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The Pains of Colonialism: Examining Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novella Nervous Conditions (1988)
Get PDFThe condition of a native is a nervous condition.
(From the introduction to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth)
Tsitsi Dangarembga is an African novelist and filmmaker from Zimbabwe. Nervous Conditions (1988) was her first novella after her 1987 play She No Longer Weeps. Her works usually have a feminist purview. However, the particular work would be scrutinized from a colonial lens.
As a student of comparative literature, I found this text worthy of study. It gave me an insight into a completely different culture from mine. Africa and India share many similarities in relation to tribal culture, orature and community-based living. Also, since we both were co-sufferers in our shared struggle against colonialism, therefore this piece was found apt to be taken up. It is a quest to find out how their colonial experience differed from ours by deeply analyzing the text. The stance taken would be of the twenty-first century post-colonial Indian student.
DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00001.8
 
Interpreting and Comparing the Representations of Hermes in Ancient Greece and Archangel Michael in Macedonian Folk Beliefs
Get PDFThis paper provides a comparative interpretation of the Ancient Greek image of Hermes as a mythological figure with the image of Archangel Michael as a highly revered Orthodox saint in modern Macedonian society. The goal of this research is to show the similarities and the differences between these two characters and how these images are understood today in modern society. By comparing the representations of these two characters, popularly accepted as soul reapers and psychopomps and regularly portrayed holding a stick, and then through the comparison of the days that mark their celebration, the aim of this paper is to show that rudiments of Macedonian folk beliefs and customs associated with this saint, although modified, are still strongly present in the Macedonian tradition.
DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00011.
Is quantum medium a metaphysical continuum?
Get PDFQuantum medium is a metaphysical continuum fabric full of primal energy. This energy contains information of the existence in all its manifestations, the metaphysical continuum that makes a quantum medium display in the “real” embedded in the First Thinker’s thought. Quantum medium is expressed in a fractal way; that is to say that the information of thoughts is multiplied infinitesimally, and so it makes the manifestation of existence infinite.
DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00022.
Approach to the thought of Fernando Vallejo through the reading of \u27El Desbarrancadero\u27
No full textThe article aims to interpret (and to some extent comment on) some of Fernando Vallejo\u27s thoughts contained in his novel El Desbarrancadero. The Colombian author\u27s text includes deep reflections on essential issues of human existence and their fundamental circumstances.
Throughout the pages of El Desbarrancadero, ideas about life are exposed in their most critical aspect, masterfully described by Vallejo. They are subjects that often –though they are all well-known– are nevertheless little commented, due to what some might call a certain conceptual hardness and rigor.
The author of Medellín is characterized by his freedom in saying what he thinks. That frankness (after all, courage), and that depth and literary beauty at the same time, make El Desbarrancadero one of the most important philosophical novels ever written in Spanish.
Abstracto:
El artículo pretende interpretar (y en alguna medida comentar) los pensamientos de Fernando Vallejo contenidos en su novela El Desba-rrancadero. El texto del autor colombiano incluye reflexiones profundas sobre temas esenciales de la existencia humana y de sus circunstancias fundamentales.
A lo largo de las páginas de El desbarrancadero se van exponiendo ideas sobre la vida en su aspecto más crítico, descritas de forma magistral por Vallejo. Son temas que a menudo –pese a ser son de todos conocidos– son sin embargo poco comentados, debido a lo que algunos podrían llamar una cierta dureza y rigor conceptuales.
Caracteriza al autor el Medellín su libertad al decir lo que piensa. Esa franqueza (al cabo, valentía), y esa profundidad y la vez belleza literarias, hacen de El Desbarrancadero una de las más importantes novelas “de ideas” que se han escrito en lengua castellana.
