Real, compared to what? Insertability of constrained realemes in Dave Eggers’ What is the What

The paper examines Eggers’ What is the What (2006) that has problematically been called an autobiographical novel and memoire, narrating Valentino’s chequered past as one of Sudanese Lost Boys. The text yields potential perspectives that demand scrutiny for understanding of the fascinating reciprocity between fictionality and historicity. The article engages theorizations of the complex coalescence offered by Zohar (1980) and McHale (1987) to benchmark the thematic dimensions of the selected text against the cutting-edge postulates. In addition, Valentino’s preface to the “novel”, engaging with the purpose of his collaborative working with Eggers, and Eggers’ essay “It was just boys walking” (2004), negotiating the genesis of the project, have also been used as a methodological touchstone. The analysis vindicates the correspondence between the fictional and the historical versions, albeit the author has fictionalized gaps of Valentino’s historicized life. Thus, Eggers’ text consummates blurring by encompassing both the thematic dimensions, fusing fiction and fact, and the structural schemas, mixing the techniques of different genre traditions, inasmuch as his work exhibits a hermeneutic playfulness found at the heart of the aesthetics of postmodern and 9/11 fiction.

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Contemporary Megaprojects

Environment and Society ◽

10.3167/ares.2019.100101 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Seth Schindler ◽

Simin Fadaee ◽

Dan Brockington

Keyword(s):

Complex Systems ◽

Private Sector ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

The Novel

There is renewed interest in megaprojects worldwide. In contrast to high-modernist megaprojects that were discrete projects undertaken by centralized authorities, contemporary megaprojects are often decentralized and pursued by a range of stakeholders from governments as well as the private sector. They leverage cutting-edge technology to ‘see’ complex systems as legible and singular phenomena. As a result, they are more ambitious, more pervasive and they have the potential to reconfigure longstanding relationships that have animated social and ecological systems. The articles in this issue explore the novel features of contemporary megaprojects, they show how the proponents of contemporary megaprojects aspire to technologically enabled omnipresence, and they document the resistance that megaprojects have provoked.

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Control and the Novel: Dave Eggers and Disciplinary Form

MFS Modern Fiction Studies ◽

10.1353/mfs.2020.0024 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 527-546

Author(s):

Frida Beckman

Keyword(s):

The Novel ◽

Dave Eggers

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Foundation News

The Leading Edge ◽

10.1190/tle39080536.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 39 (8) ◽

pp. 536-537

Author(s):

Paul Bauman

Keyword(s):

Humanitarian Aid ◽

Refugee Camp ◽

Aid Workers ◽

Humanitarian Aid Workers ◽

Sudan I ◽

The World ◽

Dave Eggers ◽

Lost Boys

The Kakuma Refugee Camp (including the nearby Kalobeyei Camp) in the Turkana Desert of northwestern Kenya is home to approximately 200,000 refugees from 21 countries. The camp was established in 1992 to accommodate approximately 40,000 “Lost Boys” who walked there from their villages in Sudan. I have heard many experienced humanitarian aid workers describe Kakuma as the worst place in the world. In Dave Eggers book, What is the What, Lost Boy Achak Deng, after surviving for years as a child wandering across deserts and swamps in Sudan and eventually reaching Kakuma, describes it as “a place in which no one, simply no one but the most desperate, would ever consider spending a day” (Eggers, 2007).

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Reconstructions: Faulkner and Du Bois on the Civil War

Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas ◽

10.14325/mississippi/9781496806345.003.0008 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

T. Austin Graham ◽

Jay Watson

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

The Novel ◽

Du Bois ◽

Universal Principles ◽

Novel Approaches

The Unvanquished was Faulkner’s most sustained fictional account of the Civil War, as well as an occasion for him to model various methods of studying the conflict. The novel approaches the war from several historiographically distinct viewpoints, sometimes presenting it as a demonstration of abstract, universal principles, and other times as a fight over slavery. In making the former case, The Unvanquished resembles some of the most cutting-edge, “revisionist” Civil War histories of the 1920s and 30s. But in making the latter it echoes W.E.B. Du Bois’ then-unfashionable, now-accepted insistence that the war was fundamentally concerned with black subjugation and liberation.

