Naomi Adam
List of John Benjamins publications for which Naomi Adam plays a role.
Articles
2024 More than ‘ignorant bushbaby bullshit’: The racialised metaperspective as mind style in Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) English Text Construction 17:1, pp. 83–105 | Article
According to the social psychologists R. D. Laing, H. Phillipson and A. R. Lee, we human beings are constantly speculating about the view that others have upon us, thereby forming a metaperspective (Laing et al. 1966). Yet despite the fact that literature is grounded in some of the most… read more
“The twain is crossing”: Overlapping ontologies in Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) Journal of Language and Pop Culture: Online-First Articles | Article
The storyworld presented in the 2023 fantasy-comedy film Barbie is predicated upon a simple ontological binary: there is the Real World, in which humans reside, and Barbie Land, populated by plastic dolls, and it is roundly accepted that “never the twain shall cross”. However, throughout the… read more