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Knight, Sabina. "China’s Minority Fiction." World Literature Today 96, no. 1 (2022): 48–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2022.0020.
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Birdi, Briony. "Genre fiction readers: a quantitative exploration of provided construct ratings." Journal of Documentation 70, no. 6 (October 7, 2014): 1054–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-02-2014-0039.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to adapt a repertory grid technique to investigate fiction readers’ attitudes and beliefs, with a specific focus on minority ethnic fiction. Design/methodology/approach – The study required participants (n=36) to rate on a seven-point Likert scale a series of 16 provided constructs, using ten main elements, namely, the reader of ten fiction genres. Statistical tests investigated participant agreement across construct ratings, where on average fiction readers are rated on a construct continuum, and the extent to which public library work experience affected participants’ perceptions. Findings – Findings were revealed regarding the perceived characteristics of the readers of ten fiction genres, including minority ethnic fiction. The readers of Asian and Black British fiction were similarly rated, but certain exceptions were also noted which had not been reported in previous research. Although intraclass correlations indicated that ratings were consistent for the more established fiction genres, there was little agreement regarding minority fiction. Research limitations/implications – The research was potentially limited by the ethnic homogeneity of the sample population and the gender imbalance of same, and (in some cases) a lack of knowledge of minority fiction genres. It was felt that the repertory grid was an effective technique via which to build a rich profile of the fiction reader. Practical implications – This research could inform the development of fiction collections, and its detailed examination of fiction reader profiles could be adapted in three specific ways, as described in the paper. Originality/value – Little previous research has been conducted to differentiate between readers of different fiction genres, and less still for those of minority ethnic fiction genres.
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Kartika, Tyas Willy, and Maria Elfrieda C.S.T. "FEMSLASH FANFICTION AND LESBIANISM: EFFORTS TO EMPOWER AND EXPRESS ASIAN AMERICAN WOMAN SEXUALITY." Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies 8, no. 2 (October 11, 2021): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/rubikon.v8i2.69689.
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The existence of fan fiction nowadays shows more progressive development especially in this digital era when people does not only use internet for communicating and socializing across time and space but they also show their creativity, one of them is by writing a fan fiction. By writing fan fiction in online platforms, people get the opportunity to express their interests and their identities. This opportunity is also obtained by minority groups such as LGBTQ+ where they can express their identity through fan fiction. LGBTQ+ community utilizes online platform as the tool that brings benefit for them. In this case, writing fan fiction in online platforms allows people to create the preferable representation of minority groups and empower them as the part of LGBTQ+ community. This phenomenon can be seen through a website named Asianfanfics.com which shows an increasing number of fan fictions especially the ones with lesbian related tags such as girl x girl, lesbian, and femslash. Particularly, through the femslash subgenre, people use fan fiction to question the heteronormativity. Regarding to this phenomenon, an interview was conducted by choosing three Asian American fan fiction writers from Asianfanfics.com as the interviewees. Furthermore, by using gender theory and intersectionality, this article focuses on how fan fiction becomes a safe space to express their sexual identities and how lesbian relationship is viewed by Asian families.
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Birdi, Briony, and Mostafa Syed. "Exploring reader response to minority ethnic fiction." Library Review 60, no. 9 (October 11, 2011): 816–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00242531111176826.
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Clayton, Jay. "The Narrative Turn in Recent Minority Fiction." American Literary History 2, no. 3 (1990): 375–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/2.3.375.
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Sepulchre, Sarah. "Melting Pot: An ambiguous series combining minority and majority discourses." ALTERNATIVE FRANCOPHONE 1, no. 6 (February 22, 2013): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/af19026.
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Melting Pot est une série francophone produite par la RTBF, l’une des chaines télévisées publiques francophones. La RTBF est un média officiel et national, et comme tel, il ne fait pas partie des médias minoritaires. Melting pot reflète cette situation puisque les protagonistes sont des membres de la majorité ethnique et culturelle de la population (francophone, blanc et belge). Cependant, face aux Flamands néerlandophones, les Belges francophones constituent une minorité en Belgique, un pays caractérisé par un conflit linguistique et politique, et Melting pot est aussi représentative de cette situation ambigüe à travers les intrigues secondaires et en élaborant un réseau complexe de significations autour du symbole représenté par le café le Melting Pot (à la fois un lieu, un biotope de personnages et un jeu sur la notion de “melting pot”). Cet article est une étude de cas basée sur l’analyse du contenu des 3 saisons de la série.
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The RTBF (public Belgian television) can hardly be considered as a minority media. However, in the context of fictional production, the RTBF is not a powerful actor. Melting Pot is the only large-scale series currently produced by the channel. We can thus qualify it as a triple media exception: Belgian, French speaking, series. The fiction takes place in the Marolles district in Brussels. This area represents the “Belgian melting pot”: a mix of people, languages, origins... But how are these communities and languages represented, notably the French speaking (a minority in Belgium and a majority in Brussels) and the Flemish (a majority in Belgium and a minority in Brussels)? The question makes sense in a country divided by a political crisis for more than one year and where the question of identity crystallizes the debates. This article will put in context the Belgian production of fictions. A content analysis of the representations conveyed by the series will constitute the main part of the communication. An interview with the producer will unveil their initial intentions.
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Gardey, Claudine. "Science ou fiction ? Utilisation pédagogique du film Minority Report." Recherche et pratiques pédagogiques en langues de spécialité - Cahiers de l APLIUT, Vol. XXV N° 1 (February 15, 2006): 112–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/apliut.2631.
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Vervaet, Stijn. "Linguistic Diversity in East-Central European Minority Literature: The Post-Imperial Borderlands of Petar Milošević." Zeitschrift für Slawistik 67, no. 4 (November 4, 2022): 628–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/slaw-2022-0031.
