Memory that ‘owes nothing to fact’: Friel's Implausible Missionary Priest in Dancing at Lughnasa

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-249
Author(s):  
Stephanie Boeninger
Keyword(s):  
Historical Records ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The Way

Dancing at Lughnasa has been widely discussed as a memory play. Critics frequently analyze the way Michael's narration shapes the story he tells of five unmarried sisters living together in 1930's Donegal. Fewer critics, however, focus on Michael's representation of Father Jack, the missionary priest who returns after twenty-five years in Uganda. A surprisingly articulate anthropological observer who is more changed by the Ugandans than they by him, Father Jack defies the image of the missionary imperialist. Indeed, his portrayal conflicts with historical records. Father Jack's heterodox beliefs distress his family, but they find favor with postmodern audiences, eager to see Irish characters resist their part in the colonial enterprise. Friel's portrayal of Father Jack thus implicates the audience, not just Michael, in the play's selective memory.

Ambivalent Relationships: The Portuguese State and the Indian Nationals in Mozambique in the Aftermath of the Goa Crisis, 1961–1971

Itinerario ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-139
Author(s):  
Susana Trovão ◽  
Sandra Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Sensitivity ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Internment Camps ◽  
Protective Measures ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Legal Principles ◽  
Economic Vulnerability ◽  
Indian Origin ◽  
The Way

AbstractGrounded in written historical records and oral sources, this exploratory article addresses the Portuguese policy that targeted Indian nationals settled in Mozambique in the aftermath of the liberation/occupation of Portuguese India in December 1961. It equally tackles the views, concerns, and responses developed by Indian nationals to cope with their confinement in internment camps, frozen assets, seizures and liquidation, and deportation. The analysis evinces the inbuilt ambivalence in the way Portuguese colonial authorities constructed the internment of Indian nationals as humanitarian and protective measures, while displaying their dispossession and repatriation as harsh retaliatory political measures, at odds with the purported political and legal principles of colonial governance based on Portuguese Luso-tropical exceptionalism. The differentiated impact of such political measures, far from being univocal and uncompromising, is discussed as marred by innumerable contradictions resulting from the Portuguese economic vulnerability and dependence on Indian subaltern elites in Mozambique. Furthermore, the article presents a particular analytical sensitivity to the ambivalence surrounding the modes in which men and women of Indian origin related to Portuguese colonial power and responded to its governance.

Signs and Meanings in the Representations of their Home City by the School Pupils of Daugavpils

2012 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Mairita Folkmane ◽  
Ilva Skulte
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Ethnic Schools ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Daugavpils historically was the place where different ethnic groups are living together, interacting on the public spaces. The mixture of cultures is represented in the city landscape - home to every inhabitant, still having differents accents, figures and symbolical meanings. The following paper is based on the semiotic analysis of the pictures made by the pupils of different (ethnic) schools of Daugavpils, in order to understand what and how cildren "see" their city - what are the signs they use to construct the message about their city together and what do they mean - how different is a pictorial message. To do the analysis collection of the children drawings was made for an exhibition in the hall of the city munipality of Daugavpils - a material for our research. The findings show that besides of expected reference to different cultural traditions and some aestetical preferences, no difference exists between the way children represent their city. Diversity of cultural footprints in the landscape of the city and the pride for their city is present in the works of children coming from different ethnic, linguistic and cultural environments.

scholarly journals ROSAS Y ESPINAS EN LAS RELACIONES DE PAREJAS DE NOVIOS: AMOR, EXPECTATIVAS Y PROBLEMAS

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 385
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel Isidro de Pedro ◽  
Isaac Peñil Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Romantic Relationships ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Couple Relationship ◽  
Management Skill ◽  
Stressful Condition ◽  
The Past ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Relation Model ◽  
The Way

Abstract:ROSES AND THORNS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: LOVE, EXPECTATIONS, AND PROBLEMSThe intimate relationships have a great value in the life of the persons and, for most of them, to find and to maintain a stable couple relation, well-established and happy continue to be occupying a preponderant role in his/her “ideal” of life (to short, half or long-term), while either his absence or failure is frequently detected as a negative or stressful condition that affects the life of their protagonists. The present work deals with a psychosocial approximation to the study of the sentimental relations in youngster’s couples that are not yet living together neither they have done it in the past. In this phase it is accustomed to give rise the germ of future-conflicts and the couple behaviour patterns become established to be perpetuated and to constitute the guideline or the posterior relation model for it. Thus the way to understand love, the couple relationship, the conflict and the management skill to solve it, will be analyzed.Keywords: Romantic relationships, Love, ConflictResumen:Las relaciones íntimas tienen un gran valor en la vida de las personas y, para la mayor parte, encontrar y mantener una relación de pareja estable, consolidada y feliz sigue ocupando un papel preponderante en su “ideal” de vida (a corto, medio o largo plazo), mientras que su ausencia o fracaso es frecuentemente percibida como una condición negativa o estresante que mediatiza la vida de sus protagonistas. El presente trabajo pretende una aproximación psicosocial al estudio de las relaciones sentimentales en parejas jóvenes que aún no conviven juntas ni lo han hecho en el pasado, es decir, lo que popularmente se denomina pareja de novios. Es en esta fase cuando suele fraguarse el germen de futuros conflictos y cuando se establecen los patrones de comportamiento de pareja que tenderán a perpetuarse en el tiempo y a constituir la pauta o modelo de relación posterior entre ambos. Así se analizará la forma de entender el amor y la relación de pareja, el conflicto y las estrategias y habilidades exhibidas para resolverlo.Palabras clave: Relaciones de pareja, amor, conflicto

