2022 Issue 2

VOLUME 12, NUMBER 2
DISASTER DISCOURSE: REPRESENTATIONS OF CATASTROPHE (II)

Published online: 2022-12-15

Articles

Breaking the silence: the Irish civil war in the short stories by Dorothy Macardle
Elena Ogliari (elena.ogliari@uniupo.it)                                                                    pages 5-19
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.1

Laughing and crying at the same time: reading Biyi Bandele’s Burma Boy through a Bergsonian theory of the comic
Christina Howes (chowes@uic.es)                                                                           pages 20-33
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.2

When memory becomes debris: aesthetic modes of representing disaster loss
Yuko Yoshida (yuko.yoshida2013@gmail.com)                                                    pages 34-46
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.3

Disaster and emotion in Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend
Shpëtim Madani (madanishpetim@gmail.com)                                                   pages 47-60
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.4

“What is the cost of lies?”: historiography of a disaster and collapse of the Soviet metanarrative in Craig Mazin and Johan Renck’s HBO miniseries Chernobyl
Deepayan Datta & Arindam Nandi (deepayan.datta@gmail.com)   
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.5                                                                          pages 61-69

Diplomatic gifts as expression of the colonial trauma. Stories of African wooden and ivory sculptures
Horia Iova (horiaiova@yahoo.com)                                                                        pages 70-82
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.6

Calling out to the heavens for aid: disaster songs in American folk music
David Livingstone (Livingstone@seznam.cz)                                                      pages 83-96
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.7

“The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires”: the impact of colonialism in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Eliana Ionoaia (eliana.ionoaia@lls.unibuc.ro)                                                   pages 97-122
https://doi.org/10.31178/UBR.12.2.8