scholarly journals The Double Entendre of Sex: Pornographies of Body and Society in Péter Esterházy’s Fiction

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
Enikő Bollobás
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Implied Author ◽  
Central European ◽  
Postmodern Fiction ◽  
Power Game ◽  
The One

Informed by feminist theory on the one hand and thematic and rhetorical criticism on the other, this article examines the components of discourse in two books by Péter Esterházy that share an emphatic attention to sexuality. The author interprets Esterházy’s discourse of sex as grounded in the figure of the double entendre, with a different function in each work. In Kis magyar pornográfia [‘A Little Hungarian Pornography’], vulgar corporeality and communist politics are shown as commensurate; both have a double meaning, with sex and politics referring both to themselves and to each other. In using one discourse as a cover for another, Esterházy continues the Central European Witz [‘joke’] tradition, giving a particular twist to it by making the transference of meaning two-directional, thereby assigning double meanings to sex and politics alike. In Egy nő [‘She Loves Me’], Esterházy attaches a double meaning to sex in a different manner; here sex is not a cover for something else but is shown to be reduced to itself, with a double meaning attached to its internal power relations. Sex is presented as a power game, in which man is repulsed by women yet is hopelessly attracted to them. Moreover, sex acts as the only tellable story taking the place of the untellable story of love. In this piece of postmodern fiction, the multiple perspectives bring about an interpretational uncertainty on the part of the reader as to whether sexist discourse is legitimized or subverted, and whether this legitimization and/or subversion is carried out by the narrator and/or by the implied author.

Relations of difference: Power and inequality in intersectional and postcolonial feminist theories

2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 846-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Kerner
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
The One ◽  
Gender Groups ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

Feminist theory has addressed relations of difference, heterogeneity, and hierarchy within gender groups as well as the entanglement of various forms of differentiation, power, and inequality for a long time. This does not mean that there was unanimity with regard to the best way of doing this, though. Today, we can distinguish different approaches in this regard, and there is contestation about both the analytical and the political advantages and pitfalls of each of them. This article concentrates on two of these approaches: on the one hand on intersectional ones, which strongly focus on inequality; and on the other hand on postcolonial feminist theories, which put the emphasis on global power relations and interactions. The article discusses select positions of both intersectional and postcolonial feminist theories in conjunction, and argues why and how they should be conceptualized as complementary.

scholarly journals Historical picture of development of early iron age in the Serbian Danube basin

Balcanica ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikola Tasic
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Iron Age ◽  
Historical Survey ◽  
Danube Basin ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Pannonian Plain ◽  
The One ◽  
North Western

The paper offers a historical survey of the development of Early Iron Age cultures in Danubian Serbia, its characteristics, relations with contemporary cultures of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, Carpathian Romania (Transylvania) and the Romanian Banat. It describes the genesis of individual cultures, their styles, typological features and interrelationships. Danubian Serbia is seen as a contact zone reflecting influences of the Central European Urnenfelder culture on the one hand, and those of the Gornea-Kalakaca and the Bosut-Basarabi complex on the other. The latter?s penetration into the central Balkans south of the Sava and Danube rivers has been registered in the Morava valley, eastern Serbia north-western Bulgaria and as far south as northern Macedonia. The terminal Early Iron Age is marked by the occurrence of Scythian finds in the southern Banat, Backa or around the confluence of the Sava and the Danube (e.g. Ritopek), and by representative finds of the Srem group in Srem and around the confluence of the Tisa and Danube rivers. The powerful penetration of Celtic tribes from Central Europe into the southern Pannonian Plain marked the end of the Early Iron Age.

scholarly journals Why did it not work? Reflections on regulating Airbnb and the complexity and agency of platform capitalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-257
Author(s):  
Christian Smigiel
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Mobile Capital ◽  
Urban Institution ◽  
The One

Abstract. This article deals with one of the most controversial topics in urban studies related to mobile capital and mobile people. At first glance this seems to be contradictory since numbers of short-term rentals have decreased dramatically due to the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. However, this paper is not about numbers and statistics. Instead it discusses structural issues regarding governance and power relations which remain important topics (especially) in times of crisis. It provides insights regarding the following issues: firstly, it deconstructs different “myths” that still surround short-term rentals and Airbnb and secondly, it delineates the structural power of Airbnb as a new urban institution. This helps us to understand some of the conflicts over Airbnb and the pitfalls with current forms of regulation on the one side as well as showing the complexity and agency of short-term rentals on the other.

