A painful progress: Queer fiction and the American protest literature tradition

2016 ◽  
pp. 163-175
Keyword(s):  
Protest Literature ◽  
Queer Fiction

scholarly journals Mobilization, Mass Perceptions, and (Dis)information: “New” and “Old” Media Consumption Patterns and Protest

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 205630512199965
Author(s):  
Olga Onuch ◽  
Emma Mateo ◽  
Julian G. Waller
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Online News ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Mass Mobilization ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
Frequent Consumption ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Mass Protest

When people join in moments of mass protest, what role do different media sources play in their mobilization? Do the same media sources align with positive views of mass mobilizations among the public in their aftermath? And, what is the relationship between media consumption patterns and believing disinformation about protest events? Addressing these questions helps us to better understand not only what brings crowds onto the streets, but also what shapes perceptions of, and disinformation about mass mobilization among the wider population. Employing original data from a nationally representative panel survey in Ukraine ( Hale, Colton, Onuch, & Kravets, 2014 ) conducted shortly after the 2013–2014 EuroMaidan mobilization, we examine patterns of media consumption among both participants and non-participants, as well as protest supporters and non-supporters. We also explore variation in media consumption among those who believe and reject disinformation about the EuroMaidan. We test hypotheses, prominent in current protest literature, related to the influence of “new” (social media and online news) and “old” media (television) on protest behavior and attitudes. Making use of the significance of 2014 Ukraine as a testing ground for Russian disinformation tactics, we also specifically test for consumption of Russian-owned television. Our findings indicate that frequent consumption of “old” media, specifically Russian-owned television, is significantly associated with both mobilization in and positive perceptions of protest and is a better predictor of believing “fake news” than consuming “new” media sources.

Writing against innocence: Entangled temporality, black subjectivity, andDrumwriters revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-293
Author(s):  
Xiaoran Hu
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Political Resistance ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
Black Subjectivity ◽  
African Writers ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the representation of time in narratives of childhood experience in Es’kia Mphahlele’s Down Second Avenue (1959) and Bloke Modisane’s Blame Me on History (1963). These two autobiographies are among the most widely-known works by the group of South African writers who have been loosely associated with Drum magazine in the 1950s. Originating from the early years of the anti-apartheid struggle and resonating widely with the heightened anticolonial resistance movements across the continent, writings by the so-called Drum writers, many of whom later went into exile, have often been viewed and criticized as “protest literature”, as literary works whose aesthetic merits are somehow compromised by the overt political purposes they appear to serve. This article seeks to revise such a reading by revisiting the politics of the stylistic innovations in these autobiographical narratives. Themes and motifs directly derived from the rhetoric of political protest, as I argue, in fact problematize a developmental logic governing the biographical transition from childhood to adulthood and contribute to a radical critique of linear temporality and teleological historiography. While writing from polemical positions and from inside the historical juncture of political resistance, these writers’ narrative reflections on and re-orderings of the relationship between the past and the present also partake of the process of refashioning modern black subjectivity, a significant move of literary intervention that still has profound resonance in our postcolonial, post-apartheid, and post-revolutionary present.

Science Fiction’s Imagined Futures and Powerful Protests: The Ethics of “Curing” Deafness in Ted Evans’s The End and Donna Williams’s “When the Dead Are Cured”

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Mazique
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Sign Language ◽  
Real World ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cognitive Schemas ◽  
Group Rights ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Literature And Film

Contemporary Deaf literature and film of the science fiction (SF) genre such as Ted Evans’s The End and Donna Williams’s “When the Dead are Cured” imagine worlds where Sign Language Peoples (SLPs) are threatened with eradication. Employing schema criticism, the article shows how these social SF stories have the potential to transform harmful cognitive schemas that perpetuate eugenic drives, explaining how certain cognitive schemas uphold beliefs inherent to the ideology of ability (Bracher 2013; Siebers 2008). These SF texts question the ethics of genetic engineering and the desire to “cure” deafness; the intersection of disability and SF results in a subgenre of protest literature. Each protest story depicts eugenic ideologies that instantiate real-world SLPs’ activist claims to human and group rights. Further, these depictions of eugenic drives enable the activation of cognitive schemas that work against social injustices. SF as a mode of thought thus supports real-life protest against the state.

