Edith Cowan University
University of Connecticut
University of Kentucky
Boston College Law School
Woman Becomes Goddess In Bollywood: Justice, Violence, And The Feminine In Popular Hindi Film,
2013
University of Nebraska Omaha
Woman Becomes Goddess In Bollywood: Justice, Violence, And The Feminine In Popular Hindi Film, Kathleen M. Erndl
Journal of Religion & Film
What happens “when a woman becomes Chandika?” This essay contributes to an on-going discussion of the theme of “avenging women” in popular Indian cinema, with particular focus on the transformation of a woman into a fierce Goddess who avenges oppression and re-establishes justice. Analysis of the story line and selected song sequences from the Hindi language film Anjaam (“Outcome,” 1994) in light of themes from the Hindu Sanskrit text, the Devi-Mahatmya (“Greatness of the Goddess,” 5thc. C.E.) shows how traditional religious images and values are adapted and transformed in a modern context.
Consensus Democracy And State Performance: Evaluating The Impact Of Coalition Government On Indian States,
2013
University of Pennsylvania
Consensus Democracy And State Performance: Evaluating The Impact Of Coalition Government On Indian States, Vandit D. Shah
CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal
The question of whether a majoritarian setup is optimal in terms of broad representation takes up on paramount importance in the context of power-sharing in deeply divided places, whereby unqualified exclusion of segment(s) of the population from government can have potentially disastrous consequences. Governance in deeply-divided places presents a rather intriguing question --- who governs the people, how are they elected, what mandates do they have? What form of government works best - a single-party majoritarian system that by popular belief leads to more effective governance or a consensus-based government that allows for better protection of minority interests? More broadly then ...
Why Chinese Neo-Confucian Women Made A Fetish Of Small Feet,
2012
Grand Valley State University
Why Chinese Neo-Confucian Women Made A Fetish Of Small Feet, Aubrey L. Mcmahan
Grand Valley Journal of History
Abstract for “Why Chinese Neo-Confucian Women Made a Fetish of Small Feet”
This paper explores the source of the traditional practice of Chinese footbinding which first gained popularity at the end of the Tang dynasty and continued to flourish until the last half of the twentieth century.[1] Derived initially from court concubines whose feet were formed to represent an attractive “deer lady” from an Indian tale, footbinding became a wide-spread symbol among the Chinese of obedience, pecuniary reputability, and Confucianism, among other things.[2],[3] Drawing on the analyses of such scholars as Beverly Jackson, Valerie Steele and John ...
The Performance Of Non-Impaired Tamil-English Bilinguals On The Bilingual Aphasia Test,
2012
McMaster University
The Performance Of Non-Impaired Tamil-English Bilinguals On The Bilingual Aphasia Test, Teenu Sanjeevan
Open Access Dissertations and Theses
This thesis examines the performance of non-impaired Tamil-English speaking bilinguals on the Tamil-English version of the Bilingual Aphasia Test (BAT) (Paradis and Libben, 1987). The test was administered to 25 participants, 15 women and 10 men. The results show that, on average, participants achieved an overall score of 97%. However, participants did not do well on two subtests on the English version, specifically sections on derivational morphology and morphological opposites. Also, a more detailed analysis indicates that years of education significantly correlates with performance, even though it is claimed that years of education should not affect performance on this test ...
Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean,
2012
University of Iowa
Prisons Before Modernity: Incarceration In The Medieval Indo-Mediterranean, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Allegory And The Critique Of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’S Political Theologies,
2012
University of Iowa
Allegory And The Critique Of Sovereignty: Ismail Kadare’S Political Theologies, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Intimate Reconciliations: Diasporic Genealogies Of War And Genocide In Southeast Asia,
2012
McMaster University
Intimate Reconciliations: Diasporic Genealogies Of War And Genocide In Southeast Asia, Y-Dang Troeung
Open Access Dissertations and Theses
This dissertation investigates the traumatic legacies of colonialism, imperialism and authoritarianism in Southeast Asia, the diasporic conditions of Southeast Asian refugees in North America after 1975, and the relationship among literature, ethics, and reconciliation more broadly. Focusing primarily on contemporary novels that intervene in the cultural memory of the Cambodian genocide, the War in Viet Nam, and the World War II Japanese Occupation of Malaysia, my dissertation conceptualizes an intimate politics of reconciliation that routes the study of justice foremost through questions of affect, epistemology and ethics. An intimate politics of reconciliation, I argue, encapsulates a constellation of intimate memorial ...
