A Space Odyssey: Decoding the Reality of Dictatorship in Carolina de Robertis’s Cantoras

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Sreeparna Das
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
The Real ◽  
Widespread Acceptance ◽  
Different Ages

By turns brutal and beautiful, Carolina de Robertis’s 2019 novel Cantoras explores twelve years of violent Uruguayan dictatorship where five women of different ages, social, economic, and familial circumstances are yet all equally affected by misogyny, homophobia, and political repression. The women come together to create a haven of freedom wherein to navigate their sexuality without being criminalized, in the middle of a place where freedom for a better future seems to belong to “another bohemian era of dreams.” Pieced together from the real-life oral narratives and testimonies of hundreds, lost or silenced in the mainstream din, the novel brings to life a portrait of queer love and forgotten history unlike any other. This essay aims a close reading of the socio-political environment of the novel from dictatorship to the revolution which makes the journey that these women take from social isolation to widespread acceptance, their achievements, losses, and resilience shine all the more.

scholarly journals CHALLENGING INGARDEN’S “RADICAL” DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE REAL AND THE LITERARY

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 703-728
Author(s):  
HEATH WILLIAMS ◽  
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Intentional Object ◽  
Real Object ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ontological Approach ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
Truth Value

Ingarden’s phenomenology of aesthetics is characterised primarily as a realist ontological approach which is secondarily concerned with acts of consciousness. This approach leads to a stark contrast between spatiotemporal objects and literary objects. Ontologically, the former is autonomous, totally determined, and in possession of infinite attributes, whilst the latter is a heteronomous intentional object that has only limited determinations and infinitely many “spots of indeterminacy.” Although spots of indeterminacy are often discussed, the role they play in contrasting the real and literary object is not often disputed. Through a close reading of Ingarden’s ontological works and texts on aesthetics, this essay contests the purity of Ingarden’s ontological approach and the ensuing disparity between real and literary object, particularly on the question of spots of indeterminacy. I do this by demonstrating the following five theses: 1) Ingarden’s claim that the real object has an infinitude of properties belies an epistemology, and we should instead conclude that ontologically the real object’s properties are finite. 2) Ingarden’s a priori argument that absent properties of real objects are ontologically determined is unsound. 3) The radical difference between the infinitude and finitude of givenness and absence of the real and the literary object ought to be relativised. 4) Indeterminacies within the novel are concretised in much the same way that absent properties of real objects are intended. 5) Literature makes claims that have a truth value that we can attribute to their author.

scholarly journals Deconstructing the Text and (Re)Constructing the Past: History and Identity in Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Ksenija Kondali
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
Past History ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Prayer Book ◽  
Diverse Cultures

This paper examines Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel People of the Book (2008) in light of postmodern critiques of history and the desire to explore and signify the past through processes of deconstructing male-centered dominance and (re)constructing histories. The paper highlights ethno-spatial representation that involves intercultural dynamics behind the fate and importance of the manuscript. Drawing on discussions of postmodern views of history and identity construction, I engage the novel against the background of these and other postmodern and postcolonial concerns, also considering intertextual effects stemming from the mixing of genres and sub-genres. Lastly, I offer a reflection about the potential of this fictional account, based on the real-life fate of a prayer book that has testified to the spirit of interfaith tolerance and mutual enrichment of diverse cultures, to provide a context for understanding contemporary preoccupations with heritage, history, memory and identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scholarly journals KONFLIK TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL RE: KARYA MAMAN SUHERMAN: KAJIAN PSIKOLOGI SASTRA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Arie Lila Utomo ◽  
U’um Qomariyah ◽  
Sumartini Sumartini
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Real ◽  
Karen Horney ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Life Phenomenon

