scholarly journals The Last Mission: Religion and Colonial Francoism in Spanish Representations of Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-296
Author(s):  
Diana Arbaiza
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Equatorial Guinea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
La Selva ◽  
Narrative Role

During Francoism, Spanish cultural production on Equatorial Guinea placed missionaries in a central narrative role, exalting their evangelizing labor. This article concentrates on the representation of the colonial mission in works by lay authors who shared an ideological affinity with the regime and received its institutional support: the documentary Una cruz en la selva (1946), the film Misión blanca (1946) and the novel Tierra negra (1957). These works branded a kind of Spanish Catholic colonialism as superior to other European models, but despite their propagandistic intention, they also reveal a series of anxieties and contradictions inherent to the Spanish colonial project.

scholarly journals SIMILAR CONCEPT OF DJINN FOUND IN NOVEL BARTIMAEUS: THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND AND IN OLD MALAY LITERATURE: THE TALE OF TAMIM AD-DARI

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 001-012
Author(s):  
Hendro Kuncoro
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
First Time

Bartimaeus:The Amulet of Samarkand is a fantasy fiction novel written by Jonathan Stroud, a British author. In this novel Stroud portrayed the Djinn as an enslaved demon from the perspective of a Djinn character named Bartimaeus. This study was conduct to compare the concept of Djinn found in the novel with the concept of Djinn in Indonesian culture because while reading it for the very first time, the writer felt similarity between those conceptions. Meanwhile, the concept of Djinn in Indonesian culture was formed one of them by the arrival of Islam which had an influence on the development of literature in Indonesia. Among them is the Hikayat/Tale of Tamim Ad-Dari. The conception of the Djinn that can be revealed from the comparison of these two literatures are in the form of aspects of the life of the Djinn, its physical description, its abilities, its diversity, its interaction with humans, and creatures related to the Djinn. A comparative literature is what this study concerns. By comparing two things we will comprehend the contents of these two things. This research is qualitative and descriptive. Literature is not only covers the story, but also express the culture and thought of the author that conveyed through the work he has made. Meanwhile culture is a beliefs, system of language, communication, and practices that share in a certain group of peoples which they use to define their identity. Therefore, it can be said that comparative literature facilitate the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study of literature. And so, this study emphasis on the analysis of social and cultural production within the cultural differences. Hopefully, this study will have pedagogical benefits from the point of view of two cultures presented, which underlines social and cultural aspect of two cultures for student of literature and also for the further research in the field

scholarly journals Garbage Out: Space, Place, and Neo-imperial Anti-development in Gioconda Belli’s Waslala

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott DeVries
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Central American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Environmental Injustice ◽  
Gioconda Belli ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
La Selva

Gioconda Belli’s Waslala criticizes the concept of “anti-developmental neo-imperialism”: the novel’s fictional Central American nation's development is cancelled by a form of neo-imperial conservation that forces the preservation of rainforest to supply breathable air to oxygen-starved nations that will cut off electrical power for non-compliance. The theoretical approach engages with the idea of a global expansion of the sense of place, but I argue that the novel rejects this notion when it comes down to an “anti-developmental neo-imperialist” political ecology of forced conservationism that is as guilty of environmental injustice as the ecological practices it seeks to prevent.ResumenWaslala de Gioconda Belli critica el concepto de “neo-imperialismo anti-evolutivo”: el desarrollo de la nación ficticia centroamericana de la novela se ve cancelada por  un tipo de conservación neo-imperial que obliga a conservar la selva tropical para proporcionar aire respirable a las naciones hambrientas de oxígeno que cortarán la energía eléctrica si no hay conformidad. El enfoque teórico se relaciona con la idea de una expansión global del sentido del lugar, pero yo alego que la novela rechaza esta noción cuando es cuestión de es una ecología política “neo-imperialista anti-evolutiva” de conservacionismo forzado, que es tan culpable de la injusticia medioambiental como las prácticas ecológicas que busca prevenir.

