Pub Date : 2022-08-03DOI: 10.3390/literature2030013
Chera Jo Watts
This article challenges the dominant Christian-centered approach to Black religious life by exploring contemporary Womanist Buddhist and Black Buddhist practice, writing, and thought alongside writings of early East Asian Buddhist nuns, noting similarities, differences, and the intersections among and between these written accounts. “Reading Between the Times” signals the ongoing nature of this project, and this particular paper draws heavily upon Kathryn Ann Tsai’s 1994 translation Lives of the Nuns: Biographies of Chinese Buddhist Nuns from the Fourth to Sixth Centuries along with several Womanist and/or Black Buddhist voices, such as Faith Adiele, Melanie Harris, bell hooks, Layli Maparyan, Carolyn Jones Medine, Alice Walker, reverend angel Kyodo williams, Jan Willis, and Pamela Ayo Yetunde. Rather than make definitive claims, this paper becomes curious with initial observations surrounding authorial voice, intersections of race/gender/class within a particular temporal space, “legitimacy” questions, and others—and, of course, invites more work in the future. Deploying an engaged Buddhist pedagogy to inform mindful scholarship, this paper reminds us that we have more commonalities than oppressive systems often admit or acknowledge, and it concludes with a call to action.
本文通过探索当代女性主义佛教和黑人佛教的实践、写作和思想，以及早期东亚佛教尼姑的作品，挑战了以基督教为中心的黑人宗教生活的主流方法，并指出了这些书面记录之间的异同和交集。“时代之间的阅读”标志着这个项目的持续本质，这篇特别的论文大量引用了蔡凯琳1994年翻译的《修女的生活:四世纪至六世纪中国佛教修女传记》，以及一些女性主义者和/或黑人佛教徒的声音，如Faith Adiele, Melanie Harris, bell hooks, Layli Maparyan, Carolyn Jones Medine, Alice Walker, reverend angel Kyodo williams, Jan Willis和Pamela Ayo Yetunde。这篇论文并没有做出明确的声明，而是对作者的声音、特定时间空间内种族/性别/阶级的交集、“合法性”问题等方面的初步观察感到好奇，当然，未来还会有更多的研究。这篇论文运用了一种专注的佛教教育学来为正念学术提供信息，它提醒我们，我们有更多的共性，而不是压迫性制度经常承认或承认的共性，并以行动呼吁结束。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.3390/literature2030011
Jerome F. A. Bump
This novel demonstrates how we can face our current crises avoiding both denial and despair. A plausible, positive ending makes this not only a very unusual book in this genre, but probably the most important book you should read on this subject. While there are many interludes and side plots, the focus is on Frank, an American aid worker suffering from heat-wave PTSD, and Mary, the director of the Ministry for the Future, an organization created by the Paris Agreement to advocate for future generations.
这部小说展示了我们如何面对当前的危机，避免否认和绝望。一个似是而非的积极结局使得这本书不仅在这一类型中非常不同寻常，而且可能是你应该读的关于这一主题的最重要的书。虽然有许多插曲和次要情节，但重点还是在弗兰克(Frank)和玛丽(Mary)身上。弗兰克是一名患有热浪后创伤后应激障碍(PTSD)的美国援助工作者，玛丽是未来部(Ministry for the Future)的负责人。未来部是《巴黎协定》(Paris Agreement)创建的一个组织，旨在为子孙后代争取权益。
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Pub Date : 2022-07-11DOI: 10.3390/literature2030010
Sal Talluto
While many literary theories focus on materialistic concerns, less frequently have these theories focused on the spiritual matters arising from such concerns. A cosmological interpretive strategy focuses on such spiritual and cosmic themes rather than ignoring them. This essay’s analysis will focus on using a cosmological interpretive strategy to analyze Thornton Wilder’s Our Town and Arthur Miller’s The Man Who Had All the Luck. This strategy will reveal that, rather than merely being focused on spatial and material concerns, these texts also demonstrate a concern with our relationships with nature and the wider cosmos. Through their narratives, both Wilder and Miller address the passage of time and the questions of agency which occur when thinking about time. This analysis will demonstrate how these stories deny economic and historical determinism in favor of an interdependency between humans and the wider cosmos. These texts help reveal reality as a set of interconnected narratives and histories that include each individual, the societies around that individual, nature around those societies, and the wider cosmos within which everything exists.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.3390/literature2030009
Paolo Pitari
The late Emanuele Severino (1929–2020) was an Italian philosopher whose work on Aeschylus has not yet been made available in English. In Il giogo: alle origini della ragione: Eschilo (The Yoke: At the Origins of Reason: Aeschylus, 1989), Severino seeks to demonstrate that Aeschylus belongs amongst the founders of philosophy, i.e., that Aeschylus was the first to set down some of philosophy’s most fundamental principles, including that ontological becoming produces unbearable suffering and that the only remedy to suffering is knowledge of the truth. Thus, by introducing readers to Severino’s interpretation, and by translating various passages of his work, this article aims to enlarge Severino’s readership and spread his argument for the philosophical stature of Aeschylus.
