Colonial Female Subjects in Joseph Conrad's Lingard Trilogy

Joseph Conrad esittää koloniaalisesta diskurssista ja länsimaisesta dualismista poikkeavan näkemyksen idän ja lännen suhteesta Lingard-trilogiassaan (2003–2010). Länsimaisessa koloniaalisessa kirjallisuudessa alkuperäiskansojen edustajat kuvataan usein stereotyyppisesti primitiivisenä massana. He edustavat länsimaiselle ihmiselle toiseutta, eli piirteitä, joita länsimaissa ei haluta tunnustaa osaksi itseä. Conradin trilogian miespuoliset henkilöhahmot edustavat ennakkoluuloista patriarkaalista länttä ja naispuoleiset hahmot puolestaan itäisiä alkuperäiskansoja ja luontoa. Conrad kuvailee henkilöitään dualistisilla piirteillä, jotka on jaettu arvostettuihin maskuliinisiin piirteisiin ja niiden väheksyttyihin feminiineihin vastakohtiin. Vaikka Conradin naispuoliset henkilöt esitetään käyttäen lännessä aliarvostettuja feminiinejä piirteitä, he eivät kuitenkaan jää halveksunnan kohteiksi, sillä Conrad esittää heidät voimallisina subjekteina, jotka vastustavat länsimaisen miehen yrityksiä alistaa heidät. Näin ollen Conrad kääntää dualismien arvostuksen päinvastoin, jolloin maskuliiniset käsitteet, kuten sivilisaatio ja älyllisyys, ovat merkityksettömiä naisten luontosuhteen rinnalla. Conradin luomat naishenkilöt ovat voimallisia toimijoita, joiden subjektiudessa näkyy ekofeminististen teorioiden käsittelemä luonnon yhteys ja vaikutus. Kulttuurinen ekofeminismi on feminismin suuntaus, joka korostaa naisen ja luonnon positiivista ja eheyttävää suhdetta. Tällainen luonnonvaikutus on nähtävissä Conradin naishahmoissa, jotka saavat voimaa ollessaan luonnon kanssa vuorovaikutuksessa, mutta lamautuvat länsimaisen yhteiskunnan piirissä. Naisten voimallisuus näkyy avoimena tunteellisuutena, ruumiillisuuden hyväksymisenä ja positiivisena eläimellisyytenä, mikä tarkoittaa omien vaistojensa ja tunteidensa kuuntelemista ja arvostamista. Conradin teosten naishenkilöissä näkyy myös sosiaalisen ekofeminismin tutkima patriarkaatin vaikutus. Sosiaalinen ekofeminismi pyrkii naisen ja luonnon vapauttamiseen tunnustamalla patriarkaatin vallan ja pyrkimällä siten murtamaan sen. Tämä hierarkkinen valta näkyy länsimaisena dualistisena ajattelutapana, joka sortaa naisia ja luontoa. Conradin trilogiassa naiset kuitenkin kääntävät luontosuhteensa voitoksi ja puolustautuvat länsimaisen miehen alistusyrityksiä vastaan.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format

Evangelical Visitor - April 25, 1955 Vol LXVIII. No. 8.

Vol LXVIII. No. 8

The End of the World

Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly from classic novels including Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, to blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Armageddon and The Terminator. The author also takes into account religious doctrine, scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinarystudy that provides profound insight into one of Western culture’s darkest and most enduring preoccupations

Gender in 21st century animated children's cinema

This e-book is the product of the activities carried out in the elective MA course 'Gender Studies: New Sexualities/New Textualities', taught in the Autumn/Winter semester of the academic year 2020-21, within the MA in Advanced English Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. This collective volume authored by the students is focused on how gender is represented in current 21st century Anglophone animated children's cinema. The 57 films dealt with cover the period 2001-2020, from 'Monsters Inc' to 'Onward', and include analyses of film by Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, Illumination Studios, Laika Studios, Blue Sky Studios and others

