AFRICAN WOMANISM: DESAFÍOS FRENTE A LA CONDICIÓN POSTCOLONIAL EN PURPLE HIBISCUS DE CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

En el presente artículo se desarrollará un análisis crítico literario sobre la obra Purple Hibiscus (2003) de la escritora nigeriana Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Dicho estudio sentará su base sobre el African Womanism de acuerdo al desarrollo realizado por las teóricas Chikwenje Okonyo Ogunyemi y Nah Dove. A lo largo de este artículo, se buscará mostrar aquellas características de dicha propuesta teórica reflejadas en la obra de Adichie, en donde los contextos desarrollados dan cuenta de escenarios y personajes altamente conflictuados. Lo anterior es atribuible a lo que podemos identificar como condición postcolonial que se refleja en la trama y ante la cual la propuesta de Okonyo y Dove es contrastada, dando paso a visiones críticas que permiten verificar que, a pesar de las complicadas situaciones retratadas en la novela, existe una resistencia que posibilita una apreciación disruptiva que quebranta la mirada occidentalizada sobre dicho contexto. 

LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LA MUJER EN “VAMPIRO”, “EL ALMOHADÓN DE PLUMAS” Y “THANATOPIA” Un análisis de tres cuentos góticos

Under 1800-talet fanns det ett begränsat antal modeller för kvinnor, både i vardagen och i litteraturen, och dessa modeller har blivit symboliska för de kvinnliga karaktärerna i den gotiska litteraturen. Modellerna är återkommande i ett stort antal verk men det är dock inte säkert att en karaktär enbart passar i en specifik modell, utan det kan hända att vissa skrider mellan två eller fler. Därför tänkte den här uppsatsen analysera tre kvinnliga karaktärer från tre spanskspråkiga gotiska noveller: Inés från “Vampiro” (1901) av Emilia Pardo Bazán, Alicia från “El almohadón de plumas” (1917) av Horacio Quiroga och la madrastra från “Thanatopia” (1925) av Rubén Darío. Genom att beskåda de kvinnliga karaktärernas roller, attribut och framställningar kommer de att kategoriseras in i de mest passande modellerna när det kommer till gotisk litteratur. Analysen visar att två av de tre karaktärerna tillhör mer än en modell medan den tredje är en brusten gestaltning av en gotisk modell. Det går även att se hur författarna använt sig av intertextualitet i sina noveller, både för att alludera till klassiska gotiska verk samt till sagor

From writing to screen: Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

openIl presente lavoro di tesi si propone di esplorare il cinema indiano attraverso l'analisi approfondita del film Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013), diretto da Sanjay Leela Bhansali. L'introduzione offrirà una panoramica di Bollywood e spiegherà le motivazioni che mi hanno portato a scegliere questo percorso. La tesi sarà suddivisa in due capitoli principali. Il primo capitolo si concentrerà sulla scrittura e sul adattamento di Romeo e Giulietta , mentre il secondo capitolo analizzerà il film, esaminandone gli aspetti tecnici, i temi, la regia, la colonna sonora e la rappresentazione dei personaggi. Questa tesi mira a fornire una comprensione approfondita dell'interazione tra testo teatrale e mezzo cinematografico, evidenziando come Romeo e Giulietta continui a essere una fonte di ispirazione per il cinema in tutto il mondo.This thesis aims to explore Indian cinema through an in-depth analysis of the film Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The introduction will provide an overview of Bollywood and explain why I chose this topic. The thesis will be divided into two main chapters. The first chapter will focus on the writing and adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, in contrast, the second chapter will analyze the film, examining its technical aspects, themes, direction, soundtrack, and character portrayal. This thesis aims to offer a comprehensive understanding of the interaction between theatrical text and cinematic medium, highlighting how Romeo and Juliet continue to be a source of inspiration for cinema worldwide

