scholarly journals Re-Inscription of Black History/Body in Morrison's Beloved and Paradise

2020 ◽  
Vol V (IV) ◽  
pp. 128-134
Author(s):  
Mumtaz Ahmad ◽  
Asim Aqeel ◽  
Sahar Javaid
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Black History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Black Fiction ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

This article contends how Toni Morrison has used her black fiction to reject the dominant conceptions of reality and truth constructed by the white pahllogocentric discourses that tended to perpetuate white power interests. The poststructuralist assumption that knowledge and reality are socially constructed phenomenon provides useful insight into Morrison's narrative strategies and helps understand how, on one hand, she represents the ways the history of the black Africans had been badly disfigured in the white discourse resulting in the construction of the negative stereotypes of the black people as barbarians, savages, and uncivilized people whose mythical history and social values were invalidated as inauthentic and savage that needed the enlightening intervention of the white Europeans and, on the other hand, apart from revealing the discursive facts that control reality formation, she disrupts and displaces dominant and oppressive white knowledges.

Brogdon, Blackness and the BSI: Archiving race in Sherlock Holmes fandom

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann McClellan
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Black History ◽  
Black American ◽  
American Film ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Art Film ◽  
Insight Into

Philip R. Brogdon is an avid Sherlock Holmes aficionado and the first Black American ever inducted into the exclusive – and predominantly White – Sherlock Holmes society, the Baker Street Irregulars. His small monograph, Sherlock in Black (1995), brings a wealth of archival information and insight into the Black history of Sherlock Holmes fandom, ranging from famous fans of colour to Black fan creators and a history of both professional and amateur fan art, film and music. This article argues that Brogdon’s Sherlock in Black archive provides an important counter-history to White establishment fan narratives popularized by the Baker Street Irregulars and raises important questions about the roles race and identity play in collecting, fandom and identity. How does Brogdon define Black Sherlockian fandom? What did it mean to him, and to other fans, to see this long history of Black Sherlockians in American film and media? What kinds of activities and creations are included? Brogdon’s Black Sherlock Holmes archive illuminates how fans of colour construct their own fan identities and how they see themselves in relation to large, often primarily White, cultural constructs.

scholarly journals The complement component C4 of mammals

1990 ◽  
Vol 265 (2) ◽  
pp. 495-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
A W Dodds ◽  
S K A Law
Keyword(s):  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Covalent Binding ◽  
Complement Component ◽  
The Other ◽  
Class Iii ◽  
Duplication Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
Limited Protein ◽  
Tandem Genes ◽  
Insight Into

Human complement component C4 is coded by tandem genes located in the HLA class III region. The products of the two genes, C4A and C4B, are different in their activity. This difference is due to a degree of ‘substrate’ specificity in the covalent binding reactions of the two isotypes. Mouse also has a duplicated locus, but only one gene produces active C4, while the other codes for the closely related sex-limited protein (Slp). In order to gain some insight into the evolutionary history of the duplicated C4 locus, we have purified C4 from a number of other mammalian species, and tested their binding specificities. Like man, chimpanzee and rhesus monkey appear to produce two C4 types with reactivities similar to C4A and C4B. Rat, guinea pig, whale, rabbit, dog and pig each expresses C4 with a single binding specificity, which is C4B-like. Sheep and cattle express two C4 types, one C4B-like, the other C4A-like, in their binding properties. These results suggest that more than one locus may be present in these species. If this is so, then the duplication of the C4 locus is either very ancient, having occurred before the divergence of the modern mammals, or there have been three separate duplication events in the lines leading to the primates, rodents and ungulates.

6. Electromagnetic waves

2018 ◽  
pp. 70-99
Author(s):  
Mike Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Radiation ◽  
Infrared Radiation ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Scientific Investigation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Electromagnetic Spectrum ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Radio Waves ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

‘Electromagnetic waves’ considers the history of the scientific investigation into the electromagnetic spectrum, including Einstein’s insight into the quantized nature of electromagnetic radiation. It explains that the only difference between light, radio waves, and all the other forms of electromagnetic radiation is the length of the fictitious-but-convenient waves or, equivalently, the energy of the photons involved. These different energies lead to different mechanisms for the formation and absorption of the different kinds of radiation, and it is this which gives rise to their different behaviours. Radio waves, microwaves, infrared radiation, light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays are all discussed.

