This study is a re-examination of Middle English animal fables as teaching vehicles. For each fable, four governing pedagogical questions are raised and certain suggestions proposed. First, what lesson(s) does the fable teach? Does it encourage a virtue or warn against a vice? S…
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This study centers on Sahl b. Harun, an intellectual of ninth-century Baghdad (d.215/830), who was a personality of note, labelled a shu'ubi (anti-Arab), and famed for his avarice. He played a role on both the literary and political stages, authoring some seventeen works (all bu…
French literature has undoubtedly exerted a marked influence over Haitian letters. Since the Middle Ages, notable elements of the fantastic, such as loups-garous and talking animals in lais and fables, all the way to the unheimlich narratives of the nineteenth century, are also …
What does the rupture of peace and the erasure of power over both history and destiny do to the spirit of the Black womyn? This collection of poetry examines the experiences, traumas and breadcrumbs of freedom that come with Blackness and Black womynhood through the genre of fai…