Writing the biofictive: Caryl Phillips and The Lost Child

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Clingman
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Focus ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Caryl Phillips ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Lost Child

This article is an exploration of the biofictive in Caryl Phillips’s writing, in particular in his novel The Lost Child (2015). The term “biofiction” has been in critical use for some 20 years, but is in general under-theorized. The article intends to help fill that gap by considering the biofictive in Phillips’s work as a form of postcolonial epistemology. It also introduces a new but logical dimension by setting the biofictive in conversation with biopolitics. However, whereas the dominant focus in discussions of the biopolitical (formulations from Foucault to Agamben and beyond) concerns the structures and dispositions of power, the role of the biofictive is inflected differently insofar as it both acknowledges a history of power but also creates a space of narrative alterity and resistance. In Phillips’s work this is revealed both in his nonfiction and fiction, not least where the two are combined; and it is especially evident in the multimodal operations of his fiction, dispersed across time and space in the aftermath of slavery, migration, and empire. We see all this in The Lost Child, which also introduces a complex rereading of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Overall, Phillips’s version of the postcolonial is capacious, intersecting with other forms of post-traumatic and fugitive experience. The biofictive becomes a bona fide form of knowledge in our postcolonial, post-imperial moment.

INTERPRETATION OF SPACE AND TIME IN ONTOLOGICAL PHILOSOPHY NAVOI

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Toji Omonovich Norov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Holy Book

The universe, the space that make up their basis planets in it, their creation, the main essence of their creation, form, composition, meaning, movements, interactions, their influence on human life and activities, the role of man in the universe and in life on Earth, life, the criteria of activity and processes occurring in time and space have long been of interest to humanity. One of the main problems in the history of philosophy is the question of space and time. This problem was defined in different ways in the great schools of thought by thinkers of different periods. One of these great thinkers is Alisher Navoi. Navoi's works, along with other socio-philosophical themes, uniquely express and analyze the problems of the firmament and time. Its main feature is that it is based on the divine (pantheistic) religion, Islam, its holy book, the Koran and other theological sources, as well as on the secrets of nature and the Universe, the main miracle of Allah - human intelligence, the power of enlightenment, they are the key revealing all these secrets.

scholarly journals The psychedelic renaissance and the limitations of a White-dominant medical framework: A call for indigenous and ethnic minority inclusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamilah R. George ◽  
Timothy I. Michaels ◽  
Jae Sevelius ◽  
Monnica T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Research Participation ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Treatment Development ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Traumatic

In recent years, the study of psychedelic science has resurfaced as scientists and therapists are again exploring its potential to treat an array of psychiatric conditions, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and addiction. The scientific progress and clinical promise of this movement owes much of its success to the history of indigenous healing practices; yet the work of indigenous people, ethnic and racial minorities, women, and other disenfranchised groups is often not supported or highlighted in the mainstream narrative of psychedelic medicine. This review addresses this issue directly: first, by highlighting the traditional role of psychedelic plants and briefly summarizing the history of psychedelic medicine; second, through exploring the historical and sociocultural factors that have contributed to unequal research participation and treatment, thereby limiting the opportunities for minorities who ought to be acknowledged for their contributions. Finally, this review provides recommendations for broadening the Western medical framework of healing to include a cultural focus and additional considerations for an inclusive approach to treatment development and dissemination for future studies.

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

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Polatti
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Mansfield Park ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
Return Journey ◽  
Lost Child

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.

Role of High Resolution Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Traumatic Soft Tissue Injuries of the Wrist and Hand

QJM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mounir Sobhy Guirguis ◽  
Hossam Moussa Sakr ◽  
Ahmed Naeem Atiyya ◽  
Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad ◽  
Ghada Yahia Hassanien Mostafa
Keyword(s):  
Soft Tissue ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Soft Tissue Injuries ◽  
Final Diagnosis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Tissue Injuries ◽  
Operative Findings ◽  
Higher Sensitivity

Abstract Aim of the Work To assess the role of ultrasound in the diagnosis of traumatic soft tissue injuries of hand and wrist. Patients and Method This study includes 30 patients with a mean age of 42.17 years ±9, all with history of traumatic soft tissue injuries in hand and wrist, all patients underwent ultrasound and MRI. The U/S&MRI diagnostic criteria of each patient were analyzed, compared and correlated with clinical diagnosis/ or operative findings . Results A comparison of the sensitivity of US versus MRI was done by correlating the final diagnosis of each modality with clinical diagnosis and/or operative findings. In general as regard all types of soft tissue injuries we found that, in correlation with clinical diagnosis US gives (93.3% sensitivity), while MRI gives (73.3% sensitivity). US & MRI result shows agreement in detection of all types of post traumatic soft tissue injuries except in chronic tendinopathy, tendon fibrosis ,and chronic tendon tear heals by fibrosis we found no agreement between them (in which ultrasound can diagnose them, while MRI couldn’t detect them). Conclusion Ultrasound shows higher sensitivity in diagnosis of soft tissue injuries of hand and wrist than MRI, as compared to operative findings and /or clinical data.

The role of prepulse inhibition in medication management of PTSD: A case report

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 209-212
Author(s):  
Emily N. Gray ◽  
Michael D. Shuman ◽  
Ian R. McGrane
Keyword(s):  
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Medication Management ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Patient’S History

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is defined as an anxiety disorder that can appear after exposure to a traumatic experience. This article will review a patient's history of PTSD, and course of treatment. A discussion on the available agents to properly treat this case will also be discussed.

scholarly journals The Shifting Origins of International Law

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
IGNACIO DE LA RASILLA DEL MORAL
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Methodological Nationalism ◽  
Global Age ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of International Law ◽  
New Research

AbstractBoth state-centrism and Eurocentrism are under challenge in international law today. This article argues that this double challenge is mirrored back into the study of the history of international law. It examines the effects of the rise of positivism as a method of norm-identification and the role of methodological nationalism upon the study of the history of international law in the modern foundational period of international law. It extends this by examining how this bequeathed a double exclusionary bias regarding time and space to the study of the history of international law as well as a reiterative focus on a series of canonical events and authors to the exclusion of others such as those related to the Islamic history of international law. It then analyses why this state of historiographical affairs is changing, highlighting intra-disciplinary developments within the field of the history of international law and the effects that the ‘international turn in the writing of history’ is having on the writing of a new history of international law for a global age. It concludes with a reflection on some of the tasks ahead, providing a series of historiographical signposts for the history of international law as a field of new research.

scholarly journals Post-Traumatic Meningitis: Case-Based Review of Literature from Internists’ Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Shubhabrata Das ◽  
Tanmoy Pal
Keyword(s):  
Head Trauma ◽  
Antimicrobial Treatment ◽  
Neurosurgical Procedures ◽  
Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea ◽  
Holistic Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Closed Head Trauma ◽  
Timely Referral

Most cases of post-traumatic meningitis (PTM) occur following immediate head trauma or neurosurgical procedures. Hence, internists do not often come across these patients. However, closed-head trauma can be associated with community-acquired meningitis (CAM), and this history can often be missed especially if it is remote or trivial in nature. Therefore, meticulous clinical assessment is necessary to identify cases of community-acquired PTM. Knowledge about pathophysiological, anatomical, and microbiological context of community-acquired PTM is required in order to manage these patients. The role of internist is to provide holistic management in these patients which includes not only antimicrobial treatment but also timely referral to surgical specialties if required as well as vaccination to prevent further episodes. Here, we present a case of CAM with remote history of close head trauma and cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea for years who was found to have base of skull (BOS) defect on imaging of skull. He was treated with antibiotics and referred to surgical specialties for repair of BOS defect as well as given pneumococcal vaccine to prevent further episodes of meningitis.

scholarly journals Social (in)Justice, or the Condition of Global Capitalism in the Lost Child (2015) by Caryl Phillips

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Marta Frątczak-Dąbrowska
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Caryl Phillips ◽  
Lost Child

AbstractThe present article is a critical rereading of Caryl Phillips’s latest novel The Lost Child (2015). It looks at the text as both a literary comment on the crisis of today’s global capitalism and as an acute socio-economic analysis of the crisis’ roots and effects. It is being argued that, by placing Wuthering Heights (1847) as an intertext for his contemporary novel and by linking the figure of Heathcliff with African slavery and contemporary poverty, Caryl Phillips aims to emphasise the affinity between the socio-economic conditioning of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century England, as well as between the contemporary and historical experience of economic marginalisation. Thus, he shows global capitalism as a universal experience of long modernity and asks some vital questions about its shape and its future. The following analysis, in line with recent scholarship in the field of postcolonial studies, combines postcolonial criticism with socioeconomic theories and argues that the novel deserves a place in the ongoing debates on the condition of the global economy, social (in)justice and (in)equality, which nowadays become part of the postcolonial literary scholarship.

scholarly journals Horses as a Crucial Part of One Health

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelly Sophie Lönker ◽  
Kim Fechner ◽  
Ahmed Abd El Wahed
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
One Health ◽  
Emerging Diseases ◽  
Hendra Virus ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Crucial Part

One Health (OH) is a crucial concept, where the interference between humans, animals and the environment matters. This review article focusses on the role of horses in maintaining the health of humans and the environment. Horses’ impact on environmental health includes their influence on soil and the biodiversity of animal and plant species. Nevertheless, the effect of horses is not usually linear and several factors like plant–animal coevolutionary history, climate and animal density play significant roles. The long history of the relationship between horses and humans is shaped by the service of horses in wars or even in mines. Moreover, horses were essential in developing the first antidote to cure diphtheria. Nowadays, horses do have an influential role in animal assisted therapy, in supporting livelihoods in low income countries and as a leisure partner. Horses are of relevance in the spillover of zoonotic and emerging diseases from wildlife to human (e.g., Hendra Virus), and in non-communicable diseases (e.g., post-traumatic osteoarthritis in horses and back pain in horse riders). Furthermore, many risk factors—such as climate change and antimicrobial resistance—threaten the health of both horses and humans. Finally, the horse is a valuable factor in sustaining the health of humans and the environment, and must be incorporated in any roadmap to achieve OH.

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