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A saga de um clã Xavier
No full textThe book brings together historical memories of the Xavier family, of which the author is a member, and includes everything from the heroic episode between members of the Xavier family and Lampião's gang, to a Xavier family tree and tributes to the members of this family, as well as photographic records of known members. The author rescues and preserves important memories of the family, reconstructing facts that, if told orally, could gradually be erased. The story told by Maria do Socorro Cardoso Xavier is also a way of preserving the memory of Ipueira, reporting on the social life and historical setting of the place, using family narrative.O livro reúne registros de memórias históricas da família Xavier, da qual a autora é membro,
e traz desde o episódio heróico entre membros da família Xavier e o bando de Lampião, à
uma árvore genealógica dos Xavier e homenagens aos membros dessa famílias, além de
registros fotográficos dos membros conhecidos. A autora resgata e preserva memórias
importantes da família, reconstituindo fatos que, contados oralmente, poderiam se apagar aos
poucos. A história narrada por Maria do Socorro Cardoso Xavier também é uma forma de
preservar a memória de Ipueira, relatando sobre a vida social e cenário histórico do lugar,
utilizando da narrativa familiar
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Sir William Collins and Xavier Herbert
No full textSir William Collins, publisher and Xavier Herbert, author. Hand written comment about the photograph by Xavier Herbert on verso. [Gift of David Rowbotham
Vindication for the Mpakwithi First Nation through Language Revival
No full textThe Mpakwithi first nation’s language reclamation shows the importance of language revival for the wellbeing, recognition and future existence of a first nation. The Mpakwithi, like other first nations from the Port Musgrave area on the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, after years of non-violent resistance, were forcibly removed from their land in 1963 by the Queensland Government to make way for a bauxite mine. The police razed their dwellings, churches and schools and the people were exiled to the northernmost area of Cape York. Sisters Agnes, Victoria and Susan Kennedy have grown up identifying as Mpakwithi. The Mpakwithi traditionally owns a dialect of the Anguthimri language complex. The last speaker of their language, their grandfather Don Fletcher, learned the language by escaping from mission dormitories to spend time with free Mpakwithi elders. The late linguist Terry Crowley recorded Fletcher’s knowledge in the 70s (Crowley 1975, 1981). However, Fletcher did not feel confident to speak texts other than sample sentences into a microphone. The Kennedy sisters continued to identify as Mpakwithi after Fletcher’s passing. Other traditional groups mocked the sisters for maintaining their identity and were suspicious that the sisters were pretending to belong to a clan that nobody had heard of in order to achieve a greater share of mining royalties. They were ridiculed and this led to a shared feeling of depression. In 2016, songs were recorded that the sisters had learnt from their grandfather. They had been singing them with little understanding of the words. A comparison with the published sketch grammar and wordlist demonstrated to them – and the doubters – that they had indeed been singing an otherwise silenced language. The confirmation was a relief for the sisters and they felt at once relieved and vindicated. Remarkably, the Mpakwithi had preserved features of the unusual Mpakwithi phonology that are foreign to English (Crowley 1976, 1980). Australian first nation revival projects often have no material to start with other than word lists. The recent Mpakwithi recording work has added an unusual dimension to this revival project: a small corpus of literature created by an elder before the silencing of the language. Work has begun publishing the songs and translating new material into Mpakwithi for the Kennedy sisters to teach to their grandchildren. For a people suffering from the trauma of decimation, dispossession, forced migration and public mockery, the rediscovery and confirmation of their identity will secure the existence of this first nation. References Terry Crowley (1975) Cape York tape transcriptions. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, manuscript MS 1002. Terry Crowley (1976) Phonological change in New England. In Grammatical categories in Australian Languages, ed. R. M. W. Dixon, 19–50. Canberra: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Terry Crowley (1980) Phonological targets and northern Cape York sandhill. In Papers in Australian Linguistics 13, 241–258. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Terry Crowley (1981) The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri. In Handbook of Australian languages vol. 2, eds. R. M. W. Dixon and B. J. Blake, 147–194 + map p. 146. Canberra: ANU Press
