Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.06
Cosmin Borza
{"title":"The Heroines. Re-mythicization of the First World War in the Romanian Literature","authors":"Cosmin Borza","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44929742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.11
D. Bud
{"title":"The Romanian Novels of the ‘Obsessive Decade’ as Subversive Literature. A Macroanalysis (1971-1979)","authors":"D. Bud","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49143967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.02
Mengxing Fu
The phenomenal popularity of the Internet literature in China and the potential for freedom of speech in China’s cyberspace have long fascinated scholars of contemporary China. This article examines the interaction between Chinese Internet literature and the ever-increasing online censorship by focusing on one type of Internet literature in China: the allegorical ghost stories. While observers of censorship in China have expressed worries about the tightening censorship in China’s cyberspace and self-censorship’s damaging effect on literature, this article follows the conceptualization of censorship as co-existing with literary production and seeks to explore how censorship shapes literature. Specifically, it analyses how the contemporary online allegorical ghost stories re-appropriate an old Chinese fictional genre zhiguai (i.e. records of the strange) – a genre that has maintained a paradoxical dissenting and conforming relationship with the state orthodoxy – and use a coded, “Aesopian language” to satirize contemporary Chinese politics and revisit historical atrocities. I argue that these negotiations with censorship (or selfcensorship) resurrect the premodern zhiguai, turning it into a historical documentation of the contemporary and constitute a form of resistance that smuggles into the public discourse a usually hidden transcript.
{"title":"New Wine in Old Bottles: Contemporary Chinese Online Allegorical Ghost Stories as Political Commentary","authors":"Mengxing Fu","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.02","url":null,"abstract":"The phenomenal popularity of the Internet literature in China and the potential for freedom of speech in China’s cyberspace have long fascinated scholars of contemporary China. This article examines the interaction between Chinese Internet literature and the ever-increasing online censorship by focusing on one type of Internet literature in China: the allegorical ghost stories. While observers of censorship in China have expressed worries about the tightening censorship in China’s cyberspace and self-censorship’s damaging effect on literature, this article follows the conceptualization of censorship as co-existing with literary production and seeks to explore how censorship shapes literature. Specifically, it analyses how the contemporary online allegorical ghost stories re-appropriate an old Chinese fictional genre zhiguai (i.e. records of the strange) – a genre that has maintained a paradoxical dissenting and conforming relationship with the state orthodoxy – and use a coded, “Aesopian language” to satirize contemporary Chinese politics and revisit historical atrocities. I argue that these negotiations with censorship (or selfcensorship) resurrect the premodern zhiguai, turning it into a historical documentation of the contemporary and constitute a form of resistance that smuggles into the public discourse a usually hidden transcript.","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49178176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.03
Michelle Pauken Cromer
Recommended Citation: Pauken Cromer, Michelle. “Migrating Mujeres and Gender Bending: Charles Chaplin’s Atelier and the Education of Spanish Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Paris.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 5.1 (2019): https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2019.7.03 Abstract: In mid-nineteenth century Paris, when an art education was out of reach for most women artists, several male painters began opening private schools specifically catering to women. In Catholic Spain, opportunities were more restricted; therefore, leaving the country and attending these French ateliers were key to women’s training as no government-sponsored academies accepted women at the time. By means of archival and historical research, this analysis applies theories of Judith Butler to explore the careers of two Spanish women painters: Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix (1831-1907) and Antonia Bañuelos Thorndike (1856-1921) as they studied under academic painter, Charles Chaplin (1825-1891). Operating outside gendered norms and traveling outside of Spain changed the direction of Spanish women’s art production and exhibition practices allowing them to subvert the conservative limitations in their home country and develop professional careers both within and outside of Spain.
推荐引文:Pauken Cromer,Michelle。《迁徙的女性与性别弯曲:查尔斯·卓别林的工作室与十九世纪巴黎西班牙女画家的教育》,元评论家比较研究与理论杂志5.1(2019):https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2019.7.03摘要:在十九世纪中期的巴黎,当大多数女艺术家无法接受艺术教育时,一些男画家开始开设专门为女性服务的私立学校。在信奉天主教的西班牙,机会更加有限;因此,离开法国并进入这些法国工作室是女性培训的关键,因为当时没有政府资助的学院接受女性。本文运用档案和历史研究的方法,运用朱迪斯·巴特勒的理论,探讨了两位西班牙女画家Alejandrina Gessler y Lacroix(1831-1907)和Antonia Bañuelos Thorndike(1856-1921)师从学院派画家Charles Chaplin(1825-1891)的职业生涯。在性别规范之外运作和在西班牙境外旅行改变了西班牙女性艺术制作和展览实践的方向,使她们能够颠覆本国的保守限制,在西班牙内外发展职业生涯。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.09
Gabriela Glăvan
{"title":"The Life and Times of Ceaușescu Jokes","authors":"Gabriela Glăvan","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.09","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45096059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.04
Khanyile Mlotshwa
{"title":"Matabeleland and the Rulers’ Political Sins: Defining Subversive Art in Zimbabwe","authors":"Khanyile Mlotshwa","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45028989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.10
Larisa Prodan
{"title":"Contemporary Art in Liberal Regimes. Interventionist Art and Institutional Power","authors":"Larisa Prodan","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42792535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-10DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.05
Cristina Gogâță
{"title":"When Censorship Is Over – Ana Blandiana’s Return to Writing after the 1989 Revolution","authors":"Cristina Gogâță","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46898713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.08
N. Roşcan
{"title":"Trauma and Memory in Maya Angelou’s Autobiographical Fiction","authors":"N. Roşcan","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.08","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42351852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-07-01DOI: 10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.01
Liviu Malița
{"title":"Arguing for Art, Debating Censorship","authors":"Liviu Malița","doi":"10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24193/MJCST.2019.7.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36476,"journal":{"name":"Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41721512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}