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Grammatische und kognitive Anregungsprozesse beim Dialogischen Lesen mit inputoptimierten Bilderbüchern : Potentiale für die Sprachbildung mehrsprachiger Kinder in der Grundschule
No full textDialogisches Lesen (DL) fördert die Sprachentwicklung vielgestaltig. Die Potentiale des DL für den Grammatikerwerb in der L2 sind jedoch kaum untersucht. Der Beitrag untersucht explorativ, wie Studierende vor und nach einer Schulung das DL zur Grammatikförderung von mehrsprachigen Grundschulkindern auf Basis eines inputoptimierten Bilderbuchs interaktiv umsetzen, dabei kognitive Anregungsprozesse vollziehen, ihre DL-Kompetenzen erweitern und wieweit die Kinder dabei sprachliche Zuwächse zeigen.
Dialogic reading (DR) promotes literacy, but its impact on L2 learners\u27 grammar acquisition is under-researched. The article explores how special education students conduct DR with an input-optimised picture book interactively to promote the grammar acquisition of multilingual primary school children before and after a training. The analysis also highlights cognitive learning in DR and childrenÅLs language learning processes.Dialogic reading (DR) promotes literacy, but its influence on L2 learners\u27 grammar acquisition is under-researched. The article explores how special education students use DR with an input-optimised picture book to promote the grammar acquisition of multilingual primary school children before and after training. The analysis also highlights sustained shared thinking processes and the responsive behaviour that the students use to establish high quality input in DR
El Galeote Mexicano: el atentado contra el obispo José María Cázares, un episodio olvidado de la historia eclesiástica mexicana, 1887-1889
No full textDe una verdadera tragedia calificaban los periódicos mexicanos al intento de asesinato del obispo de Zamora a manos de un miembro de la iglesia católica. El suceso, acaecido el jueves de Corpus Christi de 1887 al interior de la catedral de Morelia, había conmocionado a la sociedad católica del país que no tardó en conectar las similitudes del caso con el asesinato del obispo de Madrid, ocurrido apenas dos años antes a manos del sacerdote Cayetano Galeote y Cotilla. En el desarrollo del juicio contra el imputado por intento de asesinado, la prensa católica incentivó un debate sobre las posibles causas del acontecimiento, a la luz del impacto social de más de dos décadas de la separación Estado-Iglesia, en el contexto de los atentados contra otras autoridades eclesiásticas y civiles. En el presente artículo revisaremos los principales argumentos de dicho debate.The Mexican newspapers described the attempted assassination of the Bishop of Zamora by a member of the Catholic Church as a true tragedy. The event, which took place on Corpus Christi Thursday in 1887 inside the cathedral of Morelia, had shocked the country\u27s Catholic society, which was quick to connect the similarities of the case with the murder of the Bishop of Madrid, which occurred just two years earlier at the hands of the priest Cayetano Galeote y Cotilla. During the course of the trial against the accused for attempted murder, the Catholic press encouraged a debate on the possible causes of the event, in light of the social impact of more than two decades of the separation of Church and State, in the context of attacks against other ecclesiastical and civil authorities. In this article we will review the main arguments of this debate
Parsua Bashi’s Nylon Road: Visual Witnessing and the Critique of Neoliberalism in Iranian Women’s Graphic Memoir
No full textI offer the first critical reading in English of Parsua Bashi’s graphic memoir Nylon Road, which traces a narrative of place and belonging by a diasporan Iranian woman after the cataclysmic changes of previous decades. The narrative is a dialogical autobiographical process in which Parsua, the narrating I, conducts a self-interrogation with eleven of her former selves. Together they weigh the competing belief systems of Iranian fundamentalism; Western secular humanism in Switzerland, where Bashi was a migrant (her preferred term) from 2004-09; and Soviet-style socialism, influential for many middle-class intellectuals in 1970s Iran. This visually charged clash of political and cultural positions serves as a lens for thinking about social relations and the role of women in public life. Bashi organizes Nylon Road dialogically as a site for airing visual and voiced evidence about conflicting representations of what it meant to live in, leave, and return to, Iran over a quarter century. Nylon Road’s story of coming of age in revolution-era Iran presents Bashi as a daughter who, unlike Marjane Satrapi, participated in the new regime’s program for decades and critiqued those escaping into exile. When she finally does so, in her thirties, she is an uncomfortable migrant in Zürich, where her multiple past selves, drawn at different ages, confront her with versions of her childhood and adolescent experience that the present-time narrating I recalls quite differently in both visual and verbal terms. The differing political positions traced in these encounters with her multiple I’s, distinct in her representations, form a complex set of perspectives for both reflecting on and critiquing the Islamic Revolution within feminist, global, and postcolonial contexts