A new species of planthopper in the genus Agoo (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae) from coquito palms (Astrocaryum alatum) in Costa Rica

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4779 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIAN W. BAHDER ◽  
MARCO A. ZUMBADO ECHAVARRIA ◽  
EDWIN A. BARRANTES BARRANTES ◽  
GERNOT KUNZ ◽  
ERICKA E. HELMICK ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Cytochrome C ◽  
Cytochrome C Oxidase ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
La Selva ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Oxidase Subunit ◽  
A New Species

An ongoing survey to document planthopper diversity on palms (Arecaceae) is being conducted in Costa Rica. During these efforts a new species of derbid planthopper belonging to the genus Agoo was found on Astrocaryum alatum Loomis in the Heredia province at La Selva Biological Station and is described here as Agoo luzdenia Bahder & Bartlett sp. n., bringing the genus to four described taxa—A. dahliana, A. luzdenia Bahder & Bartlett sp. n., A rubrimarginata, and A. xavieri. Sequence data for the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and 18S genes was generated for the novel taxon and strongly supports its placement in the genus Agoo. 

Coda

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Harford Vargas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Central America ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mission District ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Music Film

The coda examines how cultural producers contribute to the Latina/o counter-dictatorial imaginary using non-print-based artistic forms. It focuses in depth on the murals in Balmy Alley in San Francisco’s Mission District, examining how their depiction of authoritarian repression in Central America coexists alongside representations of other forms of oppression in the United States. The murals generate linked histories of violence and are material testaments to interracial solidarity and a collective struggle for social justice. The coda’s analysis of the palimpsests of paint and the visual polyphony across the walls of Balmy Alley adds another texture and layer to the counter-dictatorial imaginary traced in the preceding chapters. It ends by suggesting that other forms of Latina/o cultural production such as music, film, and Day of the Dead altars work together with the murals and the novel to capture the afterlives of the dictatorial past and current dictatorial forms of oppression.

The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas’s Mal de gente

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-192
Author(s):  
Lesley Wylie
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Economic Resource ◽  
La Selva ◽  
Negative Condition ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Going Native

This essay examines the persistent trope of ‘tropical degeneration’ in Arturo Burga Freitas’s Mal de gente (1943). Set in the Peruvian Amazon, the novel is the story of a young European, Edmund Rice, who, like a number of protagonists of the contemporaneous Spanish American novela de la selva, travels to the region for the purposes of work and ends up settling permanently in the jungle. The natural world depicted in Burga Freitas’s book is a zone of exploitation, characterised by the European plundering of tropical products, chiefly rubber. Yet countering this assessment of nature is the native Amazonian view of the jungle as an animate force, capable of enchanting outsiders and reducing them to a kind of vegetable state. This article explores how the idea of ‘going native’ is redefined and redeployed in Mal de gente to counter discourses of nature as an economic resource. Drawing on the work of Philippe Descola and Eduardo Vivieros de Castro, among others, this essay shows that, far from being a negative condition, the ‘degeneration’ of Burga Frieta’s protagonist is a corrective to the over-exploitation of the Amazon and a recognition of the profound interconnectedness of man and the natural world.

Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarek El-Ariss
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Arabian Nights ◽  
Community Power ◽  
New Generation

In recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights. This book situates these critiques of power within a pervasive culture of scandal and leaks and shows how cultural production and political change in the contemporary Arab world are enabled by digital technology, yet emerge from traditional cultural models. Focusing on a new generation of activists and authors from Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, the book connects WikiLeaks to The Arabian Nights, Twitter to mystical revelation, cyberattacks to pre-Islamic tribal raids, and digital activism to the affective scene-making of Arab popular culture. It shifts the epistemological and historical frameworks from the postcolonial condition to the digital condition and shows how new media challenge the novel as the traditional vehicle for political consciousness and intellectual debate. Theorizing the rise of “the leaking subject” who reveals, contests, and writes through chaotic yet highly political means, the book investigates the digital consciousness, virality, and affective forms of knowledge that jolt and inform the public and that draw readers in to the unfolding fiction of scandal. The book maps the changing landscape of Arab modernity, or Nahda, in the digital age and traces how concepts such as the nation, community, power, the intellectual, the author, and the novel are hacked and recoded through new modes of confrontation, circulation, and dissent.

