173 research outputs found
Author Janette Turner-Hospital at the Staff and Graduates Club, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 2003
No full textGuests attending the luncheon for author Janette Turner-Hospital
Cuba. Les défis du nouveau « modèle »
No full text[eng] Janette Habel — Cuba. The challenges of the new « model » . The article presents the reforms measures adopted in Cuba to deal first with the crisis of the early 1990s and then with the economic difficulties of the recent years. The new economic strategy has modified earlier social relations and created an inegalitarian situation that is without precedent since 1959. The author tackles the debate which has divided Cubans, concerning the viability of the present opening up to the market and its compatibility with the continuity of the political system. It is in this perspective that some Cuban researchers are exploring different possible paths that the post-Castro period might follow.
Janette Turner Hospital's The Last Magician in an "Expanded Field"
No full textThe article provides an overview of the novel "The Last Magician," by Janette Turner Hospital. The author gives a short orientation to the book and analyzes the way in which Hospital enables the readers to become more aware of how the subjects are constructed. The author of this article argues on how Hospital encourages her readers to criticize the process of identity acquisition by going beyond the dichotomy of inclusion in order to examine the suffering that it constitutes.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social SciencesNo Full Tex
Transformative Moments: An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital
No full textJanette Turner Hospital is the author of eight novels, four collections of short stories, a novella published only in French, and a crime thriller under the pseudonym Alex Juniper. Her work has been published in 20 countries, and in 12 languages other than English. She is the recipient of a number of overseas literary awards, and both Griffith University (in 1996) and the University of Queensland (in 2003) have conferred honorary doctorates upon her. In 2003 she won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Fiction Book for her most recent novel, Due Preparations for the Plague, and the Patrick White Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement.Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social SciencesFull Tex
Power, Vanishing Acts and Silent Watchers in Janette Turner Hospital's The Last Magician
No full textJanette Turner Hospital’s fifth novel The Last Magician reflects her desire to address cross-cultural injustices created by the structures of modern civilisation and the subjection of women in masculine ideology. Turner Hospital has said that the inspiration for the book came from photographs taken of the Serra Pelada gold mine in the Brazilian rainforest by the South American photographer, Sebastião Salgado. The author reveals a disposition towards the Gothic mode and towards classical dark tales in particular when she has one of her characters say that these photographs remind her of ‘Dante’s Inferno. The Botticelli drawings’ (Th e Last Magician 48). Salgado’s shocking images depict thousands of exploited Brazilian peasants descending and ascending a mineshaft (http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/salgado/ salgado_ladders.jpg). They also evoke notions of the ability of the human spirit to triumph over adversity
Exploring children's perspectives: Multiple ways of seeing and knowing the child.
No full textThis article focuses on human development in the early years, and the challenges for teachers and researchers in seeking to explore young children's perspectives. The current interest in listening to children's voices sits within competing developmental discourses about infants, toddlers and young children, which emphasise both their capability and confidence as well as their immaturity, especially with regard to oral language. Their "voice" can be heard and seen differently by teachers, researchers and families, who filter it according to their own perspectives and their image of the child. Drawing on a range of contemporary New Zealand studies, we discuss some key issues such as whether children need speech to have a voice? And in what ways can we gather children's perspectives in research and education? To explore children's perspectives and hear their voices requires skilled and flexible researchers and teachers, who watch and listen carefully whilst being mindful of their filtering/interpretive gazes. This takes time and patience and requires multiple ways of gathering data in order that the child is heard authentically
Funds of knowledge: Developing a Diploma in Teaching in Early Childhood Education in the Solomon Islands.
No full textThis article discusses how three early childhood teacher educators, from the Solomon Islands College of Higher Education School of Education and the University of Waikato Faculty of Education, worked in partnership together and with others to develop a new Diploma in Teaching Early Childhood Education (ECE) for the Solomon Islands. We argue that the knowledge and understandings that we shared about New Zealand early childhood education and its bicultural curriculum Te Whāriki made our task easier from the outset. So too did our shared "funds of knowledge" and expertise, particularly the Solomon Islands women's indigenous knowledge and abilities to reflect on teaching and learning in their nation and New Zealand, two contexts they understood well. As we worked through a range of issues related to the development and delivery of courses, the primacy of relationships and historical, cultural and social contexts for learning were reinforced. Broad understandings of relevant education pedagogy for adults and young children were incorporated through the diploma development process. The result was a new Diploma in Teaching Early Childhood Education and new ways of teaching and learning embedded in Solomon Islands contexts, blending the best of local and imported knowledge. This article adds to a small body of literature related to ECE in the Solomon Islands and the Pacific region
Of Frames and Wonders: Translation and Transnationalism in the work of Janette Turner Hospital
No full textAuthor Janette Turner Hospital has been claimed as Australian, Canadian and American. She grew up in Brisbane, travelled extensively as an academic through England, France and India, and now lives in South Carolina. She actively renounces any national ties, and is what some critics would call a “transnational writer”. Her work reflects this ideology, dealing with notions of place and identity in a globalised community.
The field of translation studies has seen a recent burgeoning interest in notions of spatial disruption in a transnational society. Theorists have questioned where the act of translation sits in relation to the geographical, temporal and ideological place of the translator, locating it in a liminal space “in between” or on a transcended level “beyond”. While Sherry Simon has noted the lack of studies on translation within transnational spaces, the same could be said of studies of Hospital. Just as questions of language can be seen as central to a globalised society, so they can be seen as central to her narratives.
Taking as a springboard previous work on Hospital which has highlighted links between her writing and the discourse of transnationalism, this article explores how translation functions thematically in her short story “Frames and Wonders”. Ultimately it seeks to present Hospital’s narrative as a ‘tentative model’ (West-Pavlov, 2001) of the relation between translation and transnationalism
A study of the relationship between attitudes of middle school teachers and the achievement levels of their students, 1986
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