The Times They Are a Changing (Or Are They?): Exploring the Impact of the Tenure Process on Racialized Faculty at a US and an Anglophone Caribbean Institution

This paper builds on two completed studies charting faculty perceptions of student evaluations in the tenure process in a US and Caribbean context offering recommendations for new faculty of color

Burnt and Blossoming: Material Mysticism in Trilogy and Four Quartets

This paper brings two WWII poems into dialogue: H.D.'s Trilogy and Eliot's Four Quartets. Both poems express a creative response to the destruction of war. My reading of Trilogy suggests a material mysticism in which vision and renewal are situated within the natural world, rituals and bodily experience. Bringing this understanding of mysticism to bear on Four Quartets reveals tension between transcendence and materiality. For Eliot, redemption comes through time and location, while for H.D., redemption lies within material particularity. Four Quartets oscillates between an apophatic discourse that seeks to transcend desire and history and an emphasis on material particularities

Violence Against Violence Against Women: An Avant-Garde for the Times

While feminism has successfully alerted public reaction to violence against women, it must become more active in confronting, representing and transforming that violence. Against the highly publicized "culture of violence" presently terrorizing women across North America, feminism must mobilize an aggressive counter-culture, an avant-garde capable of putting audiences and readers "in touch" with endemic violence against women's responsiveness. A contemporary feminist avant-garde might model itself after the artistic activism of the historical avant-garde, including the tradition of manifesto art that has appeared sporadically in the 20th century. In the wake of the "Montreal massacre," no such feminist avant-garde has emerged although national newspapers confirm a growing violenceagainst women and feminists themselves. This author thus believes that the basis for a feminist cultural front exists, and that it must come forward now to activate solidarity in diversity.Quoique le féminisme ait réussi à éveiller l'attention du public sur la violence contre les femmes, il doit devenir plus actif en faisantface à cette violence, en la représentant et en la transformant. En contraste avec la culture de violence qui fait couler beaucoup d'encre et qui et qui terrorise actuellement des femmes partout en Amérique du Nord, le féminisme doit mobiliser une contre-culture agressive, un mouvement d'avant-garde en mesure de sensibiliser les assistances et les lecteurs à la violence endémique contre les réactions des femmes. Un mouvement d'avant-garde féministe contemporain pourrait se modeler sur l'activisrae artistique de l'avant-garde historique, y compris la tradition de l'art manifeste qui a fait surface sporadiquement au cours du 20e siècle. Aucun mouvement d'avant-garde féministe ne s'est manifesté depuis le «massacre de Montréal*, bien que les journaux nationaux confirment l'existence d'une violence croissante à l'égard des femmes et des féministes elles-mêmes. L'auteure de cet article croit qu'il existe la base d'un front culturel féministe et que cette base doit maintenant se manifester pour éveiller la solidarité parmi une diversité de groupes

Landscapes of the New Ecological West: Writing and Seeing Beyond the Wilderness Plot

The discursive and aesthetic yoking together of two imperial ideals, “the West” and “the Wilderness,” has framed, plotted and empowered a landscape of expansion and development over the course of North American history–until recently with the advent of the new ecological west. This presentation introduces readers to contemporary landscape writers, historians and photographers who are de-framing and re-visioning the dominant view of the West through ecological art and critique

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The enduring afterlife of Before Tomorrow: Inuit survivance and the spectral cinema of Arnait Video Productions

This essay investigates how the filmmakers of Igloolik-based women’s collective Arnait Video Productions invent and combine various techniques and strategies of spectrality and survivance to create a powerful, cinematic form of Inuit cultural resistance and resilience. I borrow the concept of “survivance” from Anishnaabe literary theorist Gerald Vizenor who uses it to explain how Aboriginal literary and linguistic traditions continue to flourish in contemporary media despite and in response to colonialism’s systemic suppression of oral traditions. With this concept I analyze the way Arnait’s films re-enact and revive Inuit culture and oral tradition in the abiding voice and spirit of the dead whose creative art of living resists extinction. Arnait has to date produced three feature films: two fictional films Before Tomorrow (2009) and Uvanga (2013), and a documentary Sol (2014). I demonstrate that all three films exhibit this uncanny mix of spectrality and survivance with focus on Arnait’s debut film as a case study.Cet essai examine la façon dont les réalisatrices d’Arnait Video Productions, un collectif de femmes basé à Igloolik, inventent et associent différentes techniques et stratégies de « spectralité » et de survivance pour créer une puissante forme cinématographique de résistance culturelle et de résilience inuit. J’emprunte le concept de « survivance » au théoricien littéraire anishinaabe, Gerald Vizenor, qui l’emploie pour expliquer comment les traditions linguistiques et la littérature autochtones continuent de s’épanouir dans les médias contemporains malgré la suppression systématique, sous le colonialisme, de leurs traditions orales, et en réaction à celle-ci. Au moyen de ce concept, j’analyse la façon dont les films d’Arnait rejouent et font revivre la culture et la tradition orale inuit par la voix imprescriptible et l’esprit inoubliable des morts, dont l’art de vivre créatif résiste à l’extinction. Jusqu’ici, Arnait a produit trois longs métrages : deux films de fiction, Before Tomorrow (2009) et Uvanga (2013), et un documentaire, Sol (2014). Je démontre que ces films exposent tous trois ce troublant mélange de spectralité et de survivance, le premier film d’Arnait servant ici d’étude de cas

Personal narrative, dialogism, and the performance of “truth” in complaints of a dutiful daughter

This paper examines the documentary film Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter in order to trace out the representations and performances that connote “truth” and “knowledge.” Drawing on Michel Foucault’s observations concerning the social construction of knowledge, documentary film theory, and performance theory, I show how the use of personal narrative and naturalism in this documentary film can be interpreted as working at cross-purposes with its politically progressive intent. I argue that these performance elements work rhetorically to naturalize existing power relationships, in spite of the film’s goal of destabilizing identity and madness. © 2004 National Communication Association