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Delić, Jovan. "Rane pripovijetke Jovana Radulovića: „Ilinštak“ (1978) i „Golubnjača“ (1980)." Узданица 18, no. 2 (November 2021): 13–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/uzdanica18.2.013d.
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The paper deals with two earliest collections of short stories by Jovan Radulović; their particularities and common features are analyzed. The collections have great literary value, and they had a huge impact on both Serbian and Yugoslav literary public in the late 1970s until the mid-1980s.
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Martinus, Sri Wulandari. "KETERSEDIAN KOLEKSI MUATAN LOKAL DALAM MENINGKATKAN LITERASI INFORMASI MASYARAKAT TENTANG KEARIFAN LOKAL DI DINAS PERPUSTAKAAN DAN KEARSIPAN KOTA PADANG PANJANG." Info Bibliotheca: Jurnal Perpustakaan dan Ilmu Informasi 3, no. 1 (December 31, 2021): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.24036/ib.v3i1.254.
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The purpose of this study is to describe (1) the availability of collections local content in increasing public information literacy about wisdom local at the Padang Panjang City Library and Archives Service; (2) obstacles in improving public information literacy about local wisdom in the Dinas Padang Panjang City Library and Archives; and (3) efforts in improving public information literacy about local wisdom in the Dinas Padang Panjang City Library and Archives. This research is a type of qualitative research with a descriptive method. Data collection techniques through observation, interview, and documentation. Research data was obtained from the results of an interview with the Head of the Library Service and Assistant Service Staff Padang Panjang City Library and Archives. The results of this study are as follows. First, in doing availability of local library collections pay attention to indicators availability of library collections including. (1) relevance, availability collection of local content in the library is relevant to the related user needs collection of local content; (2) user-oriented, collection availability local content in the library related to the information needs of users; (3) completeness of collections, completeness of local content collections in the library is still not complete because it only exists in printed form; (4) the ratio of titles, users and field specialist. The ratio between the titles of local content collections in the library and current users is still limited; (5) does not conflict with politics, ideology, religion or belief, race, or class. Availability of local content collection what is in the library does not conflict with politics, ideology, religion as well as existing races and groups; (6) scientific objects, collection availability local content in the library is adjusted to the vision and mission of the parent institution to achieve goals and objectives. Second, the City Library and Archives Service Padang Panjang has obstacles, namely: (1) lack of librarians functional in carrying out coaching activities; (2) users looking for local content collection is still very limited; (3) lack of active community participation. Third, the Padang Panjang City Library and Archives Service carried out several efforts to improve public information literacy about wisdom local Padang Panjang, namely: (1) holding traditional training activities; and (2) providing guidance to the Community Reading Park (TBM)
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Sudigdo, Anang, and Onok Yayang Pamungkas. "Multiculturalism in Children's Literature: A Study of a Collection of Poems by Elementary School Students in Yogyakarta." Daengku: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Innovation 2, no. 3 (July 6, 2022): 266–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.35877/454ri.daengku902.
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Indonesia is a compound country that has multi-ethnic, ethnic, religious, and multi-cultural that stretch from Sabang to Merauke and from Miangas to Rote. Therefore, the introduction of multiculturalism needs to be given early on to students through literary literacy in writing poems charged with multiculturalism. This study aims to describe a collection of children's poems by elementary school students “Keragaman Budaya Indonesia” and “Sehimpun Puisi. Resep Membuat Jagat Raya” from the perspective of multiculturalism. This research uses the principles of the qualitative research paradigm with the content analysis method. The data in this study are the values of multiculturalism in children's poetry. The source of the data in this study is a collection of poems by elementary school students. Data analysis techniques use interactive analysis techniques, namely data reduction, data presentation, and verification. The results showed that in the poetry collection book there were fourteen indicators of multiculturalism, including respect for cultural equality, social class, ethnicity/ ethnicity, gender, language, religion, race, skin color, pluralism, equal rights, customs, behavior patterns, educational equality, and tolerance. The introduction of multiculturalism is used to teach students to respect each other and live in harmony and be free from prejudices of discrimination against religion, gender, race, culture, color, social class, educational equality, and student diversity.
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Tan, Beverly. "Medusa: How the Literary Muse Became an Emblem for Feminism." Interdependent: Journal of Undergraduate Research in Global Studies 2 (2021): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.33682/nzgc-1pxs.
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From Ancient Greece to Hollywood, Medusa has been a global narrative. This article explores poetry and storytelling through the historical and literary legacy of Medusa; it argues for her importance in feminist history and her continued relevance in our post-MeToo world. While a seemingly straightforward tale, Medusa's story explores female dynamics, feminist power against patriarchal forces, and the ultimate defense against the male gaze. This paper showcases a historical account of the handling of the Medusa myth which proves that the rewriting and reclaiming of the myth by women parallels, if not contributes to the success of female empowerment. Accompanying this paper is a poetry collection that explores varying perspectives within rape culture, including the sexualization of Billie Eilish.
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Elias, Martille, Meredith Labadie, and Barbara Reese. "Professional Book Reviews: Perspectives on Equity and Identity: Exploring How Literacy Is Shaped in Schools, Homes, and Communities." Language Arts 87, no. 2 (November 1, 2009): 146–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/la20099006.
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The themes explored in this issue of Language Arts challenge readers to consider how literacy development is influenced, shaped, and created by inequities related to race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. The books reviewed in this column investigate conditions of classroom inequities from different perspectives: curriculum, educators, and policy. The first book, Children’s Literature and Learning: Literary Study across the Curriculum, written by Barbara A. Lehman, examines how educators can address issues of diversity and inequities, both through curriculum and by the kinds of literature they bring in to the classroom. The second book, Building Racial and Cultural Competence in the Classroom: Strategies from Urban Educators, edited by Karen Manheim Teel and Jennifer E. Obidah, offers a collection of articles intended to give teachers and teacher educators strategies for building cultural competence in future educators. And finally, Translating Childhoods: Immigrant Youth, Language, and Culture, by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, challenges our understanding of the sociology of childhood for children from diverse backgrounds, raising new implications for wide-reaching education policy.
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Shih, Shu-Mei. "Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism: Liu Na'ou's Urban Shanghai Landscape." Journal of Asian Studies 55, no. 4 (November 1996): 934–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2646529.
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In 1924 a half-Taiwanese, half-Japanese man travelled from Japan to Shanghai to study French at the Jesuit Université L'Aurore. He was young, flamboyant, and rich, and eventually used his own personal funds to found two bookstores and three journals in Shanghai. Despite his ambiguous national identity and lack of formal Chinese education, he also became the founder of a Chinese modernist literary movement called new sensationism (xinganjue pai), earned substantial notoriety, and attracted a host of followers. Murdered by an unidentified assassin in 1939, in his shorr life Liu Na'ou (1900–39) mirrored the literary movement that he created and that died with him. But this was not before he had published an intriguing collection of short stories entitled Scène (his own French title, 1930a), which was in some measure to define what urban writing meant for Chinese writers in Shanghai during the Nanjing decade (1927–37), as the quotation above suggests.
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Lott, Eric. "Criticism in the Vineyard: Twenty Years after “Race,” Writing, and Difference." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (October 2008): 1522–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1522.
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Riffing on Geoffrey Hartman's criticism in the wilderness, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., titled his introduction to the 1984 collection Black Literature and Literary Theory “Criticism in the Jungle.” Yale deconstruction, meet tropes of blackness. When a Gates-edited issue of Critical Inquiry (plus several additional essays) appeared two years later in book form as “Race,” Writing, and Difference, the encounter he helped broker between poststructuralist theory and race studies had its battle cry. Race was not an essence but an inscription, a signifier of instituted difference. The literature produced under its auspices was to be read as a series of marks and markers calling for complex formal analysis, not merely as an index of the humanity or condition of its writers. In retrospect, it appears that all this was a gambit in the embourgeoisement of African American literary studies. Twenty years on, Gates has started a company that does racial DNA searches—what he calls “roots in a test tube”—and produces books and television specials on black celebrities' racial genealogies (Lee B1). No scare quotes about it, race now gives you access to Oprah and her people. Call it criticism in the Vineyard.
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Micir, Melanie. "Why Publishing Now?" American Literary History 33, no. 2 (May 1, 2021): 432–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajab043.
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Abstract This essay is a response to the eight essays collected under the title “Literature and Publishing, 1945–2020.” In this response, I consider the timing of such a collection: Why publishing now? Why should we be reimagining literary history through the lens of publishing at this particular moment? I suggest that we can only fully grapple with the relationship between literary studies and publishing in the present moment by attending to the relationship between literary studies and the university. In the midst of twin labor crises inflected and exacerbated by questions of race, class, and gender, we must recognize the parallel conditions of those working in publishing and those working in higher education. This project’s timely interest in the institutions that shape the contemporary literary field—publishers, agencies, distributors, prizes, etc.—comes as our toehold on our own institutions (that is, the endurance and relative autonomy of university literature departments) seems increasingly tenuous.
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Lester, Neal A. "Curating Identities in the “Other” Office: My “Colored Museum”." Humanities 10, no. 1 (January 23, 2021): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h10010019.
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In 1989, I began collecting and populating my university campus office with items reflecting what I knew—from my research, teaching, and lived experience as a Black American—was racist Americana. These items have supplemented my teaching of African American literature and culture for over thirty years, invigorating discussions and breathing life into the texts we study. My collection challenges one of the most esteemed aspects of our profession—alphabet literacy through reading, writing, and books. Embodying past and present, these artifacts are as powerful as books. As my personal traveling library, they go into human spaces in ways books cannot, allowing and inviting viewers’ sensory experiences. Every piece is a story and elicits a range of personal stories, documenting intersectional perspectives on race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, religion, and body size. An exercise in cultural literacy, this collection disrupts mythologies created to restrict and delegitimize the lives of Black people. Challenging my university campus office visitors to confront the reality of me—a Black male faculty member at a predominantly white institution—my collection invites open conversation about race on my terms. My “colored museum” invites all who experience it to reflect on how we experience community building and new meaning making.
