Homesick for everywhere but here: character and place in the plays of Lillian Hellman

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Júnia De Castro Magalhães Alves
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
Emotional Aggression ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Relationship

Lillian Hellman's plays present a close interaction between character and setting. Few characters, if any, find happiness at home. Although rooted some place, they dream of some place else - unreal worlds and far away lands their own fanciful hopes. Four out of her eight plays interpret the Southern way of life. The other four focus on the North. The action comprises a series of events showing the characters' psychological needs and their often unsuccessful attempts to escape their land and background. There are three main forms of escape. Two are unreal: 1) to run away from either place or time or both. 2) To attack through physical violence or emotional aggression. The third form is real. lt is to return to the objective world left behind. Besides the escape theme, but still in relation to it, Miss Hellman's plays treat the universal conflict between good and evil, the dangers of naïveté and inaction, the exploitation of man and land, the relationship between the negro servant and the white master, and the results of social injustice and religious fanaticism. One conclusion emerges. The best resolution to these conflicts is to face reality and to act upon it.

Hiding a Ritual of Obedience

2020 ◽  
pp. 196-223
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Taïeb
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Public Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Symbolic Construction ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter describes executions as rituals of obedience and discusses how it was used in the symbolic construction of the relationship between rulers and citizens by attempting to force individual internalization of the state's monopoly over legitimate physical violence. The chapter talks about how the elimination of executionary publicity becomes inseparable from the practices of the modern public sphere. Under the Third Republic, many people learned to be the spectators of new sights that worked by representing a reality that was physically absent (dioramas, cinema) and in turn acquired new standards of speed. They came to find executions too slow, marred by shocking incidents, severed from reality, and likely to produce unhealthy emotions. Ultimately, these spectators began to develop a public culture accustomed to more distanced forms of political communication. The depublicization of executions was achieved when the authorities concluded that the public spectacle of death no longer had an exemplary effect and was no longer a tool that legitimized the state's monopoly over physical violence.

A reply

1984 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Krasner
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Policy Prescription ◽  
Liberal Policy

Marc Williams' ‘The Third World and global reform’ raises several fundamental questions about my analysis of the Third World's quest for a New International Economic Order. His most serious criticisms are that I (1) misunderstood the relationship between politics and economics; (2) covertly endorse an orthodox liberal policy prescription for the North; and (3) mis-state the implications that can be drawn from data on the economic situation of developing countries. I will address each of these issues.

The Politics of Slavery and the Coming Civil War

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-95
Author(s):  
John Ashworth
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Slave Resistance ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sectional Conflict

This article is divided into four parts. The first recounts the events of the sectional crisis up to the Compromise of 1850. The second looks at factors underlying these events: the relationship between slavery and the Democratic Party, deepening attachment of the South to slavery, the economic and social changes that generated antislavery sentiment in the North (including the shift to wage labor), and the much neglected role of slave resistance in the politics of the sectional conflict. The third shows the decisive impact of these factors in the final decade of peace. The fourth refers to, and criticizes, some current interpretations and misunderstandings of the origins of the Civil War,

Mission to the South, Words to the North: Reflections on Communication in the Church by a Northerner in the South

Exchange ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-298
Author(s):  
Jim Harries
Keyword(s):  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The South ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Clear Communication ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Thin Veneer

AbstractLimitations in the possibility of clear communication, even when the language in use (English) is supposedly international, form the foundation for this post-Jenkinsian view of the relationship between Southern and Northern churches today. Presented by a Northerner living in the South this perspective suggests that Northern domination of Southern Christianity (as well as of the South in general) is a threat to the Southern church. Colonial, and particularly post-colonial North/South relations aggravate corruption in the South, and promote a shallow imitation of Northern ways which forms a thin veneer over lives that are deeply rooted in magical/witchcraft worldviews. The widespread negative evaluation of Northern Christianity is here identified with a linguistic idiosyncrasy arising from the preeminence of secularism in the North. 'Southern English' makes different sense of the term 'religion'. Christianity is a way of life. Secularism is also a way of life, and it was its being omitted from Jenkins' look at the world religious scene that has given it a misleading singular status. Christianity is alive in the north, but needs a jerk to arrest its current injurious southwards impact.

The human remains from Tomb MMA 514 in North Asasif

2020 ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Roselyn A. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Human Remains ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Middle Kingdom ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Third Intermediate Period

The tombs of the North Asasif Necropolis have been the subject of archaeological excavations for more than a century. Mainly dating to the Middle Kingdom, the majority of these tombs were excavated for the Metropolitan Museum by H.E. Winlock in the early 20th century. The Asasif Project, directed by Dr. Patryk Chudzik, has been revisiting these tombs since 2013. In many cases, Winlock left behind a significant amount of archaeological debris, including detritus from the tombs’ original use in the Middle Kingdom and material from the Third Intermediate Period, when many of these tombs were reused. One of these tombs, MMA 514, was reused at least twice, and has yielded a wealth of remaining material, including a significant number of human remains. The human remains have been fragmented, damaged, and scattered by centuries of looting, as well as by Winlock’s excavations, but some information may still be gathered from these remains. Over the course of two field seasons, an inventory of the human remains was conducted, the results of which are presented here. All age ranges are present in the human remains, and both males and females are represented.

