scholarly journals Wolves in the City of Domesticated Women: The Queer Wild of Olivia Rosenthal

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Paulina Szymonek
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Art Installation ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Artificial Environment ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

In 2009, in the city of Nantes, a pack of six wolves was released in a public park as part of Stéphane Thidet’s art installation. A book of short stories accompanied the event. One of the authors involved was Olivia Rosenthal, who then incorporated her story into the novel Que font les rennes après Noël? (2010), in which captive wolves are reintroduced to the city. In this post-natural environment, animals provide a semblance of the wilderness for residents, yet remain enclosed in an extended zoo designed by man – an act that domesticates both sides of the fence by separating humans from wolves. Rosenthal’s protagonist is one of such captives. Her life and the lives of animals are presented in parallel narratives. She grows up in a strictly controlled environment, and social standards are imposed on her. In a semi-autobiographical vein, Rosenthal explores issues of queer and gender marginalization as well as emancipation. At the same time, she seeks to dismantle the binary oppositions that place animals, women, and non-heteronormative persons on the other side of the fence. Relying on queer ecofeminist theory developed by Greta Gaard (1997) as well as trans-species urban theory formulated by Jennifer Wolch (1998), this paper argues that we should challenge the hierarchical approach to human and non-human life, as it silences differences and denies voice, rights, and agency to women, non-heteronormative persons, and animals. Tracing inspirations behind Olivia Rosenthal’s novel, this paper also contemplates the ethics of using live animals in Stéphane Thidet’s La Meute (2009) as well as Mircea Cantor’s Deeparture (2005) – two art installations that place captive wolves in an artificial environment.

Re-membering Syria’s Traumatic Past: Gender, Poetics, and Loss in Manhal al-Sarrāj’s As a River Should

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 202-227
Author(s):  
Linda Istanbulli
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traumatic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

Abstract In a system where the state maintains a monopoly over historical interpretation, aesthetic investigations of denied traumatic memory become a space where the past is confronted, articulated, and deemed usable both for understanding the present and imagining the future. This article focuses on Kamā yanbaghī li-nahr (As a river should) by Manhal al-Sarrāj, one of the first Syrian novels to openly break the silence on the “1982 Hama massacre.” Engaging the politics and poetics of trauma remembrance, al-Sarrāj places the traumatic history of the city of Hama within a longer tradition of loss and nostalgia, most notably the poetic genre of rithāʾ (elegy) and the subgenre of rithāʾ al-mudun (city elegy). In doing so, Kamā yanbaghī li-nahr functions as a literary counter-site to official histories of the events of 1982, where threatened memory can be preserved. By investigating the intricate relationship between armed conflict and gender, the novel mourns Hama’s loss while condemning the violence that engendered it. The novel also makes new historical interpretations possible by reproducing the intricate relationship between mourning, violence, and gender, dislocating the binary lines around which official narratives of armed conflicts are typically constructed.

scholarly journals DISKRIMINASI DALAM NOVEL ANAK SEMUA BANGSA KARYA PRAMOEDYA ANANTA TOER DAN IMPLIKASINYA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INDONESIA DI SMA

Widya Accarya ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Gita Tri Lestari ◽  
Sri Mulyati ◽  
Vita Ika Sari
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Novel ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Pramoedya Ananta Toer ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Caste ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia

