Using Ubuntu: A New Research Trend For Developing Effective Communication Across Cultural Barriers,
2012
Western Kentucky University
Using Ubuntu: A New Research Trend For Developing Effective Communication Across Cultural Barriers, Cecile W. Garmon, Mandhla Mgijima
Communication Faculty Publication
Language and communication provide great challenges in a global world. New trends in communicating effectively across cultural and geographic boundaries face inherent and often subtle barriers. Generally, communicators do not even realize that they have missed hidden cues until the occasion and opportunity have passed. Enhancing communication requires an individual or group to understand the underlying concepts upon which the language and communication practices depend; these concepts also serve as the basic elements for developing social, economic, educational, political, and other related structures. These underlying concepts form our world views. Comprehending the complex interconnections between language and communication and these …
Shakespeare Reception In India And The Netherlands Until The Early Twentieth Century,
2012
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University
Shakespeare Reception In India And The Netherlands Until The Early Twentieth Century, Vikram Singh Thakur
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Shakespeare Reception in India and The Netherlands until the Early Twentieth Century" Vikram Singh Thakur locates Shakespeare in two different cultural contexts by looking at its reception in The Netherlands and India. His analysis is based on the fact that Shakespeare was a foreign playwright to both cultures yet both have gradually assimilated his works into their respective cultures and made him, probably, the most performed foreign playwright since the 1870s. Thakur aims at understanding how the reception of a work in different cultures is mediated by various social, cultural, historical, and ideological sieves through which the …
Gaming Matters: Art, Science Magic And The Computer Game Medium [Book Review],
2012
Old Dominion University
Gaming Matters: Art, Science Magic And The Computer Game Medium [Book Review], Marc Ouellette
English Faculty Publications
The singular—maybe more aptly put as the pre-eminent—image that occurs when reading Gaming Matters is that of duelling dualisms. While this is a tried-and-true method of covering a topic, from the dissoi logoi to “The Owl and the Nightingale” and beyond, it is the site and the subject of these apposites that makes for an intriguing if (intentionally) unsettling read. The very title of the book makes the exercise of reading (and likely of writing) a part of and apart from this process. Gaming Matters stands as both call and catalogue. Gaming matters, most certainly, in terms of its audience, …
History And Politics In Parthasarathy's Play Aurangzeb,
2012
Rishi Bankim Chandra College
History And Politics In Parthasarathy's Play Aurangzeb, Shubh Brat Sarkar
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "History and Politics in Parthasarathy's Play Aurangzeb" Shubh Brat Sarkar analyzes the use of history in a dramatic text, the underlying politics and ideology of a literary product, and the modes by which the materials are shaped through dramaturgy. The name Aurangzeb, the title of the play, has a strong presence in history textbooks and has perhaps become an integral part of a grand historical, "Indian" nationalist discourse. In the play multiple contradictions co-exist and find new projections in translations and theater adaptations in different historical contexts. Indira Parthasarthy's 1974 play is based on events leading …
"I Had The Craziest Dream Last Night...": A Foucauldian Analysis Of Black Swan,
2012
California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo
"I Had The Craziest Dream Last Night...": A Foucauldian Analysis Of Black Swan, Samantha Rose Prochnow
Communication Studies
No abstract provided.
Elements Of Hinduism In Chandra’S Red Earth And Pouring Rain,
2012
Rochester Mayo High School
Elements Of Hinduism In Chandra’S Red Earth And Pouring Rain, Corinne M. Ehrfurth
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Elements of Hinduism in Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain" Corinne M. Ehrfurth explores how Hindu tenets in the Bhagavad-gītā continue to provide a didactic framework that inspires contemporary Indian literature. Ehrfurth highlights the similarities between characters, consumed with doubt and seeking understanding, in the ancient Indian text and Vikram Chandra's novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain where protagonists represent the diversity and complexity of Hinduism to a global audience. In examining how the novel's protagonists handle dilemmas, Ehrfurth presents Chandra's novel as illuminating how healthy and destructive actions affect one's ability of achieving the peaceful …
Redefinitions Of India And Individuality In Adiga's The White Tiger,
2012
University of Hong Kong
Redefinitions Of India And Individuality In Adiga's The White Tiger, Kathleen Waller
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Redefinitions of India and Individuality in Adiga's The White Tiger" Kathleen Waller discusses Indian individualism as being supported by a democratic and secular society, but also stymied by traditions and socioeconomic realities which keep most of its people living in poverty. In The White Tiger, Adiga challenges Indian culture to create a society in which individuals are truly free. Waller argues that the relevance of Adiga's novel is that it is social structure and practices of hierarchy keep many people in the lower classes of Indian society and that this state of affairs is counter …
Introduction To New Work In Comparative Indian Literatures And Cultures,
2012
University of Hyderabad
Introduction To New Work In Comparative Indian Literatures And Cultures, Mohan G. Ramanan, Tutun Mukherjee
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
No abstract provided.
