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Can Nature's Language Be Written, Spoken, And Heard? Mahasweta Devi's "Pterodactyl" And Marlene Nourbese Philip's Looking For Livingstone, Lori Martindale

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

How do traditional western epistemologies affect natures' subjectivity? This essay deconstructs the status of nature as silent Other. I argue Mahasweta Devi's The Pterodactyl and Marlene Nourbese Philip's epic Looking for Dr. Livingstone translate nature, or the radical Other, as subject. Scientific, xenophobic, and imperial behaviors have affected the status of natures' subjectivity in the naming, mapping, and exploitation of land, during colonial and commodity enterprise. As a result, nature’s language has become increasingly radical and is one to be translated for an awareness and avoidance of imposition; nature is a language yet to be understood.

Bird Watching: Global-Natural Worlds And The Popular Reception Of Winged Migration, Lisa Uddin

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

This paper examines the contemporary visual cultures of economic globalization and natural history by considering the popular French wildlife film, Winged Migration (dir. Perrin 2001). Through the small-scale of a single film's reception, the paper offers a critique of the Euro-American tendency to conceptualize the global world and the natural world in totalizing and mutually constitutive terms. How have images of a timeless and universal global world become a way of imagining the natural world, and vice versa? How has Winged Migration's circulation amongst an American popular audience reproduced, but also undermined, these joint constructions? Analyzing the film's central theme …

Nature In Ayn Rand's Fountainhead, Anand Silodia

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Half a century ago the novelist Ayn Rand [1], a Russian refugee who settled in America, gave us one of the most original and influential philosophies of individualism namely objectivism, which she advanced as 'a philosophy for living on earth.' First propounded through her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand's philosophy of objectivism has surpassed the test of time. In her objectivist philosophy, human-nature relationships are an important (indirect) concern although rarely discussed in an explicit manner in her humongous novels.

Review Of Castes Of Mind: Colonialism And The Making Of Modern India, By Nicholas B. Dirks, Laxman D. Satya

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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An anthropologist by training, Dirks employs methodologies from a wide range of disciplines to present a critique of British colonialism and its protégé, the caste system. The author lets both the primary and secondary sources speak for themselves to tell the story of how caste under modern colonial conditions came to acquire the status that it had never enjoyed in India's pre-colonial history. The British colonial state made caste the central pillar of Indian civilization and used it to justify its rule by institutionally generating an enormous body of archival data, to prove the authenticity of caste. So …

News From The South Carolina Library Association V.5 N.2 04/2007

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News from the South Carolina Library Association v.5 n.2 04/2007

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Drinking From The Firehose -- Too Many Passwords, Too Little Time, Eleanor I. Cook

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Legally Speaking -- Drama In The Library: Always Seek Permission To Publicly Perform Scripts, Even When The Library Opens, Bryan M. Carson J.D., M.I.L.S.

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International Dateline -- European Conference Adds Weight To Debate On Scientific Publishing, Peter T. Shepherd

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Back Talk -- Incredible Edible India And Change Management, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

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I Hear The Train A Comin' -- Alcts: Part 2, Greg Tananbaum

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People Profile: Buzzy Basch, Editor

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People Profile: Michael Levine-Clark, Editor

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The Devil Is In The Details, Mary Ann Liebert

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Lead, Follow, Or Get Out Of The Way: Management Succession In Libraries, Rick Lugg, Ruth Fischer

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People Profile: Tony Horava, Editor

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Turning Pages: Reflections On Ebook Acquisitions & Access Challenges, Lorraine Busby

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

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People Profile: Lorraine Busby, Editor

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Book Reviews -- Monographic Musings, Debbie Vaughn

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People Profile: William Gee, Editor

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People Profile: Aline Soules, Editor

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Electronic Books And The Approval Plan: Can They Work Together?, Michael Levine-Clark

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From Your (Accident-Prone) Editor, Katina Strauch

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People Profile: Barbara Williams, Editor

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As I See It! -- Where Is The Web Taking Our Journals?, John Cox

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Rx: Ebooks -- A Comparison Of Functionality Of Four Medical Ebook Collections, Annis Lee Adams

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Standards Column -- Ready To Work Without A License? Niso's Shared E-Resource Understanding (Seru) Working Group, Todd Carpenter

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