Jessica Sequeira

Aug 20, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Jessica Sequeira

Carol Davis’s conviction in the importance of theatre as a vehicle for education runs through her book, which takes up Nepali theatre – past and present – in eight dense chapters. Davis’s own work promotes hygiene policies through theatre, and she focuses on directors who share an emphasis on social drama aimed at making a political difference.

May 15, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Jessica Sequeira

In Mexico, the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral found economic, physical and creative autonomy, a ‘room of her own’ [cuarto propio], argues Carla Ulloa Inostroza (27). It was there that in her capacity as a 33-year-old educator officially invited by the Mexican government, she published the poetry books Desolación and Ternura and the anthology Lecturas para Mujeres, along with many letters and a substantial amount of journalistic work for newspapers abroad.

Mar 19, 2024 | rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kiran Ahmed |Liliana Colanzi |Jessica Sequeira |Siddratul Muntaha Jillani

The relationship between anthropology and literature has attracted renewed theoretical energy in recent years (Brandel 2020; Debaene 2014; Fassin 2014; Reed 2018; Wulff 2016), developing and deepening connections with, for example, anthropological theories of art (Reed 2011), religion (Furani 2012), subjectivity (Olszewska 2015), and ethics (Bush 2017), as well as with allied fields and traditions, including postcolonial theory (Sadana 2012), Bourdieuan sociology (Dalsgård 2021), media theory...

Sep 15, 2023 | 3ammagazine.com | Jessica Sequeira

By Jessica Sequeira. In the ninth minute of Largo Viaje (1967), a film by Chilean director Patricio Kaulen, a little boy wearing shorts and a bowl cut enters the house with his grandfather. A mid-century Santiago house with a huge open door, through which people come and go, a flowing passage between worlds; a large but poor house, in a neighborhood where everybody works with their hands.

Aug 4, 2023 | lithub.com | Jessica Sequeira |Daniel Guebel

Daniel Guebel’s The Jewish Son (Seven Stories Press, 2023) has the theme of interpretation at its heart. How is the material of reality understood—or invented—as aesthetic form? Guebel constantly draws parallels between the writer trying to create beauty from the shards of experience, and the theologian trying to find God in a world of seemingly isolated events. Both writer and theologian try to give sense to randomness through narrative and anecdote.