4 research outputs found
Defining African American authorship
No full textJames Weldon Johnson and Melvin B. Tolson are pivotal figures of the early 20th century. They represent a fundamental question that has been and is indeed still in the minds of African American authors: What is a Black author? African American authorship necessarily involves the challenge of forging a literary identity in the face of a society structurally and temperamentally predisposed to marginalize and dismiss them. In their creative and scholarly works, Johnson and Tolson methodically dissect Black authorship, looking both to the past and to their present situation as they strive to imagine a future for African American literary identity, in all its depth and value. Yet despite the parallels in their objects and methods, there remains a divide between Johnson and Tolson wide enough that they are rarely placed in direct conversation with each other. I intend to bridge this gap by addressing the necessary comparisons between the works of these two authors
Crackin' the code of post-race: post-1980s novels and post-race discourses
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Inglês: Estudos Linguísticos e Literários, Florianópolis, 2013.Abstract : The last decades has seen a shift in racial thought in the U.S. The discourses vary from the statement that the U.S. has moved beyond race to the post-racial neoliberalist discourse in which 'essential' identities are fragments of a social past and its continuance has the function of renewing race and racism. As these discourses gain ground in the U.S. society, the issue of fighting racism becomes more slippery. The present investigation analyzes the meanings attached to the rebirth of novels that deals with the concept of passing for white in this period and its relation with the fragmentation of the color line. More specifically, the aim of this dissertation is to unveil the forms through which No Telephone to Heaven, Caucasia, and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky respond to the discourses of racial liberalism and Critical Realism. Drawing upon Santiago?s concept of in-betweenness and Butler's concept of performativity, this dissertation sought to analyze the novels chosen as rich sources of insight about the changing racial thought in the U.S.As últimas décadas registraram uma mudança no pensamento racial nos Estados Unidos. Os discursos variam da afirmação de que os Estados Unidos transcendeu a questão racial ao discurso neoliberalista pós-racial que considera identidades 'essenciais' como fragmentos de um passado social e sua continuação apenas renova os conceitos de raça e racismo. A medida que esses discursos se tornam dominantes nos Estados Unidos, a questão do combate ao racismo se torna mais incerta. A presente investigação analisa os significados ligados ao reaparecimento de romances que lidam com o conceito de 'passar por branco' neste período e sua relação com a fragmentação da ?color line?. Mais especificamente, o objetivo deste estudo é investigar a forma que No Telephone to Heaven, Caucasia, and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky respondem aos discursos de liberalismo racial e Realismo Crítico. Com base no conceito de ?entre-lugar? de Santiago e o conceito de performatividade de Butler, esta tese procurou analisar as novelas escolhidas como fontes ricas de compreensão do pensamento racial nos Estados Unidos
The effects of bank reforms on the monetary transmission mechanism in emerging market economies: Evidence from Egypt
No full textThis paper investigates the transmission of monetary policy to the real economy after the adoption of bank reforms in emerging market economies (EMEs). The Egyptian case is empirically studied to test the efficacy of the banking sector as a transmission agent subsequent to the banking reforms that extended from 1991 to 2009. The structural vector autoregressive methodology is employed to investigate the impact of the interest rate and foreign exchange rate channels on output and inflation. The results of the study reveal several interactions among the two types of channels. Second, interest rate intervention proves to have substantial effects on output, but less on inflation. Third, exchange rate intervention has some effects on inflation, but less on output. Thus, both transmission channels have showed superior effectiveness after the banking reform. This indicates that the Central Bank of Egypt should not continue to depend on the interest rate channel alone, but has to additionally utilize the exchange rate channel in order to successfully achieve inflation targeting that has been its prime goal since 2003 and even more after the global food crisis of 2007/8. This ruling could prove functional when conducting monetary policy in EMEs of similar circumstances to Egypt. © 2010 The Author. African Development Review © 2010 African Development Bank
