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In her two novels, Une si longue lettre and Un Chant écarlate, Mariama Bâ describes how political as well as domestic problems develop from the tensions between tradition and the modern world. Desire ... woman, harmony of rich and poor, harmony of educated and uneducated. It is not a revolutionary political philosophy, since the rich and the poor remain. The working classes are not idealized: "L'humble
three research fields ranging from didactics to socio-structural problematics. The synthesis shows that the research addresses curricular aspects devoid of socio-political and historical contexts ... -political and historical contexts, emphasizing primarily teachers’ teaching tensions and challenges. Finally, I discuss the English as a foreign language research limitations and implications for the Chilean
environmental management, and is associated with a range of political and socioeconomic consequences (Gupta & van der Zaag, 2008) . Issues of social equity relating to water access, flooding and draught have ... , before the issue of INNS was understood as it is today, this is perhaps unsurprising. In amongst this complex landscape of environmental, political and socioeconomic consequences of water resource
philosophy shows, his efforts are thwarted by the deceptions of others and by his own irreconcilable views. The other is radically inaccessible, yet the object of our search; the self is a stable entity, yet ... character and as narrator-raises the questions regarding the minds of others which have confronted modern philosophy, especially in the works of Wisdom, Austin, Wittgenstein, and Cavell. Proust presents
in a newly independent West African country, protagonist Veronica witnesses the arrest of a political activist who opposed the ruling elite. When she investigates his disappearance, Veronica realizes ... will uncover a global social problem—the ruling elite clings to power by secretly eliminating political opponents. As a typical noir novel, Heremakhonon reveals the identity of the perpetrators from the
literary form and Thomas Nail’s political theory of the migrant. Reading Les Samothraces against the grain, I argue that the text’s literary form encodes the political tensions of its contemporary moment ... an oblique take on contemporary migration. Some recognizable tropes— rapacious smugglers, dangerous border crossings, and detention centers—anchor the text in today’s political climate. Reading Les
distinctions of philosophy itself. Chief among these distinctions is that of philosophical thought itself, or the difference it makes with respect to the realms of nature, myth, or the appearances. By focusing ... , coupled to the theology of the Jewish religion of revelation, tied to Romantic linguistic philosophy, paired off with historical materialism, or even related to Lutheran theology, the critics have primarily
Despite shrinkage in print runs and readership, canonical Literature during the 1990s developed along three major lines that connected writers of various generations in both aesthetics and philosophy ... no political or, indeed, any other kind of censorship. Yet, at the same Published b time, it is a literature dumbfounded by the loss of many millions of readers.' The writer has ceased to be both a
built between 1950 and 1985; a period when environmental considerations for large projects were evolving to present-day social, political and regulatory standards. Large projects result in ecosystem
An examination of We clarifies conventions for the dystopic novel even as it reveals that We transcends those conventions. Under the surface text, which presents a narrative of political and ... modern reader all political novels seem dystopic. But such categorizing, however born out of whatever despair, can be misleading and some attempt needs to be made to sketch out the limits of the idea of
. In contrast to previous eras when writing reflected a melting pot philosophy which saw Eros as a means of fusing ethnicities and eliminating particularities, today's fiction often celebrates these
This essay throws new light on a radical tendency in cultural modernism by analyzing the role of a single metaphor—the figure of politics as a stage—in political debates among German Expressionists ... might develop the political subjectivity needed to create a truly mass democracy. While the essay demonstrates that Futurists and Expressionists failed to develop a clear vision of what form mass
This essay considers German ‘Naturlyrik’ in terms of factors contributing to the mid-century emergence of political ecopoetry and 21st-century post-pastoral register. Cold War aesthetic ... ,’ a concern with positioning poetry as pastoral and isolated in the aesthetic realm, and a willingness to subordinate nature to confrontational political ideologies. Yet Cold War nature in its later
The detective narratives by Ramón Díaz Eterovic (Chile 1956) address some of Latin America’s most relevant socio-political problems, such as the disappeared, racial discrimination, drug trafficking ... , whatever you call them, are generally frustrated, doomed people, and are in no way winners.’ 6 The political philosophy of anarchism was most prominent during the nineteenth century. Its philosophers
philosophy. ... is Imilio at a different period, under different circumstances. He is the ophthalmologist that Imilio wanted to be and could not be because of the war; his clear-cut political attitudes and actions
," "transgression," "deterritorialization," and so forth. Yet, at the same time, seemingly in contrast with his labile identity is Fried's rigid Marxist political ideological core which surfaces in his political ... or cultural approaches. Paradoxically, however, Fried's very elusiveness embraces remarkably "decidable" political and ideological convictions that appear far more modernist than postmodern, and hence
the assumptions of contemporary animal studies. Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One thus demands attention as a radical text that exceeds the bounds both of the beast fable and of contemporary philosophy on ... likely to trouble reader response. Even as we experience what might fairly be termed the wonder of a new kind of political discourse on human oppression of animals, we remain aware that this discourse is
capacity to be political in both its content and its use of form. Furthermore, Bon brings form and content together by demonstrating the impact of language and textual features on the perception of social ... take precedence over the work of writers who used their creative talents to comment on social and political issues of the time. This opposition is represented, on the one hand, by Sartrean engagement
In La Goutte d'Or, Michel Tournier offers a critique of Western culture by constructing a novel that reflects both Jean Baudrillard's theories of simulacra and the political economy of the sign and ... examine Tournier in light of contemporary theory, I will focus my attention on his 1985 novel, La Goutte d'Or (The Golden Droplet). Using Jean Baudrillard's theories of simulacra and the political economyof
the prevailing enthusiasm for sport, sometimes naively and positively, sometimes negatively and ironically. An expansion of the sport theme into a true philosophy of life occurs in the only sport-novel ... political action at the close of the war and in the revolutionary confusion of 1918-1919 which followed that announced the coming of the "mass age." Moreover, it was not until the collapse of the German
