scholarly journals Medical Gothic Masculinities in Bram Stoker’s "Dracula"

Linguaculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Ioana Baciu
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Metaphorical Expression

The present paper makes use of Michel Foucault’s theory from Discipline and Punish according to which one of the means by which women’s bodies are controlled is through their hystericization by the power-knowledge-wielding medical profession. Taking Stoker’s famous novel as a case in point, I mean to show that the men of the novel, embodiments of Reason and Empire, gathered around the guiding medical intelligence of professor Van Helsing, act upon the bodies of the vampirized women (Lucy and Mina) in a way that is the metaphorical expression of the symbolic violence perpretated against women socially. Thus, the novel is gothic in more ways than one: its much-discussed portrayal of sexually-liberated femininity through vampirization finds its counterpart in the less-approached medical masculinity, a reinforcer of masculine domination.

scholarly journals The Prisoner of Gender:  Panopticon, Persuasion, and Surveillance of Women in Kavita Kané’s Menaka’s Choice

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Meenakshi ◽  
Nagendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Central Position ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Feminist Thought ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Disciplinary System

In the mythology-inspired novel Menaka’s Choice (2016), Kavita Kané discovers that the female body is continuously perceived both as an object of sexual desire and as an individual being by disrupting the conventional understanding of Apsara Menaka. Using Foucault’s concept of docile bodies and organic individuality the paper studies how power, in the form of ‘system’, imposes docility on women’s bodies. The paper weaves the potential for feminist thought as the novel rediscovers the recondite experiences that have been shrouded for centuries by giving central position to silent agents of Hindu mythology. Eventually, it attempts to analyse the act of seduction from the context of gender and how the individual tries to resist that disciplinary system.

Hiroshima and the Place of the Narrator

1989 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Whittier Treat
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Severe Depression ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Good Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese Writer ◽  
Second World

In ōta yōko's (1903?–63) novel Han-ningen (Half-Human, 1954) the heroine, named Oda Atsuko, is like author Ōta herself a famous A-bomb writer suffering from severe depression. She enters the hospital in an attempt to cure an addiction to tranquilizers whose intemperate use derives from very real, but to the medical profession opaque, neuroses ultimately due to the trauma of Hiroshima. No treatment proves totally effective. Medicine can only hope to counter illness, not history, and Oda's deepest torments remain chronic. She continues to be plagued by a frustration linked in the novel's fifth chapter with the choices she has faced in the seven years since the end of the Second World War: suicide, flight, or the writing of a “good work of literature.” Throughout the novel Oda dismisses suicide as not in her nature; Ota, in her essay “Ikinokori no shinri” (The psychology of survival, 1952), concludes that no Japanese writer can abandon Japan, and her heroine here concurs. Of Oda's three alternatives all that is left is the writing of a good work, but that too seems elusive. What constitutes “good” is unclear. Just how she might recognize such a work (ii sakuhin to wa nanimono ka) is a literary problem inextricably bound with Oda's physical and psychological problems, and all have arisen from her presence at Hiroshima's destruction on August 6, 1945.

Black Bodies/Libidinal Economies in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-33
Author(s):  
Carolyn Jones Medine ◽  
Lucienne Loh
Keyword(s):  
White Women ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Middle Passage ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Slave Ship ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Blacks And Whites

Abstract Barry Unsworth’s Booker Prize winning novel, Sacred Hunger (1992), explores the Middle Passage from the perspective of two central protagonists: Erasmus Kemp, the son of a slave ship builder and owner of the Liverpool Merchant, and Matthew Paris, his cousin and the ship’s doctor. The novel asserts that the “sacred hunger” of the slave trade is the desire for making money, at any cost. In this essay, we argue that one cost, the novel suggests, is the commodification of women’s bodies, particularly black captive women entering the trade. Exploring this libidinal economy, we examine the role of the ship’s doctor, in Paris, as the keeper of the gateway to slavery; the sexual exploitation of both black and white women, and Unsworth’s use of the trace—in this case, the elusive figure of the Paradise Nigger, or Luther Sawdust, who is Paris’ son, Kenke, conceived in a new settlement based on democracy undertaken in Florida and engaged in by both blacks and whites from the wrecked Liverpool Merchant. Capitalism, through human competition, enters that community, which, ultimately, is destroyed as Kemp discovers it and retakes his property. The Paradise Nigger represents a counter-memory and counter-force: a hope that the repetition of master-slave dichotomy in the libidinal economy can be interrupted by something “other” that suggests alternative shapes of human freedom.

scholarly journals Symbolic Violence in Mata Di Tanah Melus By Okky Madasari

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wikan Satriati ◽  
Dhita Hapsarani
Keyword(s):  
Physical Violence ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Violence Against Children

