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Rethinking resilience: Exploring decolonial possibilities of representing narratives of conflict-affected women in the North and East of Sri Lanka
No full textThis paper reflects on the interventions presented in my master’s thesis from 2020 which analyses representations of conflict affected women in the North and East of Sri Lanka in post conflict discourse through postcolonial and decolonial feminist lenses. A central source in the analysis is a documentary I produced in 2019 titled Women’s Plight: Dreams of a Better Life which presents five women’s narratives of their lives during and post- conflict. This work was produced as a submission to the Tamils of Lanka: A Timeless Heritage exhibition which took place in 2019, marking 10 years to the end of the conflict and the atrocities committed by the state at Mullivaikal. The documentary aligned with the exhibition’s central theme of recognising the resilience of the community in the homeland and diaspora through the violence, marginalisation and its resulting impacts. I worked within a team of volunteers, who were part of the Tamil Information Centre in London, to organise the exhibition. The thesis unpacks the reductive ways conflict affected women are represented in the discourse and draws from Sangam literature and historical narratives of gendered spirituality and resistance to trace alternative epistemologies that could be applied to represent these women and their perspectives in more expansive ways. The paper includes reflections from engagement and presentation of these interventions in both academic and non-academic contexts
Critical Posthumanism and Cinema and Media Studies: The Italian Connection
No full textThe first collection of articles solely dedicated to critical posthumanism in Italian Film, this special issue gathers a group of articles that explore the posthumanist dimension of Italian cinema and other audiovisual media, as a means of escaping a human-centred gaze and the Humanist—masculinist, patriarchal, colonialist, heteronormative—worldview it upholds. This critique takes a variety of unique forms in Italian screen media, inviting multiple theoretical approaches. The articles included in this special issue analyse through a posthumanist lens films by traditional auteurs, such as Dario Argento, Mario Bava, and Daniele Ciprì and Franco Maresco, but also by contemporary directors, such as Matteo Garrone and Pietro Marcello. As well as exploring the tropes and themes of posthumanist cinema, this collection aims to categorize the tools of a film language that gestures toward what was heretofore unavailable to physical, affective, or intellectual apprehension, and can be thought of productively in critical posthumanist terms
Tamar, Lioness of Judah: A Modern Midrash in Her Own Voice
No full text“Tamar, Lioness of Judah” is a modern midrash, based on Genesis 38:6-12, that weaves together elements from the classical midrash with contemporary feminist sensibilities in order to imagine how Tamar would tell her own story from her own perspective
Sensory Encounters on Martha’s Vineyard: Native American Deathways in Colonial New England Around 1700
No full textOn Martha’s Vineyard there was a particularly long-lasting Puritan mission among the Native Americans. This article examines how the clergy there attempted to apply the Puritan ideal of the “visible saints” to the converted Indians and what implications Christianity should have had for their sensory experiences and sensual forms of expression. In a first step, the normative requirements that defined Puritanism around 1700 will be explained on the basis of Cotton Mather’s theology. Dealing with death and dying served as a litmus test for a successful “change of heart.” Using the example of the promotional treatise Indian Converts (1727) by the third-generation missionary Experience Mayhew, who was active on Martha’s Vineyard, the article explores the question of how the senses of hearing and seeing were evaluated in this context. Reading this source against the grain reveals normative conflicts and ambivalences that can deepen our understanding of how coexistence was enabled and to what extent sensory agency was possible for the Native Americans.Sur l’île de Martha’s Vineyard s’est déroulée auprès des Autochtones une mission puritaine particulièrement longue. Le présent article montre comment le clergé a tenté d’appliquer l’idéal puritain des « saints visibles » aux Indiens convertis et examine les implications que le christianisme a dû avoir pour leurs expériences sensorielles et leurs formes d’expression sensuelles. Dans un premier temps, les exigences normatives qui définissaient le puritanisme vers 1700 sont expliquées à la lumière de la théologie de Cotton Mather. Faire face à la mort et à l’agonie était la condition décisive d’un « changement de cœur » réussi. En prenant pour exemple le traité promotionnel Indian Converts (1727) du missionnaire de troisième génération Experience Mayhew, qui a exercé à Martha’s Vineyard, je me penche sur la manière dont l’ouïe et la vue étaient évaluées dans ce contexte. Une lecture à contre-courant de cette source révèle des ambivalences et des conflits normatifs qui peuvent nous aider à mieux comprendre comment la coexistence a pu s’instaurer et dans quelle mesure la liberté sensorielle était possible pour les Autochtones
Alternative Relics? The Sensory Powers of the Criminal Corpse
No full textAcross early modern and nineteenth-century Europe it was widely believed that the corpses of executed criminals had thaumaturgical powers that could miraculously cure a range of illnesses if they were touched or ingested. This article looks at how touch was the key sense involved in how the magical powers of the corpses of the condemned could transfer to the living. It argues that these beliefs were linked to a much older belief in relics, which also require physical proximity in order to function effectively. It explores the different traditions around the use of these body parts across Europe, arguing that variations in practices were centred on differing methods of execution in different regions rather than on varying religious beliefs.Dans l’Europe des premiers temps modernes et du XIXe siècle, beaucoup pensaient que les cadavres des criminels exécutés possédaient des pouvoirs thaumaturgiques susceptibles de guérir miraculeusement toute une série de maladies une fois touchés ou ingérés. Le présent article examine dans quelle mesure le toucher était le principal sens par lequel les pouvoirs magiques des cadavres des condamnés pouvaient être transférés aux vivants. Il soutient que ces conceptions étaient liées à une croyance beaucoup plus ancienne : celle des reliques, lesquelles nécessitaient également une proximité physique pour fonctionner efficacement. L’article explore les différentes traditions entourant l’utilisation de ces fragments corporels à travers l’Europe, en soutenant que la diversité des pratiques était liée aux variations régionales des pratiques d’exécution, plutôt qu’à des divergences religieuses
Goldman, Oury. L’empreinte des lointains. Traduire les savoirs sur le monde en France au XVIe siècle
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