Kinotextuality in Matt Huynh’s The Boat

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Mike Lehman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Limited Space

Matt Huynh’s The Boat (2015), an interactive digital adaptation of Nam Le’s short story of the same name (2008), follows the story of a young Vietnamese boat migrant to explore the dilemma of belonging in migrant and refugee flight. While Le’s text details narratives of refugee flight, Huynh’s multimodal rendition translates the narrative of boat migration into an interactive, multisensory aesthetic mode that simulates the experience of boat passage on the ocean as well as the online viewer’s sense of a boat approaching national shores. In this article, I develop the concept of kinotextuality, an aesthetics of movement that renders the border generative and creative. I demonstrate that the literary imagination offers a conception of the border not merely as the limited space of the nation but as a space for reimagining the idea of human rights and protection.

scholarly journals Ekspresja i empatia. Tauromachia okiem Reymonta ("Los toros")

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 221-234
Author(s):  
Dorota Samborska-Kukuć
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Literary Imagination ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
San Sebastian ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies

Reymont wrote the short story, 'Los toros', in the year 1907 after coming back from Spain, where he witnessed a corrida in San Sebastián. The choice of the genre was intentional. The writer used it to reflect the realities of life and depict a group portrait of Spaniards, in which he succeeded without a doubt, using all with his literary imagination and ability to make his works metaphoric. Baffled by the corrida as an element of Spanish culture, Reymont did not express his moral approval of torturing animals (bulls and horses) on stage. On the contrary, his narration is full of sympathy and expressions that indicate emotional engagement. The turning point, the act of pardon performed by the young shepherd and the narrator’s friend towards the bull, indicates that Reymont’s reception of the corrida was empathic. Now, we had two conclusions on the contesting of the phenomenon. Reymont’s work was used by the French Chamber of Deputies as a literary example of disapproval of bloody spectacles that are justified by tradition. 

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 290-296
Author(s):  
Josephine McDonagh
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Military Campaigns ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Conrad’s 1901 short story ‘Amy Foster’ has influenced postcolonial and human rights critics who link it to post-1945 forms of migration. But the story also reveals its indebtedness to the nineteenth-century novel. Published first in a weekly magazine, surrounded by advertisements for colonial commodities and articles about imperial military campaigns, the story draws attention to many of the same issues, and uses the same techniques, as the fictions explored in earlier chapters of the book. That the story also resonates with the conditions of exile faced by refugees in more recent times suggests that the continuing significance of the nineteenth-century novel lies in the way in which it established, and also interrogated, paradigmatic and persistent assumptions about the relationship between human mobility and freedom. While it bears traces of the colonial regimes in which it was produced, another important legacy of the nineteenth-century novel is that it presents us with an analytical frame in which to understand and interrogate the types and patterns of human mobility on which these were built.

scholarly journals Piano-bar: Short story by a Haitian

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-23
Author(s):  
Liliane Dévieux
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Western World ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Set Up

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western world. The average yearly wage is 300 US dollars. Its resources, human and material, have been squandered by the brutal Duvalier dynasty that has ruled since 1957. Francois ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier ignored the rule of law and set up his own security forces (among them the infamous Ton-Ton Macoutes) to silence all opposition. Torture, arbitrary arrests and expulsions, and long periods of detention without charge became commonplace. Vicious abuse of human rights continued when his son, ‘Baby Doc’, took over in 1971 and proclaimed himself president-for-life. Since then there have been successive waves of attacks not only on political opponents, but also lawyers, intellectuals, and journalists. In addition, writers in Haiti have to contend with 85–90% illiteracy, a complete lack of publishing possibilities, and virtually no public libraries. The majority of them have joined the exodus of Haitians seeking a living abroad, which has taken 300,000 to New York (and made it the second largest ‘Haitian’ city) and some 30,000 to Montreal, where Liliane Dévieux, the author of this short story, has lived since the mid-1970s.

scholarly journals Women emancipation and human rights in "Husband", by Lídia Jorge

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-245
Author(s):  
Joice Graciele Nielsson ◽  
André Giovane de Castro
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Natural Phenomenon ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Exploratory Technique ◽  
The Face ◽  
Research Goal ◽  
Condition Of Women

In this article, we debate on the condition of women in society and their emancipation from the patriarchal system. The method used is phenomenological-hermeneutical, with qualitative approach, exploratory technique, and bibliographical procedure. The research problem is: to what extent does the domination of men manifest itself over the female subject’s body and mind with aims at hindering their empowerment through acts of violence at home? This study is justified by the need and the urgency of understanding the historical constitutions of gender identities as a social, non-natural phenomenon. The research goal is to, at first, analyze patriarchy as a mechanism of superiority for men and of subjugation, submission and subjection for women. Secondly, this paper aims at understanding women’s incorporation of patriarchal precepts as an obstacle to emancipation, confrontation and resistance to domestic violence, based on the analysis of the short story "Husband" (Marido), by Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge. In conclusion, corroborating the starting hypothesis of the article, it appears that patriarchy hinders the emancipatory potential of women and, therefore, of human rights in the face of domination and violence by men.

scholarly journals Colonial Racial Ethnocentrism Towards Indigenous People in a Short Story Collection “Semua untuk Hindia” by Iksaka Banu (A Postcolonial Study)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Nensilianti Nensilianti ◽  
Sy. Fatma Al-Khiyyed ◽  
Hasvivi Tri Anjarsari Fahrir
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Human Position ◽  
Cultural Concept

Dutch colonialism in Indonesia brought about physical oppression and conquest of territory and instilled racism. Understanding racism positions the indigenous people as a third class whose rank has never been higher than the Dutch. Racial ethnocentrism leads people to concepts and views of life that consider their culture to be far superior to the culture owned by others. This study aimed to reveal and describe the forms of racial ethnocentrism brought by the Dutch towards Indonesian society. The data were obtained from excerpts or quotes that contain elements of racism from a short story collection “Semua untuk Hindia (All for Hindia)” by Iksaka Banu. The analysis results revealed that racial ethnocentrism or racism emerged in racial prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination in the short story collection. The cultivation of these ethnocentric behaviors was based on the Western cultural concept and view of ideal human beings and the human position passed down from generation to generation. It impacted the Dutch’s social construction and use of authority in oppressing the indigenous people in Indonesia. Indigenous figures were oppressed, marginalized, and their human rights were ignored. Research on the short story collection can strengthen the disclosure of colonialism history in Indonesia.

