Reconstructing Racial Perception

2017 ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
Mark C. Jerng
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Historical Romance ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Racial Perception ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
The Way

This chapter interprets Frank Yerby, one of the most successful African American historical romance writers in U.S. publication history, in relation to the conjunction of plantation romance and historiography. It shows how Yerby, writing in the aftermath of Gone With The Wind, develops narrative strategies that both critique the way in which Mitchell refigures racial perception and construct different modes of perception. The chapter compares Yerby’s and Mitchell’s plantation romances in order to detail an early narrative practice of anti-racist racial worldmaking.

“Moving Sitting Still”: The Economics of Time in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!

2017 ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Jordan Burke
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Us South ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Us ◽  
Narrative Practice ◽  
The American South ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the way in which the temporal blockages and aporias commonly identified in Absalom, Absalom! are symptoms of the fluctuating and troubled relationship between time and labor in the American South during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through Thomas Sutpen and his descendants, Faulkner builds a web connecting time, narrative practice, and historical process which reflects both the changing socioeconomic milieu of the US South and the evolving narrative strategies employed by the plantocracy to reverse and refuse change. Sutpen serves as the primary figure for a hybridized and internally contradictory economy transitioning from agrarian “autonomy” to capitalist dependence and, concurrently, from a paternalist atemporality to the work rhythms more commonly associated with the industrial North. He is the Janus-faced symbol of the late-antebellum South, the admixture of the slave-owning aristocrat and the Cotton Kingdom protocapitalist.

Géographie et cartographie fictionnelles dans l’Utopie (1516) de Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (Number 181- (3-4) ◽  
pp. 9-68
Author(s):  
Jean Du Verger
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Thomas More ◽  
The Third ◽  
Editio Princeps ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Way

The philosophical and political aspects of Utopia have often shadowed the geographical and cartographical dimension of More’s work. Thus, I will try to shed light on this aspect of the book in order to lay emphasis on the links fostered between knowledge and space during the Renaissance. I shall try to show how More’s opusculum aureum, which is fraught with cartographical references, reifies what Germain Marc’hadour terms a “fictional archipelago” (“The Catalan World Atlas” (c. 1375) by Abraham Cresques ; Zuane Pizzigano’s portolano chart (1423); Martin Benhaim’s globe (1492); Martin Waldseemüller’s Cosmographiae Introductio (1507); Claudius Ptolemy’s Geographia (1513) ; Benedetto Bordone’s Isolario (1528) ; Diogo Ribeiro’s world map (1529) ; the Grand Insulaire et Pilotage (c.1586) by André Thevet). I will, therefore, uncover the narrative strategies used by Thomas More in a text which lies on a complex network of geographical and cartographical references. Finally, I will examine the way in which the frontispiece of the editio princeps of 1516, as well as the frontispiece of the third edition published by Froben at Basle in 1518, clearly highlight the geographical and cartographical aspect of More’s narrative.

scholarly journals Same but Different: Chaos and TV Drama Narratives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alison McLachlan
Keyword(s):  
Building Blocks ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Fundamental Level ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Basic Level ◽  
Mathematics And Science ◽  
The Way

<p>Complexity is a term that is now commonly used when discussing TV serial dramas and the way that, in recent years, creators and producers of this narrative form have embraced innovative and challenging strategies to tell their stories. As a result, it is also often argued that all TV serial dramas are strikingly different from one another; one of the few things that contemporary TV serial dramas have in common is their employment of complex narrative strategies. However, in this thesis, I argue that—while serial dramas are different from one another in many ways—they are also all the same at a fundamental level.  In order to examine the fundamental narrative components that all serial dramas employ, I use chaos as a framework. Chaos is a branch of mathematics and science which examines systems that display unpredictable behaviour that is actually determined by deep structures of order and stability. At its most basic level, chaos corresponds with the way in which serial dramas are both complex and simple at the same time; beneath the complexity of serial dramas are fundamental building blocks that are used to generate innovative, challenging and unpredictable narratives.  I apply the findings from my critical examination of chaos and TV drama narratives to the creation of my own TV projects, which employ the inherent structures and patterns of TV drama narratives in a way that produces innovative and complex stories. In doing so, I intend to highlight the potential of serial dramas to be endlessly creative yet consistently the same.</p>

