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Reshaping Japanese Animal Tales and Transgressing Gender Paradigms in Alexander Chee’s Novel Edinburgh
No full textThis article analyzes how Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh (2001) explores the motif of transgression by transposing traditional Asian tales into a contemporary American setting. In this novel, the east Asian narratives on the fox trickster, endowed with supernatural powers and the ability to shapeshift into a human being, intersect with the coming-of-age story of a young Korean American boy who struggles to deal with his homosexual identity and with the trauma of sexual abuse. Edinburgh thus employs the motif of the shapeshifting fox, which transgresses the boundaries between humans and animals, to deal with the transgression of the heteronormative paradigm. The retelling of the border-breaking fox trickster becomes a means by which the narrator reframes his family’s past traumas during the period of the Japanese occupation of Korea and relates them to his own experience in the narrative present, through his difficult journey to assert his own identity and find his voice
In the Midst of Apocalypse: Disruption, Repossession, and Remembrance in W. E. B. Du Bois’s “The Comet”
No full textThe author reads W. E. B. Du Bois’s short story “The Comet” as a subversion of the literary apocalypse, one that signals its author’s growing disillusionment with the promises of racial progress and liberal humanism. First published in the collection Darkwater in 1920, then republished in Afro-American Magazine in 1953, “The Comet” details the destruction of New York City by a passing comet. Yet a close reading of key moments in the story reveals that Du Bois’s subversion of this literary form enables him to explore several alternative breaks within that fundamental break that is apocalypse. Reading these intra-apocalyptic breaks through the work of Fred Moten and Walter Benjamin, this essay charts Du Bois’s use of the apocalypse as a dialectical tool to interrogate the status of the liberal humanist subject, the utopian promise of a future severed from its past(s), and the commonsense notion of a natural bedrock of reality beneath the mediated, ideologically conditioned present. The essay concludes with a consideration of “The Comet” as offering a new way to conceive of the literary apocalypse, one that turns our attention away from the scholarly fixation on a cataclysmic break and toward a vision of the present as a site of ongoing rupture, remembrance, and revision
Chronic Illness Education 2025: School-Centered Interventions to Address Childhood Obesity
No full textChronic Illness Education 2025: Mitigation of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors for Older Adults
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Chronic Illness Education 2025: Improving Lifestyle Choices in Children withType-2 Diabetes Mellitus
Get PDFWhy Obey?
No full textThe following text is a translation of Georges Didi-Huberman’s Pour quoi obéir? (Montrouge: Bayard, 2022). A prefatory note to the French edition explains that the lecture series was inspired by Walter Benjamin’s radio talks for youths and that the speakers must effectively address children from ten years old and up as well as those who accompany them “in a gesture of friendship spanning generations.” I have occasionally included the original French in brackets, particularly as Didi-Huberman plays on words throughout the text, and these games cannot always be captured in English. This is even the case with title of the book: in French, “why” is normally written pourquoi, in one word. By writing it pour quoi, Didi-Huberman gets closer to the English “what for,” as quickly becomes apparent. I warmly thank James Leo Cahill for his invaluable support and assistance in preparing this translation
“Holy Trash” and the Tears of the Deceased: The Emotional Role of Genizot for the Jewish Communities of Central Europe
Get PDFSince the 1980s, more than seventy genizot (Heb., repositories) have been rediscovered in former synagogues of Central Europe. A genizah is a room in or near a synagogue where damaged, discarded, or heretical texts and sacred relics are stored. This essay examines where, when, and why genizot developed in Central Europe. It also analyzes the emotional significance of the genizot for their respective communities. Historical and literary sources show that genizot were placed in the synagogue attics of Jewish metropolises from the seventeenth century at the latest and were usually not ritually buried. Smaller communities in rural regions adopted this custom with the construction of a representative synagogue and modified it. The emotional attachment of Jewish communities to their genizot is closely linked to the popularization of Kabbalah in the Early Modern period. Because they contain names of God, amulets, and other “holy” things, the genizot were understood as apotropaia. These spiritual-magical “treasure chambers” formed a “gateway” between the earthly community and the divine world, in which the deceased members played a mediating role
Off-label long-term use of phentermine for weight management
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Hendricks EJ, Greenway FL, Westman EC, Gupta AK. Blood pressure and heart rate effects, weight loss and maintenance during long-term phentermine pharmacotherapy for obesity. Obesity. 2011;19(12):2351-2360 https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2011.94
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