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A politics of conversion: nihilism and love in Toni Morrison's fiction
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras.O estudo Uma Política de Conversão: Niilismo e Amor na Ficção de Toni Morrison começa com a idéia de que a Literatura Afro-Americana apresenta um sentido de auto-reflexividade e hibridismo, através do qual autobiografia dialoga com romance, o espiritual se funde com o político. A partir deste traço dialógico a auto-reflexividade é politicamente estabelecida entre niilismo e amor. Na política de conversão, o estudo analisa as formas como mulheres negras, individualmente ou em grupo, fogem da escravidão para a liberdade, avançam da individualidade para a coletividade, ou substituem niilismo por amor. Metodologicamente o estudo apresenta sete capítulos. O primeiro discute os aspectos dialógicos que ilustram as conexões entre narrativas espirituais, de escravos e ficção, entre espiritualidade e política. O segundo examina o diálogo entre a conversão, pregação pública e formação da comunidade em Diário e Experiências Religiosas de Lee. O capítulo sugere que ao afirmar espiritualidade e humanidade a narradora abre profundo espaço para a mulher negra reclamar direitos civis. O terceiro discute o diálogo no interior da política de conversão entre narrativa de escravos e ficção. Este diálogo lida com niilismo e amor em Incidentes de Jacobs e Amada, Sula e O Olho Mais Azul de Morrison. Para a análise de niilismo e amor valores individuais e coletivos são considerados em relação a cinco aspectos: ambiente e agente antagonistas, agente de apoio, propósito da personagem e resultado alcançado. É visível, no estudo, o apoio que certas mulheres recebem de suas comunidades para contra-atacar antagonistas. O apoio nem sempre resulta na superação do niilismo e, por isso, derrota temporária pode ocorrer antes que elas sejam reintegradas à comunidade, como acontece com Linda Brent. O quarto capítulo examina as fraquezas e as energias da política da conversão e a reintegração de Sethe Suggs à comunidade de Bluestone Road. O quinto avalia como a comunidade de Bottom tenta controlar a individualidade de Sula Peace e como um grupo de mulheres lideradas por Nel Wrights consegue resgatar o espírito de independência da heroína. O sexto mostra como a política da conversão das mulheres de Lorain é incapaz de garantir a saúde mental de Pecola Breedlove, mas consegue criar um papel mais consistente para o grupo. No sétimo, a conclusão examina da relação dialética entre niilismo e amor ou auto-amor nas experiências dos indivíduos e dos grupos. O estudo sugere que em Incidentes a busca de Linda Brent por liberdade envolve elementos de autodestruição e de autoempoderamento. Da mesma maneira, o estudo conclui que em Amada o amor que Sethe Suggs tem para as suas crianças mata a própria filha, enfatizando, assim, o desejo de livrá-la da escravidão. Igualmente em Sula, a individualidade de Sula Peace não apenas limita, mas também expande as experiências do grupo, levando-o à emancipação. Finalmente, em O Olho Mais Azul a luta de Pecola Breedlove por amor e beleza reflete auto-ódio ao mesmo tempo em que reconstrói a auto-apreciação de toda a comunidade
Téma lásky v románech Sula a Beloved od Toni Morrison
No full textVe své bakalářské práci porovnávám téma lásky ve dvou knihách první afroamerické spisovatelky, která obdržela Nobelovu cenu - Toni Morrison - a to konkrétně v její druhé knize, Sula, a v její páté knize, Beloved. V obou těchto knihách se Toni Morrison zevrubně zabývá různými druhy a podobami lásky. V úvodu zařazuji Toni Morrison do širšího literárního a kulturně-historického kontextu a nastiňuji situaci, v jaké Morrison byla, když psala tyto knihy. V této souvislosti jsem také načrtla situaci afroamerické ženské literatury té doby. K výběru právě těchto dvou knih mě vedly především společné typy lásek, kterými se Morrison zabývá. Dalším motivem byl fakt, že Morrison popisuje