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POSNOCK, ROSS. "“LIKE BUT UNALIKE”: ERIC SUNDQUIST AND LITERARY HISTORICISM." Modern Intellectual History 4, no. 3 (October 4, 2007): 629–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s147924430700145x.
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Eric Sundquist, Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)As measured by that deadly but inescapable phrase “quantity and quality,” Eric Sundquist is perhaps the most productive American literature scholar of his generation. Since 1979, when he was still in his twenties, he has authored half a dozen books while editing another half-dozen. All have made an impact and many of these have been highly influential—his first book, Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, was among the very first to read canonical American works through the lens of contemporary literary and psychoanalytic theory; his edited collection American Realism: New Essays (1982) proved pivotal in reviving the critical energy in a major but long-dormant literary and historical period. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1993) was by implicit design and to powerful effect nothing less than a rewriting of the foundational work of American literary history and criticism—F. O. Matthiessen's monumental American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (1941). I will spend some time describing To Wake the Nations not only because of the book's exceptional importance but because its eloquent introduction provides the closest thing to a critical credo that Sundquist has written. His description there of his critical ideals—particularly of “justice,” boundary-crossing and “verification”—will help orient our approach to Strangers in the Land, which remains loyal to these ideals as it extends his interest in race and ethnicity, black and white, to the tormented subject of blacks and Jews, united by a “bond of alienation.” (52).
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Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "“Race,” Writing, and Difference: A Meditation." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (October 2008): 1516–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1516.
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“Race,” Writing, and Difference first appeared in 1986. That Fall, I entered graduate school at Yale University; I still associate the book with those intellectually heady times. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., left the university before my arrival, but his influence was still felt, and we graduate students followed his every move. We also read and debated the essays of his volume with great excitement. The collection legitimated our intellectual concerns and delineated a set of questions that we would pursue throughout our graduate school careers. The volume set the bar high and helped prepare us for the task ahead. These were the days when we anticipated and greeted the appearance of works by Gates, Houston Baker, Jr., Hortense Spillers, Sylvia Wynter, and Cornel West with almost as much excitement that years earlier accompanied the release of recordings by Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind, and Fire. Many of us came to Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Paul de Man through these brilliant theorists of African American literature and culture. Those were intellectually exciting times: the period also produced Black Literature and Literary Theory; the painful exchange between Gates, Baker, and Joyce Ann Joyce on the pages of New Literary History; Hazel Carby's Reconstructing Womanhood, and Spillers's “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book.” Furthermore, through his books Black Literature and Literary Theory, Figures in Black, and The Signifying Monkey, Gates not only provided a theoretical framework for the study of African American literature, he also set forth an intellectual agenda that he would institutionalize in a number of projects, especially The Norton Anthology of African American Literature and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard. In fact, Gates's PBS series African American Lives might be seen as part of this larger project as well in that it demonstrates the fiction of race through scientific evidence without denying its power to determine the lived experience of those identified as black in the United States. Despite the appearance of texts such as Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's The Bell Curve (and other arguments for the biological basis of race that rear their heads every so often), few people would disagree with the fundamental premise of “Race,” Writing, and Difference: that race was not fixed or naturalized but instead socially and historically constructed and institutionalized.
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Shih, Shu-Mei. "Comparative Racialization: An Introduction." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123, no. 5 (October 2008): 1347–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2008.123.5.1347.
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In the Fall of 2004, members of the MLA committee on the Literatures of People of Color in the United States and Canada felt that it was time to assess the state of the study of race in literary studies as we approached the twenty-year anniversary of the publication of the seminal collection “Race,” Writing, and Difference (1986), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which contained contributions from some of the most important scholars of race. It may appear that studying race is now largely taken for granted in English departments and that we no longer need to place quotation marks around race to emphasize its constructedness. Many scholars, though, feel a deep sense of anxiety that the situation with regard to race may have been normativized and comfortably compartmentalized but not improved. Intellectual tokenism abounds, as do equivalences between phenotypes and fields of study, with notable exceptions in larger metropolitan universities. For those of us outside English departments, the situation has barely improved. Each discipline has its unique historical baggage, and some are more able to discard their baggage than others, while some have been placed under greater pressure to change. But the truth of the matter is that some are just plain unwilling to acknowledge the significance of race even as they strive to update their disciplines and expand into new areas. In the extensive field of literary studies, it is premature to state that race has arrived, and it is not at all certain that the relation between race and critical theory, so central to the Gates volume, is settled. To a large extent, critical theory continues to see race as exterior to it, transcendent of the theorizations and lived experiences of race. Even though South Asia-based postcolonial theory has geared us to the study of colonialism and its consequent postcolonial complexities, it has also long held a strongly ambivalent relation to race studies.
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Midle Line Krismonsari and Wiyatmi. "Violence against Blue-Eyed Women in the Novel Nyutrayu by Joko Gesang Santoso." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 7, no. 6 (May 31, 2024): 08–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2024.7.6.2.
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This research aims to determine the form of violence experienced by the blue-eyed female character in the novel Nyutrayu by Joko Gesang Santoso. Researchers use feminist literary criticism theory. The data source for this research was obtained from a quote from the novel Nyutrayu, which describes the violence experienced by the blue-eyed female character. The data collection process uses data collection techniques through literature study, reading techniques, and note-taking techniques. The literature study technique is carried out by collecting, reading and studying books on feminist literary criticism theory; the reading technique is carried out repeatedly in the novel Nyutrayu, and the note-taking technique is to record quotes that show data in the form of violence experienced by the blue-eyed female character. Next, data validity techniques are carried out using validity tests and reliability tests. The validity test is carried out by interpreting the data based on the problem formulation and in accordance with feminist literary criticism. Meanwhile, the reliability test was carried out by repeatedly reading the novel Nyutrayu by Joko Gesang Santoso and discussing it with colleagues. The data analysis technique is carried out in three stages. First is data reduction, namely data collected and grouped according to the problem formulation. The second is data presentation, namely grouping data into data cards. Third, conclusions and verification are drawn, namely the final conclusion of the data, which is temporary and can change if evidence is found to support the data collection stage. The results of the research show that 1) the physical violence experienced by the blue-eyed female character was in the form of being killed by a group of men, being hit with a broom handle, and being injured by village youths using a machete. 2) psychological violence experienced by the blue-eyed female character in the form of being stalked by villagers, being accused of being a witch, and being threatened with death. And 3) sexual violence experienced by the blue-eyed female character in the form of sexual harassment and rape.
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Kumar, Anita. "What's the Matter?: Shakti's (Re)Collection of Race, Nationhood, and Gender." TDR/The Drama Review 50, no. 4 (December 2006): 72–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram.2006.50.4.72.
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The 2005 Student Essay Contest winner weaves together the narratives of members of Viji Prakash's Shakti bharatanatyam school community, dancing in and out of positions of marginality to unravel the notion of group identity as cohesive, homogenous, and pure as she confronts her own performance and corporealization of South Asian American identity.
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Eklund, Johan, Josh Hagedorn, and Sándor Darányi. "Teaching Tale Types to a Computer: A First Experiment with the Annotated Folktales Collection." Fabula 64, no. 1-2 (July 1, 2023): 92–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2023-0005.
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Abstract Computational motif detection in folk narratives is an unresolved problem, partly because motifs are formally fluid, and because test collections to teach machine learning algorithms are not generally available or big enough to yield robust predictions for expert confirmation. As a result, standard tale typology based on texts as motif strings renders its computational reproduction an automatic classification exercise. In this brief communication, to report work in progress we use the Support Vector Machine algorithm on the ten best populated classes of the Annotated Folktales test collection, to predict text membership in their internationally accepted categories. The classification result was evaluated using recall, precision, and F1 scores. The F1 score was in the range 0.8–1.0 for all the selected tale types except for type 275 (The Race between Two Animals), which, although its recall rate was 1.0, suffered from a low precision.
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DeNotto, Michael. "Research Methods Primary Sources." Charleston Advisor 23, no. 3 (January 1, 2022): 51–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5260/chara.23.3.51.
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Adam Matthew Digital's (AMD) product Research Methods Primary Sources (RMPS) is designed to offer a way for pedagogues to enhance their teaching of archival and historical documents by integrating digital case studies and learning tools like interviews with archivists, librarians, and conservators to help students evaluate, utilize, and interpret primary sources in academic research. This product would be useful across the humanities including literary, medieval, global, and media studies, but most particularly within the context of history courses. And there is ample material related to gender, disability, race, and other critical studies that operate across disciplines. Research Methods Primary Sources works on its own, though it is enhanced with additional subscriptions to Adam Matthew Digital primary source collections.
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Kendrick, Christopher. "Socialism and Fantasy: China Miéville's Fables of Race and Class." Monthly Review 67, no. 9 (February 2, 2016): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.14452/mr-067-09-2016-02_2.
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Among a number of contemporary science and speculative fiction writers who identify as left-wing, China Miéville stands out, not only for the quality of his literary production, but also for the critical character of his political commitment, dedicated equally to socialism and to fantasy. In addition to his fictive works, he has written articles and given lectures on the nature and value of speculative and fantasy fiction; edited a collection of essays on Marxism and fantasy in an issue of the journal <em>Historical Materialism</em>; and, not least, published a list of "Fifty Sci-Fi and Fantasy Works Every Socialist Should Read." I wish to discuss here the form and thematics of the early novels known (after the alternate world in which they are set) as the Bas-Lag trilogy—which remains, if you take it as a single work, his most ambitious and memorable achievement. But since Miéville is a serious critic and advocate of fantasy fiction, I will approach the books with a brief discussion of his aesthetic positions and program, gathered from essays and talks as well as from his literary works.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-9" title="Vol. 67, No. 9: February 2016" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>
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Jakob, Hans-Joachim. "“Wie kan deß Menschen Aug das Eitle so belieben?”." Daphnis 51, no. 2-3 (May 26, 2023): 392–429. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18796583-12340081.
