The cityscape in a few caribbean-canadian short stories

La plupart des écrivains canadiens d’origine caribbéenne vivant et écrivant dans des villes, on peut aisément comprendre que le paysage urbain devienne un topos littéraire qui permette à l’identité caribbéo-canadienne de se structurer. La ville est non seulement un creuset dans lequel la diaspora caribbéenne va tenter de se fondre, mais encore une toile de projection idéale pour la formation de nouveaux territoires et la recomposition d’une image identitaire malmenée. C’est à travers l’évocation de nouvelles écrites par des auteurs aussi reconnus que Austin Clarke, Neil Bissoondath, Dionne Brand, ou moins connus comme Althea Prince, que cet article se propose d’examiner les différentes dynamiques lancées par ces textes autour de la ville

“My mouth is the keeper of both speech and silence…”, or The Vocalisation of Silence in Caribbean short stories by Edwige Danticat

L’oralité dans la littérature a souvent été associée à l’utilisation du créole ou du dialecte, surtout dans le contexte caribéen où l’anglais, plus ou moins créolisé, est la seule langue, et où tant d’influences se sont mélangées, du conte africain au roman anglais. Mais on peut aussi appréhender le concept et la pratique de l’oralité à travers son interface avec les notions de voix et de silence. L’écrivain haitienne Edwige Danticat, auteur des deux recueils de nouvelles Krik ? Krak ! et The Dew Breaker et qui écrit en anglais, amène à la surface du texte l’histoire non dite, source de souffrance, et utilise aussi le silence tant comme thème que comme outil rhétorique. La façon dont le texte écrit fait résonner la voix qui parle ou la voix qui se tait, la façon dont ce texte s’organise autour de la voix et du silence, contribue à transformer un texte d’oppression en texte de libération

Lars Eckstein, Re-Membering the Black Atlantic - On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory

Original eighteenth and nineteenth-century slave narratives have long been recognized as foundational in African-American literature, and internationally renowned critics have made the reading public aware of American literature’s debt towards its ancestors. During the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s, when such a legacy was acknowledged and claimed, the slave narratives were revisited by writers, historians, and critics in light of the evolution in twentieth-century society. The proof that..

The cityscape in a few caribbean-canadian short stories

La plupart des écrivains canadiens d’origine caribbéenne vivant et écrivant dans des villes, on peut aisément comprendre que le paysage urbain devienne un topos littéraire qui permette à l’identité caribbéo-canadienne de se structurer. La ville est non seulement un creuset dans lequel la diaspora caribbéenne va tenter de se fondre, mais encore une toile de projection idéale pour la formation de nouveaux territoires et la recomposition d’une image identitaire malmenée. C’est à travers l’évocation de nouvelles écrites par des auteurs aussi reconnus que Austin Clarke, Neil Bissoondath, Dionne Brand, ou moins connus comme Althea Prince, que cet article se propose d’examiner les différentes dynamiques lancées par ces textes autour de la ville

Editorial: Why should we read Dalit literature?

http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/jcla/0/0Numéro spécial papier publié en 2019International audienc

Effects of mental health self-efficacy on outcomes of a mobile phone and web intervention for mild-to-moderate depression, anxiety and stress: secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Online psychotherapy is clinically effective yet why, how, and for whom the effects are greatest remain largely unknown. In the present study, we examined whether mental health self-efficacy (MHSE), a construct derived from Bandura’s Social Learning Theory (SLT), influenced symptom and functional outcomes of a new mobile phone and web-based psychotherapy intervention for people with mild-to-moderate depression, anxiety and stress. Methods: STUDY I: Data from 49 people with symptoms of depression, anxiety and/or stress in the mild-to-moderate range were used to examine the reliability and construct validity of a new measure of MHSE, the Mental Health Self-efficacy Scale (MHSES). STUDY II: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from a recently completed randomised controlled trial (N = 720) to evaluate whether MHSE effected post-intervention outcomes, as measured by the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS) and Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS), for people with symptoms in the mild-to-moderate range. Results: STUDY I: The data established that the MHSES comprised a unitary factor, with acceptable internal reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = .89) and construct validity. STUDY II: The intervention group showed significantly greater improvement in MHSE at post-intervention relative to the control conditions (p’s < = .000). MHSE mediated the effects of the intervention on anxiety and stress symptoms. Furthermore, people with low pre-treatment MHSE reported the greatest post-intervention gains in depression, anxiety and overall distress. No effects were found for MHSE on work and social functioning. Conclusion: Mental health self-efficacy influences symptom outcomes of a self-guided mobile phone and web-based psychotherapeutic intervention and may itself be a worthwhile target to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of online treatment programs

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements