Wingwomen

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Anna Ball
Keyword(s):  
Female Subject ◽  
First Century ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Selection Of

The motif of flight is prominent in Palestinian creative work, yet in its contemporary connotations, it assumes increasingly multiple dimensions as it migrates creatively across generational, gendered, spatial, and formal contexts. In the work of artist Sama Alshaibi and poet Lisa Suheir Majaj, aerial and avian images reappear and the motif of flight animates each woman’s ability to explore her complex relationship not simply to the homeland and Palestinian history, but also to her own embodied positionality as a twenty-first century diasporic female subject. In exploring a selection of Alshaibi and Majaj’s poetic engagements, this chapter gestures towards flight not simply as motif but also as sociocultural movement (simultaneously spatial, gestural, and political) within the post-millennial Palestinian creative imagination. This is a movement defined by a distinctively feminocentric poetics, through which it becomes possible to envisage new forms of spatial, psychological, and creative relationships to Palestine fitting for this new century.

A short ethnography of twenty-first century consumers: On retail rage and one-dimensionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 146954052110396
Author(s):  
Kevin P. Bingham
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
First Century ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Material Goods ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Sociological Interpretation ◽  
The Way

This article begins with two central ideas – that feelings of rage appear to be on the increase in present modernity and that one of the main sources of rage is directly linked to consumer culture and the retail experience it fosters. Although retail trade allows twenty-first century individuals to spend their money on material goods and experiences which provide structure and a sense of meaning and belonging, what it also causes is ambivalence, insecurity and anxiety. These are formidable feelings that cause irritation, frustration and anger to gradually fester until it accumulates into something violent that distorts the way an individual thinks, acts and treats other people. With these points in mind, what this article provides is a thorough sociological interpretation of twenty-first century retail rage. Veering away from existing interpretations of rage by drawing on Herbert Marcuse’s analysis and image of a one-dimensional society, what this article explores is the idea that retail experiences turn people into individuals who are bound and controlled by a consumer duty. As I contend, based on my unique position as a researcher turned retail worker, it is this administered, one-dimensional kind of lifestyle that cultivates rage. To support my argument and understand more comprehensively how and why retail breeds frustration and anger, I use a selection of narrative episodes to unpack three key sources of consumer rage in the twenty-first century. These sources have been labelled instantaneity, performativity and unfulfillment.

Precariousness, kinship, and care: Becoming human in Claire Cameron’s The Last Neanderthal

2020 ◽  
pp. 002198942096798
Author(s):  
Rūta Šlapkauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Female Subject ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Origins ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Donna Haraway ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article employs Christine L. Marran’s notion of “obligate storytelling” to examine the poetic structures of vulnerability in Canadian author Claire Cameron’s novel The Last Neanderthal (2017). The theoretical backbone of ideas on the materiality of being suggested by Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Erinn C. Gilson, and Matt Edgeworth, among others, solicits a reading which foregrounds the moral upshot of conceiving the body as an affective centre of life and an arc of anthropogenesis. By following this trajectory, I attempt to show how in troping the archeological dig as a biosemiotic archive, Cameron exposes the structural homologies between the lives of her two female protagonists, a twenty-first-century scientist and a Neanderthal, whose bones she has unearthed. The novel’s use of narrative bifocality offers a visceral construction of subjectivity, which takes its bearings from the shared experience of corporeal vulnerability. By thus imaginatively unspooling the affective links between the neoliberal female subject and her Neanderthal cousin, the novel calls upon us both to rescale our conceptions of creaturely life and rethink our narratives of human origins.

Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Manning
Keyword(s):  
Performance Guide ◽  
Art Songs ◽  
Song Cycles ◽  
First Century ◽  
Vocal Repertoire ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

In this new follow-up to her highly regarded New Vocal Repertory, volumes 1 and 2, English concert and opera soprano Jane Manning provides a seasoned expert’s guidance and insight into the vocal genre she calls home. Manning’s comprehensive selection of contemporary art songs in Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century ranges from the avant-garde to the more easily accessible, including substantial song cycles, shorter encore pieces, and songs suitable for auditions and competitions. Each of the selections is accompanied by a highly detailed performance guide, music examples, levels of difficulty, and a brief encapsulation of vocal characteristics or challenges contained in the piece. A supplemental companion website provides composer biographies and an up-to-date list of recommended recordings. With a focus on younger composers in addition to prominent figures, Manning encourages singers to refresh and expand their recital repertoire into less familiar territory, and discover the rewards therein.

scholarly journals A Breton Bande Dessinée? Graphic Mosaics of Brittany

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-271
Author(s):  
Armelle Blin-Rolland
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Bande Dessinee ◽  
Art Form ◽  
New Models ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Selection Of

This article uses the figure of the mosaic to explore the multiple ways in which Breton creators of bande dessinée have engaged with cutural, social and political questions from the 1940s to the twenty-first century. Graphic works published in the 1940s magazine O Lo Lê, created by Herri and Ronan Caouissin and later revived in the early 1970s, offered nostalgic images of a fantasized past, a form of cultural propaganda based on myths of Celtic ancestors, literary forefathers such as Auguste Brizeux, and the politics of provincialism. In the second half of the 1970s and early 1980s, amid calls for internal decolonization, the Breton BD scene became more varied, depicting emigration, unemployment and social unrest while giving voice to political dissent and deconstructing the clichés of picturesque localism. Finally, a selection of contemporary texts offers a space for re-examining Frenchness through the interplay between different languages and cultures, new models of relationality informed by postcolonial and ecocritical frameworks. As a hybrid, dynamic art form, BD emerges as a key contributor to the construction and deconstruction of community and group identities.

