Fictionalising interpreters: traitors, lovers and liars in the conquest of America

Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies ◽

10.52034/lanstts.v4i.126 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

Author(s):

Victoria Ríos Castaño

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Old World ◽

La Malinche

Conquistadors’ interpreters in America could be seen as mediators whose effort made possible the communication between Indians and Europeans. Yet, their very names are stigmatised as symbols of betrayal if and when they emerge as fictionalised figures in literature, political move-ments and popular culture. Columbus’ interpreter is an outcast in both the New and the Old World. La Malinche is widely epitomised as Cortés’ mis-tress and traitor of the Aztecs, although her identity has been re-evaluated as mother of the Mexican nation and feminist icon of Chicana writers. Felipillo, Pizarro ’s ill-reputed interpreter, is used in the Andean regions as a metaphor for corrupt politicians.

Download Full-text

Strange Old World - Late Paleocene—Early Eocene Climatic and Biotic Events in the Marine and Terrestrial Record. Edited by Marie-Pierre Aubry, Spencer Lucas, and William Berggren Columbia University Press, New York. 1998. 513 pages.

Paleobiology ◽

10.1017/s0094837300021370 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 417-423 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

William C. Clyde

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Popular Culture ◽

New World ◽

Scientific Progress ◽

Early Eocene ◽

Columbia University ◽

Aldous Huxley ◽

Old World ◽

Biotic Events ◽

Brave New World

In his 1932 book Brave New World, Aldous Huxley laid out a satirical blueprint of a future so strange to people of the time that it became a symbol of the frightening and unyielding momentum of scientific progress. Literature and popular culture have since been littered with images of a future earth so transformed by human progress (or extraterrestrial intervention) that we can hardly recognize it. Earth historians and paleontologists, however, have taken a different path into the bizarre. This group of time travelers has used the kind of technology that Huxley foreshadowed to recreate past worlds of similar disparity. These worlds are neither based on, nor entirely limited by, human imagination, but are based instead on scientific observation. In short, these strange old worlds are real, not imagined. As often is the case, however, truth can b e stranger than fiction.

Download Full-text

“Only the Gods are Real”: The Mythopoeic Dimension of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods

Romanian Journal of English Studies ◽

10.1515/rjes-2016-0006 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 35-44

Author(s):

Irina Rață

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

The Novel ◽

Old World

AbstractThis paper aims to address the mythopoeic aspect of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, so as to disclose the elements of American cultural identity embedded in the novel. It is an attempt to analyse its legends, myths, folklore, popular culture figures, intertwined with Old World mythology, assessing their viability as modern myths, through the lens of formalist and structuralist reading.

Download Full-text

Popular Culture as Educational Space – Depictions of a Utopia in Pop Culture Texts

Studia Edukacyjne ◽

10.14746/se.2018.49.1 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 7-24

Author(s):

Witold Jakubowski

Keyword(s):

Popular Culture ◽

Pop Culture ◽

Children And Youth ◽

Special Role ◽

Cultural Space ◽

Old World ◽

Popular Art ◽

Perfect Order ◽

Cultural Texts ◽

Educational Potential

The aim of the text is to discuss the educational potential of popular culture. The firstpart focuses on theoretical opinions on the relationships of culture and education. Pedagogical thinking about culture is dominated by its humanistic understanding, in which a special sense of culture has been understood as one of the top of human achievement. In traditional pedagogical reflection,there is noticeable concentration on culture as “valuable for educational interactions”. In such a perspective, the space of popular culture is ignored. Perceived as a bad Mr. Hyde of cultural space, it is treated as an area of threats to the development of children and youth. But culture is not only a canon of the achievements of past generations. In the anthropological sense, these are simply the ways of living a life in a society. Popular culture is the space where various aspects are commented on. Popular art plays a special role here.The second part discusses the pop cultural texts that illustrate the characteristic elements of utopia: burial of the “old world”, establishing a “perfect” order, protection against external destruction and against destruction from inside. Formed at different times and based on different means of expression, they address the dilemmas associated with thinking about a “better world”. They present the mechanisms and consequences of building a new society “with their own language”.

Download Full-text

Ultrastructure and analytical microprobe analysis of simian lung mite pigments

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100143249 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 324-325

Author(s):

R. W. Cole ◽

J. C. Kim

Keyword(s):

Biomedical Research ◽

Tissue Damage ◽

Microprobe Analysis ◽

Old World Monkeys ◽

Old World ◽

Experimental Animals ◽

The Past ◽

Lung Mite ◽

Mite Infestations ◽

Cardiopulmonary System

In recent years, non-human primates have become indispensable as experimental animals in many fields of biomedical research. Pharmaceutical and related industries alone use about 2000,000 primates a year. Respiratory mite infestations in lungs of old world monkeys are of particular concern because the resulting tissue damage can directly effect experimental results, especially in those studies involving the cardiopulmonary system. There has been increasing documentation of primate parasitology in the past twenty years.

Download Full-text