afrique : pratiques artistiques diasporiques et mémoire de l’esclavage
- Depicting African American womanhood in a transatlantic space [Full text]
  
  Melissa Grand
- Nkyinkyim: A Means of Raising Awareness about the History of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and a Means of Dialogue Between Africans and African Diaspora [Full text]
  
  Bréhima Sidibé
Visual medium as historical tool
- Seeing oneself written into British and European history: Johny Pitts and the peripheral “black document” [Full text]
  
  Fanny Robles
- The Black Female Fantastic Space of Ayana V. Jackson [Full text]
  
  Kelly-Christina Grant
- Addressing and Redressing History in Simone Leigh’s Sculptures [Full text]
  
  Myrto Charvalia
Memory from the perspective of healing and repair
- Fabric/ating communities in the work of Ebony Patterson and Nyugen Smith: distortions and re-directions of scales, places and gazes [Full text]
  
  Kerry-Jane Wallart
- The “Unreliable Narrator of a Historical Manifesto”: Reimagining and Re-historicising Depictions of Sexual Violence During American Slavery in Kara Walker’s Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions [Full text]
  
  Ginevra Bianchini
- “Displaced and uprooted”: Buhlebezwe Siwani’s visual art of healing [Full text]
  
  Alexandra Poulain
“Voices / Practices” (artists’ portfolio)
- Inside Alison Saar’s “Sweet Life” (Paris, 2025): A Journey Through Her Art and Practice [Full text]
  
  Alison Saar and Clémentine Tholas
- Gaëlle Choisne’s pratice presented by Nadia Chalbi (Paris Museum of Modern Art) [Full text]
  
  Gaëlle Choisne and Nadia Chalbi
- An interview with Raphaël Barontini conducted by Linda Hamidat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) [Full text]
  
  Raphaël Barontini and Linda Hamidat
- “A Space That Honors Their Presence”: Elizabeth Colomba and the Power of Reclaimed Portraiture [Full text]
  
  Elizabeth Colomba and Clémentine Tholas
- Jerry Butler in his own words [Full text]
  
  Jerry Butler
Varia
- E-petition Data Mining: Looking for Contemporary Utopias [Full text]
  
  Géraldine Castel
- The Construction of Otherness in British and American Explorations of the Amur Region [Full text]
  
  Anne Dalles Maréchal
- From LGBT+ Pride to NHS Praise [Full text]
  
  Clémence Fourton

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/8954 2025-12-01 19 | 2025 – The Pioneers of TransAmerican Art

The Pioneers of TransAmerican Art: [Full text]

D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson and Frédéric Lefrançois
The Imperative of “Human Happiness” [Full text]

D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson
Graphic Interlude [Full text]

John Powell
On the Search for a Tripartite Identity: Paule Marshall’s Upward Mobility Narrative in Praisesong for the Widow [Full text]

Courtney Walton
“Journey Through the Rabbit Hole of Migration” [Full text]

Jiivanii RedMarks
Caribbean Memory as “Mindful” Vandalism [Full text]

Marine Schütz
Native Genocide #2 [Full text]

Robert A. Joyette Sutherland
Pioneering Transnational Cinema and Cultural Identity: A Conversation with Ryan Latchmanshingh [Full text]

Frédéric Lefrançois
Varia
- The American “Positive Attitude” [Full text]
  
  Eve Bernier-Rock
- As Long as There Were Any Roads to Amnesia and Anaesthesia Still to be Explored: Contemporary Artistic Reflections on the Intertwined Memories of British Imperial History, Trees and Place [Full text]
  
  Laura Ouillon

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/8345 2025-04-01 18 | 2024 – Pandemic Occasions

Pandemic Occasions: Poetry in the Time of Covid-19 [Full text]

Sarah Montin
Covid Looming between Poetic Lines, behind Ambulance Windows and in the Margins of Screens [Full text]

Elise Brault-Dreux
“Everything Is Going To Be All Right”: Poetry as “Covid Comfort”? [Full text]

Marion Naugrette-Fournier
Olive Senior’s Pandemic Poems: A Postcolonial Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic [Full text]

Pauline Amy de la Bretèque
Collaborative Writing and the Poetics of the Occasion: The Pandemic Sonnets of Cindy Tran and Craig Santos Perez [Full text]

Laura T. Smith
Pandemic Pastoral and Post-Pastoral Occasions in Poetry of the Covid-19 Crisis [Full text]

Sarah Montin
A Call for Poetic Migration in the Time of a Pandemic [Full text]

Jennifer K Dick
Poems - Virus [Full text]

Laura Mullen
Intubated” and “Block Out the Fact That You’re Dying” [Full text]

Tara Propper
Simon Armitage, Fenêtres sur monde [Full text]