The Sublimity Of Charles Bovary,
2012
University of Iowa
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory,
2012
University of Iowa
Leaving The House Of Memory: Post-Soviet Traces Of Deportation Memory, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Philology, Education, Democracy,
2012
University of Iowa
Reading Ruins Against The Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality,
2012
University of Iowa
Reading Ruins Against The Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Ignaty Krachkovsky’S Encounters With Arabic Literary Modernity Through Amīn Al-Riḥānī,
2012
University of Iowa
Ignaty Krachkovsky’S Encounters With Arabic Literary Modernity Through Amīn Al-Riḥānī, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Calligrapher’S Secret By Rafik Schami,
2012
University of Iowa
Review Of The Calligrapher’S Secret By Rafik Schami, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
The Calligrapher’s Secret by Rafik Schami, Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing 27 (3): 94-96.
World Literature As A Communal Apartment: Semyon Lipkin’S Ethics Of Translational Difference,
2012
University of Iowa
World Literature As A Communal Apartment: Semyon Lipkin’S Ethics Of Translational Difference, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
Imam Shamil (1797–1871),
2012
University of Iowa
Logogenesis And Appraisal: A Systemic Functional Analysis Of English And Japanese Language Arts Textbooks,
2012
Marshall University
Logogenesis And Appraisal: A Systemic Functional Analysis Of English And Japanese Language Arts Textbooks, Shinji Kawamitsu
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the distinct and purposeful differences of the language of evaluation between English textbooks and Japanese textbooks. This thesis applies Appraisal system in Systemic Functional Linguistics to the language arts textbooks used in 2nd to 4th grade classrooms in Japan and in the U.S. The analysis shows that the number of Attitudinal lexical items, especially invoked Attitude, is notably higher than that in the English texts. The analysis also shows that the Japanese texts employ Judgment lexis, which is a resource to form a sense of group harmony, more than the other ...
Financial Inclusion: Lessons From Rural South India,
2012
University of Pennsylvania
Financial Inclusion: Lessons From Rural South India, Ram A. Cnaan, M. S. Moodithaya, Femida Handy
Departmental Papers (SPP)
Financial inclusion/exclusion has recently been emphasised as an important policy option aimed at alleviating poverty, minimising social exclusion and enhancing economic growth. In this article, we review the growing interest in financial exclusion and inclusion, define them and demonstrate their existence in developing and developed countries. Our empirical focus is on whether financial inclusion has been successfully implemented in four sites in rural South India where banks claimed that financial inclusion is complete. Although many rural people in South India are financially included, the concept of financial inclusion is more complex than usually portrayed. Our findings show that social ...
Sacred Biography, Translation, And Conversion ; The Nabīvaṃśa Of Saiyad Sultān And The Making Of Bengali Islam, 1600-Present,
2011
University of Pennsylvania
Sacred Biography, Translation, And Conversion ; The Nabīvaṃśa Of Saiyad Sultān And The Making Of Bengali Islam, 1600-Present, Ayesha A. Irani
Publicly accessible Penn Dissertations
The present dissertation is a study of the Nabīvaṃśa, “The Prophet’s Lineage,” the first biography of the Prophet Muḥammad to be composed in Bangla, in the first half of the seventeenth century. A literary milestone in the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural history of Islam, it marks a significant contribution to Bangla’s rich literary corpus, and became a canonical work for the late-medieval Islamic Bangla literary tradition. This hitherto little-studied text is used to examine the nature of Islamic expansion on Bengal’s eastern frontier, addressing issues of religious competition, identity formation, and conversion. These were central concerns of the author ...
The Geography Of Comparative Literature,
2011
University of Iowa
The Geography Of Comparative Literature, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
“The Geography of Comparative Literature,” Journal of Literary Theory 5.2 (2011): 167–186 (examines the disciplinary history of Comparative Literature in the Arab and Persian world in relation to Europe; reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 13.07.2011, No. 160, S. N5).
Beyond Anti-Semitism,
2011
University of Iowa
Beyond Anti-Semitism, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
Focusing on internal contradictions within the Israeli left, this essay considers the impact of the historical legacy of anti-Semitism on everyday thinking about Israel and the Palestinian territories. Contesting the view that to criticize Israel is to engage in anti-Semitic defamation, it offers an historical account of how Israel's actions in the West Bank have come to be immunized from conscientious criticism. It also documents how progressive media outlets in contemporary Israel have silenced or otherwise marginalized Israel's most active critics.
