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Passage. Kammerspiel: Passage: A Chamber Play by Christoph Hein
No full textThe chamber play Passage by the East Berlin author Christoph Hein was originally published in 1987 in the GDR’s theater journal, Theater der Zeit, and has been reprinted several times since. It opened nearly simultaneously in Dresden, Essen, and Zürich in the fall of 1987 and had its US premiere in Las Vegas, in an earlier version of this translation, in November 2017
Negro Mountain by C. S. Giscombe
No full textC. S. Giscombe. Negro Mountain. University of Chicago Press, 2023. Paperback, 91 pages. $18.00. ISBN: 9780226829715
Amurgul Gîndurilor: The Twilight of Thoughts
No full textEmil Mihai Cioran wrote Amurgul gîndurilor (The Twilight of Thoughts) in Paris in the 1930s as one of his last works, along with Îndreptar patimaş (The Passionate Handbook), in his native Romanian before switching to French (Amurgul gîndurilor, Sibiu: Dacia Traiana, 1940). This may have been not so much for the supposed greater analytic clarity of French prose as an escape from the mindset of an unreflected-on native language with its inevitable conceptual constraints. These final Romanian texts are rightly seen as harbingers of what was to come in his work written in French
Preface
No full textWe are pleased to present Delos 39.2, which continues the journal’s commitment to fostering dialogue among languages, cultures, and literary traditions. This issue features a rich selection of essays, translations, and reviews exploring a diverse array of authors and themes. Many of the contributions stem from the Call for Submissions launched in issue 38.2, which initiated an in-depth reflection on topics such as Environmental Literature, the Literature of Migration, and Artificial Intelligence. At the same time, Delos maintains its open and interdisciplinary nature, welcoming contributions that span various genres and critical approaches, in keeping with the journal’s spirit
Be All You Already Are: The Significance of Intrinsic Motivation and Socialisation on Military Identification
No full textIn the wake of the War in Ukraine, the need for Armed Forces organizations to focus on recruitment and retainment and to attract, educate and maintain their future leaders has reentered the agenda. As organizational identification is known to strengthen retainment, this study examines antecedents of military identification, focusing on the role of intrinsic motivation and military socialization. Thus, through cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of a unique dataset with Danish cadets, we show, first, a close link between intrinsic motivation and military identification. Second, while military socialization seems to play a role, we also find that the difference that can be ascribed to intrinsic motivation remains: Regardless of the method of analysis pursued, strongly motivated cadets just identify stronger with the military. These findings have obvious recruitment implementations and should also give rise to considerations regarding the Armed Forces’ prioritization of retainment initiatives
Women’s Access to Professional Military Education: Gender Equality Implementation in the Armed Forces of Ukraine
No full textEstablishing the policy of equal rights and opportunities in the military sector requires women to have better access to professional military education (PME); it also means developing PME to incorporate awareness of gender issues in the armed forces. Ukraine’s implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, “Women, Peace, and Security,” provides women and men equal access to educational institutions at all levels in the security and defense sector and the inclusion of a gender component in education. Solving the issue of protecting military personnel from sexual harassment is another step on the path to creating a professional army. Education is an important factor as well, as it can raise the awareness in both men and women soldiers of the importance of gender equality and improve their ability to recognize sexual harassment, counteract it, and deal with its consequences. This study addresses the intersection of two sectors: education and the military. It is based on the results of a representative public opinion survey on women’s access to military education, an anonymous online survey, and secondary data analysis. It underlines the importance of a gender-sensitive approach to women’s access to PME, which itself plays an important role in the implementation of gender equality in the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), helping to break down stereotypes and biases that have historically limited women’s roles in the military
Post-Memory and Dispossession: The Expendables of Northeast India in Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return
No full textAnglophone literature from Northeast India delineates the experiences of marginalisation and violence that have marred the region for decades. Most of these stories relate to the lives of the “indigenous” people who have suffered due to the conflict between state and sub-nationalist forces. Quite recently, a few writers have succeeded in bringing within this discourse the plight of the communities, who are often constructed as “outsiders,” “foreigners” or “immigrants”. These terminologies are used for the “non-indigenous” people who have been domiciled in Northeast India for the past several decades. These communities have also experienced violence, assault and displacement multiple times leading to trauma, fear and otherisation. Siddhartha Deb’s The Point of Return presents the plight of this community caught at the crossroads of partition and violence in their search for a new homeland. By drawing a parallel between nation and home, the essay shows how the immigrants in Deb's novel are permuted to, what Agamben calls bare life. Analysing through the lens of necropolitics and post-memory, this essay argues that the immigrant community which was integral to the colonial schema of governance and then the key to the Nehruvian nation-building project has been turned into an expendable community
African Literary Culture and the Archival Stakes of Social Media
No full textThis article argues for rethinking how we assign value to social media as a source of literary knowledge, with a focus on African literature. Drawing from media studies, archival theory, and African literary studies, it shows how social media platforms have become key spaces where the public life of African literary culture unfolds. Yet because this content often appears informal and ephemeral, it is rarely recognized as a legitimate site of literary knowledge. The article challenges that view, arguing that digital content deserves critical and archival attention.
 
Africanizing the Archival Vision of American Racial Violence in Teju Cole’s Tremor
No full textBorn in Michigan in 1975 but raised in Lagos, Teju Cole belongs to a new generation of African novelists who came to the United States of America as immigrants or students. Inspired by the publication of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s epoch-making novel Purple Hibiscus (2003), these Afropolitan novelists self-reflexively thematize their immigrant experiences and racial dynamics between contemporary America and Africa. Genealogically, then, Cole’s Afropolitan positionality and orientation afford him privileged access not only to insider knowledge of American history, but also of his Yoruba cultural heritage. His novella Every Day Is for the Thief (2007) and debut novel Open City (2011) epitomize Cole’s transcultural sensibility. His latest novel, Tremor (2023), extends this thematic trajectory through kaleidoscopic narration and anecdotal focalization of the protagonist and author surrogate, Tunde—a Nigerian lecturer at Harvard University, photographer, art critic, and music connoisseur. I argue that Cole Africanizes the archival vision of American racial violence through his transcultural solidarity with African-Americans and political activism. Tremor thus interrogates the archives of American racial violence from counter-hegemonic perspectives that empathize with Afrodiasporic experiences
From a Small Plot in Knoxville to a Worldwide Footprint: An Overview of Human Decomposition Facilities
No full textThe first outdoor human decomposition research facility was established by Dr. William Bass in 1980 at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Initial research at the Anthropology Research Facility (ARF) examined some of the large-scale environmental factors that contribute to decomposition and time since death estimates. As taphonomic research grew into a holistic and interdisciplinary field, the importance of macro-and microenvironmental factors became clear, and additional facilities opened in different areas of the globe. Research conducted at outdoor decomposition facilities now investigates complex relationships between the decomposing body and its environment in diverse landscapes across the world. These facilities play an important role in forensic science by providing real-world laboratory environments, research material, opportunities for research, and documented modern skeletal collections. In addition, they provide opportunities for training both professionals and students in many fields that require human remains, including human remains recovery, death investigation, and cadaver dog training. In the United States today, the resulting ethically donated human skeletal collections have increasing importance in understanding the changes in modern human bodies. This article examines the growth and function of what have been colloquially referred to as “body farms” over the past four decades