The Context of Multi-Ethnic Politics for Ethiopian American Literature

MELUS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-138
Author(s):  
Steven W Thomas
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ethnic Representation ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Ethnic History ◽  
History Of

Abstract Considering the broad conversation among African novelists about the representation of Africans in America, this essay proposes a reevaluation of Ethiopian American literature that is attentive to the historical complexity of Ethiopia’s ethnic diversity. Situating novels and memoirs in their regional context of the Horn of Africa, it highlights how writers of the Ethiopian diaspora sometimes wrestle with and other times avoid the implications of the region’s ethnic politics. Focusing on the novel The Parking Lot Attendant (2018) by Nafkote Tamirat as a case study, it compares it to how other novelists and memoirists from the region, including Dinaw Mengestu, Nega Mezlekia, Maaza Mengiste, Meti Birabiro, Rebecca Haile, and Nurrudin Farrah, have managed the burden of multi-ethnic representation. Tamirat’s novel is somewhat unique for framing the immigrant experience within the story of a political dystopia and uncanny “loneless” social relations. By analyzing Ethiopian American literature in this way, the essay critiques scholarship that has been inattentive to the complex multi-ethnic history of the region because of its focus on the alienation of Ethiopian protagonists from cross-cultural and intracultural forms of political engagement.

scholarly journals How to build a nation: ethnosocial management and academic science in a problem field of state national policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 124-124
Author(s):  
Elena A. Erokhina
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
Diversity Management ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Legislative Initiative ◽  
The Law ◽  
Soviet Russia

The paper presents an analysis of strategic planning documents in the field of ethnic politics of post-Soviet Russia. A case study of a legislative initiative known as the “law on the Russian nation” is considered. It is concluded that the reception of nationalism in the practice of ethnosocial management is the result of borrowing Westernized models of ethnic diversity management.

scholarly journals El hombre de Montserrat: writings on violence in the latin american crime fiction

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-160
Author(s):  
Víctor Manuel Sanchis Amat
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Central American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
Central American Literature ◽  
Latin American Narrative ◽  
History Of

Abstract: The article adresses the novel El hombre de Montserrat, written by the Guatemalan writer Dante Liano and recognized within the genre of crime fiction, as a precursory model for a narrative that established a way of rewriting the history of violence in Central American countries in both fictional and theoretical terms. Dante Liano’s successful reception has turned the novel into a reference of the Central American literature of the nineties. This is due to the fact that his narrative is replete with mechanisms that were seen in the best works of the previous Latin American narrative, far from the great discourses, by a displaying genre hybridization, a parodic transgression or lexical localism. This article analyses the interweaving of genres and the subversion of the plot, the characters and the rewriting of the history against the postulates of the classic detective novel.

“It Is Difficult to Disengage a Single Thread from the Living Web of a Nation’s Literature”

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-55
Author(s):  
Karin L. Hooks
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
Literary Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Anthologies ◽  
Literary Histories

Arguing that the changing and more consolidated literary politics of the century’s turn helped make possible the canon wars of the twentieth century, this paper investigates the history of literary histories. Twentieth-century constructs of the field overlook an awareness that late-nineteenth century female literary historians envisioned in terms of a more inclusive and democratic American literary canon. Recovering a literary history largely erased by the turn into the twentieth century through a case study of Sarah Piatt’s career, this chapter focuses on two female literary historians of the 1890s: Ellen Mackay Hutchinson and Jeanette Gilder, whose literary anthologies include Piatt’s writing, unlike those of the following century. Hutchinson, who (with Edmund Clarence Stedman) edited a sizeable collection of American texts, the eleven-volume Library of American Literature, and Jeanette Gilder, co-editor of The Critic, who hosted a popular election to identify the top 125 American women writers of 1890, made arguments for the inclusion of Piatt in the canon that are worth revisiting in light of turn-of-the-century mechanisms for erasing the literary history of which Piatt was a part.