Rebuilding a Profession: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Linguistic Culture of Comparative Literature in the United States and Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-288
Author(s):  
César Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
The One ◽  
Geographical Context

Abstract This article discusses why it is necessary to rebuild comparative literature in terms of a geopolitics of comparison. “Geopolitics” is understood here, following Gearóid Ó Tuathail, to mean a distinctive genre of geo-power which brought about the systemic closure of the surface of the globe. Comparative literature has been part and parcel of this process by extending a Eurocentric concept of “(national) literature” worldwide. A rebuilt comparative literature has, on the one hand, to bring to light significant evidence of the discipline’s history within the historical and geographical context of power relations and, on the other hand, confront the coloniality of knowledge on three levels—locutionary, illocutionary, and perlocutionary. Here only the locutionary level is addressed by examining two journals—Comparative Literature and 1616: Anuario de la Sociedad Española de Literatura General y Comparada / Anuario de Literatura Comparada—from a bibliometric-analysis perspective.

Masculinity and moral licensing in the locker room: a critical analysis of culture, gender, and leisure.

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Kate E. Evans ◽  
Dorothy L. Schmalz
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
The Other ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Moral Licensing ◽  
Locker Room ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Men's leisure has long been considered a 'male preserve' in which male purview is the norm, and women are relegated to subordinate roles. Current research and events indicate that masculinity continues to dominate leisure settings and impinges on women's leisure via factors ranging from social gender norms to overt acts of violence. Drawing on current research, cultural trends, and feminist theory and philosophy, this chapter examines the juxtapositions in culture and rhetoric that on the one hand promote female empowerment, and on the other provide footing for a contrary argument that men and masculinity are under threat. Related research also provides insight into a possible path forward including men's engagement in leisure violence prevention and implications for women's leisure and the leisure field.

Measuring Feminist Attitudes

1998 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Shibley Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Feminist Theories ◽  
Feminist Attitudes ◽  
The One ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Henley and colleagues' results, obtained in the process of developing a scale to measure the diversity of feminist attitudes, highlight a dilemma for feminist researchers in psychology. On the one hand, we advocate research based on feminist theory. On the other, we believe that research should begin with the lived experiences of women, from which theory should be generated, rather than forcing women's responses into a predetermined theoretical mold. Several aspects of Henley and colleagues' results contradict feminist theory. I argue that researchers should use empirical data to refine feminist theories.

scholarly journals A Feminist Politics of Ambivalence: Reading with Emma Goldman

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Hemmings
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Single Issue ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One ◽  
Emma Goldman

Abstract: Feminist theory worldwide is confronting - perhaps as it always has done - a series of deep challenges. On the one hand, awareness of gender and sexual inequalities seems high; on the other, co-optation of feminism for nationalist or other right-wing agendas is rife. On the one hand, feminist social movements are in ascendancy, on the other there is a continued dominance of single issue feminism and a resistance to intersectional, non-binary interventions. If we add in the collapse of the Left in the face of radical movements such as those underpinning Brexit and Trump (and the frequent blaming of feminism for fragmentation of that Left) then it is hard to know what to argue, to whom, and for what ends. In the face of such claims it is tempting to respond with a dogmatic or singular feminism, or to insist that what we need is a shared, clear, certain platform. I want to argue instead - with Emma Goldman (anarchist activist who died in 1940) as my guide - that it can be politically productive to embrace and theorise uncertainty, or even ambivalence, about gender equality and feminism.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of Radi’s Dramas From behind the Windows and Hamlet with Season Salad Based on Van Leeuwen’s Framework "Representing Social Actions"

