Bibliography For Work In Digital Humanities And (Inter)Mediality Studies,
2013
Purdue University
Bibliography For Work In Digital Humanities And (Inter)Mediality Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek
CLCWeb Library
No abstract provided.
The Father's Power In Breitbach's Report On Bruno And Achebe's A Man Of The People,
2013
University of Nigeria
The Father's Power In Breitbach's Report On Bruno And Achebe's A Man Of The People, Amechi N. Akwanya
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "The Father's Power in Breitbach's Report on Bruno and Achebe's A Man of the People" Amechi N. Akwanya analyses Joseph Breitbach's Report on Bruno and Chinua Achebe's No Longer at Ease in order to lay bare the underlying processes of these texts. Undoubtedly the patterns of struggle in the two texts are political, but reading them in exclusively political terms has the consequence that the works are of no further interest once the putative political agenda is identified and described. Akwanya's analysis discloses shared features in the two texts published within two years of each other. …
Sound Semiotics Of Osundare's Poetry,
2013
University of Lagos
Sound Semiotics Of Osundare's Poetry, Christopher Chukwudi Anyokwu
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Sound Semiotics of Osundare's Poetry" Christopher Anyokwu postulates that in our increasingly chirographically and typographically oriented culture and society, we often forget how tenacious and over-arching the oral continues to be. Semiotics, the science of signs, highlights among others how speech acts and speech sounds are deployed in everyday human interactions to convey meaning and communicate humanity's need for understanding and fulfillment. This meaning-signaling potential of the tonality of language is even more pronounced in most African languages which are, unlike English, syllable timed and tonal in nature. This tonal nature of African languages is appropriated by …
The Dilemma Of Western Education In Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story, Naylor's The Women Of Brewster Place, And Morrison's Beloved,
2013
University of Lagos
The Dilemma Of Western Education In Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story, Naylor's The Women Of Brewster Place, And Morrison's Beloved, Solomon Omatsola Azumurana
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "The Dilemma of Western Education in Aidoo's Changes: A Love Story, Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, and Morrison's Beloved" Solomon Omatsola Azumurana examines the problematics of Western education with regard to Black Africans and African Americans through the creative lens of three prose fictions written by African and African American women. While Ama Ata Aidoo is a West African writer from Ghana, Gloria Naylor and Toni Morrison are African American writers. Azumurana argues that Western education poses issues whether for African Americans of Black Africans and whether educated and literate or not, there …
Meridians 11:2,
2013
Smith College
Meridians 11:2, Paula J. Giddings
Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
I remember the moment when feminist transnationalism made its first indelible impression on me. I was a participant on a panel during the United Nation's Women's Conference (1985) that took place in Nairobi, Kenya, with three other women who were activists in Algeria, Palestine and Israel, respectively. We had come together before the panel to talk informally about our presentations, when, during the conversation, I bemoaned the fact that black women in the U.S., who had been so instrumental to the early civil rights struggle, were now being criticized for their leadership roles by men....
Ecocriticism In An Age Of Terror,
2013
Sungkyunkwan University
Ecocriticism In An Age Of Terror, Simon C. Estok
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Ecocriticism in an Age of Terror" Simon C. Estok argues that we cannot ignore the context of terror in and through which ecocriticism works and that the relationships between the imagining of terror on the one hand and the conceptualizing of hostile environments on the other is in very serious need of critical analysis. Changes in how we think about nature are also long overdue, as are changes in how we think about doing ecocriticism. Working toward these changes now in our scholarship will take us leaps and bounds closer to the activist intervention about which ecocriticism …
Towards A Framework Of A Semiotics Of Dance,
2013
University Vasile Alecsandri
Towards A Framework Of A Semiotics Of Dance, Nikoleta Popa Blanariu
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Towards a Framework of a Semiotics of Dance" Nicoleta Popa Blanariu constructs a framework of based on de Saussure's, Peirce's, and Barthes's thought. She applies Ferdinand de Saussure's concept of semiosis defined as a cultural system of conventions. In dance this occurs when choreographic signs are encoded, for example in magic, ritual, or religious expressions of movement. Further, Charles Sanders Peirce's concept of the role of "intelligent consciousness" is crucial for the engendering of signification and thus to dance. In dance, the choreographer "interprets" the world and by means of selection and interpretation, the choreographic sign …
Ambanasom's Son Of The Native Soil And The Western Concept Of The Tragic Hero,
2013
University of Yaounde
Ambanasom's Son Of The Native Soil And The Western Concept Of The Tragic Hero, Denis Fonge Tembong
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Ambanasom's Son of the Native Soil and the Western Concept of the Tragic Hero" Denis Fonge Tembong discusses the view that although African and Western literatures are fundamentally different as they exhibit or represent distinct cultural values, they nevertheless share some common notions. The concept of a tragic hero is one of those convergent loci where the two literatures meet. With this in mind, Tembong examines in Aristotle's and Shakespeare's concepts of the tragic hero and demonstrates how the ideas exploited in Macbeth are similarly used in Shadrach A. Ambanasom's Son of the Native Soil against the …
Racism And Identity In Onwueme's Riot In Heaven,
2013
National Open University Nigeria
Racism And Identity In Onwueme's Riot In Heaven, Onyeka F. Iwuchukwu
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Racism and Identity in Onwueme's Riot in Heaven" Onyeka Iwuchukwu explores Tess Osonye Onwueme's acclaimed play in the context of the Black diaspora in the U.S. Iwuchukwu posits that because of Onwueme's exploration of the theater of the absurd in the play, audience's attention is directed to the illogical presentation of dialogue and action. However, the technique with textual properties suggesting unmotivated and meaningless references in fact carries profound meaning. Further, the said "absurd" presentation and narration results in a strong ideological and political message akin to the practice of littérature engagée. Iwuchukwu's analysis of …
Double Duty: Women Who Make It To The Top In Business Carry The Burden Of Society's Expectations,
2013
Colby College
Double Duty: Women Who Make It To The Top In Business Carry The Burden Of Society's Expectations, Barbara A. Walsh
Colby Magazine
High-achieving women in corporate America find themselves managing companies and households. Alumnae report that home and family aren’t left behind when they land the corner office.
