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Now the real fight begins: Brazil’s next president threatens the people and forests of the Amazon
No full textJair Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election could be a disaster for the Amazon, but his opponents can unite, say Mary Menton and Felipe Milane
Now the real fight begins: Brazil’s next president threatens the people and forests of the Amazon
No full textJair Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil’s presidential election could be a disaster for the Amazon, but his opponents can unite, say Mary Menton and Felipe Milane
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
Letter from Mary Garvey, Irish immigrant, to her mother, October 24, 1850
No full textMary Garvey, an Irish immigrant, was the servant of Rescarrick Moore Smith, a Hightstown businessman and New Jersey State Treasurer. This letter was dictated to and transcribed by Smith's daughter, Mary Elizabeth. In this letter to her mother in Ireland, Garvey asks after various family members and friends. She asks her mother many time to consider leaving the "poor state of Ireland" to emigrate to America. She also discusses her work duties, wages, and social life
A more comprehensive and commanding delineation: Mary Shelley's narrative strategy in Frankenstein
Get PDFThis thesis argues that the first edition of Frankenstein challenges conventional reading by employing what Simpson in Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry calls Romantic irony, where the absence of a stable 'metacomment' precludes an authoritative reading. The novel hints at such readings but prevents them. The insights offered by Tropp's Mary Shelley's Monster, Baldick's In Frankenstein's Shadow, Poovey's The Proper Lady and the woman writer and Swingle's, 'Frankenstein's Monster and its Relatives: Problems of Knowledge in English Romanticism' are considered, but none recognises the full implications of the instability deriving from multiple first- person narratives. Clemit's The Godwinian Navel acknowledges the novel's indeterminacy, but reads a specific ideological purpose in it. Paradise Last provides a language to describe the relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, but proves too unstable to fix identity or establish moral value. Similarly, Necessity ultimately fails to provide a stable explanation in terms of cause and effect. The status of nature shifts between foreground and background, never allowing final definition. These uncertainties destabilise knowledge which is compromised by its provisional nature: no authoritative reading is possible, yet the novel has narrative coherence. The reader is encouraged to try to develop a reading the structure prevents. The radical nature of the first edition is highlighted by comparison with the 1831 edition, which removes much of the ambivalence and gives the novel a clearer morality. The novel challenges conventional methods of deriving authority by disturbing the reader's orthodox orientation in the world around him' (Simpson) in order to afford 'a point of view to the imagination for the delineation of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield' (Mary Shelley)
Atmospheres of violence: On defenders' intersecting experiences of violence
No full textDefenders experience multiple forms of violence. In this chapter, we briefly review the main categories of violence and discuss how their accumulations and intersections result in a deep sense of insecurity and precarity. Beyond the physical violence of repression, defenders experience structural, cultural, and ecological forms of violence. While much of the media and policy attention is drawn to the most dramatic forms of physical violence, such as killings, many defenders suffer from more insidious and less visible traumas with severe mental health consequences. Marginalization, livelihood and health concerns, surveillance, threats, and assassination attempts can manifest in sleep disorders, anxiety and panic attacks, depression, loneliness, and even suicide. The intersection of multiple forms of violence, experienced over time and space, creates what some defenders have described as ‘a climate of fear’, a sense of being constantly under attack within what we call ‘atmospheres of violence’, assemblages of actors, institutions, logics, processes, and materialities characterized by pervasive and persistent forms of violence. The bodies, cultures, and territories of defenders are, indeed, often being assaulted from different directions, by both visible and invisible actors and processes. Yet despite this constant onslaught, defenders continue to fight to protect their lands and waters, because their fight is more than about them as individuals; it is about the defense of life in the broadest sense
Mary Shepard: the artist who brought Mary Poppins to life
Get PDFThe success of Disney’s 1964 movie Mary Poppins has often obscured the fact the popular series of books describing the experiences of the enigmatic nanny were in fact written by the Australian born author P.L. Travers.
Travers’ own sense of ownership of her creation in turn obscured the contribution made by the illustrator Mary Shepard. Despite a 54 year collaboration, Shepard is regularly ignored in discussions of the books: the 2013 movie Saving Mr Banks, which detailed the genesis of the film, did not even mention Shepard or the pivotal role she played in the books’ success.
'The Conversation' articles provides important insights into Mary Shepard's contribution to the Mary Poppins series of books
United Nations Documents and Publications: A Research Guide
No full textPrescriptive techniques and information for students and the scholarly community who need to conduct research into the vast amount of material, published and unpublished, of the UN.Published as Rutgers University GSLS occasional papers, no. 76-5
Violence and resistance in Indigenous Ceara, northeastern Brazil
No full textIndigenous lands in the northeast of Brazil are characterized, for the most part, by reduced and insufficient size, by long and unresolved processes of demarcation and regularization, by being the target of large-scale speculation by agribusiness and private commercial exploitation, and by scarcity of natural resources due to this exploitation. Added to this, they are the sites of mega-projects of “development” by the Brazilian government itself. This chapter draws on a survey carried out as part of the project “Mapping Abuses of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Northeastern Brazil,” We focus the chapter on different forms of violence and resistance in three emblematic cases: an alcoholic beverage company drying up the Lagoa Encantada of the Jenipapo-Kanindé people; the shooting of the chief of the Pitaguary people because of their resistance to mining; and the land grabbing in Tremembé lands by a coconut plantation company. The cases point to intense and distinct forms of exploitation that contradict Indigenous rights, harm the autonomy of Indigenous peoples, and impede their free self-determination. At the same time, we have seen intense processes of resistance and mobilization by these peoples, aimed at reversing these violations and ending exploitation of their lands
Mary Palmer
No full textMeet our Author of the week, Mary Palmer, as we talk about her latest book and getting published.https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/vid_presentations/1038/thumbnail.jp
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