Claire Hélie
David Leo Sirois : une rencontre poétique avant et après la pandémie― présentation et traduction par Carole Birkan-Berz [Full text]

Carole Birkan-Berz

Meeting David Leo Sirois – before and after the pandemic. Poems presented and translated by Carole Birkan-Berz
Kim Moore and Maya. C.Popa ― Presented and translated by Virginie Trachsler [Full text]

Virginie Trachsler
Geraldine Mitchell : “Of Fire and Water”― Translated by Sarah Montin [Full text]

Geraldine Mitchell and Sarah Montin
Varia
- Orwell’s Legacy in Years and Years (Russell T. Davies, 2019) [Full text]
  
  Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/7895 2024-11-01 17 | 2024 – Re-Viewing and Re-Imagining Scottish Waters in Word and Image

Re-viewing and Re-imagining Scottish Waters in Word and Image [Full text]

Lindsay Blair and Camille Manfredi
Representing the Ring-Net in Word and Image [Full text]

Lindsay Blair
Sentinels of the Shore. Reconciling Art and Science [Full text]

Anne Hellegouarc’h-Bryce
Reimagining Marine Energy: Tidal Rhythms, Language and Community in ebban an’ flowan [Full text]

Monika Szuba
Hebridean Rowing Songs [Full text]

John Purser
Taking forward perceptions of identity: the Sea League’s campaign to protect maritime communities and the environment. [Full text]

Uisdean Cheape
“The Liminal Zone” [Full text]

Mandy Haggith
Maighdean-ròin [Full text]

Marcas Mac an Tuairneir and Alex Nichol
"Between Mountain and Sea" [Full text]

Zoe Macinnes
“An sàl a’ tighinn gu bàrr/ The brine rising up” [Full text]

Anne Frater
Suite Uist [Full text]

Anna-Wendy Stevenson
“Fluid States: The Cinematic Sea and Thoughts from the Near Future” [Full text]

Stephen Hurrel

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/7268 2024-05-06 16 | 2023 – Cities in Scotland: Cultural Heritage and National Identity

Video Introduction to Issue 16 [Full text]

Clarisse Godard Desmarest and Nora Plesske
Anatomising ‘Athens’: Architecture, Medicine, and the Lieux de Savoir in Early Modern Edinburgh [Full text]

Ann-Marie Akehurst
“Polarities within an Entity”: The Case of Burke and Hare and Ian Rankin’s The Falls (2001) [Full text]

Silvia Mergenthal
New Gloss to Urban Heritage: The Discursive Repackaging of Scottish Cities as Wellness Retreats in Online Tourism Promotion Texts 2019-20 [Full text]

Irmina Wawrzyczek
Gallery – The Thistle Property Trust & the Top of the Town [Full text]

Lindsay Lennie and Rachael Purse
Restoring the ‘Georgian House’: Architecture, Politics, and Identity in 1970s Edinburgh [Full text]

James Legard
V&A Dundee and Cultural Institutions in Dundee: The Role of Museums in Culture-Led Regeneration [Full text]

Kirsty Hassard
Interview – A Literature House for Edinburgh [Full text]

James Loxley and Tara Thomson
Commentary – “We too it seems belong to the future”: John Grierson’s Heart of Scotland (1962) [Full text]

Karl Magee
Perspectives – 25 WORDS FOR ‘25: A Collective Poem by the People of Stirling to Mark Stirling’s Bid for UK City of Culture 2025 [Full text]

Laura Fyfe, Lesley Wilkinson, Chris Kane and Kevin Harrison
British Imperialism, National Identity, and Scotland’s Built Environment [Full text]

Kirsten Carter McKee
Coda - Scotland’s Urban Heritage and National Identity [Full text]

Clarisse Godard Desmarest and Nora Plesske

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/6491 2023-06-01 15 | 2022 – Cities in the British Isles in the 19th-21st centuries

Video Introduction to Issue 15 [Full text]

David Fee and Charlotte Gould
The Rebranding of Newcastle as a Smart City. Cui Bono? [Full text]

Emmanuelle Avril
Urban Development and Regeneration in Ancoats, Manchester: From Industrial Suburb to Urban Village [Full text]

Aurore Caignet
Urban Innovation and Philanthropy, New Perspectives on the Columbia Market, London [Full text]

Emeline Houssard
Migrants in the city: Rethinking the governance of integration in an age of ‘super-diversity’ [Full text]

Donia Touihri-Mebarek
‘An essay in civilisation’? - Stevenage and the post-war New Towns programme [Full text]

Stephen V. Ward
Manchester’s health deal: Is devolution truly beneficial for the region? [Full text]

Louise Dalingwater
The Pre-Raphaelite city and the trap of modernity [Full text]