Miranda July and the New Twenty-first-century Indie

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Independent Cinema ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Film And Video

This chapter singles out the brilliant, idiosyncratic multi-mediary work of Miranda July as exemplary of American independent cinema as it currently stands. Defining the latter in terms of the emerging indie culture of the twenty-first century’s second decade, McHugh argues that July’s oeuvre reframes the masculinist rhetoric that has dominated the discussion until now. Manifesting itself communally, through informal networks rather than through self-stylisation, July’s creative work is collaborative, improvisational, and distributed across a broad range of platforms including, besides film and video, writing, acting, performance and conceptual art, all of which are represented in her two feature films Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) and The Future (2011).

Uncreative Writing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Roach
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
First Century ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Philip Roth ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter demonstrates that, thanks to the heavy reliance of publishers’ marketing departments on author interviews as a means of promotion, today interviews are increasingly conceived through their opposition to creative writing. Drawing on the examples of Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, and J. M. Coetzee, the chapter demonstrates that interviews have become the quintessential example of uncreative, instrumental, authorial labour. However, in a time in which literature is frequently conceived in opposition to information, interviews also become a productive site for authors to reflect on the nature of literary representation and contemporary creative work. In their opposition to creative writing, interviews can also become an example of ‘uncreative writing’. As information surplus and networked digital computing make traditional, primarily print-based, norms of authorship, creativity, and inscription less tenable, for some of the authors discussed here the interview offers a generative site for exploring new modes of creative expression fit for the twenty-first century.

The instructive power of the fable in New Zealand’s Native School Reader (1886)

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Shef Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
First Century ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the cultural implications of James Henry Pope’s selection of fables for his 1886 Native School Reader designed to teach English to Māori students in Native Schools. Design/methodology/approach The essay takes a historical approach. It surveys attitudes towards the fable as a pedagogical tool prior to 1880 and reviews Pope’s choice of 50 from the 300 available fables in the Aesopic canon. Findings The study finds that Pope was well informed and well intentioned, but nonetheless appeared to be unaware of potentially unsettling interpretations of his selected fables. Originality/value While it may be relatively easy for twenty-first-century readers to perceive the cultural tensions of Pope’s work, exploring the historical context helps us to understand both why Pope compiled the text he did, and why he and his books were well regarded by both Pākehā and Māori, despite almost certainly not conveying the values the settlers wished to inculcate in Māori.

scholarly journals The “Ready-Made-Writer” in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-216
Author(s):  
Françoise Grauby
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Small Enterprise ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Official Recognition ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis chapter explores the concepts of discursive and non-discursive ethos, as well as the notion of authorial stance (posture) as defined by Jerôme Meizoz (2007; 2011) in order to analyze the figure of the “ready-made-writer” in French manuals and writing guides at the beginning of the twenty-first century. “Authorial stance,” “ethos,” and “persona” are all terms that take stock of the way in which authors declare themselves writers in the literary field. For Meizoz, posture begins at the moment of publication, that is, at the moment of the official recognition of the author. A close reading of some recent French writing manuals, however, reveals the outline of an implicit portrait of the author budding into a legitimate artist and credible writer, and contains indications on how to carve out a space of creation for oneself. The identities presented by the manuals are shaped by literary models and invested by a collective imaginary. They conform to culturally accepted archetypes, because “becoming a writer, and doing the work of a writer are part of the same phantasm” (Ducas 2002). Learning the craft of writing thus also entails acquiring a corporeal dramaturgy or an “auctorial scenography” (Diaz 2009) which is a prerequisite for creation. This can be achieved by going through various authorial stances, from “visionary” to “apprentice” and “manager of one’s own small enterprise.”

Contested Spaces

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Jørgen Ystehede
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Monuments And Memorials ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
History Of Crime

This article provides an outline of the history of crime museums, monuments, and crime memorials and suggests how these can be understood as historical, social, and cultural phenomena. First, some common characteristics of crime museums, monuments, and memorials are set out. Second, a short historical outline of the rise of the (crime) museum from the Renaissance period until the twenty-first century is provided, followed by a consideration of crime museums, crime monuments, and memorials as separate categories and objects of study. A selection of examples of crime museums, monuments, and memorials is presented with the aim of showing some particular perspectives on and approaches to the study of crime museums, monuments, and memorials, and their relevance to criminological research.

World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
First Century ◽  
World Population ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Original Edition ◽  
Selection Of

Condensed into a detailed analysis and a selection of continent-wide datasets, this revised edition of World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century addresses the role of educational attainment in global population trends and models. Presenting the full chapter text of the original edition alongside a concise selection of data, it summarizes past trends in fertility, mortality, migration, and education, and examines relevant theories to identify key determining factors. Deriving from a global survey of hundreds of experts and five expert meetings on as many continents, World Population & Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Overview emphasizes alternative trends in human capital, new ways of studying ageing and the quantification of alternative population, and education pathways in the context of global sustainable development. It is an ideal companion to the county specific online Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer.

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