Abstrak Novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Novel ini berlatar belakang kolonial Hindia Belanda. Pada kenyataannya, dalam kehidupan manusia sering terjadi banyak kasus diskriminasi yang dilakukan oleh para penguasa dan dialami oleh kaum tertindas. Diskriminasi pada novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer tercermin dalam gambaran betapa menderita dan terpuruknya bangsa pribumi Jawa akibat kekejaman yang dilakukan penjajah Belanda. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bentuk diskriminasi dalam novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer dan implikasinya dalam pembelajaran bahasa Indonesia di SMA. Pendekatan kualitatif digunakan pada penelitian ini, dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif.. Penelitian ini menggunakan sumber data dari novel Anak Semua Bangsa karya Pramoedya Ananta Toer dengan wujud datanya yaitu penggalan wacana dan kalimat yang mengandung diskriminasi. Hasil penelitian ditemukan 48 data yang mengandung empat bentuk diskriminasi, yaitu diskriminasi suku/etnis, ras dan agama/keyakinan sebanyak 26 data (54,17%), diskriminasi berdasarkan jenis kelamin dan gender sebanyak 8 data (16,67%), diskriminasi terhadap penderita penyakit menular sebanyak 2 data (4,16%), dan diskriminasi karena kasta sosial sebanyak 12 data (25,00%). Kata kunci: diskriminasi, novel dan implikasi. Abstract Novel Children of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. This novel has a colonial background in the Dutch East Indies. In fact, in human life cases of discrimination often occur by the authorities and experienced by the oppressed. Discrimination in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's novel Anak Semua Bangsa is reflected in the description of the suffering and decline of the Javanese indigenous people due to atrocities committed by the Dutch colonialists. This study aims to describe the forms of discrimination in the novel Children of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer and their implications in learning Indonesian in high school. This research uses a qualitative approach, a type of descriptive research. The source of data in this study is the novel Children of All Nations by Pramoedya Ananta Toer with the form of data that is discourse fragments and sentences that contain discrimination. The results found 48 data containing four forms of discrimination, namely ethnic / ethnic, racial and religious / belief discrimination as much as 26 data (54.17%), discrimination based on gender and gender as much as 8 data (16.67%), discrimination against infectious disease sufferers as much as 2 data (4.16%), and discrimination because of social caste as many as 12 data (25.00%). Keywords: discrimination, novels and implications.

Resistance in the New Harem Era: Gendered Violence and the Power of Media in the Time of Covid-19 in Morocco

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Sara El Ouedrhiri ◽  
Hafsa El Mesbahi
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Movement Restriction ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Fatima Mernissi ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

In a time of great uncertainties, the world witnesses, for the very first instance in its modern history a global lockdown spanning over all the vital spheres of economic and social life. At this point, when neither leaving home nor staying is an option, the surge to exponentially study the manner in which human life has evolved and been shaped under such circumstances gained valuable interest, especially within the circles of feminist and human rights-based academia. Respectively, researchers argue that the weight of the lockdown and movement restriction policies fall discriminately on men and women as they are interestingly leading such novel experiences in different ways. Men, by having no concern mounting to the priority of protecting themselves from being inflicted by this global pandemic and maintaining their economic roles as the traditional family providers, and women on the margin side of the picture, having to deal with the burden of surviving the dangers that the outside and the inside worlds akin dispose. Henceforth, this article is an attempt to probe the dynamics of the private sphere considering the intersections between oppression, seclusion and violence and the development of new dynamics of resistance by transposing from the early 20th century’s feminine experience of confinement and the 21st century’s global lockdown in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. This research considers the stories presented by the renowned Moroccan sociologist and author “Fatima Mernissi”, who herself lived a different kind of seclusion behind the colossal and skillfully ostentatious walls of the harem of the city of Fez in the forties of the previous century and this shall be done mainly by reviewing the stories of resistance presented in her memoir Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood; and by considering the stories of five respondents who have shared with us their accounts through various social media outlets upon the surge of the pandemic in Morocco. The purpose here is to unravel the convergences between women’s experiences of gender-based violence (GBV) in both confinements and to foreground the value, significance and challenges these feminine insights being in them simple acts of everyday life constitute in establishing a discourse of resistance and feminine empowerment vis-à-vis patriarchy, seclusion and gender-based violence.

The homeland and the city: Rural and urban decolonization in Patricia Grace’s Potiki

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Brückner
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The City

Over the last decade, studies from multiple academic disciplines have started to examine the city’s role as a place of decolonization for Māori people in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article uses those multidisciplinary findings as a basis for literary criticism by re-examining the role of the city in Patricia Grace’s second novel Potiki (1986). Indigenous urbanites are generally deemed impossible and ‘unnatural’ within the inherited colonial ideology. And even though the novel foregrounds a Māori family’s return to their ancestral land, this article argues that the very success of this return is based on the interrelation between ‘rural’ and ‘urban’ strategies of decolonization. While the colonial urban–rural binary often seems reinforced, the novel inverts the power positions between colonizer and colonized, thereby promoting decolonization. At the same time, some characters become unconsciously entrapped in a romanticized pre-migration idyll, which the harsh reality of agricultural working life cannot satisfy. In order to assess the effectiveness of the different decolonizing strategies employed by the characters, my analysis utilizes the postcolonial key concepts of binary opposition, the liminal, the interstice, ambivalence, double consciousness and cultural appropriation, and examines the degree to which inherited binary oppositions are either maintained or defied by Pākehā and Māori within the novel.

