‘No Straight Answers’: Writing in the Margins, Finding Lost Heroes

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojisola Adebayo ◽  
Valerie Mason-John ◽  
Deirdre Osborne
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Black British ◽  
Cross Dressing ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Contemporary Writing ◽  
Universal Themes

Mojisola Adebayo and Valerie Mason-John are two distinctive voices in contemporary writing and performance, representing an Afro-Queer diasporic heritage through the specific experience of being black, British, and lesbian. Creating continuities from contorted or erased histories (personal, social, and cultural), their drama demonstrates both Afro-centric and European theatrical influences, which in Mason-John's case is further consolidated in her polemic, poetry, and prose. Like Britain's most innovative and prominent contemporary black woman dramatist, debbie tucker green, they reach beyond local or national identity politics to represent universal themes and to centralize black women's experiences. With subject matter that includes royal families, the care system, racial cross-dressing, and global ecology, Adebayo and Mason-John have individually forged a unique aesthetic and perspective in work which links environmental degradation with social disenfranchisement and travels to the heart of whiteness along black-affirming imaginative routes. Deirdre Osborne is a lecturer in drama at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and has published essays on the work of black British dramatists and poets, including Kwame Kwei-Armah, Dona Daley, debbie tucker green, Lennie James, Lemn Sissay, SuAndi, and Roy Williams. She is the editor of Hidden Gems (London: Oberon Books, 2008), a collection of plays by black British dramatists.

Introduction

Mulata Nation ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Alison Fraunhar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Current Events ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Key Terms

The Introduction maps out the scope of the case studies in the book and defines and discusses key terms including mulata, representation and performance. It devotes particular attention to the tropes and the stakes of national identity, especially in relation to ideological, political and economic issues. While the mulata is most prominent among tropic figures of national identity, the guajiro, the white peasant, the negrito, the comic black, and the gallego, or Spanish immigrant are also considered. Discussion of relevant literature on Cuba, the mulata, visual and performative studies, postcolonial studies and identity politics is contextualized. Introduction of case studies taken up in later chapters analyze the representation of the mulata in relation to current events, asking “what work is the figure doing?” and also linking the mulata to the three cardinal positions: national icon, embodiment of desire, and patron saint.

Engaging the White Possessive

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen Moreton-Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
New Work ◽  
White People ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Identity Fraud ◽  
Power Property ◽  
Genetic Science ◽  
Drag Queens

In this issue of Kalfou, my book The White Possessive: Power, Property, and Indigenous Sovereignty receives attention from three scholars whose work I admire and respect. George Lipsitz’s The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics was seminal in conceptualizing the possessive logics of patriarchal white sovereignty, while Fiona Nicoll’s From Diggers to Drag Queens: Configurations of Australian National Identity heavily influenced my work on the formation of white national identity. Kim TallBear’s Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science has been instructive in shaping my new work on the possessive racial logics of Indigenous identity fraud. I am honored they ha

Identity Politics and Migration

2008 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-158
Author(s):  
Vytis Čiubrinskas
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
The Us ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Current ◽  
Respective Host

The Centre of Social Anthropology (CSA) at Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in Kaunas has coordinated projects on this, including a current project on 'Retention of Lithuanian Identity under Conditions of Europeanisation and Globalisation: Patterns of Lithuanian-ness in Response to Identity Politics in Ireland, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US'. This has been designed as a multidisciplinary project. The actual expressions of identity politics of migrant, 'diasporic' or displaced identity of Lithuanian immigrants in their respective host country are being examined alongside with the national identity politics of those countries.

Horace's Odes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Tarrant
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Latin Literature ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Universal Themes

Horace’s body of lyric poetry, the Odes, is one of the greatest achievements of Latin literature and a foundational text for the Western poetic tradition. These 103 exquisitely crafted poems speak in a distinctive voice—usually detached, often ironic, always humane—reflecting on the changing Roman world that Horace lived in and also on more universal themes of friendship, love, and mortality. This book introduces readers to the Odes by situating them in the context of Horace’s career as a poet and by defining their relationship to earlier literature, Greek and Roman. Several poems have been freshly translated by the author; others appear in versions by Horace’s best modern translators. A number of poems are analyzed in detail, illustrating Horace’s range of subject matter and his characteristic techniques of form and structure. A substantial final chapter traces the reception of the Odes from Horace’s own time to the present. Readers of this book will gain an appreciation for the artistry of one of the finest lyric poets of all time.

scholarly journals Hva gjør museologi?

1970 ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Brita Brenna
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Phd Theses ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
And Performance

A turn towards practice and performance has been an important feature of the humanities and social sciences during the last decade. In this article, it will be argued that looking into the practice of museology is important for answering what museology is and evaluating what it can be used for. A visit will be paid to the various names given to museum-related studies, before giving an account of how three fairly recent Nordic PhD theses approach their subject matter. All three of them, it will be argued, can inspire museum practices. However, they are also highly important studies that not only speak to museological concerns, but also address questions that are of relevance for understanding wider cultural and societal changes.

scholarly journals Ironia i nihilizm. Figura bibliotekarza w Posłuchaniu u Lucypera Józefa Sękowskiego

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Jarosław Ławski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Absolute Power ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The subject matter of the present article is the image of library and librarian in a forgotten short story by a Polish-Russian writer Józef Julian Sękowski (1800−1858). Sękowski is known in Polish literature as a multi-talented orientalist and polyglot, who changed his national identity in 1832 and began to write only in Russian. In the history of Russian literature he is famous for Library for Reading and Fantastic Voyages of Baron Brambeus, an ironic-grotesque work, which was precursory in Russian prose. Until 1832 Sękowski was, however, a Polish writer. His last significant work was An Audience with Lucypher published in a Polish magazine Bałamut Petersburski (Petersburgian Philanderer) in 1832 and immediately translated into Russian by Sękowski himself under the title Bolszoj wychod u Satany (1833). The library and librarian presented by the author in this piece are a caricature illustration proving his nihilistic worldview. Sękowski is a master of irony and grotesquery, yet the world he creates is deprived of freedom and justice and a book in this world is merely a threat to absolute power.

