Caryl Phillips’s Rewriting of the Canonical Romance as a Genre

The paper considers Phillips’s rewriting of the canonical nineteenth-century romances in three of his novels – A State of Independence (1986), The Lost Child (2015), and A View of the Empire at Sunset (2018). The three texts resettle the romance genre through the postcolonial concept of ‘home’. In A State of Independence, Phillips rearranges the role of one of Jane Austen’s most orthodox characters, the landowner Sir Thomas Bertram of Mansfield Park (1814), by transposing the Austenian character’s features to his protagonist Bertram Francis, a Caribbean man who comes back to his ancestral homeland after twenty years in Britain. In The Lost Child, chronicling literary-historical events in the present tense by transferring the life of the Brontë family into the protagonists of Wuthering Heights (1847) is for the author one way of calling into question the real sense of literature. It is for this reason that Phillips constructs a cyclic narration around the figure of Branwell Brontë, fictionalised by his sister Emily in the romance protagonist Heathcliff, and mirrored in The Lost Child in the character of Tommy Wilson. In A View of the Empire at Sunset, Phillips definitely overturns the colonial and genre categories by reassessing the in-between life of the Dominican-born writer Jean Rhys through her personal return journey to Dominica: as a result, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) (an intense rewriting of Jane Eyre) becomes a fictional character, and the literary events of her life sum up the vicissitudes both of the two ‘Bertrams’ – of Mansfield Park and A State of Independence – and the protagonists of Wuthering Heights and The Lost Child.

La responsabilidad escritural: Los niños perdidos, de Valeria Luiselli, como contra-archivo

Este artículo propone una lectura de Los niños perdidos (2016) [Tellme how it ends (2016 y 2017)], de Valeria Luiselli, en relación con el compromisoético y político de la escritura. Analiza la construcción de este peculiar texto, degénero mestizo, articulado entre la autobiografía, el ensayo y la crónica, a modode contra-archivo parásito, sostenido por un lugar de enunciación afectado yafectivo –el cuerpo de la autora– que, a modo de interfaz relacional, lo cruza y lovertebra. El artículo se estructura a modo de tránsito o pasaje en sí mismo, hastadesembocar en la responsabilidad escritural y la posición autoral (que implicaese poner el cuerpo de Luiselli): ambas cuestiones son tematizadas en este singular artefacto literario, que supuso de algún modo la antesala de la aclamadanovela posterior, Desierto sonoro (2019) [Lost Child Archive (2019)].

“The Lost Child”

This chapter discusses Stripling Brothers, “The Lost Child”, old-time fiddling, location recording, Vocalion Records, and Jack Kapp

Identification of Lost Children using Face Aging with Conditional GAN

Face recognition technology is a big area that consists of the many features in it but it also comes with some of the factors which affect this technology, one of the factors is Face aging which makes face recognition more difficult. As in India, a large number of children go missing every year. Also just using a photograph is not enough for the process to proceed smoothly and it results in a huge percentage of the missing child cases remain untraced. This paper presents a novel use of face recognition with face aging to overcome the limitation of existing systems. The proposed system has a portal where the public can upload an image of a suspected child and also have a feature where searching for any lost child is possible. The proposed system has mainly concentrated on an Age Conditional generative adversarial network (C-GAN) algorithm for face aging and the FaceNet algorithm for face feature extraction and face recognition.