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Nation Building, Utopia, And The Latin American Writer/Intellectual, María Odette Canivell

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Nation Building, Utopia, and the Latin American Writer/Intellectual," María Odette Canivell discusses the role of utopia in the foundational myths of Latin American cities and its nations. Nation building, in Latin America, Canivell claims, is tied to European myths regarding the New World, as well as to the function of writers' (escribidores) and intellectuals' (letrados) re-formulation of these myths along with their own desires/dreams as to what the ideal of Latin America means. Escribadores and letradas, who make history while re-writing the story/history of their nations, have a direct effect on the policy making and construction of …

Achebe, Conrad, And The Postcolonial Strain, Eric Sipyinyu Njeng

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Achebe, Conrad, and the Postcolonial Strain" Eric Sipyinyu Njeng presents an analysis of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart in a context of postcolonial thought and argues that while Achebe's text is often placed against Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a counter discourse -- thus interrogating Conrad's portraiture of Africans as savages -- Achebe's text in fact represents anti-Africanism and subservience to Occidental values. Examining Achebe's authorial intention in Things Fall Apart, especially as epitomized in the character of Okonkwo, the protagonist, Njeng argues that Achebe corroborates Conrad's portrait of the African. In writing Things Fall Apart, …

Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul….Constitution Making In Occupied States, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

From The Outside Looking In: How An Awareness Of Difference Can Benefit The Qualitative Research Process, Claire Tinker, Natalie Armstron

The Qualitative Report

While much has been written on the problems that can arise when interviewing respondents from a different social group, less attention has been paid to its potential benefits for the research process. In this paper we argue that, by being conscious of one’s outsider status , an interviewer can use it as a tool through which to elicit detailed and comprehensive accounts from respondents, and ensure rigorous and critic al analysis of the data produced.

Ethical Challenges In Participant Observation: A Reflection On Ethnographic Fieldwork, Jun Li

The Qualitative Report

In this essay I reflect on the ethical challenges of ethnographic fieldwork I personally experienced in a female gambling study. By assuming a covert research role, I was able to observe natural occurrences of female gambling activities but unable to make peace with disturbing feelings of my research concealment. By making my study overt, I was able to fulfill ethical obligations as a researcher but unable to get female gamblers to speak their minds. I responded to such ethical dilemmas by adjusting the level of involvement, participating in female gambling culture as an insider and observing it as an outsider. …

Review Text, Carolyn A. Nadeau

Scholarship

No abstract provided.

What's Wrong With Multiculturalism: Christian Scholars And Cultural Diversity, Paul Fessler

Pro Rege

This paper was presented by Dr. Paul Fessler at the Conference on Faith and History at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, on October 16, 2004.

Marx, Postmodernism, And Spatial Configurations In Jameson And Lefebvre, Arina Lungu

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, "Marx, Postmodernism, and Spatial Configurations in Jameson and Lefebvre," Arina Lungu discusses the connection between Marxist sociology and postmodernist theory. Lungu examines Fredric Jameson's volume Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism under the light of the spatial theory developed in the 1970s by Marxian theoretician Henri Lefebvre. For Jameson, the spatial turn is a consequence of the gap between the limited abilities of the human perceptive apparatus and the unrepresentability of the multinational hyperspace. In Lungu's view, Jameson reaches his definition of "culturally-dominant" sensibility by disregarding the rich body of spatial criticism outside postmodern theory. …

Thompson's And Acosta's Collaborative Creation Of The Gonzo Narrative Style, Shimberlee Jirón-King

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Thompson's and Acosta's Collaborative Creation of the Gonzo Narrative Style," Shimberlee Jirón-King presents an analysis of Hunter S. Thompson's and Oscar Zeta Acosta's works and a correction about the origins of Gonzo Journalism. Jirón-King suggests that Thompson's and Acosta's writings express the authors' disillusionment about the loss of the American Dream and that their texts suggest the revolutionary movements they hoped for would transform a disintegrating culture have only fallen prey to the shortsightedness of US-American culture. The counter culture they observe simply develops its own forms of racism, classism, power-mongering, and corruption that re-inscribe hegemonic discourses …

Washington University Record, February 28, 2008

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

02-26-08 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 25, Issue 16)

2007 -- 2008

No abstract provided.

The Bg News February 26, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 26, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 112.

