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Gender And Resistance: Afro-Brazilian Women's Anti-Naming As Recovery From Trauma In Conceição Evaristo' "Eu-Mulher" And Ponciá Vicencio, Sarah S. Ohmer Aug 2013

Gender And Resistance: Afro-Brazilian Women's Anti-Naming As Recovery From Trauma In Conceição Evaristo' "Eu-Mulher" And Ponciá Vicencio, Sarah S. Ohmer

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No abstract provided.


‘A River Is Not A Woman’: Re-Visioning Finnegans Wake In Eavan Boland’S ‘Anna Liffey.’, Melissa Dinsman Jul 2013

‘A River Is Not A Woman’: Re-Visioning Finnegans Wake In Eavan Boland’S ‘Anna Liffey.’, Melissa Dinsman

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"This essay argues that Eavan Boland's 1994 poem “Anna Liffey” is, in part, a re-visioning of James Joyce's famous river-woman and mother, ALP. Although Joyce's deconstructive tendencies provide an added challenge for any author looking to engage with Finnegans Wake, Boland manages to reclaim ALP, both channelling and challenging Joyce's portrayal of the Liffey as “Anna Livia Plurabelle.”--From the Journal.


Nietzsche, Agency, And Responsibility: “Das Thun Ist Alles”, Christa Davis Acampora Jul 2013

Nietzsche, Agency, And Responsibility: “Das Thun Ist Alles”, Christa Davis Acampora

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This article examines Robert Pippin’s most recent contributions to debates about Nietzsche’s views about agency and freedom in his Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy. In particular, I focus on his elaboration of Nietzsche’s claim, quoting Goethe, in On the Genealogy of Morality that “das Thun ist Alles”—the deed is everything. I highlight what I consider to be particularly promising features of Pippin’s expressivist reading of Nietzsche, suggest ways it might be developed even further, and indicate how such views about agency are relevant to Nietzsche’s anticipation of overcoming morality—particularly the sort that links value with intention—and to …


Amanda Knox And Bella Figura, Denise Scannell Guida Jul 2013

Amanda Knox And Bella Figura, Denise Scannell Guida

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Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers Jul 2013

Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers

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At the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore similar questions of the role and limits of language in relation to defamiliarization, power, and fear. The inventive reflection on the nature of language, identity, and power that, woven into the fabric of the novel, makes Gavarry’s work some of the most compelling fiction coming out of …


The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein Jun 2013

The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein

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The words “knowledge” and “information” are sometimes used interchangeably, but the connection between them is complex and problematic. Knowledge is a mental product gained from engaging with information. All educational subjects, scholarly disciplines, occupations, and activities produce knowledge as well as information. Because libraries encompass potentially all subjects, professional vision in librarianship would benefit from an examination of knowledge that transcends the methods and topical concerns of individual disciplines. An interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) framework in which to view knowledge was pioneered in the post-Sputnik age by Fritz Machlup and Michael Polanyi. Their insights have stimulated scholars to develop research, publications, …


Kirk T. Pistol Closely Encounters Enormous Flight Changes At The Last Minute--Sans Starship: A True James Gunn Appreciation Story, Marleen S. Barr Jun 2013

Kirk T. Pistol Closely Encounters Enormous Flight Changes At The Last Minute--Sans Starship: A True James Gunn Appreciation Story, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a short story honoring Science Fiction Grand Master James Gunn.


Justice In New York, An Oral History, Jeffrey A. Kroessler Apr 2013

Justice In New York, An Oral History, Jeffrey A. Kroessler

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Justice in New York, an Oral History was created in 2006 to record interviews with criminal justice leaders in New York, including judges, prosecutors, police officials, defense attorneys, and justice advocates.


The Choral Works Of Hamish Maccunn (1868–1916), Jennifer Oates Apr 2013

The Choral Works Of Hamish Maccunn (1868–1916), Jennifer Oates

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This article provides an overview of the partsongs of Hamish MacCunn and places them within the context of British choral music in the nineteenth century. A complete list of MacCunn's partsongs are included. To access the embedded sound files, access the article via the American Choral Review homepage.


