scholarly journals Insurgent Being After Langston Hughes

10.47106/2317 ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
MiLisa Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Langston Hughes ◽  
The Self ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Colonial Oppression

The poem illustrates a call to divorce the self from double consciousness in order to imagine a reality beyond colonial oppression.

Between Two Minds: The Work of Peirce’s Energetic Interpretant

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-221
Author(s):  
Donna E. West
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Opposing Force ◽  
Sign Relations

Abstract This inquiry illustrates how Peirce’s Energetic Interpretant facilitates consciousness-raising between sign users. Because it forces attention and progression of action, the Energetic Interpretant highlights perfective aspectual characteristics, namely atomistic/punctual cause-effect sign relations by featuring junctures between events: beginning, middle, end. For example, the stops and starts of events are influenced by the nature of the action, in addition to the agent’s idiosyncratic preferences and predilections. The Thirdness underlying it further perpetuates the punctual component (Vendler 1967) present in action relations, operational when effort produces resistance against an opposing force. Because effort can materialize physically, or internally, it demonstrates the continued primacy of Peirce’s categories in fostering certain consequences. Energetic Interpretants can inhibit (Secondness), i.e., attention to one stimulus, while ignoring another. Nonetheless, consciously inhibiting/resisting a force (via Energetic Interpretants) introduces control beyond the self—another’s reflections upon the conscious acts of an agent (ms 318). This influence between interlocutors satisfies Peirce’s maxim of a “common place to stand” (ms 614), demonstrating mutual comprehension of the sign’s proper effect (5.475). In fact, Energetic Interpretants may result in an effect of such proportion upon either or both interlocutors that a habit-change materializes. As such, Energetic Interpretants epitomize the perfectivity exercised by particular efforts, intimating the likelihood of their discursive success. Inherent in punctual events (versus dynamic ones) is the element of surprise, which ultimately hastens the kind of habit-change especially exhibited in Peirce’s double consciousness (5.53)—self talking to self or other.

Situating the Self in the Abyss

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
An Yountae
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Edouard Glissant ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Global State ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Colonial Oppression

This chapter sets the stage for a general overview of the key themes, questions, and the methodological framework of the book. It begins with the questions that Martinican thinkers Frantz Fanon and Edouard Glissant raise regarding the possibility of constructing the being, self, and collective identity in the context of colonial oppression. A brief review of philosophical discourses and critical theories that address questions of race, (post)coloniality, and the global state of trans-spatiality (diasporization) such as Kant, theories of cosmopolitanism, postcolonial theory, and Latin American decolonial thought (“the decolonial turn”) will provide the framework for theorizing some of the central terms undergirding the book. These contesting discourses provide the various frameworks with which to read the abyss from diverse perspectives.

Œil Goulu Et Œell Révolté: Réflexions sur la double conscience dans

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Moorjani
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
The Social

In this essay, I investigate double consciousness by setting up a dialogue among texts by Beckett and philosophical and psychoanalytic thinkers. In examining the obsessional recurrence of the topic in Beckett, I call on Berkeley, Merleau-Ponty and Fanon to probe visibility-being and the social and psychic gap between the self and its reflection ; and I turn to Freud, Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Anzieu, and Lacan to interrogate perceptual doubleness and the voracious and disgusted eye in Murphy and Film.

scholarly journals “Double-Consciousness” and Black Diaspora in Langston Hughes’ Poems

English21 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-45
Author(s):  
김광순
Keyword(s):  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Double Consciousness

scholarly journals SOCIOLOGY AND THE THEORY OF DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Itzigsohn ◽  
Karida Brown
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
Self Formation ◽  
Sociological Theorist

AbstractIn this paper we emphasize W. E. B. Du Bois’s relevance as a sociological theorist, an aspect of his work that has not received the attention it deserves. We focus specifically on the significance of Du Bois’s theory of Double Consciousness. This theory argues that in a racialized society there is no true communication or recognition between the racializing and the racialized. Furthermore, Du Bois’s theory of Double Consciousness puts racialization at the center of the analysis of self-formation, linking the macro structure of the racialized world with the lived experiences of racialized subjects. We develop our argument in two stages: The first section locates the theory of Double Consciousness within the field of classical sociological theories of the self. We show how the theory addresses gaps in the theorizing of self-formation of James, Mead, and Cooley. The second section presents an analysis of how Du Bois deploys this theory in his phenomenological analysis of the African American experience. The conclusions point out how the theory of Double Consciousness is relevant to contemporary debates in sociological theory.

A personal quest: Travel writing as self-exploration in Eddy L. Harris’s Native Stranger: A Blackamerican’s Journey into the Heart of Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicklas Hållén
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Narratives ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

In Native Stranger: A Blackamerican’s Journey into the Heart of Africa (1992), Eddy L. Harris explores what it means to be the person he is. What, if anything, connects him to Africa? What is the relation between the person he knows himself to be, and the person others see? Searching for answers to his questions, he finds himself caught between his attempts to remain open to new ways of seeing and understanding the world, on the one hand, and succumbing to the pressures of monolithic narratives about African otherness, race, belonging, roots and the past, on the other hand. This tension gives rise to an ambiguity and a number of contradictions which make the text fold back on itself. His literary project therefore ultimately serves to raise questions not only about his own identity and place in the world, but also about the conditions of writing about the self. Central among the contradictions that permeate the text is a doubling of epistemological perspectives, which can be described as an effect of what W. E. B. Dubois famously termed double-consciousness. While Harris is able to use the contradictions that arise from his writing to explore and represent the complexity of the questions that are foregrounded in his text, he is unable to answer them. His project is in other words a kind of failure, but as this article argues, this failure is the price that Harris pays to access the full complexity of selfhood, beyond political and social narratives about collective identity and how the present is shaped by the past.

scholarly journals ‘Jazz at Night and the Classics in the Morning’: musical double-consciousness in short fiction by Langston Hughes

Popular Music ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia M. Miyakawa
Keyword(s):  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Langston Hughes ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
James Weldon Johnson ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Alain Locke ◽  
To Come ◽  
Cultural Resonance ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

Leaders of the Harlem Renaissance – intellectuals such as Jessie Faucet, Alain Locke, James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. DuBois – hoped to gain respect for African Americans through participation in emblems of high culture such as poetry, novels, serious plays, and the highest of all classical music genres: the symphony.1 They encouraged artists to mine folk themes for use in new, elevating works, transforming ‘indigenous’ materials into uplifting examples of high cultural resonance. Artists themselves, however, were ambivalent about privileging ‘high’ art, and especially so when making and writing about music. Indeed, as Samuel Floyd has argued, the most vibrant music to come out of the Harlem Renaissance took the form of blues, boogie woogie, and hot jazz, found in venues such as clubs, juke joints, rent parties, and stage shows (Floyd 1990, pp. 5–6).

Problem behavior in autism spectrum disorders: A paradigmatic self-organized perspective of network structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucio Tonello ◽  
Luca Giacobbi ◽  
Alberto Pettenon ◽  
Alessandro Scuotto ◽  
Massimo Cocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Critical Equilibrium ◽  
Self Organized Criticality ◽  
Acute Agitation ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

AbstractAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) subjects can present temporary behaviors of acute agitation and aggressiveness, named problem behaviors. They have been shown to be consistent with the self-organized criticality (SOC), a model wherein occasionally occurring “catastrophic events” are necessary in order to maintain a self-organized “critical equilibrium.” The SOC can represent the psychopathology network structures and additionally suggests that they can be considered as self-organized systems.

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