“That Pause for Contemplation”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Callahan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
American Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Father Figures ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

In “’That Pause for Contemplation’: A Centennial Meditation on Ralph Ellison,” John Callahan—Ellison’s literary executor and the dean of Ellison studies—looks back upon Ellison’s life and work, asking what Ellison’s accomplishment looks like 100 years after his birth, and a new century proceeds in his wake. Beginning with the “thought experiment” of a young Barack Obama jogging past Ralph Ellison in New York in the 1980s, Callahan meditates on Ellison’s investigation of the relationship between the individual search for identity and America’s pursuit of democratic equality. Drawing upon Ellison’s wealth of posthumously published material—the short stories, essays, interviews, and his unfinished second novel—Callahan emphasizes Ellison’s relentless pursuit of the novel form as his means of interrogating the fluid, improvisational, evolving form of American identity. Callahan probes the omnipresent father figures that dominate Ellison’s work after Invisible Man—Lewis Ellison, Abraham Lincoln, Alonzo Hickman, and others.

scholarly journals La cuentística erótica de Jaramillo Levi a través de sus máquinas deseantes

LETRAS ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 147-161
Author(s):  
Fátima R. Nogueira
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Death Instinct ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Sexual Drive ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Se estudia la narrativa de Jaramillo Levi centrada en la relación entre el erotismo y la muerte, desde el intercambio de dos fuerzas que actúan en la producción del deseo: una, de naturaleza libidinosa e inconsciente, la otra de filiación social. Estos relatos exploran el vínculo entre las pulsiones sexuales y el instinto de la muerte revelando el exceso y la violencia ocultos en el erotismo; además, plasman la magnitud del deseo que al exceder los límites del cuerpo y del individuo deviene una experiencia de la sexualidad inhumana reafirmada sólo por un campo saturado de intensidades y vibraciones. Partiendo de la teoría lacaniana del deseo, y de conceptos de Deleuze y Guattari, en los relatos tal encuentro de fuerzas objetiviza el sujeto y cuestiona la noción antropomórfica de sexualidad. This study deals with Jaramillo Levi’s short stories centered on the relationship between eroticism and death, examining the exchange of two driving forces which create desire. The nature of one of these forces is unconscious and libidinous while the other is social. These stories explore the link between sexual drive and the death instinct, disclosing overindulgence and violence hidden behind eroticism. In addition, they depict the magnitude of desire, which upon exceeding the boundaries of the human body and the individual, becomes an experience of inhuman sexuality that can reaffirm itself only in a field permeated with intensity and vibrations. Considering Lacan’s theory of desire and other concepts from Deleuze and Guattari, the exchange of forces in these stories objectifies the subject and questions the anthropomorphic notion of sexuality.

“We dreamed a dream”: Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King, Jr. & Barack Obama

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Sundquist
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Martin Luther King

In Spring 2010, a manuscript version of Ralph Ellison's unfinished second novel, Three Days before the Shooting, was finally published. Written over the course of more than forty years and running to 1,100 pages, the novel not only has a great deal to tell us about Ellison's craft and his approach to the civil rights movement; it also speaks eloquently to traditions of leadership on American race relations stretching from the days of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass through the rise of Martin Luther King, Jr., and, ultimately, Barack Obama.

scholarly journals Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One?

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonah E. Rockoff ◽  
Brian A. Jacob ◽  
Thomas J. Kane ◽  
Douglas O. Staiger
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Teacher Selection ◽  
Effective Teacher ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Math Teachers ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Individual Variables ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Research on the relationship between teacher characteristics and teacher effectiveness has been underway for over a century, yet little progress has been made in linking teacher quality with factors observable at the time of hire. To extend this literature, we administered an in-depth survey to new math teachers in New York City and collected information on a number of nontraditional predictors of effectiveness, including teaching-specific content knowledge, cognitive ability, personality traits, feelings of self-efficacy, and scores on a commercially available teacher selection instrument. We find that only a few of these predictors have statistically significant relationships with student and teacher outcomes. However, the individual variables load onto two factors, which measure what one might describe as teachers' cognitive and noncognitive skills. We find that both factors have a moderately large and statistically significant relationship with student and teacher outcomes, particularly with student test scores.