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Abstract Most recent studies on multilingual writing deal with literature by first- or second-generation immigrants. This article responds to debates about multilingual literature by examining the asymmetrical, historically-rooted multilingualism of minority groups in East-Central Europe. It does so by exploring linguistic diversity and its effects in the novels of the bilingual Serbian-Hungarian author Petar Milošević, novels that put the Serbian minority in Hungary centre stage. It is argued that Milošević’s prose fiction not only invites the reader to rethink the nature of script, standard language and cultural identity as historically contingent and multiply entangled, but also effectively refashions the cultural memory of the Serbian minority in Hungary. The novels’ broader relevance lies in their foregrounding of the minority’s cultural and linguistic doubleness, both in relation to the nation-state in which they live and to the external homeland. As such, they also potentially illuminate the position of other linguistic minorities in former Habsburg borderlands.
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Rojek, Patrycja. "Figura mitologicznej Kasandry w filmach science fiction." Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication 28, no. 37 (March 31, 2021): 234–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/i.2020.37.14.
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The article reflects on how characters with the features of the mythological Cassandra function in science fiction films. Such references are part of the rich tradition of building fictional depictions of the near or distant future on the foundation of mythical stories. The study aimed to examine the considerable and complex meaning which Cassandra conveys through the ages and to determine its usefulness in constructing pop culture ideas about the current condition of humanity. In contemporary fiction, Cassandra is brought to the fore more often than in ancient sources, and her fullest portrait is drawn in those films that both consider her a figure of the powerlessness of the prophets and take into account her personal drama. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) by James Cameron, 12 Monkeys (1995) by Terry Gilliam, Minority Report (2002) by Steven Spielberg, and Arrival (2016) by Denis Villeneuve, the figure of Cassandra is examined through her prophetic gift, the alleged madness of the seer and the fearfulness of the prophetism itself.
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Iyer, Anupama. "Depiction of intellectual disability in fiction." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 13, no. 2 (March 2007): 127–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.bp.106.002485.
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I explore some of the ways in which intellectual disability (learning disability) is depicted in fiction. My premise is that literature both reflects and shapes societal attitudes to people in this vulnerable minority group. People with intellectual disabilities are seldom able to determine, confirm or counter narratives about themselves. This situation, in which the subject is fundamentally unable to participate in their representation, raises unique ethical considerations. I use examples from various English-language novels to discuss how subjective accounts, observable behaviours and physical attributes are all employed to characterise people with intellectual disabilities.
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Wigand, Moritz E., Hauke F. Wiegand, Ertan Altintas, Markus Jäger, and Thomas Becker. "Migration, Identity, and Threatened Mental Health: Examples from Contemporary Fiction." Transcultural Psychiatry 56, no. 5 (August 9, 2018): 1076–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461518794252.
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In 2015, the world saw 244 million international migrants. Migration has been shown to be both a protective and a risk factor for mental health, depending on circumstances. Furthermore, culture has an impact on perceptions and constructions of mental illness and identity, both of which can be challenged through migration. Using a qualitative research approach, we analysed five internationally acclaimed and influential novels and one theatre play that focus on aspects of identity, migration, and threatened mental health. As a mirror of society, fiction can help to understand perceptions of identity and mental suffering on an intrapsychic and societal level, while at the same time society itself can be influenced by works of fiction. Fiction is also increasingly used for didactic purposes in medical education. We found that the works of fiction discussed embrace a multifaceted biopsychosocial concept of mental illness. Constructs such as unstable premigration identity, visible minority status (in the host country) and identity confusion in second-generation migrants are conceptualised as risk factors for mental illness. Factors portrayed as protective comprised a stable premigration identity, being safe with a family member or good friend, (romantic) love, therapeutic writing, art, and the concept of time having an element of simultaneousness. This literature challenges the idiocentric model of identity. Analysing fictional texts on migration experiences can be a promising hypothesis-generating approach for further research.
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Shammas, Sally. "Fact and Fiction: The Nation-State, Colonialism, and International Minority Law." Palestine Yearbook of International Law Online 22, no. 1 (February 26, 2021): 75–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116141_022010_003.
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Finn, R. "Food Allergy-Fact or Fiction: A Review." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 85, no. 9 (September 1992): 560–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/014107689208500918.
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Food sensitivity is a common condition presenting with various clinical syndromes including migraine, urticaria, gluten enteropathy, Crohn's disease and irritable bowel syndrome. It is a heterogeneous condition affecting different organ systems and is also aetiologically diverse with subgroups due to allergy, pharmacological reactions, enzyme deficiencies and psychological causes. Clinical acceptance of food sensitivity has been delayed by the use of dubious diagnostic techniques by a minority of practitioners and the lack of laboratory diagnostic tests, but several double blind studies have now fully validated the existence of food sensitivity syndromes. More wide-spread recognition of food sensitivity would be cost effective for the National Health Service.
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Midgley, Louis. "The Radical Reformation of the Reorganization of the Restoration: Recent Changes in the RLDS Understanding of the Book of Mormon." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (1992-2007) 2, no. 2 (October 1, 1993): 132–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44758926.
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Abstract Beginning in the 1960s, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS) has modified its understanding of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith’s prophetic charisms. Where the RLDS were earlier permitted to do this, they are now encouraged by their leaders to read the Book of Mormon as nineteenth-century fiction, though they are still permitted to find in it, if they wish, some inspiring passages. These changes have been resisted by a conservative minority that has lost the battle for control of the Reorganization and now tends to worship outside RLDS congregations. A few Latter-day Saints have also begun to read the Book of Mormon as fiction. Their efforts to turn the Book of Mormon into nineteenth-century fiction have been opposed by competent Latter-day Saint scholarship, though not without resistance from those who control "independent" and "liberal" publishing ventures.
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Weber-Matthiesen, K., J. Deerberg, M. Poetsch, W. Grote, and B. Schlegelberger. "Numerical chromosome aberrations are present within the CD30+ Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg cells in 100% of analyzed cases of Hodgkin's disease [see comments]." Blood 86, no. 4 (August 15, 1995): 1464–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v86.4.1464.bloodjournal8641464.