Modernity and Its Ruins in Of Love and Other Demons

2021 ◽  
pp. 537-557
Author(s):  
Nereida Segura-Rico
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Magical Realism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Latin America ◽  
Memento Mori ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Lettered City ◽  
Cartagena De Indias ◽  
The City

In Of Love and Other Demons (1994), García Márquez presents a tableau of daily life in the city of Cartagena de Indias in the eighteenth century with the opening paragraphs of the novel, situating the center of the action in the harbor and a ship with slaves that had arrived from Guinea. In order to depict the city and its inhabitants, the narrator adopts the point of view of a chronicler, positioning himself within the discourses of power of the metropolis in colonial Latin America. This article analyzes the subversion of those discourses of power that the narrative voice carries out from within, as it seemingly anchors the action in an identifiable space and time, only to dismantle the pretension of progress, historical or otherwise. The narrator-chronicler—an extension of the author-journalist in the introductory pages to the novel—intertwines competing philosophies and ideologies not through the all-encompassing view of magical realism but by laying bare the binary oppositions enacted by “the lettered city.” Having been born from the bones discovered in the crypt of the convent, the whole narrative becomes a memento mori, its development punctuated by instances of illness and demise, such as the corpses of the slaves afloat in the harbor, or the annihilation of reason, both literally and metaphorically, signified in a diagnosis of rabies. Thus, the novel cannot but be an extension of death, an ironic chronicling of a progress arrested by its material and moral ruins.

scholarly journals Gambaran nilai budaya dan kearifan lokal dalam film Wood Job!

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Raras Arum Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Communication Media ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The City

Wood Job! is a film produced by Japanese theme-rural comedy-drama. The film, directed by Yaguchi Shinobu is an adaptation of the novel �Kamusari naa naa Nichijo�by Miura Shion. It tells a story of a high school student from the city that had to go through life as a forest farmer (lumberjack) in a remote village, with still so many myths, traditions, and the homage. The existences of the film in the community have a unique meaning among other communication media. Besides regarded as effective communication media in the dissemination of ideas and concepts, the film is also a medium of artistic expression provide disclosure paths of creativity, as well as culture media which depict human life and personality of a nation. Film can be considered as the transformation of people's lives, because in the film we can see the reflection of reality. To find out how the overview of cultural values and local wisdom in this film, researcher using a qualitative descriptive analysis with reference to the use of semiotics model of Roland Barthes. Researcher examine the signs appearing through three levels of meaning, denotation, connotation, and myth. Semiotic approach chosen for semiotics can be used to describe many things that are not visible on the surface. Semiotics able to peels more about the hidden meanings in it. This research is expected to broaden the Indonesian peoples to further the preservation of nature, using natural resources wisely. It is unfortunate if Indonesia's forests which are the lungs of the world misused by elements who are not responsible for the sake of mere group.�Keywords: Culture, Local Wisdom, Semiotics, Film��AbstrakWood Job! adalah sebuah film produksi Jepang yang mengusung tema komedi-drama-rural. Film yang disutradarai oleh Shinobu Yaguchi ini merupakan adaptasi dari novel �Kamusari naa naa Nichijo� karya Shion Miura. Mengisahkan tentang seorang pelajar SMA dari kota harus menjalani kehidupan sebagai seorang petani hutan di sebuah desa terpencil, dengan masih begitu banyak mitos, tradisi, dan sisi penghormatan. Keberadaan film di tengah masyarakat mempunyai makna yang unik diantara media� komunikasi lainnya. Selain dipandang sebagai media komunikasi yang efektif dalam penyebarluasan ide dan gagasan, film juga merupakan media ekspresi seni yang memberikan jalur pengungkapan kreativitas, serta media budaya yang melukiskan kehidupan manusia dan kepribadian suatu bangsa. Film dapat dikatakan sebagai transformasi kehidupan masyarakat, karena dalam film kita bisa melihat cerminan dari realitas. Untuk mengetahui bagaimana gambaran nilai budaya dan kearifan lokal dalam film ini, peneliti menggunakan analisis deskriptif kualitatif dengan mengacu pada penggunaan model semiotika Roland Barthes. Peneliti mengkaji tanda-tanda yang muncul melalui tiga tingkatan makna, yaitu denotasi, konotasi, dan mitos. Pendekatan semiotika dipilih karena semiotika dapat digunakan untuk menjelaskan berbagai hal yang tidak tampak di permukaan. Semiotika mampu mengupas lebih dalam mengenai makna-makna yang tersembunyi di dalamnya. �Penelitian ini diharapkan mampu membuka wawasan masyarakat Indonesia untuk lebih menjaga kelestarian alam, dengan menggunakan sumber daya alam secara bijaksana. Sangat disayangkan jika hutan Indonesia yang merupakan paru-paru dunia disalahgunakan oleh oknum-oknum yang tidak bertanggung jawab demi kepentingan kelompok semata.

Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Chaos Theory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Y. Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Highway Traffic ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

In addressing Yamashita’s depiction of Los Angeles as interzone, a brimming multiethnic metropolis at once marked by its speed, its migrant populations, its politics of class and gender, Hsu brings chaos theory to bear as a way into understanding the novel. She explores the seven different voices that speak to the freneticism of both human and highway traffic in the city, with the Harbor Freeway as literal but also figurative centre. Chaos theory, she argues, offers a means of entry into the novel’s prime metaphors – the movement north of the actual tropic of cancer and the massive traffic standstill.

scholarly journals Discrimination in “the City”: Race, Class, and Gender in Toni Morrison’s Jazz

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 128
Author(s):  
Golam Rabbani
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Americans ◽  
American Women ◽  
Relational Space ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The City

Toni Morrison, the African American Nobel laureate author, explores the realities where African American women face multiple discriminations in her novel Jazz (1992). This article, following the qualitative method on the bibliographic study, examines the discriminations entailing race, class, and gender and presents Harlem as a discriminatory space in the novel. Jazz narrates the struggles of African American women who settled in Harlem in the early twentieth-century. Haunted by the memories of slavery, the female African American characters in the novel find themselves subjugated in the society dominated by white Americans and also experience oppression within their black community. Harlem, denoted as “the City” in the novel, identifies itself as the relational space where black women experience the intersecting subjugation and alienation from their race, class, and gender positions.

scholarly journals Hope amidst Despair: Revisiting John Steinbeck’s Novel The Grapes of Wrath in the times of COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Shanthi ◽  
◽  
Lizella Faria Gonsalves ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Dust Bowl ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Times

Death has always been co-existing amidst all life-forms. But when it turns its vehemence on humanity with all its force by means of pandemics, epidemics, wars or natural calamities then it gets its due, acting as a great equalizer. The Catastrophic Corona, today has revolutionized the face of humanity and the Existential Angst is acutely felt. The boundaries and demarcations of caste, creed, religion, region and gender have been ignored by the virus levelling all to the mercy of greater powers. The subversion of capitalism and deconstruction of the binaries like positive and negative, the physical and the virtual have induced discourse subjected to critical study. Since Literature and Life has always gone hand-in-hand, it is natural to witness the saga of human turmoil and suffering being portrayed in literary works. Albert Camus’s novel, The Plague is a classic example of the precariousness of human life and existential isolation. But as devastating as a pandemic or an epidemic is, equally ravaging are the forces of nature and crippling circumstances which lead to unsurmountable suffering and pain. John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is an evocative saga of resilience and survival amidst the onslaught of the Dust Bowl and the Great Economic Depression. The Joad family in the novel represents a microcosm of the universal suffering and their story finds echoes in the hearts of many in such times as the present COVID-19 crisis. This paper aims at a study of the socio-economic and psychological factors affecting humanity during crisis through the study of John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. It would be an endeavor to evaluate the changes and adapt to the ‘New Normal.’

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Ordinary People; A Social Distancing Challenge

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahim Aslam
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Adaptation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

COVID-19 has become a part of everyone's day-to-day life, since the outbreak in 2019 the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused more than 4.5 million deaths with over 200 million cases reported globally. Currently, the number of infections and deaths are gradually lowering in different countries however the underlying challenges still exist. COVID-19 threatens human life, social functioning and development. Although numerous studies have been carried out in the past to highlight the key challenges very limited studies have been conducted from an ordinary person's viewpoint. In the fight against COVID-19, humanity has been pushed to a level which cannot be accepted where establishing that balance is a priority. This study focuses on highlighting the common issues faced by the ordinary public in the current era. Five key areas were identified to be the most essential; education, technological adaptation, transportation, mental health and gender-based violence (GBV).

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