scholarly journals Embracing Darkness and Silence: A Cognitive Reading of Trauma in A Small Silence, by Jumoke Verissimo

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-203
Author(s):  
Eugenia Ossana
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Power Outages ◽  
Dark Light ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Literary Narrative ◽  
Trauma Fiction ◽  
Effect Of Light

The purpose of the present article is to discuss how A Small Silence (2019), by the Nigerian author Jumoke Verissimo, conjures up a provocative approach to traumatic memories. The tropes of silence and darkness—closely bound to the Nigerian context where power outages are frequent—are sensuously explored in evocative prose. Darkness is offered as a refuge against the blinding effect of light, and silence is oftentimes preferred to healing through narrativisation. Desire and Prof, the two main fictional characters, devise a peculiar dialogue of half-uttered and unspoken words—and reminiscences—that are arguably in tune with cognitive literary approaches to individual trauma. In addition, in this article an Oriental aesthetics is deployed to delineate the novel’s use of shadows and isolation. In contrast to classical trauma fiction, A Small Silence presents a less experimental literary narrative of individual trauma. At the same time, the novel rejects simplistic binaries such as trauma-health, dark-light, forgetfulness-memory and mind-body. Rather, it lingers in a space between individual healing and Nigeria’s intricate neocolonial circumstances.

La transposition profane de l’Exode dans Moïse fiction de Gilles Rozier

2013 ◽  
pp. 174-183
Author(s):  
Piotr Sadkowski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jewish Origin ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The World ◽  
Jewish Writers

Throughout the centuries French and Francophone writers were relatively rarely inspired by the figure of Moses and the story of Exodus. However, since the second half of 20th c. the interest of the writers in this Old Testament story has been on the rise: by rewriting it they examine the question of identity dilemmas of contemporary men. One of the examples of this trend is Moïse Fiction, the 2001 novel by the French writer of Jewish origin, Gilles Rozier, analysed in the present article. The hypertextual techniques, which result in the proximisation of the figure of Moses to the reality of the contemporary reader, constitute literary profanation, but at the same time help place Rozier’s text in the Jewish tradition, in the spirit of talmudism understood as an exchange of views, commentaries, versions and additions related to the Torah. It is how the novel, a new “midrash”, avoids the simple antinomy of the concepts of the sacred and the profane. Rozier’s Moses, conscious of his complex identity, is simultaneously a Jew and an Egyptian, and faces, like many contemporary Jewish writers, language dilemmas, which constitute one of the major motifs analysed in the present article. Another key question is the ethics of the prophetism of the novelistic Moses, who seems to speak for contemporary people, doomed to in the world perceived as chaos unsupervised by an absolute being. Rozier’s agnostic Moses is a prophet not of God (who does not appear in the novel), but of humanism understood as the confrontation of a human being with the absurdity of his or her own finiteness, which produces compassion for the other, with whom the fate of a mortal is shared.

Inference of Personality Projected onto Fictional Characters Having an Author's First Name

2001 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 705-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Barry
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice

Jane Austen projected some of her personality characteristics onto her fictional namesakes Jane Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice and Jane Fairfax in the novel Emma. Wishful fantasy seems satisfied by two attributes of both Janes. They are very beautiful, and they marry rich men they love. A feeling of inferiority was expressed by two attributes of both Janes, depicted as deficient in social communication and subordinate to the heroine of the novel.

scholarly journals Rewriting the Past: Gerard Mannix Flynn’s Nothing to Say and James X

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Victoria Connor
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Events ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trauma Survivor ◽  
Trauma Fiction

If, as Anne Whitehead suggests, the term ‘trauma fiction’ represents a paradox, that violence resists containment through language, then writers who engage and attempt to represent traumatic events in their work can never fully render the horror of trauma through their writing. Yet artists such as Gerard Mannix Flynn, a survivor of trauma himself, still attempt to translate the experience of trauma into language. In the novel Nothing to Say and the play James X, Flynn explores the ways in which trauma is both experienced and recalled and the cathartic effects that ‘containing’ trauma through language can have. The impetus to write, to express the trauma one has suffered through language, offers the victim agency over his or her own narrative. The agency that the trauma survivor gains is not literal; rather, they have finally gained control over what Cathy Caruth identifies as the ‘haunting power’ of repressed trauma, and in doing so are able to take the first steps towards recovery. In both works, Flynn attempts to traverse the paradox that Whitehead presents: he attempts to represent that which is deemed unrepresentable, and put the violence inflicted upon the protagonists into words.

scholarly journals Cabeça a prêmio: tráfico, elite, Estado e violência no Brasil contemporâneo

Scriptorium ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 32986
Author(s):  
Juliana Oliveira Lesquives
Keyword(s):  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Literary Narrative

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar de que modo se configura a representação da violência no romance Cabeça a prêmio (2003), escrito por Marçal Aquino, atentando para as escolhas feitas pelo autor, ao investir na construção de uma narrativa literária sobre o tráfico de drogas, e as implicações dessa escolha para o fazer literário contemporâneo, levando em conta as reversões propostas pela narrativa no que se refere ao tratamento dado ao tema da violência.  *** Cabeça a prêmio: trafficking, elite, State and violence in contemporary Brazil ***The objective of this work is to analyze how the representation of violence is configured in the novel Cabeça a prêmio (2003), written by Marçal Aquino, paying attention to the choices made by the author when investing in the construction of a literary narrative about the traffic of drugs and the implications of this choice for the contemporary literature, taking into account the reversals proposed by the narrative regarding the treatment given to the theme of violence.Keywords: Contemporary Brazilian literature; Drug trafficking; Violence.

