Toni Morrison (1931–2019)2 Introduction There is a problem of gaze at the heart of academic global health. Because without naming this problem, we cannot have holistic discussions on imbalances in ...the authorship of academic global health publications. The audience for whom the paper was written would likely be other anthropologists who perform similar service in other countries working as foreigners—a role that may not exist if all such response teams were led by local experts—that is, if every country had the capacity (especially, the funds) to respond to their own outbreaks. ...note that the local versus foreign pose can shift depending on the person and the topic; an anthropologist from the same West African country, but of a different ethnicity to the location of the outbreak, may be a foreigner in relation to burial practices—foreignness could be defined by ethnicity, race, caste, geography, socioeconomic status and the issue in question. ...a paper would be published where our ‘ideal’ paper is published: in local journals, many of which may not be indexed in global databases or published in English,19 but contain publications addressing research questions and policy issues that would exist, irrespective of the presence and influence of foreign experts, foreign funds, foreign donors, foreign helpers or foreign
Using racially contextualized models of trauma studies and psychoanalysis, this article explores the trauma of racially inflected language in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970). The American ...Symbolic ties racial Blackness to abjection in contradistinction to the master signifier of whiteness and systematically perpetuates the Black subject's encounter with the traumatic lack of subjectivity. This signifying chain of trauma implicates not just the Breedlove family but also the entire Black community, including even a seemingly adaptive subject like Claudia MacTeer, whom critics have designated as the "arch-survivor" over and against Pecola Breedlove the "victim." Morrison engages in a narrative therapy of sorts that loosens the reader's fixation with the racial Symbolic and presents an alternative idiom that can empower the disenfranchised. The novel's rendition of the structural, mundane aspects of language-based trauma thus invites us to revisit the traditional conceptions of trauma as a cataclysmic event.
This paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novels The Bluest Eye (1970) and Sula (1974) from the standpoint of developmental psychology. Morrison's works can be viewed as an amalgam of social and emotional ...themes which play a major role in the identity construction of the author's characters. The Ecological Systems Theory proposed by Urie Bronfenbrenner will thus be engaged to observe how the identities of Morrison's characters are being shaped in the novels. The analyses of the five systems on which Bronfenbrenner's model is grounded will explain what is needed for Morrison's characters to create a sustainable identity.
6 Hunter focuses on pedagogical practice and on the role of the seminar and the teacherstudent couple, with its relations of identification and correction, as forms of governance.7 He argues that ...literary criticism remains within the horizon of the pedagogical imperative; processes of observation, correction, and exemplification that belong to the history of pastoral instruction have made the reading of literature the privileged site of moral education and self-making. In particular, by refusing the role of privileged messenger prescribed by hermeneutics and emphasizing instead the minimalist but painstaking work of description, this approach undermines the ethical charisma of the critic.45 In recent calls for alternatives to critical hermeneutics in literary studies, scholars have tended to focus on the need to suspend routine activities of unveiling and demystification, to train ourselves out of habits of paranoia and suspicion.
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Unter dem Gesichtspunkt eines regressiven Angriffs auf Verbindungen wird der Populismus untersucht. Dabei wird gezeigt, dass der Populismus Urheber solcher Angriffe auf Verbindungen ...ist, aber zugleich sich auch solchen Angriffen verdankt bzw. eine – fehlgeleitete – Antwort auf das Zerreißen von Verbindungen ist. Zentral ist der Begriff der Regression, der in der Psychoanalyse vertraut und bedeutsam ist, aber auch auffällig aktuell in der soziologischen Diskussion der Gegenwart genutzt wird. Populismus ist selbst regressiv, aber auch Antwort auf gesellschaftliche Regressionen. Diese These soll begründet werden. Der Text beginnt mit einem soziologischen Steckbrief des Populismus. Er wendet sich dann den gesellschaftlichen Ursachen des Populismus zu, unter Hinweis auf Demokratiedefizite allgemein und spezifisch auf gesellschaftliche Regressionen. Im dritten Teil wird der psychoanalytische Regressionsbegriff mit dem soziologischen kontrastierend verbunden und gezeigt, dass es die Psychoanalyse in der gesellschaftstheoretischen Analyse braucht, um das Attraktive in der Regression, die der Populismus darstellt, zu verstehen. Im letzten Teil wird eine Fabel zitiert, die aus der Nobelpreisrede der Autorin Toni Morrison stammt.
The book plays an outsized role in intellectual life. Beyond a correspondence between books and ideas, it is often implied that only certain types of books are considered to be intellectual. Because ...there is a taken-for-granted correspondence between reading books and the life of the mind, research on intellectualism often focuses on how much individuals read. Here, Knox focuses on people who attempt to censor books (called challengers) in public libraries and schools,
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