This article explores the symbolic violence experienced by children in their everyday lives as represented in an Indonesian contemporary children novel, Mata di Tanah Melus (2018) by Okky Madasari. Unlike physical violence where its effect can be clearly recognized, the nature of symbolic violence—though equally harmful—is very subtle, so the victims may not recognize the violence. The research aims to identify how symbolic violence from adult to children is represented—especially in daily life—and how a protagonist deals and then negotiates with it. This article applies Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence and Maria Nikolajeva’s theory of adult’s aetonormativity. Several studies on adults’ symbolic violence against children in Indonesia have been carried out in folklores and dystopian novels. This article examines a contemporary children’s novel written by Okky Madasari. The novel is one of few Indonesian children’s novel that contains the issue of symbolic violence against children within modern and traditional worlds. The result of this research indicates that there are many forms of symbolic violence from adult to children, one of which is the domination of adults who are not aware that children also have their own opinions and needs. Such domination silences children and makes them lose their voices. Nevertheless, the research revealed that despite adult’s domination, the children characters in the novel found their agency and empowerment to negotiate the situation after encountering an otherworldly realm and going on their own adventures without the presence of their parents.

scholarly journals The Change of Mental Process in the Translation of Ronggeng Dhukuh Paruk from Bahasa Indonesia into English

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khristianto Khristianto
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mental Process ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Process Thinking ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Metaphorical Expression ◽  
Language Meaning ◽  
Bahasa Indonesia ◽  
Relational Process

Mental process (thinking activities) is a part of transitivity system, representing language meaning as a symbol or representation meaning. In translation, this meaning is the most important, determining whether or not a clause is translated correctly. It means a sentence with a mental-process predicate will be right only, if it is realized in the same process. This paper tries to prove this notion, by exploring a novel translation from Bahasa to English. It employs Halliday’s transitivity as a means to contrast a source text (T1) and a target text (T2).Based on the analysis, it is found out that some mental processes in the novel are translated into another process. Perception and affection are two subtypes of mental process which are translated into relational process and material process. The change into relational process is identified in many cases; though most of the data are translated into a the same mental process. This change is triggered by the strategies of modulation and transposition. Meanwhile, there is only a single case of change into a material process, which is resulted from the different realization, literal to metaphorical expression. Thus, this proves that the change of a process in a clause does not necessarily entail a change of meaning. 

scholarly journals Morgellons: a novel dermatological perspective as the multisystem infective disease borreliosis

F1000Research ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Mayne ◽  
John S English ◽  
Edward J Kilbane ◽  
Jennie M Burke ◽  
Marianne J Middelveen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dermatitis Artefacta ◽  
Disease Complex ◽  
System Disease ◽  
Co Morbidity ◽  
Infective Disease ◽  
Concurrent Case ◽  
Novel Model

Morgellons disease (MD) is a term that has been used in the last decade to describe filaments that can be found in human epidermis. It is the subject of considerable debate within the medical profession and is often labeled as delusions of parasitosis or dermatitis artefacta. This view is challenged by recent published scientific data put forward between 2011-2013 identifying the filaments found in MD as keratin and collagen based and furthermore associated with spirochetal infection. The novel model of the dermopathy put forward by those authors is further described and, in particular, presented as a dermal manifestation of the multi-system disease complex borreliosis otherwise called Lyme disease. A differential diagnosis is drawn from a dermatological perspective. The requirements for a diagnosis of delusional disorder from a psychiatric perspective are clarified and the psychological or psychiatric co-morbidity that can be found with MD cases is presented. A concurrent case incidence is also included. Management of the multisytem disease complex is discussed both in general and from a dermatological perspective. Finally replacement of the term ‘Morgellons’ by ‘borrelial dermatitis’ is proposed within the profession.

The Discourse of Beauty Faced by Sales Promotion Girl in The Curse of Beauty Novel

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-188
Author(s):  
Fiqih Aisyatul Farokhah ◽  
Adi Putra Surya Wardhana
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Female Body ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Sales Promotion ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Economic Process ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

This study aims to analyze the discourse of women's beauty and marginalization of women's beauty in the novel The Curse of Beauty by Indah Hanaco. This study uses a qualitative data analysis research method. This study uses critical discourse analysis by Sarah Mills to examine the beauty discourse that SPG faces in the story of the novel. The results show SPG became a tool to attract buyers' interests. the owners of capital have made the female body an important tool in every social and economic process, to provide the erotic appeal of products through the imaging of mass media. It means, women's bodies have been disciplined through the concept of beauty by the mass media. Thus, the female body represented in the SPG story experiences marginalization of women's beauty. Thus, the female body represented in the SPG story experiences marginalization of women's beauty.