Das Recht in die eigene Hand nehmen?

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
History Of Emotions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Violent Action ◽  
The One

Autonomous use of violence — whether for vengeance or in a feud — can potentially endanger community safety. The contributors to this volume depict the logic and narrative strategies used to validate the autonomous use of violence on the one hand, and examine attempts to delegitimise such violence through legal and religions norms on the other. In doing so, they focus on the endeavours of theologians to discredit violence used in a feud as a danger to the salvation of an individual’s soul and as a threat to everyone’s safety. As emotions are often cited as an argument for both justifying and rejecting violent action, some of the studies in this anthology also contribute to the history of emotions. With contributions by Maria Pia Alberzoni, Zdeněk Beran, Matthias Berlandi, Simone Brehmer, Maximilian Diesenberger, Jan Hirschbiegel, Peter Hoppenbrouwers, Marius Kraus, Stephen Mossman, Christine Reinle, Stefan Tebruck, Anna-Lena Wendel, Christian Wenzel, Klaus Wolf and Lidia Luisa Zanetti Domingue.

scholarly journals Historiography in “Beginnings: Malcolm” by Amiri Baraka

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Maryam Hosseini ◽  
Hossein Pirnajmuddin
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black People ◽  
Amiri Baraka ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This article discusses Aimiri Baraka‘s concern with the history of black people in his poem ―Beginnings: Malcolm‖. The writers try to shed some light on the way Baraka‘s historiography challenges the white supremecist discourses through a rewriting of the African American past that blurs the boundaries of myth and history, fact and fiction, in a postmodern manner. It is argued that through the use of the central African myth of Esu/Elegba and drawing on traditions of Christianity and Western literature/culture, Baraka‘s poem offers an uncanny insight into the past.

Perichoresis: New Theological Wine in an Old Theological Wineskin

Horizons ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael G. Lawler
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Theology ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Theological Concept

AbstractThe history of theology demonstrates that theological exploration, seeking to understand fully an already given theological concept, regularly brings forth unexpected insights. This article seeks to do just that. Reflecting on an ancient theological word, perichoresis, coined in its original Greek to express the intimate communion of, first, the two natures in the one person of Jesus and, second, the three persons in one God, the article seeks new theological insight into the communion that is essential in, first, Christian marriage and then, church. The analysis underscores communion-through-perichoresis as essential to the definitions of God, marriage, and church, and relates the three one to the other.

scholarly journals A HISTÓRICA VIOLÊNCIA DE LONGA DURAÇÃO DAS ELITES BRASILEIRASHist

Sapere Aude ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 363
Author(s):  
Lilian Cristina Bernardo Gomes
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Black People ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Brazilian History