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-119
Author(s):  
Alireza Khormaee ◽  
Rayeheh Sattarinezhad
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Different representations of social actions create distinct types of discourses. Applying van Leeuwen’s 'Social Actions' framework (2008), the present study critically analyzes the power relations between the main characters of Radi’s dramas From behind the Windows and Hamlet with Season Salad. The objective of our study is to account for the differences between the discourse of the dominant and the discourse of the dominated. In order to elucidate such differences we count and analyze the characters’ social (re)actions and, in turn, identify four types of contrasts: cognitive vs. affective and perceptive reactions; material vs. semiotic actions; transactive vs. non-transactive actions; interactive vs. instrumental actions. Two opposing discourses emerge from these contrasts. On the one hand, the dominant characters mostly react cognitively and their actions are often semiotic, transactive, and interactive. On the other hand, the dominated characters’ reactions are often affective and perceptive, while most of their actions are material, non-transactive, and instrumental. As the results show, the author’s linguistic choices underscore the power relations between the dominant and the dominated characters. Building upon the fact that our analysis sheds light on the underlying ideologies and intentions of the author, we tentatively conclude that despite its being predominantly employed in the analysis of political discourses, van Leeuwen’s framework also proves effective in the critical analysis of literary works.

The “unnatural” French novel of today: Éric Chevillard’s L’Auteur et moi

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Eva S. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Postmodern Literature ◽  
Implied Author ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
French Novel ◽  
The One

AbstractChevillard’s novel L’Auteur et moi (2012) touches on a problem which is paradigmatic for contemporary French prose (and perhaps “postmodern” literature in general), namely the problem of literary authenticity. Are the “unnatural” dimensions of this novel – especially its persistent irony, its playful rejection of generic norms and its attacks on the interpretative authority of its readers – playful but futile devices which lack any authentic narrative concern? Or do they represent a topical and authentic answer to the challenges of an “exhausted” genre? The present paper elaborates on this question by analysing, on the one hand, the “unnatural” (and simultaneously highly comical) devices of the novel in detail. This analysis is centred, firstly, on Chevillard’s multifaceted parody on the conventions of both narrative and non-narrative (argumentative, lyrical, scientific) discourse and, secondly, on the ways in which the novel provokes and challenges professional readers – both by the subversive use of literary-theoretical categories (author; narrator; implied author) and by the anticipation and depreciation of its own hermeneutic reception. On the other hand, this paper interprets Chevillard’s novel as the expression of an authentic literary effort which manifests itself not in the narrative contents, but in the novel’s “unnatural” composition, which offers three exits from the generic impasse with which the present-day French novel struggles.

scholarly journals Entre autonomia e heteronomia: para uma concepção crítica de cuidado de si em Michel Foucault [Between autonomy and heteronomy: for a critical conception of care of the self in Michel Foucault]

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (46) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Fernando Gimbo
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Initial Problem ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
The One

Trata-se de mostrar como a ideia de “cuidado de si” deve ser compreendida a partir de um tensionamento caracterizado por um duplo movimento: por um lado, a afirmação da autoafecção como condição do processo de subjetivação; por outro lado, a necessidade de inscrever tal ipseidade no quadro mais amplo das pesquisas genealógicas centradas nas práticas de assujeitamento e dominação. Com isso, o objetivo é sugerir como o problema fundamental do último e inconcluso momento da obra de Foucault é a necessidade de repensar as condições de gênese do sujeito. Para tanto, o artigo é divido em dois momentos: primeiramente, recuperamos uma autocrítica realizada ao final da década de 70, quando, ao introduzir em suas análises o conceito de governamentalidade, Foucault une a temática do governo sobre os outros ao problema do governo de si. Em segundo lugar, analisar estrategicamente o tema da confissão (l’aveu) como exemplo do reconhecimento dessa dimensão autoafectiva da subjetividade dentro de relações de poder e assujeitamento. A partir disso, é possível assinalar certas consequências críticas em torno de uma certa “ética do cuidado de si” que seria própria ao pensamento foucaultiano. [This article aims to show how the idea of “care of the self" must be understood from the tension of a double movement: on the one hand, the affirmation of an auto-affection as a condition to a process of individuation. On the other hand, the need to incorporate such ipseity to the broader framework of genealogical research focused on the subjugation and domination practices. Thus, my goal is to suggest how the initial problem that runs through Foucault’s later works is the need to rethink the conditions of subjectivity genesis. Therefore, the article is divided into two parts: firstly, I recover Foucault’s self-criticism performed at the end of the 70s, when he introduces in his analysis the concept of governmentality. Secondly, I strategically analyze the theme of confession (l'aveu) as an example of recognizing this auto-affectivity dimension of subjectivity even within power relations. Finally, I point out certain possible consequences of such exposure on the theme of ethics in Foucault's thought.]

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