Notes:
1. Article Language="Primarily Spanish, with abstract in English and Spanish"
2. Article title in Spanish : Aproximación al pensamiento de Fernando Vallejo a través de la lectura de ‘El Desbarrancadero’
DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00024.3
 
A critical analysis of the Novel: Gunah-E-Muqaddas
Get PDFGunah-e-Muqaddas is story of a family which lived during the reign of the Shah in Tehran and it rotates around a woman who is a mother. There are several characters in this novel, but it mosty expresses the second son of the family, Manuchehr. Besides his parents, Nazy and Humayun are important characters of the novel. This novel represents the Political and social situation in Iran during the Pahlavi, which deteriorated so much wind, and disorder everywhere. Hussain Quli Mastan unfavorable situation in the country is reflected in the novel.
In this article the characterization, tone, dialogue, idioms and allusions and other elements characteristic style Rashness has been examined
Industrialisation of Rivers: A sacred and profane approach
Get PDFThe process of industrialization has resulted in spread and dissemination of science and practical knowledge that has attacked religion and superstition. The miracles of holy rivers have been gradually replaced by scientific explanations. This paper explores the nuances that industrialization is mired with, in relation to the rivers, associated large infrastructure and rivers attributed sacredness. The paper uses the case of river Kshipra flowing in the city of Ujjain to explain the shifting attribution of ‘sacred’ from natural things like rivers to materialistic things like money. The paper discusses the change in the significance of river during a world famous festival of Hindus for holy dip Simhastha. The paper explains the shift in focus of Simhastha from holy dip to crowd control, space allocation, crass commercialisation and unchecked competition. It explains using the theory of sacred and profane of Durkheim and Eliade, how in the modern time\u27s secularisation of religion and sacralisation of secular has created the sacred/profane distinction which is making the rivers only the source for consumption forgetting their actual significance.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00013.
Black Consciousness in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain
Get PDFBlack Consciousness implies the consciousness of being an African American and of being sensitively aware of the culture, history and all that is connected to the African American with present, past and the future. Black consciousness grew out of the unrelieved suffering and psychological traumas of a group of people who were subjected to overt and covert racism in the USA for about four centuries. It gives us an insight into their predicaments. In a way, it is a counter-culture to racism and definitely not a means to hatred, but is aiming at social change. Hansberry introduces spirituals, Jazz and blues and other aspects of African American culture throughout Raisin. He feels that the liberation that the Africans need is not a religious conversion which leads to further exploitation, but political freedom.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00011.
Marxist ideology and philosophy as interpreted by Raymond Aron
Get PDFWithout posing the objective of providing an exhaustive interpretation of Aron’s thought on Marx and totalitarianism, we intend to identify several key concepts that emerge from an analysis of Aron’s acclaimed work on the role played by Marxist-Leninist ideology in the development of the 20th-century philosophic thought.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00005.
Science and Technology in Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress
Get PDFBrown is an American author of thriller fiction. Brown can spend up to two years writing them. To remain focused on such projects, Brown ensures that when he chooses a theme for the novel and its subject, that they be those that can hold his interest. In Brown\u27s view, the ideal topic does not have an easily defined right or wrong view but presents a moral grey area that can lend itself to debate. Because his favourite subjects include codes, puzzles, treasure hunts, secretive organisations and academic lectures on obscure topics, he tends to incorporate those into his novels. Because Brown considers writing to be a discipline that requires constant practice, he has developed a routine to maintain his abilities.
Article DOI : 10.5958/2347-6869.2017.00003.
Historical origins of the french school of economic warfare
Get PDFThe French school of economic warfare analysis may be considered one of the most prominent on the European continent today, with numerous private and public institutes – including the School of Economic Warfare in Paris – dedicated to spreading awareness of its importance in expanding and improving the practical activities of French businesses. This article proposes a historical analysis of this tradition, focusing on the last three decades of the 20th Century a division into three periods that goes beyond mere chronological convenience in order to illustrate the fundamental turning points and achievements in a not always linear evolution. One particular aim of the analysis is to emphasise the crucial role played by the French business intelligence apparatus in affirming the nation’s economic autonomy, previously in the bipolar world of the Cold War and presently in the context of globalisation. In addition to the internal dynamics of the evolution of this apparatus, emphasis is placed on the story’s leading characters, the scholars and statesmen, who provided it with propulsion through their works by interpreting the nation’s potential in the economic field as a direct descendant of the ideals that have lain at the heart of the French Republic since 1789