scholarly journals Places and non-places in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (26) ◽  
pp. 685-695
Author(s):  
Julia Goulart Sereno
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Search For Meaning ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Liquid Modernity

This article aims at analyzing the role of flashbacks experienced by Nazneen, who is the protagonist of the novel Brick Lane (2003), by Monica Ali. By considering the concepts of spaces, places and non-places proposed by anthropologist Marc Augé in Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1994), which is mentioned by phi-losopher Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Modernity (2000), the present article will demon-strate how Nazneen tries to reconstruct/rewrite her spatial and temporal displacement through her memory. However, what could be seen as an escape is, in essence, a journey in search for meaning, for belonging.

scholarly journals Dostoyevsky and epilepsy: between science and mystique

2010 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antenilson Franklyn Rodrigues Lima ◽  
Dante Marcello Claramonte Gallian
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Fyodor Dostoyevsky ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Mystic Experience ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Narrative

This article, the result of a research project presented as a Master's degree dissertation in the graduate program of "Teaching of Health Education" at UNIFESP, seeks to highlight the pertinence of analyzing epilepsy and especially, the paradoxical experience of the epileptic individual through literary narrative. Using as its object the novel, The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it seeks to discuss the relationship between epilepsy and the mystic experience, bearing in mind the context of the scientific and humanistic perspectives of the 19th century and today.

AI-Based Analysis for Novel Covid-19 and Its Treatment Through Yajna and Mantra Science

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-71
Author(s):  
Rohit Rastogi ◽  
Mamta Saxena ◽  
Devendra K. Chaturvedi ◽  
Mayank Gupta ◽  
Mukund Rastogi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Present Article ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Spiritual Health ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
Indian Science ◽  
Vedic Science

In the present crisis, the novel COVID-19, which started spreading from Wuhan on 29th Dec. 2019 has now taken the whole world into its grip. The Ancient Rishi and Muni were wise enough, and they knew how to kill the bacteria and virus of the atmosphere through Vedic Science of Mantra and Yajna. The present article is an effort to validate the process in a congenial and constrained environment. Through different presented concepts, we can easily understand the importance of Mantra and Yajna Sciences, and with the help of statistical tools and artificial intelligence concepts, the efficacy of this ancient Indian science has been established. The article also elaborates the effect of Vedic verses and Sanskrit sutra on human consciousness and mental health. The manuscript also shows the effect of Yajna and Mantra over the radiations of electronic gadgets. It also helps the study of ancient Hindu culture and its processes on human spiritual health and mental peace after the tearful worst stress of COVID-19 in the 21st-century world.

The fate of traumatic memories in childhood and adulthood

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-780 ◽  
Author(s):  
SVEN-ÅKE CHRISTIANSON ◽  
TORUN LINDHOLM
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Memory Processes ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Memory And Trauma ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Emotional Events

The present article addresses issues concerning the complex relation between memory and trauma in childhood and adult life. Research findings showing how children and adults remember public and personal emotional events are presented, and mechanisms functioning to hold traumatic memories back from awareness are discussed. In the final section, developmental aspects are addressed by considering the interplay between child and adult trauma. Several cases are described that show how childhood trauma may be represented in memory and influence later development and adult memory processes.

Ich denke, also übersetze ich: die Relevanz einer bewussten Reflexion über die Verstehensprozesse beim literarischen Übersetzen mit Beispielen aus der Übersetzung des Briefromans La Tesis de Nancy (1962) von Ramón J. Sender ins Deutsche

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Helmchen
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Long Term Memory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Term Memory ◽  
Metaphorical Thinking ◽  
New Information ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Professional Translator

AbstractIn the present article and in a theoretical frame based in cognitive linguistics, we will justify and analyse some of the translational processes that have taken place during the translation of the novel “La Tesis de Nancy” (1962). The human being constantly perceives a multitude of impressions which operate as mental impulses and which activate parts of the long-term memory to facilitate the understanding of new information. Apart from the development of mental spaces, the metaphorical thinking plays an important role in the creation of meaning and in the understanding of reality. A professional translator has to consider that an awareness of such processes can be an inspirational source for a creative and functional translation.

scholarly journals Desventuras do Pós-independência em Moçambique: nacionalismo, guerra civil e memória coletiva

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Andressa Da Silva Machado
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
War Literature ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Civil War Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literature History ◽  
Literary Narrative

O presente artigo apresenta as principais contradições do projeto político nacional da Frelimo, em sua tentativa de construção de uma consciência nacional no pós-independência em Moçambique. É possível  identificar alguns aspectos que interagiam e moldaram a memória coletiva do povo moçambicano com relação à guerra civil, como no romance Ventos do Apocalipse de Paulina Chiziane, onde a autora enuncia, de forma crítica ao governo socialista e unipartidarista em Moçambique, uma narrativa literária que pode ser analisada como fonte histórica.Palavras-chaves: Moçambique. Nacionalismo. Guerra civil. Literatura.Abstract This paper presents the main contradictions of Frelimo's national political project, in its attempt to build a national consciousness post-independence in Mozambique. It is possible to identify some aspects that interacted and shaped the collective memory of the Mozambican people in relation to the civil war, as in the novel Ventos do Apocalipse by Paulina Chiziane, where the author critically enunciates the socialist and unipartisan government in Mozambique, a literary narrative that can be analyzed as a historical source. Keywords: Mozambique; Nationalism; Civil war; Literature; History of Africa

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