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In Hodgkin's disease, cytogenetically aberrant clones have been demonstrated in a minority of cases studied. In the remaining cases, only normal metaphases have been found, but it is questionable whether normal karyotypes actually correspond to the pathognomonic Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells. Numerical aberrations could be studied by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). However, in Hodgkin's disease, the percentage of tumor cells is mostly below the detection limit of FISH, which is near 1%. With the technique of simultaneous fluorescence immunophenotyping and interphase cytogenetic analysis (FICTION), this problem can be overcome. By FICTION, hybridization signals can selectively be evaluated within the CD30a+ cell population. We have studied 30 cytogenetically analyzed cases of Hodgkin's disease by means of FICTION. In all cases, we found numerical chromosome aberrations within the majority of CD30+ HRS cells. In cases with complex and hyperdiploid karyotypes, the cytogenetic results agreed with the FICTION data. There was considerable variability in the chromosome numbers, demonstrating that karyotype instability is an in vivo phenomenon of HRS cells. Lymphocytes never displayed numerical chromosome changes. Our results indicate that HRS cells regularly exhibit numerical chromosome aberrations and that the chromosome numbers are always in the hyperploid range.
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D’Haenens, Leen, and Willem Joris. "Introduction to Communicating on/with Minorities." Media and Communication 7, no. 1 (February 5, 2019): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i1.1985.
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This editorial delivers an introduction to the <em>Media and Communication </em>thematic issue on “Communicating on/with Minorities” around the world. This thematic issue presents a multidisciplinary look at the field of communicating on and with different members of minority groups who, based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or a background in migration, experience relative disadvantage and marginalization compared to the dominant social group. The contributors to this thematic issue present a variety of professional contexts (i.e., portrayals in journalistic content, in fiction and non-fiction audiovisual content, on social media platforms and in health care). Taken together, the contributions examine various theoretical angles, thereby adopting new research directions through the use of quantitative, qualitative or mixed methodologies.
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N, Rathnakumar. "Biographies of the Kuravars in Tamil Novels." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, no. 2 (February 7, 2022): 21–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2223.
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Although realist novels in Tamil are largely colossal (Panjum Pasiyum, Malarum Sarugum, Thaagam) there is very little room for the minority race and are included in some parts of the novel. After the year of Two thousand, translation novels (Marathi) about tribes such as Lakshman Keikwat's Uchalia, Lakshman Mane's Upara, and Chandabai Kale's Kulathi changed the course of Tamil novels. The unbridled ethnographic biographies presented by these novels set the stage for other marginalized ethnic groups to come out of fiction, as well as the expansive boundaries of the Dalit novels. It is to be welcomed that the trend of writing novels focusing on the biographies of the Tamil ‘Kuravargal’ has developed in the Tamil context. Their cultural movements, such as the beliefs, rituals, diets, cults, habitat, and occupational crises of ethnic minorities, have begun to feature in recent narratives. In particular, Pandiyakkannan's novels Salavan, Malaipparai and Nugathadi can be read as doco- fictions. This article summarizes the center, format, and commentary of the novels.
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Gerhard, Atalie. "From the Hood to the White House: The Cultural Imaginary of Presidential Blackness in Head of State." American Studies in Scandinavia 52, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v52i2.6500.
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This article analyzes the film Head of State’s cultural imaginary of presidential blackness that signifies national progress while sublimating social conflict. The plot imagines a black man from the hood successfully running for presidency, living the American dream, and becoming an unconventional national icon. His symbolic blackness comprises two markers of difference: his identification with the disenfranchised hood and the black diaspora. As he challenges racial inequality in the U.S. as well as moral corruption among the élite, he unifies one historical fiction of America. I focus on how the film attributes an anti-establishment legacy to a minority president based on his countercultural identity performances although he remains complicit with foundational institutions of government. While the film projects hopes for future racial and economic equality upon a fictional black president and strategically redefines the American dream, I argue that it appropriates and revives American exceptionalist myths.
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Kruger, Loren. "In a minor key: narrative desire and minority discourses in some recent South African fiction." Scrutiny2 8, no. 1 (January 2003): 70–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125440308565997.
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Lira, Edvaldo Santos de, and Barbara Cabral Ferreira. "Pragmatics, representation and minorities." Revista (Con)Textos Linguísticos 16, no. 33 (September 14, 2022): 188–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.47456/cl.v16i33.37692.
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This paper aims at analyzing the American TV series Glee, in order to reflect on how the face, maxims, rules and strategies of the Politeness Theory are presented before characters who are read as part of a minority group, compared to characters seen as a majority and relies mainly on the contributions of scholars such as Thomas (1995) and Yule (1996) and their study in the field of Pragmatics; and Brown and Levinson (1987) and their investigation on politeness. We also rely on reflections by authors who discuss representation, language, and meaning (HALL, 1997; JODELET, 2001; MOSCOVICI, 2000; SOARES, 2007). Our corpus is composed of excerpts from three episodes of the series that were analyzed from a qualitative-interpretative perspective. Glee is a TV show that represents multiple realities through fiction and the excerpts selected allow us to reflect on the discrepancies in the interactions that involve characters considered to be a minority compared to characters read as a majority. As a result of our analysis, it became evident that politeness, highlighted in the excerpts, was primarily used towards characters considered the majority. Concerning minority groups, impoliteness, mainly displayed by the principal and the teacher, prevailed.
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Godim, Victor Sampaio. "Dissent in court and in literature: the brazilian technique of adding collegiate members to court and the «Minority report»." Anamorphosis - Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura 7, no. 2 (December 30, 2021): 427–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.21119/anamps.72.427-444.
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This paper is an analysis of how the event of outvoting is seen in the Brazilian procedural order, especially regarding the introduction of a technique for expanding the number of court members, which replaced the Motions for Reconsideration in the edition of the 2015 Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure. The research is developed from the narrative lived by the character John Anderton, of the short story The Minority Report, by Philip K. Dick. The relevance of the study comes from the need to evaluate the recent, deep changes in procedural law when it comes to dissenting opinions in court. The investigation is of bibliographic-documental type, with an analogy between the literary and the legal environments, in a theoretical research with qualitative approach, descriptive and exploratory regarding the results. The conclusion is that, similarly to fiction, the new judgement technique seeks to grant the debate within courts regarding the event of outvoting, with aims at providing more rationality to trials and avoiding a merely formal approach to dissent.
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Myles, Robert J., and Michael Kok. "On the Implausibility of Identifying the Disciple in John 18:15–16 as a Galilean Fisherman." Novum Testamentum 61, no. 4 (August 29, 2019): 367–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341637.
