scholarly journals L’homme et la bête : chiens et politique dans Les Mohicans de Paris

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-151
Author(s):  
Nicolas Gauthier
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Alexandre Dumas ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The Way

Cet article étudie comment le recours à l’animalisation dans Les Mohicans de Paris d’Alexandre Dumas est l’espace d’une véritable réflexion sur les rapports entre l’humain et l’animal. Ceci apparaît de façon nette dans la fictionnalisation du chien qui induit un brouillage des limites séparant humain et animal, brouillage qui a pour fonction de permettre l’articulation des personnages canins aux enjeux fondamentaux du roman. De façon plus précise, la mise en scène du « meilleur ami de l’homme » sert à redoubler le projet politique au cœur des Mohicans de Paris. This paper examines how, in Les Mohicans de Paris, Alexandre Dumas assigns animalistic features to some characters to question the relations between humans and animals while portraying the various dogs in the novel in a way which blurs the limits between humans and animals. These seemingly accessory canine characters are actually closely associated with the fundamental elements of the novel. More precisely, the way “man’s best friend” is put in fiction actually repeats the political project at the heart of Les Mohicans de Paris.

scholarly journals Un acercamiento al etnocidio y al genocidio desde Pierre Clastres. La construcción de la otredad en las últimas dictaduras militares del Cono Sur latinoamericano

2018 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Mariela Cecilia Avila
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
The Political ◽  
American Military ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The Way

ResumenEn el presente artículo se reflexiona sobre la construcción de un “Otro” durante las últimas dictaduras militares del Cono Sur latinoamericano. Para ello, se hace uso de las categorías de “genocidio” y “etnocidio” desde la perspectiva del antropólogo Pierre Clastres. El análisis permite poner en diálogo dichas categorías con el modo en que se identificó y configuró una individualidad considerada una amenaza para el modelo político y económico que se buscaba implementar. Se explicita aquí el modo en que la construcción de una otredad disidente ameritó prácticas de tortura, muerte y exilio, en aras de la construcción de un proyecto político unitario y hegemónico que no admitía posibles diferencias.Palabras clave: Pierre Clastres- genocidio- etnocidio- Otro- dictaduras militares latinoamericanasAbstractThis article reflects on the construction of “otherness” during the last mili- tary dictatorships of Latin America. For this, categories of “genocide” and “ethnocide” are used from anthropologist Pierre Clastres’ perspective. The analysis puts these categories in dialogue about how an individuality was identified and configured as a threat to the political and economic model to be implemented. It makes explicit the way in which the construction of a dissident otherness deserved practices of torture, death and exile, in order to build a unitary and hegemonic political project that did not admit possible differences.Keywords: Pierre Clastres- genocide- ethnocide- Other- Latin American military dictatorshipsResumoNo presente artigo reflexiona-se filosoficamente sobre a construção de um Outro durante as últimas ditaduras militares do Cone Sul latino-americano. Para aquilo, se faz uso das categorias de “genocídio” e “etnocídio” desde a perspectiva do antropólogo Pierre Clastres. A análise permite pôr em diálogo ditas categorias com o modo em que se identificou e configurou uma individualidade considerada una ameaça para o modelo político e econômico que se buscava implementar. Explicita-se aqui o modo em que a construção de um outro dissidente envolveu práticas de tortura, morte e exílio, em prol da construção de um projeto político unitário e hegemônico que não admitia possíveis diferenças.Palavras-chave: Pierre Clastres- genocídio- etnocídio- Outro- ditaduras latino-americanas

scholarly journals PARADIGMA ITALIJANSKOG DRUŠTVA U ROMANU "CRVENI KARANFIL" ELIJA VITTORINIJA / A PARADIGM OF THE ITALIAN SOCIETY IN "THE RED CARNATION" BY ELIO VITTORINI

2020 ◽  
pp. 288-304
Author(s):  
Mirza Mejdanija
Keyword(s):  
Adult Life ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Original Version ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Way