Conclusion and Continuation

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-168
Author(s):  
Steven Loza
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
The World ◽  
Black Man ◽  
The Way

In this chapter, the author reflects on Wilson's impact on music and the world, and the way in which he accomplished this. Wilson passed away on September 8, 2014. The author describes Wilson as a mosaic. He came from a very African American context, a place, a heritage—something that molded him and that he proceeded to mold into life. Wilson never stood still, always seeking change and renewal, challenges and learning, innovative newness and tradition. Wilson's art can also be described as mestizo as well as cosmopolitan But there remains a dimension of his ideology that dominates the above labels and analytical concepts. And that is his primal identity as a black man.

Romance and Racism after the Civil War

2017 ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Mark C. Jerng
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
The Past ◽  
Racial Perception

This chapter discusses the rebirth of the plantation romance from the 1900s through to the 1940s, discussing two key popular fictions: Thomas Dixon’s The Leopard’s Spots and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind. It contextualizes the plantation romance as a genre that speculates on the past and on historiography itself. Such popular fictions re-tell the story of Reconstruction, not just to do a historical critique of it as misguided or as a failure, but to produce perceptual strategies that renew racisms along different lines. It shows how Gone With The Wind transforms racial perception from one based on status and character to one based on creating racial contexts.

Relocating the Light

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Scheible
Keyword(s):  
Physical Space ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Significant Patterns ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Rhetorical Structures ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
The Way

Pāli is not typically considered a language that allows for much literary flourish, but literary moves are made nonetheless: patterns and rhetorical structures introduced in the first chapter determine how the rest of the historical narrative is literarily conveyed. This chapter argues that structurally significant patterns manifest in the proem itself are what determine the narrative arc of the text, and further explores the metaphor of light as it is employed in the story, paying attention to the way the proems had set up the reader to perceive the transformative richness and practical potential of such metaphors. By exploring this metaphor of light we will see how a certain pattern is developed whereby the physical space of Laṅkā is transformed to a lamp of the dhamma, a cetiya for the future remembrance and representation of the Buddha through relic veneration, while individual hearers are transformed ethically, resulting in the moral community primed for the responsibility of the dhamma. Just as a lamp is primed with oil to effectively receive the flame, so the reader of the Mahāvaṃsa is primed for the full, transformative force of the text by the proem and by the narrative strategies employed.

Live Long and Prosper: Rebooting Star Trek and Reimagining Fandom

Film Reboots ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Erin Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Star Trek ◽  
First Century ◽  
Travel Narrative ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks to Star Trek, a reboot that employed a time travel narrative to simultaneously cast the Star Trek universe as a new continuity and strategically recast iconic characters in a parallel timeline. The chapter asserts that the reinvention of Star Trek property as a twenty-first-century blockbuster required an investment not only in its narrative strategies, but also in a discursively reimagined audience, one that included both pre-existing and future fans. It demonstrates the way in which Star Trek highlights the intersecting logics of the film reboot and the mainstreaming of fandom in popular culture, both of which grow out of serial strategies designed to exploit new and established markets.

Initial Success in Italy

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Michael E. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
The Other ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
Personal Tragedy ◽  
The Way

After more than a year of training, Almond and the 92nd Infantry Division deployed to Italy, . where it initially performed well. The 370th Infantry Regiment led the way to Italy, and paired with the 1st Armored Division for its introduction to combat. The regiment acquitted itself well in its initial combat experience, but the other two regiments did not fare as well. Along with the arrival of the rest of the division and the nondivisional units that would support it, Almond gained the 366th Infantry Regiment, another African American regiment that had been used to guard airbases. The addition of this unit, and its own lack comprehension proved to be a disruptive influence in the division. This chapter also carries the story of personal tragedy, as Almond discovers that his son in law has been killed in combat.

scholarly journals The Evolution of Kotex Advertising and the Introduction of the 'Negro Market'

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Adriana Ayers
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Women's Magazines ◽  
American Women ◽  
The Way

Adriana Ayers studies the evolution of kotex advertising, focusing specifically on the way in which African American women were figured into changing advertisers’ conceptions of womanhood. The article analyzes images featured in various women’s magazines to examine how ideas surrounding menstruation were packaged and sold to women.

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