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Disillusionment and Death in Ourika and “La Noire de...”
No full textCette étude propose de comparer Ourika de Claire de Duras (1824) et “La Noire de...” d‘Ousmane Sembène (1962). Les deux récits traitent de l‘assimilation d‘une Sénégalaise dans la société française. Ourika est une jeune femme élevée et éduquée dans un milieu aristocratique tandis que Diouana, le personnage principal du récit de Sembaine, qui travaille comme bonne, est illetrée. Mais cette différence entre les deux femmes disparaît au fur et à mesure que le racisme apparaît. Employant les théories de Fanon et de Bhabha, cette étude porte sur les aspects suivants: marchandisation et la perte de soi; stigmatisation et altérité; aliénation et la mort; et, voix supprimées et récits posthumes. En guise de conclusion, l‘étude discute des effets des épreuves des deux personnages principaux, par extension, sur les écrivains francophones africains dans le contexte postcolonial.This study proposes to compare Claire de Duras‘s Ourika (1824) and Ousmane Sembène‘s “La Noire de...” (1962). The two novellas concern the assimilation of a Senegalese woman in the French society. Ourika is a young woman raised and educated in an aristocratic environment, while Diouana, the protagonist of Sembène‘s story, who works as a maid, is illiterate. But the difference between the two women disappears as racism emerges. Using Fanon and Bhabha, this study focuses on the following aspects: Commodification and the loss of self; stigmatization and the protagonist as the Other; alienation and death; and suppressed voices and posthumous narratives. The essay concludes with a discussion of the significance of the struggles of the two protagonists, by extension, for Francophone African writers in the postcolonial context
The Duty of Love: Kinship and Identity in the Face of Disability in Madrid
Get PDFLife with a disability in Spain implies a constant struggle not just for the person with disabilities but also for their family, who must mobilise enough care resources to compensate for the lack of social support they receive. This paper focuses on the ways in which having a family member with a cognitive disability shapes kinship relations, and how the impact related to having a family member with a disability shapes the construction of the family unit as well as the identity of the able-bodied family members. I argue that the narrative of “unconditional love” within the family unit is what enables many families to naturalise the extra work involved in caring for a person with disabilities as part of what it means to be a family – and not as a chore. Care becomes the idiom of their love as it acts as a relational activity through which personhood is created. By humanising the child with disabilities in this way, care is accepted as a “natural” part of their kinship relations
Dystopian and post-apocalyptic video games for young adults
No full textVideo games are massively popular, and gaming is the biggest entertainment industry in the world. This article discusses the popularity of gaming and introduces 8 game titles/series that fall into either the dystopian or post-apocalyptic genre
A Hot Cup of Tea in a TV Show: Review of the TV Show Hilda
No full textThis is review of the TV show Hilda, based off a series of graphic novels of the same name. It follows the titular blue-haired young girl and a cast of diverse characters as she solves mysteries and goes on adventures in the magical Great Forest and the town of Trollberg. This is a light-hearted, consumable, and imaginative show within a magic realist world based off Nordic mythology
Come for the Fantasy, Stay for the Queer Representation: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power by Noelle Stevenson
No full textShe-Ra and the Princesses of Power is a reboot of the 80s show. Hoarde soldier Adora stumbles upon a magical sword and finds herself tied to an ancient prophecy and a quest to save the planet. Teeming with adventure, humour, and representation galore for both queer and racial identities, this show deals with healthy and unhealthy relationships, found family, destiny, friendship, and the fight for good in a science-fiction/fantasy setting
