Disability and Narrative

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 568-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bérubé
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Radioactive Fallout ◽  
The State ◽  
Premature Aging ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
World War ◽  
Blade Runner ◽  
Animated Films ◽  
The World

After a decade of working in disability studies, I still find myself surprised by the presence of disability in narratives I had never considered to be “about” disability—in animated films from Dumbo to Finding Nemo; in literary texts from Huckleberry Finn to Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays; and, most curiously, even in the world of science fiction and superheroes, a world that turns out to be populated by blind Daredevils, mutant supercrips, and posthuman cyborgs of all kinds. Indeed, I now consider it plausible that the genre of science fiction is as obsessed with disability as it is with space travel and alien contact. Sometimes disability is simply underrecognized in familiar sci-fi narratives: ask Philip K. Dick fans about the importance of disability in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and you'll probably get blank stares. But the Voigt-Kampff empathy test by which the authorities distinguish humans from androids was, Dick tells us, actually developed after World War Terminus to identify “specials,” people neurologically damaged by radioactive fallout, so that the state could prevent them from reproducing. That aspect of the novel's complication of the human-android distinction is lost in the film Blade Runner, but the film does give us an engineer with a disability that involves premature aging, which links him intimately to the androids who have life spans of only four years.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.P. Telotte
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Space Vehicles ◽  
Space Travel ◽  
World War ◽  
Wide Audience ◽  
The World

This chapter surveys the body of science fiction cartoons that appeared in approximate parallel to a burgeoning SF literature during the first years of film and continuing to World War II. It situates this material within the production and exhibition practices of the film industry and links it to modernist aesthetics, emphasizing modernism’s primary concerns with revisioning both the world and the self. It then describes the key memes typically found in these films—space vehicles and space travel, robots and mechanical figures, aliens and alien worlds, and inventions and inventors—while also suggesting the broader impact of the cartoons. Through the comic treatment of these memes, it argues, animation helped to make the SF genre both more familiar and less threatening to a wide audience.

scholarly journals Antjie Krog’s Mede-wete/Synapse as a challenge to new ways of comparative reading

Literator ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
American Association ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The State ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
English Version ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Literary Systems

This article reads Antjie Krog’s volume of poetry Mede-wete and its English version Synapse (both published in 2014) against the background of Rebecca Walkowitz’s proposal that the future of comparative literature will entail what she calls ‘foreign reading’. In her contribution to the American Association of Comparative Literature’s 2015 report on the state of the discipline of comparative literature (http://stateofthediscipline.acla.org) Walkowitz argues that literary texts increasingly enter the world in different languages and that this requires readings that move away from the idea that literary texts ‘belong’ to a single language, that explore the diverse ways in which they are read in different languages and that acknowledges that literary texts exist in the space created by a language’s relationship to other languages. This article takes Walkowitz’s observations as the vantage point for a discussion of the ways in which Krog’s volume (1) foreignises the Afrikaans language in order to become part of an interconnected whole; (2) urges readers, critics and literary practitioners to move beyond the confines of language-based literary systems; and (3) forces them to engage in a variety of different readings, including partial readings and collaborative readings, in order to become embedded in a larger community

scholarly journals Sometimes, when we talk about Damaged Buildings-it can be controversial

2019 ◽  
Vol 265 ◽  
pp. 05017
Author(s):  
Talal Awwad ◽  
Vladimir Ulitsky ◽  
Alexey Shashkin
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Restoration Practice ◽  
Second World ◽  
Modern Technologies ◽  
Civilized World

The entire civilized world follows the state of unique monuments of the east, including Syria, where military operations are not yet over. Separate monuments of antiquity have been destroyed, which require immediate examination and, at a minimum, preventing structural elements from collapse. Naturally, publications of the time of the Second World War (Russia, Japan, Poland…) most fully represented the world restoration practice of destruction from mass bombardments and shelling. For these works, it is possible to systematize the degree of danger of the state of the objects at the time of their possible restoration and to estimate the damage caused by the enlarged parameters. Unfortunately, today, the revision of this practice, taking into account modern technologies of engineering restoration of damaged and reconstructing lost monuments, becomes urgent. Without this, it is impossible to defeat the vandals of the 21st century.

History of Endocrine Surgery in Poland

2019 ◽  
Vol 91 (Suplement 1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Lech Pomorski ◽  
Paweł Mikosiński
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Endocrine Surgery ◽  
World War ◽  
Class Level ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Class

The history of endocrine surgery in Poland begun later compared to the rest of the world. The first confirmed endocrine surgeries in Poland were performed in the XIXth ceuntry. The surgical center in Krakow had a lot of merit in that field, especially surgeons such as: Mikulicz, Rydygier and their successors. Blooming development began after the II World War – in the 70’s and 80’s of XX century. Achievements of professors such as Tadeusz Tołłoczko, Witold Rudowski, Kazimierz Rybiński and others and their successors led to a situation where the state of Polish endocrine surgery is at a world-class level.

