Letteratura scientifica selezionata sul tema "Kogahan"

São redescritas as espécies brasileiras Halictophagus lappidae Oliveira & Kogan, 1960 e H. lopesi Oliveira & Kogan, 1959 (Strepsiptera, Halictophagidae); descreve-se H. ararensis, sp. n. (localidade-tipo: Brasil, São Paulo, Araras) e assinala-se uma nova ocorrência para H. insularum (Pierce, 1908).

Visitamos a Liuba Kogan en la Universidad del Pacífico para conversar sobre su último libro El deseo del cuerpo. Mujeres y hombre en la Lima contemporánea. en el que ahonda su reflexión acerca de las vinculaciones entre cuerpo e identidad a partir de los testimonios de hombres y mujeres de Lima sobre sus propios cuerpos.

This paper examines the symbolic implications of preserving Canadian author Joy Kogawa’s childhood home in the name of “reconciliation.” The house features prominently in Kogawa’s acclaimed semi-autobiographical novel Obasan, based in part on her experience of Japanese Canadian internment during World War II. From 2003 to 2006, the house was poised for demolition until a non-profit land trust secured the house’s protection through a campaign guided by ideals of “hope, healing, and reconciliation.” In the current global climate of redress, the oft-invoked terms “reconciliation” and “healing” are increasingly evacuated of meaning, and are consequently dismissed simply as empty rhetoric. I sought to determine how these terms operated in the context of the Kogawa House. In order to assess the site’s capacity to engage reconciliatory ideals, I consulted and analyzed fundraising materials published by campaign organizers, letters of support from the public, and relevant media reports. I argue first that the real-world history of internment converged conceptually with Obasan’s fictionalized telling of these events so that the house and Kogawa herself became cognitive metonyms for the larger injustice. As a result, collective/national healing and reconciliation could be metonymically enacted through more familiar modes of interpersonal reconciliation. For example, Kogawa’s long-awaited “homecoming,” a deeply meaningful moment for the author herself, could become a gesture of symbolic restitution for all Japanese Canadians’ lost property. The second argument central to this thesis is that the historically dark period of Japanese Canadian internment, and its legacies, was made more intelligible and coherent for various stakeholders through the overlapping narratives constructed around saving the Kogawa House. I contend that what was at stake in this heritage preservation project was not only post-war relations between Japanese Canadians and the nation that betrayed them, but also the dominant Canadian narrative of multiculturalism—that Canada is a country that embraces diversity and upholds human rights. This reconciliatory project maintained the coherence of this vital Canadian myth. I conclude by claiming the Kogawa House as a successful model for community-based projects aimed at sustainable reconciliation, where ongoing engagement with past injustices is vital to deterrence and non-repetition of future ones.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2005.
Title from title page screen, viewed on April 16, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Robert McLaughlin (chair), Lynn Worsham, Sally Parry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-331) and abstract. Also available in print.