Africa And India In The Novels Of Dai And Emecheta,
2012
Tezpur University
Africa And India In The Novels Of Dai And Emecheta, Debarshi Prasad Nath, Juri Dutta
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In their article "Africa and India in the Novels of Dai and Emecheta" Debarshi Prasad Nath and Juri Dutta discusses the work of two writers belonging to different continents, India and Nigeria. Interestingly, the novels of the two writers Dutta is analyzing — Lummer Dai and Buchi Emecheta —never heard of each other. Both novels are based on the custom of bride price, both writers speak out against the stifling rigidity of traditional customs, and uphold aspects of modernity in languages other than their native tongues. At the same time, both writers affirm the sanctity of the traditional institutions and …
The Idea Of England In Eighteenth-Century Indian Travel Writing,
2012
Indian Institute of Technology (Bhubaneswar)
The Idea Of England In Eighteenth-Century Indian Travel Writing, Amrita Satapathy
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "The Idea of England in Eighteenth-century Indian Travel Writing" Amrita Satapathy discusses how Dean Mahomed's 1794 The Travels of Dean Mahomed maps out territories of the mind of the colonizer and the colonized, how the narrative redefines contours of two diverse communities and cultures, and determines forms of cultural representations. Mahomed's Travels presented for the first time the idea of England from an Indian immigrant's point of view and altered the prejudiced outlook of early Western travel writings about the East. Mahomed's narrative opened an alternative vista for the wide-eyed Easterner of the world of the West …
Ancient Hindu Society And Eliot's Ideal Christian Society,
2012
University of Delhi
Ancient Hindu Society And Eliot's Ideal Christian Society, Anita Bhela
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Ancient Hindu Society and Eliot's Ideal Christian Society" Anita Bhela examines the influence of Hindu thought and Hindu philosophy on T.S. Eliot's critical writings. In The Idea of a Christian Society Eliot gives a hypothetical account of an ideal society that would contribute towards the well-being of all its members, while in Notes towards the Definition of Culture he enumerates the essential conditions needed for the growth and survival of culture. Bhela argues that religion and culture were inseparably interrelated in Eliot's mind. She then traces similarities in the concepts of family, culture, and religion as expressed …
World Literature And The Case Of Joyce, Rao, And Borges,
2012
University of Texas Austin
World Literature And The Case Of Joyce, Rao, And Borges, Bhavya Tiwari
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "World Literature and the Case of Joyce, Rao, and Borges" Bhavya Tiwari discusses the work of James Joyce and poses the question why Joyce is considered an important figure in Latin America and South Asia. Have Indian languages (e.g., Bengali and Hindi) responded differently to Joycean aesthetics? If yes, can there be political reasons behind this difference? Joyce's own position in Europe as a modernist aesthetician complicates his reception in the "periphery," India and Latin America. Hence, Tiwari queries as to what happens when Joyce's texts are received on two different continents. In this context, Tiwari discusses …
Duality Of Illusion And Reality In Desai's In Custody,
2012
DAV Institute of Engineering & Technology (Jalandhar)
Duality Of Illusion And Reality In Desai's In Custody, Narinder K. Sharma
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Duality of Illusion and Reality in Desai's In Custody," Narinder K. Sharma analyses Anita Desai's internal confrontation of choices. In the novel, Desai's narration offers various options at every step and the author suggests that it becomes difficult to decide what actually should be done. The attempt is to personalize impersonal time and space thereby brings it into the domain of conflicting choices signifying an existential desire to manifest freedom. Going a step further, it can be deciphered that the individual desires to make an ideal choice to experience "authenticity"; however, the desire of making an …
Women's Worlds In The Novels Of Kandukuri And Gilman,
2012
University of Hyderabad
Women's Worlds In The Novels Of Kandukuri And Gilman, Suneetha Rani
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Women's Worlds in the Novels of Kandukuri and Gilman" Suneetha Rani discusses Veeresalingam Kandukuri's Satyaraja Poorvadesayatralu (Satyaraja's Travel to the Distant Lands) and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland. While the novels were published in two different contexts — one in pre-independence India and the other in pre-World War I in the U.S., one in Telugu and the other in English, one by a man and the other by a woman — there is an interesting connecting thread that brings them together. Both were satires on the contemporary male chauvinistic world. While the Telugu novel pleads for a better …
The Indian Diaspora And Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, And Lahiri,
2012
Institute of Advanced Studies (Kolkata)