“I wanted to live in that music:” Blues, Bessie Smith and Improvised Identities in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Siddall
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Classical Singing ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Bessie Smith ◽  
Black Female Identity

This paper explores the link between the improvisatory nature of blues music and resistance to socially prescribed expectations for gender and sexuality in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s first novel, Fall on Your Knees (1996). When Kathleen Piper, one of the main characters in the novel, leaves her home in Cape Breton in1918 to pursue a classical singing career in New York, she finds herself transfixed, and subsequently transformed, by a performance by Jessie Hogan (a fictional character clearly modeled on Bessie Smith), in large part because of her remarkable improvised vocals. Hogan’s performance points to the rich history of the great blues women of this time period, women who, through their songs, costumes, and improvised lyrics and melodies, explicitly and implicitly tackled issues such as domestic violence and poverty, and challenged normative ideas of black female identity and sexual orientation. This history provides a critical context for Kathleen’s growing sense of autonomy and sexual identity, and this paper argues that the representation of Bessie Smith in the novel (in the guise of Hogan) enables possibilities for improvising new social relations and sexual identities.

scholarly journals Distortion of Content and Endangered Archives: A Case Study of a Donation to the American University of Beirut, Lebanon

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Mariette Atallah
Keyword(s):  
American University ◽  
American University Of Beirut ◽  
Archival Collection ◽  
Ethnic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to shed light on the challenges related to locating and accessing archival sources on Lebanon and tries to demonstrate the way political, administrative, and ethnic history can determine and justify their availability locally and regionally. It explores the various regimes that have influenced the shaping of the history of Lebanon and that have left a written legacy and archival collection related to that history.

Stories without Plots

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-194
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Charles Brockden Brown ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Judith Sargent Murray ◽  
Philip Freneau ◽  
History Of ◽  
Periodical Essay

This chapter explains how the eighteenth-century genre of the periodical essay describes the modern economy as a complex system. Specifically distinguishing itself from the novel, the periodical (or Addisonian) essay narrates economic causality as multiplex and contingent: economic relations cannot be plotted around individual protagonists. The chapter offers a history of the importance of the periodical essay in American literature, and specifically focuses on the examples of the genre by Philip Freneau, Judith Sargent Murray, and Charles Brockden Brown. Although these writers represent very different ideological positions, they each use the generic affordances of the periodical essay to depict the intricate dependencies that constitute global capitalism. The periodical essay thus presents a belletristic form that functions similarly to Hamilton’s policy writing: speculative fictions that narrate the possible consequences that descend from individual moments of production, exchange, and consumption.

SURVEY OF DISASTERS IN THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE: A CASE STUDY OF I AM MALALA (I AM MALALA: THE GIRL WHO STOOD UP FOR EDUCATION AND WAS SHOT BY THE TALIBAN)

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-65
Author(s):  
Lale Massiha
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Human Origin ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Real ◽  
Normal Part ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Literature

I am Malala, the real story of the struggles of a girl who, unlike her elderly, did not remain silent, injustice and in order to bring the voices of the Pakistani girls to the victims of the bullying of the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai has gained world renown and released the story of her life with the help of Christina Lem in the story of a biography in 2013. Malala's militant spirit and his rhetoric have been of great interest to the world. But what caused Malala's fate was evil and evil that he had in his life from the beginning of his birth in various ways. In the present study, Kant's viewpoint is about moral misconduct, which suggests that evil does not have a super-human origin. Based on this, evil is being studied at its various levels and in the stages of Malala's life. In addition, John Kick's and Claudia Cardre's ideas have been used to analyze the intentions, motives, feelings and responsibilities of evil, organizational and individual evil in the novel "I am Malala". In other words, with the help of these theories and definitions, there are some kinds of evil in the novel, which at first glance is a normal part of the life of the characters of the story. The false beliefs and insistence on their continued existence make the various bad forms in Malala's life. With a carefulreading of the novel, one can show badly in the society and the context in which the story is formed. In a nutshell, theorists, including Hannah Arendt, refer to Hitler and the Holocaust, and then cite other examples. The present study seeks to add the Taliban to this list by showing the organizational weakness in this novel. The study seeks to show that evil in modern literature is not created by super-human forces or witch women, and terror and war are not even bad ones. But any harassment or enjoyment of the suffering of others or even silence against the suffering of others is evil and has irreparable negative effects on the lives of the characters what can be seen in the place of Malala's life.

