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Drowned Out: Silence in Junot Díaz’s Short Stories
Get PDFThis study proposes the silence that defined Junot Díaz, as revealed in his New Yorker (2018) essay “The Silence,” also permeates his fiction. I explore how the artistic and ideopolitical function of silence in Drown (1996) informs violence and masculinity. The representations of sound and its absence, though seemingly innocuous, articulate hierarchies that reinforce and contest masculine codes, while gestures transform them. Drown’s stories are “moment of truth” narratives predicated on the rupture of silence and subsequent protagonist development. This essay elucidates Yunior’s complex relation to silence and his evolution from vocal boy to reticent adolescent and, eventually, to the author-narrator of the collection’s stories.Este estudio propone que el silencio que caracteriza a Junot Díaz en su ensayo “The Silence” publicado en The New Yorker (2018) también destaca en su ficción. Examino cómo la función artística e ideopolítica del silencio en Drown subyace la violencia y la masculinidad. Las representaciones del sonido y su ausencia, aparentemente inocuas, articulan jerarquías que respaldan y subvierten los códigos masculinos, mientras que los gestos los transforman. Los cuentos de Drown son narrativas del “momento de la verdad”, donde la ruptura del silencio promueve el desarrollo del protagonista. Este ensayo expone la relación complicada que Yunior mantiene con el silencio en su evolución de niño vociferante a joven reservado y, finalmente, al autor-narrador de los cuentos de la colección
SARAH THOMAS. Inhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain’s Long Transition. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2019. 240 pp.
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ROCÍO DEL ÁGUILA AND VANESSA MISERES, EDS. Food Studies in Latin American Literature: Perspectives on the Gastronarrative. Fayetteville: The U of Arkansas P, 2021. xiv + 280 pp.
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DAVID ARBESÚ, ED. Sendebar: Libro de los engaños e los asayamientos de las mugeres. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2019. 152 pp.
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Awarded Citizenships and Fragile National Identities: A Study into Foreign Born Football Players Belonging and Identity
Get PDFFootball is often described to be a global game. This narrative is embodied through the Fédération Internationale de Football Association’s (FIFA) World Cup tournament which consists of 32 national teams competing against each other for international glory. With FIFA being an international body, problems of global governance often spill over into its operations. The citizenship and identity of many players – often football royalty – has been a subject of many international tournaments. From this, the problem this paper investigates is the fragile nature of national identity experienced by migrants by focusing on foreign-born football players within host national teams. The question guiding this study considers how citizenship and national identity are structured and change towards certain migrants. This paper will make two central arguments: First, citizenship is likely to be granted to foreign-born football players and is motivated by nationalism. Second, the national belonging of the migrant football player in the broader public is dependent on the success of the team. Two recent examples of final losses in the case of England and France have shown how the nationality and belonging of minority players is attacked upon defeat with racist and xenophobic comments being directed to players with migrant roots
Investigating Optimal Noise Level for Imperceptible Vibrotactile Stimulation during a Force Stability Task
No full textImperceptible vibratory noise stimulation has shown to improve stability for both whole body postural control and simple motor control tasks. Noise stimulation is theorized to elicit a stochastic resonance-like effect within the somatosensory system, but there is disagreement in the literature regarding an optimal stimulation level for motor stability in humans. To explore vibrotactile stimulation, eighteen (18) participants performed an isometric finger flexion task with visual feedback while receiving noise stimulation scaled to varying percentages of their sub-sensory threshold level. Performance was quantified as the root-mean-square (RMS) error between the target force and the actual generated force values. The goals of the study were to determine: 1) whether force stability is significantly better when receiving their custom “principal” stimulation compared to other sub-sensory stimulation levels, and 2) if an individual’s principal stimulation level may be predicted by either their maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) or sub-sensory threshold level. A main effect of noise stimulation was observed (p < .001) indicating significantly better performance (lower RMS error) during the force stability task when individualized principal noise stimulation was applied. At the group level, task performance was significantly improved with principal noise stimulation compared to other stimulation levels (p ≤ .019). At the individual level, however, performance at the principal stimulation level was only significantly different than the distribution of errors for other stimulation levels for two individuals. Moderate to strong Spearman correlations (rs = .56 and rs = .65, respectively) suggest principal stimulation level increases with MVC and sub-sensory threshold.
Concussion in sport – What do we know, and what’s next? : Proceedings from a symposium at Nottingham Trent University, UK
No full textThis paper presents shortened versions of talks given at a symposium about concussion in sport. The piece is designed, in similar lines as the event, to help communicate knowledge and ideas between academics in multiple disciplines, communities of practice and to develop public and patient involvement. The seven short essays are presented in the style of a conference proceedings paper. Each author presents their own focus, with one paper drawing on lived experiences and activism, three taking a biomedical approach and the remaining three drawing on social scientific analysis and literature. We have developed this paper to provide readers with a concise, but not complete, understanding of different topics related to concussion and brain injuries in sport. The limitations of space means that the authors have had to reduce the complexity of some ongoing debates on the topic. The final section is based on the comments and discussions that happened during and after the symposium. It offers some important takeaways and encourages scholars working in this area to prioritize multi-disciplinary research, and highlights the importance of centering the experiences and lives of those people affected by concussions and neurological disorders in the development and delivery of future work. It is hoped that communicating ideas in this way will encourage such ways of thinking as a means of tackling the complex set of problems that face those involved in sports where repeated forceful impact is a normalized \u27part of the game\u27
