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Becoming-Animal and Becoming-Woman Explored Through a Feminine Minor Literature
Get PDFIn this essay I will critically examine the concepts of becoming-woman and becoming-animal as discussed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. I will explore them in terms of lines of flight and reterritorialization and how these might be realized differently through literature and art, namely écriture feminine (Cixous), a writing that destabilizes the molar phallogocentric tradition. More specifically I will discuss Clarice Lispector’s literary work The Passion According to G.H. and Leonora Carrington’s short stories. Femininity has been historically linked with chaos, the body, and animality rather than reason, in order to exclude women from logocentric disciplines of knowledge. I propose that this oppressive association might be reclaimed and reterritorialized to offer liberatory possibilities towards becoming. I do not aim to offer a structuralist or literary interpretation of these works, but rather to illuminate how these stories might function mechanically according to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept creations in the way Deleuze and Guattari do with Kafka as a minor literature. In G.H., the title character experiences her domesticity and bourgeois femininity as a confining rigid identity but experiences a deterritorialization and ontological interruption of her bounded everyday experience once she discovers unexpectedly a cockroach on her floor. She begins an ongoing line of flight towards becoming-cockroach, and therefore towards better understanding the being of this primordial creature, one that most humans experience as other, invader, and disgusting. Carrington’s surrealist stories offer darkly comic tales of transformation, of hoards of animals, of hybrids (both animal and sexual), and of becoming-animal, becoming-human, and becoming-woman. I will use Cixous’ and Braidotti’s writings on Lispector and Elizabeth Grosz’ readings of Deleuze and Guattari to aid my exploration into how the notions of becoming-animal and becoming-woman open new liberatory positions hitherto unavailable.Keywords: Becoming, Écriture Feminine, Feminist Theory, Materialism, Minor Literature, Leonora Carrington, Hélène Cixous, Deleuze and Guattari, Clarice Lispecto
Exploring Shared Practices and Lessons Learned from Circumpolar Culturally-Relevant Teacher Training (CRTT
Get PDFThere has been a decline in language use because of a history of colonization and assimilation. This trend shows the need for restoring Indigenous language and culture through teacher education. Several authors have claimed that incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing into schools is the first step towards decolonization of education and self-determination. Norway and Canada, particularly in the context of Sami and Inuit peoples, are ideal to be used as case studies that can facilitate the shared challenges and lessons learned for implementing from Circumpolar Culturally-Relevant Teacher Training (CRTT) in Circumpolar Indigenous cultures. The author concludes this paper with recommendations to implement CRTT and provides justifications to enable self-determination of Indigenous education
Diverse Contexts Within an Inuit School Setting—Schooling in Nunavik
Get PDFThis is a qualitative case study of one school in one of the 14 communities of Nunavik. Nunavik is an Inuit Nunangat region located at the Northern tip of Quebec. Nunavik is also bounded by Hudson Bay to the west, Nunavut to the north, and Nunatsiavut (Newfoundland and Labrador) to the east. As is the case across the Canadian North and more specifically Inuit Nunangat, schools are responding to the challenges faced by their students and communities in a variety of ways to promote success. The case study shares the context of one of the 14 Nunavik communities and outlines success factors of the school, the determinants of success for students, and highlight many important links between the school and the community in support of culture and language. In this case the promotion of the Inuit language is a strong element in their success, Unique to this case while English language influence is quite high, this is modified by the additional influence of French language
Philip McShane: Reminiscences
Get PDFIvo Coelho, SDB earned a PhD in philosophy at the Gregorian University, Rome, for his work on “The Development of the Notion of the Universal Viewpoint in Bernard Lonergan: From Insight to Method in Theology” (1994). Among his publications are Hermeneutics and Method: The ‘Universal Viewpoint’ in Bernard Lonergan (2001), Brahman and Person: Essays by Richard De Smet (2010) (ed.), Violence and its Victims: A Challenge to Philosophizing in the Indian Context (Association of Christian Philosophers India vol. 11, 2010) (ed.), Understanding Śaṅkara: Essays by Richard De Smet (2013) (ed.), and Keeping the Faith: Festschrift for Joaquim D’Souza, SDB (2016) (ed.)
Dialectic Exercise on *Method in Theology,* Chapter 5
Get PDFIvo Coelho, SDB earned a PhD in philosophy at the Gregorian University, Rome, for his work on “The Development of the Notion of the Universal Viewpoint in Bernard Lonergan: From Insight to Method in Theology” (1994). Among his publications are Hermeneutics and Method: The ‘Universal Viewpoint’ in Bernard Lonergan (2001), Brahman and Person: Essays by Richard De Smet (2010) (ed.), Violence and its Victims: A Challenge to Philosophizing in the Indian Context (Association of Christian Philosophers India vol. 11, 2010) (ed.), Understanding Śaṅkara: Essays by Richard De Smet (2013) (ed.), and Keeping the Faith: Festschrift for Joaquim D’Souza, SDB (2016) (ed.).