Following 1925, Italy was facing a downright fascist dictatorship. The ruling politics imposed dictatorship starting with oaths of faithfulness to the regime, all the way to newspapers and school textbooks censorship. The first novel by Elio Vittorini, The Red Carnation, was confiscated by fascist censors, then revised and edited by a Florentine official. The edited and censored novel was published for the first time in 1948 by Mondadori publishing and the version published was not the original version the author himself no longer possessed. The novel tells a story of a local youth, Alessio Mainardi, and his initiation into adult life. He lives in a student dormitory together with other boys of his age.  He falls in love with a classmate, Giovanna, and even manages to kiss her on one occasion. As a token of her affection, Giovanna presents him with a red carnation that he keeps and holds dear. He is constantly holding onto this illusion of love and confides in his best friend, Tarquinio. The story in the novel takes place by the end of spring 1924, the days which are in Italy known for the Matteotti affair. Alessio and his friends consider themselves fascist. They attend protests against the Matteotti commemoration organised by antifascists. It is in this novel that Vittorini is trying to resort to a mythical transfiguration owing to which the narrative reality becomes fairytale-like, distant from time and space, without losing anything from its actual heaviness of the balance achieved between myth and reality. By means of a stylistic quest, Vittorini is trying to transfer history into a literary dimension in an allusive and symbolic way. He understands that his duty, as an author, is to transfer historical reality into symbols while the historical events depicted in the novel are the rise of fascism in Italy and Matteottiʼs murder. By means of fairytale imagery, myth and symbol, the author is trying to portray the reality in Italy at the time.

scholarly journals A brave, post–COVID-19 Europe

European View ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-130
Author(s):  
Salome Samadashvili
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

This article addresses the challenges to the EU’s future posed by the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Its main argument is that if the EU finds the political will and resources to address these challenges, the crisis posed by COVID-19 can be turned into an opportunity to strengthen the Union. To develop this argument, the article responds to the criticisms of the EU’s response to COVID-19 voiced so far. It assesses how justified these criticisms are, as well as how they have been manipulated for anti-EU propaganda purposes. It reviews how—given the economic, political and institutional structures of the EU—COVID-19 presents a unique challenge, and what the EU’s response has been thus far, from the financial and economic, as well as security perspectives. In particular, focusing on the newly published EU Security Union Strategy, the article reviews how the novel coronavirus disease has impacted European thinking about security. The article suggests that the way forward is to address the institutional gaps which have limited the EU’s response to the challenge of COVID-19 and to invest more resources in countering propaganda efforts that focus on this response with the aim of undermining the Union.

La Avellaneda’s Sab and the Political Situation in Cuba

1945 ◽  
Vol 1 (03) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Way

The novel Sab by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda may be considered one of the outstanding products of her early Cuban environment. The work was begun in 1836 or earlier (while the author was traveling with her family to Spain), completed by 1838, and first published in 1841. In order to prepare the way for a favorable reception of the novel in her native land, as well as on the continent, la Avellaneda submitted the first ten chapters in 1839 to a “compatriota” residing in Sevilla:

scholarly journals OFFRED AS THE VICTIM OF TOTALITARIANISM IN MARGARET ATWOOD’S THE HANDMAID’S TALE

Prosodi ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Ribka Transiska Deboranti ◽  
Mamik Tri Wedati
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Way ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study uses descriptive qualitative method which focusing on the literary work in the novel and interpretation on the analysis. The main data is taken from the novel The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood. This subject of study focus on the influences of totalitarianism held in the Republic of Gilead and how Offred resists totalitarianism in the novel. In order to analyze the text, this study uses the theory of Totalitarianism by Friedrich and Brzeziinski and Hannah Arendt. The result of this analysis depicts the political system of totalitarianism in Gilead influences their societies, especially Offred and the way to resist against the regime. The features of totalitarianism are used to depict the characteristics of totalitarianism that happen in Gilead society. The totalitarianism ideology brings Offred’s action to resist against it.

scholarly journals Bolivia Hoy: Rupturas, inercias y desafios

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 23-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Stefanoni
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Equality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Vague Objective ◽  
The Way

The arrival of Evo Morales to power in January of 2006 –supported with an unprecedent 54% of the votes– marked a milestone in Bolivian political history and opened the way to an ambitious project of re-foundation of the country. Those events were translated in the call for a Constituent Assembly and in the nationalization of hydrocarbons, within the framework of a strong “ruralización de la política”. More than five years of that one triumph has passed and after a re-election with 64% of the votes in December 2009 that consolidated the “evista” hegemonyhas declined.  Now the government faces a series of challenges tied to the effective materialization of the change proposed in the re-foundational speeches. This article analyses the novel experience of “Indians in the power” centered in the tension between the changes implemented and the inertias of the past in spheres such as the democratic radicalization, the social equality, the model of development, and the political project. All these themes affected by a powerful, and yet somehow vague objective: the decolonization of the country.La llegada de Evo Morales al poder en enero de 2006 ―avalado con un inédito 54% de los votos― marcó un punto de inflexión en la historia política boliviana y abrió paso a un ambicioso proyecto de refundación del país. Esos ejes se tradujeron en la convocatoria a una Asamblea Constituyente y en la nacionalización de los hidrocarburos, en el marco de una fuerte “ruralización de la política”.  A más de cinco años de aquel triunfo y luego de una reelección con el 64% en diciembre de 2009 que consolidó la hegemonía “evista”, el gobierno enfrenta una serie de retos vinculados a la materialización efectiva del cambio propuesto en los discursos refundacionales. En este artículo se analiza esta experiencia novedosa de “los indios en el poder” centrada en la tensión entre los cambios operados y las inercias del pasado en esferas como la radicalización democrática, la igualdad social, el modelo de desarrollo y el proyecto político. Temas todos ellos atravesados por un objetivo tan poderoso como por momentos impreciso: la descolonización del país.