scholarly journals An Exploration of Presidential Vocabulary by Year

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Becker
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The Way

Abstract During his 2020 State of the Union address, did President Trump use a vocabulary that was especially self-aggrandizing, or arising from insecurity or inferiority? Mining the historical records, I conducted a naïve analysis of presidential vocabulary from the founding to the present day. My conclusion is that Trump’s use of first-person pronouns is not notably different from his recent peers, but along the way some possibly meaningful patterns in how presidents speak of themselves and of us emerged.

Whiting out Algeria: On the Limits of Assia Djebar'sLe Blanc de l'Algérieas Post-Traumatic Liturgy

CounterText ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 212-235
Author(s):  
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Keyword(s):  
Collective Trauma ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Literary Practice ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
Living Together ◽  
New Models ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
The Way

This essay reflects on Assia Djebar's mode of memorialisation of the symbolic and aesthetic aftermath of the Algerian Black Decade – and of the forms of collective trauma that it instigated. It probes Djebar's ‘writing after’ aesthetics in Le Blanc de l'Algérie (1995): a counter-political, afterwardly literary idiom dedicated to deflating ready-made forms of memorialisation. It examines the way in which Djebar avails herself of a post-literary, utopian language – her ‘poetics of white’ – to adequately attend to the multiple voices of Algeria. By recovering those vanishing testimonies in their singularity, Djebar's retrospective vision of the legacy of violence recasts the present as aftermath. Providing a deep-reaching reflection on the appropriate liturgy befitting her future-oriented memorial project, one tethered to ‘a nation seeking its own ceremonial’, Djebar illuminates the purview of the post-literary to bear witness to the origin of the violence, ‘the why of yesterday's funerals, those of the Algerian utopia’, with the aim of excavating new models of living together. However, Djebar's text falls prey to hermeneutic limits that mark out the narrator's disintegration and her inability to truly lend a voice to those bereft of their own. The example of Djebar's ‘poetics of white’ thus offers a reflection on the effects of narrative dissolution – here the dissolution of the narrative voice – in memorial mediations of the afterwardly. Can a countertextual literary practice, one aiming at speaking against coercive political forms, move beyond the aporetically singular? Can it ever fulfil a collective project, or is it doomed to dissolution and expatriation?

scholarly journals That’s Me: Nationalism and Identity on Balkan Reality TV

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zala Volcic ◽  
Mark Andrejevic
Keyword(s):  
Reality Tv ◽  
Big Brother ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Nationalism And Identity ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
The Way

Abstract: In this article, we consider the themes and reception of To Sam Ja (That’s Me), a Big Brother–style Balkan reality TV show filmed in Macedonia in 2004 and 2005 that featured several cast members from former Yugoslav republics living together. Drawing on examples taken from the production and reception of To Sam Ja, we explore the way in which the show manages political and economic conflicts by transposing them into the realm of the personal.Résumé : Dans cet article, nous considérons la réception de To Sam Ja (C’est moi), une émission de téléréalité réalisée en Macédoine en 2004 et 2005. À la manière de Big Brother et Loft Story, To Sam Ja met en vedette plusieurs représentants d’anciennes républiques yougoslaves vivant ensemble. En nous fondant sur des exemples provenant de la production et de la réception de To Sam Ja, nous explorons la manière dont cette émission gère les conflits politiques et économiques en les transposant dans le domaine personnel.

scholarly journals MAINTAINABILITY OF BAHASA MALAYSIA BY MALAYSIAN STUDENTS IN MEDAN

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
Indri Harmaili Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Language Attitude ◽  
Malaysian Students ◽  
The Way

