For scholars of modern Hong Kong society,Merchants' Daughtersrefocuses attention to cultural dynamics in the South China region of which Hong Kong is an integral part. For audiences generally ...interested in gender issues, this book illuminates the analytical importance of long historical periods in which layers of social, political, and economic activities intersected to constitute the complicated positioning of women.
RUSA Notable Books Council Notable Books, 2011, committee members: A. Issac Pulver, Saratoga Springs Public Library chair; Terry Beck, Sno-lsle Libraries; Susie Brown, Shaker Heights Public Library; ...Julie Elliott, Indiana University ? South Bend; Bill Kelly, Cuyahoga County Public Library; Elizabeth Olesh, Nassau Library System; Jessica Pigza, New York Public Library; Nancy Pearl; Heather Robideaux, Fayettevilie Public Library; Nonny Schlotzhauer, The Pennsylvania State University; Andrea Slonosky; and Valerie Morgan Taylor, Great Falls Library. Since 1944, the Notable Books Council has annually selected a list of twenty- five very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, non fiction, and poetry books for the adult reader. Books may be selected because they possess exceptional literary merit, expand the horizons of human knowledge, make a specialized body of knowledge accessible to the nonspecialist, have the potential to contribute significantly to the solution of a contemporary problem, or present a unique concept.
The Violence of Memory Misri, Deepti
Meridians (Middletown, Conn.),
01/2011, Letnik:
11, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article explores how Shauna Singh Baldwin's novel
builds on Partition feminist historiography in order to exhume and retell the story of family violence against women during India's Partition, ...intended to “save their honor” from rioting mobs. While feminist historiographies have restored Partition survivors' memories of violence to the historical archive, Baldwin's novel explicitly foregrounds the role of gendered
in and as the archive of communal memories of violence. I begin with Baldwin's exploration of the embodied character of Sikh subject-formation in a pre-Partition border community, and close in, like the novel itself, on a key moment of embodied violence: the cutting up and reassembling of a woman's body, whose manner of death is later reconstructed by her male family members, in the presence of a female family member. My analysis shows how the text's layering of perspectives around this body encodes a feminist hermeneutics of doubt and models a critical practice of “reading between the lines” in order to recover the violence suppressed in the text of patriarchal memory. Furthermore, I argue, the woman's dismembered, re-membered body in the text allegorizes the processes of disfigurement through which women's bodies are routinely produced as “dead metaphors” for patriarchal honor; as well as the project of remembering violence differently, which the novel itself endorses.
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The hallmark of a free, democratic society is the civil rights that society bestows upon its population. Access to civil rights, however, is often only afforded through challenges and struggles that ...a society must confront. The present research considers carefully the linguistic pragmatic challenges that exist in civil rights court cases that may affect accessibility to those very rights. One such pragmatic challenge is the linguistic device of hedging. This mixed method study focuses on how native and non-native speakers perceive a range of hedging in attorney summaries of civil rights court cases. Participants read unhedged and hedged texts of attorney summaries and completed a Likert item questionnaire. They responded to how they perceived component parts of hedging; how they felt about the subject matter of the text; and which side they thought won the case. I performed a Mann-Whitney U quantitative analysis on the Likert item data and a qualitative analysis on the narrative comments. The data would seem to indicate that there is a statistically significant difference with respect to how individuals perceive truthfulness with regard to the amount hedged in attorney summaries. Non-natives were less discriminating than natives regarding hedges in the legal register, meaning that they missed an aspect of the message attorneys tried to send. Not only is this a significant revelation of the importance of hedging in courtroom communication, but it also addresses the gap in the literature that I have identified and the claims that I have put forth within my research.
