scholarly journals Subalternidad, vida y escritura en Camina o revienta de Eleuterio Sánchez / Subalternity, life and writing in Eleuterio Sanchez’s Camina o revienta

2017 ◽  
pp. 507
Author(s):  
Antonio García del Río
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Autobiographical Work ◽  
The Voice

Resumen: En el presente artículo, nos centraremos en el estudio de la obra autobiográfica Camina o revienta de Eleuterio Sánchez a partir del estudio de la construcción del relato autobiográfico y la configuración de la identidad del sujeto mediante la escritura; el rol del autor dentro del contexto de publicación de la obra en el periodo de la Transición y el tratamiento que recibe por parte de los aparatos del estado dictatorial franquista; por último, analizaremos la construcción de la voz por parte de un sujeto perteneciente a una comunidad subalterna, la quinqui o los mercheros, a partir de los estudios poscoloniales centrados en el análisis de la subalternidad por G.C.Spivak.Palabras clave: identidad, estigmatización, ley, franquismo, autobiografía, subalternidad, escritura, criminalidad. Abstract: In the present article, the author focus es on the autobiographical work of Eleuterio Sánchez, Camina o Revienta. He studies the construction of the autobiographical account and the configuration of the identity through writing. The author focuses as well on Sánchez in the context of publication of his autobiografphy, and the treatment received by the Franco dictatorial State; finally, he analyzes the construction of the voice as belonging to a subordinate community, the quinqui or mercheros,, using the concept of subaltern as theorized in post-colonial studies.Key Words: identity, stigma, law, Francoism, autobiography, subalternity, writing, crime. 

scholarly journals Diasporic Consciousness and Identity Trauma in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 88-97
Author(s):  
Himadri Shyam
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Salman Rushdie ◽  
Bharati Mukherjee ◽  
Topical Issue ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Jhumpa Lahiri ◽  
Contemporary Study ◽  
Recurrent Theme

In the contemporary era, immigration, exile and expatriation are related to home, identity, nostalgia, memory and isolation. These are the recurrent theme in the diasporic writings of the post-colonial writers like V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, Jhumpa Lahiri and so on. Identity is a topical issue in the contemporary study of culture with many ramifications for the study of ethnicity, class, gender, race, sexuality and subcultures. It becomes an issue when something assumed to be fixed, coherent, and stable is displaced by the experience of doubt and uncertainty. When a period of uncertainty and confusion upsets a person’s identity, it becomes insecure, usually due to a change in the expected aims or role in society. This identity trauma brings a sense of longing and loss as seen in Lahiri’s stories.  The present article focuses on the first generation and second generation immigrants adherence to the old and new land as can be found in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake. Lahiri represents her characters struggling to balance the two worlds that involve the issues of immigration, race, class, and culture. 

scholarly journals Understanding Currents and Theories in Indian and African Postcolonial Literature: Themes, Tropes and Discourse in the Wider Context of Postcolonialism

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-393
Author(s):  
Shivani Ekkanath
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Diasporic Identity ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Diaspora And Transnationalism

The postcolonial narratives we see today are a study in contrast and tell a different tale from their colonial predecessors as minorities and individuals finally have found the voice and position to tell their stories. Histories written about our culture and societies have now found a new purpose and voice. The stories we have passed down from generation to generation through both oral and written histories, continue to morph and change with the tide of time as they re-centre our cultural narratives and shared experiences. As a result, the study of diaspora and transnationalism have altered the way in which we view identity in different forms of multimedia and literature. In this paper, the primary question which will be examined is, how and to what extent does Indian post-colonial literature figure in the formation of identity in contemporary art and literature in the context of ongoing postcolonial ideas and currents? by means of famous and notable postcolonial literary works and theories of Indian authors and theoreticians, with a special focus on the question and notion of identity. This paper works on drawing parallels between themes in Indian and African postcolonial literary works, especially themes such as power, hegemony, east meets west, among others. In this paper, European transnationalism will also be analysed as a case study to better understand postcolonialism in different contexts. The paper will seek to explore some of the gaps in the study of diasporic identity and postcolonial studies and explore some of the changes and key milestones in the evolution of the discourse over the decades.