Vodún/Vodu, Resistance, and North/South Relations in Undemocratic Togo

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 224-248
Author(s):  
Eric James Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Care Delivery ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Education Economics ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Mechanisms Of Resistance ◽  
The Core ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The North ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Vodún/Vodu have long served as a “way of life” and ontology for making sense of the world along the Bight of Benin, and in the Caribbean and Atlantic world where many slaves were brought. In Togo, the core ethnic groups, the Ewes, continue to turn inward toward Vodún/Vodu traditions as mechanisms of resistance against an autocratic and despotic rule of a northern regime. While the north remains underdeveloped regarding education, economics, and health care delivery—the majority southern Ewes remain locked out of a political process run by the Eyadema regime, who regularly cite north/south conflict as a justification for absolute one-party rule over all of Togo. Vodun/Vodu become motors of modernity through creative assimilation and adaptation to the most pressing geopolitical concerns of the day. This paper assesses the relationship between Vodun/Vodu and contemporary Togolese politics, and its resistance to state-sponsored terror and autocracy.

The relationship between natural phenomena and economic activities in the national calendar of the Yakuts and Evens

2021 ◽  
pp. 724-731
Author(s):  
I.I. Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
World Order ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Human Economic Activity ◽  
The Relationship

The national calendar is an encyclopedia of the everyday life of the people, their way of life and world order. Knowledge and study of the folk calendar as part of culture is necessary to preserve the unique traditional cultures of the indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia. The novelty of the research lies in the establishment of the relationship between natural phenomena and human economic activity in the national calendar of the Yakuts and Evens, taking into account the peculiarities of the creation by each of the peoples of their own calendar.

Vietnamese Marxism, Dissent, and the Politics of Postcolonial Memory: Tran Duc Thao, 1946–1993

2002 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn McHale
Keyword(s):  
Historical Record ◽  
World Views ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vietnamese History ◽  
The North ◽  
Open Debate ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Relationship

The themes of nationalism and revolution occupy an important place in the study of post-1945 Asia. Nowhere is this more evident than in Vietnam: after all, the Resistance War against the French (1946–54), followed by the war against the Americans and their allies (1965–75), has shaped modern Vietnamese history. For the 1950s in particular, scholars of Vietnam have developed a view in which nationalistic communists in the north consolidate their grip on power, undergoing crises but emerging stronger. This view has obvious merit. Nonetheless, it can leave the observer with the sense that a monolithic Vietnamese communism, tempered by years of struggle, inevitably triumphs. Three features are left out of such accounts. First, they downplay the diversity of Vietnamese world-views in the 1940s and 1950s. Second, they often lack a sense of the contingent and the accidental. And third, readers today are often left unaware of how deeply the relationship between past and present is contested. The past itself was, and is, in dispute: the contestation in the 1950s, where polemics eventually triumphed over open debate, left behind a fragmentary and partial historical record. The present has been no less problematic: contemporary concerns have reshaped memories and structured our sense of the past.

The Poetics of Nature in Ossian and Staël

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-252
Author(s):  
Tili Boon Cuillé
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
James Macpherson ◽  
The North ◽  
The Relationship

France’s frame of reference shifted northward when James Macpherson went in search of the Scots national epic, returning with poems attributed to the third-century bard Ossian. Though denounced as a hoax, Macpherson’s reconstruction of a lost epic from surviving fragments has since been compared to scientific endeavors such as geology and cartography. Chapter 4 explores Macpherson’s use of similes interrelating the natural and the spiritual realms and the relationship between melancholy and memory in the epics before turning to their favorable French reception. Both Napoleon and Germaine de Staël embraced France’s northern heritage, hailing Ossian as the new Homer. Privileging northern melancholy over southern enthusiasm, Staël looked to the philosophical poetry of the north as the source of French spiritual regeneration. Ironically, anxieties about the epics’ authenticity led to the establishment of the Académie Celtique and the science of folklore.

scholarly journals The doctrine of love and the stage of the divine cognition, according to the community of the third order of St. Francis of Foligno, at the turn of XIII-XIV centuries

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-46
Author(s):  
Yulia V. Rodionova
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Medical Aspect ◽  
The Third ◽  
Angela Of Foligno ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Recommendations ◽  
The Way

The article presents an analysis of one of the parts of the book of Revelations of blessed Angela of Foligno, which contains the Instructiones (message) to members of the community of the third order of St. Francis. The doctrine proposes to consider the relationship with God as an object/subject of love, to which feelings and emotions are directed. The “presence of the divine Beloved” is “cognition” and can respond by generating sensations of its material presence. The author of the doctrine has practical recommendations (stages of knowledge): how to achieve junction with the divine, what steps should be taken to change the way of life. It is concluded that there was a developed teaching among the members of the community, and its medical aspect is considered.

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