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Abstract G. Ph. Harsdörffer’s story collection Der Geschichtspiegel (1654) directly addresses the epistemological concept of visuality. Harsdörffer combines stories with emblems and in an appendix presents twenty-five exercises on catoptrics, that is, the branch of optics dealing with reflection and mirroring. Some of the stories present typical interpretations assessing virtues and vices; these cases are illustrated by particularly despicable crimes such as rape, infanticide, and cannibalism. In contrast, the other stories deal with baroque natural history, e.g. entomology, nautical science, botany, alchemy, and number theory.
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Sacido Romero, Jorge, and Laura Mª Lojo Rodríguez. "Through the Eye of a Postmodernist Child: Ian McEwan’s "Homemade”." Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 44 (March 31, 2012): 107–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_misc/mj.20119093.
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From Romanticism onwards, childhood was constructed as an alternative to the alienating world of modern progress. Though this idealised version of childhood consecrated in Romantic literature was questioned by the end of the nineteenth century, the child’s perspective on the adult world has remained throughout a useful way of exploring social deficiencies and of exposing some of its most unpalatable aspects. In the present essay, the authors trace the transformation in the conception of childhood to then focus on Ian McEwan’s “Homemade”, the opening story in First Love, Last Rites (1975), the collection that marks the author’s literary debut. The particularly evil nature of the child protagonist as well as his frustrated passage into adulthood after his pathetic first and single sexual experience (the rape of his own sister) is related to the major historical transformation of the traditional model of paternal authority in the postmodern period which engenders a cynical and perverse type of subjectivity that is nevertheless marked by its paradoxical inability to enjoy.
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Yakovenko, Iryna. "African American history in Natasha Trethewey’s “Native Guard”." Synopsis: Text Context Media 27, no. 4 (December 25, 2021): 224–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2311-259x.2021.4.4.
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The article presents interpretations of the poetry collection “Native Guard” of the American writer Natasha Trethewey — the Pulitzer Prize winner (2007), and Poet Laureate (2012–2014). Through the lens of African American and Critical Race studies, Trethewey’s “Native Guard” is analyzed as the artistic Civil War reconstruction which writes the Louisiana Native Guard regiments into national history. Utilizing the wide range of poetic forms in the collections “Domestic Work” (2000), “Bellocq’s Ophelia” (2002), “Thrall” (2012), — ekphrastic poetry, verse-novellas, epistolary poems, rhymed and free verse sonnets, dramatic monologues, in “Native Guard” (2006) Natasha Trethewey experiments with the classical genres of villanelle (“Scenes from a Documentary History of Mississippi”), ghazal (“Miscegenation”), pantoum (“Incident”), elegy (“Elegy for the Native Guard”), linear palindrome (“Myth”), pastoral (“Pastoral”), sonnet (the ten poems of the crown sonnet sequence “Native Guard”). Following the African American modernist literary canon, Trethewey transforms the traditional forms, infusing blues into sonnets (“Graveyard Blues”), and experimenting with into blank verse sonnets (“What the Body Can Tell”). In the first part of “Native Guard”, the poet pays homage to her African American mother who was married to a white man in the 1960s when interracial marriage was illegal. The book demonstrates the intersections of private memories of Trethewey’s mother, her childhood and personal encounters with the racial oppression in the American South, and the “poeticized” episodes from the Civil War history presented from the perspective of the freed slave and the soldier of the Native Guard, Nathan Daniels. The core poems devoted to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Louisiana regiments in the Union Army formed in 1862, are the crown sonnet sequence which variably combine the formal features of the European classical sonnet and the African American blues poetics. The ten poems are composed as unrhymed journal entries, dated from 1862 to 1865, and they foreground the reflections of the African American warrior on historical episodes of the Civil War focusing on the Native Guard’s involvement in the military duty. In formal aspects, Trethewey achieves the effect of continuity by “binding” together each sonnet and repeating the final line of the poem at the beginning of the following one in the sequence. Though, the “Native Guard” crown sonnet sequence does not fully comply with the rigid structure of the classical European form, Trethewey’s poetic narrative aims at restoring the role of the African American soldiers in the Civil War and commemorating the Native Guard. The final part of the collection synthesizes the two strains – the personal and the historical, accentuating the racial issues in the American South. Through the experience of a biracial Southerner, and via the polemics with the Fugitives, in her poems Natasha Trethewey displays that the Civil Rights Act has not eliminated racial inequality and racism. Trethewey’s extensive experimentation with literary forms and style opens up the prospects for further investigation of the writer’s artistic methods in her poetry collections, autobiographical prose, and nonfiction.
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Sheppard, Vanessa, Ling Zheng, Kristi D. Graves, Alejandra Hurtado-de-Mendoza, and Mahlet Tadasse. "Opportunities for precision medicine: Factors associated with participation in genetic research among breast cancer survivors." Journal of Clinical Oncology 34, no. 3_suppl (January 20, 2016): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2016.34.3_suppl.94.
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94 Background: Finding unique cancer therapies based on the specific genomic profiles of a person’s tumor is a national priority. Precision medicine can reduce disparate outcomes – particularly among Black breast cancer survivors who have higher mortality rates. Black women tend to be underrepresented in genomic research. Methods: Hormone receptive positive breast cancer survivors (Whites = 334, Blacks = 124, Other = 23) were recruited via hospitals and outreach. Data were collected via telephone interviews to assess sociocultural and health care processes; clinical data were abstracted from charts. Cell pellets were harvested from mouthwashes by centrifugation, followed by washing with PBS solution twice. After the baseline, women had a brief telephone information session. Low literacy materials explaining biospecimen collection were mailed. The primary outcome was receipt of the biospecimen sample in three months. Logistic regression assessed factors associated with biospecimens receipt. Results: Most (69%) survivors provided biospecimens. Most (92.8%) samples had good size cell pellets. Most (93%) of the mouth wash samples will have sufficient DNA for genotyping assays. In bivariate analysis, race, education, and mistrust were not associated with biospecimen receipt (p> .05). Survivors more likely to provide biospecimens had higher ratings of: confidence in physicians’ technical skills, communication with providers, satisfaction with time with providers, and overall satisfaction with care (p< .05). Health literacy and functional well-being were also associated with biospecimen receipt. In multivariate models, only survivor’s ratings of their level of confidence in her oncologists’ technical skills remained significant (OR: 1.6 per 1 point increase; CI: 1.1, 2.5). Conclusions: Regardless of race, most breast cancer survivors are willing to provide biospecimens for genomics research. Brief informational sessions and simple low-literacy materials may enhance participation. Relationships with oncologists are salient to promoting survivors participation in genomics research.
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Nazhiifah, Rifda Ummu, Kundharu Saddhono, and Dewi Pangestu Said. "Analisis Nilai Moral dalam Naskah Drama Becik Nitik Ala Pilara Karya M. Ahmad Jalidu." Sabdasastra : Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa Jawa 7, no. 1 (March 25, 2023): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.20961/sabpbj.v7i1.63413.
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<em>The spread of moral issues in the community such as the use of narcotics and illegal drugs, pornography, brawls, rape, and so on are social issues of concern and have not been resolved. Drama script is one of the literary works that can be used as a tool to instill morals in the community in an effort to solve the problems that occur. This study aims to describe the representation of moral values in the drama script "Becik Nitik Ala Pilara" by M. Ahmad Jalidu. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method with document analysis techniques. The data source of this research is the Becik Nitik Ala Pilara drama script by M. Ahmad Jalidu, the data is in the form of quotes contained in the script itself. The data analysis technique used is the flow analysis technique consisting of (1) data collection, (2) data purification or reduction, (3) data presentation, and (4) drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicate that there are five types of moral values contained in the Becik Nitik Ala Pilara manuscript by M. Ahmad Jalidu, including: (1) tolerance, (2) respect, (3) kindness, (4) self-control, ( 5) justice.</em>
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Guchetl, S. Z., and D. L. Savichenko. "A linkage of gene of resistance to a broomrape race G with microsatellite loci of a sunflower linedonor RGP1 of VNIIMK’s breeding." Oil Crops 186, no. 2 (June 30, 2021): 3–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.25230/2412-608x-2021-2-186-3-9.
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Broomrape (Orobanche cumana Wallr.) is one of the main biotic factors limiting high sunflower yield formation. The most effective and environmentally safe method of protection is cultivation of resistant varieties and hybrids of sunflower. Development of resistant sunflower genotypes includes search and usage of sources of resistance in breeding process as well as accurate and productive procedures of material assessment. The purpose of the research is to analyze a linkage of a gene Or7 with microsatellite loci of the line-donor of resistance to broomrape race G from the VNIIMK’s collection. The objects of the research are the line RGP1 – a donor of resistance to broomrape race G and a susceptible to this race line VR 678 from the VNIIMK’s collection. Sunflower plants were crossed in field to produce F1. Also we conducted self-pollination of F1 plants to obtain F2 progeny. Plants were tested in a greenhouse in soil infected with seeds of broomrape race G using a method of early diagnostic. Sunflower DNA was extracted from the top leaves of the young sprouts of the vegetative plants. For PCR-analysis we used three SSR-primers demonstrated polymorphism in parental lines: ORS 683, ORS 1040, and ORS 1112. We tested joint inheritance of the gene Or7 and these loci, and inheritance between SSR-loci. An independent inheritance of the gene Or7 with DNA-loci ORS 683, ORS 1040, and ORS 1112, as well as SSR-loci between ORS 1040 and ORS 1112, ORS 1040 and ORS 683 was showed. Loci ORS683 – ORS 1112 are linked with a frequency of recombination of 0.27 ± 0.41 (27 cM). As a result of our research location of the gene Or7 in the nearest area to microsatellite loci ORS 683, ORS 1040, and ORS 1112 was excluded. Basing on studied literary sources and a representative sunflower genome HanXRQr2.0-SUNRISE we made a partial physical map LG3 for determination of an area for the further search of a localization of the Or7 and DNAmarkers co-segregating with this gene.