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AbstractJohn 18:15–16 mentions an unknown disciple of Jesus who “was known to the high priest” giving him access to the events in Caiaphas’s courtyard. A minority of scholars maintain the identity of this disciple is consistent with John, the son of Zebedee, whom they also maintain was the author of the Fourth Gospel. To support this position, the commonplace fiction of Galilean fishermen belonging to an aspiring “middle-class” is asserted. This article reviews the arguments and suggests that a more robust representation of class stratification in the ancient world demonstrates the implausibility of such a scenario.
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Torkkeli, Marko, Anne-Laure Mention, and João José Pinto Ferreira. "The power of technology: A Fact or Fiction for Majority?" Journal of Innovation Management 3, no. 3 (October 19, 2015): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.24840/2183-0606_003.003_0001.
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This Fall Issue will discuss about the power of technology and Internet. Innovation is taking place everywhere through new and emerging technologies changing the way we think, live, breathe, travel, and do shopping to name a few areas. Funny enough is that some of us believe that the most important technologies are on the market available to please customers and users, and nothing more important will show up later. We, as humans, systematically underestimate the power of technology and its impact on daily life. There are several well-known quotations from very smart people which have turned ridiculous after some time by basically shifting initial assumptions into market knowledge. Whatever is too expensive and complex today becomes a commodity in no time and shortly after doesn’t bring competitive advantage any longer (the S-curve effect, see e.g Bayus, 1998 or Rogers, 1962, for different explanations). Several notable studies illustrate (like the well cited and used BCG tools) how rapidly diffusion is influencing production costs and consequently, accelerates the speed of diffusion itself. The question here stems from where the balance between the minority of ‘crazy’ developers and the majority of pioneering consumers willing to try something new lies. (...)
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Herrero, Dolores. "Populism and Precarity in Contemporary Indian Dystopian Fiction: Nayantara Sahgal’s When the Moon Shines by Day and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila." Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 42, no. 2 (December 23, 2020): 214–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.2.11.
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Although dystopia has been an enduring trope in literature, it is now, however, that dystopian and apocalyptic fiction has become especially popular all over the world. The main aim of this article is to discuss how contemporary Indian fiction denounces the barbarity of contemporary Indian nationalism, in particular the policies enforced by a repressive Indian state where tradition and purity are valued above multiculturality, dialogue and equality. In order to do this, I focus on two internationally acclaimed novels, namely, NayantaraSahgal’s When the Moon Shines by Day (2017) and Prayaag Akbar’s Leila (2018). In different but complementary ways, both dystopias draw a telling portrait of precarious times in contemporary India. Both novels also warn against the dangers of the fundamentalist version of Hindu nationalism and cultural censorship, at the same time as they bring to our attention the damage that a dominant minority can inflict on those situated at the bottom of the social ladder, who are thus condemned to live in inhuman conditions, as if they were less than nothing.
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King, Barnaby. "Landscapes of Fact and Fiction: Asian Theatre Arts in Britain." New Theatre Quarterly 16, no. 1 (February 2000): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00013439.
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In the first of two essays which use academic discourses of cultural exchange to examine the intra-cultural situation in contemporary British society, Barnaby King analyzes the relationship between Black arts and mainstream arts on both a professional and community level, focusing on particular examples of practice in the Leeds and Kirklees region in which he lives and works. This first essay looks specifically at the Asian situation, reviewing the history of Arts Council policy on ethnic minority arts, and analyzing how this has shaped – and is reflected in – current practice. In the context of professional theatre, he uses the examples of the Tara and Tamasha companies, then explores the work of CHOL Theatre in Huddersfield as exemplifying multi-cultural work in the community. He also looks at the provision made by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts for the cultural needs of their Asian populations. In the second essay, to appear in NTQ62, he will be taking a similar approach towards African-Caribbean theatre in Britain. Barnaby King is a theatre practitioner based in Leeds, who completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Leeds Workshop Theatre in 1998. He is now working with theatre companies and small-scale venues – currently the Blah Blah Blah company and the Studio Theatre at Leeds Metropolitan University – to develop community participation in theatre and drama-based activities.
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Beecroft, Alexander. "The Narrator and the Nation-Builder: Dialect, Dialogue, and Narrative Voice in Minority and Working-Class Fiction." Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 42, no. 4 (2015): 410–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/crc.2015.0041.
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O’Connor, Maurice. "Exploring the Challenges of Ethnic Fluidity within the Writings of Ronnie Govender." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, no. 82 (2021): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.recaesin.2021.82.04.
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"This paper explores how the fiction writer and playwright, Ronnie Govender, narrates Asian diasporic identity in the context of South African society. I shall depart from the premise that this Indian presence is ambiguous inasmuch as its subjectivity must negotiate the ontological categories of both whiteness and blackness. With this triangulated relationship in mind, I shall proceed to evidence how Govender delivers a layered reading of ethnic fluidity and how this was historically curtailed by a white minority who, systematically, dynamited conviviality as a means to shore up its own privilege. The principal texts employed in this study shall be: The Lahnee’s Pleasure, At The Edge and Other Cato Manor Stories, and Black Chin White Chin: The Song of the Atman."
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Prahlad, Sw Anand. "Getting Happy: An Ethnographic Memoir." Journal of American Folklore 118, no. 467 (January 1, 2005): 21–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4137807.
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Abstract This piece includes excerpts taken from a book-length project that, more than anything else, is driven by personal crises arising from schizophrenia so common among first generation and minority academicians. My foremost goal was not to transform ethnographic practices, although the usefulness of ethnographic elements to such a project proves instructive. A merger between folkloristics and creative writing was a natural consequence of the more fundamental quest upon which I had embarked. In the effort to highlight moments in my life in which the spiritual, paired with the educational experiences occurring at a particular time, could be illuminated, I developed a hybrid form of discourse that draws upon elements of the memoir, creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and ethnography.
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Ibarrola-Armendariz, Aitor. "The Effective and the Controversial Uses of Code-Switching: Edwidge Danticat’s 'Claire of the Sea Light' as Case Study." Complutense Journal of English Studies 28 (November 24, 2020): 23–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/cjes.61429.