Raphaël Rigal
An urban experiment in small town sustainability in the UK: the case of Cittaslow [Full text]

Susan Ball
The End of History in Kevin Barry’s City of Bohane (2011)? [Full text]

Sylvie Mikowski
Underground Manchester as urban palimpsest in Jeanette Winterson’s Frankissstein: A Love Story (2019) [Full text]

Claire Wrobel
The large landowner as a visionary planner [Full text]

Stéphane Sadoux

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/5759 2022-12-02 14 | 2022 – Angles on Naya/New Pakistan

Video Introduction to Issue 14 [Full text]

David Waterman and Paul Veyret
Reflections on Islamisation and the Future of the Women’s Rights Movement in ‘Naya’ Pakistan [Full text]

Sonia Awan
The ‘Real’ Pakistan in Uzma Aslam Khan’s The Geometry of God (2007): A Testimony of Blasphemy [Full text]

Ana Ashraf
The Voice in the Diary: Moni Mohsin’s Butterfly Diaries [Full text]

Rizia Begum Laskar
Transnational Voices in Contemporary Pakistani Literature: An Exploration of Fragmented Self and Hybrid Identity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist [Full text]

Ajeesh A. K. and S. Rukmini
Graphic Interlude [Full text]

Paul Veyret, David Waterman and Dewi Hadin-Waterman
Collective Amnesia and Generational Memory in Kamila Shamsie’s Kartography [Full text]

Madhurima Sen
‘Everything is translatable, nothing is translatable’: the migrant as translated/translator in Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers [Full text]

Daniela Vitolo
“Yes, I am Joseph Bhatti Choohra:” Reading Joseph Bhatti as a Palimpsest [Full text]

Mushtaq Bilal
“A hazy world seen through smoke”: Threshold Effects in Mohsin Hamid’s Moth Smoke [Full text]

Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot
“The glint of catastrophe”. An Interview with Mohsin Hamid [Full text]

Mohsin Hamid and Paul Veyret
Varia
- The People’s Priorities: Recognition, Redistribution and Conservative Hegemony [Full text]
  
  Kostas Maronitis

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/5009 2022-04-01 13 | 2021 – The Torn Object

Video Introduction to Issue 13 [Full text]

Andrew Hodgson
Subjects Who Cannot Be Consoled: The Discarded Opening of Albert Angelo and the Queer Afterlife of “BS” Johnson in We Are Made of Diamond Stuff by Isabel Waidner [Full text]

Chris Clarke
Getting it All Down: Disintegration and Integration in B. S. Johnson’s The Unfortunates [Full text]

Ben Winsworth
The Limits of Looking: Conceptualising the Frame in Ann Quin’s Berg and Christine Brooke-Rose’s Out [Full text]

Hilary White
Ann Quin’s Berg and Stewart Home’s 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess: Schizophrenic Text-Types [Full text]

David Vichnar
“I’m telling you to stop’: Staging the drama of rape, experiment and sexual consent in Ann Quin’s Three and Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat [Full text]

Nell Osborne
Graphic Interlude [Full text]

Anonymous, Samuel Beckett, Ian Breakwell, Alexa Brunet, Stewart Home, Macmillan, Lis Rhodes and John Smith
Improvisation, Blankness and Mesmerism: Mike Leggett and Ian Breakwell’s Sheet and the Two Avant-Gardes [Full text]

Kieran Devaney
Murmur, Hum, Shout, Crash! [Full text]

Adrienne Janus
The Writer’s Action Group (WAG) and the Fight for Public Lending Right (PLR) [Full text]

Joseph Darlington
Varia
- Britain’s post Brexit trade deals: Taking back control or a threat to sovereignty? [Full text]
  
  Louise Dalingwater

]]> http://journals.openedition.org/angles/3704 2021-12-15 12 | 2021 – COVID-19 and the Plague Year

Co-vidding Shakespeare: Creating Collective Videos from Shakespeare’s Plays during the COVID-19 Pandemic [Full text]

Sarah Hatchuel
She Says, He Says: “What Do You Mean?” [Full text]

Sandy Feinstein and Bryan Wang
Diamond Princess II [Full text]

Amine Barbuda
Handle with Care [Full text]

Eric Daffron
The American Government and “Total War” on COVID-19 [Full text]

Christopher Griffin
Operation Warp Speed as a “Moonshot”: Some Public Policy Lessons [Full text]

Nicholas Sowels
Hashtags in Linguistic Anthropology: A COVID-19 Case Study [Full text]

V Shri Vaishali and S. Rukmini
Pandemic Apocalypse In Between Dystopias: Observations from Post-Apocalyptic Novels [Full text]

Munir Ahmed Al-Aghberi
Varia
- An A or Your Life! [Full text]
  
  Claire Tardieu

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