scholarly journals Liturgy and non-colonial thinking: Speaking to and about God beyond ideology, religion and identity politics – Towards non-religion and a unbearable freedom in Christ

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Face ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Voice

It has been argued that most countries that had been exposed to European colonialism have inherited a Western Christianity thanks to the mission societies from Europe and North America. In such colonial and post-colonial (countries where the political administration is no longer in European hands, but the effects of colonialism are still in place) contexts, together with Western contexts facing the ever-growing impact of migrants coming from the previous colonies, there is a need to reflect on the possibility of what a non-colonial liturgy, rather than a decolonial or postcolonial liturgy, would look like. For many, postcolonial or decolonial liturgies are those that specifically create spaces for the voice of a particular identified other. The other is identified and categorised as a particular voice from the margins, or a specific voice from the borders, or the voices of particular identified previously silenced voices from, for example, the indigenous backyards. A question that this context raises is as follows: Is consciously creating such social justice spaces – that is determined spaces by identifying particular voices that someone or a specific group decides to need to be heard and even making these particular voiceless (previously voiceless) voices central to any worship experience – really that different to the colonial liturgies of the past? To give voice to another voice, is maybe only a change of voice, which certainly has tremendous historical value, but is it truly a transformation? Such a determined ethical space is certainly a step towards greater multiculturalism and can therefore be interpreted as a celebration of greater diversity and inclusivity in the dominant ontology. Yet, this ontology remains policed, either by the state-maintaining police or by the moral (social justice) police.Contribution: In this article, a non-colonial liturgy will be sought that goes beyond the binary of the dominant voice and the voice of the other, as the voice of the other too often becomes the voice of a particular identified and thus determined victim – in other words, beyond the binary of master and slave, perpetrator and victim, good and evil, and justice and injustice, as these binaries hardly ever bring about transformation, but only a change in the face of master and the face of the slave, yet remaining in the same policed ontology.

scholarly journals Shifting voices: A comparison of two novelists’ translations of a third

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-462
Author(s):  
Eirlys E. Davies
Keyword(s):  
Tahar Ben Jelloun ◽  
Source Text ◽  
English Version ◽  
French Version ◽  
Paul Bowles ◽  
Autobiographical Work ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper compares the English and French translations of Mohamed Choukri’s autobiographical work originally written in Arabic under the title Al khubs al hafi. The translations are somewhat unusual in that both were published long before the source text became available, and in that they were done by two renowned novelists (Paul Bowles and Tahar Ben Jelloun) while Choukri himself was a completely unknown writer. The comparison reveals many contrasts. The English version favours a fragmentary, often disjointed style, with simple everyday vocabulary and frequent repetition, while the French version uses more sophisticated syntax and more specialised and varied lexis. There are also differences in content; the English version often remains more implicit than the French and yet provides more horrific details, and it frequently opts for foreignization where the French features the strategy of domestication. It is suggested that these contrasts reflect the ways in which the novelists’ own voices have influenced the way in which they express the voice of Choukri.

Environmental Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Could We Hang Out Sometime?

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoît MAYER
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Transnational Governance ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Environmental Migration ◽  
The Pacific

Several proposals for global legal governance of environmental migration have recently been published, almost exclusively by Western scholars. The present article denounces the geographical and intellectual disconnect between descriptive works on environmental migration as a phenomenon and the normative studies on the developments in law and governance. It suggests that this disconnect has resulted in a post-colonial approach towards tackling environmental migration, which could impede the protection of environmental migrants. While recalling that governance of environmental migration is most likely to succeed within a regional framework, this article pleads for a home-grown legal approach of environmental migration in the Asia-Pacific. Participating in a multilateral discussion is a unique opportunity for the rising countries of Asia and the Pacific to strengthen their growing diplomatic roles and to demonstrate their capacity in the development of liberal forms of transnational governance.

