Plotting a Persian Paradise

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Einboden
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
First Century ◽  
Samson Agonistes ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Literary Revision ◽  
Persian Translation

From popular novels to dense scholarly editions, Milton has enjoyed an eclectic and expansive afterlife in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Persian translation. Provoking responses from prominent women writers in particular, Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes have offered rich sources for Persian translation and literary revision, attracting the attention of Iran’s best-selling woman novelist, Dāneshvar (d. 2013), as well as Iran’s leading woman translator, Dāmghānī. This chapter surveys highlights since the 1960s of Milton in Iran, from Dāneshvar’s brief quotation of Samson in her fiction, to the extended translations of Paradise Lost produced by Dāmghānī, as well as by Shafā (d. 2010). Domesticating not only the content of Milton’s poetry but also Miltonic contexts, these diverse editions produce distinct Iranian afterlives of the English author and cultivate contemporary Persian grounds for the reproduction of his Renaissance English poetics.

scholarly journals A Brief History of Social Movements in North America

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
CASIS
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
First Century ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Fifth Generation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

The purpose of this analysis is to differentiate social movements. In this instance, we will be using the hippie/counterculture movements during the 1960s and 1970s in Canada, and those that are occurring in the second decade of the twenty-first century. In particular, this analysis distinguishes right-wing extremist movements in 2016 from groups like the Hippie Movement and the Black Panther Party Movement. Specific reference will be made to contrast the social movements of the twenty-first century that are non-political in nature but are identity-based, versus movements during the 60s and 70s that were political by design and intent. Due to the non-political nature of twenty-first century Violent Transnational Social Movements, they might be characterized as fifth generation warfare, which we identify as identity-based social movements in violent conflict with other identity based social movements, this violence may be soft or hard. ‘Soft violence damages the fabric of relationships between communities as entrenches or highlights the superiority of one group over another without kinetic impact. Soft violence is harmful activities to others which stops short of physical violence’. (Kelshall, 2019) Hard violence is then recognized as when soft violence tactics result in physical violence. Insurgencies are groups that challenge and/or resist the authority of the state. There are different levels of insurgencies; and on the extreme end, there is the resistance of systemic authority.

Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Wu
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Asian International Students ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 12 addresses the ways in which Asian American Studies’ overriding insistence on recovering a useable resistant past via the aforementioned rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s has made it troublingly reluctant to examine relevant accommodation. As the title suggests, Wu considers how the intellectual trajectory of the field, dominated by a limited U.S.-centrism, has proved largely ineffective with regard to the twenty-first century influx of international students from Asian countries at U.S. universities.

Families, Intellectuals, and Enemies in the “Red Classic” Remake New Tunnel Warfare

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Vanderstaay
Keyword(s):  
Original Film ◽  
First Century ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Biological Family ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Violent Acts ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter investigates how the animated film New Tunnel Warfare (Xin didao zhan, 2009), a remake of the red classic Tunnel Warfare (Didao zhan, 1965), reshapes the socio-political ideologies present in the original film for a twenty-first century child audience.  The chapter particularly focuses, firstly, on how New Tunnel Warfare re-inserts the biological family into Communist discourse, in contrast to the original film where the biological family was less important than the Communist ‘family’ of people unrelated by blood.  Secondly, the chapter analyses the overt representation of violence in New Tunnel Warfare and the responses of its characters to violent acts. Finally, the chapter examines the film’s revival of the intellectual as a positive figure in Communist mythology. The chapter argues that these changes have been made in New Tunnel Warfare to reflect the major socio-political changes in Chinese society between the 1960s and the early twenty-first century

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
David Denver ◽  
Mark Garnett
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Party Support ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Opinion Polls

This chapter provides an overview of British general elections from 1964 to 2019, outlining trends in party support and turnout as well as changes in the numbers of candidates. Developments in campaigning methods and the greatly increased role of opinion polls in elections are discussed. The main academic theories seeking to explain voting behaviour in Britain—from the Butler–Stokes model to ‘performance politics’—are introduced and explained. These underpin and help to account for the change from an electorate that was largely stable and aligned with one of the major parties in the 1960s to one that was volatile and ‘dealigned’ by the twenty-first century.

Clarissa Dalloway’s Global Itinerary: From London to Paris and Sydney

2020 ◽  
pp. 354-370
Author(s):  
Monica Latham
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
First Century ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
Twenty First Century

Almost a century after its publication, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) continues to endure and influence many international contemporary writers. This chapter focuses on three contemporary women writers who have authored recent novels inspired by Mrs Dalloway and who have revived Dalloway-esque themes within a renewed spectrum of aesthetic, cultural and political contexts. From direct, intended homages to Woof’s Mrs Dalloway to more subtle allusions, Anne Korkeakivi (An Unexpected Guest, 2012), Carole Llewellyn (Une ombre chacun, 2017) and Gail Jones (Five Bells, 2011) have taken their own twenty-first-century Clarissa Dalloway to Paris and Sydney. These cities, with their topographic, historical and cultural specificities, function as the canvas for the contemporary characters’ wanderings. Korkeakivi, Llewellyn and Jones perpetuate Woolf’s Dalloway-isms, but they also make them new by adapting them to contemporary expectations, settings and situations.

scholarly journals From the play to the event: Delineating phenomena of theatrical activity in Greece at the turn of the twenty-first century

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Platon Mavromoustakos
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Study ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dramatic Play ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Fundamental Shift

Attempting a general overview, this article may be understood as a preliminary requisite towards a more systematic study of theatrical activity in Greece since the turn of the twenty-first century. At the heart of this approach lies the fundamental shift from the dramatic play to the performance event, which has taken place both in theatre practice and theatre studies since the 1960s. The hypothesis underlying this study is that in Greek theatre the transition commenced after the reestablishment of democracy, becoming more broadly evident in this century. Some of the main points discussed are the profile of the new generation of theatre creators, the role of some major theatrical events and organisations, institutional transformations, new forms of collectivity in theatrical activity, the persistent demand for extroversion, dramatic production and its links to the stage.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Tansen Sen ◽  
Brian Tsui
Keyword(s):  
State System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global History ◽  
American Imperialism ◽  
China And India ◽  
The World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The 1960S

The essays in this volume describe the manifold ways in which China, India, and their respective societies were connected from the 1840s to the 1960s. This period witnessed the inexorable rise and terminal decline of Pax Britannica in Asia, the blooming of anti-colonial movements of various ideological hues, and the spread and entrenchment of the nation-state system across the world. This layered legacy looms large in the relations between Chinese and Indian societies in the twenty-first century. Euro-American imperialism figured as much more than the backdrop against which China and India interacted. Practitioners of global history (...

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