The Indian Diaspora And Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, And Lahiri, Amit Shankar Saha
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "The Indian Diaspora and Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, and Lahiri" Amit Shankar Saha argues that displacement produces a point of encounter between the alien and authority. Saha analyses aspects of (im)migration in texts about the Indian diaspora: if the host society is intolerant then it is through reactionary self-fashioning that the (im)migrant asserts his/her ethnicity as a defensive mechanism to rescue self-respect. However, while the host society is welcoming, it does not guarantee ready assimilation because there is always the question of severing the (im)migrants ties with his/her home land. (Im)migrants start living in two worlds simultaneously …
Gender Anxiety And Contemporary Indian Popular Fiction,
2012
Australian National University
Gender Anxiety And Contemporary Indian Popular Fiction, Elen Turner
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Gender Anxiety and Contemporary Indian Popular Fiction" Elen Turner discusses two examples of Indian "popular literature" which reflect contemporary Indian middle-class anxieties surrounding globalization and social change. The recent proliferation of foreign business process outsourcing companies in India has changed the financial and lifestyle opportunities available to young, urban Indians. While sociological and ethnographic studies have found that workers embrace what they perceive to be westernized lifestyles, the novels under discussion present a more nuanced picture. Chetan Bhagat's One Night at the Call Centre (2005) and Shruti Saxena's Stilettos in the Boardroom (2010) demonstrate that young workers …
Being Critical In Marketing Studies: The Imperative Of Macro Perspectives,
2012
University of Rhode Island
Being Critical In Marketing Studies: The Imperative Of Macro Perspectives, Nikhilesh Dholakia
College of Business Faculty Publications
In this article, I argue that an elevated macro-level perspective is imperative for conducting critical studies in the fields of marketing and consumer research. There are epistemic barriers to operating in this manner, and I offer several suggestions for overcoming these barriers. Finally, I review the research spaces for critical studies of marketing in various global settings and conclude that United Kingdom and Nordic Europe have the best epistemic climate, and this region needs to take leadership in promoting greater range of macro and critical studies of marketing in the rest of the world.
How Media Frame Roller Derby Around The World In 20 Different Countries,
2012
East Tennessee State University
How Media Frame Roller Derby Around The World In 20 Different Countries, Julie Chartrou
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
A content analysis was conducted to analyze how media frame roller derby. The research included an analysis of newspaper articles published all around the world in 20 different nations from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2011, and different languages were considered. The research did not support previous studies concerning women athletes and the sport. Overall tone toward roller derby was mainly neutral, and the description of roller derby was not defined as sexist or using violent terms. Women journalists who wrote articles were slightly more sexist and used violent terms than men. Exploratory research showed that the previous findings …
A Symbolic Prison: A Prisoner's Story As Masculinity Crisis Narrative In Bronson,
2012
East Tennessee State University
A Symbolic Prison: A Prisoner's Story As Masculinity Crisis Narrative In Bronson, James Benjamin Shupe
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
For this project I analyze the film Bronson, focusing on its connection to the contemporary masculinity crisis discourse or the belief that traditional notions of masculinity are in peril due to changing gender norms and women's social progress. I argue Bronson privileges a narrow, violent conception of masculinity through its presentation of violence and domination over other men. I use Ernest Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory to analyze how the film makes sense of the real life events it is based on in a way that appeals to the contemporary masculinity crisis discourse. I argue that Bronson is a notable representation …
Selective Amnesia And Racial Transcendence In News Coverage Of President Obama’S Inauguration,
2012
Butler University
Selective Amnesia And Racial Transcendence In News Coverage Of President Obama’S Inauguration, Kristen Hoerl
Department of Communication Studies: Faculty Publications
The mainstream press frequently characterized the election of President Barack Obama the first African American US President as the realization of Martin Luther King’s dream, thus crafting a postracial narrative of national transcendence. I argue that this routine characterization of Obama’s election functions as a site for the production of selective amnesia, a form of remembrance that routinely negates and silences those who would contest hegemonic narratives of national progress and unity.
