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Volume 16 • Issue 1 • 2026

Volume 16, Issue 1 (2026)

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Issue Overview

This issue presents research and perspectives across humanities and social sciences, including global finance, science communication, literary studies, border politics, refugee narratives, historical representation, post-Enlightenment fiction, and diasporic consciousness in contemporary literature.

Journal
AJHSS
Volume
16
Year
2026

Table of Contents

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Research Article Page 01

Why There Isn’t a Widely Used “Afrodollar” and What Would Be Needed for One to Exist?

Prof. Pierre A. Bultez

Perspective Page 05

Humor as a leverage in shark pop culture: keep the tool but change the message

Eric E. G. Clua

Research Article Page 09

Ford Madox Ford’s Unusual War: Ongoing Worry and Modernity

Nur Karatas

Research Article Page 19

Writing the History of Neoliberalism in the Contemporary French Novel: François Roux and Michel Houellebecq

Charles Rice-Davis

Research Article Page 31

Humility and Perspective-Taking: Ford’s Ethics and Aesthetics of War Writing

Eve Sorum

Research Article Page 45

Border Politics and Refugee Narratives in Contemporary Literature

Laura Lojo-Rodríguez and Noemí Pereira-Ares

Research Article Page 59

Disentangling Eben-Ezer: William Okeley and His Barbary Captivity Narrative

Bernard Capp

Research Article Page 69

“I Like Her Parrots”: Accessibility, Aesthetics, Zadie Smith’s On Beauty and the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Andy Mousley

Research Article Page 65

Writing Shared Humanity in Post-Enlightenment Fiction: Isabelle de Charrière and Jane Austen

Valérie Cossy

Research Article Page 75

Trauma, Diasporic Consciousness, and Ethics in Nicole Krauss’s Forest Dark

Tiasa Bal and Gurumurthy Neelakantan