The World Wars and Their Legacies in Africa and in the Affairs of Africans: The Case of East Africa—Kenya

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110549
Author(s):  
EC Ejiogu ◽  
Adaoma Igwedibia
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Military Service ◽  
African State ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The State ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
World War ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
The World

This article drew from prominent Kenyan novelist-writer, Ngúgí wa Thiong’o’s personal history on the World Wars and their legacies in Africa and on the affairs of Africans, with a focus on East Africa, and especially his country of Kenya. Ngúgí, whose birth in 1938 and childhood years were on the cusp of the World War II (WWII), reveals that the likes of his father who dodged conscription into Britain’s Carrier Corps in the first War, and the conscription of his two elder brothers—one of whom died in service while the other returned home alive—for military service in WWII constitute significant and relevance issues for careful exploration on the subject matter of both World Wars and their legacies on the African continent. So are the various actors whose advent as actors in the affairs of Africans and others in East Africa is directly linked to World Wars I and II. Those would include the likes of Carey Francis, who came on in 1940 as the principal of the exclusive all-boys Alliance High where a generation of Kenyans that included Ngúgí received British-style public school education, Evelyn Baring, the then colonial governor-general of Kenya who superintended the imposition of the State of Emergency in Kenya, in the period 1952–1959, and even Idi Amin, a rank and file African enlistee in the King’s African Rifles (KAR) in the aftermath of the World War II. Amin and his ilk were deeply involved in the highly repressive British-led campaign during the State of Emergency in Kenya that led to the death of many of their fellow Africans. It is also noteworthy that as a soldier and subsequently, Amin became a central actor in the politics of post-independence Uganda sequel to his overthrow of Milton Obote’s government in a 1971 military coup d’état. The spiraling violence that Amin’s advent enhanced in Uganda’s body politic remains a recurrent feature of governance in that East African state. The analytical reconstruct that emerged in the article is illuminated with elements of C. Wright Mills’ age-old and all-time relevant original theory-rich methodological construct, “the sociological imagination” as the theoretical framework.

LABOR SQUADS OF STUDENTS AS A FORM OF REALIZATION OF YOUTH POLICY DURING THE WORLD WAR I

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147
Author(s):  
Букалова ◽  
Svetlana Bukalova
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The State ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
World War ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
The Way

The article is devoted to the analysis of the experience of the organization and activity of labour squads during the World War I. It can help to work out in details of state youth policy in the different historical stages of its development. The mission of those squads was to help the farmsteads, which stayed without workers because of their mobilization to the war. using the archive sources from the Orel province and data from other regions the author comes to theconclusion that labour squads were a form of mobilization of labor resources by the state. At the same time it was the way of socialization of youth and a form of state youth policy. Describing the system of labour squads management, the article says about participation of members of the royal family, provincial authorities, local self-governance, charity organizations and the public in it.

The Application of Soviet Laws and the Exception of Public Order

1927 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Habicht
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Uniform Solution ◽  
The Law

One of the most controversial rules of private international law is the exception of public order, the rule not to enforce foreign laws which are contrary to the fundamental conceptions of the law of the state having jurisdiction. There is no country in which this exception has not played an important rôle in the refusal to enforce foreign laws, and numerous writers have discussed the importance and difficulties of the exception of public order. Its problems had been thoroughly studied before the World War by many authorities on private international law, among others by Bustamante, Fiore, Kahn, Klein and Pillet, without a uniform solution having been reached. When, after the war, the states began to reestablish their international relations, the exception of public order began anew to play its rôle in the courts the world over, and to put the same difficulties before the judges dealing with cases of conflict between domestic and foreign laws.

Transistorized State: The Technique of Hegemony in the Early Cold War

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 178-189
Author(s):  
Eric A. Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Direct Consequence ◽  
Military Spending ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Investment ◽  
Defense Production ◽  
American State

The history of the transistor contributes to reassessments of the origins of us hegemony in the 1940s and 1950s. Areas of conflict emerged between us capital and the American state during the World War ii and in the immediate postwar years. Because the transistor evolved as a direct consequence of state investment during these years, the transistor’s history illuminates tensions over military spending and defense production, and the ways in which mncs, academia, and the state overcame tension in the establishment of hegemony.

scholarly journals NEGOTIATING OTTOMANISM IN TIMES OF WAR: JERUSALEM DURING WORLD WAR I THROUGH THE EYES OF A LOCAL MUSLIM RESIDENT

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Turkish State

In August 1915, in the midst of World War I, a young Muslim resident of Jerusalem wrote the following in his diary: Will I go to protect my country [waṭanī]? I am not an Ottoman, only in name, but a citizen of the world [muwaṭani al-ʿālam] . . . Had the state [dawla] treated me as part of it, it would have been worthwhile for me to give my life to it. However, since the country does not treat me in such way, it is not worthwhile for me to give my blood to the Turkish state [al-dawla al-Turkiyya]. I will happily go [to fight in Egypt?] but not as an Ottoman soldier . . .

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