An Aesthetics of Kin and the Rights of the Child

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crystal Parikh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Rights Of The Child ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
Minor Literatures

The Conclusion describes how the construction of the child as a human rights subject in the Convention on the Rights of the Child insists upon a human right to family, which in turn animates an “aesthetics of kin” in minor literatures, such as Aimeee Phan’s short story collection We Should Never Meet.

Human Rights and Theatre Practice in Northern Ireland: A Round-Table Discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-291
Author(s):  
Lisa FitzGerald ◽  
Eva Urban ◽  
Rosemary Jenkinson ◽  
David Grant ◽  
Tom Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Round Table Discussion ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The North ◽  
Table Discussion ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
Global Peace

This round-table discussion, edited by Eva Urban and Lisa FitzGerald, took place on 5 July 2019 as part of the conference ‘New Romantics: Performing Ireland and Cosmopolitanism on the Anniversary of Human Rights’ organized by the editors at the Brian Friel Theatre, Queen’s University Belfast. Lisa FitzGerald is a theatre historian and ecocritic who completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique (CRBC), Université Rennes 2 and the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She is the author of Re-Place: Irish Theatre Environments (Peter Lang, 2017) and Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic (forthcoming, Bloomsbury, 2020). Eva Urban is a Senior Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice, Queen’s University Belfast, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies, QUB. She is the author of Community Politics and the Peace Process in Contemporary Northern Irish Drama (Peter Lang, 2011) and La Philosophie des Lumières dans le Théâtre Breton: Tradition et Influences (Université de Rennes, 2019). Rosemary Jenkinson is a Belfast playwright and writer of five short story collections. Her plays include The Bonefire (Rough Magic), Planet Belfast (Tinderbox), White Star of the North, Here Comes the Night (Lyric), Lives in Translation (Kabosh Theatre Company), and Michelle and Arlene (Accidental Theatre). Her writing for radio includes Castlereagh to Kandahar (BBC Radio 3) and The Blackthorn Tree (BBC Radio 4). She has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to write a memoir. Tom Maguire is Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at Ulster University and has published widely on Irish and Scottish theatre and in the areas of Theatre for Young Audiences and Storytelling Performance. His heritage research projects include the collection Heritage after Conflict: Northern Ireland (Routledge, 2018, co-edited with Elizabeth Crooke). David Grant is a former Programme Director of the Dublin Theatre Festival and was Artistic Director of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. He has worked extensively as a theatre director throughout Ireland and is co-investigator of an AHRC-funded research project into Arts for Reconciliation. He lectures in drama at Queen’s University Belfast.

scholarly journals Business Ethics and Human Rights: An Overview

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
George G BRENKERT
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
General Terms

AbstractIn the last several decades a diverse movement has emerged that seeks to extend the accountability for human rights beyond governments and states, to businesses. Though the view that business has human rights responsibilities has attracted a great deal of positive attention, this view continues to face many reservations and unresolved questions.Business ethicists have responded in a twofold manner. First, they have tried to formulate the general terms or frameworks within which the discussion might best proceed. Second, they have sought to answer several questions that these different frameworks pose: A. What are human rights and how justify one’s defence of them?; B. Who is responsible for human rights? What justifies their extension to business?; and C. What are the general features of business’s human rights responsibilities? Are they mandatory or voluntary? How are the specific human rights responsibilities of business to be determined?Within the limited space of this article, this article seeks to critically examine where the discussion of these issues presently stands and what has been the contribution of business ethicists.

scholarly journals واقع الحرية في الحضارات القديمة ومنطلقات ممارستها في المجتمعات الإسلامية المعاصرة (The Reality of Freedom in Past Civilizations and Its Practices in Contemporary Islamic Societies)

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-126
Author(s):  
Amer Abdulwahab Mahyoub Murshed ◽  
Eftekhar Ali Abdo Amer
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Limited Space ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
Contemporary Life ◽  
Ancient Civilizations

Historical reading of the actual picture of freedom in ancient civilizations and today’s realities indicates that the values of freedom and human rights have been violated. It also indicates that people have been subjugated by authoritarian regimes. The purpose of this research is to reflect on the actual reality of freedom in contemporary Islamic societies. To this effect, the study adopted a descriptive and historical approach using a survey to review the opinions of academics about freedom in contemporary Islamic societies. The study suggests that freedom is not granted easily but is rather obtained by force. It also indicates that freedom is inherent in human nature and it is often enhanced by persistence, enriched by satisfaction, and prescribed by good legislations. The opinions obtained by the survey also suggest that there exists an utterly insignificant and limited space of freedom in Islamic societies. To yield fruitful results in our contemporary life, freedom must be originated from the servitude to the Almighty Allah by adhering to the Islamic constants in the Quran and Prophetic traditions and referring to Islamic legislation in which all rights are protected without favor nor exception.

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