The background of this research was how Malaysian students maintain their Malaysian language in Medan even when they were far from their language domain. When a certain language speaker moved to other area which use different language and interact with them, they tend to adopt that new language. The objectives of this study wire to find what factors that induce maintainability of Malaysian language by Malaysian students in Medan, and how is the maintainability of Malaysian language realized by Malaysian students in Medan and also why the maintainability of Malaysian language is the way it does. This research used descriptive research by giving the Malaysian students a questionnaire and interviewing them. There were 21 Malaysian students as informants, 16 men and 5 women. It was found that the maintainability happened because Malaysian students were living in group, so they still use Malaysian language regularly. Even when they were far from Malaysian language domain, they still accessed Malaysian language media such as music, news, TV, radio etc regularly and still active in chatting application with their friends who are still living in Malaysia and use Malaysian language. They realized they maintainability of Malaysian language by joining Malaysian community, where many Malaysian students gather and speak in Malay, they also have good language attitude towards Malaysian language. Those happened because when they lived in a foreign environment they tried to find other Malaysian students to fell like home. That makes them living together with other Malaysian students in group.

Documentary Sources

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Harding
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
Native Community ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Face ◽  
Celtic Studies ◽  
The Way

Prehistorians like to think of prehistoric archaeology as the ‘purest’ branch of the discipline, in that interpretation and reconstruction of prehistoric societies is solely dependent upon the principles and techniques of archaeology, untainted by the predisposition of history. The unfortunate polarization of attitudes was only too evident at a recent International Congress of Celtic Studies, at which some younger archaeologists were utterly dismissive of any argument that was based upon classical sources, an intolerance that was only comprehensible in the face of the equally irrational faith placed in these sources, irrespective of context or chronology, by some of their senior colleagues. This kind of uncritical use of texts doubtless underlies Hill's (1989) exhortation that Iron Age archaeological studies should become more like the Neolithic. For others, the present writer included, the challenge of the Iron Age derives largely from the fact that it does span the threshold of history, and that Britain and Europe are therefore populated by named individuals and known communities, not just by inanimate pots and stone artefacts. The age of hillforts is substantially protohistoric, though Christopher Hawkes’ (1954) term parahistoric is probably more accurate for much of the British Iron Age, for which the relevant texts derive from literate neighbours rather than from even a minority literate group among the native community. Archaeologists since Hawkes have sometimes talked about such periods as text-aided, as opposed to prehistoric periods that were text-free. It may be arguable whether the presence of textual sources is an aid or a complication, but the phrase text-free implies a measure of relief that for these periods at least the archaeologist is free to interpret the evidence uninhibited by possible contradiction from historical records. The problem with text-aided archaeology, of course, was that it tended to be text-led; that is, that archaeology was seen as a means of ‘proving’ or at least illuminating history. The subordination of archaeology to history that was implicit in this approach is well illustrated by the way that Sir Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur were popularly heralded as proving the flood of Genesis, or Kathleen Kenyon's excavations at Jericho were presented as discovering the walls destroyed by Joshua, notwithstanding the fact that the Neolithic town with which she was primarily concerned pre-dated Iron Age Joshua by several millennia.

Look at Politics With Eyes Unclouded By Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 171-191
Author(s):  
Matías Sirczuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
The Political ◽  
Living Together ◽  
French Author ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

In the following, I will trace the presence of Montesquieu in Arendt’s work, giving an account of both Arendt’s praise for the French writer’s particular way of thinking the political and his approach to problems that will become central to the development of Arendt’s own thought. Firstly, I will follow Arendt down the path that led her to discover fundamental tools in Montesquieu for understanding totalitarianism “with eyes unclouded by philosophy.” Secondly, I will track the way in which the Arendtian reconceptualization of some key political words—power, law and freedom—is threaded through with her reading of the French author. Thirdly, I will look into the way in which Montesquieu’s formulation of a particular link between what Arendt calls the basic experience and the political regime, allows her to go on to discover a criteria that makes it possible to distinguish between political and anti-political ways of living together; and allows us to see that there is a phenomenally essential element within tyranny and totalitarianism that ensures that it “develops the germs of its own destruction the moment it comes into existence.”

scholarly journals The Transcendental Subaltern

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-371
Author(s):  
Byron Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ◽  
The Way

Abstract Was Immanuel Kant Russian? More striking than the fact itself is the length of time it was overlooked: following historian Alexander Etkind’s research on the topic, this paper details Königsberg’s occupation by the Russian Empire, considering the possibilities of reinstating Kant’s thought in the postcolonial tradition, more specifically that of the subaltern (as framed by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Taking this colonial context into account via a range of historical records and correspondences, I argue for a postcolonial reinterpretation and re-evaluation of the philosopher’s work, beginning with his famous essay on the topic of enlightenment. In what ways does this pertain to the enlightenment, as Kant sees it, and the way he distinguishes between the public and private spheres? Furthermore, how does Spivak’s reading of Kant overlook the subaltern status that she herself defines?

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