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Articles 1 - 14 of 14
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Interview With Charlotte Rutherford, Monica Fields-Fears
Interview With Charlotte Rutherford, Monica Fields-Fears
Black United Front Oral History Project
Interview with Charlotte Rutherford by Monica Fields-Fears on November 19 and 22, 2008, at Charlotte Rutherford’s home in Portland, Oregon.
Introduction And Translation Of “Los Amantes” [The Lovers] By Jorge Debravo, Oscar Fernandez
Introduction And Translation Of “Los Amantes” [The Lovers] By Jorge Debravo, Oscar Fernandez
University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
A translation of Jorge Debravo's poem Los Amantes, including a brief introduction with biographical details of the author's life.
Mariama Khain Interviews Yema Janga About Kim Language, George Tucker Childs
Mariama Khain Interviews Yema Janga About Kim Language, George Tucker Childs
The Kim and Bom Languages of Sierra Leone
Audio file of Mariama Khain interviewing Yema Janga about the Kim language, and inquiring why Kim is no longer spoken by the people.
Language Death Within The Atlantic Group Of West Africa, George Tucker Childs
Language Death Within The Atlantic Group Of West Africa, George Tucker Childs
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
This article presents an overview of the less widely spoken languages of the Atlantic Group (Niger-Congo), as representing the most seriously threatened language group in West Africa. Study of this group indicates that language endangerment is real and widespread. The basis for this claim comes from the literature on these languages, from personal research on the Atlantic languages dating back to 1984, and from recent and ongoing fieldwork on several highly endangered languages of Sierra Leone and Guinea.
Model Minorities, Models Of Resistance: Native Figures In Asian Canadian Literature, Marie Lo
Model Minorities, Models Of Resistance: Native Figures In Asian Canadian Literature, Marie Lo
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
In Lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article:
In the special Amerasia issue titled “Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel,” editor Henry Yu notes that despite similar thematic concerns in Asian Canadian and Asian American cultural production, works by Asian Canadian artists are also “entangled in broader cultural and political formations that speak to the importance of First Nations struggles” (xviii). The centrality of First Nations struggles in the Canadian political and cultural landscape is reflected in the representation of Native culture in Asian Canadian texts. Though these representations vary, Native presence in works such …
Language Endangerment In West Africa: Its Victims And Causes, George Tucker Childs
Language Endangerment In West Africa: Its Victims And Causes, George Tucker Childs
Applied Linguistics Faculty Publications and Presentations
This paper catalogues the forces at work threatening the Atlantic languages of Guinea and Sierra Leone. Compared to Mande, the other major language group in the area, and to figures for Africa in general (Sommer 1992), the Atlantic Group is beset by ominous forces. These include what could be considered ecological features (e.g., Mufwene 2001): the Mande Expansion (Niane 1989), colonialism, the spread of Islam, and globalization. There are other forces to be sure, such as the influence of Christian missions (Welmers 1971; cf. Mühlhäusler 1990), urbanization (a sub-category, perhaps, of globalization), and climatic changes (Brooks 1993, Fairhead and Leach …
The Teaching Of 'Book History' In English And Cultural Studies Units, Per Henningsgaard
The Teaching Of 'Book History' In English And Cultural Studies Units, Per Henningsgaard
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
Book history is a field of study concerned with 'the influence of manuscript or printed materials on the development and transmission of culture', typically concentrating on six related topics: 'authorship, book selling, printing, publishing, distribution, and reading' (West, 2003). This article evaluates the teaching of book history in English and Cultural Studies units at the University of Western Australia (UWA), which ceased offering a stand-alone unit on the subject in the late 1980s. Since then, book history is only ever addressed in English and Cultural Studies units as an ancillary to other themes and theoretical inclinations, in particular text based …
Dimela Eltit In Labor Force: Mysticism Of The Workers (La Diamela Eltit De Mano De Obra: Mistica De Los Trabajadores), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez
Dimela Eltit In Labor Force: Mysticism Of The Workers (La Diamela Eltit De Mano De Obra: Mistica De Los Trabajadores), Eva NúÑEz-MéNdez
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
NADA más empezar a leer la primera parte de Mano de obra, “El despertar de los trabajadores”, el lector puede vislumbrar una perspectiva un tanto religiosa en boca del personaje principal. Esta primera parte compuesta de ocho capítulos, distribuidos anacrónicamente y abarcando un período que se extiende desde 1904 hasta 1926, recoge exclusivamente todo el peso místico de la obra. Digo “místico” por la relación tan peculiar y continua que Eltit crea entre el protagonista y Dios, y por el credo que los une en una filosofía de la vida de renuncia y purgación. A partir de las vivencias de …
The Currency Of Visibility And The Paratext Of “Evelyn Lau”, Marie Lo
The Currency Of Visibility And The Paratext Of “Evelyn Lau”, Marie Lo
English Faculty Publications and Presentations
In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the article:
The apparently deracinated nature of Evelyn Lau’s work has rendered her an ambivalent figure in Asian Canadian and Asian American literary studies. Lau’s characters, often racially unmarked, are instead scarred by their longing for human connection, and they drift in and out of generic spaces or cloistered back rooms that are untethered to the specificity of the world outside. Her stories of prostitution, sadomasochism, obsession, and unrequited love do not lend themselves easily to the interpretive frameworks that have characterized Asian American and Asian Canadian literary studies.
