scholarly journals Women writing the Americas: literature, ecology, and decolonization

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-138
Author(s):  
Roland Walter
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Critical Geography ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Multiethnic Women

This essay analyzes how multiethnic women writers of the Americas draw a map of a critical geography by delineating the interrelated brutalization of human beings and the environment at the colonial-decolonial interface. Its theoretical approach is comparative, interdisciplinary, and intersectional and embedded in Cultural/ Post-Colonial Studies and Ecocriticism with the objective to problematize the issue of identity, ethnicity, and gender in correlation with the land qua place and style of life within a capitalist system. The objective is to reveal and examine the decolonial attitude in texts by multiethnic women writers of the Americas: what is decolonization and how is it translated into the narrative structure, style and theme? 

»Das Weibliche umschließt den starken Mann« (Jer 31,22). Geschlechterkonstruktionen im Jeremiabuch im Licht feministischer Hermeneutik

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Christl M. Maier
Keyword(s):  
Queer Theory ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Gender Aspects ◽  
And Gender

Abstract This essay explores variant concepts of gender in the book of Jeremiah from a feminist perspective that includes insights of post-colonial studies, trauma studies, and queer theory. It discusses the female personification of Jerusalem and Judah, the laboring woman metaphor used in the context of war, the complexity of gendered addressees in Jer 2:1-4:2, and gender aspects in the characterization of God and Jeremiah. At first glance, the Jeremiah tradents use traditional gender stereotypes. A closer inspection, however, reveals an ambivalent gender performance of female and male protagonists. In this context, the enigmatic statement in Jer 31:22 »the female encompasses the strong man« also signifies the ambivalence of gender concepts in Jeremiah.

scholarly journals Portuguese-speaking countries and the challenge of a technological circumnavigation

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Moisés de Lemos Martins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Financial Globalization ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Digital Repositories ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Virtual Museums ◽  
Colonial Studies

In this article, I propose the assumption that we are making a technological journey, analogous in many respects to European ocean voyages of the 15th and 16th centuries (Martins, 2015a, 2017, 2018a, 2018b). Thus, I confront the technological nature of the current financial globalization and the commercial nature of European maritime expansion. Whereas the first journey resulted in the colonization of peoples and nations, in the second journey we moved, in a century and a half, to that which Edgar Morin called the “colonization of the spirit” of the entire human community (Morin, 1962). Within this context, I took into consideration the consequences, for culture, of the acceleration of the time via technology, which has mobilized human beings, “totally” (Jünger, 1930) and “infinitely” (Sloterdijk, 2010), in view of the urgencies of the present (Martins, 2010). On the other hand, I will use post-colonial studies to situate transnational and transcultural identities, by examining Portuguese-speaking communities within the context of the “battle of languages,” to use an expression coined by Mozambican linguist Armando Jorge Lopes (2004). This is why I will consider “technological circumnavigation” (Martins, 2015a, 2017, 2018a, 2018b), to be undertaken by every Portuguese-speaking country, like a fight for the world’s symbolic ordering (Bourdieu, 1977, 1979, 1982), where we raise hegemony language-related problems and those pertaining to political, scientific, cultural and artistic subordination (Martins, 2015b). This is, therefore an electronic journey, using sites, portals, social media, digital repositories and archives, as well as virtual museums. What’s more, the viewpoint adopted is that which states a great language of cultures and thinking, such as Portuguese, likewise cannot avoid being a great language of human and scientific knowledge.

scholarly journals Escritas literárias de uma deslocação histórica: o “retorno” / Literary Writings of a Historical Displacement: The “Return”

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (61) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Maria Luísa Leal
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
Post Colonialism ◽  
Forced Return

Resumo: Como é que três escritoras oriundas de Angola e Moçambique representam, em três romances escritos em 2009 e 2011, o movimento de retorno forçado a Portugal em 1975? Como se articulam memórias individuais e história? Quais as implicações da focalização narrativa? Estas e outras questões decorrem do quadro histórico e teórico representado nos romances: o do Portugal colonial e pós-colonial. O conceito de “retorno” permite aprofundar a questão da identidade individual e nacional e avançar algumas reflexões sobre um tema que ganha se cruzarmos diferentes ferramentas teóricas: estudos pós-coloniais, imagologia, estudos de género e narratologia.Palavras-chave: retornados; identidade; subjetividade; colonialismo; pós-colonialismo.Abstract: How do three women writers from Angola and Mozambique represent, in novels written in 2009 and 2011, the historic movement of forced return to Portugal in 1975? How are individual memoirs and history articulated, and what are the implications of narrative focus? These and other questions are the result of the historical and theoretical framework represented in the novels: that of colonial and post-colonial Portugal. The concept of “return” allows us to deal with individual and national identity issues, and suggest some reflections on a theme that gains ground if we cross different theoretical tools: Post-Colonial Studies, Imagology, Gender Studies and Narratology. Keywords: returnees; identity; subjectivity; colonialism; post-colonialism.