GIVING BIRTH TO A NEW NATION: FEMALE MEDIATION AND THE SPREAD OF TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE IN DRACULA

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 381-394
Author(s):  
Alyssa Straight
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Private Information ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Visible Sign ◽  
New Nation ◽  
The One

After his harrowing escape from Castle Dracula, Jonathan Harker entrusts his journal, and the secret of his traumatic experiences with the vampire Count contained therein, to his new wife, Mina Harker (née Murray). “Here is the book,” he urges; “Take it and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me know; unless, indeed, some solemn duty should come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here” (Stoker 100; ch. 9). Mina clasps the book, sealing it with a kiss, as she replies, “it would be an outward and visible sign for us all our lives that we trusted each other.” This scene from Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) catalyzes the novel's concern with how knowledge transfer and technology intersect with women's bodies and labor. Not only is Mina the one trusted with the diary, but she is also the only person within the novel who has the required skills to translate its shorthand into a typed and readable document. In this solemn scene, which precedes and resembles their marriage vows, Mina both gains access to private information and is charged with deciding who else should have access to that knowledge and under what circumstances. This “trust” secures Mina as the mediator of knowledge and the curator of what will become an increasingly expansive imperial archive within the novel.

Regulating the Female Body

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-38
Author(s):  
Fran Amery
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Abortion Law ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Minority Ethnic

This chapter sets the history of abortion law this in the context of feminist critique, exploring the significance of access to abortion for women’s lives and the gendered structure of society. It contains a discussion of feminist writing on pregnancy and motherhood and what these mean for female subjectivity: from Simone de Beauvoir’s description of pregnancy as a ‘servitude’, to Shulamith Firestone’s call for reproductive technologies that can separate the process of reproduction from women’s bodies. This chapter also explores the reproductive justice movement, which has emphasised the ways in which the needs of poor, minority ethnic and migrant women may differ from those of white middle-class women. The chapter argues that access to abortion can have radical implications for women’s lives, freeing women from compulsory motherhood. Yet celebratory accounts of abortion in Britain must be tempered. Abortion law has always relied heavily on the capacity of the medical profession to control women’s reproductive choices.

scholarly journals ANALISIS KEKERASAN SIMBOLIK DALAM NOVEL "A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS KARYA KHALED HOSSEINI (PERSPEKTIF PIERRE BOURDIEU) (SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE ANALYSIS IN NOVEL A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS BY KHALED HOSSEINI (PIERRE BOURDIEU'S PERSPECTIVE))

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Nurul Amaliah Darwis
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Verbal Abuse ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Woman Character ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status

Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang kekerasan simbolik yang dialami oleh para tokoh perempuan dalam novel berjudul A Thousand Splendid Suns karya Khaled Hosseini. Bentuk-bentuk kekerasan simbolik diidentifikasi dan dianalisis oleh perspektif sosiologis Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu mengusulkan bahwa bahasa adalah sarana untuk melestarikan dan mentransformasikan kekuatan simbolik. Pelaku memiliki kewenangan untuk menetapkan nilai, norma, dan standar, mendikte, dan mengontrol paradigma pelaku lainnya sehingga pelanggaran yang diterima sebagai tindakan yang wajar dan sah. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kekerasan simbolik teridentifikasi dalam keluarga. Tokoh perempuan bernama Mariam ini mengalami pelecehan verbal dari ibunya terkait status dan konsepsi tradisional tentang posisi perempuan dalam budaya. Sementara itu tokoh utama ini juga dipaksa menikah dini. Selain itu, karakter wanita lain, Laila juga menerima secara pasif segala bentuk kekerasan. Kedua perempuan tersebut diperlakukan secara diskriminatif dalam masyarakat dan keluarga. Kata kunci: kekerasan simbolik, Pierre Bourdieu, agen, arena   This research studies about the symbolic violence experienced by the women characters in the novel entitled A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. The forms of symbolic violences are identified and analyzed by the sociological perspective of Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu proposes that language is the means to perpetuate and to transform the symbolic power. The doer has an authority to establish value, norms, and standards, to dictate, and to control the other agents’paradigm making the violences received as the normal and legitimate actions. The result of this research shows that the symbolic violence is identified in the family. The woman character named Mariam experiencing verbal abuse from her mother regarding the status and the traditional conception of woman’s position in the culture. Meanwhile this lead character is also forced to early marriage. In addition, another woman character, Laila is also passively accepted all forms of violences. Both women are treated discriminatively in society and family. Keywords: symbolic violence, Pierre Bourdieu, agents, arena

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