Türk Edebiyatı Kanonu Ve Ulusal Kimliğin Sınırları (The Canon Of Turkish Literature And The Limits Of National Identity), Pelin Basci
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
The article is written in Turkish.
Written for the special issue of the journal Pasaj Edebiyat on the canon of Turkish literature, the article explores the relationship between the formation of the literary canon and the forging of the national identity. It argues that the modern canon of Turkish literature, much like other national literatures in the Balkans and the Middle East, has been politically constructed after the break with the Ottoman past. Turkish literature has been fashioned through a "literary exchange," much like the 1924 “population exchange” between Greece and Turkey, insulating and sanitizing it from other literary traditions …
A Conversation On Theodicy, Martin Zwick
A Conversation On Theodicy, Martin Zwick
Systems Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
The following is a dialog, published in The Global Spiral, January 9, 2008, about the idea of a systems-theoretic 'secular theodicy,' discussed in the author's "Towards an Ontology of Problems," "Understanding lmperfection," and (exemplified in a preliminary way in) "Incompleteness, Negation, and Hazard: On the Precariousness of Systems." The dialog was inspired by Susan Neiman's Evil in Modem Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2002.
Locke On Consciousness, Angela M. Coventry, Uriah Kriegel
Locke On Consciousness, Angela M. Coventry, Uriah Kriegel
Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations
Locke’s theory of consciousness is often appropriated as a forerunner of present-day Higher-Order Perception (HOP) theories, but not much is said about it beyond that. We offer an interpretation of Locke’s account of consciousness that portrays it as crucially different from current-day HOP theory, both in detail and in spirit. In this paper, it is argued that there are good historical and philosophical reasons to attribute to Locke the view not that conscious states are accompanied by higher-order perceptions, but rather that conscious states constitute perceptions of themselves.
Lessons From The Color Of Fear, Jamie P. Ross
Lessons From The Color Of Fear, Jamie P. Ross
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
This chapter focuses on the role that power, innocence, and ignorance play in maintaining the position of white privilege. There are times when white people use their privilege in ways that overtly attempt to put and keep people of color in their places, but more often white privilege is less obvious. White privilege does not stand out in white people’s behavior at all times.When white behavior is normalized, it is masked. At these times, white privilege and power hide behind the masks of innocence and the masks of ignorance. White people can hide their location, with relation to power, from …
What Do Bras Have To Do With Puberty? Educating Boys About Girls Bodies, Jamie P. Ross
What Do Bras Have To Do With Puberty? Educating Boys About Girls Bodies, Jamie P. Ross
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations
Teaching puberty to 10-11 year olds and teaching sexuality to 13-18 year olds should be fun. Yet fun is not ordinarily associated with teaching puberty and sex in polite secular American society, let within religious arenas. It may not be polite and there are parental fears that formal sex education has a causal relationship with promiscuity. Yet, when I have asked over the years in my Sexualities class, in my most informal of polls, whether parents have taken a large and/or productive role in teaching sex to their children, the percentages are always very small. Many parents do not know …