scholarly journals Vidas secas e o ensaio de interpretação social: uma comparação com Os sertões / Vidas secas and the Social Interpretation Essay: A Comparison with Os sertões

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Ricardo Pedrosa Alves
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Social Perspective ◽  
Institutional Violence ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
The Social ◽  
Os Sertoes ◽  
Euclides Da Cunha

Resumo: O artigo analisa de modo comparativo o romance Vidas secas, de Graciliano Ramos, e o ensaio de interpretação social Os sertões, de Euclides da Cunha. Através da comparação das estratégias compositivas e narrativas presentes nos dois livros, como o “narrador sincero” de Os sertões e o uso do indireto livre em Vidas secas, o artigo mostra aproximações e diferenças entre os dois clássicos brasileiros. Também são comparadas as perspectivas intelectuais que orientam o romance e o ensaio, no cientificismo de Euclides da Cunha e na perspectiva sociologicamente crítica adotada por Graciliano Ramos. O artigo ressalta as diferenças também na perspectiva social dos autores, através da análise da representação da violência institucional do Estado nas duas obras. As análises foram realizadas com o apoio de discussões presentes em Willi Bolle, Luís Bueno, Antonio Candido, Miriam Gárate e Luiz Costa Lima, entre outros.Palavras-chave: Vidas secas; Os sertões; ensaio de interpretação social; narrador sincero; indireto livre.Abstract: The article compares Graciliano Ramos’ novel Vidas secas and Euclides da Cunha’s essay on social interpretation Os sertões. By comparing the compositional strategies and the narratives present in both books, such as “the sincere narrator” in Os sertões and the use of free indirect speech in Vidas secas, the article shows approximations and differences between the two Brazilian classic works. The intellectual perspectives that guide the novel and the essay are also compared, analysing Euclides da Cunha’s scientificism and in the sociologically critical perspective adopted by Graciliano Ramos. The article also highlights the differences in the social perspective of the authors, analysing the representation of the institutional violence performed by the State in both works. The present analysis took as theoretical background the works by Willi Bolle, Luis Bueno, Antonio Candido, Miriam Gárate and Luiz Costa Lima.Keywords: Vidas secas; Os sertões; social interpretation essay; sincere narrator; free indirect speech.

Who’s holding up the sky? On Rymba, a novel by A. Bushkovsky

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
A. V. Zhuchkova
Keyword(s):  
Gender Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Flood Zone ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian North ◽  
And Gender

The article deals with A. Bushkovsky’s novel Rymba that goes beyond the topics typical of Russian North prose. Rather than limiting himself to admiring nature and Russian character, the author portrays the northern Russian village of Rymba in the larger context of the country’s mentality, history, mythology, and gender politics. In the novel, myth clashes with reality, history with the present day, and an individual with the state. The critic draws a comparison between the novel and the traditions of village prose and Russian North prose. In particular, Bushkovsky’s Rymba is discussed alongside V. Rasputin’s Farewell to Matyora [ Proshchanie s Matyoroy ] and R. Senchin’s The Flood Zone [ Zona zatopleniya ]. The novel’s central question is: what keeps the Russian world afloat? Depicting the Christian faith as such a bulwark, Bushkovsky links atheism with the social and spiritual roles played by contemporary men and women. The critic argues, however, that the reliance on Christianity in the novel verges on an affectation. The book’s main symbol is a drowning hawk: it perishes despite people’s efforts to save it.

Design in Deloney's Jack of Newbury

PMLA ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Dorsinville
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
World View ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Literary Value ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

Jack of Newbury's surface realism in characters, setting, and speech has led to an underestimation of its historical and literary value. A close reading reveals the consistent use of the Greco-Roman ethical-political conception of the state, epitomized in the figure of the ruler. Deloney shows his familiarity with this tradition, probably known to him through Erasmus and Sidney, in the three controlling motifs of his novel. First, the middle class of weavers, represented in Jack's household and dramatized in allegories and symbols, is portrayed as a self-sufficient state where peace and harmony reign. Second, this state is shown to be such because of the nature of its ruler, Jack, a benevolent, generous, wise man. Third, the middle-class way of life—hard work, thriftiness, material gains—serves as princely education; accordingly, Jack, from a menial position, goes on to become ruler of the state. Jack of Newbury, as a systematical reordering of an aristocratic tradition, represents the world view of the emergent middle class; and as such, a momentous shift in the social temper of the Renaissance and an important step in the evolution of the novel.

