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Get PDFReviews of: The Race that Changed Running: The Inside Story of the UTMB, by Doug Mayer; Been Outside: Adventures of Black Women, Nonbinary, and Gender Nonconforming People in Nature, edited by Amber Wendler and Shaz Zamore; AMC\u27s Best Day Hikes in the White Mountains, by Robert N. Buchsbaum; AMC\u27s Best Day Hikes Near Boston, by Michael Tougias, John S. Burk, and Alison O\u27Leary; AMC\u27s Best Day Hikes Near Washington, D.C., by Jennifer Adach and Beth Homicz; Campfire Stories: Tales from America\u27s National Parks and Trails, Volume II, edited by Dave Kyu and Ilyssa Kyu; More: Life on the Edge of Adventure and Motherhood, by Majka Burhardt; A Fine Line: Searching for Balance Among Mountains, by Graham Zimmerman; Backpacking with Children: How to Go Lightweight, Have Fun, and Stay Safe on the Trail, by Malia Maunakea; Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild, by Brad Orsted; AMC Guide to Outdoor Leadership, by Alex Kosseff and edited by Sally Manikian; The Wanderer: An Alaskan Wolf\u27s Final Journey, by Tom Walker; Going Over the Mountain: One Woman\u27s Journey from Follower to Solo Hiker and Back, by Christine Woodsid
Marvelous Ordinariness: Re-engaging with Realism’s Social Function
Get PDFAgainst Romanticism, European literary realism of the 19th century aimed to provide an objective representation of reality through mimesis that could capture the truth in an objective way. Yet, its positivist approach severely narrowed down the complexity of truth, reality, and the mundane by wrongfully drawing the universal from the particular. A new way of engaging with realist literature from any time period, called Marvelous Ordinariness, rearranges this triad in ways that expand our understanding of our own and other realities portrayed. Using Alejo Carpentier’s description of “lo real maravilloso,” Marvelous Ordinariness unfolds in three layers that resemble Carl Jung’s unus mundus: recognition of multiple realities, acknowledgement of different epistemologies, and as healing method for life’s pessimism. When read in tandem, the short story “Gazebo” (1981) by American writer Raymond Carver and the novel Temporada de huracanes (2017) by Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor, embrace some of the conventional notions of realism’s structure–as articulated by Roland Barthes, Erich Auerbach, Georg Lukács and Frederic Jameson–while also exemplifying how Marvelous Ordinariness can operate inside and outside narratives that are not labeled as such
Displaced Ukrainian Writers After 2014, a Postcolonial Perspective
Get PDFThis paper analyzes post-2014 Ukrainian displacement literature from a postcolonial perspective. I argue that Ukrainian writers, displaced with the 2014 invasion of Eastern Ukraine and/or 2022 full-scale invasion by Russia, transform literature into a tool of cultural resistance against Russia, forging a postcolonial Ukrainian identity in their works that unites those displaced since 2014. I particularly focus on two long-form works by displaced writers: the novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love (2019) by Volodymyr Rafeyenko, who was displaced in 2014 from Donetsk to Kyiv and again in 2022 to Pittsburgh, USA on the City of Asylum Exiled Writer and Artist Residency Program, and the collection of short stories Chuzha Svoia Ridna (2022) by Iryna Feofanova, who was displaced from Irpin to Krakow, Poland in 2022 on a writing residency at the Institute of Literature in Krakow. My analysis of these narratives and my conversations with displaced writers reveal a new Ukrainian identity forged in displacement, one which is at once the fluid identity of the migrant, similar to Stuart Hall’s “cultural identity,” and a stable postcolonial identity. I suggest that while the displaced identity is ever-changing, the postcolonial identity strategically turns towards essentialization (Gayatri Spivak), through linguistic transition from Russian to Ukrainian and the adoption of reinvented folklore, to form a united cultural front in the context of war. My research presents a timely contribution to the larger discourse around Ukrainian displacement, demonstrating how Ukrainians successfully construct a postcolonial identity that empowers them to remember, reflect, and resist from a state of displacement in and outside of a war-torn Ukraine
ME AND MS JONES - The Androgyny of Black Women
