scholarly journals Edith Södergran’s Genderqueer Modernism

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Benjamin Mier-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Body

This essay reads Edith Södergran’s poetic subject in Dikter (Poems) (1916) as multiple and, in their complex negotiation and revision of the cultural body assigned female at birth, representative of a gender expansiveness that we can identify today as trans and genderqueer. These queer readings of Södergran’s poems seek to move away from traditional interpretations of her work while resisting the application of fixed meanings onto them. Locating potential manifestations, opposed to identifications, of trans expression can open up new possibilities for understanding the complexity of Södergran’s writing and how contemporary readers can consider their own positionality as they navigate and renegotiate their place in the queer worlds Södergran built. This essay argues that Edith Södergran’s avant-gardist world-building of materially and aesthetically genderqueer poetic subjects contributes to her own revolutionary brand of Finland-Swedish modernism.

The Path of Standard Albanian Language Formation

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-115
Author(s):  
Sindorela Doli Kryeziu
Keyword(s):  
Single Unit ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Language History ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social And Cultural Factors ◽  
Cultural Body ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Language Literature

Abstract In our paper we will talk about the whole process of standardization of the Albanian language, where it has gone through a long historical route, for almost a century.When talking about standard Albanian language history and according to Albanian language literature, it is often thought that the Albanian language was standardized in the Albanian Language Orthography Congress, held in Tirana in 1972, or after the publication of the Orthographic Rules (which was a project at that time) of 1967 and the decisions of the Linguistic Conference, a conference of great importance that took place in Pristina, in 1968. All of these have influenced chronologically during a very difficult historical journey, until the standardization of the Albanian language.Considering a slightly wider and more complex view than what is often presented in Albanian language literature, we will try to describe the path (history) of the standard Albanian formation under the influence of many historical, political, social and cultural factors that are known in the history of the Albanian people. These factors have contributed to the formation of a common state, which would have, over time, a common standard language.It is fair to think that "all activity in the development of writing and the Albanian language, in the field of standardization and linguistic planning, should be seen as a single unit of Albanian culture, of course with frequent manifestations of specific polycentric organization, either because of divisions within the cultural body itself, or because of the external imposition"(Rexhep Ismajli," In Language and for Language ", Dukagjini, Peja, 1998, pp. 15-18.)

Expressing herself through brands: the Arab woman’s perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baker Ahmad Alserhan ◽  
Daphne Halkias ◽  
Aisha Wood Boulanouar ◽  
Mumin Dayan ◽  
Omar Ahmad Alserhan
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Global Marketplace ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Care ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Cultural Body ◽  
Word Of Mouth Communication ◽  
Beauty Care

Purpose – This paper aims to extend Wallström et al.’s (2010) six-nation study on brand use and notions of self-expression to Arab women in the UAE. Additionally, it extends the scope of investigation to include an extensive qualitative data corpus to inform and explain the consumption practices of this large, very wealthy and under-researched sector of the global marketplace. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses mixed methodology emphasizing qualitative research as a means of building on the results of Wallström et al.’s (2010) quantitative study. Findings – Results reveal that Arab women are less committed to the idea that beauty care products are a locus of self-expression, and their purchase choices are based on perceived quality of care products, scene of use and their lack of value in the culture as vehicles of conspicuous consumption cues. Originality/value – The paper offers valuable insights to researchers and practitioners into the use of beauty care products as a means of self-expression, and emphasizes the value of word-of-mouth communication in enhancing reach in this category. The authors recommend the investigation of relationships between expressing self through brands and variables revealed in this study such as respondents’ relationships to religiosity and health concerns. An extension of this research is also recommended to produce a cross-cultural body of literature on women’s self-expression through brands and how the variable of self-expression can be an important driver of consumer preferences and choices in this population.

Beyond anthropomorphism: Odissi and the botanical

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-165
Author(s):  
Sally Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Body Schema ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Bharata Natyam ◽  
Indian Dance ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Tribal Cultures ◽  
Cultural Body

Drawing on experiences that have entailed watching and learning forms of so-called ‘Indian dance’ (Bharata Natyam and Odissi), and watching Odissi dancers performing in various locations in Orissa’s ‘sacred triangle’ (Puri, Konark, Bhubaneswar), and against my own background in contemporary dance, I propose that the difference of the Odissi body is that the dancer dances with his or her feet in more than one kingdom – that is, he or she maintains a link between human bodies and the bodies of plants. Such a perception can help to displace questions of the dancer’s spatiality and representations, challenging western or westernized visions of the industrial or mechanical body, assumed hierarchies of body parts and their signifying powers, and assumptions about the role of the joints. The sense of a botanical imaginary or specific cultural body-schema at work in Odissi dance is supported by discussion of historical and ethnographic literature pertaining to the (former) female dancers of the Jagannath Temple in Puri; the temple’s links with Oriyan tribal cultures; the dancers’ traditional importance according to an axis of social auspiciousness/inauspiciousness as opposed to social purity/impurity; and the particular processes of the reconstruction of Odissi dance (separate from that of Bharata natyam) after independence.