scholarly journals Revolution after Revolution: The Commune as Line of Flight in Palestinian Anticolonialism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasser Abourahme
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Necessity ◽  
State Form ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract What is a revolution that neither overthrows a state order nor institutes a lasting one of its own? What happens if we disassociate revolution—the novel beginning, the break, the upending of order, the social transformation—from the movement of historical necessity that marks it even among the left, and open it instead onto those cases of anticolonial politics that did not play out, at least initially, as a desire for the forward march of progress and its terminus in the state form? In these cases, how do we move past the language, or more precisely, the grammar of failure when talking about revolution? What if the Palestinian Revolution, whose fate follows the rise and waning of tricontinental Third Worldism, might be read not as the defeated end of a revolutionary historical arc, but as the start of a line of flight? This essay makes two points. First, what was revolutionary about the Palestinian anticolonial experience was neither the spectacularity of its armed insurrection nor its call for radical equality, but its capacity to creatively make autonomous territory and declare communes. Second, reading this history poses questions about what a renewed encounter between the revolution concept and the anticolonial imperative might once again do.

scholarly journals Theoretical background and solutions for Social security model in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. First
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thanh Huyen
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Current Practice ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The State ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Provision Of Services ◽  
Insurance Funds ◽  
Security Funds

Through analyzing statistical data, this research attempts to present the situation of the social security model in Vietnam in recent years, thereby pointing out the limitations in the issuance and implementation of relevant policies. The results show that: (i) although the participants in the social security have been expanded, the coverage is yet to meet the target; (ii) Vietnam is adopting the socialization model with the principle of "payment-benefit" where large numbers of participants join to share risks and funds are pooled to pay for the insured. However, there is still a difference between the payment-benefit level between participants and; (iii) the monopoly of the State in providing the service, managing and using the social security funds has revealed many shortcomings. Through analyzing the current practice, the authors propose some solutions to improve Vietnam's social security model in the coming period, including (i) expanding the coverage to ensure the benefits for the participants and increase the revenue; (ii) specifying the principles of insurance, in particular, the premium obligations and funding of the State for each target group so as to reduce the burden for the insurance funds; (iii) encouraging the participation of the private sector in the provision of services to avoid the overloading to the current insurance funds and offer more options for the participants and; (iv) improving the management and using of the funds.

scholarly journals PROJETOS SOCIETÁRIOS EM TEMPOS DE PANDEMIA E O EXERCÍCIO PROFISSIONAL DE ASSISTENTES SOCIAIS DO PARÁ

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Cilene Sebastiana da Conceição Braga ◽  
Ediane Moura Jorge ◽  
Lais Ribeiro Gama ◽  
Mickaely de Lima Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Pertinent Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face

Este artigo expõe os resultados parciais da pesquisa intitulada “Projetos Societários em disputa em tempos de pandemia e o exercício profissional do Assistente Social do Pará/Amazônia legal” vinculada a um Grupo de Estudos da UFPA. Apresenta o levantamento da literatura pertinente ao tema produzida por Assistentes Sociais e publicada em periódicos. Apresenta dados acerca do número de infectados na região Amazônica, especificamente no Estado do Pará. Analisa os dados a partir de uma perspectiva teórica-crítica. Realizamos pesquisa bibliográfica e pesquisa documental. O artigo exibe breves reflexões sobre a realidade socioeconômica na pandemia na Região Amazônica e no Estado do Pará,e principais problematizações em termos de ausência de direitos sociais e desafios para o (a) Assistente Social. Os resultados mostram que os (as) assistentes sociais enfrentam o medo, a insegurança e o deterioramento das condições de trabalho no enfrentamento da pandemia.SOCIAL PROJECTS IN PANDEMIC TIMES AND THE PROFESSIONAL EXERCISE OF SOCIAL WORKERS IN PARÁAbstractThis article exposes the partial results of the research entitled "Corporate Projects in dispute in times of pandemic and the professional practice of the Social Worker of Pará / Legal Amazon" linked to a UFPA Study Group. It presents a survey of the pertinent literature produced by Social Workers and published in periodicals. It presents data about the number of infected in the Amazon region, specifically in the State of Pará. The data are analyzed from a theoretical-critical perspective. We carry out bibliographic and documentary research. The article shows brief reflections on the socioeconomic reality in the pandemic in the Amazon Region and in the State of Pará, and main problems in terms of the absence of social rights and challenges for the Social Worker. The results show that social workers face fear, insecurity and deteriorating working conditions in the face of the pandemic.Keywords: Pandemic. Professional Practice. Neoliberalism, Precariousness. Amazon

scholarly journals Rustad för morgondagen?