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Nel, Hennely. "Interseksionele feminisme in Afrikaanse poësie: Lynthia Julius se Uit die kroes." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 61, no. 1 (June 26, 2024): 46–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v61i1.16067.
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In the current transnational discourse on fourth-wave feminism, “intersectional feminism” is a fundamental concept. The representation of marginalised voices of especially Black women from underrepresented contexts, such as the Global South, is emphasised in an attempt to decolonise the formal domains of literature, academia and the media. Historically, there is a gap in the representation of diverse Black female voices in South African literatures. However, there has recently been an increase in the publication of the literary texts by previously marginalised voices, especially in Afrikaans poetry. Diverse perspectives are shared regarding the complexities of the intersection of identity categories including race, gender, culture, identity, class, language and socioeconomic status in South African society, and how it affects the previously marginalised. A voice that represents intersectional feminist issues in the South African and Afrikaans contexts can be found in Lynthia Julius’s debut poetry book, Uit die kroes (From the kroes, 2020). In this article, the significance of Julius’s unique, intersectional feminist viewpoint, with stories and perspectives from the Northern Cape, is investigated. The focus is specifically on how Julius represents a ‘triple marginalised’ voice in the South African and Afrikaans contexts with regard to her gender, race and language. Furthermore, I will discuss how the uniqueness of her collection of poems and Northern Cape Afrikaans, that have rarely been provided with a platform in the Afrikaans literary canon, contribute to giving a voice to the historic ‘voiceless’. The importance of Julius’s voice and how it highlights the heterogeneity of previously marginalised groups in South Africa, are also explored. In conclusion it is argued that the publication of poets with diverse intersectional feminist perspectives, such as Julius, can be deemed a positive step in the direction of the decolonising process of the Afrikaans literature and feminism.
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Vika Sari, Arini, and Wiyatmi Wiyatmi. "Sexual Politics in Fiksimini: Analysis of Feminist Critical Discourse." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 4, no. 2 (February 27, 2021): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2021.4.2.14.
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This study aims to describe the sexual politics in fiksimini by using feminist critical discourse analysis. This research is a qualitative descriptive study that uses @fiksimini account during January-February 2020 on Twitter as the data source. The research data used is sexual politics discourse contained in literary worksfiksimini which has a total of 267 data with 44 topicsfiksimini. Data collection techniques are conducted by reading and recorded in the data cards. The data collection instrument was the researcher himself (human instrument) using Kate Millett's sexual politics parameters. Data analysis technique in this study used semantic and pragmatic equivalents in analyzing work fiksimini containing sexual politics in fiksimini. The data analysis stage is carried out by the work step of literature research, namely studying libraries related to research objects by reading, taking notes, and interpreting references related to research objects. The results showed that there are six forms of sexual politics contained in fiksimini, namely: sexual slavery, women's domestic work, control of women, abuse of sexuality, rape, projecting women and negotiations conducted by female characters in the story. Sexual politics contained in fiksimini is 80% written by male writers who recount the power of patriarchy. The ideology seen from writing about sexual politics shows that writers use male and female characters emerging from social classes, institutions of marriage, and free sex. The female characters narrated by the fiksimini writers still place women as inferior beings who are in the power of superior patriarchy.
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Braden, Eliza G. "Navigating Black Racial Identities: Literacy Insights from an Immigrant Family." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 122, no. 13 (April 2020): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146812012201310.
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Background The increase in the number of Black immigrants and other immigrant populations has undoubtedly changed the landscape of educational spaces. In fact, in 2016, 8% of Blacks were second generation Americans. Although Black immigrants may share similar experiences to native born African Americans, there are markedly distinct cultural influences that shape their educational experiences. Both racialized and cultural experiences come to play a major role in how students experience schooling in the U.S. The relationship that Black immigrant families have with schools and teachers can impact immigrant children's well-being and inform teachers. Therefore, it is important that Black immigrant families and schools create lasting relationships grounded in a respect for language, culture, race, and county of origin. Purpose/Objective/Research Question I use the insights from discussions with one Black immigrant family from Senegal who participated in an after-school critical literacy workshop where relationships were built among parents, students, and educators. Although there is an extensive body of literature on Black immigrants in the U.S., this research will contribute to filling the gap concerning how Black immigrant parents can be supported in serving as agents of socialization as their children come to understand the way race functions in the United States and how other parents, teachers, and curricula can be informed through discussions with them. This study is guided by the following question: What can be learned about the role of an after-school critical literacy workshop in creating a space for a Senegalese immigrant family to engage in discussions with their children, other families, and teachers as they react to race and violence in the U.S.? Research Design/Data Collection and Analysis Throughout the course of the project, students’ participation was documented through field notes, research memos, and audio and video recordings of family workshop meetings. Classroom data in the form of children's writing samples, written response journaling, and visual responses (sketch to stretch) were also collected. The study included in-depth interviews with student participants at the conclusion of the workshop. Parents completed a survey to share their experiences. Data were uploaded to Dedoose to identify codes. Findings/Results Three themes refected how the critical literacy workshop enhanced the family's ability to prepare their children for a racialized society and inform other children, families, and teachers: (a) transnational literacies were important in building racial and heritage knowledge for the children, (b) children's literature and film opened spaces for conversation that allowed the family to inform other parents about racial injustices and the importance of African heritage pride and also informed the classroom teacher about the need for discussing colorism in his classroom, and (c) transnational literacies and talk about anti-Blackness occurred within a supportive environment. Conclusions/Implications When the after-school critical literacy workshop affirmed a Black immigrant family in their “Black thinking” and sociopolitical consciousness, they were able to articulate their feelings about racist acts and violence and the need for African heritage pride. Findings corroborate the studies that argue for the value of teaching about contemporary movements such as #BlackLivesMatter and the importance of honoring the voices of Black immigrant youth and families in curricular spaces.
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Henning, John. "Bombs, ghosts, devils: Mhudi and the new historicism." English in Africa 49, no. 2 (November 4, 2022): 49–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/eia.v49i2.3.
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This paper uses the vexed publication history of Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi to try to ‘read’ various aspects of the New Historicism – a school of historiographical thought recently evoked by Zakes Mda in his writing about the novel. Taking the alleged 1976 petrol bombing that is said to have unearthed Plaatje’s lost typescript, my essay suggests that the lingering disagreements in South African literary circles over issues of the ‘correct version’ of the text – disagreements, as we will see, that rage on in the collection of commemorative essays published in 2020 entitled Sol Plaatje’s Mhudi: History, Criticism, Celebration – signal not only the fertility of the novel’s extra-textual life, but the inseparability of that life from the words on Mhudi ’s pages. I argue that conceptualizing Plaatje’s text as indistinguishable from a series of what might usually be considered ‘contextual’ (rather than ‘textual’) interruptions, deviations and anecdotes produces a disruptive set of readings.
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Echeverri, Margarita, David Anderson, Anna Nápoles, Jacqueline Haas, Marc Johnson, and Friar Serrano. "Cancer Health Literacy and Willingness to Participate in Cancer Research and Donate Bio-Specimens." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 10 (September 24, 2018): 2091. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102091.
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Although it has been well documented that poor health literacy is associated with limited participation in cancer clinical trials, studies assessing the relationships between cancer health literacy (CHL) and participation in research among diverse populations are lacking. In this study, we examined the relationship between CHL and willingness to participate in cancer research and/or donate bio-specimens (WPRDB) among African Americans, Latinos, and Whites. Participants completed the Cancer Health Literacy Test and the Multidimensional Cancer Literacy Questionnaire. Total-scale and subscale scores, frequencies, means, and distributions were computed. Analyses of variance, the Bonferroni procedure, and the Holm method were used to examine significant differences among groups. Cronbach’s alphas estimated scales’ internal consistency reliability. Significant interactions were found between race/ethnicity, gender, and CHL on WPRDB scales and subscale scores, even after education and age were taken into account. Our study confirms that CHL plays an important role that should be considered and researched further. The majority of participants were more willing to participate in non-invasive research studies (surveys, interviews, and training) or collection of bio-specimens (saliva, check cells, urine, and blood) and in studies led by their own healthcare providers, and local hospitals and universities. However, participants were less willing to participate in more-invasive studies requiring them to take medications, undergo medical procedures or donate skin/tissues. We conclude that addressing low levels of CHL and using community-based participatory approaches to address the lack of knowledge and trust about cancer research among diverse populations may increase not only their willingness to participate in research and donate bio-specimens, but may also have a positive effect on actual participation rates.
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Echo Dilus and Luluk Isani Kulup. "KETIDAKADILAN GENDER DALAM NASKAH DRAMA MATA ADIL MATA TAKDIR KARYA TOTENK MT RUSMAWAN." Buana Bastra 7, no. 1 (February 3, 2022): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.36456/bastra.vol7.no1.a5044.