History, collective memory and identity: the Tatars of sovereign Tatarstan

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azode-Ayse Rorlich
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Post Colonial

The present article offers a discussion of the challenges of identity construction among the Tatars of Soverign Tatarstan by highlighting the importance of collective memory in reconstructing identity in the post-colonial context. Its conclusions point to the particularly prominent role most Tatars assign to language and religion not only in identity construction, but in resurrecting and consolidating statehood as well.

scholarly journals Cultural Aspect of Regional Patriotism Fostered in the Nineteenth-Century Literature of Autochthon Upper Silesians

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Krystyna Kossakowska-Jarosz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
National Minority ◽  
Upper Silesia ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Century Literature

This text is part of the author’s research on the literary culture of the nineteenth-century UpperSilesia. The author shows that at the forefront of modern Europe (at the beginning of industrializationand urbanization of the continent) the autochthon writers of Upper Silesia undertook actionsaimed at fostering cultural awareness amongst their compatriots, who were considered to belong toa national minority, in order to instil patriotic feelings in them. In the current post-colonial discoursetheir struggles are recognized as the “voice of the periphery”. Striving to achieve civic maturity intheir Polish ecumene, these writers demonstrated considerable knowledge of their own Polish rootsas the inhabitants of this region. They assumed they must be aware of their distinctness from thedominant society in the Prussian state. The messages conveyed to their compatriots consisted inemphasizing the common history of Silesians and Poles and remembering the glorious past of thelatter. These were the foundations for shaping the sense of identity as well as for creating strongties with their own land. The development of such an emotional attitude towards the place and itspast among the readers allowed for effective building of patriotic attitudes, which was confirmed bycontemporary observers of the writers’ efforts. They continued coming to Upper Silesia from otherregions of the former Polish Republic to learn about ways of writing “for people.”

scholarly journals Lumpérica: alegoría y cita en voces rizomáticas en la narración chilena posmoderna

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 96-110
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Ignacio Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Body ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Performative Writing ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice

The present article will analyze the voice of the narrator from the rhizomatic figure (Deleuze and Guattari) to determine its non-place in the construction of narrative scenes in the new performative forms of literary expression. Therefore, this condition will be reviewed from two Benjaminian notions, the allegory and the quotation to determine that the idea of the body is -centrally concentrated in L. Illuminated- a correlation between language and subject: the disappearance of the subject is the disappearance of his / her language, epistemological symmetry that gives rise in Chilean narrative to a performative writing.

scholarly journals Some Remarks on the Art of Exegesis in the Kalophonic Style

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Alexandru
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Music School ◽  
The Voice

The present article focuses on the technique and art of the so-called exegesis, the traditional interpretation of the kalophonic piece Ἀπόλαυε τῶν θαυμάτων τὰς ἰάσεις – Enjoy, seing the miraculous healings, in honor of St Demetrios, by St John Koukouzeles, in the first authentic mode. It is based on the manuscripts Zakynthos 7, Metochion Panagiou Taphou 728, and three Anthologia from the Music School of the Putna Monastery, and highlights several exegetical procedures through microsyntactical and generative analyses of chosen passages of the piece. The profile of the kalophonic melody revealed through the slow exegesis is mainly characterized by stepwise up-and-down movements of the voice around and between the structural notes, with few skips only, and in a perfect balance with the poetical text, which emerges for the singer and the listener syllable by syllable, carried on a continuous melodic flow, a sort of Byzantine ‘unendliche Melodie’.

scholarly journals œuvre condéenne pour la jeunesse : entre échec littéraire et mises en scène de l’échec

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Merveilles Mouloungui
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Maryse Conde ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Maryse Condé

Le présent article s’interroge sur la place de la littérature de jeunesse de Maryse Condé au sein de sa bibliographie générale, et dans la réception critique. La relative marginalisation de ces œuvres semble due à des facteurs spécifiques au secteur éditorial dans son ensemble –, et à d’autres facteurs propres à littérature francophone féminine, comme le manque de spécialistes dans le domaine et le manque d’instances de légitimation. Dans ce même corpus destiné, Maryse Condé déploie le plus souvent une écriture de l’échec, ce qui pourrait être interprété comme un écho de la faible visibilité institutionnelle des œuvres concernées. Quoi qu’il en soit, ces échecs dans la fiction sont certainement à mettre sur le compte des intentions réalistes d’un auteur qui ne cesse de renvoyer à la dureté d’un monde post-colonial auquel ses lecteurs seront ainsi préparés.

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