On Writing the History of the Body in Pain

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Kathleen Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Bodily Pain ◽  
The Body ◽  
American People ◽  
African American People ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
History Of

This essay makes the case for a cultural history of bodily pain that keeps the problem of representation at the forefront of its analysis. Specifically, it explores how historians have written about bodily pain in relation to American slavery and freedom. It also explores efforts by African American people, free and enslaved, to create counter-discourses that cast them as subjects in the battle over slavery. In doing so, the essay explores the multiple investments in bodily pain and the ethical questions raised when writing about the pain of another.

Dissimulating Blackness: The Degenerative Satires of Paul Beatty and Percival Everett

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American People ◽  
African American People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paul Beatty

This chapter provides a reading of three novels – Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle and Slumberland and Percival Everett’s A History of the African American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond as Told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid – that engage in degenerative satire, which complicates the mimetic representation of satiric texts. This chapter argues that these novels satirize not only clichéd tropes of blackness but also the presumption that blackness can or should be represented. Ultimately, this chapter shows how these novels destabilize the very notion of blackness.

The World we Have Lost

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Boldizzoni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Political History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Economic Cycles ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Money Price

This chapter covers macroeconomic issues, including economic cycles, money, price levels, the nature of growth, and the historical roots of underdevelopment. It shows how the micro level is logically linked to the macro level. It also argues that the crisis of the French-style economic history in the past twenty years is due more to French historians transferring their interest to cultural history. However, abandoning quantitative history in favor of the histoire des mentalités does not imply there is no room for economic history alongside the new political history and other aspects such as the history of the body and the history of death that were once considered eccentric.

scholarly journals Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century: An Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Bonah ◽  
Anja Laukötter
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
The Body ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
History Of The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

To introduce Body, Capital, and Screens as a series of in-depth case studies at the intersection of film and media studies and the social and cultural history of the body, we have chosen, as with all of the contributions, a film emblematic for the chapter’s specific thematic focus: Victoire de la vie/Victory of life (FR, 1937) by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Through these images, we intend to detail our approach illustrating how the material and social aspects of moving images have served as a hyphen between body politics, on the one hand, and the market as the 20th century’s primary form of social and economic organization, on the other. We lay out the framework for connecting bodies and capital with the significance of a century’s worth of utility media culture.

scholarly journals Resilience as a Form of Contestation in Langston Hughes' Early Poetry

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 91-106
Author(s):  
Alba Fernández Alonso ◽  
María Amor Barros del Río
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
American People ◽  
African American Community ◽  
African American People ◽  
Psychological Outcome ◽  
Positive Adaptation ◽  
History Of

The history of the African American community has been inexorably bound to the concepts of oppression, downgrading, racism, hatred and trauma. Although the association between racism and concomitant negative psychological outcome has been widely assessed, little work has been done to study the role of literature as a cultural means to promote resilience among this oppressed group. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) stands out as a novelist, poet and playwright, and is one of the primary contributors to the Harlem Renaissance movement. Following the framework of theories of resilience, this article analyses the representation of adversity and positive adaptation in Langston Hughes’s early stage poetry, and assesses his contribution to resilience among the African American people at a time of hardship and oppression.

Presentation

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Redacción CEIICH
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
History Of

<p class="p1">The third number of <span class="s1"><strong>INTER</strong></span><span class="s2"><strong>disciplina </strong></span>underscores this generic reference of <em>Bodies </em>as an approach to a key issue in the understanding of social reality from a humanistic perspective, and to understand, from the social point of view, the contributions of the research in philosophy of the body, cultural history of the anatomy, as well as the approximations queer, feminist theories and the psychoanalytical, and literary studies.</p>

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