Poetry, resistance, world-literature : Adília Lopes and Marie Buck

This essay begins an exploration of how poetry functions within the field of world-literature, drawing specifically on the Warwick Research Collective’s Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature and reflecting comparatively on the poetry of Adília Lopes and Marie Buck. Even though there are many differences between the two authors and their works, one common feature of their poetics is the deployment of poetry as a form of resistance. As such, both can be seen as especially significant so as to probe into the condition of poetry within a conceptualization of world-literature understood as the literature of the capitalist world-system. As the essay argues, both Adília Lopes and Marie Buck register specific conditions of oppression within a capitalist, patriarchal, society and offer ways to contest them

The Confucian Puzzle: Justice and Care in Aquinas

Ethical theories of justice and care are often presented in opposition to each other. Eleonore Stump argues that Aquinas’s moral theory has the resources to bring justice and care together. There is, however, a potential worry for her view raised by the ‘Confucian Puzzle’. The puzzle poses a moral dilemma between care and justice that serves as a test case for Stump’s picture. In this paper, I provide a brief overview of the justice and care debate along with the subsequent challenges that both positions face in order to situate Aquinas’s position as Stump defends it. Next, I present the Confucian Puzzle and consider how Aquinas might respond to it. Finally, given his response, I make two claims. First, the unifying virtue of charity enables Aquinas to resolve the tension between justice and care as it appears in the Confucian Puzzle. Second, Stump’s integration thesis only obtains given what Aquinas says about charity

Teaching Race and Space Through Asian American and Latino Performance Poetry: I Was Born with Two Tongues Broken Speak and Sonido Ink(quieto)s Chicano, Illnoize

I Was Born with Two Tongues and Sonido (Ink)quieto, two Chicago-based spoken word and musical groups, both released CDs around the turn of the millennium: Two Tongues Broken Speak in 1999 and Sonidos Chicano, Illnoize in 2001. Both CDs centrally wrestle with issues of racial and ethnic identity: the title of the CD, Chicano, Illnoize, indicates the pronounced effort to map a Chicano identity onto Chicago, and Two Tongues title Broken Speak expresses the four main poets struggle with hyphenated Asian American identities. Yet these two groups, who share much in common from their roots in the Chicago slam and performance poetry scenes to their focus on ethnoracial identities, demonstrate dramatic divergences in their work. While Chicano, Illnoize remains rooted in, celebrates, and derives sustenance from the heart of Chicagos Chicano/a community in Pilsen, Little Village, and the south side, Broken Speaks emphasis on the US nations rending of hyphenated Asian American identities and racialized bodies expresses the fragmentation and invisibility of Chicagos Asian American communities. Both groups also borrow from African American aesthetics in their musical mixes of jazz and hip hop and their use of rap and spoken word as inflected by African American oral traditions. The heterogeneous musical and poetic forms of the two CDs allow us to trace the construction and representation of resistant Chicano/a and Asian American identities in a city historically defined by black/white binaries of race

Congregation Beth Ahabah: My Visit To A Synagogue

Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez\u27s Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth University

Goodnight sister : an original children\u27s book

An original children\u27s book written for five to seven year olds that touches on the themes of adoption, sibling relationships, and culture