scholarly journals History of Protest Literature in India: Trails from the Bhakti Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Preeti Oza
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
Vernacular Language ◽  
Sanskrit Word ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Buddha

Abstract: “Better is to live one day virtuous and meditative than to live a hundred years immoral and uncontrolled” (The Buddha) Bhakti movement in India has been a path-breaking phenomenon that provided a solid shape and an identifiable face to the abstractions with the help of vernacular language. As a religious movement, it emphasized a strong personal and emotional bond between devotees and a personal God. It has come from the Sanskrit word Bhaj- ‘to share’. It began as a tradition of devotional songs, hagiographical or philosophical – religious texts which have generated a common ground for people of all the sects in the society to come together. As counterculture, it embraced into its fold all sections of people breaking the barriers of caste, class, community, and gender. It added an inclusive dimension to the hitherto privileged, exclusivist, Upanishadic tradition. It has provided a very critical outlook on contemporary Brahminical orthodoxy and played a crucial role in the emergence of modern poetry in India. This paper elaborates on the positioning of the Bhakti Movement in the context of Protest narratives in India.

scholarly journals Vegan Diet and Mutliple Health Outcomes: A Review and Meta-analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
Ashwini Bisen ◽  
Rakesh Kumar Jha ◽  
Nandkishor Bankar
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Vegan Diet ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Multiple Health

A recent development in social protest literature involves cultural activism centered largely on the subject of veganism; its health benefits and responses to diseases that already exist among us. This article brings you the data relating health benefits with the entire plant-based diet, based on numerous studies done around and about this subject, taking into account the health-related, social, and ethical aspects. Aim: Vegan Diet and Multiple Health Outcomes: A Review and Meta-Analysis Conclusion: Plant-based nutrition is something so simple, yet so profound and so inexpensive that one can ‘make health a habit’ and thus, can absolutely reverse most of our modern day killers.

MEMORY IN LIMBO: THE RECONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN MATING BIRDS (1986) BY LEWIS NKOSI

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Phomolo Mosito
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Black People ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
First Person ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
African Writer ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Memory And Recall

Lewis Nkosi’s novel, Mating birds (1986) offers a significant intervention in a history as dispersed and fragmented as South Africa’s, by focusing on those specific and critical episodes of South Africa’s past. This much-colonised country has had an extended history of perennial violence under colonialism and apartheid Some fiction by Black writers on this phenomenon may be seen to be reactive, what Njabulo Ndebele (South African writer) terms ‘Protest Literature’-and seeks to show black people as victims (Ndebele 1994). Nkosi’s novels, Mating birds (1986) in particular reverse this order through the narratives of different characters, illustrating that black people were not the passive victims of apartheid but played an active role towards its opposition and eradication. This is achieved through complex portrayal of the first-person narrative technique and interstices of memory and recall. This article explores how identity as a porous and fluid, and fragmented and fractured concept that could be used to describe the individual or communa traits of some characters, and space (prison) are portrayed in Lewis Nkosi’s Mating birds (1986).

Fallen Among Reformers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Protest Literature ◽  
Personal Politics ◽  
Time Away

‘Fallen Among Reformers’ focuses on Stella Miles Franklin’s New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women’s Trade Union League (1906-1915). This time away from literary pursuits enriched Franklin’s literary productivity and provided a feminist social justice ethics, which shaped her writing. Close readings of Franklin’s (mostly unpublished) short stories, plays, and novels contextualises them in the personal politics of her everyday life and historicises them in the socio-economic and literary realities of early twentieth-century Australia and United States: themes embedded in broader cultural patterns of socialism, pacifism, and feminism.

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