San Xavier District pedestrian access and safety study : final report
No full textabstract: The San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation is home to approximately 2,000 people. Numerous others come to the District to visit the San Xavier del Bac Mission Church. The San Xavier District Pedestrian Access and Safety Study is being prepared to improve the walking and bicycling environment on the San Xavier District for Community members and visitors alike. The study is being funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation Multimodal Planning Division’s Planning Assistance for Rural Areas program.Includes bibliographical references
Interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
No full textXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader in English Literature and Film in Manchester, a founding member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies, and the author of Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation (2017) and Gothic Cinema (2019). His publications in Gothic and horror studies include Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (with Maisha Wester; 2019), Horror: A Literary History (2016) and Digital Horror: Haunted Technologies, Network Panic and the Found Footage Phenomenon (with Linnie Blake; 2015). Aldana Reyes also edited fiction anthologies for the British Library series, Tales of the Weird, including the following titles: The Gothic Tales of H.P. Lovecraft (2018), The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson (2019), Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science (2019) and Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas, by Algernon Blackwood (2019)
Xavier Albó: Memoria, Crónica, Perfil
No full textAuthor historicizes the monumental contribution to the study of Quechua of linguist and anthropologist Xavier Albó. Author recalls Albó's early linguistic and anthropological influence during the late 1960s as a clear inspiration to study Quechua linguistics, the largest indigenous language spoken today in the Americas
Digital Gothic : an interview with Xavier Aldana Reyes
No full textXavier Aldana Reyes is Reader/Associate Professor in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University and a founder member of the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. He is author of Gothic Cinema (2020), Spanish Gothic (2017), Horror Film and Affect (2016) and Body Gothic (2014), and editor of Twenty-First-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (with Maisha Wester, 2019), Horror: A Literary History (2016) and Digital Horror (with Linnie Blake, 2015). Xavier is chief editor of the Horror Studies book series at the University of Wales Press, and has edited anthologies of Gothic and horror fiction for the British Library. One of Xavier's research interests is the optical dynamics of found footage horror films. On this topic, he has published an article on narrative framing for Gothic Studies, and chapters on affective immersion in the film [REC] (2007) and viewer involvement and guilt in The Last Horror Movie (2003). More recently, he wrote a chapter on 'Online Gothic' that considers social media found footage horror for the collection The Edinburgh Companion to Globalgothic (2022)
Darkroom/Body/Literature: Valêncio Xavier
No full textEste trabalho se aproxima da obra Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido, de Valêncio Xavier, refletindo sobre as relações entre corpo e literatura. Tem como pontos norteadores os conceitos de câmara escura e dorsalidade. Também está em pauta a ambiência nacional, a fornecer elementos para concepção de história apreendida por Xavier. O diálogo com o cinema será tratado nesta dissertação, numa abertura de focos que propiciará uma análise da dimensão-máquina no projeto narrativo do autor.This research approaches the work Minha mãe morrendo e o menino mentido [My mother dying and the boy lied], by Valêncio Xavier, reflecting on the relationship between body and literature. Its guiding points are the concepts of darkroom and dorsality. The national ambience is also on the focus, providing elements for the conception of history apprehended by Xavier. The dialogue with cinema will be dealt with in this dissertation, in an opening of focuses that will provide an analysis of the machine dimension in the author\'s narrative project
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Dr. Xavier Amador Shares His Experiences Addressing Anosognosia
No full textJennifer Cohen interviews Xavier Amador, PhD, the CEO of the Henry Amador Center for Anosognosia. Dr. Amador has 30 years of experience as a clinical psychologist, researcher, author, and caregiver for people suffering with serious mental illnesses. Dr. Amador is the author of several books including, I’m Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help: How to Help
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