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O presente estudo analisa, pelo viés comparativo, os romances Obasan (1981), de Joy Kogawa, e Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), de Gurjinder Basran, escritoras canadenses inseridas na diáspora asiático-canadense, enfocando os impactos da exclusão e discriminação que permeiam essas narrativas das escritoras selecionadas para compor nosso corpus literário. Entendemos as escritas de ambas autoras como tentativas literárias de “quebrar o silêncio” imposto pelo privilégio branco, promovendo uma releitura de caráter pós-colonial e contra hegemônico do Canadá contemporâneo. Desenvolvemos, assim, uma revisão do contexto histórico, literário e cultural canadenses, lançando um olhar mais aprofundado sobre a escrita da minoria asiático-canadense (mulheres de cor), parte da produção significativa dos povos asiáticos que migraram para aquele país e que expõe frequentemente as memórias do passado e as experiências do presente. Após isso, desenvolvemos uma necessária compreensão do contexto de um país tão múltiplo, através da discussão do conceito de transculturação (ou transculturalidade) que muito nos auxilia na leitura das narrativas em tela, apontando a intensidade com a qual esses textos são cortados por referências linguísticas e culturais diversas. Por fim, enfocamos e problematizamos os tradicionais conceitos de Bildungsroman, ou romance de formação, trazendo vozes críticas atreladas ao feminismo e à critica literária em sentido mais amplo, a fim de destacar quais as inovações que o Bildungsroman transcultural produzido por mulheres traz para as análises da literatura contemporânea no contexto canadense. Dessa forma, os romances escolhidos se abrem às experiências de negociação propostas pelo transculturalismo e que tem no gênero – Bildungsroman – o espaço adequado para formulações alternativas no que se refere às personagens, principalmente as femininas. Defendemos, assim, que o Bildungsroman, nesse contexto, cria um novo espaço às literaturas das minorias, sendo o lócus apropriado para apresentar os conflitos e negociações entre a cultura ancestral e a de chegada, aqui contempladas pelas etnias nipônica e indiana.
This dissertation analyzes, through a comparative bias, the novels Obasan (1981) by Joy Kogawa, and Everything Was Good-Bye (2010) by Gurjinder Basran, both Canadian writers inserted in the Asian Canadian diaspora. Our study focuses on the impacts of exclusion and discrimination that permeate the threads of the narrative warp of the selected writers to compose our literary corpus in attempt to “break with the silence” imposed by the White Privilege, thereby promoting a rereading of post-colonial and counter-hegemonic features of contemporary Canada. Developed as a review of the historical, literary and cultural Canadian context, casting a closer look at the writing of Asian Canadian minority (women of color), part of the significant production of Asian peoples whom migrated to that country and often bring to light memories of the past and experiences of the present. Furthermore, we present a necessary understanding of such a multiple country as Canada by discussing the concept of transculturation (or transculturality) that greatly assists us in reading the analyzed narratives, highlighting the intensity through which these texts are crossed by linguistic and various cultural references. Finally, we focus on and confront the traditional concepts of Bildungsroman, or novel of development, which brings to discussion critical voices mainly linked to feminism and literary criticism in the broadest sense, in order to highlight what innovations the transcultural Bildungsroman produced by women brings to the analysis of contemporary literature in the Canadian context. Thus, the chosen novels are open to experiences marked by transculturalism and so this genre - the Bildungsroman - becomes the appropriate space for alternative formulations with regard to the characters, especially to female characters. We argue, therefore, that the Bildungsroman, in this context, creates space to minority literatures, here connected to Japanese and Indian ethnicities, as the locus for presenting the conflicts and negotiations between ancestral and after contact cultures.
Cette étude analyse, par le biais de comparaison, les romans Obasan (1981), de Joy Kogawa, et Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), de Gurjinder Basran, écrivains canadiens insérés dans la diaspora canado-asiatique, en se concentrant sur les répercussions de l'exclusion et de la discrimination qui imprègnent ces récits d'écrivains sélectionnés pour composer notre corpus littéraire. Nous comprenons les écrits des deux auteurs comme des tentatives littéraires pour briser le silence imposé par le privilège blanc, promouvant une relecture de caractère post-coloniale et contre hégémonique du Canada contemporain. Nous développons, ainsi, une révision du contexte historique, littéraire et culturel canadiens, en jetant un regard de plus près à l'écriture de la minorité canado-asiatique (femmes de couleur), une partie de la production significative des peuples asiatiques qui ont migré vers ce pays et qui exposent souvent les mémoires du passé et les expériences du présent. Après cela, nous avons développé une compréhension nécessaire du contexte en tant que pays diversifié en discutant le concept de transculturation (ou transculturalité) qui nous aide grandement à la lecture des récits concernés, montrant l'intensité avec laquelle ces textes mélangent des références linguistiques et culturelles diverses. Enfin, nous nous concentrons et confrontons les concepts traditionnels de Bildungsroman, ou roman de formation, en ramenant les voix critiques liées au féminisme et à la critique littéraire dans le sens le plus large, afin de mettre en évidence les innovations que le Bildungsroman (Roman d'apprentissage) transculturel produit par des femmes apporte à l'analyse de la littérature contemporaine dans le contexte canadien. Ainsi, les romans choisis s’ouvrent aux expériences de négociation proposées par la transculturalité existant dans le genre - Bildungsroman - un espace adéquat à des formulations alternatives en ce qui concerne les personnages, surtout les femmes. Nous soutenons, par conséquent, que le Bildungsroman, dans ce contexte, créé un nouvel espace à la littérature des minorités comme un lieu approprié pour présenter les conflits et les négociations entre la culture antique et celle d’arrivée, ici envisagée par les ethnies nippone et indienne.
O presente estudo analisa, pelo viés comparativo, os romances Obasan (1981), de Joy Kogawa, e Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), de Gurjinder Basran, escritoras canadenses inseridas na diáspora asiático-canadense, enfocando os impactos da exclusão e discriminação que permeiam essas narrativas das escritoras selecionadas para compor nosso corpus literário. Entendemos as escritas de ambas autoras como tentativas literárias de “quebrar o silêncio” imposto pelo privilégio branco, promovendo uma releitura de caráter pós-colonial e contra hegemônico do Canadá contemporâneo. Desenvolvemos, assim, uma revisão do contexto histórico, literário e cultural canadenses, lançando um olhar mais aprofundado sobre a escrita da minoria asiático-canadense (mulheres de cor), parte da produção significativa dos povos asiáticos que migraram para aquele país e que expõe frequentemente as memórias do passado e as experiências do presente. Após isso, desenvolvemos uma necessária compreensão do contexto de um país tão múltiplo, através da discussão do conceito de transculturação (ou transculturalidade) que muito nos auxilia na leitura das narrativas em tela, apontando a intensidade com a qual esses textos são cortados por referências linguísticas e culturais diversas. Por fim, enfocamos e problematizamos os tradicionais conceitos de Bildungsroman, ou romance de formação, trazendo vozes críticas atreladas ao feminismo e à critica literária em sentido mais amplo, a fim de destacar quais as inovações que o Bildungsroman transcultural produzido por mulheres traz para as análises da literatura contemporânea no contexto canadense. Dessa forma, os romances escolhidos se abrem às experiências de negociação propostas pelo transculturalismo e que tem no gênero – Bildungsroman – o espaço adequado para formulações alternativas no que se refere às personagens, principalmente as femininas. Defendemos, assim, que o Bildungsroman, nesse contexto, cria um novo espaço às literaturas das minorias, sendo o lócus apropriado para apresentar os conflitos e negociações entre a cultura ancestral e a de chegada, aqui contempladas pelas etnias nipônica e indiana.