Clinicians' Perceptions of Children's Oral Personal Narratives

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmela Perez ◽  
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
American Perspective ◽  
Language Problems ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Learning Language

A diverse group of child clinicians (n — 39) rated paragraph-long transcriptions of two Euro-American, two African-American, and two Latino children's oral narratives. Clinicians were asked to rate the logic, cohesion, and comprehensibility of the stories using 6-point scales. They were also asked to give a rough estimate of the children's IQ, to comment on the existence of emotional/behavioral and/or learning/language problems, and to assign possible diagnoses. The results indicated clinicians' ratings of the Latino narratives were significantly different from ratings of the Euro-American and African-American narratives, as confirmed by Scheffe post hoc analysis. Diagnoses revealed a distribution by ethnicity of children. Euro-Americans received 21 diagnoses, African-Americans received 33 diagnoses, and Latinos received 53 diagnoses. Further, clinicians' ethnicity and gender did not account for any group differences. The implications of these findings are twofold. First, clinicians seem to be unaware of the differences in Latino children's narrative structure, and seem to be penalizing them for not conforming to the Euro-American structure. Second, it appears that clinicians training and practicing in the U.S. tend to adopt a Euro-American perspective which may desensitize them as to the narrative intricacies of their own culture.

Assault Rifles, Separated Families, and Murder in Their Eyes: Unasked Questions after Hurricane Katrina

2010 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 573-599 ◽  
Author(s):  
D'ANN R. PENNER
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mental Health Literature ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This essay critiques the trauma literature that includes African Americans who endured Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. It is concerned with possible dissonance between scholars' and subjects' agendas. Drawing on narratives from the the Saddest Days Oral History Project that Penner directed in the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, she explores divergences between the most urgent traumatic concerns of her study's narrators and the dominant questions of Katrina mental health literature. Her focus is the survivors' perceptions of rescuers' intentions, a primary consideration in the assessment of potentially traumatizing events. The mental-health specialists, with minor exceptions, correctly predicted an overall surge in traumatic and depressive symptoms for Hurricane Katrina survivors. They were less effective in identifying causation, specifying type, and appreciating major differences between social groups and communities. For almost all of the African American narrators trapped in the city after the storm, the trauma of Katrina was experienced as the product of human beings, mainly armed law enforcement personnel and soldiers, brandishing assault rifles, acting disdainfully, and separating families. The event was made cataclysmic not by the winds or the floodwaters but by their descent into a militarized zone in which narrators seemed singled out for persecution because of their race/ethnicity (and gender). The traumatizing events that were omitted from the structured interview protocols, in particular the impact of the militarized response, have had the deepest impact on survivors' identity and ability to trust others.

The good, the bad, and the forgiven: The media spectacle of South Korean male celebrities’ compulsory military service

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yezi Yeo
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Military Establishment ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Studies ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Compulsory Military Service ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Military

For almost 70 years, South Korea has upheld the principle of universal male conscription, and the military has been a potent force in post-war South Korean political, economic, and social development. The role and significance of male conscription and the military establishment in South Korean society have been explored from the perspective of political, social, and gender/post-colonial studies. However, there is a considerable lack of academic research assessing the social meanings behind the highly publicized conduct of male celebrities’ negotiating the issue of their compulsory military service, which has turned increasingly into media spectacles since the mid-1990s. This study attempts to provide an insight into the political and social ramifications of such media events by tracing the military service and male celebrity discourse through several major conscription scandals in the South Korean mass media. By simultaneously policing and exploiting the ‘sacred’ duty to serve, these media scandals reinforce what it means to be a true ‘Korean man’.

scholarly journals Desire and confusion: A sociolinguistic ethnography on affect in the ethnic economy of Thai massage

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (264) ◽  
pp. 115-135
Author(s):  
Mi-Cha Flubacher
Keyword(s):  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Ethnic Economy ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Male Clients ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Sociolinguistic Ethnography

AbstractIn my contribution, I will look at the interconnections between language, work, ethnicity and gender in the exemplary site of the Thai massage studio as part of a larger sociolinguistic ethnography in Vienna, Austria. I argue that Thai massage therapists are trying to establish an independent and professional self, while being continuously repositioned along gendered and racial stereotypes based on post-colonial ideas of the “exotic woman”. In other words, their work empowers them on the local labour market, but simultaneously threatens to reinstall clear social and ethnical hierarchies. In order to unpack this complex, I propose to discuss two theoretical concepts from a critical sociolinguistic perspective: the ethnic economy and the affect of desire, as they both inform an understanding of Thai massage as a particular localised global practice. I will first discuss ambivalent opportunities related to language competences in the ethnic economy, and then turn to examine how male clients come to ascribe “confused affect” to their experience with desire in the Thai massage. Finally, I will discuss the issue of researcher positionality in dealing with the potential reproduction of exoticisation through research.

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