The New Territory

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc C. Conner ◽  
Lucas E. Morel
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Original Essays

This introduction situates Ellison’s writings in the context of new approaches and abiding interest in his work; explores the affinity between Ralph Ellison’s fiction and commentary and Barack Obama’s political and literary sensibilities; and gives brief summaries of the fourteen original essays that examine the unpublished novel-in-progress, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . , Ellison’s landmark novel Invisible Man, and Ellison’s political, cultural, and historical significance for the 21st century.

The New Territory

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
First Century ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
Interpretive Study ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Historical Moment

The New Territory: Ralph Ellison and the Twenty-First Century offers fifteen original essays that seek to examine and re-examine Ellison’s life and work in the context of their meanings for our own age, the early 21st century, the age of Obama and of a nation that is simultaneously post-racial and all-too-racial. Following a careful introduction that situates Ellison’s writings in the context of new approaches and abiding interest in his work, while also exploring the affinity between Ralph Ellison’s fiction and commentary and Barack Obama’s political and literary sensibilities, the book offers four new essays examining Ellison’s 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man. It then turns to his unfinished second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting . . . , with five detailed chapters exploring that powerful and elusive narrative—the first sustained, book-length treatment of that multi-faceted work (the source of the shorter, edited novel Juneteenth). The New Territory concludes with five chapters that discuss Ellison’s political, cultural, and historical significance, asking how Ellison speaks to the America of 2016 and beyond. In The New Territory, we see how clearly Ellison foresaw and articulated both the challenges and the possibilities of America in the 21st century. Together, these chapters offer a thorough and penetrating assessment of Ellison at this crucial historical moment and the most comprehensive interpretive study of the writer best suited to act as the cultural prophet of 21st-century America.

Challenging the Modern Synthesis

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Modern Synthesis ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
New Biology ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
Orthodox View

Since its origin in the early 20th century, the modern synthesis theory of evolution has grown to represent the orthodox view on the process of organic evolution. It is a powerful and successful theory. Its defining features include the prominence it accords to genes in the explanation of development and inheritance, and the role of natural selection as the cause of adaptation. Since the advent of the 21st century, however, the modern synthesis has been subject to repeated and sustained challenges. In the last two decades, evolutionary biology has witnessed unprecedented growth in the understanding of those processes that underwrite the development of organisms and the inheritance of characters. The empirical advances usher in challenges to the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory. Many current commentators charge that the new biology of the 21st century calls for a revision, extension, or wholesale rejection of the modern synthesis theory of evolution. Defenders of the modern synthesis maintain that the theory can accommodate the exciting new advances in biology, without forfeiting its central precepts. The original essays collected in this volume—by evolutionary biologists, philosophers of science, and historians of biology—survey and assess the various challenges to the modern synthesis arising from the new biology of the 21st century. Taken together, the essays cover a spectrum of views, from those that contend that the modern synthesis can rise to the challenges of the new biology, with little or no revision required, to those that call for the abandonment of the modern synthesis.

Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-657
Author(s):  
Angela M. Labrador
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Northeastern United States ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Permanent Working ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
University Of Massachusetts ◽  
Practice Community ◽  
Research And Policy

The inaugural event for the newly established University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Center for Heritage & Society, entitled “Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: New Approaches to the Social, Political, and Religious Impact of Public Heritage in the 21st Century,” was held in November 2009 at three locations in the northeastern United States. Workshop attendees participated in several organized sessions, day trips, informal discussions, and five plenary sessions with accompanying working sessions focused on four themes in international heritage practice: community; faith; diaspora; and burial, ancestors, and human Remains. The event was co-organized by two members of the UMass Amherst Center for Heritage & Society, Director Elizabeth Chilton and Coordinator of Projects and Policy Initiatives Neil Silberman, whose main goal was to establish a permanent working group of international representatives engaging with issues of heritage in conflict charged with setting research and policy agendas for the field.

Invisible Man and the Politics of Love

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Butler
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Invisible Man ◽  
Political Concept ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
Reductive Treatment ◽  
Politics Of Love ◽  
Martin Luther King

Robert Butler’s “Invisible Man and the Politics of Love” rebuts the critique of Ellison as insufficiently engaged politically and alienated from authentic black culture, voiced most recently in Arnold Rampersad’s biography and Barbara Foley’s Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Butler argues that this view of Ellison misreads the extent of Ellison’s authentic political commitment, which is far more rigorous and complex than Foley’s reductive treatment of his so-called flight from leftist extremism into “mythic individualism.” Butler explores what he calls Ellison’s commitment to Christian love and integration, bringing into relief a political vision that is far more harmonious with the Civil Rights activism of Martin Luther King than the outmoded Marxism that Ellison abandoned in the early 1940s. In Butler’s view, Ellison’s political concept of integration and mutual love is strongly attuned to the needs of America in the 21st century.

scholarly journals e-SPC - delivering drug information in the 21st century: developing new approaches to deliver drug information to prescribers

2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Maxwell ◽  
Hans-Georg Eichler ◽  
Anna Bucsics ◽  
Walter E. Haefeli ◽  
Lars L. Gustafsson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Drug Information ◽  
New Approaches

scholarly journals Voorwaardes vir geloofsopvoeding om sinvol te bly in die 21ste-eeuse kultuurkonteks

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Valenkamp ◽  
Johannes L. Van der Walt
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Younger Generation

Conditions for faith education to remain meaningful in the 21st century cultural context Although significant numbers of their members are leaving the mainstream churches, this does not mean that these people have relinquished their Christian faith as such. There are signs that people leave mainstream denominations because of new approaches to life and personal experience in the cultural context of the 21st century. The authors try to discover explanations for this phenomenon that also seems to affect the faith education of the younger generation. It is concluded that the faith education of young people can only remain meaningful if people adopted what Paul Ricoeur called a “second naivity”, and if educators complied with certain conditions. By following certain guidelines, educators will help resist a threatening sense of loss of transcendance, relevance and reference among their learners.

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