scholarly journals Bodily Changes: Castration as Cultural and Social Practice in the Space of the Forbidden City

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110407
Author(s):  
Peng Liu ◽  
Lan Lan
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Physical Body ◽  
Imperial China ◽  
Cultural Body

This article examines the Chinese imperial body as “simultaneously part of nature and part of culture” and considers the interactions between the cultural body and physical body in sociological terms. The examination elaborates on the physical body as the manifestation of the demands of society mediated by cultural meanings. Bodily changes, such as castration, which Peng Liu argue is a trade between the physical body and cultural body in meeting the demands of Imperial Chinese society, affect the cultural embodiment of the body. This article examines the bodily actions of head eunuchs and how they interact with the emperor in the space of the Forbidden City during Imperial China. Eunuchs have undertaken an invasive physical operation to not only survive but thrive in imperial society. This reflects the constraints, struggles, and disciplining of the physically castrated and culturally embodied being.

Human See, Human Do: Simianification, Cross-species, Cross-cultural, Body Transformation

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Cultural Body ◽  
Performing Art

Simianification is the practice of humans inhabiting the simian body on stage. Because Asians have lived with monkeys and apes, several Asian theatre traditions have long legacies of representing monkeys on stage. In Europe and North America, where non-human primates did not exist, they are not a familiar feature in performance until nineteenth-century music hall and circus and twentieth-century film and television. In some recent performances in Asia dancers and actors have expanded their understanding of monkey roles by incorporating scientific discoveries, modern movement techniques, and global pop culture. On the British and American stage, actors experiment to ‘impersonate’ the humanized ape bodily and mentally, without the aid of the disguises and prosthetics usual in film. These performers ‘embody’ the philosophical inquiry of what it means to ‘be monkey’ by inhabiting a monkey’s body while still performing ‘art’ for a human audience. Catherine Diamond, a Contributing Editor to NTQ, is a professor of theatre and environmental literature at Soochow University, Taiwan. She is also the director of the Kinnari Ecological Theatre Project in Southeast Asia.

Morrison’s Return to Faulkner: A Mercy and Absalom, Absalom!

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen Fowler ◽  
Jay Watson
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Black And White ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Cultural Body

This chapter examines an intertextual relationship between Toni Morrison's novel, A Mercy (2008) and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! (1936). A Mercy returns to racial motifs in Faulkner's work and shifts the focus from the dominant culture to the marginalized and explores racial meanings that have eluded readers for whom black and white are discrete, dichotomous categories. Whereas the narrators of Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! are the white upper class that Morrison calls “the dominant cultural body,” Morrison's novel incorporates narrators include all perspectives--white, black, Native American, free, and slave--and Morrison's culturally marginalized narrators foreground meanings that are implicit, but often withheld, disguised, or denied by Faulkner's narrators.

scholarly journals Co-evolution of Human Corporeality and the Technosphere: a Philosophical-Anthropological Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Valentina Bogachenko
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Social Body ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Nominal Classification ◽  
Cultural Body ◽  
Natural Way ◽  
Virtual Body ◽  
Anthropological Discourse

This study reflects the development and transformation strategies of the anthropological situation in the context of technological progress. The change of the natural way of human existence to the technogenic method of communication leads to the formation of the image of «a virtual personality». The process of assimilation of natural and artificial takes place. Ethical alternatives of the human existence as a species within the Technosphere and the preservation of their humanistic imperative through the bodily projections of the personality are considered. Co-evolution of man and the Technosphere leads to a new way of their interaction and generates Technogenic Anthropology. The study of corporeality in various areas of human life is reflected in its ontological disclosure through the nominal classification: «biological body», «social body», «cultural body», and «virtual body». Plasticity is revealed as the main value and quality, which provides self-reflection in various forms of communication of modern man.

Here Comes the Sun: Shedding Light on the Cultural Body

2008 ◽  
pp. 260-282
Author(s):  
Simon Carter ◽  
Mike Michael
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
Cultural Body

Eloquent Bodies: Rituals in the Contexts of Alleviating Suffering

Numen ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Christine Hornborg
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The World ◽  
Dominant Society ◽  
Cultural Body ◽  
The Way

AbstractIt seems that the revitalization of traditional rituals has been an effective way of developing a new embodiment and identity. The ability of the Canadian Mi'kmaq Indians to rework the cultural body, historically imposed on them by the dominant society, opens the way to weeding out destructive patterns unconsciously or consciously embedded historically in their bodies. The ritual opens up opportunities to explore new habitus and to employ the body in a domain shared with like-minded peers so as to facilitate new ways of approaching the world. The rituals thus provide redemptive opportunities for bodies that have been disempowered by hegemonic contexts, and simultaneously offer social affirmation of the new way of being in the world.

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