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Introduction: Fictions of African Dictatorship
No full textFirst paragraph: Since the rise to power of autocratic leaders across Africa in the early years of independence, artists, filmmakers, novelists, poets, photographers and song-writers have been preoccupied with the compelling figure of the dictator, placing him at centre stage in their work. Their concern with the question of dictatorship requires little speculation, for African dictators and their regimes have defined the postcolonial period in Africa. Within a decade of independence, nearly all African states had evolved into dictatorships or single-party regimes, and the consequences of their autocratic regimes are still felt across the African continent today. Christopher Miller points to the irony that, having demanded nationhood, Africans found themselves subject to nationalism of quite a different sort: ‘The arbitrary borders between African states, which had been ignored or critiqued […] by the theory of Pan-African nationalism, were reasserted as the armatures of a more familiar state nationalism at the service of new elites’. However, in his study of writing and authority in Latin American literature, Roberto González Echevarría reminds us that ‘It is not simply a matter of arguing that, since there have been and still are dictators […] literature ought to reflect that fact’. Instead, he contends, power and rhetoric are bound up and cannot exist independently of one another
Dr Hannah Graham on Australian leadership: Integrity, relational leadership and tenacious courage of conviction
No full textHannah Graham talks to Victor Perton about Australian Leadership. Criminologist, author and university lecturer Dr Hannah Graham was born in Tasmania and studied and worked at the University of Tasmania, before moving to Scotland to work in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research at the University of Stirling. Hannah has worked on justice and health-related projects with the EU, the Scottish Government, the Australian Government and Tasmanian Government, and she does ongoing research and writing on innovation and justice. Connect to Hannah on Twitter: @DrHannahGraham and @Innovative_Jus
Pittard, Hannah : Fiction Reading; February 10, 2020
No full textContents:
All tracks Fiction reading [complete]
Track 01 Introduction
Track 02 Reading From "Reunion"
Track 03 Reading From An Untitled Work
Track 04 Q&A
Digital Projects SAN: folder location for wav and mp3 files: J:\Elliston Working\02-10-2020 (Hannah Pittard
Hannah Arendt: "The Human Condition" and the single thought
No full textopenPartendo dalla biografia della filosofa Hannah Arendt e dalla sua esperienza in quanto ebrea durante la seconda guerra mondiale, verrà fatta un’analisi del processo ad Eichmann come esempio di male banale che si insinua nella società laddove manca una coscienza politica. In ultimo, riprendendo lo scopo dell’opera di Hannah Arendt “Vita Activa”, verrà descritta l’importanza di un esercizio della politica continuo e attivo per contrastare il cosiddetto pensiero unico che, secondo l’autrice stessa, ha portato al sopravvento dei totalitarismi del secolo scorso.Starting from the biography of the philosopher Hannah Arendt and her experience as a Jew during the Second World War, an analysis of the Eichmann trial will be made as an example of banal evil that insinuates itself into society where there is no political conscience. Finally, taking up the purpose of Hannah Arendt's work "The Human Condition", the importance of a continuous and active exercise of politics will be described to counter the so-called single thought that, according to the author herself, led to the prevalence of the totalitarianisms of the last century
The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
Hannah Arendt, lecture on the topic of thinking, delivered at the University of Chicago, circa 1963-1975
No full textLecture given by Hannah Arendt on the topic ‚Äúdoes thinking matter,‚Äù produced by the University of Chicago for the program From the Midway, circa 1963-1975. The recording begins after Arendt‚s lecture is already in progress. Author, educator, and philosopher Hannah Arendt was professor and visiting lecturer, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago, from 1963-1975
Shane and Hannah Burcaw
No full textShane Burcaw is the author of the bestselling memoir, Laughing at My Nightmare, which was shortlisted for the ALA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. He has also published the essay collection Strangers Assume that My Girlfriend Is My Nurse and is at work with his wife Hannah on a collection of stories about interabled couples. His blog, Laughing At My Nightmare, about the humor of living with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, has over half a million followers and he and his wife’s You Tube channel, Squirmy and Grubs, has nearly 1 million subscribers
The Space of dictatorship: Monénembo, hidden transcripts, and a metonymy of violence
No full textThis article centers on the representation of dictatorship by Guinean author Tierno Monénembo and aims to elucidate his fictional writing by reading it against recent theories on violence and sovereignty. In line with Nganang's notion of protestas, a metonymic chain of violence emerges in a number of forms: spectacular and subtle, physical and psychological. These constitute what Scott labels a "dramaturgy of domination" (Domination and the Arts of Resistance). Disparity between public and hidden transcripts perpetuates a state of tension but also reveals spaces of dissent. In texts that not only denounce the crimes of Touré's regime, but critique the ongoing injustices enacted in Guinea and elsewhere, Monénembo writes resistance as a commitment to combating this violence, which is characterized by débrouillard practice. His fictional subjects' capacity to move between worlds responds to calls for a wider recasting of African subjectivity
Room to Manoeuvre: Moving Beyond the Grotesque in Tierno Monénembo's Convivial Space
No full textThis article engages with Achille Mbembe's notion of the grotesque in two novels by Guinean author Tierno Monénembo: Les Crapauds-brousse (Paris: Seuil, 1979) and Les Écailles du ciel (Paris: Seuil, 1986). The article argues that Monénembo's aesthetics of mutedness and instability constitute a double dismantling of the dictator's staged power in these fictional worlds through reducing the presence of the dictator figure and accentuating the evidence of his failures. By drawing our attention to subtlety and insecurity, these novels demonstrate the limitations and failures of a grotesque stylistics of power. At the heart of these limitations is Mbembe's notion of 'mutual zombification', which here is contested by the negotiation of convivial space by those who are ruled. The texts' restraint of the dictator figures signals the inevitability of their decline, caught as they are in continuities of colonial rule that are bound to fail. Instability and decay, alongside silence and absence, constitute an alternative aesthetics that help to reveal the complexities of postcolonial space
White Goods, Dark Knowing
No full textDerek Kreckler: Accident & Process brings together, for the first time, five decades of key Australian artist Derek Kreckler's oeuvre. Its publication coincides with his eponymously titled survey exhibition, opening at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in August 2015 and touring throughout Australia in the following years. Accident & Process, which is edited by curator Hannah Mathews, gives pause to the remarkable lens-based practice of a widely respected, though under-recognised artist. Supported by the University of Wollongong and the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, and published by Perimeter Editions, Melbourne, this richly illustrated monograph includes newly commissioned texts by writers Helen Ennis, Richard Grayson, Kyla McFarlane, Ian McLean, Hannah Mathews, Sarah Miller, Quentin Sprague and Frazer Ward, which attend to specific works describing key trajectories within Kreckler's career
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