<p>RESUMO</p><p>Os processos de colonização estão imbuídos de uma violência pela ambição de conquista e acúmulo. No Brasil, isso não foi diferente e os 350 anos de escravização de negras e negros pelas elites portuguesas é uma marca desse processo. Contudo, mesmo após a Independência (1822), a Abolição da Escravidão (1888) e a Proclamação da República as próprias elites brasileiras buscaram modos de perpetuar essa violência em função de uma hierarquia social, econômica, política e simbólica com padrões que marcaram a história de longa duração do Brasil pautados no patriarcalismo, patrimonialismo, machismo, sexismo, racismo e homofobia.  O presente artigo perpassará diferentes momentos da história do Brasil indicando que as elites brasileiras reinventaram, ao longo da história, formas de perpetuar a violência através da exclusão dos grupos não-brancos, estabelecendo hierarquizações e colocando o homem, branco, proprietário e heterossexual no topo da pirâmide num processo de subalternização dos outros grupos.</p><p> </p><p>ABSTRACT</p><p> </p><p>The processes of colonization around the world are pervaded by violence that has its roots in the ambition of conquest and accumulation. In Brazil, that was not different and the 350 years of enslavement of black people by the Portuguese elites marks this process. However, even after the Independence of Brazil (1822), Slavery Abolition (1888) and Proclamation of the Republic, the Brazilian elites sought ways in order to perpetuate violence based on social, economic, political and symbolic hierarchy with patterns that marked a <em>longue durée</em> history of patriarchalism, patrimonialism, chauvinism, sexism, racism and homophobia. Thus, the elites naturalized themselves as holders of the power and the market in Brazil. This article will cover different moments in Brazilian history, indicating how the elites they have reinvented, throughout history, ways of perpetuating violence by excluding nonwhite groups, establishing hierarchies and placing the men, not only white, but owner and heterosexual on the top of the pyramid in a process of subalternity of the other groups.</p><p>KEY WORDS: elites, racism, patriarchalism, violence, subalternity. </p>

Nouvelles perspectives sur la réception de la littérature castillane en français à la fin du Moyen Âge

2018 ◽  
Vol 134 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-61
Author(s):  
Olivier Delsaux
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The One ◽  
French Texts ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Duke Of Burgundy

Abstract This paper aims to get a better insight into the material, literary and historical context surrounding two important, but neglected or unknown, evidences of the dissemination of Castillan literature in the French literature at the end of the Middle Ages. The French translations of Diego de Valera’s Crónica abreviada de España o Valeriana, on the one part, and of Pero López de Ayala’s Crónicas, on the other part, were both achieved between 1504–1506 for the last « Duke of Burgundy » Philip the Fair. Through the investigation of the surviving manuscripts, of the paratext and of the content of these two French texts, will be argued that Vasco de Lucena or Fernando de Lucena are two ideal candidates for their attribution. Moreover, the paper will offer a new perspective on a major evidence of the History of the Castillan language : the Epistola latina et hispanica.

scholarly journals Shadowlands of Objectivism and Comprehensiveness

Asian Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-262
Author(s):  
Jan Vrhovski
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Developmental Stages ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern China ◽  
General View ◽  
Republican China ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Modern China ◽  
Insight Into

The article aims at presenting an overview of the main concepts in the philosophical thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the leading intellectuals from Republican China (1912–1949). The study sets out from a brief summary of Zhang’s intellectual achievements, and proceeds by offering a more concise picture of the main influences, developmental stages and finally also central ideas of Zhang’s thought. By offering a general view on the concrete confluences and dissonances between the keystones of Zhang’s philosophy on one side, and its alleged sources in Western and Chinese philosophy on the other, this study further aims at presenting a new insight into the unique characteristics of Zhang’s philosophy. At the same time, by setting the discussion on Zhang’s philosophy in a broader context of contemporary intellectual discourse, the article also endeavours to establish a tentative basis for the future critical analyses and potential revaluations of Zhang Shenfu’s role in intellectual history of modern China.

A Bird in the Hand Isn’t Good for Long

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Scherbaum ◽  
Simon Frisch ◽  
Maja Dshemuchadse
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
The Other ◽  
Decision Task ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Additional Time ◽  
Control Processes ◽  
Folk Wisdom ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract. Folk wisdom tells us that additional time to make a decision helps us to refrain from the first impulse to take the bird in the hand. However, the question why the time to decide plays an important role is still unanswered. Here we distinguish two explanations, one based on a bias in value accumulation that has to be overcome with time, the other based on cognitive control processes that need time to set in. In an intertemporal decision task, we use mouse tracking to study participants’ responses to options’ values and delays which were presented sequentially. We find that the information about options’ delays does indeed lead to an immediate bias that is controlled afterwards, matching the prediction of control processes needed to counter initial impulses. Hence, by using a dynamic measure, we provide insight into the processes underlying short-term oriented choices in intertemporal decision making.

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