Review: The Beguiled
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review:
In the opening sequence of Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, the camera pans slowly down through the top of a canopy of oak trees, their branches dripping with Spanish moss. When it reaches the trunks, the camera zooms out to gradually reveal the dirt path they line and down which a young girl saunters. A child of about twelve or so, she hums a melody that hovers hauntingly in this secluded, bucolic space. The persistent, pulsing buzz of cicadas fills the air, and the faint but distinctive sounds of rifle fire echo in the background, a distant and vaguely ominous metronome that measures the rhythm of her song. Mist—presumably smoke from those distant rifles—rolls through the trunks of the oaks. The scene is incredibly atmospheric, yet it also serves as a very pointed metaphor for what is really the film’s central concern: the diffuse and sometimes impalpable ways that men’s actions can seep into the everyday lives of women
Review: Jovanka Vuckovic, Annie Clark, Roxanne Benjamin, and Karyn Kusama. XX
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review:
Given the low number of women contributors to horror, a genre anthology of “four deadly tales from four female filmmakers” (Magnet Releasing) is a disappointingly unique concept. This is what XX (2017) promises, with four dramatically different horror shorts. However as an anthology, the film lacks consistency in style and tone, as the only commonality is the gender of the filmmakers
A Lesser Human Future: Posthuman Monstrosities in World War Z (2013) and Annihilation (2018)
No full textWorld War Z’s (Palestinianized) zombies and Annihilation’s anthropocenic Shimmer post or rework conceptions of humanist and anthropomorphic monstrous bodies as sociologically knowable and biologically bound entities, as they are monstrosities of entanglement in nonhuman, informational, technological, ecological, and geological Latourian actor-networks. The monstrous of canonical monster theory, as a nonindividual discursive network of power, mediates a specific cultural body, whilst, in a conceptualization of monstrosity as actor-network, the monster would not be monstrous because it is the othered, not-quite-human alterity-body of humanity, but because it demonstrates (monere) the transcorporeality and nonhumanness of humans in the first place, as well as their status as nonexceptional and non-autonomous actors and actor-networks within larger-than-life actor-networks. The Jerusalem scene from World War Z links the posthuman terrorist becomings and resistances of the zombie and the (Palestinian) suicide bomber: the zombie bite, which collapses undeath into undeath, body and flesh into body and flesh, is comparable to the explosive death of the ballistic suicide bomber confusing boundaries between flesh, metal, life, death, and undeath. World War Z’s zombie and the racialized suicide bomber share the monstrous potentiality of posthuman contagion and networkability. In Annihilation, the Shimmer, the Alienocene as analogy of the Anthropocone, is a demonstrative monstrosity, cautioning that it is not simply humans changing the morphism of the Earth, but that the Earth itself is a nonhuman actor-network whose alterations effect alterations in the morphisms of the human. The monsters of climatological and geological change, the monsters of what-we-have-done-to-the-earth, will ultimately get us, precisely because we irreducibly intra-act with our Anthropocene
Defined by Distance: The Road Trip and Queer Love in Alice Isn’t Dead
No full textFrom a feminist media studies and cultural studies perspective, the contribution explores the fascinating, yet overlooked podcast series Alice Isn’t Dead (2016-8). The podcast thematically centers around the complex relationship of culture and distance and develops different understandings of culture, as well as the experience of distance in a geographical, socio-economic (class mobility), or interpersonal-romantic sense. Tracing these conceptions and their attempts to define a collective US-American identity differently, the contribution focuses on the podcast’s narration in the form of radio monologues by its protagonist, the exceptional trucker character Keisha, its take on the road trip and (female) mobility, as well as its representation of a queer love story. With an eye for the intersectional effects of gender, race, and sexual orientation, these readings mobilize a variety of cultural artifacts to explore the particular affordances of serialized fictional podcast storytelling. Of particular interest to the contribution are the intertextual echoes of tropes and themes of the road trip narrative and the road movie, as well as the podcast’s ending as a turn toward homonormativity that is inconsistent with the queer temporalities and the capitalist critique developed by the podcast during its three seasons
Nannie Helen Burroughs and the Descendants of Miriam: Rewriting Nannie Helen Burroughs into First Wave Feminism
No full textWe argue that early twentieth century Black women labor organizers and their movement for inclusive women’s suffrage and women’s labor rights stay absent from popular first wave feminist narratives. After the ratification of the nineteenth amendment, Black women continued organizing for women’s suffrage and labor rights in the face of racial and gender-based policies that legalized the labor exploitation of Black women and the suppression of the Black vote. We detail African American educator Nannie Helen Burroughs’s labor and voting initiatives to challenge the white women-centered chronology of first wave feminism and expand its narrative to include Black women’s labor organizing both at home and abroad. While working with women’s suffrage organizations, Burroughs established the National Trade School for Women and Girls in 1909 to improve the working conditions of Black domestic workers and create career opportunities that had been denied to them because of discriminatory hiring practices and intersecting racial and gender inequalities. In 1921, Burroughs co-founded the National Association of Wage Earners, a national union organizing effort for Black women. While piecing together her groundbreaking initiatives from archives, obituaries, newspaper articles, speeches, secondary literature, event notices, and the biographies of her co-organizers, we assert that her story sheds new light on the rarely acknowledged connection between Black women’s labor and political organizing in the United States and abroad, drawing attention to the often-marginalized histories of Black domestic worker organizing in feminist historical narratives. We intend for this historical uncovering of Burroughs writings to begin the conversation about who she was as a national and international labor organizer.
We argue that Nannie Helen Burroughs (1870-1961) was a significant labor leader and rhetorician of the early twentieth century. We challenge racial, gendered and classed constructions of history and rhetoric that render invisible the work women like Burroughs did during nadir. She believed a women’s labor collective would lead to political, social, and economic rights for the entire Black community. We examine how Burroughs employed her audacious, progressive, and forward-thinking labor rhetoric through an analysis of three major texts: “The Colored Woman and Her Relations to the Domestic Service Problem” (1902), “Divide Vote or Go to Socialists” (1919) and “My Dear Friend” (1921). Through these three texts we trace the development of Burroughs’s womanist labor rhetoric over time. We argue that following her speeches, Burroughs developed and employed a labor rhetoric that led to the formation of a historic labor union for African American domestic workers in 1921, the National Association of Wage Earners (NAWE). We intend for our examination of her writings to commence rather than end a discussion about who Burroughs was as a labor organizer and rhetorician seeking to complicate the legacy of Burroughs. She was a scholar first who sought to liberate black women from penury by asserting their humanity through offering a broad educational focus, instilling pride within her students’ gender and race, and placing these women into positions of stable employment through a womanist themed national labor and unionization platform
Queering Solidarity: South Asian Diasporic Activism and Solidarity in US and UK Racial Justice Struggles
No full textThis article explores the linkages between queerness, racialisation, activism, and community care in the South Asian diaspora. It examines activism, organizing, and social movement work practiced by queer diasporic South Asians in the UK and the US. By understanding South Asian activist relationship to, and solidarity and partnership with, Black liberation activism, this article conceptualises a framing of queer South Asian diasporic solidarity. This solidarity is framed through contrasting articulations of joint struggle, allyship, and kinship in queer communities. To articulate this struggle, the article contrasts histories of South Asian racialisation, politicisation, and queerness in the UK and the US, and synthesises first-person activist accounts of modern-day queer South Asian activists in the diaspora. Finally, it argues that queer feminist South Asian activists in both countries are employing a model of queered solidarity with Black activists and Black liberation, though in differing forms in each country, that centres queer intimacies and anti-patriarchal modes of organising for liberation across queer communities of colour