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan fenomea konflik yang dialami tokoh utama dalam novel Re:karya Maman Suherman. Mengetahui bentuk konflik dan upaya penyelesaian konflik yang dialami tokoh utama dalam novel Re:karya Maman Suherman.Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah psikologi sastra Karen Horney yang menitikberatkan sastra sebagai cerminan masyarakat. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalahmengetahui fenomena konflik yang terdapat dalam novel yang kemudian dikorelasikan dengan kehidupan nyata. Korelasi konflik dalam novel dengan kehidupan nyata dapat dilihat dari adanya persamaan konflik yang terdapat dalam novel Re: karya Maman Suherman dengan kehidupan nyata.   The purpose of this research is describe life phenomenon of conflict which is experiencedthe main character in the novel titled Re: by Maman Suherman. Understandingform of conflict and conflict resolution efforts experienced by the main characterthe novel Re: by Maman Suherman. Approach used in this research is psychology literature of Karen Horney which is focusing literature as society reflection. The result of this research is was to knowthe phenomenon of conflict disclosures contained in the novel and then corelating with the real life of society. The corelation between conflict in the novel with real life can be seen from the equation of the conflict contained in the novel Re: by Maman Suherman and in the real life is able to be found from similarity of conflictwhich is existed in the novel and existed in the real life.The approach in this study is the psychology of literature Karen Horney, Results froms this study is the disclosure of conflict present in the novel then correlated with in real life. Correlation of conflict in the novel with of real life can be seen from equation of conflict in the novel Re: by Maman Suherman with real life.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC REALITIES AS DEPICTED IN `KUUSAA GADOO`

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-342
Author(s):  
Alemitu Oli ◽  
Eriste Akawak
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Research Questions

The purpose of this study is to show how Gadisa Biru who wrote the novel `Kuusaa Gadoo` represents the Oromo`s economic issues realistically in the life of characters and the major themes of the novel. The study is qualitative research, it involves textual analysis method together with relevant conceptual tools and frameworks and therefore it is analytical. Furthermore, the data used for the research is taken from a primary source which is `Kuusaa Gadoo`. From the novel, different extracts are taken based on the research questions. Extracts used as data were classified under each topic and analyzed using textual analysis methods and realism theory. Then, the analysis and discussion were undertaken by using the concept of scholars to make the research more visible and logical. As a philosophy of realism theory, realism portrays the world as it appears. Therefore, to evaluate the realistic representations of different agendas of the research, it is crucial to bring the idea in the text to the actual world. From the analysis and discussion made it is found that, in `Kuusaa Gadoo`, all events and episodes were realized in the novel without any fantasy and extraordinary overstatement. Oromos were not economically beneficial during the Derg; the economies of Oromo peoples were used by others i.e. by leaders and investors from other ethnic groups. The Oromo`s resources especially land is highly corrupted by leaders of the time. Oromo peasants had no legal protection for their economy. Hence, the novel `Kuusaa Gadoo` reflects the real-life situation of Oromo peoples during the Derg regime. The author critically observes the real economic picture of society and portrayed it logically.

scholarly journals NARRATING THE KENYAN NATION IN DIFFERENT COLOURS

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Muchiri
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel

At a time like now when the Kenyan nation is undergoing social, economic, political, cultural, and other forms of turmoil, the society needs stories that would help it rethink its identity(ies). The society needs narratives of renewal and hope, but which at the same time seek to restore its humanity. This paper explores the place of literature and literary writers in the discourse on the identity question through a close reading of the novel Different Colours by Ng’ang’a Mbugua. The paper argues that Different Colours is a modern allegory on and of Kenya and the Kenyan society. The image(s) evoked and provoked by the “different colours” of the title, the artists’ world in the text and the multiplicity of hues and shades that form the painting at the centre of the narrative recall the attempt to imagine contemporary Kenya. Producing a painting is no different from imagining and constructing a nation out of the different hues of races, tribes, religions, and cultures that is a country like Kenya. This paper, therefore, pursues the argument that Different Colours is a modern tale that creatively plays with the possibilities of imagining and moralising about Kenya as a nation formed out of the diversity of identities that are found within her.

scholarly journals Absent yet Present: On the Paradoxical Nature of Characters in Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Marchesini
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Core Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real

The present research is focused on the theme of absence, an area of inquiry that might seem dominant in the field of Nabokov Studies. The analysis, which concentrates in particular on the key figures of the novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941), notably the narrator V. and the poet Sebastian Knight, interprets the characters’ construction through the paradigm of absence. Arguably, the construction of characters in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is paradoxical: absence constitutes their essence at a core level, as it often happens in the context of the self-conscious genre. Moreover, absence plays a key role in characters’ design, linking them to all Nabokovian novels. However, despite their innermost ‘flatness’, to use Edward M. Forster’s terminology, they still appear to be ‘round’, i.e. plausible, mimetic figures.