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This article explores the different uses that Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat makes of code-switching in her last novel Claire of the Sea Light (2013). It also delves into the effects Danticat seeks to produce on her readers by the introduction of Creole words and expressions. While the incorporation of the mother tongue is not new in Danticat’s fiction, critics have paid little attention to the diverse purposes such a tongue purports to serve in her books and to the kind of responses it has aroused from her audience. Her uses of code-switching are observed to pursue various purposes: some purely mimetic, others more closely related to her stylistic ambitions, and still others out of motivations that may be deemed debatable, as they pertain to the “exoticization” of her homeland. Ultimately, the use of code-switching in Claire of the Sea Light should be viewed as one of the most effective strategies that diasporic writers envisage to satisfy a number of important socio-pragmatic and rhetorical functions that are usually expected in ethnic fiction. These strategies also aim to guide the (mainstream) readers’ affective responses to their work in the way(s) “minority” authors believe best suit their aesthetic and ethical goals.
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A, Yogaraj, and Kavitha M. "A Brief Analysis on the Impact of Minority Parsi Community Issues by Rohinton Mistry’s Novels." IAR Journal of Humanities and Social Science 3, no. 01 (February 28, 2022): 61–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.47310/iarjhss.2022.v03i01.009.
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Literature has always represented society in one form or another because writers are the sensitive souls of the society who are affected by the slightest possible change in their surroundings. This paper deals with Indian literature especially focuses on Indian diasporic writer Rohinton Mistry who represents the realistic picture of the most sustained explorations of post – independence Indian society through his chronicles of individual and community lives. Mistry’s fiction covers many themes, from politics to parsi community life and economic inequality to national ‘events’ such as wars, rigorously examining the impact of historical forces and social events on ‘small’ lives. As his novels depicts the social, cultural and political life in India. Most of his concerns are devoted towards the preservation of the parsi community which is marginalized sections of the society which include the economically and socially downtrodden, old and decrepit, women, etc. His concerns for the socially downtrodden and socially marginalized have found genuine representation in his works. Rohinton Mistry rеflects the reality of India’s post colonial greedy politics of corruption, oppression, exploitation, violence, strong opposition to social and class differences have extended the spectrum of contemporary reality through his novels.
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Bunout, Estelle. "Elucidating the blurred lines of the national historical imagination. The narrative allure of Sienkiewicz’s With Fire and Sword in 1933–1934 Poland." Connexe : les espaces postcommunistes en question(s) 5 (October 23, 2020): 76–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5077/journals/connexe.2019.e251.
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The novel With Fire and Sword by Henry Sienkiewicz (1846–1916) is an example of the interweaving of fiction, historiography, and national collective imagination. It was written at the end of the period of Polish partition (1882–1888) and deals with events that marked the history and the collective imaginations of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews: the history of the Khmel’nyts’kyy Uprising (1648–1657). The epic nature of these historical events already carried the seeds of a powerful and emotional narrative that lends itself to mythicization. However, the reading of this book in a later situation, the Second Polish Republic (1921–1939), led the Polish Sanacja government to withdraw it from the compulsory reading in Polish schools in 1932.This aspect of the Jędrzejewicz school reform sparked a lively debate in the Polish press, whereby historians, literature scholars, and journalists discussed the function that this book should have in the patriotic education of young Polish citizens, against the backdrop of tensions between the state and the political opposition on the issue of minorities, namely the Ukrainian minority. This discussion discloses the central place that Sienkiewicz has been given in Polish culture. At the same time, it examines the position that Polish intellectuals attribute to the Ukrainian minority in the Polish state and culture.
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Di Ciolla, Nicoletta. "Crime Fact versus Crime Fiction: Alternative Strategies for the Mobilization of the ‘Ethic Minority’ in Twenty-First-Century Italy." Italian Studies 67, no. 3 (November 2012): 411–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0075163412z.00000000027.
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Banh, Jenny. "“I Have an Accent in Every Language I Speak!”: Shadow History of One Chinese Family’s Multigenerational Transnational Migrations." Genealogy 3, no. 3 (July 1, 2019): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3030036.
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According to scholar and Professor Wang Gungwu, there are three categories of Chinese overseas documents: formal (archive), practical (print media), and expressive (migrant writings such as poetry). This non-fiction creative essay documents what Edna Bonacich describes as an “middleman minority” family and how we have migrated to four different nation-city states in four generations. Our double minority status in one country where we were discriminated against helped us psychologically survive in another country. My family history ultimately exemplifies the unique position “middleman minority” families have in the countries they migrate to and how the resulting discrimination that often accompanies this position can work as a psychological advantage when going to a new country. We also used our cultural capital to survive in each new country. In particular, this narrative highlights the lasting psychological effects of the transnational migration on future generations. There is a wall of shame, fear, and traumas in my family’s migration story that still pervades today. My family deals with everything with silence, obfuscation, and anger. It has taken me twenty years to recollect a story so my own descendants can know where we came from. Thus, this is a shadow history that will add to the literature on Sino-Southeast Asian migration and remigration out to the United States. Specifically, my family’s migration began with my grandfather leaving Guangdong, China to Saigon, Vietnam (1935), to Hong Kong, (1969) (then a British Colony), and eventually to the United States (1975). This article explains why my family migrated multiple times across multiple generations before eventually ending up in California. Professor Wang urges librarians, archivists, and scholars to document and preserve the Chinese migrants’ expressive desires of migrant experiences and this expressive memoir piece answers that call.
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Jayawickrama, Sharanya. "Metonymic Figures: Cultural Representations of Foreign Domestic Helpers and Discourses of Diversity in Hong Kong." Cultural Diversity in China 3, no. 1 (June 26, 2018): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cdc-2017-0006.