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 269-290
Author(s):  
Marcus Lauri ◽  
Jessica H. Jönsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Welfare Society ◽  
Work Education ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Political Decisions

  During the last couple of decades, the state of the Swedish welfare society has deteriorated. Political decisions concerning the labour market, housing and education have significantly increased precarious conditions for many people. Income inequality and economic difficulties have increased. Changes in the welfare system make it harder to receive adequate support, while the repressive elements have also increased. We argue that critical and radical perspectives in social work can help reverse this negative development. What students learn in their social work education will affect their ways of understanding social problems, their practice, and their ability to work for change. We therefore regard social work education as an important arena for social change. But what is the state of such perspectives at our Swedish universities? This article examines the presence of critical and radical perspectives in the Swedish social work curriculum and attempts to answer the question ”How well equipped are future social workers to work in a critical and radical way?” The study shows that a critical perspective is common in the social work curriculum of some universities, but that critical and radical perspectives in general are absent. We argue that this

scholarly journals Personal and Collective Identity Codes and Challenges for Minorities, Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer: A Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Ghanbarinajjar
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
Community Or ◽  
The Social ◽  
Minority People

People naturally live in a community and identity plays an essential role in their life. Codes and elements that construct their identity can be personal or collective, such as gender, name, religion, ethnicity, and language. In order to enjoy more privileges, minority people and those who are discriminated because of their identity, try to change their identity to be similar to the center or in other words, assimilate with it. At the same time, the hegemonic power tries to single out and highlight the identity codes which make one different from the center in order to discriminate them. The major character of the novel, Yakov Bok, changes his identity, name and appearance, as a Jew and enters into the district forbidden to Jews. During the course of the novel, he was arrested and accused of murdering a Christian boy, because he was the only Jew in the neighborhood. The state officials try to change his appearance to make him look like a Jew again and single out. Identity can be changed willingly in order to assimilate and use the advantages of being recognized as a certain person or part of a community, or by force due to the social and political condition of time to be condemned or to face the worst condition.

scholarly journals EKSPRESI THUMOS MISHIMA YUKIO DALAM NOVEL KINKAKUJI

IZUMI ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Zaki Ainul Fadli
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Society ◽  
Social Study ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Absolute Position ◽  
Strong Similarity ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mishima Yukio ◽  
Structural Aspects

In the social study, there is a concept about strong desire to be recognized by others named thumos. Mishima as a Japanese ultranasionalist have a value about guarding the traditional Japanese values. Among of these values is the absolute position of Japanese emperor in the state. If Mishima’s thumos which expressed in the novel linked with his ideology, there is strong similarity between the protagonist’s disappointment and Mishima’s critics related with the Japanese society. Those assumptions supported by novel’s structural aspects. 

scholarly journals Precarity as Personhood in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
Angela Ridinger-Dotterman
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organ Harvesting ◽  
Aging Body ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

Abstract Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go lures readers into a dystopic world that has the artifice of a country boarding school. When the characters to which readers have become attached are revealed to be clones raised for organ harvesting, the novel forces the readers to confront questions about what it means to be human, and at what cost humanity is willing to preserve itself. In this science fiction narrative about cloning, Ishiguro invokes multiple representations of the disabled body: the clones have been created, to ameliorate disability from the rest of society. Their organs are harvested to forestall the inevitable disabilities that the ailing or aging body will experience. The novel also replicates the social apparatuses that have traditionally been used to contain and eliminate disability. Reading Ishiguro’s narrative of cloning from a disability studies perspective reveals the novel’s use of defamiliarization as a literary technique to examine both the ideological constructions of disability and the physical structures that have contained disabled bodies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Finally, approaching Never Let Me Go from this critical perspective reveals the novel’s answer to the central question it poses: What does it mean to be human?

scholarly journals Love thy Aged? A State-Level Analysis of Religiosity and Mobility in Aging Populations During the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 089826432098401
Author(s):  
Terrence D. Hill ◽  
Kelsey E. Gonzalez ◽  
Laura Upenieks
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aging Populations ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Older Populations ◽  
Level Analysis

Objectives: We test whether the association between state religiosity and distance traveled is moderated by population age during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Methods: Mobility is operationalized as the state-level average median distance traveled from February 24 to May 4 across the contiguous United States. Shelter-in-place rates are operationalized as the state-level percentage of users staying home. State religiosity is measured with an index of aggregated religious identities, beliefs, and practices. Population age is indicated by the state percentage of adults aged 65 years and older. We model population mobility using regression with state clustered robust SEs. Results: We observe that religious states tend to travel more during the early stages of the pandemic. However, the behavioral risks associated with state religiosity are less pronounced in states with larger older populations. Discussion: We contribute to our understanding of the social patterning of pandemic mobility in aging populations.

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