Columbia Chronicle (02/25/2008), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from February 25, 2008 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 40 pages and is listed as Volume 43, Number 20. Cover story: "Fast food's eco-tude" Editor-in-Chief: Amanda Maurer

Monitor Newsletter February 25, 2008, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

The Bg News February 25, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 25, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 111.

My Feet Are Laughing, First Opinion -- Sybil Durand, Second Reaction -- Joy Dangora

First Opinions, Second Reactions

No abstract provided.

The Methodology Of Architectonic Truth-Finding In Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), Stephan Schaffrath

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Stephan Schaffrath, in his paper "The Methodology of Architectonic Truth-Finding in Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)," discusses how Günter Grass's The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) negotiates the treacherous terrains that lie between positivism and nihilistic relativism by means of a truth-finding methodology. Schaffrath proposes that truth-finding methodology applies approximative, and therefore architectonic, approaches to conventional concepts of narration and history. Grass's novel breaks down and reassembles playfully the conventions of narration and history, not to negate or devalue them, but to reappraise them by means of an approximative truth-finding methodology, an approach that corresponds to Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of …

The Bg News February 21, 2008, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. February 21, 2008. Volume 98-Issue 109.

The Lumberjack, February 20, 2008

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Education Professor Tapped As Thompson Scholar, Winthrop University

Winthrop News 2008

• Carol Marchel, an associate professor of education in the Richard W. Riley College of Education, will help develop service-learning sites at area schools as Winthrop’s third Thompson Scholar.

Monitor Newsletter February 18, 2008, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

Switching Language Switches Mind: Linguistic Effects On Developmental Neural Bases Of ‘Theory Of Mind’, Chiyoko Kobayashi, Gary H. Glover, Elise Temple

Dartmouth Scholarship

Theory of mind (ToM)—our ability to predict behaviors of others in terms of their underlying intentions—has been examined through false-belief (FB) tasks. We studied 12 Japanese early bilingual children (8−12 years of age) and 16 late bilingual adults (18−40 years of age) with FB tasks in Japanese [first language (L1)] and English [second language (L2)], using fMRI. Children recruited more brain regions than adults for processing ToM tasks in both languages. Moreover, children showed an overlap in brain activity between the L1 and L2 ToM conditions in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Adults did not show such a convergent activity …

Interactions Between Fmri Bold-Activation During Reading Tasks And Mrs-Measured Metabolite Levels, Hassana Aisha Ibrahim

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

Recent studies in the field of dyslexia have used magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to explore neurochemical manifestations of neurobiological differences in the brains of dyslexic adults compared to controls. This study examines the potential relationship between functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) BOLD (blood oxygen level demand) activation scores in response to cognitive tasks and MRS-measured levels of a metabolite and a neurotransmitter, N-acetylaspartate (NAA) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) respectively, in the occipital region of brains of seven-year old children. Preliminary results from this multi-arm, longitudinal study indicate a significant positive correlation between fMRI BOLD signal elicited in response to picture-cues …

Minutes, Arts & Sciences Professional Standards Committee Meeting, Wednesday, February 13, 2008, Arts & Sciences Professional Standards Committee

Professional Standards Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Columbia Chronicle (02/11/2008), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from February 11, 2008 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 48 pages and is listed as Volume 43, Number 18. Cover story: "Adjunct, full-time faculty ratios lopsided" Editor-in-Chief: Amanda Maurer

History Of Ricl: Research Institute For Comparative Literature, University Of Alberta 1985-1999, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Sandspur, Vol 114, No 13, February 07, 2008, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Why Was Yao Ming Fined?

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

A colleague here at the Beijing Sport University whom I have known for over ten years, Yi Jiandong (易剑东), is one of the two most vocal media commentators on Chinese sports in the academic world (along with Lu Yuanzhen 卢元镇). He has reached an exalted status that an American professor like myself can only marvel at from afar. He is one of the “Big-Name Bloggers”(名人博客) on the Qzone blogsite, where he shares space with the likes of Feng Shuyong, head coach of the national track and field team (whose main purpose seems to be to report on Liu Xiang, 2004 …

Columbia Chronicle (02/04/2008), Columbia College Chicago

Columbia Chronicle

Student newspaper from February 4, 2008 entitled The Columbia Chronicle. This issue is 52 pages and is listed as Volume 43, Number 17. Cover story: "CTA slowly cruises into the 21st century" Editor-in-Chief: Amanda Maurer

Monitor Newsletter February 04, 2008, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff