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Beyond Realism: Reading the Ongoing Wounds of Enslavement in Beloved and Kindred
Get PDFIn an introductory chapter, I synthesize a genealogy of African Diasporic thinkers that challenge traditionally conceptualized bounds of realism and modernism both aesthetically and intellectually. In the chapters that follow, I look closely at Morrison’s Beloved and Butler’s Kindred, as well as the scholarly discussions surrounding the elements in these novels that stretch the bounds of conventionally defined realism. In both novels the linearity of time and concreteness of space is challenged: in Beloved, the ghost of Sethe’s child continues to haunt her family after her death and then physically manifests as Beloved, crossing a mysterious bridge between worlds, in order to arrive. This bridge has been interpreted as connecting the realms of life and death, but also as representative of the Middle Passages, hence challenging of spatial boundaries as well as time boundaries. In Kindred, a connection to her white enslaver ancestor transports Dana back to the nineteenth century and across the country. I maintain that the way these novels stretch the bounds of realism do not confine them to a particular speculative genre, but rather highlight some of the silenced and injurious realities that Black Americans have faced and continue to endure, as well as the strategies of resilience and healing that Black folks have developed in response. In this sense, the two novels share modalities and strategies, but the aspects of Black American life and the time of slavery that they confront and explore differ. In Beloved, I argue that the ways that institutional enslavement seizes people’s self-ownership, especially within a capitalist political economy that values and protects property ownership, especially white male property at the expense of Black lives, results, for many of the characters, in a perpetual struggle for possession over the self, others, materials, and ideas, that is both reclamatory and harmful. In Kindred, I argue that because different conceptions of reality coexist in the same moment, the inability of these perspectives to be understood or even seen by each other arises as an oppressive phenomenon in the context of vast power imbalances, calling for Dana and other characters to engage in a type of translation of their experiences in order to survive enslavement and oppression, and also to be believed and supported
Identity-making and spatialization among Colby College\u27s international students
Get PDFThis thesis presents the research that I have done for the award of Honors in Anthropology. The following text begins with a vignette that highlights identity-making and spatialization among international students in a moment of precarity and visibility. The “Introduction” records the development of my research from its initial topics to its current form, my methodology, my positionality, and the ethics of my research. Following this, in the chapter titled “Internationality,” I lay out the interwoven social, institutional, and political processes which shape the experiences of academic migrants. Because the purpose of this chapter is to fully contextualize my argument, it does not present a comprehensive account of all the processes that my interlocutors must navigate at Colby. In the final chapter, “Identity-making and spatialization,” I connect the processes which produce “need” for my interlocutors to the central topics of my research, identity-making and spatialization. I argue that my interlocutors navigate the pressures of governmentality and neoliberal multiculturalism by creating identities and space for themselves in complex and often contradictory ways
Comunidad y contagio: La narrativa del brote de COVID-19 en España
No full textLa pandemia global de COVID-19 inició inesperadamente el enero del año 2020. Mientras que el nuevo coronavirus impactó a personas de todo el mundo, hay una narrativa particular del brote que se ha ocurrido en España. Las consecuencias corpóreas del virus han tenido mayores impactos en el tejido social, económico, político y cultural de España. Por resultado, hay una narrativa del brote que es específica a los valores, experiencias, suposiciones y creencias de personas en España. Esta historia de la pandémica se ha escrito a través de las redes sociales, así como los funcionarios de salud pública, profesionales medicales, autoridades gubernamentales, y el público en general usan las redes sociales para lidiar y comprender los impactos de la pandemia. Esta narrativa del brote de COVID-19 sigue las convenciones de la narrativa tradicional, como describe Priscilla Wald en Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative, y tiene repercusiones que influyen las normas sociales y políticas surgidas de la crisis de salud pública. A través del análisis de fuentes académicas, artículos en línea, y posts, perfiles, imágenes y etiquetas en las redes sociales, los tres capítulos de esta tesis intentan revelar y discutir cómo el nuevo coronavirus ha influido y seguirá influyendo en las comunidades e individuos en España
The Colby Echo (March 4, 2021)
Get PDFPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present
The Colby Echo (April 29, 2021)
Get PDFPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present
The Predictive Power of the Term Structure Under Unconventional Monetary Policies
Get PDFPrevious research has confirmed a positive relationship between the slope of the yield spread and future economic growth. Since the start of the Great Recession, a number of developed economies have hit the zero lower bound and adopted unconventional monetary policies such as large-scale bond/asset purchase programs and negative interest rate policies. This paper finds that the yield spread’s predictive power generally deteriorates after the central bank adopts its first bond purchase program. However, there is no general pattern of how these unconventional monetary policies impact the yield spread’s forecasting ability across countries
The Colby Echo (February 25, 2021)
Get PDFPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present