The End of the World

Our fear of the world ending, like our fear of the dark, is ancient, deep-seated and perennial. It crosses boundaries of space and time, recurs in all human communities and finds expression in every aspect of cultural production – from pre-historic cave paintings to high-tech computer games. This book examines historical and imaginary scenarios of Apocalypse, the depiction of its likely triggers, and imagined landscapesin the aftermath of global destruction. Its discussion moves effortlessly from classic novels including Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, to blockbuster films such as Blade Runner, Armageddon and The Terminator. The author also takes into account religious doctrine, scientific research and the visual arts to create a penetrating, multi-disciplinarystudy that provides profound insight into one of Western culture’s darkest and most enduring preoccupations

Herald of Holiness Volume 43, Number 06 (1954)

01 The Lord is Risen by General Superintendent Benner 02 The Sanctification of Memory by John T. Donnelly 02 We Will Follow by T. W. Stofer 03 Uruguay - The Switzerland of America by General Superintendent Williamson 04 The Heavenly Stairway by A. O. Hendricks 04 Bright Daffodils in Bloom by Alice Hansche Mortenson 05 “Rock of Ages”: The Song and Story by Haldor Lillenas 05 A Personal Testimony by J. Kenneth Grider 06 The Uttermost Salvation by H. Orton Wiley 07 Thinking About Easter: A Talk About Heaven by Maude Cretors 07 The Victor’s Name by E. E. Wordsworth 08 Help from the Sanctuary by B. V. Seals 08 Port of Home by Jean L. Phillips 09 Soft Were Your Hands, Dear Jesus by Ross E. Price 10 I Watched the Sun Go Down by George H. Talbert 10 Can You Buy Your Own Groceries? By Genevieve Thompson 11 The Question Box by Stephen S. White 12 Editorials by Stephen S. White 14 Home Missions and Evangelism by Roy F. See 15 The Sunday-School Lesson by J. George Taylorson 15 Foreign Missions by Remiss Rehfeldt 16 Religious News and Comments by A. K. Bracken 17 News of the Churches 23 Servicemen’s Corner by L. J. Du Boishttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_hoh/2662/thumbnail.jp

Iain Sinclair and the psychogeography of the split city

Iain Sinclair’s London is a labyrinthine city split by multiple forces deliriously replicated in the complexity and contradiction of his own hybrid texts. Sinclair played an integral role in the ‘psychogeographical turn’ of the 1990s, imaginatively mapping the secret histories and occulted alignments of urban space in a series of works that drift between the subject of topography and the topic of subjectivity. In the wake of Sinclair’s continued association with the spatial and textual practices from which such speculative theses derive, the trajectory of this variant psychogeography appears to swerve away from the revolutionary impulses of its initial formation within the radical milieu of the Lettrist International and Situationist International in 1950s Paris towards a more literary phenomenon. From this perspective, the return of psychogeography has been equated with a loss of political ambition within fin de millennium literature. However, the tangled contexts from which Sinclair’s variant psychogeography emerges have received only cursory scholarly attention. This study will unravel these contexts in order to clarify the literary and political ramifications of the seemingly incompatible strands that Sinclair interweaves around the term. Are Sinclair’s counter-narratives to the neoliberal consensus of the early twenty-first century comparable to the critique of capitalism and urbanism advanced by the Situationists? Or is his appropriation of psychogeography emblematic of a broader contemporary recuperation of the oppositional tactics and strategies associated with counter-cultural currents from a more politically adversarial era? Is Sinclair’s transition from the margins of experimental poetry to the literary mainstream correlative with urban gentrification? By examining these questions through the orientating device of a series of psychogeographical plaques tournantes with which Sinclair is preoccupied, this study facilitates a more nuanced evaluation of Sinclair’s compulsively associative use of psychogeography to navigate the split city of London

Sierra County Advocate, 1891-03-13

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