Point Of View: In This Class On Feminism, Nobody Was On The Bench,
2013
Colby College
Point Of View: In This Class On Feminism, Nobody Was On The Bench, Rocio Orantes Carey
Colby Magazine
Rocío Orantes Carey ’06 on stereotypes, feminism, and football.
The Girls Are Alright: With Colbians Leading The Way, Girl-Empowering Hardy Girls Healthy Women Sparks A National Movement,
2013
Colby College
The Girls Are Alright: With Colbians Leading The Way, Girl-Empowering Hardy Girls Healthy Women Sparks A National Movement, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
Since its inception a decade ago, Hardy Girls Healthy Women has helped hundreds of girls to overcome damaging stereotypes and realize their own potential. With Colby alumni and faculty charting its course, the Waterville-based organization has made it to the national stage.
Point Of View: The Lesson Of David Kato,
2013
Colby College
Point Of View: The Lesson Of David Kato, Ellen Morris
Colby Magazine
Gay activist from Uganda had applied for an Oak Fellowship at Colby; his murder should serve as a warning of the sometimes dangerous power of Americans abroad. Ellen Morris ’11 on “knowing” slain gay-rights activist David Kato.
How To Look Like A Lesbian Without Even Trying,
2013
Gettysburg College
How To Look Like A Lesbian Without Even Trying, Laura J. Koenig
SURGE
“Ugh. I hate those pictures. I look like such a lesbian in them,” my cousin explained to me while her family and I sat around their kitchen table. After she said this, her younger brother laughed into his chicken noodle soup and she hit him over the head. “Shut up. I’m telling you. They’re so bad,” she said. As the conversation went on, I learn that she was referring to pictures that had been taken at one of her lacrosse practices. The important part is that she was displeased with the photos. And it’s certainly not because someone had caught …
Fearless: One Billion Rising,
2013
Gettysburg College
Fearless: One Billion Rising, Center For Public Service
SURGE
One Billion Rising is the annual global celebration associated with the kick-off of the Vagina Monologues. It is a day that encourages women to dance, taking ownership of their bodies, of the space they occupy, and of the rights to expression that they deserve. Over 200 men and women joined in the celebration which took place in the Junction on Feb 14th. Speakers included Professor Stephanie Sellers and Terri Hamrick (CEO of Survivors, Inc.), a student choreographed performance by Elle Rupert (’13) and Riccardo Purita (’13), and ended with a group zumba dance to ring in One Billion Rising! [ …
Book Review: Vagina: A New Biography,
2013
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Vagina: A New Biography, Harasankar Adhikari
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf
Book Review: Buy It Now: Lessons From Ebay.,
2013
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Buy It Now: Lessons From Ebay., Busisiwe Magagula
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Buy it Now: Lessons from EBay by Michelle White
Book Review: Feminist Practices, Interdisciplinary Approaches To Women In Architecture,
2013
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Feminist Practices, Interdisciplinary Approaches To Women In Architecture, Magotsi Motanya
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Feminist Practices, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Women in Architecture. Edited by Lori Brown
Book Review: Women’S Work And Pensions: What Is Good, What Is Best? Designing Gender-Sensitive Arrangements,
2013
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Women’S Work And Pensions: What Is Good, What Is Best? Designing Gender-Sensitive Arrangements, Mercy Nduku Ngungu
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Women’s Work and Pensions: What is Good, What is Best? Designing Gender-Sensitive Arrangements, edited by Bernd Marin and Eszter
Book Review: Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside The World Of A Woman Born In Prison,
2013
Bridgewater State University
Book Review: Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside The World Of A Woman Born In Prison, Sharonrose Sefora
Journal of International Women's Studies
Review of Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison by Deborah Jiang Stein
