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The Quest for Caribbean Identities: Postcolonial Conflicts and Cross-Cultural Fertilization in Derek Walcott’s Poetry
No full textABSTRACT: This paper investigates how the political merges with the literary in Derek Walcott’s poetry, using the poems “A Latin Primer” and “The Light of the World” as primary examples. In these two poems, Walcott explores the colonial wounds of the Caribbean region and the various consequences of colonialism for the forging of Caribbean’s contemporary identities. He proposes a model of Caribbeanness that values racial multiplicity and cross-dialogues between cultures, including, perhaps problematically, the European cultural tradition, as fertilizing. For Walcott, poetic creativity serves to truly unify and find points of connections in a disjointed postcolonial world. This paper examines the implications of Walcott’s stances on postcolonial identity politics and compares Walcott to several French Caribbean authors.
RÉSUMÉ: Cet article explore comment la polique et la littérature fusionnent dans la poésie du Prix Nobel de Littérature Derek Walcott, utilisant les poèmes “A Latin Primer” et “The Light of the World” comme exemples principaux. Dans ces deux poèmes, Walcott analyse les blessures coloniales encourues par les Antilles et les différentes conséquences du colonialisme pour la création des identités antillaises contemporaines. Il propose un modèle d’antillanité qui célèbre la multiplicité raciale et les dialogues fertilisateurs entre les cultures, y compris la culture européenne, donnant peut-être ainsi matière à controverse. Pour Walcott, la créativité poétique sert à unifier et connecter un monde postcolonial disjoint. Cet article examine les différentes implications des positions de Walcott concernant les politiques d’identités postcoloniales et compare Walcott à certains auteurs des Antilles francophones
C. Clifton Black and Duane F. Watson, Words Well Spoken: George Kennedy's Rhetoric of the New Testament
No full textSchola Prophetarum: Prophetic Preaching Toward a Public, Prophetic Church
No full textProphetic preaching has for much of the last century been dominated by a classically liberal, Lone Ranger view of Hebrew Bible prophecy that is both a distortion of the past and increasingly problematic in the present. In this article, the author reconsiders the social shape of Hebrew Bible prophecy and joins to it the unusual contours of New Testament prophecy and its accompanying ecclesial practice of "discernment." These become resources for rethinking prophetic preaching theologically as an ecclesial task for a disestablished church desiring to move beyond post-liberal "resident alien" models and embracing prophetic preaching as a public form of shared ecclesial engagement for the sake of the world God so loves. In doing so, he seeks to connect with models of prophetic preaching as a shared, public task articulated most recently by scholars such as McClure, Andrews, Ottoni Wilhelm, and Ramsey
Entre familiaridad y exotismo: La vuelta al mundo en la Numancia, un episodio (trans)nacional de Benito Pérez Galdós
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The Effects of Social Deprivation within Orphanages on Parent- Child Attachment: How Adoption can Ameliorate Attachment Problems
No full textSince the mid-20th century, developmentalists have researched how social deprivation within orphanages affects a child’s ability to later form an attachment to his primary caregiver. John Bowlby’s theory of attachment posits that children who do not develop any attachment style within the first two years of their life will subsequently never be to able to become attached to their primary caregivers. However, longitudinal studies conducted on children reared in orphanages have proved that there is no critical period within which attachment must be formed. A child’s ability to form an attachment to his adoptive parent is not based on his age, but rather on the parent’s commitment to promoting a secure attachment style through affectionate and responsive care
The Effects of Caffeine on Sleep Patterns Among Adolescents
No full textThis review of literature examines whether there is a causal relationship between caffeine consumption and sleep patterns among adolescents. Literature suggests that there is a cause and effect relationship between caffeine intake and cognitive performance in adults. Researchers also found that among the adult population, consuming caffeine before sleep resulted in increased sleep onset time, reduced total sleep time, and poorer sleep quality. Specifically, adolescents ingest the majority of their total caffeine intake through caffeinated sodas. Studies have shown that adolescents consume more caffeine later in the week, which correlates with shorter total sleep time and decreased sleep quality. Thus, in review of the literature, it was determined that caffeine negatively affects sleep habits among adults, but further research should be conducted in order to conclude whether this relationship holds true among adolescents