Global Futures And Government Towns: Phosphates And The Production Of Western Sahara As A Space Of Contention, Mark Drury Apr 2013

Global Futures And Government Towns: Phosphates And The Production Of Western Sahara As A Space Of Contention, Mark Drury

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The study of natural resources lends itself to theorizing the politics of nature and the politics of time. The space of Western Sahara, where both remain highly contested, provides an opportunity to consider the ramifications of resources in political conflict at different historical moments. Drawing from environmental histories of North Africa and the Sahara, as well as the anthropology of time, the author focuses on two historical moments. The first, from 1945 to 1972, concerns the discovery of phosphate deposits during the Spanish colonial period and the implications of this discovery for political authority in the Sahara more broadly. The …


The Birther Committee Inception: An Unreal Manhattan Real Estate Story, Marleen S. Barr Jan 2013

The Birther Committee Inception: An Unreal Manhattan Real Estate Story, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a short story.


Scholar Introduces Siue Students To Yoruba, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Scholar Introduces Siue Students To Yoruba, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Saxophone Elicits Passion Among Its Players, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Saxophone Elicits Passion Among Its Players, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


America Still Fascinated By Its Own Civil War, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

America Still Fascinated By Its Own Civil War, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Siue Alum Finds Great Talent In Cuban Artists, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Siue Alum Finds Great Talent In Cuban Artists, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Technology Can Be Seen As Driver Of History, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Technology Can Be Seen As Driver Of History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


The Student As Subaltern: Reconsidering The Role Of Student Life Material Collections At North American Universities, Jessica L. Wagner Jan 2013

The Student As Subaltern: Reconsidering The Role Of Student Life Material Collections At North American Universities, Jessica L. Wagner

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This article argues for college and university archivists to undertake advocacy and activism to better document student life. It discusses key shifts in archival and historical theory that supported an interest in collecting from a wide variety of people rather than just elites. Next, it describes recent archival scholarship on student life materials and considers the extent to which college and university archives are actively documenting the student experience via the collection of these materials. Analysis of the results of a survey of college and university archivists about the nature of these collections sheds further light on prevailing opinions of …


Theater Education Valuable To All Students, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Theater Education Valuable To All Students, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Miller Studies Germany’S Economic History, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Miller Studies Germany’S Economic History, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Students Explore China’S Culture, Industry, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Students Explore China’S Culture, Industry, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Inequalities For Women Take A Toll On Everyone, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Inequalities For Women Take A Toll On Everyone, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Siue Theater Students Find Inspiration In London, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Siue Theater Students Find Inspiration In London, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Teaching And Pedagogy In Africana Studies: Implications Of An African Worldview, Karanja Keita Carroll Jan 2013

Teaching And Pedagogy In Africana Studies: Implications Of An African Worldview, Karanja Keita Carroll

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The African worldview has informed much of the African centered scholarship produced within contemporary Africana/Black Studies. In doing so, the African worldview has functioned as the methodological foundation for the production, interpretation and dissemination of knowledge related to people of African ancestry. Africana Studies instructors and professors can also utilize the philosophical assumptions that inform the African worldview to create and recreate dynamic, culturally centered teaching practices. Given the central role of teaching at the undergraduate level within the discipline of Africana Studies it is crucial that instructors and professors concentrate on the development of discipline-specific pedagogical practices. This essay …


Students Learn More Than Spanish In Spain, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2013

Students Learn More Than Spanish In Spain, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Juan Luis Guerra And The Merengue: Toward A New Dominican National Identity, Raymond Torres-Santos, Cuny Dominican Studies Institute Jan 2013

Juan Luis Guerra And The Merengue: Toward A New Dominican National Identity, Raymond Torres-Santos, Cuny Dominican Studies Institute

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This research monograph offers a historical account about the development of merengue in the Dominican Republic from the late 1800’s to the present.