Translational Language: Felipe Alfau’s Iberian English and Its Afterlife

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-62
Author(s):  
Regina Galasso
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Artistic Works ◽  
The Relationship

Part I focuses on the novel Chromos by the New York-based, Barcelona-born writer Felipe Alfau. Alfau’s decision to write in English rather than Spanish, surprised critics not only as an odd choice but also as a unique English, a form of the language with a deep imprint of Spanish. This part postulates that the practice of translation is responsible not only for the extraordinary language of Chromos but also for its main themes, as the novel repeatedly questions the relationship between original and translation in literature and other artistic works, particularly in situations of relocation. This part argues that Chromos suspends the process of translation, rather than defining itself as an original or a translation. This part then discusses Eduardo Lago's novel Llámame Brooklyn which pays homage to Alfau by including him as a character as well as forming other structural and thematic threads with the late author's writing. Both Llámame Brooklyn and Chromos propose a treatment of New York that questions the cultural boundaries of Spain and problematizes the coexistence of the Spanish and English languages thereby setting up some of the critical themes of the parts to follow.

Framing Variations and Collective Memory

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Schuman ◽  
Amy Corning ◽  
Barry Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Separate Experiment ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Central to American identity have been public memories of events like the struggle for independence and the achievements of key figures from the past. The individual most often subject to hagiographic accounts is Abraham Lincoln, with emphasis both on his epic achievements in saving the Union and ending slavery and on his personal characteristics, such as honesty and the motivation to transcend his “backwoods” childhood and attain positions of local, state, and national leadership. However, a recent study based on extensive survey data found that Lincoln’s connection to emancipation provided the primary content of beliefs about him for most Americans today, with other beliefs mentioned much less often. Our present research supports that emphasis when presidential actions are the focus, but a randomized survey-based experiment shows that with a type of questioning that reflects the distinction between “essence” and “action”—inner character versus public achievements—beliefs about the former become at least as prominent as beliefs about the latter. Preliminary evidence to this effect is replicated decisively in a separate experiment, and the study is then extended to consider changes over time in indicators of essence versus action. Our research highlights the importance of how inquiries are framed, and they show that variations in framing, including those that are unintended, can enlarge our understanding of collective memory of Lincoln and of collective memory generally.

Ritual and Rationalization: Black Folklore in the Works of Ralph Ellison

PMLA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Folk Tradition ◽  
The Human Condition

From his early short stories through his as yet unpublished second novel, Ralph Ellison pursues the theme of the quest for black self-definition by reference to black folklore. “In the folklore,” he says, “we tell what Negro experience really is.” Ellison adapts black folklore to fiction by fitting it into the forms of American and Western myth. As he enlarges the context of black folk tradition, he reduces the importance of its basis in racial oppression and conflict and transforms its social meaning into the metaphysical meanings of the framing myths. Thus black identity becomes indistinguishable from American identity or the human condition, and the effort to define it from within results instead in continued definition by the enslaving society.

scholarly journals MEMORY AND SPACE IN LITERARY TEXTS: AN INVESTIGATION ON NOVELS OF FATIH HARBIYE AND DOKUZUNCU HARICIYE KOGUSU -NINTH SURGICAL WARD-

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-212
Author(s):  
Ömer Faruk YÜCEL
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Surgical Ward ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This study deals with the relationship between memory and space in Peyami Safa's novels. Literary texts are a field of memories by means of imagination or directly from life itself. The author, who can only imagine what he has experienced, takes advantage of memory while writing his text. Therefore, literature constitutes an important resource for studies related to memory. The concept of space that indicates a place where memory is held is an important research object of this study. Because memories, knowledge, experience and life experiences that make an impression in memory always take place in a space. For this, space, besides being a concept that supports memory, actually has a memory itself. Memory spaces emerge as a result of this approach. Memory spaces have a great influence on the formation of social identity. This study also tries to reveal how the memory-space relationship constructs the concept of "identity". Identities which are laid foundation with the world of thought of the society from which the individual comes gain continuity through the memory space. Fatih Harbiye, Peyami Safa’s novel, is a literary work that reflects the east-west, new-old and modern-tradition dualities and reveals the concept of identity in the light of these dualities. This study examines how the relationship between memory and space constructs an identity in Fatih Harbiye's novel. In this study, which draws attention to the direct relationship of memory and space in the shaping of psychological life, the novel Dokuzuncu Hariciye Koğuşu – Ninth Surgical Ward- is an important example for the relationship between personal memory and space.