Washington Square

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry James
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Washington Square

‘She will do as I have bidden her.’ Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, but her father, a clever physician, is convinced that his motives are merely mercenary. He will not consent to the marriage, regardless of the cost to his daughter. Out of this classic confrontation Henry James fashioned one of his most deftly searching shorter fictions. First published in 1880 but set some forty years earlier in a pre-Civil War New York, the novel reflects ironically on the restricted world in which its heroine is marooned, seating herself at its close ‘for life, as it were’. In his introduction Adrian Poole reflects on the book's gestation and influences, the significance of place, and the insight with which the four prinicipal players are drawn. The edition includes an account of the real-life tale that sparked James's imaginative genius.

scholarly journals STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS IN RICHARD WRIGHT’S NATIVE SON

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ike Anisa ◽  
Suhud Eko Yuwono
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Real Condition ◽  
Native Son ◽  
The Real ◽  
Internal Coherence

A novel is proved of the real condition of the person. Sometimes it reflects the background from the author of the novel. By the novel, an author can express the idea or feeling that derives from his life. In short, the story in a novel can be portrait of the real condition in a certain time. Here, Richard Wright as the author of the Native Son expressed his idea and his feeling through the writing of the novel. His novel full the message that could be represented his real life condition. This study tries to explore the structural analysis of the character, setting, plot, point of view and style. Here, the writer tries to analyze the characters including the characterization of the major character and the minor character, setting of time and place, plot of the story, point of view, style and theme. This analysis of the structural elements of Native Son is meant to reveal the internal coherence that explains the author’s worldview.

scholarly journals A spectacle of reality in the context of mass media resonance (on the example of Chuck Palaniuk’s “Snuff”)

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-124
Author(s):  
Е. Д. Циховська
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Basic Emotions ◽  
The Real ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Real Size ◽  
The Media ◽  
Terrorist Acts

The article deals with a spectacle as an integral part of the modern mediatized world. The features of coverage of spectacles with mass media are analysed. It is noted that the most popular are spectacles, based on real events, because the effect of a reality enhances the emotion of the perception of the material. Real spectacles transmitted through the mass media acquire a remarkable resonance. Thus, the coverage of terrorist acts, mass and individual brutal killings in media news unintentionally advertises a spectacle of “terrible” in its real size. Such spectacles include news, extreme events, and snuff. In the modern interpretation “snuff-movie” — these are short films, videos, most often pornographic, depicting murders in real life. The author focuses on snuff films because they combine the main characteristics for attracting viewers: the spectacle, the real foundation and basic emotions — the combination of porn and horror. The novel “Snuff” by Palaniuk demonstrates the main features of snuffs. According to the laws of the genre, in “Snuff”, there is a woman — Cassie Wright as the main character of the event, and sex as the organizing element of the book’s plot, and rape as the reason for the selection of the Cassie Wright’s profession, as well as the death of the main character as foreseen result of pornoorgia. The spectacle of the real in the novel is intensified through the mediation of the publicity announcement and coverage of the resonance pornography in the media. The construction of a reality in the novel is based on numerous historical facts or facts from the lives of prominent people which are told about by Cassie Wright during conversations. In addition, all of them is accompanied by a phrase-refrain “true fact” to underline the reality of the course of events.

scholarly journals ALIENASI TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL POL KARYA PUTU WIJAYA

LITERA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anwar Efendi
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Genetic Aspect ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
The Real ◽  
First Impression ◽  
Life Model ◽  
Research Findings

This research objective is to describe two things, namely (1) the manifestations ofalienation and (2) characterization elements employed to describe human alienationin Pol, a novel by Putu Wijaya. These two things are related to the worldview adoptedby Putu Wijaya as a writer in response to the sociohistoricalcondition in society.The source of the data in this study was Putu Wijaya’s Pol (the first impression,1987). The data were collected through reading and recording. The data analysiscovered two aspects, namely (1) the structural aspect, and (2) the genetic aspect of theliterary work, the writer’s worldview. The validity was assessed through semanticvalidity and the reliability was assessed by reading and rereading (intraraterreliability).On the basis of the research findings and analysis, some inferences can be made.First, alienation in Pol on the basis of its manifestations can be classified into threecategories, namely (a) loneliness, (b) spiritual emptiness, and (c) disappointment.Second, characters’ alienation symptoms are expressed through characterizationelements, comprising (a) the writer’ s description of characters, (b) characters’thoughts, (c) characters’ actions, and (d) minor characters’ reactions to the maincharacter. A literary work as a life model or an alternative world is always relatedto the real life. In the novel, Putu Wijaya posits himself as a photographer of thesociety’s life.

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