bezpochyby nekonvenční, až kontroverzní příběhy a situace, namísto typických milostných příběhů. Mimo to, lásky i životy hrdinů obou knih jsou silně ovlivněny vnějšími faktory, které vedou k jejich dysfunkci, či zničení. V obou knihách porovnávám mateřskou lásku, sebelásku a lásku mezi ženou a mužem. V románu Sula přibývá navíc téma přátelství, které je stěžejním rozdílem mezi oběma knihami. Nicméně, Sula nemá zvláštní kapitolu na téma sebelásky, protože jednotlivé typy lásek od sebe nelze rozdělit a tento typ bude zahrnut v ostatních kapitolách právě proto, že je s nimi tak pevně spjat. Další společný znak obou knih nás přivádí k...Toni Morrison was born in 1931 as Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain, Ohio. She studied at Howard University and later at Cornell. She worked as an English teacher, but in 1965 she became a senior editor at the Random House. Thanks to her, many African American works were published. As Henry Louis Gates observes, as a writer, Morrison was influenced by the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and by William Faulkner. Morrison published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. Sula was published in 1974, followed by Song of Solomon (1977), Tar Baby (1981), and Beloved in 1987. In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, becoming the first African American woman to win the prize.1 Morrison continues to publish until the present day; her most recent works include Paradise, Love, and A Mercy. When putting Morrison's work into a wider context, we have to consider the difficulties of African American self-expression in literature. According to Barbara Christian, in the 1970s and 1980s, the time Morrison published most of her novels, African American women writers undertook an exploration of their history and community. They were finally able to express what the previous generations were not, as they were permitted to express themselves in limited ways, due to racism and sexism. Starting with...Department of Anglophone Literatures and CulturesÚstav anglofonních literatur a kulturFaculty of ArtsFilozofická fakult
Laughter and madness in post-war American fiction
No full textTwo philosophical positions seem evident in post-war American fiction: one
realist, one anti-realist. Using the terms 'revelation' and 'apocalypse' to reflect the
former, and 'entropy' the latter, this thesis proposes that distinctions between the two
can be made by analysis of a text's treatment of the nexus between laughter and
madness.
After an Overview that identifies and defines key terms, the Introduction
considers various theoretical treatments of laughter from which its function can be
ascertained as being both to reinforce stability within social groups and to explore
new alternatives to existing modes of thought. Madness being defined as an inability
to balance the opposing forces of system and anti-system, laughter is therefore vital
to maintain sanity. The Fool emerges as a crucial figure in this process.
Chapter One explores, with reference to Heller's Catch-22, Kesey's One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Kerouac's On The Road, the Laughter of Revelation: a
laughing relationship between a Protagonist who is trapped within the system of an
Institution and a Fool who communicates to the Protagonist (through laughter) a
means of escape. Chapter Two then discusses, with reference to Blatty's The
Exorcist, King's It, Morrison's Sula, and Nabokov's Lolita, the Laughter of
Apocalypse: a laughing relationship in which the Fool's laughter (as mockery) is
potentially destructive of both the Protagonist's sanity and the stability of the
Institution. Chapter Three explores, with reference to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5,
Ellis's American Psycho, and Heller's Closing Time, the Laughter of Entropy: the
failure of the laughing relationship that obtains when the dialectic between Institution
(as system) and Fool (as anti-system) collapses.