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Abstract Foreign Domestic Helpers account for nearly half of Hong Kong’s total ethnic minority population and are therefore integral to any discussion of diversity in the postcolonial, global Chinese city. In Asia, discourses of diversity have evolved from the juncture of complex historical, political, and cultural factors including colonialism, postcoloniality, traditional and precolonial customs and values, religious and spiritual beliefs, as well as Western-derived liberal-democratic discourses of rights and citizenship. “Diversity” has been identified as one of the core values and attributes of the territory by the Hong Kong Government yet it is not a concept that is carefully interrogated and delineated. This essay examines discourses of diversity via analysis of a varied set of cultural representations of Foreign Domestic Helpers, including a television programme and advertisements, a work of short literary fiction, online erotic fiction, social media, as well as an example of multi-media artwork. Taken together, these representative forms provide insight into the cultural imaginary that shapes private and public discourse and perception. Using an approach informed by both cognitive linguistics and postcolonial studies, the essay focuses on metonymic techniques, for example, doubling and substitution to argue that representations of Foreign Domestic Helpers reveal the anxieties, fears, and desires of the dominant culture. The essay shows that the Foreign Domestic Helper becomes a critical figure around whom linked questions of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in the majority ethnic Chinese population of Hong Kong circulate.
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Afflerbach, Ian. "On the Literary History of Selling Out: Craft, Identity, and Commercial Recognition." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 137, no. 2 (March 2022): 230–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812922000098.
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AbstractThis essay identifies “selling out” as an enduring yet evolving concern in anglophone literary history, from the late nineteenth century's divided literary field to the “program era” to the increasingly global circuits of contemporary literary commerce. It begins with Henry James, showing how his canonical statements on modern narrative form emerged from commercial negotiations—an economic prehistory of “craft.” Selling out becomes a salient concern as intellectuals come to see commercial success as antithetical to modern art. This cultural anxiety changes, however, once creative writing programs begin systematically reconciling craft and commerce. Turning to Nam Le's celebrated short story collection The Boat, the second section shows how selling out came to entail a fear that minority writers might betray group solidarity through reductive or essentialist portrayals of identity. Finally, the essay's third section closes by situating Le within a global market for postcolonial fiction and its attendant concerns over commodifying exoticism.
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Campanini, Sonia. "Screen-Camera-Cars." Film Studies 21, no. 1 (November 2019): 53–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/fs.21.0005.
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Self-driving cars have long been depicted in cinematic narratives, across genres from science fiction films to fantasy films. In some cases, a self-driving car is personified as one of the main characters. This article examines cinematic representations and imaginaries in order to understand the development of the self-driving technology and its integration in contemporary societies, drawing on examples such as The Love Bug, Knight Rider, Minority Report and I, Robot. Conceptually and methodologically, the article combines close readings of films with technological concerns and theoretical considerations, in an attempt to grasp the entanglement of cinematographic imaginaries, audiovisual technologies, artificial intelligence and human interactions that characterise the introduction of self-driving cars in contemporary societies. The human–AI machine interaction is considered both on technological and theoretical levels. Issues of automation, agency and disengagement are traced in cinematic representations and tackled, calling into question the concepts of socio-technical assemblage.
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Dr. Rashmi Dubey. "A Study of Diasporic Divulgencies in the Works of Rohinton Mistry." Creative Launcher 5, no. 6 (February 28, 2021): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.5.6.08.
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Diaspora fiction deals with the issues of two different social milieus having discriminating margins, disintegration or combination of cultures and is also lingers over the related feelings such as nostalgia, loneliness, alienation, existential rootlessness, homelessness, quest of identity, protest, assertions and questioning etc. Rohinton Mistry is one such writer who is well known for his depiction of these psycho-sociological problems by the emigrants and immigrants. Rohinton belongs to the Parsi Zoroastrain religious minority while residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Being himself a victim, most of his works are concerned to scrutinize the complexities of contemporary rootlessness and alienated identities of the Parsi community he describes. While in India these Parsis are called “Ghatis” and when they move towards the United States and Canada, they are called “Pakis”, and Mistry considers both of them to be dehumanizing. He raises voice against the victimization of these emigrants and immigrants and highlights their struggle also.
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Ang, Ann. "Mobility as Memory: Refiguring Temporal and Spatial Mobility in Tan Twan Eng’s The Gift of Rain." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9, no. 1 (January 2022): 26–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2021.34.
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This article discusses the operation of memory as an effect of narrative structure in The Gift of Rain, with a particular focus on the spatial and temporal mobility of narratorial perspective. Tan’s novel is situated within Malaysian writing in English, a body of minor literature in a minority language amid the country’s promotion of Bahasa as the linguistic medium for a national literature, alongside the attendant racialization of language. However, the status of The Gift of Rain as a world Anglophone novel, which circulates transnationally while depicting trans-temporal and cross-spatial trajectories, imaginatively inscribes Malaysia with a more multifarious assemblage of its cultural origins through the hybridity and queer temporality of its protagonist. Further temporal and spatial mobilities emerge in the dynamic relationship between the novel’s frame and inner narratives, where the reading experience is akin to memory processes. The veracity of fiction as memory intervenes into historical inscription and so resists the pervasive ethno-nationalism that limits cultural discourse in Malaysia.
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Goldthorp, Jacqueline D. "Can Scottish public library services claim they are socially inclusive of all minority groups when lesbian fiction is still so inaccessible?" Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 39, no. 4 (December 2007): 234–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961000607083215.
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Inloes, Amina. "A Muslim Reflection on Dangerous Games." American Journal of Islam and Society 33, no. 3 (July 1, 2016): 138–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i3.930.
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For over two decades, a moral panic over fantasy role-playinggames has swept America, fuelled by a minority of fundamentalistChristians who have campaigned against games such as Dungeons& Dragons on the grounds that they led youth to Satanism, suicide,and violent crime. In his 2015 book, Dangerous Games: What theMoral Panic over Role-Playing Games says about Play, Religion,and Imagined Worlds, David Laycock explores why fantasy roleplayinggames seem similar enough to religion to provoke fear,as well as the dynamics of this moral panic. While he, apparently,did not set out to write a book about Islam, his insights about religion,fantasy, and narrative opened my eyes to the dynamics oftwentieth-century Islam. Additionally, as a Muslim reader livingduring a “moral panic” over Islam, Laycock’s analysis helped meunderstand that today’s Islamophobia in America has little to dowith Islam. Lastly, although Muslim gamers, fantasy/sciencefictionauthors, and game developers are usually underacknowledged,there is increasing interest in Muslims and fantasy/science-fiction. I hope to call attention to this invisible cohort.
