The Ungovernable Female Agency

2021 ◽  
pp. 219-253
Author(s):  
Berrin Yanıkkaya
Keyword(s):  
Female Agency ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
Political Drama ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Established Order

By following McNay's conceptualization of agency and adapting Mills' feminist stylistics, this chapter examines the creation of female agency and subjectivity in the Mexican political drama Ingobernable [The Ungovernable]. The series has two complete seasons and 27 episodes so far. The plot revolves around the actions of five women, who can be identified with their unexpected and unanticipated as well as disobedient and resistant behaviors at varying levels. Each woman has different relations with power; however, all aim to engender change within the established order. Here, the author proposed a multi-layered method for analyzing female agency and subjectivity in the series by weaving the analysis through women archetypes from Mexican history and argued that female agency is created through audacious and cautious actions in Ingobernable which exists in-between these two action-based tensions.

scholarly journals La llegada de Maximiliano a la tierra de los pueblos bárbaros

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Katalin Jancsó
Keyword(s):  
Indian Population ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Benito Juarez

The author examines a specific aspect of the brief period of Maximilian's reign as the Emperor of Mexico. The spring of 1864 opened an interesting and controversial era of Mexican history. After arriving at Mexico and being proclaimed Emperor with the help of the Mexican Conservatives, Maximilian I., Archduke of Austria and Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia reigned in a surprisingly liberal spirit, with the principal aim of modernizing Mexico. The Mexican liberals, led by Benito Juárez, did all they could to get rid of the foreign emperor, and finally executed him the 19th of July, 1867. During his brief reign of three years, both Maximilian and his wife, the empress Charlotte of Belgium manifested profound interest in the situation of the native Indians who made up the vast majority of Mexico's population and had great expectations towards the emperor. A dedicated liberal, Maximilian considered all Mexican citizens should be granted the same rights, and adopted various measures to improve the condition of the natives, and help their integration in the Mexican nation through the process of mestizaje. The author presents the circumstances of Maximilian's arrival at Mexico, his reception, the measures introduced by the Emperor in the protection of the Indian population and the circumstances that led to the creation of the „Junta Protectora de las Clases Menesterosas”, organization representing the interests of the poor, as described in the press of the era.

The Politics of Objects

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lilah Grace Canevaro
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
The Creation

Chapter 2 offers different models and parameters of female agency. Iliadic and Odyssean women are differentiated in terms of their roles in war- and peacetime respectively, and the ways in which Andromache and Helen weave are used as case studies for ‘normal’ and ‘exceptional’ female characters. The chapter engages closely with these exceptional women, bringing together Helen and Penelope in terms of their liminal position in society and the elevated agency that allows. Drawing on feminist literature on female communicative channels and the potentially liberating power of technology, this chapter then presents the ‘politics of objects’: the creation and distribution of textiles through which supposedly ‘commodified’ characters create their own kind of commerce, and their own way of communicating.

Carnival, Cultural Identity, and Mustapha Matura's ‘Play Mas’

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-195
Author(s):  
Raimund Schäffner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Derek Walcott ◽  
English Department ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Caryl Churchill ◽  
Political Drama ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The University ◽  
Established Order

Carnival has been appropriated in many ways – by cultural critics after Bakhtin, who expanded the pre-Lenten festival to embrace all such inversions of the established order; by elegant maskers imposing their own social status on the celebration; and more recently by popular entertainers, creating the kind of mass event typified by the midsummer carnival at Notting Hill, divorced alike from religious and calendric associations. Here, Raimund Schäffner considers the critique dramatized in Mustapha Matura's Play Mas (1974) of the appropriation of carnival by the dominant political forces of the state in the context of the Trinidadian inheritance of social and racial tensions, colonial and post-colonial – the context also for the dismissal of the event as socially divisive rather than socially critical by such a figure as Derek Walcott. Raimund Schäffner teaches English and post-colonial literature in the English Department at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of a book on David Edgar and British political drama after 1968, and of articles on David Edgar, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, and Doug Lucie.

scholarly journals “For know, alas, I’m dumb, alas I love": Rhetoric of disability, female agency and tragedy in ‘The Dumb Virgin’

Sederi ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 167-192
Author(s):  
Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero
Keyword(s):  
Disability Studies ◽  
Aesthetic Theory ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Normal Body ◽  
Personal Effort ◽  
The Social ◽  
Established Order

This essay will focus on the two sisters of “The Dumb Virgin; or, The Force of Imagination,” addressing the crossover between disability studies, feminism and aesthetic theory. It will examine how art has the capacity to manipulate nature and how nature may be improved by the intervention of human industry. With this aesthetic duality, it will suggest that the writer reframes the concept of the ‘normal’ body, establishing a rhetoric of deformity and disability through the characters of Belvideera and Maria, both of whom overcome their natural disabilities by means of personal effort. Lastly, it will investigate the ‘misfortunes’ of several characters, paying particular attention to the educated nature of the two protagonists and how this poses a threat to the established order of society. The conclusion to be drawn from this is that their challenge to the social construct is directly responsible for the tragic climax of the narrative.

Creating the EAC in Senegal

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Ben Kioko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
African Union ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Political Drama ◽  
African Soil ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Important Milestone

This chapter assesses how Judge Ben Kioko, former Director of the Legal Department of the Commission of the African Union, led the AU's early efforts to construct a court to try those responsible for atrocities committed in Chad from 1982–1990. The creation of the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) in Senegal for the Hissène Habré trial was an important milestone for the AU. It gave a real meaning to the principles contained in the Constitutive Act that affirm the Union's commitment to fighting impunity and protecting human rights. The chapter then describes the many twists, turns, and challenges that the AU faced in the establishment of the EAC, providing insights as to the political drama surrounding the court's creation. Ultimately, Africans must continue to interrogate how international crimes committed on their continent can be prosecuted on African soil while ensuring that the interests of the victim are at the centre of all these efforts.

Berossus and the Creation Story

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Female Agency ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Enuma Elish

Abstract This article investigates the fragments of the Babyloniaca of Berossus on creation. The following aspects are considered: the narrative structure of the book and how the account of creation is introduced, with broader implications for the cultural claims of Berossus and his peers; the relation between Berossus and previous Mesopotamian traditions, mainly the Babylonian Epic of Creation (Enuma elish), as well as possible evidence of Greek influence; and finally the view of human nature which is implicit in his account of the creation of humankind, notably the elimination of female agency and how his narrative relates to theories of human generation and the body that were current among the Babylonians, the Greeks, and the Egyptians.

The role of affect in feelings of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.

Haydn: The Creation

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Temperley
Keyword(s):  
The Creation
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