已故的伊曼纽尔·塞维里诺(1929-2020)是一位意大利哲学家，他关于埃斯库罗斯的著作还没有英文版。在Il giogo: alle origini della ragione: Eschilo(枷锁:在理性的起源:埃斯库罗斯，1989)中，Severino试图证明埃斯库罗斯属于哲学的创始人之一，也就是说，埃斯库罗斯是第一个制定哲学的一些最基本的原则，包括本体论的成为产生无法忍受的痛苦，唯一的治疗痛苦的方法是对真理的了解。因此，通过向读者介绍塞维里诺的解释，并通过翻译他的作品的各个段落，本文旨在扩大塞维里诺的读者群，并传播他对埃斯库罗斯哲学地位的论证。
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.3390/literature2020008
Huiming Liu
The influence of the 1918 pandemic was overshadowed by the catastrophe of the First World War. The current COVID-19 pandemic leads the academic attention to how the 1918 pandemic shaped literature of that period. Elizabeth Outka’s book brings the history of the pandemic into the study of modernism. The vast scale of a sudden outbreak of pandemic disease had made decent burials and mourning very difficult. Outka argues that The Waste Land mourns the deaths during the pandemic. The traumatic experience of the pandemic can also be found in the difficulty of speech and the fragmentation of ghostly existence in The Waste Land. Building upon Outka’s work, this essay will engage with the cultural influences of the pandemic in Eliot’s other works and reveal how the famous touchstones of modernisms are shaped by such an event. I will specify how the war and the pandemic were connected in the following section on historical backgrounds. Immunity aims to fight against foreign invaders such as viruses on a micro-level. However, on a macro-level of politics, the logic of the immune system often wrongly identifies certain groups as the scapegoats for contagious diseases. My article aims to reveal the underlying metaphor of immunity in Eliot’s writing of the abject in the late 1910s. By doing so, I hope to contribute to current academic discussions of Eliot and the writing of the pandemic, anti-Semitism and post-colonialism.
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Abstract:This article situates Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1894) in relation to the "Great War" that Britons waged against snakes in late-nineteenth-century India. It argues the tale is informed by two (linked) recognitions: that Britons may prove incapable either of "mastering" this species of the subcontinent's fauna or of protecting their children within the imperial realm.
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Abstract:This piece argues that pedagogy has been a neglected, but always present, theoretical orientation in Children's Literature. From Francelia Butler's earliest editorials to some of the journal's most memorable contributions, articles focusing on the ways children's literature teaches and is taught have been a vital presence in the journal.
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Abstract:Children's texts about the WWII evacuation of British youth to the countryside or abroad illuminate changing ideas about childhood and children's literature. They elucidate beliefs about children's psychological robustness, the place of work in young people's lives, and what it means to be a child citizen in wartime.
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Abstract:The textual structure and material form of the first volumes of Children's Literature point to Francelia Butler's rebellion against traditional academic criteria and her critical vision's range from medieval to contemporary children's literature. An interest in orality and performance extended the journal's reach and impact, reinforced by institutional intersections across disciplines.
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Abstract:This reader's notebook essay surveys how authors in Children's Literature have imagined and conceptualized the future over the course of its fifty-year history. A midcareer and an emerging scholar examine trends by publication decade, selecting passages in context and making sense of how our field has engaged in futurity and futuremaking in the past.
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