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The purpose of this study is to describe gender injustice in the drama script Mata Adil Mata Takdir by Totenk MT Rusmawan. The theory used in this research is Fakih's theory which refers to gender injustice towards women as a support in his study. The method used in this study is a qualitative research method. Data collection techniques use words, sentences, and paragraphs. The technical analysis of the data used is reading, interpreting and concluding. The results of the research found in the drama script Mata Adil Mata Takdir there are gender injustices experienced by female characters by men contained in the drama script. Women leaders experience gender injustice by men in the form of job impoverishment, women 's numbering, and violence against women in terms of physical, psychological and rape violence. Conclusions in this study the forms of gender injustice in the lives of women leaders Gender differences have given birth to various injustices, both men and especially against women. injustice is a system and structure of both men and women become victims of the system. Suggestions in this research can be useful for the development of teaching Indonesian language and literature in understanding gender injustice contained in literary works, especially drama scripts.
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Yusuf, Feby Meuthia, and Ena Zahari. "Pre-Assumption of Tess’ Happy Ending as Seen in Tess of The D’ubervilles by Thomas Hardy." Jurnal Ilmiah Langue and Parole 5, no. 1 (December 28, 2021): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.36057/jilp.v5i1.510.
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The object of this research is the struggle of women as reflected by the main character Hardy, namely Tess. The author intends to show how the picture of a woman who never gives up to get a decent life, even though in the end she chose the wrong decision and ended her own life.
The approach used in the analysis of women's struggles is a feminist approach, this is intended to provide an ideal view of women in literary works that are the object of male domination. In this research, the writer uses three methods: data collection by applying library research, data analysis using content analysis method that emphasizes the implied and explicit meaning in the fictional character of the literary work, and data representation by compiling the data obtained in systematic writing, namely thesis.
The author sees that the character of Tess, as a woman who never gives up in her life. He had made several fatal mistakes which later brought misery and his own end. If only Tess hadn't made that mistake her life would have been for the better. First, if Tess hadn't told her she'd been raped then Angel wouldn't have left her. Second, if Tess didn't reject Angel's intention to return then she would live happily with her husband. Third, if Tess hadn't killed Alec, then she wouldn't have been sentenced to death and could live her life with her husband Angel.
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Hagan, Edward A. "Alice McDermott's Almost Invisible Narrators." Irish University Review 53, no. 2 (November 2023): 404–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2023.0622.
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Why do Alice McDermott's narrators not acknowledge a statutory rape and a murder? Why does she make it hard for readers to detect who her narrators are? She compels us to work with her to construct her stories and makes the task unusually hard for the first-time reader. Laszlo F. Földényi's collection of essays, Dostoyevski Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears (2020), helps us to understand the philosophical basis for McDermott's narrative strategies in her depictions of Irish America. Her narrators reveal the emptiness occasioned by a false dichotomy between subject and object – a contemporary disease. McDermott restores mystery as the antidote to systems of knowledge. Analysis of her novels, especially Child of My Heart (2002), Someone (2013) and The Ninth Hour (2017), suggests McDermott's cure for the narrators’ quest for control over the stories they tell. Someone is a key novel for understanding what ails our contemporary consciousness.
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Toure, Judith, and Dana N. Thompson Dorsey. "Stereotypes, Images, and Inclination to Discriminatory Action: The White Racial Frame in the Practice of School Leadership." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 120, no. 2 (February 2018): 1–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811812000207.
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Background/Context Most educators have had little if any preparation in racial literacy, the understanding of social identity related to race and the ability to recognize and negotiate racism. In fact, they may view race as irrelevant. Yet teachers and school leaders hold deep-seated racial ideologies that shape their day-to-day practice and have implications for their students’ learning and success This study presents an analysis of school leadership in three, predominantly African-American schools, and the constructions of race, learning, and leadership. Purpose The authors draw from Feagin's (2010) conceptual framework, the White racial frame (WRF), to analyze school leadership practice and ways in which racial ideologies emerge and shape leaders’ work with teachers. The WRF consists of five dimensions including racial stereotypes, racial narratives and interpretations, racial images and language accents, racialized emotions, and inclinations to discriminatory action. Context and Participants This study took place in three schools in two urban districts in western Pennsylvania. Participants included three White school principals, instructional leaders, and several focal teachers. Research Design, Data Collection, and Analysis This ethnographic case study is part of a larger study that took place in three predominantly African-American elementary schools. More than 80 hours of school-based observations took place, by shadowing each principal weekly and observing her in various capacities as she supervised teachers, led walkthroughs and faculty meetings, and attended or provided professional development. Additionally, multiple interviews of the school leaders and focal teachers were conducted to surface beliefs about race, knowledge of culture and learning, and knowledge of teachers’ cultural competence. We developed a coding scheme based upon Feagin's (2010) paradigm of the WRF to surface leadership beliefs and practice and used a qualitative data analysis software package to analyze our data. Findings The school leaders in this study were deeply rooted within the WRF in their daily leadership routines, perpetuating stereotypes and justifying discriminatory actions in the school, ultimately limiting learning opportunities for children of color and for teachers. Conclusions/Recommendations The findings underscore the need for critical knowledge of race and racism to be included in teacher and leadership preparation and professional development. The WRF serves as a fine-grained analytic tool for understanding how racial ideologies surface in leadership. The authors recommend that future research explore the role of school leaders in deframing and reframing the White racial frame and develop the concept of racial literacy in educational contexts.
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Clark, Rebecca B. "Data Bodies." American Literary History 36, no. 1 (February 1, 2024): 256–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajad234.
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Abstract This essay examines two recent books that each take up the vexed topic bodies of data in relation to literature and race in the US: Richard Jean So’s Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction and Elizabeth Rodrigues’s Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures. Each book, in its own way, asks literary scholars to take the data corpus seriously as both an object and a method of study. While acknowledging that the collection of bodies of data has long been used to efface, dehumanize, and racialize, So and Rodrigues ask readers not to dismiss reactively the data corpus’s potential to also be an unexpected tool for refuting those same naturalized and totalizing narratives. Contemplating, as they do, the unique temporality and spatiality of the accretion of singular points into a collective data, the books explore what a data corpus looks, feels, and sounds like and what it might tell us about the relationship between bodies, books in twentieth-century US literature, and the stories that have and could be told about both.Thinking in different ways about the vexed relationship between bodies of data, literature, and race in the US, Rodrigues and So each demonstrate that, while data cannot speak for itself, there are some stories we can neither hear, see, nor tell without its help.
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Roy, Sarani. "The “kala–admi” and the “golden-haired, fair-complexioned hero”: Racial Othering and the Question of the Aboriginals in the Fairy Tale Collections of Colonial Bengal." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 25, no. 4 (November 2023): 476–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.25.4.0476.
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ABSTRACT This article discusses how the representational politics of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Bengali fairy tales was heavily informed by the racial discourses of the time. The racial discourses of colonial Bengal worked in close association with the discourses of anthropology and nationalism. The discourse of ethnographic nationalism prepared the ground for the historical rise of the Hindu, upper-caste, urban, elite, male subjectivity and enabled it to define and “speak” for the so-called “aboriginal” groups in a way that best suited their convenience. The contemporary idea of the “black,” “ugly,”“backward,” and “uncivilized” aboriginals influenced the representation of the rakshasas or the giants in the fairy tales of colonial Bengal. The article analyzes the ways in which the project of fairy tale collection turned into an upper-caste, Hindu, elite discourse in the hands of the Bengali intellectuals, which operated primarily by marginalizing the category of the aboriginals. The article also historically contextualizes the categories of the elite and the aboriginal in connection with the arya-anarya theory of race, popular in nineteenth-century Bengal.
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DAVIS, ROCÍO G. "Academic Autobiography and Transdisciplinary Crossings in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces." Journal of American Studies 43, no. 3 (December 2009): 441–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875809990867.
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The growing number of academic autobiographies published in recent years has sparked interesting debates on the nature and function of life writing. We now grapple with the question of the degrees to which autobiographical and professional writing function in conjunction – if we can read autobiographical writing from professional perspectives or, alternatively, to what extent scholarship grows from personal experiences. This approach to the academic autobiography links our notions about processes of self-inscription to the forms of production of historical and cultural knowledge. This essay examines these ideas by reading Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces (1997). Lim's literary and scholarly production superlatively illustrates the development of contemporary perspectives on national identity and language, migration, and homelands. Her work, which includes poetry collections, novels, short stories, academic studies and a memoir – compels readers to engage the interplay between the competing forces of race, ethnicity, gender, and nationality within spaces that embody these conflicts. I argue that a comparative reading of personal and professional narratives invites us to reconsider how, working within specific epistemic contexts, academics like Lim consciously negotiate the intersection between personal history and academic commitment, a vital subtext in their autobiographical performance.
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Patricia Chiquillo, Raquel. "Madness, the Grotesque and Female Identity in “Exquisita ama de casa” and “El juego de la demencia” by Krisma Mancía." Latin American Literary Review 49, no. 97 (November 17, 2021): 50–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.26824/lalr.221.
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Krisma Mancía (1980, El Salvador) is one of the most promising members of the postwar generation of young Salvadoran poets. Like Jacinta Escudos, Claudia Hernández and Vanessa Núñez Handal in prose, Krisma Mancía breaks free of the taboos still found within Salvadoran society that have kept women’s issues out of literary discourse longer than in other Latin American countries, and brings them to the forefront in her poetry. In this study, I focus on analyzing the poems “Exquisita ama de casa” and “El juego de la demencia,” both from the collection La era del llanto (2004) and showing how difficult it is for the female subjects to break free from patriarchal order and create an independent, strong female identity. Krisma Mancía delves deeply into the contradictions inherent in Salvadoran society to give us a harrowing look at two repressive expectations still placed upon Salvadoran women today: that of the traditional housewife and of the obedient and lady-like daughter. Through grotesque, often surrealistic images, and multiple voices within the poems, Mancía shows us how these societal expectations result in women becoming monstrous, becoming chimeras that can only find freedom in a descent into madness and rage.