Novel Use of a Synthetic Training Device in the Rehabilitation of Chronic Neck Pain of Rotary Rear Crew

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-372
Author(s):  
Sandra Jobges ◽  
Felicity Leaming
Keyword(s):  
Neck Pain ◽  
Chronic Neck Pain ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Training Device ◽  
Neck And Shoulder Pain ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evidence Based Guidelines ◽  
Intensive Rehabilitation

BACKGROUND: Chronic flight-related neck pain is a common, well-recognized problem in military aircrew. The reasons for flight-related neck pain are multifactorial; however, there are currently no evidence-based guidelines for its prevention or clinical management. This case study describes the novel use of a synthetic training device in the rehabilitation of a Chinook crewman with chronic neck pain.CASE REPORT: The patient is a 34-yr-old rear crewman with 10 yr flying experience in the Chinook helicopter. He has a history of intermittent neck and shoulder pain since 2009 following a rugby injury. Over the years he has self-managed recurrent episodes of neck pain. However, in November 2017 his pain was so severe that he could no longer continue flying. This pain made him unfit for flying duties for 18 mo and he received intensive rehabilitation and injection therapy. RAF Odiham’s new flying simulator was used in his return to flying program, so enabling him to become fully fit and return to all flying duties.DISCUSSION: Management and treatment of chronic flight-related neck pain is challenging. This case study highlights the importance of a multifactorial management approach and how a synthetic training device can be used in the rehabilitation of rotary rear crew.Jobges S, Leaming F. Novel use of a synthetic training device in the rehabilitation of chronic neck pain of rotary rear crew. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2020; 91(4):369–372.

scholarly journals Transitional Justice in the Context of Ethiopia

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jima Dilbo Denbel
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Meaningful Change ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Civilized Society

Leadership and governance are very important aspects of living in any civilized society. It is however, imperative to note that leadership unfolds over time in different models, ideologies and approaches, by the different leaders. This gives connotation to the concept of transitional justice to ensure a smooth and meaningful change of power or leadership from one model or person to another to avoid despotism and anarchy. This paper debates the ideology of transitional justice and its focus on the subject of how societies should transit from authoritarian rule to democracy in order to address a persistent history of massive human rights abuses. This piece of work brings light on how societies across the world ought to deal with their evil pasts. The paper fronts Ethiopia as a case study to have an in-depth perspective of the trends and dynamics involved in transitional justice. The discussion is specifically limited on Ethiopia, focusing mainly on the transition which took place in 1991. The paper circumspectly handles key democratic issues in governance and in that respect shades light on what the concept of transitional justice is and its implications in governance and social relations of any country. It gives insights into how Ethiopia dealt with its past after the transition, discusses the lessons learnt, and the common alternatives always available to both government leaders and the populace in dealing with their past.

scholarly journals Federalism Complicates the Response to the COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis: What Can Be Done?

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 951-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Huberfeld ◽  
Sarah H. Gordon ◽  
David K. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Safety Net ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Conflicting Messages

Abstract Federalism has complicated the US response to the novel coronavirus. States' actions to address the pandemic have varied widely, and federal and state officials have provided conflicting messages. This fragmented approach has surely cost time and lives. Federalism will shape the long-term health and economic impacts of COVID-19, including plans for the future, for at least two reasons: First, federalism exacerbates inequities, as some states have a history of underinvesting in social programs, especially in certain communities. Second, many of the states with the deepest needs are poorly equipped to respond to emergencies due to low taxes and distrust of government, leading to inadequate infrastructure. These dynamics are not new, but they have been laid bare by this crisis. What can policy makers do to address the inequities in health and economic outcomes that federalism intensifies? The first section of this article offers a case study of the Mississippi Delta to illustrate the role of federalism in perpetuating the connection between place, health, and economics. The second section examines challenges that safety net programs will face when moving beyond the acute phase of COVID-19. The final section explores near-, middle-, and long-term policy options to mitigate federalism's harmful side effects.

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