La Avellaneda’s Sab and the Political Situation in Cuba

1945 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edith L. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gertrudis Gomez De Avellaneda ◽  
Native Land ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Way

The novel Sab by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda may be considered one of the outstanding products of her early Cuban environment. The work was begun in 1836 or earlier (while the author was traveling with her family to Spain), completed by 1838, and first published in 1841. In order to prepare the way for a favorable reception of the novel in her native land, as well as on the continent, la Avellaneda submitted the first ten chapters in 1839 to a “compatriota” residing in Sevilla:

scholarly journals Some anthropological aspects of globalization

2002 ◽  
pp. 103-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Djuric
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Evolution Of Consciousness ◽  
Concrete Situation ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way

Awareness about the role of anthropological perspective places each anthropological research within the context of globalization, pointing at the need for making the difference between concepts of globalization as the description and as the political project. This differentiation represents a frame of the research of globalization phenomena in order to understand their influence on concrete people in a concrete situation. The importance of the role of concepts in ubiquitous transformation of human lives is also confirmed in the paper. This is the way the influence of one culture unfolds through the dominant concepts, the culture which symbolically and normatively imposes itself as 'global' in spite of the fact that it is 'local' not only (and/or not any more) in territorial sense but in its materialistic approach to the values. Hence, horizontal communication (globally available via the internet) could serve to the communication of values as crucial spiritual points. It could contribute not only to the widening of cultural circles, but to the evolution of consciousness about the generalization of values up to the universal. This requires transcending of particular interests, which prevent effective conceptualization of the global anthropological meaning.

scholarly journals How Banyumas people “describe" G30S/PKI in the novel Ronggeng Dhukuh Paruk

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Khristianto Khristianto ◽  
Widya Nirmawalati
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Innocent People ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Hamlet

The novel RDP came out in 1982, when the new order regime was still firmly established. One of the important criticisms in the work was the "incorrect" handling of communism by the government at that time following the eruption of the G30S/PKI history. The author of the novel tries to bring a different view of the issue. This paper tries to present how the original Banyumas personified the political turmoil-how the laypeople interpreted the events that had consumed them as victims, or the sacrificed. Based on the recurrent reading of the Indonesian-language RDP novel and Javanese language Banyumasan, the authors firmly state that the people of Dukuh Paruk are merely victims of the outside world. People of the hamlet have no idea what they are doing, other than that they want to perpetuate the tradition they are proud of, ronggeng. Nor do they blame or think that there are people outside of those who have committed crimes against them. The disaster that befall them is none other due to their mistakes do not run the rituals that must be done before performances ronggeng. Their elders also realized that the pageblug had been signaled by the appearance of the latitude of the cubes (comets), and they had ignored the cue. Thus, pageblug should be accepted. Against the innocence of clean thought, the author asserts that something is wrong with them, systematically practiced by the regime at that time. He agreed that the coup was false; but the way in which the state deals with such problems is also unjustifiable. The state has clearly punished many Indonesians without trial, and killed thousands of innocent people.

Ejecting protestors, interpellating supporters: The interactional pragmatics of expulsion at Trump’s campaign rallies

Semiotica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (231) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Jack Sidnell
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Political Project ◽  
The Way

Abstract During his campaign for president in 2016, Donald Trump repeatedly instructed his supporters and event security to remove protesters from his rallies, most often, by issuing a directive to “get them out”. These occasions, far from being a distraction from the political process, emerged as potent rituals of participation and the activity of removing protestors became a tool of interactional messaging. Specifically, activities of ejecting protestors were semiotically and discursively elaborated so as to cast them as the virtual realizations of a larger political project of “making America great again.” Various aspects of this include the way these events came to signify about Trump’s persona and the brand of leadership he promised, about immigration reform and border control, about the possibilities for political participation and about a more diffuse struggle against the supposed tyranny of political correctness. Moreover, supporters who responded to the the instruction by attempting to remove protestors were interpellated by it as agents in the local scene of action and were thereby written into the larger populist narrative that Trump articulated.

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