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The Paranoia of Colonialism in Coetzee's Waiting for Barbarians

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Research ◽

10.31580/ijer.v2i3.908 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 10-13

Author(s):

Jihad Jaafar Waham ◽

Wan Mazlini Othoman

Keyword(s):

State Building ◽

The Body ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

The Other ◽

The Novel ◽

Points Of Interest ◽

The Boondocks ◽

Waiting For The Barbarians

In Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), J. M. Coetzee cross examines the points of interest of grand states by significance the distinctions from the savages that the strange Empire keeps up. The Empire characterizes itself and strengthens its personality by developing a separation from the brutes on numerous grounds. It keeps up state foundations and keeps records, since itself as a cutting edge express, an advanced story of "crude" brutes. Coetzee's tale uncovered the Empire's tricky endeavors at setting up the other and its confounded ideas of state building. In spite of the fact that the basic elucidations of the novel spotlight on mistreat and the body, this article breaks down the novel's inclusion with royal state building and patriotism. Torment and the body are significant to the extent that they uncover the Empire's endeavors to distinguish it and construct a country. The Empire's disappointment in the greater part of these complimentsâ€•as suggested by the end with the Empire down its hang on the boondocks settlement and the settlement's kin sitting tight for the landing of the barbariansâ€•makes us question the bogus presumptions on which numerous magnificent ventures are based. The Empire's inability to safeguard its outskirts, its disadvantage to its heartland, and its breakdown to protect cultivated conduct in its treatment of its subjects and savage detainees are appearances of a confused, beginning organization as opposed to a recognizable and acculturated royal country. In hair-raising the temperamental refinements capturing countries use to pardon their continuance, Coetzee's work affirms an elective ethic of commitment with the other established on the possibility of basic humankind and tolerant acknowledgment of contrast.

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Correction of Orbital Deformity in Camurati-Engelmann Disease with PEEK Lateral Wall Implants

Craniomaxillofacial Trauma & Reconstruction Open ◽

10.1177/24727512211009113 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

pp. 247275122110091

Author(s):

Thomas E. Howe ◽

Damithri T. Goonesekera ◽

Nicolas J. Lee ◽

Sachin M. Salvi

Keyword(s):

Skull Base ◽

Bone Dysplasia ◽

Lateral Wall ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

Patient Specific ◽

The Novel ◽

Facial Profile ◽

Sclerosing Bone Dysplasia ◽

Orbital Wall ◽

Engelmann Disease

Camurati-Engelmann Disease is a rare congenital sclerosing bone dysplasia condition. Affected patients manifest bony abnormalities including thickening of the skull base and orbital bones. The resulting orbital volume reduction associated with this condition can cause exophthalmos, distorting the facial profile. The authors report a 33-year-old man with a diagnosis of Camurati-Engelmann Disease exhibiting exophthalmos who was successfully treated with the insertion of bilateral lateral orbital wall patient specific PEEK implants via a bi-coronal flap approach. This case highlights the novel application of modern cutting-edge technology in the treatment of proptosis in Camurati-Engelmann Disease.

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Plastic Deformation in Microtomed Sections

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100066346 ◽

1971 ◽

Vol 29 ◽

pp. 458-459

Author(s):

J. Temple Black

Keyword(s):

Plastic Deformation ◽

Plastic Strain ◽

Applied Stress ◽

Elastic Strain ◽

High Strain ◽

Tool Material ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

Material Structure ◽

Geometrical Constraints

The output of the ultramicrotomy process with its high strain levels is dependent upon the input, ie., the nature of the material being machined. Apart from the geometrical constraints offered by the rake and clearance faces of the tool, each material is free to deform in whatever manner necessary to satisfy its material structure and interatomic constraints. Noncrystalline materials appear to survive the process undamaged when observed in the TEM. As has been demonstrated however microtomed plastics do in fact suffer damage to the top and bottom surfaces of the section regardless of the sharpness of the cutting edge or the tool material. The energy required to seperate the section from the block is not easily propogated through the section because the material is amorphous in nature and has no preferred crystalline planes upon which defects can move large distances to relieve the applied stress. Thus, the cutting stresses are supported elastically in the internal or bulk and plastically in the surfaces. The elastic strain can be recovered while the plastic strain is not reversible and will remain in the section after cutting is complete.

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