No full textDespite the progression of contemporary discourses around gender, the African woman\u27s body remains in a categorical conundrum shaped by post-colonial legacies. This paper explores how prevailing notions of femininity and its intrinsic relationship to delicateness, exclude black women from the female category. Given the significance gender plays in participation in the occident, black women\u27s preclusion from the female category can result in what may appear on the surface as a posturing of whiteness, but which, on further interrogation, reflects a performance of fragility. On the other extreme is the embrace of androgyny as both an internalization and a way to subvert the white gaze - which does little to differentiate the black woman from the black man, or black people as a whole from an extension of labour. I aim to dissect the essential roles androgyny performs for black women in predominantly white spaces. Namely: how androgyny acts as an internalization of gender ambiguity; as well as a subversive response to imposition; but most observably as a means of participation. The internalization of liminality as an embodied experience relies upon a more introspective narrative form to decode. As such through self-examination and a critical view of the discography of Grace Jones, I will be employing a standpoint epistemological approach which hybridizes the creative form with academic inquiry to bridge the space between creative and academic forms. Given that my subject emphasizes the colonial gaze and its role in shaping the black body, I intend to redirect the gaze - to invert the discovery process by positioning myself as an essential and credible source in conversation with the imaging of Grace Jones
Mending Wounds: A Reparative Feminist Analysis of the Japanese Film Series Guinea Pig
Get PDFGuinea Pig (ギニーピッグ) is an anthology series of six body horror films created and released in Japan from 1985 to 1990, all connected by a common theme of bodily experimentation and destruction. The series has maintained a controversial legacy due to its portrayal of intense misogynistic violence. However, upon closer examination, the films reveal subtle moments of patriarchal critique when viewed as a cohesive unit. Using Cynthia Freeland’s framework for creating feminist readings of horror films and Eve Sedgwick’s concept of reparative reading, this research aims to highlight those moments of subversion in order to create a more progressive feminist reading of Guinea Pig. By analyzing the series through this theoretical lens, my research constructs a feminist interpretation that acknowledges Guinea Pig’s problematic aspects while uncovering its broader gender politics, establishing a more comprehensive understanding of the series. My examination of Guinea Pig serves as a case study to more broadly explore the merits of adopting a reparative position, particularly from the perspective of a female spectator of horror cinema. It demonstrates that media which appears highly problematic on its surface can offer legitimately engaging and progressive moments of subversion that complicate simplistic universalized readings of extreme cinema and its viewers
Workflow: Documenting the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Large Language Models) in aiding Archival Description at Rauner Special Collections
Get PDFThis public workflow describes the provisional procedures for documenting the use of generative Artificial Intelligence (Large Language Models) in aiding archival description at Rauner Special Collections. The workflow includes an example of a Python script that was used for assisting in writing abstracts for oral histories. More guidance in this burgeoning and quickly developing field will be forthcoming—this workflow is intended to serve as a buffer until clearer guidance is made available within the Archives community
On Pattern Avoidance and Dynamical Algebraic Combinatorics
Get PDFOver the past decade since the term `dynamical algebraic combinatorics\u27 was coined there has been a tremendous amount of activity in the field. Adding to that growing body of work this thesis hopes to be a step towards a broader study of pattern avoidance within dynamical algebraic combinatorics and helps initiate that by considering an action of rowmotion on 321-avoiding permutations. Additionally within we show the first known instance of piecewise-linear rowmotion periodicity for an infinite family of posets that does not follow from a more general birational result. Finally we show that the code of permutation restricted to permutations that avoid 2143 induces a map to permutations that avoid 132 that is both order and height preserving when pattern avoidance classes are considered as subposets of the Bruhat order for any length permutation
Workflow: Recording Digital Extents At Rauner Special Collections
Get PDFThis public workflow describes the procedure for recording digital extents at Rauner Special Collections, Dartmouth College