scholarly journals Postmemory, Stereotype and the Return Home

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-152
Author(s):  
Anna Estera Mrozewicz
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Return Home ◽  
National Subject ◽  
At Home

Abstract The article offers a discussion of Sofi Oksanen’s novel Purge, focusing on the book’s strategy of evoking stereotypical narratives about Eastern Europe, such as the (postcommunist) fallen woman and (Russian) return home narratives, as well as related intertexts, primarily Lukas Moodysson’s film Lilya 4-ever. I argue that Oksanen constructs the plot around clichés in order to challenge them in a subversive fashion, first and foremost, in the name of recuperating the notion of Home. Related to locality and the feeling of being at-home, where the wholeness of the (national) subject is possible, ‘home’ is staged as an alternative to stereotypes, associated with transnational travel and the apparatus of colonization. A significant counter-narrative embedded in the novel - and hitherto rarely discussed - is the exilic perspective with its idealization of the lost and imagined home(land). In Purge, this is mediated through the main character’s postmemory. By means of a postexilic narrative, home is reconfigured as a ‘third space’ - neither fully ideal and (ethnically) pure nor adhering to the aforementioned stereotypical narratives. The positive valorisation of home, despised by some critics as simplistic and conservative, does not prevent movement and dislocation from being included in the new experience of home(land) emerging from the post-Soviet condition.

Britain: Republicanism and the Establishment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Established Order ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
At Home

This chapter focuses on England during the revolutionary decade. It argues that in Britain and Ireland, as in Eastern Europe, it was counter-revolution that prevailed. The net effect of the revolutionary decade was to demonstrate, or to consolidate, the strength of the established order. The very lengths to which the established order went, however, in dealing with disaffection (or what was called “sedition”) offer a measure of the magnitude of the discontents. The men who ruled England were not the sort to be frightened by witches. The British governing class was neither timid, foolish, intolerant, nor especially ruthless when unprovoked. That Englishmen of this class became fearful of unrest at home, intolerant of ideas or organizations suggesting those of the French Revolution, repressive in Britain, and deliberately terroristic in Ireland can be taken as evidence of the reality of something of which, from their own point of view, they had reason to be afraid. In England as elsewhere there was a contest between democrats and aristocrats.

“An Indigenous Sovereignty of the Imagination”: Reenvisioning the Great Australian Novel in Alexis Wright's Carpenteria

Genre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-219
Author(s):  
Liz Shek-Noble
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Women Novelists ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
White Settler ◽  
The One

Alexis Wright's second novel, Carpentaria, received critical acclaim upon its publication by Giramondo in 2006. As the recipient of the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2007, Carpentaria cemented Wright's position as the country's foremost Indigenous novelist. This article places Carpentaria within contemporary discussions of “big, ambitious novels” by contemporary women novelists by examining the ways the novel simultaneously invites and resists its inclusion into an established canon of “great Australian novels” (GANs). While critics have been quick to celebrate the formal innovations of Carpentaria as what makes it worthy of GAN status, the novel nevertheless opposes the integrationist and homogenizing myths that accompany canonization. Therefore, the article finds that Wright's vision of a future Australia involves moments of antagonism and mutual understanding between white settler and Indigenous communities. This article uses the work of Homi Bhabha to argue that Carpentaria demonstrates the emergence of a third space wherein negotiation between these two cultures produces knowledge that is “new, neither the one nor the other.” In so doing, Wright shows the resilience of Indigenous knowledge even as it is subject to transformation upon contact with contradictory ideological and epistemological frameworks.

Discharge Requests

2019 ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
James G. Mendez
Keyword(s):  
Black Men ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Black Soldiers ◽  
Military Life ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Return Home ◽  
At Home

Northern black soldiers and their families continued to support the Union effort. In spite of pay issues, discrimination and racism by northerners and southerners, the general hardships of military life, and the potential hardships for their families, black men continued to enlist in large numbers. Yet, for some families, conditions at home had become too hopeless. They had moved beyond the unequal pay issue as well as the army’s inability to pay their soldiers monthly. They had gone on as long as they could without the financial support of their men and had reached the point where they simply wanted their soldiers home. These family members asked Union officials for their soldiers to be discharged because the family’s situation was so desperate the only resolution was for the soldiers to return home. Often the requests were for discharges of underage sons, who continued to enlist through deceitfulness about their age.

Anxieties of Representation: The Serial Illustrations to Hardy's The Return of the Native

1996 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-110
Author(s):  
Pamela Dalziel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fallen Woman ◽  
Other Hand

The selectivity and obliquity of Arthur Hopkins's illustrations for the 1878 Belgravia serialization of The Return of the Native result in a distorted reading of Hardy's text, especially through their avoidance of the passionate and subversive and their tendency to represent the novel as substantially more conventional than it actually is. Hopkins's Thomasin and Venn are represented as unambiguously and conventionally "good"; there is no visual acknowledgment of the more radical Thomasin or the more threatening Venn. Wildeve is essentially avoided as a pictorial subject, as is the problematic Clym of the novel's final books. Eustacia, on the other hand, figures prominently in the illustrations, initially-in keeping with her departure from hegemonic notions of viruous femininity-as a somewhat "masculine" figure. Follwoing Hardy's insistence that she be rendered more conventionally attractive. Hopkins rather incongruously transforms her into an object of desire, only to revert in the final illustration to his less than sympathetic reading: refusing to participate in the erotics of death of Hardy's text, Hopkins punishes the "fallen woman" by reducing her to a misshapen corpse. Hardy's essential toleration-and in some instances actual encouragement-of what now seem "unrepresentative" representations of his work appears to have been related to his own anxiety about the novel's success and based on the recognition that the very conventionality of the illustrations could be a valuable ally in his struggle to render publishable a text that pushed persistently against the limits of the then acceptable.