“The American Outlaws Are Our People”: Fox Sports and the Branded Ambivalence of an American Soccer Fan at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup

2021 ◽  
pp. 152747642110532
Author(s):  
Charlotte E. Howell
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Sports Programming ◽  
American National Identity ◽  
American Media

Drawing on fan studies, sports media studies, media industries studies, and participant observation of the American Outlaws, this essay analyzes specific aspects of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup as televised by Fox Sports in the wider context of soccer’s evolving place within the American sports media marketplace. American media companies have increasingly positioned soccer as an upscale sport in the U.S. In addition to representing an affluent and cosmopolitan taste culture, the representation of the American Outlaws as part of Fox Sports’ programming and branding flattened the frictions of class, national identity, politics, and race that shaped American soccer discourse in the summer of 2019. This essay explores this flattening and the underlying tensions between televising a tournament based in American national identity that allows for a more mass audience appeal and the more niche-based framing of soccer—including the progressive politics of women’s soccer—in U.S. sports media.

Folklore’s Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Dev Nath Pathak ◽  
Moureen Kalita
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The Other ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
And Performance

The folklore studies scholar, such as Dorson (1976, Folklore and fakelore: Essays toward the discipline of folk studies, Harvard: Harvard University Press), was emphatic about the distinction between folklore and ‘fake lore’, one being authentic and the other as invented by the popular industry; however, he paradoxically maintained interest in the contemporariness of folklore. This was a paradox since the contemporariness of folklore is largely, and usually, due to intersections of folk with popular and political. Nevertheless, the emphasis on contemporariness was a harbinger of discussion on the potential dynamics of folklore, and everything buried therein, including value orientation. This essay is guided by the observations emerging from folklore studies, socio-cultural anthropology and performance studies in order to get into a specific case of Bihu, a folk performance inclusive of songs, dance, attires and instruments inter alia in Assam, in the northeast of India. The curious case of Bihu in flux divulges dynamics of value orientation and intersections of identity politics, in the wake of the contemporariness of folklore.

scholarly journals Artificial intelligence-based conversational agent to support medication prescribing

JAMIA Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita M Preininger ◽  
Brett South ◽  
Jeff Heiland ◽  
Adam Buchold ◽  
Mya Baca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Keyword Search ◽  
Conversational Agent ◽  
Subject Matter Experts ◽  
Rater Agreement ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Keyword Searches

Abstract Objective This article describes the system architecture, training, initial use, and performance of Watson Assistant (WA), an artificial intelligence-based conversational agent, accessible within Micromedex®. Materials and methods The number and frequency of intents (target of a user’s query) triggered in WA during its initial use were examined; intents triggered over 9 months were compared to the frequency of topics accessed via keyword search of Micromedex. Accuracy of WA intents assigned to 400 queries was compared to assignments by 2 independent subject matter experts (SMEs), with inter-rater reliability measured by Cohen’s kappa. Results In over 126 000 conversations with WA, intents most frequently triggered involved dosing (N = 30 239, 23.9%) and administration (N = 14 520, 11.5%). SMEs with substantial inter-rater agreement (kappa = 0.71) agreed with intent mapping in 247 of 400 queries (62%), including 16 queries related to content that WA and SMEs agreed was unavailable in WA. SMEs found 57 (14%) of 400 queries incorrectly mapped by WA; 112 (28%) queries unanswerable by WA included queries that were either ambiguous, contained unrecognized typographical errors, or addressed topics unavailable to WA. Of the queries answerable by WA (288), SMEs determined 231 (80%) were correctly linked to an intent. Discussion A conversational agent successfully linked most queries to intents in Micromedex. Ongoing system training seeks to widen the scope of WA and improve matching capabilities. Conclusion WA enabled Micromedex users to obtain answers to many medication-related questions using natural language, with the conversational agent facilitating mapping to a broader distribution of topics than standard keyword searches.

Living Cargo

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Blevins
Keyword(s):  
Black British ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
Colonial Archive ◽  
And Performance ◽  
David Dabydeen ◽  
Post War ◽  
Postcolonial Africa ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Dominant Narratives

Living Cargo offers a wide-ranging study of contemporary literatures, films, visual arts and performances by writers and artists who live and work in the UK but who also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean. Grounded and theoretically nuanced, the book considers how contemporary black British writers and artists engage with the long history of European colonization, in particular the colonial archive, to reframe the dominant narratives of multi-cultural Britain that emerged in the post-war era. Surveying a wide range of contemporary literary, visual, and performance-based creative work, the book looks from works of fiction by Fred D’Aguiar, David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, Caryl Phillips, and Dorothea Smartt; works of film and video by Inge Blackman and Isaac Julien; and public art and gallery installations by Yinka Shonibare, Graham Mortimer Evelyn, and Hew Locke; to the bespoke style of fashion icon Ozwald Boateng.

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