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Menrisky, Alexander. "Hicks, Homos, and Home Cooking." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 28, no. 3 (June 1, 2022): 413–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10642684-9738512.
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Abstract This essay draws on critical studies of food, race, class, and environment to consider food's role in the cultivation of queer literary and political cultures in Appalachia. Texts such as Jeff Mann's Loving Mountains, Loving Men, a collection of poetry and essays, speak to a double-bind in which queer Appalachian writers often profess to find themselves: on the one hand, dismissed as coal-loving “white trash” by urban environmentalists; on the other, subjected to right-wing violence at home. Mann's writing negotiates this tension through poetic engagement with “hillbilly” gustatory traditions—namely, by adopting the recipe form. These poems, and the acts of foraging, preparing, and sharing food they represent, articulate queer communities gathered around tactile experiences of place. They also illustrate the promises and pitfalls of the recipe's representational potential. On the one hand, defining food by its regional character risks reiterating essentialist notions of nature and identity. On the other, focusing on food's disruption of conventional material boundaries neglects the lived social conditions facing marginalized peoples in the region. By focusing on the open-ended preparation of food rather than the end product, Mann mediates these extremes, typifying foodways, region, and queerness alike as ongoing phenomena.
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Odai-Afotey, Ashley, Ellana Haakenstad, Sunyi Zhang, Bridget A. Neville, Stuart Lipsitz, and Nadine J. McCleary. "Abstract 5939: Feasibility of systemic SDOH collection and associated resource utilization at a large academic cancer center." Cancer Research 82, no. 12_Supplement (June 15, 2022): 5939. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2022-5939.
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Abstract BACKGROUND: The WHO defines social determinants of health (SDoH) as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live and age” which includes factors such as housing and food insecurity, employment, and social support and can account for 30-55% of health outcomes. Addressing unmet SDoH needs may reduce interruptions to cancer care caused by ED visits and hospitalizations (EDH). We aimed to determine feasibility of systematic patient-reported SDoH collection at a large academic cancer center and association of unmet SDoH needs with EDH.METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of SDoH needs among new oncology patient (pt) consults from 5/15-9/21at Dana Farber Cancer Institute (DCFI). Pts completed an intake questionnaire including demographic, disease, as well as SDOH needs on a dichotomous or 5-point Likert scale, specifically health literacy (“how confident are you in filling out medical forms?”), health numeracy (“how confident are you in understanding medical statistics?”), financial distress (“how difficult is it for you, or your family, to meet monthly payments on your/your family’s bills?”) and social isolation (“do you currently live alone?”). We ran bivariate and multivariable models on the association between demographics, SDoH and EDH within 30 days of initial oncology visit using robust generalized estimating equations controlling for clustering by consult provider. RESULTS: 125,997new consults were seen from 05/15-09//21, of which 20,913 completed the intake questionnaire and were alive at 30 days of consult. Of those pts, most were female (60%), aged 40-64 (50%), White (90%), non-Hispanic (84%), primarily English-speaking (9%) and 7% had an EDH within 30 days of their 1st outpatient visit. The most reported SDOH need was limited health numeracy (26%). In bivariate analysis, factors associated with ED visits included: limited English proficiency lung or GU/GYN cancer, living > 25 mi.from DFCI, and limited health literacy and numeracy (all p<0.05). Demographics associated with hospitalizations included: White race and English as primary language (EPL) (both p<0.05). Multivariable analysis showed female gender (OR 1.53, p < 0.01), lung (OR 3.22*) and GU/GYN (OR 2.21*) (p < 0.05 for both) cancer, and living > 25 mi from DFCI (OR 2.50, p < 0.0001) were associated with increased likelihood of ED visit while EPL (OR 1.80, p<0.05) and GU/GYN (OR 1.65, p<0.01*) cancer were associated with increased likelihood of hospitalization.CONCLUSIONS: It is feasible to systematically screen for unmet SDoH which are associated with increased frequency of ED visits. Differences in characteristics associated with ED vs. hospitalization could indicate possible bias or suggest SDoH needs as a reason for avoidance of costly medical care. Further study will expand both the content and site of SDoH data collection, non-English languages used for data collection, and measure impact of resource matching to reduce disruptions to cancer care. *Compared to breast cancer Citation Format: Ashley Odai-Afotey, Ellana Haakenstad, Sunyi Zhang, Bridget A. Neville, Stuart Lipsitz, Nadine J. McCleary. Feasibility of systemic SDOH collection and associated resource utilization at a large academic cancer center [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2022; 2022 Apr 8-13. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2022;82(12_Suppl):Abstract nr 5939.
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Zoellner, Jamie M., Kathleen J. Porter, Wen You, Paul A. Estabrooks, Katelynn Perzynski, Pamela A. Ray, and Eleanor S. Cantrell. "The reach and effectiveness of SIPsmartER when implemented by rural public health departments: a pilot dissemination and implementation trial to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages." Translational Behavioral Medicine 10, no. 3 (January 24, 2019): 676–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz003.
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Abstract SIPsmartER is a theory-based, 6-month, multi-component health literacy intervention shown to improve sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) behaviors among adults in rural, southwest Virginia. The objective of this pilot trial was to understand the reach and effectiveness of SIPsmartER when delivered by existing staff in public health practice settings. This pre-post research design was conducted in partnership with four medically underserved southwest Virginia Department of Health (VDH) districts. Validated measures and standardized data collection techniques were used. Analyses included descriptive statistics and multilevel mixed-effects linear regressions models. Of 928 individuals screened, 586 (63%) were eligible and 117 (20% of eligible) enrolled in SIPsmartER (79% retained). The sample was majority female (71%) and white (94%) and had ≤high school education (59%) and an annual income of approximately $12,500. Relative to the county population, the enrolled study sample was representative for age and race, yet underrepresented for men and overrepresented for low income and low educational attainment. Significant improvements from baseline to 6 months were observed for the primary SSB outcome (−403 [confidence interval [CI] = −528, −278] SSB kcals/day) (p < .001). SSB-related attitudes, perceived behavioral control, behavioral intentions, and media literacy also significantly improved (all p < .05). SIPsmartER appears to be promising for VDH and potentially other health departments in medically underserved areas. When compared to the previous effectiveness trial, existing VDH staff achieved similar reach and effectiveness for some, but not all, outcomes. Future work is needed on methods to support health departments in developing strategies to reach new participants and to integrate SIPsmartER into sustained practice.
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Carpenter, Aaron, Hayley N. Morris, Annabella Opoku, Alison Hilton, Jessica Carda-Auten, Randall Teal, Jeenn A. Barreiro-Rosado, et al. "Abstract 5535: Research team perspectives on engaging Black patients with cancer in biospecimen research." Cancer Research 83, no. 7_Supplement (April 4, 2023): 5535. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.am2023-5535.
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Abstract Background: Representation of Black individuals with cancer in biospecimen research remains disproportionately low compared to white counterparts. Clinicians and research staff are responsible for informing, inviting, and consenting patients to participate in such research. We sought to understand clinician and research staff perspectives on engaging Black patients in biospecimen research. Methods: We conducted 10 in-depth interviews with purposively sampled clinicians and research staff at a large academic cancer center in North Carolina between January and August 2022. Participants underwent semi-structured interviews (duration 45-60 minutes) and were asked open ended questions about biospecimen research barriers in general, barriers specific to people who identify as Black or African American, and considerations when discussing biospecimen research with Black patients. Interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic analysis. Results: Perceived patient related barriers to biospecimen donation included pain from sample collection, invasive sample collection, lack of to time or transportation, medical research mistrust, health literacy, and limited knowledge of opportunities for involvement. Many felt that these barriers were faced by both Black and non-Black patients. However, some felt for Black patients, these barriers existed within the context of historical injustices in medicine, current bias in health care and socioeconomic inequities, while others felt socioeconomic status not race was more of a concern. Clinician and research staff identified barriers to discussing biospecimen research included lack of time given busy clinical practice and concern with patients’ physical and emotional state. Patients’ race was not considered a barrier. When asked about considerations for discussing biospecimen research specifically with Black patients, participants felt time to establish rapport and trust, readiness to discuss historical injustices in biomedical research, reminding participants research is voluntary, and having in person discussions were important. Few felt that patient race was not relevant to these discussions. Conclusion: Some clinicians and research staff acknowledge that historical injustices and current racial bias in biomedical research and health care contribute to low representation of Black individuals in biospecimen research, while others did not. Further research is needed to assess whether race and/or racism agnostic approaches versus acknowledgement of structural racism’s influence on biomedical research and health care have an impact on fair representation of Black individuals in biospecimen research. Sponsored by the Lung Cancer Research Foundation Research Grant on Disparities in Lung Cancer Citation Format: Aaron Carpenter, Hayley N. Morris, Annabella Opoku, Alison Hilton, Jessica Carda-Auten, Randall Teal, Jeenn A. Barreiro-Rosado, Lauren Matthews, Oluwatumilara Akeke, Ashley Rankin Collins, Marjory Charlot. Research team perspectives on engaging Black patients with cancer in biospecimen research. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2023; Part 1 (Regular and Invited Abstracts); 2023 Apr 14-19; Orlando, FL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2023;83(7_Suppl):Abstract nr 5535.
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McDonald, Russell. "Harnessing the Currents of Textual Fluidity: Salman Rushdie's Making of East, West"." Textual Cultures 10, no. 2 (October 19, 2018): 76–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/textual.v10i2.19517.