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Brincker, Maria. "Disoriented and Alone in the “Experience Machine” – On Netflix, Shared World Deceptions and the Consequences of Deepening Algorithmic Personalization." SATS 22, no. 1 (July 1, 2021): 75–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sats-2021-0005.
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Abstract Most online platforms are becoming increasingly algorithmically personalized. The question is if these practices are simply satisfying users preferences or if something is lost in this process. This article focuses on how to reconcile the personalization with the importance of being able to share cultural objects – including fiction – with others. In analyzing two concrete personalization examples from the streaming giant Netflix, several tendencies are observed. One is to isolate users and sometimes entirely eliminate shared world aspects. Another tendency is to blur the boundary between shared cultural objects and personalized content, which can be misleading and disorienting. A further tendency is for personalization algorithms to be optimized to deceptively prey on desires for content that mirrors one’s own lived experience. Some specific – often minority targeting – “clickbait” practices received public blowback. These practices show disregard both for honest labeling and for our desires to have access and representation in a shared world. The article concludes that personalization tendencies are moving towards increasingly isolating and disorienting interfaces, but that platforms could be redesigned to support better social world orientation.
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Kandel, Bhanubhakta Sharma. "Ethnic Consciousness in B.P. Koirala’s Sumnima." Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 2, no. 1 (July 27, 2014): 23–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v2i1.10810.
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B. P. Koirala’s Sumnima is more criticized as a Freudian Nepali fiction but it is more than that. The novel is a very beautiful and important gift of the novelist to the practitioners of cultural theory because the novelist has discussed the issues of minority, plurality of meaning in cultural practices, cultural differences and ethnic consciousness through the innocent characters, among others. It also documents the conflict and problems among the people living in the same area and helps us understand the value of respecting the other. The book has talked in favour of the weaker section of the society and has made the indigenous practices and way of life victorious through the use of environment, vernacular language, characters, life style, beliefs, norms and values, art, myth, etc. over the classic living style guided and prescribed by the shashtras. Sumnima is a great documentation of cultural reconciliation among the people of different ethnic origins following different beliefs, norms, values and cultural practices. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v2i1.10810 Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.2(1) 2014: 23-30
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REDIEN-COLLOT, RENAUD. "FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS' AUTHORITY: IS THE CREATIVE ASPECT OF AUTHORITY A MASCULINE FICTION IN MANAGERIAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL PARADIGMS?" Journal of Enterprising Culture 17, no. 04 (December 2009): 419–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495809000448.
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Authority is the confirmation of the control an individual has over norms and codes (Sennet, 1981). It stimulates the development of social capital. Gender shapes authority. Bourdieu (1994) stresses that in traditional societies men can interpret and produce norms whereas women reproduce them and consequently may experience difficulties in constructing their authority. Butler (1990) confirms that this dichotomy is still effective in post-modern contexts. In the literature on women entrepreneurs, scholars stress their lack of social capital as an impediment to growing the business and suggest that they should follow the male model (Aldrich et al., 1997; Ban et al., 1996). However, if one examines carefully the process of production of social capital, one would see that it is the result of a strict gender labor-division. In spite of their agentivity, female entrepreneurs fail to overcome this. Many of them may thus be tempted to adapt male patterns of authority. The present study examines how women entrepreneurs and minority business owners assimilate authority that is encapsulated in the traditional male entrepreneurial discourse. Then it analyses the perception of women entrepreneurs on authority and its impact on their style of internal management and their strategies of networking. The results reveal that either female entrepreneurs adopt authority as a repressive tool of management that helps them to develop their social capital in restricted circles of influence or they scorn authority as the display of norms that may endanger the reputation of their firms and their social influence without proposing a clear alternative. Apparently, women entrepreneurs deny the creative aspects of authority that Sennet and his Foucaldian followers have detected in managers' behaviors in the context of organizational sociology.
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Tompkins, Adam. "Acts of Becoming." Loading 14, no. 24 (January 10, 2022): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1084836ar.
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This article examines the rich historical subtext in the future-focused storylines of Quantic Dream’s 2018 release Detroit: Become Human (PS4) and illuminates many of the thematic continuities in racial issues between the past and the future. Much of the subtle historical symbolism appears to have went unnoticed by many reviewers who maligned the videogame and its creator David Cage for relying on lazy tropes that clunkily connect the African American civil rights movement to the narrative of woke androids engaging in a struggle for greater equality in society. Following scholarship that has examined the development of racialized thought in the past, this essay recognizes “race” as a powerful, yet malleable social construct, that sometimes changes over time. Racial concepts in the game do not perfectly align with historical or contemporary understandings of “race” in the United States. Androids, in short, all belong to the same “race.” This article then contends that the storylines of all three playable characters in the game resonate with well-crafted historical parallels and that the narrative geography in the gameworld often closely tethers to the historical geography of Detroit. The characters Markus, Connor, and Kara have intertwining stories that represent different elements of minority life in the United States with the clearest parallels to the historical experience of African Americans. Detroit: Become Human, nonetheless, is a science fiction game about androids. Framing the struggle for equal rights in the future with a group of beings that do not yet exist has the potential to disarm gameplayers of latent biases that may otherwise color their view of contemporary racial issues. The article asserts that the wedding together of past and future through experiential gameplay nurtures an empathic understanding of minority concerns that may carry over to the present to impact understandings of contemporary racial issues.
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Cernadas, Lucia. "A Study of Literature Translated by Galician Publishing Houses Established after 2003 during the Period 2005 to 2012." Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto, no. 04 (July 22, 2022): 231–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.18543/ced.2478.
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This paper studies the translations published between 2005 and 2012 by 25 publishing houses incorporated into the Galician publishing field since 2003 regarding their levels of publication, issue date, literary genre and source language. At the same time, it reflects upon the relationship between these publications and the cultural normalización discourse. After presenting and discussing relevant data from the Projeto Livro Galego database (Samartim & Cernadas 2020), it is shown that Spanish and English are the main source languages for these works, while the most translated genre is children and young adults literature, followed by prose fiction. This is, however, mostly due to a minority of publishing houses that concentrate many of the publications, while the remaining businesses show more varied translation plans. Also, data shows that the translation sub-field in the selected period is dependent on the field of power. Finally, the idea of normalización is presented as one of the main functions of Galician literary translation. This analysis aims at contributing empirical information, and some critical remarks, to the understanding of the cultural model of a European minoritized language in one of its fundamental expressions.