scholarly journals The Interdisciplinary reading of Opera contexts: an innovative way of teaching arts in educational projects and environments.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Sonia Albano De Lima ◽  
Claudio Piccolo ◽  
Flavia Albano De Lima
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Giuseppe Verdi ◽  
The Novel ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Disciplinary Perspective ◽  
La Traviata

The Grupo de Ensino e Pesquisa em Interdisciplinaridade da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo - GEPI-PUCSP [Group of Studies and Research in Interdisciplinarity of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo] in the project PENSAR E FAZER ARTE [THINKING AND MAKING ART], among other purposes, aims at analyzing several works of art, in the format of conversation, under an inter-disciplinary perspective. This differentiated reading allows for the socio-cultural updating and re-signification of the work of art, providing education with artistic information linked to the other areas of knowledge, as well as with the possibility of endorsing a kind of cultural production where the subjectivity and the human emotions are present. In general lines, this communication intends to present the research work accomplished with the opera La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi. The discussions have integrated researchers who approached questions involving the opera, the novel and the theater play from which it was originated.

The novel HLA-Cw*1802 allele is associated with B*5703 in the Bubi population from Equatorial Guinea

1997 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 644-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Vilches ◽  
M. Bunce ◽  
R. Pablo ◽  
M. E. Moreno ◽  
S. Puente ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Equatorial Guinea ◽  
The Novel

scholarly journals REVEALING THE RE-TRANSFORMATION OF 9 SUMMERS 10 AUTUMNS

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Alberta Natasia Adji
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Life Story ◽  
The United States ◽  
Small City ◽  
Production Theory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Font Size

<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>9 Summers 10 Autumns</em> (2011) is an inspirational autobiographical novel about a young man from a small city of Batu who later succeeded in pursuing his dream by working in the United States. The novel was written according to Iwan Setyawan’s life story and it has been made into a movie by the same name in 2013. Two years later, the movie was adapted into an augmented motion picture hinted illustrative book which is said to be the first kind to appear in Indonesia that combines novel, comic, app and film together. Somehow this phenomenon has also contributed to the rising trend of films adapted into books in Indonesia, such as <em>Assalamualaikum Beijing</em> (2015), <em>What’s Up with Love?</em> (2016), and others. This study caters for Iwan Setyawan’s strategy in achieving legitimacy in the arena of Indonesian Literature and his American Dream Ideals that are depicted within the book. The discussion is carried out within the perspectives of Pierre Bourdieu’s field of cultural production theory as well as sociology of literature approach in highlighting the phenomenon of transformation from novel into film and eventually into augmented motion picture hinted illustrative book. Later, the study discovers that it has changed the image of Indonesian art and literary world in which such prestigious legitimacy can now be achieved through commercial strategies, making it seem dynamic but at the same time questionable in its most authentic sense. </span></p>

scholarly journals Video Games & the Novel

Daedalus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 150 (01) ◽  
pp. 178-187
Author(s):  
Eric Hayot
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Video Game ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Video Game Industry ◽  
World Today ◽  
Game Industry

In the last sixty years, the video game industry has grown from quite literally nothing to a behemoth larger than the film or television industries. This enormous change in the shape of cultural production has failed to make much of an impact on the study of culture more generally, partly because video games seem so much less culturally important than novels. No one has ever imagined the Great American Video Game. But video games have more in common with novels than you might think, and vice versa. Anyone trying to understand the combination of neoliberal individualism and righteous murderousness that characterizes our world today will do well to pay them some attention.

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