Utopian/Dystopian Representations of Race in the Canadian Imaginary: Amendments Performed by Poetry and the Visual Arts

In Canada, as in other countries, there are hegemonic ideologies that erase from its national imaginary the experiences of peoples that have both suffered the consequences of discriminating policies and also contributed to its history in significant ways without acknowledgement. Building up from this notion of symbolic violence, my paper will examine how contemporary artwork by Black artists challenges entrenched ideas of Canadas colonial past imagined as a utopia. I will analyze specific examples that attempt to question and reshape mainstream utopic conceptions present in Canadian cultural memory.Some contemporary writers and visual artists make alterations on texts and images that represent white and non-white peoples within the context of a predominant Eurocentric legacy. These alterations have the potential to make (imaginary) amendments to the ways in which societies, geographies and histories have traditionally been expressed through nationalistic lenses, an expression that is usually coded within the utopic/dystopic polarity. A dialogue is created through this intersection of anxieties, and this conversation creates original visual and poetic spaces that faithfully render present-day racial dynamics and radically counteract a naturalized definition of history as a straight line of progress. I will look at how feelings of oppression and desires of liberation of Black peoples are embodied in several art installations and poems that affirm agency by transforming stereotyped bodies, books, photographs, colors, textures, or sounds, and, by extension, museums and touristic sights. I will especially focus on some visual artists that contributed to the exhibition HERE WE ARE HERE: Black Canadian Contemporary Art (2018) and on poets such as Afua Cooper and M. NourbeSe Philip. The iconic significations that utopia and dystopia lend to the decolonizing processes explored in these works enable insights into a received imagery of freedom, exoticism, and dreams, and also one of exploitation, isolation and imposed silences

Cartoon Activism: Creating Purpose in Immigration Detention Centers

Migrants are unrecognized members of society that have to practice precarious forms of home-making in unfavorable circumstances, especially at detention camps, waiting spaces where their temporariness may become permanent. Uprootedness and enforced stillness exert strain on the possibility of creating meaningful narratives because, in the absence of a home, a family or a job, it is difficult to give experience narrative structure. Life at detention centers may become nonsensical as it is a life of problems with no foreseeable endings and in circumstances where pointlessness is predominant, giving life an amount of narratability is difficult. The aim of this paper is to analyze how migrants and the activists that help them engage in constructing meaningful, happier selves at the sites they are detained when arriving in a new country, that is, how their intimate lives are shaped by experiences of carceral environments, harsh treatment and lack of opportunities and how they redress them. My corpus of study will be several comics and graphic novels drawn by artists that have lived with camp residents and produced books narrating their experiences, mainly Safdar Ahmeds Villawoood: Notes from a Detention Centre (2015), Kate Evanss Threads from the Refugee Crisis (2017) and Ali Fitzgeralds Drawn to Berlin (2018) and Marice Cumber (ed.) The Book of Homelessness (2020).Activist artists try to inculcate a sense of orientation and purposefulness in refugee and immigrant people detained in camps through several strategies engaged with artistic expression: reversal of authorship, conversational narrative, practices of membership, building of environments, protest acts, etc. My approach will draw from the perspectives included in criticism dealing with the pedagogical and self-transforming possibilities of witnessing, testimony and of re-imaginations of home as found in Julia Metzger-Trabers If the Body Politic Could Breathe in the Age of the Refugee (Springer 2018), Bruno Meeus et Als Arrival Infrastructures (Palgrave 2019) and Michael Rothbergs The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators (Stanford UP 2019)

Geographies of Exception: The Architecture of Narratives in Migrant and Detention Comics

My purpose in this paper is to analyze the visual representations of detention camps and border areas as spaces of exception (Agamben 2005) where the possibility of a worthy identity and of a meaningful life narrative recede. Within the genre of the human rights graphic novel, the subfield of refugee comics often focuses on the physical characteristics of these liminal zones that regulate undesirable bodies and suppress individualities. Since comics can visually materialize the anxieties produced by the interplay of hope and hostile infrastructures, my aim is to examine how they show migrant peoples engagement or disengagement with monitored places in constructing self-esteem. I will draw from a body of theoretical work dealing with the problematics of empathy and space (Rothberg, Robbins, Della Porta, Fiske, Meeus, etc.) in a study of graphic novels such as Baddawi; Alpha; Threads: From the Refugee Crisis, and VillaWood: Notes from a Detention Centre

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The lost girl ニオケル Alvina ノ タンキュウ ノ イミ

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Terry Eagleton's Interpretation of D.H. Lawrence : "An Exile from His Own Culture"

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Numerical analyses of steel and aluminum alloy bridge guard fences

The performances of the guard fence were prescribed in the new code of the guard fence issued in April 1999 in Japan. In the new code, the full-scale experiment for checking the performances of guard fences is required in the design of the guard fence. However, it is difficult to test the performance of full-scale guard fences in the field for the collision parametric examination because of the enormous time and cost consumption. In this study, the numerical analysis procedures using finite element method for both guard fences and vehicle are dealt with to complement the field experiments. Initially, the materials of steel and aluminum alloy are experimented to obtain the stress-strain relationship considering the strain rate effect, which is used in the numerical analyses. In the case of steel guard fence, the results of the analyses considering the strain rate effect agree with the results of the field collision experiment. In the case of aluminum alloy guard fence, the differences of results with and without the stain rate effect configuration are very little.The Eighth East Asia Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, Singapore, December 5-7, 2001, 1332journal articl

Prevalence of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in New Hospital Residents： A Cohort Study of New Resident Physicians in a University-affiliated Hospital

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis（MRSE）is known to cause various　nosocomial infections. However, there is limited data available regarding its prevalence, especially among the cohorts of new resident physicians. Our aim in this study was to describe the carriage rate of MRSE in the anterior nares of new resident physicians in the hospital over a 12-month period. We used a prospective cohort design that examined the relationship　between duration of work and the MRSE carriage rate. The volunteer participants consisted of 64 new resident physicians working full time in the hospital with no previous work experience and without anterior nares infections. Of the 64 participants, 45 completed the data collection at 12 months. Nasal swabs were obtained from the residents at 0, 6, and 12 months, yielding a total of 517 strains. All S. epidermidis strains were examined for the minimum inhibitory concentration（MIC）. For MRSE strains, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec（SCCmec）typing was performed. Strains that were only resistant to oxacillin were analyzed using　multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis（MLVA）for genetic testing. MRSE　prevalence was 56.2％, 70.6％, and 82.2％ at 0, 6, and 12 months, respectively. Data related to the drug-resistance profile and SCCmec type revealed a possible dominant strain among the isolated MRSE strains. Moreover, the prevalence of MRSE increased over time, and MLVA　analysis verified that there was a dominant strain among the isolated MRSE strains. In addition, the duration of work directly correlated with the MRSE carriage rate, suggesting that the duration of the work is related to MRSE acquisition.journal articl

英語教育と文学的教材[15]-音読指導と読解力の育成-

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