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This essay analyzes how multiethnic women writers of the Americas draw a map of a critical geography by delineating the interrelated brutalization of human beings and the environment at the colonial-decolonial interface. Its theoretical approach is comparative, interdisciplinary, and intersectional and embedded in Cultural/ Post-Colonial Studies and Ecocriticism with the objective to problematize the issue of identity, ethnicity, and gender in correlation with the land qua place and style of life within a capitalist system. The objective is to reveal and examine the decolonial attitude in texts by multiethnic women writers of the Americas: what is decolonization and how is it translated into the narrative structure, style and theme?

Ao situar o livro de Bernard Assiniwi na interface colonização/ descolonização dos povos indígenas este ensaio focaliza três questões principais: a terra enquanto geografia habitada/ imaginada do povo beothuk; o gênero como um dos pilares desta geografia em tempos pré/pós–coloniais; a memória como estratégia de justiça e descolonização. O objetivo é problematizar como Assiniwi emancipa la memória sequestrada (Galeano) dos Beothuks por meio de uma mitopoética que revela um dos aspectos escuros do passado sangrento do Canadá: o genocídio dos Beothuks.

Perante o fundo de uma história de violentas agressões contra os direitos (não)humanos, neste ensaio pretende-se revelar e problematizar como escritoras de diferentes lugares e contextos interamericanos delineiam diversos tipos desta violência, recriando história nas suas estórias ― um passado cuja colonialidad del poder (Quijano) se inscreve de maneira violenta no presente neocolonial; como, em outras palavras, escritoras panamericanas desenham um mapa de uma geografia crítica ao delinear a dupla e interrelacionada brutalização dos seres humanos e do seu (meio) ambiente; brutalização esta que constitui o inconsciente político (Jameson), cultural (Bourdieu) e ecológico (Walter) da experiência pan-americana — os fantasmas destas experiências violentas recalcadas que voltam em resposta à Verleugnung fazendo sentir sua presença tanto no nível da enunciação quanto no da experiência vivida e imaginada.

This essay problematizes the relationship between literature, nature and citizenship in our digital culture. By focusing on the tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization in connection with the tension between belonging to a national place and being mobile in transnational space, it deals with the following questions and issues: What is the meaning of identity and citizenship in the digital age of cybernations and netizens? How does literary representation render the cultural construction of the human-machine/ human-nature interface? How does literature translate and negotiate the disruptive in-between zone of inter- and intracultural disjunctures and conjunctures—the place where diverse histories, customs, values, beliefs and cognitive systems are contested and interwoven—as inhabited place, that is, as affective geography (Soja)? What are the theoretical tools to map and measure this inhabited contact zone? In the process of giving tentative and partial answers, this essay elaborates a link between the political unconscious (Jameson), the cultural unconscious (Bourdieu) and the ecological unconscious (Walter) of the human-machine/ human-nature interface that surfaces in contemporary multi-ethnic writing; a transwriting (Walter) that, in the face of natural catastrophes, instantiates a decolonizing attitude towards nature by delineating new forms of cohabitation involving the entire biota.

This essay problematizes the relationship between literature, nature and citizenship in our digital culture. By focusing on the tension between cultural homogenization and cultural heterogenization in connection with the tension between belonging to a national place and being mobile in transnational space, it deals with the following questions and issues: What is the meaning of identity and citizenship in the digital age of cybernations and netizens? How does literary representation render the cultural construction of the human-machine/ human-nature interface? How does literature translate and negotiate the disruptive in-between zone of inter- and intracultural disjunctures and conjunctures—the place where diverse histories, customs, values, beliefs and cognitive systems are contested and interwoven—as inhabited place, that is, as affective geography (Soja)? What are the theoretical tools to map and measure this inhabited contact zone? In the process of giving tentative and partial answers, this essay elaborates a link between the political unconscious (Jameson), the cultural unconscious (Bourdieu) and the ecological unconscious (Walter) of the human-machine/ human-nature interface that surfaces in contemporary multi-ethnic writing; a transwriting (Walter) that, in the face of natural catastrophes, instantiates a decolonizing attitude towards nature by delineating new forms of cohabitation involving the entire biota.

High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way, as well as in nearby Galaxies. Thanks to their highly variable emissions and complex phenomenology, they have attracted the interest of the high energy astrophysical community since the dawn of X-ray Astronomy. In more recent years, they have challenged our comprehension of physical processes in many more energy bands, ranging from the infrared to very high energies. In this review, we provide a broad but concise summary of the physical processes dominating the emission from high mass X-ray binaries across virtually the whole electromagnetic spectrum. These comprise the interaction of stellar winds with the high gravitational and magnetic fields of compact objects, the behaviour of matter under extreme magnetic and gravity conditions, and the perturbation of the massive star evolutionary processes by presence in a binary system. We highlight the role of the INTEGRAL mission in the discovery of many of the most interesting objects in the high mass X-ray binary class and its contribution in reviving the interest for these sources over the past two decades. We show how the INTEGRAL discoveries have not only contributed to significantly increase the number of high mass X-ray binaries known, thus advancing our understanding of the population as a whole, but also have opened new windows of investigation that stimulated the multi-wavelength approach nowadays common in most astrophysical research fields. We conclude the review by providing an overview of future facilities being planned from the X-ray to the very high energy domain that will hopefully help us in finding an answer to the many questions left open after more than 18 years of INTEGRAL scientific observations. ; The INTEGRALteams in the participating countries acknowledge the continuous support from their space agencies and funding organizations: the Italian Space Agency ASI (via different agreements including the latest one, 2019-35HH, and the ASIINAF agreement 2017-14-H.0), the French Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (KP, 19-02-00790), the Russian Science Foundation (ST, VD, AL; 19-12-00423), the Spanish State Research Agency (via different grants including ESP2017-85691-P, ESP2017-87676-C5-1-R and Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu – CAB MDM-2017-0737). IN is partially supported by the Spanish Government under grant PGC2018-093741-B-C21/C22 (MICIU/AEI/FEDER, UE). LD acknowledges grant 50 OG 1902.