Surviving The City: Resistance And Plant Life In Woolf’S Jacob’S Room And Barnes’ Nightwood, Ria Banerjee Jan 2013

Surviving The City: Resistance And Plant Life In Woolf’S Jacob’S Room And Barnes’ Nightwood, Ria Banerjee

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In Jacob’s Room (1922) and Nightwood (1936), Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes use plant life to express a profound ambivalence about the masculine-inflected ordering functions of art and morality. They show that these processes codify lived experience and distance it from the feminine and sexual. To counter this turn towards the urban inauthentic, both novels depict non-urban spaces to upend conventional notions of usefulness. They fixate on evanescent flowers, wild forests, and untillable fields as sites of resistance whose fragility and remoteness are strengths. In Jacob’s Room, I argue that the eponymous protagonist is destroyed by his conventional education …


Montage And Memory: Articulations Of Literary Modernism In Alain Resnais’ Early Films, Ria Banerjee Jan 2013

Montage And Memory: Articulations Of Literary Modernism In Alain Resnais’ Early Films, Ria Banerjee

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The fascination that literary modernism has with thingness, that essential static being of inanimate objects, has been the subject of much critical attention. This paper seeks to add to that body of criticism by looking at Alain Resnais’ films, specifically referring to Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel as examples of cinematic modernism which further complicate modernism’s obsessive re-configuration of the status of things in relation to the human lives that exist among them. By the turn of the twentieth century, a concern with the limits of human perception of the world was at the fore. Buffeted …


Negotiating Uncommon Spaces: Fostering Common Ground In A Summer Bridge Writing Classroom, Nicola Blake Jan 2013

Negotiating Uncommon Spaces: Fostering Common Ground In A Summer Bridge Writing Classroom, Nicola Blake

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This article describes a summer bridge writing course that engages students who are actively transitioning from high school to college. The summer bridge course curriculum supports students’ meaning-making efforts through a variety of text-based writing activities which helps students begin the process of critical inquiry: extending arguments, poking holes in theories, and putting these theories in conversation with multiple voices from the real world. The writing activities in the program create a common ground for students where they can encounter texts and discover their own voices. Fostering open-endedness in students is a gradual process, and students acquire critical inquiry skills …


Particularizing Universal Education In Postcolonial Sierra Leone, Grace Pai Jan 2013

Particularizing Universal Education In Postcolonial Sierra Leone, Grace Pai

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This paper presents a vertical case study of the history of universalizing education in postcolonial Sierra Leone from the early 1950s to 1990 to highlight how there has never been a universal conception of universal education. In order to unite a nation behind a universal ideal of schooling, education needed to be adapted to different subpopulations, as the Bunumbu Project did for rural Sierra Leoneans in the 1970s to 1980s. While the idea of “localizing” education was sound, early program success was undermined by a lack of clarity behind terms like “rural” or “community.” This was exacerbated by a change …


Frankly Speaking, "The Men That Is Now Is Only All Pallaver And What They Can Get Our Of You": Migration And White Slavery In Argentina In Joyce's "Eveline", M Laura Barberan Reinares Jan 2013

Frankly Speaking, "The Men That Is Now Is Only All Pallaver And What They Can Get Our Of You": Migration And White Slavery In Argentina In Joyce's "Eveline", M Laura Barberan Reinares

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This article analyzes James Joyce’s “Eveline” (1904), looking at the moral panic about “white slavery” in Europe and South America. The article especially focuses on Argentina, the foremost recipient of trafficked women between 1880 and 1930 (and, of course, Joyce’s destination choice for Eveline). By looking at Frank, the sailor who intends to take Eveline to Buenos Aires, this article explores the possible links between Joyce’s story and the sex trafficking industry thriving in Buenos Aires through the Jewish criminal association Zwi Migdal. Frank’s representation allows us to draw this connection because his behavior with Eveline coincides with the seduction …