Es war mir ein Anliegen, das Geheimnis nicht zu lüften Sieben Formen von Unübersetzbarkeit in Ilija Trojanows Der Weltensammler

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Martina Schwalm
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
The Novel

Abstract This article discusses the thesis, developed in Emily Apter’s Against World Literature (2013), on the limits of literary translation, using the example of Ilija Trojanow’s Der Weltensammler (2006). The tension between the multilingual worlds of experience in the novel and the seemingly dominant literary monolingualism of the first German publication is addressed in the novel itself as a problem of untranslatability. On the textual level, the novel refuses to be translatable and takes its refuge in Bhabha’s Third Space, »which makes the structure of meaning and reference an ambivalent process, destroys this mirror of representation in which cultural knowledge is continuously as an integrated, open, expanding code.« I will reveal seven forms of untranslatability that simultaneously open up different interpretive perspectives. In reference to Emily Apter’s monography, untranslatability will be decoded as a textual precondition, and hybridity will be seen as the fundament on which world literature is based upon.

THE POLITICS OF FOOD DISTRIBUTION DURING THE COVID-19 LOCK DOWN IN UGANDA.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 221-234
Author(s):  
Madinah Nabukeera
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Food Items ◽  
Attempted Murder ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
At Home

In face of the Novel Covid-19 pandemic that has swept the world, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni issued clear rules; stay at home unless it’s an emergency, wash your hands, sanitize, report any related cases for contact tracing and testing. In his directive all passenger services were stopped including private vehicles and imposed a curfew 7 pm until 6:30 a.m., which made stay at home orders mandatory. Majority of Ugandan urban dwellers are hand-to -mouth and live off their capability to move to town centers daily a small interruption in their routine means many went hungry. The government of Uganda broadcasted measures to distribute relief food items to troubled and vulnerable population mainly in the towns since those in the country sides are able to grow food and provide for their families. This article articulates the politics in the food in Wakiso and Kampala districts in Uganda why there was bias. The study used the selected all documents related to food distribution using content analysis and results indicated that anyone found distributing food outside the national covid-19 task force will be charged with attempted murder hence stopped politicians from strategizing ahead of 2021 parliamentary, presidential and local elections which implied that Covid-19 disrupted over 134 districts in the country in line with the preparation of elections and left majority hungry.

scholarly journals Heroic Journey of Katniss Everdeen in Suzanne Collins' Novel Catching Fire

ATAVISME ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-245
Author(s):  
Rohmat Anang Fakhruddin
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Joseph Campbell ◽  
Hunger Games ◽  
Return Home ◽  
Heroic Journey ◽  
Katniss Everdeen

This  research  aims  to reveal  the  journey  of  Katniss  Everdeen  by using monomyth cycle in Suzanne Collins’ novel Catching  Fire (2009).  This research used  the  literary criticism that employs the monomyth cycle of Joseph  Campbell. The monomyth theory was used to explore Katniss’ heroic journey within the novel Catching Fire.  All data were classified into the following stages of monomyth cycle: departure, initiation, and return. Each stage represented the development of Katniss’s traits during her journey. From the analysis, it was discovered that Katniss began her journey by adapting herself in Victor’s Village after winning the 74th Hunger Games. She began her journey after President Snow provided her a challenge to convince him to reduce the uprising acts in each District. She refused to return home since she must rescue Peeta. Therefore, this paper concludes that this novel can be a continuity step of Katniss’ Journey for transforming herself to be a heroine at the end of her Journey.

scholarly journals Gender Discrimination in Orhan Pamuk's 'Snow' and Khaled Hosseini's 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Iis Sugianti
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Area ◽  
Role Of Women ◽  
At Home

Women's life without discrimination or violence is the freedom and entitlement of women's rights. The objective of the study is to achieve the idea. Dealing with it, the researcher applies feminism approach proposed by Damewood's theory of gender discrimination. Gender discrimination refers to the practice of granting or denying rights or privilege to a person based on his/her gender that is longstanding and acceptable to both genders. The novel `Snow` and `A Thousand Splendid Suns` focus on gender discrimination, violence, oppression, and struggle to fight against them. The researcher explores how gender discrimination, patriarchy culture and most of violence and oppression happened in family and country. The phenomenon of violence is not only a discrimination done by husbands who do gender discrimination in family, but also a fight done by a wife to fight against them, it depends on its case. In `Snow`, the women character faced many problems related to their headscarves. They are discriminated by their government and parents. Kadife is depicted as a brave woman. She tries to defend women‟s right in Kars to keep on using their headscarves. While in A `Thousand Splendid Suns`, the limitation of women`s activity happened. Women are banned to get education and they should stay at home. Mariam and Laila get oppression and violence by their husband. Their struggle is shown in the murder of their husband, Rasheed. The unstable practice of gender discrimination was continuously preserved by the culture, not religion. It was like a patriarchal culture that is one of clear examples of the women phenomena in the world and it can be in the form of prohibition and limitation of the role of women in the public area.

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