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Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini sentenced Salman Rushdie to death in 1989 for, in essence, remaking the story of the Prophet Muhammad in The Satanic Verses, Rushdie has repeatedly explored in his works how bringing newness into the world and securing the right to freedom of expression both require challenging traditional assumptions about textual purity. This theme in Rushdie testifies to the real-world implications of current efforts in textual scholarship to represent texts not as authoritative repositories of sacrosanct wisdom but as, in John Bryant’s word, “fluid” conveyors of ever-shifting intentions and meanings. This article focuses on Rushdie’s deployment of textual fluidity in his shaping of his 1994 short story collection East, West. It analyzes selected examples of his revisions by comparing the texts of the volume’s first six stories as they appear in East, West to their earlier published versions, and also by examining unpublished typescripts and proofs relating to East, West in the Salman Rushdie Papers at Emory University. By tracing the evolution of his stories through multiple versions and considering his revisions in light of his conception for East, West as a whole, we learn that Rushdie employs textual fluidity as both a multivalent literary motif and an empowering compositional strategy, often in synergistic ways that affect the work’s interpretive possibilities and yield a deeper understanding of the fluidities not only of language but also of concepts vital to identity for him and his characters, especially East, West, culture, and race.
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Magee, Jeffrey. "‘Honor the source’: Race, representation and intellectual property in Jelly’s Last Jam." Studies in Musical Theatre 17, no. 2 (August 1, 2023): 107–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00121_1.
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The story of the development of Jelly’s Last Jam (1992) stands uniquely at the intersection of racial politics, intellectual property, the power of storytelling and the authority of those who tell stories and present them on the stage. By the time the show opened on Broadway, Alan Lomax had been trying for nearly three decades to get his book Mister Jelly Roll (1950) adapted for the stage or screen. Now the story of Ferdinand ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton had become a musical, with a book by George C. Wolfe and music and lyrics by Luther Henderson and Susan Birkenhead, and Wolfe’s script ensured that Morton’s story linked up firmly with the history of jazz and race in America. But Lomax’s name and book title were nowhere to be found in the show’s credits, nor in interviews and other commentary about the show. Although musicologist Lawrence Gushee referred to Mister Jelly Roll as ‘the point of departure for all subsequent biographical writing on Morton’, George C. Wolfe stated only that ‘the stories of black people’ are ‘not stored in the history books […] they’re stored in the music’. In this study, I offer new evidence that explains the curious misdirection in Wolfe’s public utterances based on a close study of archival sources in the Library of Congress’s Alan Lomax Collection, of the complete and unedited recordings of Lomax’s interview with Morton released for the first time in 2005 and of press coverage of the producers’ efforts to bring Morton’s story to the musical stage. This article synthesizes the public and private legacy of the show’s development to provide perspectives on a larger racial reckoning that resonates offstage as well as onstage.
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Portillo, Elyse N., Chris A. Rees, Emily A. Hartford, Zachary C. Foughty, Michelle L. Pickett, Colleen K. Gutman, Bashar S. Shihabuddin, et al. "Research Priorities for Pediatric Emergency Care to Address Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Language." JAMA Network Open 6, no. 11 (November 13, 2023): e2343791. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.43791.
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ImportanceHealth care disparities are well-documented among children based on race, ethnicity, and language for care. An agenda that outlines research priorities for disparities in pediatric emergency care (PEC) is lacking.ObjectiveTo investigate research priorities for disparities in PEC among medical personnel, researchers, and health care–affiliated community organizations.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsIn this survey study, a modified Delphi approach was used to investigate research priorities for disparities in PEC. An initial list of research priorities was developed by a group of experienced PEC investigators in 2021. Partners iteratively assessed the list through 2 rounds of electronic surveys using Likert-type responses in late 2021 and early 2022. Priorities were defined as achieving consensus if they received a score of highest priority or priority by at least 60% of respondents. Asynchronous engagement of participants via online web-conferencing platforms and email correspondence with electronic survey administration was used. Partners were individuals and groups involved in PEC. Participants represented interest groups, research and medical personnel organizations, health care partners, and laypersons with roles in community and family hospital advisory councils. Participants were largely from the US, with input from international PEC research networks.OutcomeConsensus agenda of research priorities to identify and address health care disparities in PEC.ResultsPEC investigators generated an initial list of 27 potential priorities. Surveys were completed by 38 of 47 partners (80.6%) and 30 of 38 partners (81.1%) in rounds 1 and 2, respectively. Among 30 respondents who completed both rounds, there were 7 family or community partners and 23 medical or research partners, including 4 international PEC research networks. A total of 12 research priorities achieved the predetermined consensus threshold: (1) systematic efforts to reduce disparities; (2) race, ethnicity, and language data collection and reporting; (3) recognizing and mitigating clinician implicit bias; (4) mental health disparities; (5) social determinants of health; (6) language and literacy; (7) acute pain–management disparities; (8) quality of care equity metrics; (9) shared decision-making; (10) patient experience; (11) triage and acuity score assignment; and (12) inclusive research participation.Conclusions and RelevanceThese results suggest a research priority agenda that may be used as a guide for investigators, research networks, organizations, and funding agencies to engage in and support high-priority disparities research topics in PEC.
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Bryan, Kisha C. "“I had to get tougher”: An African Immigrant's (Counter)narrative of Language, Race, and Resistance." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 122, no. 13 (April 2020): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146812012201307.
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Background/Context With the incessant wave of anti-Black and anti-immigrant sentiments, the extant political situation in the contemporary United States presents an ideal space, place, and time to investigate Black immigrant students’ experiences and examine the ways in which dominant racial and linguistic ideologies shape their literate identities and position them in schools and society. While the Black immigrant population overall continues to increase, the Black immigrant student population in United States K–12 schools has experienced a steady upward trend. This student population shares some of the racialized experiences of Black American students but also refects distinctive cultural, linguistic, and literate identities, and experiences that we, as educators, must acknowledge and embrace if we are to help them effectively navigate the educational and social terrain of the U.S. Purpose/Research Questions The purpose of this article is to amplify (counter)narratives that highlight one adolescent African immigrant's (Noemi) identities and languages within and beyond school spaces, to exemplify the ways in which she utilizes alternative literacies to accommodate, and/or resist racial and immigration status-based microaggressions. The study was guided by the following questions: 1) What are Noemi's literacy, language, and identity practices in and beyond school spaces? 2) What are the ways in which she utilizes these practices to resist stereotypes and other forms of marginalization? Research Design Utilizing a narrative case study approach, the article highlights the lived experiences of a single participant–Noemi. Narrative case study allowed me to intentionally give life to Noemi's stories regarding her home and school experiences, the ways in which she has been positioned due to her unique identity, language, and literacy practices, and her methods of resistance. Data Collection and Analysis Data sources included two semistructured interviews and a Venn diagram that consisted of a comparison of the focal participant's home and school literacies. A relational content analysis was conducted using the information provided in the Venn diagram, and interview data were transcribed and analyzed using the constant comparative method. Critical race theory, a raciolinguistic perspective, and resistance theory were considered in the analysis and framing of the resulting counternarratives. Findings/Results Noemi's counternarratives were characterized by three emergent themes: (a) being raised African in America, (b) racial literacies, music, and social media, and (c) race, language, and the sociopolitical climate. Each of the themes and their corresponding subthemes were supported by elements of critical race theory and a raciolinguistic perspective. In addition, Noemi's counternarratives consisted of numerous “clapbacks” (effective responses to criticisms, stereotypes, and dominant ideologies) that served as indicators of resistance. Conclusions/Recommendations Noemi's counternarratives suggest three acknowledgments to be made. First, educators must acknowledge identity practices beyond those seen in academic spaces and tap into the vast metaknowledge of their immigrant populations. Second, we must not lose sight that dominant, hegemonic messages with regard to languages, literacies, and cultures are not only produced by the dominant group, but that they are also (re)produced by the media and nonwhite people to marginalize and maintain structural hierarchies. Therefore, critical conversations are needed with native nonwhite groups to prevent discriminatory practices and maltreatment of immigrant students. Finally, if we are to create equitable and socially just academic environments, educators must acknowledge manifestations of resistance (in its many forms) and use this knowledge to help transform schooling environments in which immigrants, like Noemi, are expected to thrive. They must also identify the ways in which they function as part of institutional norms, to create situations that require students to leverage “clapbacks” in schools.
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Balango, Mery. "Woman’s Language Character in Against Patriarchy Hegemony In the Latest 18’s Novels." Research Review: Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin 2, no. 1 (July 31, 2023): 128–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.54923/researchreview.v2i1.38.
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Woman’s language is utilized to communicate and express her ideas. Woman’s language is treated different from man. It is based on how culture perceives biological sex differences.This research conducted because of the writer's interest in the main character, firstly because the novels depicts the gender injustice that befell the female character. The second reason, because this novel depicts woman who has a fighting spirit to fight for her rights, dare to argue and then the woman character rebels against what is experienced. Feminism is a movement and ideology dedicated to achieving women's rights in order to build a world that is more than just social equality for women (Humm: 406). Feminism's ideology fights for women's rights to higher education and employment in male-dominated fields. They are also entitled to maternity leave and fair pay at work. Radical Feminism, Liberal Feminism, Marxist Feminism, Socialist Feminism, and Post- feminism are examples of feminist movements. This study is analyzing Woman’s language character of the latest 18’s novels, about how race and gender discrimination reflected by using feminist approach. The objective of the study is to analyze the novels based on its structural elements and analyze the text based on feminist approach. The data source are literary data. Those are the primary data is taken from the Novels itself and the secondary data sources are other in formations that are relevant to the subject matter. The method of the data collection is library research. The techniques of data analysis is descriptive analysis.
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Reddy, Apoorva, and Michelle A. Chui. "3583 Impact of Health Literacy and Risk perception on Over-the-Counter Medication Misuse." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science 3, s1 (March 2019): 90–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2019.209.
