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“The deportation of the Hindus from British Columbia will be a blessing to all concerned”: Intersections of Class and Race in the British Honduras Scheme
Get PDFIn the fall and winter of 1908, the Canadian Government developed the British Honduras Scheme, a plan to transport all South Asian immigrants from British Columbia to British Honduras. To justify this relocation, the Canadian Government argued that British Honduras needed cheap labour to maintain sugar plantations, railroads and that these immigrants could not survive in Canada because they faced unemployment, starvation, and they were not suited for harsh winters. Analyzing this scheme in the context of the way newspapers represented it at the time demonstrates how class and race intersected in popular understandings of South Asian people in Canada. Primary sources also reveal how South Asian immigrants resisted the scheme. They show that despite popular views of South Asians being hapless, hopeless, and inferior “hindoos” who could not survive in the northern hemisphere, the South Asian community recognized and advocated for their own interests, while resisting discrimination
The 19th Century Parisian: Social Hierarchy and Female Sexuality Through the Lens of Impressionist Art and Naturalist Literature
No full textThroughout the 19th century, the formation of modern, industrial Paris resulted in a dramatic rise in prostitution. An intense period of urbanization resulting from an ever increasing fixation with commodification and industrialization, in addition to the relentless objectification and sexualization of women at the hands of the patriarchy, acted as a catalyst for the commodification of women (partiuclarly those associated with the working class) - a phenomenon that was to capture the attention of numerous 19th century artists and writers
Editorial
Get PDFThe Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR) is an online, student-run, annual journal of undergraduate research in the Humanities. The MRUHR invites submissions from Mount Royal University students of essays or other kinds of intellectual work appropriate for an online journal that are relevant to the subjects taught by the Mount Royal Department of Humanities (History, Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Canadian Studies, or Art History)
La représentation inversée des valeurs et normes féminines dans Jacky au royaume des filles de Riad Sattouf
Get PDFJacky au Royaume des filles est un film écrit et réalisé par Riad Sattouf en 2014, où l’auteur imagine une société dystopique, dictatoriale et gynocratique. L’article analyse la représentation de la femme dans ce film où les valeurs sont inversées, et où cette représentation passe donc par celle de l’homme. De même, les femmes du film sont symboles des valeurs traditionnelles masculines et viriles. Le film dénonçant la hiérarchisation des sexes mais aussi les dictatures religieuses et politiques, nous tenterons de démontrer que, dans le cadre de ses ambitions, le propos initial féministe du film est pleinement servi par l’approche intersectionnelle, et que le combat féministe ne saurait donc être coupé des causes qui militent pour l’émancipation des races, des classes sociales, des jougs militaires ou religieux
Chimneys in the Night: A Comparative Analysis of Elie Wiesel’s Night and Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys
Get PDFThis essay aims to evaluate some of the similarities and differences in the experiences of two Holocaust survivors, Olga Lengyel and Ellie Wiesel. The essay will explore the experiences of these two survivors in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Buchenwald and examine why some of their experiences may have been different. The purpose of the essay is not to belittle the experiences of one gender or the other, but to identify how gender and sexuality made their experiences different. Wiesel’s and Lengyel\u27s haunting memories of their experiences in these concentration camps offers a lense through which to examine the potential role that gender had on the experiences of the camp inmates. Both authors provide a graphic depiction of life in the concentration camp and the reader is taken into the depths of the hell in which these human beings were forced to live. Lengyel and Wiesel in a sense represent larger groups of people; women in the concentration camp and men in the concentration camp. Their memoirs exemplify the experiences of the millions of men and women who lived in the concentration camps, many of whom’s voices were silenced as a result of their presence in the camps. Therefore one can use the two accounts and the wealth of information within them to draw general conclusions about the experiences of each gender within the camp
Feminist Interpretations of the Holocaust
No full textThe emergence of the study of the history of the Holocaust following the “silent years”, which occupied nearly two decades of the post-war era, coincided with the establishment of second wave feminism. Despite the creation of the discipline of Women’s and Gender Studies and the emerging variety of women’s history within post secondary institution, discussion of women in the Holocaust did not become a part of the discourse of history until the late seventies. In addition to the lag in addressing the study of the history of women in the Holocaust, the application of feminist theory to Holocaust history was late to the academic conversation. Feminist history of the Holocaust was finally studied in the early eighties, in order to better understand not only women in the Holocaust but also the Holocaust more generally. However, the discourse failed to evolve and diversify as quickly as other forms of feminist history. As a result of the perceived exceptionality of the Holocaust within the context of history and even within the more specified picture of the history of genocide, the application of feminist theory as well as the understanding of the experiences of women and the implications of gender within the Holocaust remain relatively stunted within the context of Holocaust and feminist history
Influences of Racial Science in Hitler’s Europe
Get PDFThe origins of the Holocaust have been debated and evaluated by historians for decades. Since, historians have evaluated the Holocaust to not have a single origin, but rather view the Holocaust as an evolving narrative of suffrage of European Jewry and other groups. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the influences that racial science had on the Holocaust. Extensive research, and evaluation of historical context of antisemitic influences reveal that racial science was laden in policies implemented by the Nazi regime. The impact that racial science had on Europe during the Third Reich’s reign, effected social, political, and cultural aspects that ultimately led to the murder of millions of Jews and other groups
Entre présentation et représentation : le corps à travers l’oeil de la caméra de Carolee Schneemann
Get PDFDès le début des années 1960, la peintre américaine Carolee Schneemann s’empare de la caméra pour filmer ses performances. Ainsi l’artiste ajoute l’outil filmique à ses autres pratiques artistiques, la peinture et la performance. Revendiquant des préoccupations politico-sociales telles que le féminisme ou l’anti-militarisme, Schneemann utilise la caméra à la fois dans une volonté de décloisonner les genres artistiques, d’affirmer une identité créatrice et féminine et de repousser les limites de la présentation et de la représentation de son propre corps à travers une affirmation de son image et de sa sexualité. Comment le film va-t-il participer à la reconstruction de l’image d’un corps artistique féminin et permettre à Schneemann de se saisir de son pouvoir de création? Cet article tente de répondre à ces questions par une recontextualisation de ses films Meat Joy (1964) et Fuses (1964-1967)
Le « monstrueux corporel » : Phèdre de Jean Racine mis en scène par Patrice Chéreau
Get PDFEn 2003, la mise en scène moderne et contemporaine de Patrice Chéreau de Phèdre de Jean Racine met au jour une héroïne profondément humaine, sensuelle et charnelle, véritable sujet désirant plutôt qu’objet désiré. Dans cet article, nous interrogerons la manière dont Chéreau représente la passion impossible et tragique, c’est-à-dire ce qui ne peut être exprimé. La question du langage s’avère centrale, plus précisément dans le rapport entre le corps et le texte qui se manifeste tant dans le positionnement des comédiens que dans la représentation du “monstrueux corporel”