The concluding remarks reflect the metafictional implications of the foregoing
analyses. It is suggested that, with the collapse of this dialectic (expressed by the
Laughter of Entropy), the traditional relationship between Author and Reader
becomes problematic
Unio sula Simpson 1900
No full text<i>Unio sula</i> Simpson, 1900 <p> <i>Unio sula</i> Simpson, 1900: 678; Haas, 1912: 122; Simpson, 1914: 521; Brandt, 1974: 260.</p> <p> <b>Taxonomic status.</b> <i>Nomen nudum</i>, probably an incorrect spelling of the name <i>Unio sella</i> Prashad, 1922 (see Fig. 4D and Discussion).</p>Published as part of <i>Bolotov, Ivan N., Vikhrev, Ilya V., Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Gofarov, Mikhail Y., Konopleva, Ekaterina S., Lyubas, Artem A., Lunn, Zau, Chan, Nyein & Bogan, Arthur E., 2019, Unio sella and U. sula: A review of enigmatic taxonomic names linked to Gibbosula laosensis (Lea, 1863) (Bivalvia: Margaritiferidae: Gibbosulinae), pp. 440-447 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67</i> on page 446, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2019-0035, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4577110">http://zenodo.org/record/4577110</a>
The Sula Reef Complex, Norwegian Shelf
No full textCool-water carbonates in the aphotic zone of deep shelf and continental margin settings in the Northeast Atlantic are produced by the deep-water coral reefs withLophelia pertusa as the major framework builder. Through a compilation of side scan sonar, airgun and manned submersible surveys from several cruises to the mid-Norwegian Sula Reef Complex (SRC), the facies pattern and zonation of one of the largest deep-water reefs in the Northeast Atlantic is described in relation to the overall seabed topography. The late glacial to early postglacial iceberg scour on the crest and shoulder of the Sula Ridge provides settling ground for the scleractinian corals already in the early Holocene. Since then coral growth continues until today but was supposed to be disturbed by an environmental hazard, the so-called second Storegga event. The distinct distribution pattern of individualLophelia reefs on the Sula Ridge has stimulated a discussion on intrinsic environmental controls such as the bentho-pelagic coupling and the alternative hydrocarbon-based nutrition hypothesis
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Geology, geomorphology and mineral resources of the Sula mountains with 5 [sic: actually 4] maps, 18 plates and 20 text figures /
No full textFour maps on folded leaves in pocket.; 1:50,000 sheets 4 and 5 were published in 1962, in Bulletin no. 2.; Maps also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn2387751. Maps: -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains: Schist Belt, cross sections shewing geology looking northwards (Scale: 1:50,000) -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains: Scale 1:50,000: Sheet 1: (D.O.S. (Geol) 1081/1 -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains: Scale 1:50,000: Sheet 2: (D.O.S. (Geol) 1081/2 -- Sierra Leone: Geology of Sula Mountains - Kangari Hills Range: Scale 1:50,000: Sheet 3: (D.O.S. (Geol) 1081/3
Rock composition and water quality of San Pedro Sula area (Honduras).
No full textA multidisciplinary study was carried out, within the "Estudio
Para La Proteccion Ambiental Del Acuifero Del Valle De Sula Y De
Las Fuentes De Agua De La Reserva Forestal Del Merendon'' plan,
focused on the appraisal and management of the water resources in
San Pedro Sula area (Honduras).
This paper deals with the hydrochemical study which is of great
significance for the comprehension of the hydrogeological system.
The aim is to highlight the relationship between the rock composition
of the ground water recharge basin and the quality of the alluvial terrain
aquifer.
The aquifer is contained between alluvial sediments of the San
Pedro Sula plain; these sediments, in the areas in contact with the
Merendon mountain chain, comprise mainly alluvial fans generated
by material transported by the rivers; the apical area of these fans is
characterised by high permeability and is the site of a free monostrate
aquifer. Moving towards the more distal fan areas, depressed areas of
fine sedimentation (silt and clay) appear; the permeability of the sediments
is very low and the aquifer divides into a more superficial one
and a deeper one; the latter was found to be under slight pressure.
Regarding the ground water recharge basin, represented by the
Merendon mountain chain, this includes rocks in various degrees of
metamorphism, intrusive rocks, anatectic products and hydrothermal
products characterised by permeability through fracturing.
The rocks of the ground water recharge basin and the scour of the
pedogenetic layer have determined the present water quality and the
soils and palaeosoils composition of the later alluvial sediment deposition.
Bicarbonate-alkaline waters characterised by a specific electric
conductivity <100 μS cm-1 are linked to intrusive rocks and anatectic
products of the Zapot al river. These waters have a short underground
watercourse. Calcium bicarbonate waters with specific electric
conductivity >1000 μS cm-1, observed in Aldea El Carmen area,
are connected to the dissolution of secondary calcite. This calcite is
considered being the product of precipitation from carbonatic schists
involved in granitic pluton intrusions. Deep alkaline-bicarbonate
waters, warm in some cases, have a pH of 10. Sulphate-chlorinealkaline
waters with pH around 4, occurs in the Manchaguala river
basin, and are linked to sulphates produced by oxidation of metallic intrusulphurs formed at the margin of the pluton by hydrothermal processes
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
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