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Wang, Aiqing. "Male Writers of Dānměi Literature: An Analysis of Fēitiānyèxiáng." Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage 10, no. 1 (May 31, 2021): 97–136. http://dx.doi.org/10.31291/hn.v10i1.607.
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In this paper, I investigate dānměi as a ground-breaking literary genre by means of scrutinising an illustrious male writer pseudonymed Fēitiānyèxiáng, and I propound that his works are exemplary as online writing. As a growing Chinese Internet literature, the female-oriented dānměi genre, aka Boys Love, has attracted legions of heterosexual fangirl producers and consumers as well as a meagre amount of their male counterparts. Among male dānměi writers, who are in an absolute minority, Fēitiānyèxiáng is celebrated for a wide range of innovative themes and magnificent storylines, and his fiction is replete with profound literary and historical allusions and elaborate and meticulous depictions. Furthermore, notwithstanding a non-reversible bipartite dichotomy between seme (top) and uke (bottom) roles, Fēitiānyèxiáng’s writing is not featured by feminisation of uke, which is clichéd characterisation in not only the dānměi subculture, but also classical and modern Chinese literature. More significantly, Fēitiānyèxiáng’s narratives are reality-oriented, addressing adverse circumstances in a real-world context and hence rendering characters more multi-faceted, and he does not circumvent realistic issues or create over-romanticised representation, analogous to his equivalent pseudonymed Nánkāngbáiqǐ.
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Berkers, Pauwke. "Ethnic boundaries in national literary histories: Classification of ethnic minority fiction authors in American, Dutch and German anthologies and literary history books, 1978–2006." Poetics 37, no. 5-6 (October 2009): 419–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2009.09.003.
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Orozco, Guillermo, and Toby Miller. "Television in Latin America Is “Everywhere”: Not Dead, Not Dying, but Converging and Thriving." Media and Communication 4, no. 3 (July 14, 2016): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v4i3.592.
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In Latin America, the now-venerable expression “the end of television” itself looks old, tired, and flawed: markets, cultures, politics, and policies alike find television more alive than ever, albeit in its usual state of technological, institutional, and textual flux. Advertising investment in TV continues to increase, governments still use television to promote generalized propaganda as well as their daily agendas, football on screen remains wildly popular, and fiction programs, most notably <em>telenovelas</em>, dominate prime time and draw large audiences aged between 25 and 60. While younger viewers watch television on a wider variety of screens and technologies, and do so at differing times, the discourse of TV remains an important referent in their audiovisual experiences. In addition, across age groups, divides persist between a minority with routine high-quality access to the digital world of technology and information and a majority without alternatives to the traditional audiovisual sphere, for whom cell phones, for instance, are at most devices for communicating with friends and family members. We cannot predict the future of TV in Latin America—but we can say with confidence that the claims for its demise are overstated. Television remains the principal cultural game in town.
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Hammes, Aaron. "Really, Truly Trans and the (Minor) Literary Discontents of Authenticity." Humanities 11, no. 6 (November 13, 2022): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h11060143.
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Identity formation, questions of identity, shifting identities, perceived deviant identities, and reactions (social, political, cultural, individual) to them are the stuff of Bildungsroman as well as more “experimental” subgenres of long-form fiction. For minority/minoritized subjects and authors, questions of identity take on a different pallor: their work is expected to engage with questions of identity according to either or both how their subject position confronts marginalization and otherness, and how their subject position conditions every experience they have in the world, both inside and outside community. This inquiry investigates how contemporary transgender minor literature constructs dis/identity through authenticity. Imogen Binnie speculates in her 2013 novel Nevada on the concept of “Really, Truly Trans”, a cipher for identity policing and presumptions of sex–gender authenticity, based on cisnormative characteristics and, occasionally, inter-community phobias and proscriptions. More recently, Torrey Peters challenges measures of trans authenticity through both her titular detransitioner and his former partner in Detransition, Baby. Trans minor literature is an ideal testing ground for phobic public presumptions around “authentic” sex–gender and anti-identitarian strategies of those who are forced to confront purity tests and exclusion or suppression on grounds of authenticity, and each novel presses at phobic majoritarian dictates of authenticity and its presupposed value.
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Munos, Delphine. "“Tell it slant”: Postcoloniality and the fiction of biographical authenticity in Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 3 (February 28, 2019): 376–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989418824372.
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In Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (2007), Sarah Brouillette expands on Graham Huggan’s exploration of the current entanglement between “the language of resistance” inherent to postcolonialism and “the language of commerce” intrinsic to postcoloniality (Huggan, 2001: 264). Connecting the successful marketing of postcolonial writing with the regime of postcoloniality, Brouillette argues that such a regime requires or projects a “biographical connection” (2007: 4) between text and author so that even postcolonial fiction can be thought of as offering a supposedly authentic or unmediated access to the cultural other. This article discusses Hanif Kureishi’s My Ear at His Heart: Reading My Father (2004), in which the British Asian author narrativizes his ambivalent relationship with his father and retraces the latter’s trajectory from India to the UK of the 1960s and 1970s. My aim is to show how this memoir is very much concerned with the relationship between postcolonialism and postcoloniality even as it foregrounds issues of genre, authorship, and (af)filiation. Highlighting the ambiguities and impossibilities inherent in any referential pact (see Lejeune, 1975), My Ear at His Heart not only complicates the demand for “biographical authenticity” that is seen by Brouillette to condition the niche marketing of postcolonial literatures, the memoir also alludes to the reception of Kureishi’s own work, which was framed by “autobiographical” readings of his early novels. Through an analysis of the ways in which My Ear at His Heart re-places issues of postcoloniality and genre at the heart of the father–son relationship, I wish to suggest that Kureishi still has “something to tell us” about the commodification of “minority” cultures, provided that postcolonial scholarship starts taking issues of form seriously.