scholarly journals SPECIFICITY OF CONTRAST IN VICTORIA TOKAREVA'S NOVEL "FRACTURE"

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 969-975
Author(s):  
G.S. Golovanova
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Functional Significance ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of the article is to analyze the functional significance of contrast in the text of the novel “Fracture”. The tasks are to describe the image of contrast in different language ways and means, to show the relationship between contrast and pointe as a specific feature of the novel genre, to characterize contrast as an effective method of actualizing textual meanings and identifying the author’s intention. The novelty of the study is determined by the involvement of a new language material to deepen the idea of the specificity and artistic role of contrast in the genre of short stories.

scholarly journals Analisis Tentang Hubungan Antara Cerpen Reaching For The Sky Karya Mitchell Waldman dengan Teori Strukturalisme Genetik

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 509
Author(s):  
Oryza Nurmartanti
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Class Inequality ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Social Class Inequality ◽  
The Relationship

The journal entitled "Analysis of the Relationship between Reaching For The Sky Short Story and Genetic Structural Theory" aims to describe the genetic structuralistic relationship shown in the study of Reaching For The Sky short stories. This research uses descriptive analysis method by using literary sociology analysis techniques. Short Story Reaching For The Sky is an interesting to be chosen because it is thought to show the relationship between structuralism theory and social inequality.The results showed that the short story Reaching For The Sky by Mitchell Waldman is work that is full of criticism about social class inequality that occurs in Brooklyn, New York, USA. This short story besides carrying the theme of social class, can also be examined more deeply using the theory of Genetic Structuralism. This can be achieved because between the short story and the author, there is a very close relationship. Can be identified through the author's background and what is in the short story. Characters, settings, story lines, enough to represent the correlation of short stories, authors and theories that support the link between the short storyline and genetic structuralism. Among these are: facts of humanity, collective subjects, worldview, structuration and dialectics of understanding.

scholarly journals REPRODUCTION OF OCCASIONAL FEATURES IN THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE TRANSLATION OF THE NOVEL "THE YELLOW PRINCE" BY V. BARKA

2019 ◽  
pp. 372-380
Author(s):  
V. V. Tkachivsky ◽  
M. R. Tkachivska
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Lexical Unit ◽  
German Translation ◽  
Original Language ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
Individual Style

The novel of V. Barka "The Yellow Prince" that showed the truth about the terrible crime of the Stalinist totalitarian regime of the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 to the whole world was published in 1962 in New York. Immediately after its publication, it was translated into English. Thirteen years later (1981), its French translation appeared in France;  in 2016, the Italian translation followed. In 2009 M. Ostheim-Dzerovych made the German translation of the novel “The Yellow Prince” by Vasyl Barka as the novel entitled "Der gelbe Fürst". The translator was born in Lviv, studied at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Vienna, since 1958 she has been working as a translator. The individual-authorial innovations operating in the novel "The Yellow Prince" demonstrate the literary skill of the writer and the peculiarities of his individual style. The reproduction of an individual style of the author is the most difficult task in the translation of an artistic text. By way of forming calques it was possible for the interpreter to reproduce the words adequately and therefore correspond to the individual style of V. Barka as well as to find certain equivalents. In some cases, the translator uses the lexem Getreide, and in the others she uses the word Brot. Vasyl Barka accurately and clearly conveys the realities of the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933. His individual names of the months deserve special attention. Using calques while copying the structure of the output lexical unit, the translator reproduces the newly created words. In the German translation, they retain the stylistic colour inherent to the original language.

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