Esta dissertação investiga de que maneiras a representação do sujeito canadense pode ser encontrada em dois romances representativos da literatura canadense contemporânea: Obasan, de Joy Kogawa, e Alias Grace, de Margaret Atwood. Esta investigação também demonstra que a busca pela definição da identidade canadense tem sido tema constante e relevante da cultura deste país. A indefinição quanto ao que significa ser canadense também tem permeado a literatura canadense ao longo dos séculos, notadamente desde o século XIX. A fim de observar a representação literária da busca pela definição da identidade canadense, esta investigação aborda os conceitos relativos à representação de grupos subalternos tradicionalmente silenciados. A análise comparativa dos romances citados contempla a relação entre memória e trauma autobiográficos, assim como as semelhanças narrativas entre ficção e história. Esta investigação também verifica de que maneiras a literatura pós-moderna emprega documentação oficial, relatos históricos e dados (auto) biográficos a serviço da reescrita da história através da metaficção historiográfica
This dissertation investigates the ways through which the representation of the Canadian subject might be observed in two representative novels of contemporary Canadian literature: Obasan, by Joy Kogawa, and Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood. This investigation also demonstrates that the search for the definition of a specific Canadian identity has been a constant and relevant theme to the countrys culture. The lack of definition concerning the meaning of being Canadian has also permeated Canadian Literature throughout the centuries, most notably since the XIX century. In order to observe the literary representation of the Canadian search for identity, this investigation makes use of the concepts related to the representation of traditionally silenced subaltern groups. The comparative analysis of the abovementioned novels contemplates the relationship between autobiographical memory and trauma, as well as the narrative similarities between fiction and history. This investigation also verifies the ways postmodern literature employs official documentation, historical accounts and (auto) biographical information in the rewriting of history through historiographic metafiction

Functional fixedness refers to a cognitive bias that prevents people from using objects in new ways, and more abstractly, perceiving problems in new ways. Supporting people in overcoming functional fixedness could improve creative problem solving and capacities for creative design. A study was conducted to detect whether a relationship exists between participants’ tendency to reorient objects presented as stimuli in an Alternative Uses Test and their creativity, also measured using the Wallach Kogan pattern meanings test. The Alternative Uses Test measures creativity as a function of identifying alternative uses for traditional objects. The Wallach Kogan pattern-meanings test detects the ability to see an abstract pattern as different possible objects or scenes. Also studied is whether Kruglanski’s Need for Closure scale, a psychological measure, can predict the ability to incorporate reorientation cues when identifying uses. This study revealed highly significant, high correlations between reorientation and several creativity measures, and a correlation between reorientation and the predictability subscale of the Need for Closure scale. A qualitative exploration of participants’ responses reveals further metrics that may be relevant to assessing creativity in the Alternative Uses Test.

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