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[Introduction To] In The Flesh: Embodied Identities In Roman Elegy, Erika Zimmerman Damer
[Introduction To] In The Flesh: Embodied Identities In Roman Elegy, Erika Zimmerman Damer
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In the Flesh deeply engages postmodern and new materialist feminist thought in close readings of three significant poets—Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid—writing in the early years of Rome's Augustan Principate. In their poems, they represent the flesh-and-blood body in both its integrity and vulnerability, as an index of social position along intersecting axes of sex, gender, status, and class. Erika Zimmermann Damer underscores the fluid, dynamic, and contingent nature of identities in Roman elegy, in response to a period of rapid legal, political, and social change.
Recognizing this power of material flesh to shape elegiac poetry, she asserts, grants figures at …
Behind The Immediacy, The Nodal Points In The Congolese Story: Two Generations Of Writers, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
Behind The Immediacy, The Nodal Points In The Congolese Story: Two Generations Of Writers, Kasongo Mulenda Kapanga
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La première génération des écrivains congolais de l' ére postcoloniale a traité du déséquilibre éprouvé par toute la société au lendemain de l'indépendance. Aussitôt que le glas de la liberté a retenti, les troubles sociaux, en partie causés á l'instigation de l'ancienne autorité coloniale, mirent á feu et á sang plusieurs zones de la nation. L'indépendance cha cha chantée dans l'euphorie géné-rale par Joseph Kabasele et l'African Jazz, chanson devenue méto-nymie auditive de cette période de liberation, ne donna suite qu'á des célébrations éphèméres suivies de crises sociales déchirantes.