scholarly journals “Morir antes que esclavas vivir”: La voz que cuenta en 98 segundos sin sombra de Giovanna Rivero

Author(s):  
Laura A. Arnés ◽  
Silvana Abal

This article analyses 98 segundos sin sombra (2014) by Giovanna Rivero, one of the most representative writers of Bolivian “new narrative.” 98 segundos problematizes the gendered matrices of culture, foregrounding young and feminized fictional subjectivities that exercise disobedience as a mode of self-determination. Through the re-appropriation of family history and imposed affects, the protagonists build alternative ways of existence by practising detours and deviations, expressing what Julia Kristeva terms “revolt.” These “revolts” establish a conflictive link with the past and, at the same time, emphasize uncertainty about the future. They enable the possibility of distancing oneself from one’s own memory, giving rise to new figures of temporality and calling into question the idea of “civilization.” --- Este artículo analiza 98 segundos sin sombra (2014) de Giovanna Rivero, una de las escritoras más representativas de la “nueva narrativa” boliviana. 98 segundos problematiza las matrices generizadas de la cultura, al construir subjetividades ficcionales jóvenes y feminizadas que ejercen la desobediencia como modo de autodeterminación. En la reapropiación del pasado familiar y de los afectos impuestos, las protagonistas operan sobre ellos desvíos que les permite construir modos de existencia alternativos, “re-vueltas” (Kristeva, 1998) que instalan un vínculo conflictivo con el pasado al tiempo que alojan la incertidumbre sobre el futuro; que habilitan la posibilidad de distanciarse de la propia memoria y dan lugar a nuevas figuras de la temporalidad, llegando a poner en crisis la misma idea de “civilización.”

Chelovek RU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 18-53
Author(s):  
Sergei Avanesov ◽  

Abstract. The article analyzes the autobiography of the famous Russian philosopher, theologian and scientist Pavel Florensky, as well as those of his texts that retain traces of memories. According to Florensky, the personal biography is based on family history and continues in children. He addresses his own biography to his children. Memories based on diary entries are designed as a memory diary, that is, as material for future memories. The past becomes actual in autobiography, turns into a kind of present. The past, from the point of view of its realization in the present, gains meaning and significance. The au-thor is active in relation to his own past, transforming it from a collection of disparate facts into a se-quence of events. A person can only see the true meaning of such events from a great distance. Therefore, the philosopher remembers not so much the circumstances of his life as the inner impressions of the en-counter with reality. The most powerful personality-forming experiences are associated with childhood. Even the moment of birth can decisively affect the character of a person and the range of his interests. The foundations of a person's worldview are laid precisely in childhood. Florensky not only writes mem-oirs about himself, but also tries to analyze the problems of time and memory. A person is immersed in time, but he is able to move into the past through memory and into the future through faith. An autobi-ography can never be written to the end because its author lives on. However, reaching the depths of life, he is able to build his path in such a way that at the end of this path he will unite with the fullness of time, with eternity.


Author(s):  
Gerry Van Klinken

Review of: Pieter Drooglever, An act of free choice; Decolonisation and the right to self-determination in West Papua. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009, xviii + 854 pp. ISBN 9781851687152. Price: GBP 125.00 (hardback). Esther Heidbüchel, The West Papua conflict in Indonesia; Actors, issues and approaches. Wettenberg: Johannes Herrmann, 2007, iii + 223 pp. ISBN 9783937983103. Price: EUR 20.00 (paperback). Muridan S. Widjojo, Adriana Elisabeth, Amiruddin, Cahyo Pamungkas, and Rosita Dewi, Papua road map; Negotiating the past, improving the present and securing the future. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 2010, xxxiii + 211 pp. ISBN 9789794617403. Paperback.


2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 102-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome de Groot

This article argues for the importance of genealogy and family history to contemporary understanding and experience of the past. Through looking at various ways that genealogy might be undertaken and imagined, the article argues that this important area needs to be further conceptualized and studied by public historians. The article looks at the implications inherent in the broad shift to global online genealogy and family history. The argument is interrogative and assertive in order to provoke debate amongst public historians about how we might investigate, theorize, and interrogate genealogy and family history further in the future.


Author(s):  
Joseph Khan

This essay explores why ‘voice’ has been a sustained desire for Indigenous Australians throughout history. By placing past efforts surrounding recognition, citizenship and self-determination on a continuum of progress, this text presents an argument for an unwavering, Indigenous voice to be enshrined in the Australian Constitution in order to serve the best interests of Aboriginal Australians.


Worldview ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
O. Edmund Clubb

Now that Chiang Kai-shek and the American strategy of “containment” of Asian communism have grown old together, and the dream of the Nationalist reconquest of the Mainland has faded into nothingness with President Nixon's February meeting with Chinese Communist chieftain Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai, there stirs a question that has lain largely dormant over the past two decades: What of the future, of Taiwan (Formosa)? More specifically, should not the United States, sworn protector of Taiwan, (make provision for the Taiwanese to have a voice in determining their own future destiny?The U.S. professes to believe that people may properly be governed only with their consent. It supports the doctrine of self-determination of nations.


1980 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-231
Author(s):  
MARCEL KINSBOURNE
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  

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