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Yaari With Angrez: Whiteness For A New Bollywood Hero, Teresa Hubel
Yaari With Angrez: Whiteness For A New Bollywood Hero, Teresa Hubel
Department of English Publications
This chapter comments on the relative insignificance of whiteness to Hindi film narratives, with white characters turning up, when they do, often as peripheral figures to create the effect of historical accuracy. It argues that in Hindi cinema, whiteness cannot function as it does in the West, where the legacy of imperialism has made it an unmarked category, whose invisibility allows it to function as a norm against which the aberration of racial others may be measured. In Indian films, whiteness is marked; and it is, increasingly, markedly white—to be resisted, or desired, or dismissed.
What Are You Reading?, Kim Solga
What Are You Reading?, Kim Solga
Department of English Publications
In May 2010, a general election in the United Kingdom produced a coalition government headed by David Cameron's Conservatives and (nominally) the Liberal Democrats under deputy PM Nick Clegg. The coalition (still in power in 2014) quickly plunged the nation into a period of postcrash austerity the likes of which had not been seen for generations. When I landed at Heathrow in June 2012 to start a new job at Queen Mary University of London, the ground was thick with casualties—and getting thicker. Significant challenges to the U.K. welfare state have been launched before, of course: most visibly and famously …
What Feminists Do When Things Get Ruff, Kim Solga
What Feminists Do When Things Get Ruff, Kim Solga
Department of English Publications
This past spring I wrote a post for my teaching blog about learning to live with failure – to experience what it means to mess up, or to be messed up, without needing desperately to get outside of that feeling, to move quickly on and away from the terror of what seems in the moment like a shattering personal disaster.1 This is a skill that artists and students especially need: getting back on the proverbial horse after corpsing on stage, or after failing that crucial term paper, can be utterly gut-wrenching, madness-inducing stuff. Then, literally a few days after …
Exposing The Monsters Behind Victorian Domestic Abuse, Jennifer Komorowski
Exposing The Monsters Behind Victorian Domestic Abuse, Jennifer Komorowski
2014 Undergraduate Awards
Domestic violence was a social issue prominently debated during the Victorian period. Literature published during this time period, which included Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover” and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, addresses the problem of domestic violence and exposes the problems women faced in the home, problems that were previously thought to be private matters. Throughout the nineteenth century, the laws regarding both domestic violence and the rights of women drastically changed to provide more protection and grant greater rights to both women and children. Both of Browning and Brontës works expose the hidden monsters that could exist behind the closed doors …
Wee Whizz Bang: Englishness And Noise In Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, Rowan Morris
Wee Whizz Bang: Englishness And Noise In Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, Rowan Morris
2014 Undergraduate Awards
This paper explores representations of Englishness in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End, identifying in particular a taciturn, monoglossic form of pre-Great War Englishness that is threatened by the cacophonous, heteroglossic post-War world. Through close formal analysis of "noise" in Ford's tetralogy, framed by an historicist reading of the socio-political contexts of the First World War, this paper demonstrates how Parade's End simultaneously elegises a "stiff-upper-lip" Englishness while marking such reticence as an obsolete mode of thinking that is incompatible with modernity. In contrast to criticism that identifies The Last Post, the final novel in the tetralogy, as a return to …