Shakespeare’s Tragic Heroines: Personality And Status Versus Gender

Readings of Shakespeare’s female characters as presentations of ideals – such as innocence – or as characters limited by the innate nature of their gender fail to understand the full personalities and challenges these characters have. The chosen characters are discussed in the pairings of Cordelia and Cleopatra (queens) and Desdemona and Juliet (high-status ladies) to show how this thesis’s chosen female characters are presented through their individual statuses and personalities rather than their genders

Lizzie: A Work of Historical Fiction

This thesis was completed as a part of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Liberty University. The critical paper covers the genre of historical fiction. The creative piece contains the opening chapters of Lizzie, a novel of historical fiction covering the life of Elizabeth Evelyn Wright

The OA Diamond Journals Study. Part 1: Findings

From June 2020 to February 2021, a consortium of 10 organisations undertook a large-scale study on open access journals across the world that are free for readers and authors, usually referred to as “OA diamond journals”. This study was commissioned by cOAlition S in order to gain a better understanding of the OA diamond landscape

Arden 2024

An amalgamation of creative student works. Items contained include, but are not limited to, art, photography, short stories, prose, poetry, and other avenues of creative composition.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/arden/1024/thumbnail.jp

Sankofa

BiAS 39 is an essay collection on women’s Liberation Theology in West Africa, issued as one of three regional volumes commissioned in preparation of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’ (CIRCLE) return to Ghana, its place of birth, after 35 years. The volumes rose within the context of preparing the meeting in July 2024 by remembering the founding members of the CIRCLE. The three regional volumes focus on exploring South (BiAS 41), East/Central (BiAS 40) and West African (BiAS 39) womanist/feminist Liberation Theology generated since the launch of the CIRCLE in 1989. The contributions on the lives and works of groundbreaking African women in the Theology of Liberation constitute an international, interreligious, and interdisciplinary compendium for redemptive theological research. The book is dedicated to Rabiatu Deinyo Ammah, the first Muslim woman in the CIRCLE and one its founding matriarchs

The Outer Reaches of Inner Peace: healing-centred peace emergence in North-Western India

This thesis emerged from a collaborative peace research project based in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (north-western India) in partnership with Yakjah Reconciliation and Development Network. In this thesis, I make a case for a healing-centred approach to conflict transformation and peace emergence that brings together inner (psycho-spiritual) and outer (socio-political) realms of peace. I inquire why and how intra- and inter-personal healing are imperative in contexts of protracted conflict and structural violence. This responds to a deficiency of wholistic inner-outer peace research, particularly in addressing the spiritual dimension of collective trauma and socio-political transformation. I argue that this deficiency stems in part from Eurocentric ontological and epistemological orientations, which give rise to fragmentary and compartmentalised understandings of peace, largely focusing on material, structural ‘outer’ dimensions of peace and neglecting psycho-spiritual dimensions. As I argue, this is a form of epistemic violence that arises from disembodied habits of modernity/coloniality. I therefore articulate healing-centred peacebuilding as an anti-colonial approach that demands new ways of seeing, being, knowing, and relating to self, other, earth, and sacred. In this project, we brought together 20 emerging youth peace leaders across identity fault lines for a series of immersive workshops centred around personal-political transformation and leadership development. Using a methodology I developed called Mapping Ritual Ecologies, I explored participants’ ‘stories of separation’ (trauma) and ‘stories of connection’ (healing) to understand and conceptually map each ‘ritual ecology’ as a wholistic space of intergroup contact and microcosm of the wider conflict context. I pose healing as an embodied relational process that moves from separation and fragmentation to wholeness and unification on individual and collective dimensions. This emerged in a fractal ‘healing spiral’ of embodied inside-out transformation that rippled outward in self-similar patterns at increasing scales of each ritual ecology and through participants’ relational spheres of influence. I reveal these relational patterns, arguing that outer socio-political structures emerge from collective and individual inner conditions, and conversely, inner experience and relational dynamics are shaped by outer socio-political structures and systems in dynamic, co-emergent processes