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OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: This study aims to describe factors impacting older adult OTC selection and use so they can be targeted with a community pharmacy intervention to improve older adult medication safety. The primary outcome is the characterization of the relationship between health literacy, risk perception, and OTC misuse. These results will directly inform the refinement of the community pharmacy intervention such that it is tailored more precisely to the older adult patient population. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: This cross-sectional study administers face-to-face surveys to 72 older adults (age 65+) at three locations of a mass-merchandise chain pharmacy. This study is one component of a larger study to develop and implement a community pharmacy intervention to improve OTC safety for older adults. The Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) provides a framework for evaluating the interplay of threat and coping appraisals in the assessment of perceived risk severity and OTC misuse. Health literacy, known to contribute to coping appraisals, is measured with the Newest Vital Sign survey. The TRI-RISK model, originally used to measure risk perception of disease, was adapted and subject to rigorous cognitive interviewing and testing with 8 older adults. This adapted survey is used to measure older adult risk perception of adverse drug events. Walking interviews with older adult participants are conducted in a community pharmacy. In these interviews, participants verbalize their process of selection and use of an OTC to treat a pain, cough/cold, or sleep issue. Additional patient factors such as age, race, gender, education level, and co-morbidities are collected in a survey. Structural equation modeling is used for data analysis. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: It is hypothesized that poor health literacy leads to lower risk perception, which will result in increased instances of potential adverse drug events. Data collection will be complete by Spring 2019 and preliminary results will be presented. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: Few interventions have attempted to decrease misuse of high-risk OTC medications in older adults, and not one has addressed system barriers. Compared to efforts to improve prescription medication safety, efforts to decrease OTC medication misuse in community-dwelling older adults have been practically ignored. This is the first study to characterize and operationalize health literacy and risk perception of adverse drug events in the development of a system-level intervention to address OTC safety for older adults. The population aged 65 and older is expected to increase by 38.5 million from the year 2020 to 2050. Interventions tailored to target the older adult patient population are expected to have greater efficacy in improving older adult medication safety and in alleviating the significant corresponding strain on the US healthcare system.
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Portugal, Cecilia, Margaret C. Fang, Alan S. Go, Hui Zhou, John Chang, Priya Prasad, Dongjie Fan, Elisha A. Garcia, Sue Hee Sung, and Kristi Reynolds. "The anticoagulation length of therapy and risk of new adverse events in venous thromboembolism (ALTERNATIVE) study: Design and survey results." PLOS ONE 17, no. 12 (December 8, 2022): e0277961. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277961.
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The Anticoagulation Length of Therapy and Risk of New Adverse Events In Venous Thromboembolism (ALTERNATIVE) study was designed to compare the benefits and harms of different treatment options for extended treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE). In this paper, we describe the study cohort, survey data collection, and preliminary results. We identified 39,605 adult patients (age ≥ 18 years) from two large integrated health care delivery systems who were diagnosed with incident VTE and received initial anticoagulation therapy of 3 months or longer. A subset of the cohort (12,737) was invited to participate in a survey. Surveys were completed in English, Spanish or Mandarin via a mailed questionnaire, an online secure web link, or telephone. The survey domains included demographics, personal medical history, anticoagulant treatment history, anticoagulant treatment satisfaction, health-related quality of life and health literacy. A total of 5,017 patients participated in the survey for an overall response rate of 39.4%. The mean (SD) age of the survey respondents was 63.0 (14.5) years and self-reported race was 76.0% White/European, 11.1% Black/African American, and 3.8% Asian/Pacific Islander and 14.0% reported Hispanic ethnicity. Sixty percent of respondents completed the web survey, while 29.0% completed the mail-in paper survey, and 11.0% completed the survey via telephone. The ALTERNATIVE Study will address knowledge gaps by comparing several treatment alternatives for the extended management of VTE so that this information could be used by patients and clinicians to make more informed, patient-centered treatment choices.
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Kumar Kolay, Swapan, and Sushila D. Mahant. "Fertility and Pregnancy Rate: A Comparative Study between Urban and Rural Tribal Areas." Indian Journal of Research in Anthropology 3, no. 2 (June 15, 2017): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijra.2454.9118.3217.3.
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Demographic transition as well as urbanisation is a great factor of the socio-economic behaviour of tribal communities but it is also affecting their health status because simple tribal people have ability to adopt themselves in their habitation throughout their life span whereas impact of alien environment and uprooting from their habitat and settlement in another place generating fertility and pregnancy associated problems amongst them. Fertility rate is usually defined by the total live birth within the fertile age group but pregnancy rate measures the actual parameters of having child (Child Birth) which is based on total live birth, total abortion and loss of foetus. Hence it is hypothesised that the pregnancy rate is absolutely related to the wealth and education level of the tribal population in both rural and urban areas. With above background and hypothesis, the main objective of the study is to find out the fertility and pregnancy rate by residence and find out its associate factors which are responsible for high and low pregnancy rate. Secondary literature review and primary data collection are the basic tools of this research paper whereas District Level Health Survey Report 3, Sample Registration Report (2009), Annual Health Survey Report (2011) and different published articles, news, Internet and books have been followed as review and primary data are gathered from field work by pre tested structured schedule with the help of interview and Focus Group Discussions. The Specific formulas are used to find out the rate of pregnancy and its associated measures which are correlated with economy and education of the target group. After analysis results /findings are justified with secondary literature. For the study purpose tribal dominating village Nerli and urban area Bacheli of district south Bastar Dantewada, Chhattisgarh had been selected. The total live birth is 28 point less than the TLB of rural areas whereas abortion rate is 52.06 point high in urban area along with the loss of foetus is also 10 point high in that area in same income group. Hence, the high abortion rate and loss of foetus had been seen in low wealth quintile in urban population while abortion rate and loss of foetus were high in the middle wealth quintile category in rural areas. It is positive result of our research that the abortion rate and loss of foetus both are comparatively low in high wealth quintile group in both rural and urban areas as compare to low and middle economy group. In account of literacy the abortion rate and loss of foetus were lower amongst literate people of urban (141.76) and rural areas (98.55) as compared to illiterate people of both residential areas (urban: 180.46 and rural: 73.16) but it has been significant of the study is both abortion with 43.21 point and loss of foetus with 1 point high in rate in urban population rather than rural population. The findings of our study are the evident about the tribal population who had been resided in urban areas had lower pregnancy rate (242.67) and also low fertility rate (2.3) with higher abortion (322.22) and higher rate of the loss of foetus (6.1) which plays an essential role of declining in their population in Chhattisgarh. In order to solve the fertility and pregnancy related problems there is a need of assessment by anthropologists and medical practitioners together to find out the pregnancy and fertility related socio-physical factors for their betterment.
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Diachenko, Nataliia, Olena Terekhovska, Nataliia Vivcharyk, Myroslava Vasylenko, and Lada Klymenko. "The Specifics of Translating Poetry. The Study of the Specifics is Based on the Material of the English and French Languages." World Journal of English Language 13, no. 6 (June 5, 2023): 332. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v13n6p332.
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The work of René Char remains poorly studied in Ukrainian literary criticism, and there are few translations published. In this paper, attempts were made to translate some of René Char's poems from the poetry collection "Fureur et mystère" (Rage and Mystery), which is central to his work. The analysis points out both the advantages and disadvantages of the translators' work. The intertextual connection between the poems "Allégeance" and "Allégement" is revealed and its importance for the interpretation of both texts is shown. This overlap was not shown in the translation. Ways were found to convey this connection within the poem itself, but the option of conveying it in the title was suggested. Some general difficulties that may arise during translation are identified, related to the transmission of rhythm, meter, graphics of the poem, syntax, as well as the figurative component of René Char's poetry. It has been established that the hermeticity of his poems is absolute: interpretation requires knowledge of the historical, cultural, and biographical contexts, as well as an in-depth familiarity with other poems by Char. However, the latter condition cannot be fulfilled by foreign-language readers. As we have discussed above, his works lack translations. So far, no translation of the entire book of poems has been made, and translators (including us) are working on translations selectively. Thus, in the course of our work, we discovered problems related to the translation of René Char's poems. In our translations, we tried to convey the original text with maximum accuracy, although this was not always possible. Considering the difficulties reflected in our comments on the translations, translations of other poems may be performed.
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Mehrstam, Christian. "Recomposing Lovecraft: Genre Emulation as Autopoiesis in the First Edition of Call of Cthulhu." International Journal of Role-Playing, no. 12 (October 5, 2022): 106–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33063/ijrp.vi12.293.
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The article examines how genre is emulated in the first edition of Call of Cthulhu (1981 ), analyzing the game's potential to answer social needs during the Reagan era. Genre is understood in the response aesthetic sense, as collections of traits sedimented from authors' and designers' attempts to meet their audiences. Similar to how software can be engineered to replace older hardware, Call of Cthulhu replaces the genre functions underpinning Lovecraftian stories. Previous research discusses Call of Cthulhu as a horror RPG, mostly referencing later editions. This article's analysis, based on systems theory, deals with the first edition and a more complex genre composition. Emulation is described as autopoiesis-a generative mechanism of simultaneous autonomy and dependency vis-a-vis an environment. The role-playing system selects genre elements through structural couplings to its surroundings, and then recombines them in a new way, giving them new affordances.
The result shows the ways in which the first edition of Call of Cthulhu fuses elements from the fantasy role-playing genre with elements from literary horror, detective story, pulp fiction and colonial mystery. The three most prominent characteristics of the game-the characters' mental health, the manner in which they confront Mythos representatives, and their expeditions to remote locations-are solutions to genre tensions, rather than properties of horror. Following the sociohistorical framing of the elements involved, the composite emulation allowed for the processing of perceived threats to the American way oflife during the early Reagan Era. The game offered a colonial fantasy, where real but more diffuse menaces, such as the nuclear arms race of the Cold War or the Iranian Revolution and ensuing energy crisis, could be fictionalized and reconsidered from the perspective of a predominantly white Christian struggle against evil in a 1920s world.