Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0534
Sarah Giragosian
abstract:“Slow Violence and the Anti-elegy in Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler” theorizes the elegiac consciousness of Patricia Smith, whose serial poetry collection Blood Dazzler (2008) addresses the environmental, national, and political catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, while retooling the elegy’s formal and affective conventions. In the collection, Smith unsettles a normative elegiac structure that seeks to offer relief from grief. Over the years, several critics have expanded and refined the elegy, but there has been little discussion of the role of the African American elegy in times of climate emergency. I argue that Blood Dazzler is both an ecopoetic collection and a distinctly “Black elegy,” in conversation with such predecessors as Langston Hughes, who also called upon the Blues and melancholic mourning, with its Freudian inflections of ambivalence, to chart the ongoing nature of environmental racism. In this vein, Smith reimagines a politics of mourning that problematizes collective solace in a country where racism and climate change compound and exacerbate the impacts of natural disaster.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0605
Holly Eva Allen
{"title":"A Review of Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination","authors":"Holly Eva Allen","doi":"10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.24.4.0605","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40903,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Literary Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85340043","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 : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.3.0461
Manon Hakem-Lemaire
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.3.0369
Hicham Elass
abstract:This article investigates the hermeneutical dimension of T. S. Eliot and W. B. Yeats’s poetics vis-à-vis H.-G. Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. The study stems from a remarkable observation that Eliot and Yeats not only anticipate what Gadamer has systematically explained in his philosophical project, but they also present a new kind of poetry that can easily yield itself to a Gadamerian reading—one that is primarily based on the principle of hermeneutical situation and dialogue. The article strives for a critical study that focuses on the relevance of Gadamer’s hermeneutics to reading and interpreting the poetry of Eliot and Yeats, as well as uncovering the underlying kinship between their hermeneutic reflection on the nature of poetry, truth, history, and understanding. The analysis undertaken has yielded interesting results, bestowing Eliot and Yeats as poets-philosophers who are genuinely aware of what Gadamer has advanced in his philosophy. This hermeneutic consciousness ingrained in Eliot and Yeats’s thoughts is the main motive that drives them to experiment with tradition, myth, symbolism, and musicality, in order to provide the reader with dialogic poetry, which Gadamer himself highly admires for its ability to facilitate the disclosure of truth.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.3.0430
I. Nadel
abstract:This article explores the sources and application of Philip Roth’s understanding of Russian writing and culture to his fiction. It examines Russian texts he owned, the influence of select authors, and the translations of Roth’s work in Russia. It also considers Roth’s reaction to the Cold War and offers an alternate triangle of influence: not Franz Kafka/Bruno Schulz/Primo Levi but Anton Chekhov/Fyodor Dostoevsky/Isaac Babel.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.3.0409
Reem Atiyat, I. A. Momani
abstract:This article presents a comparative investigation of intimate partner violence centering on the analysis of Breaking the Cycle (Zane 2005). The article addresses incest as both a pattern of intimate partner violence and a factor that influences the abused character’s decision to desert her perpetrator, putting an end to a seemingly endless cycle of violence. In this respect, incest is examined as one among other resistance factors that stress the necessity for the victim to take counteraction to end the cycle of violence within an intimate relationship once the safety of the abused woman’s children is at stake. The literary works discussed constitute the raw material for examination since they highlight different patterns of intimate partner violence against women and the factors that impact a woman’s decision to leave an abusive intimate relationship. The analytical approach adopted is that of qualitative content analysis. A central concern in this article is to voice the victim’s struggle and efforts to escape her violent marriage from a feminist perspective, highlighting the particularity of her experience rather than its generalizability, which has not been addressed in the available research on literary domestic violence studies to date.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.3.0313
A. Chatterjee
abstract:Indian travelers in Victorian London began engaging with questions of nationhood, modernity, family, home, and gender roles within the ambit of reproducing the city’s imperial geography on increasingly gendered and sexist lines. The rise of Indian feminists like Sarojini Naidu, Cornelia Sorabji, Rukhmabai, and Princess Sophia notwithstanding, Indian men redrew London’s patriarchal contours. Drawing on a legacy of accounts by nineteenth-century Indian men, like T. N. Mukharji, Behramji Malabari, M. K. Gandhi, Lala Baijnath, T. B. Pandian, and G. P. Pillai, this article examines the maps of the geography of Victorian womanhood that they sought to reproduce. I argue that—while colonial travelers helped India derive administrative, bureaucratic, and architectural models—the geopolitical roots of postcolonial Indian patriarchy date back to ways in which an emotionally vulnerable Indian male gaze perceived Victorian Englishwomen. There is much to be troubled by the gendered relations that made imperial London and had an ominous afterlife in India, normalizing patriarchal expectations and codes of womanhood—a social malignancy whose etiology stems from structures of India’s colonial conflicts.
在维多利亚时代的伦敦，印度游客开始在日益性别化和性别歧视的背景下，在再现伦敦帝国地理的范围内，探讨国家、现代性、家庭、家庭和性别角色等问题。尽管印度女权主义者如Sarojini Naidu, Cornelia Sorabji, Rukhmabai和Sophia公主的崛起，印度男人重新描绘了伦敦的父权轮廓。根据19世纪印度男性的记录遗产，如T. N. Mukharji, Behramji Malabari, M. K. Gandhi, Lala Baijnath, T. B. Pandian和G. P. Pillai，本文研究了他们试图重现的维多利亚时代女性的地理地图。我认为，虽然殖民旅行者帮助印度获得了行政、官僚和建筑模式，但后殖民印度父权制的地缘政治根源可以追溯到情感脆弱的印度男性看待维多利亚时代英国女性的方式。性别关系造就了帝国式的伦敦，并给印度带来了不祥的来世，使父权期望和女性规范正常化，这是一种社会恶性肿瘤，其病因源于印度殖民冲突的结构。
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.3.0342
Waldemiro Francisco Sorte
abstract:“On the Conduct of Lord Tadanao” (Tadanaokyō Gyōjōki 忠直卿行状記) is a tale written by Kan Kikuchi (菊池寛) and published in 1918. It recounts the story of a feudal lord of the Echizen Province (越前国) during the Edo period (江戸時代), whose behavior degenerates progressively, causing the demise of many of his retainers and finally resulting in his banishment to Kyushu by order of the Shogunate. The tale is often interpreted as an attempt to explore the psychology of a tyrant, unraveling the motives that could lead a despot to perform vile acts. Nonetheless, an examination of the author’s own statements about his story and a careful analysis of its contents reveal that “On the Conduct of Lord Tadanao” is not a historical novel about a feudal society. Rather, it is more appropriately characterized as a thematic novel, centered on the issues of alienation and solitude. Although it uses Tokugawa Japan as its background, it actually deals with problems contemporary to Kikuchi’s time and describes the characters’ interrelations and emotions closer to the behavior of modern society.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.2.0232
Agathe Giraud
abstract:The 7th of March 1843 has constituted a key event in French literature history for nearly a century and a half, but this event was largely fabricated: on the one hand, as early as 1843, it was reconstituted by the discourse of critics opposed to Hugo; on the other hand, in the following decades, this date was made into a major event by the story told in school textbooks. The media coverage of the play as well as the manipulation to which is was subjected actually first marked out the play as an event, thereby determining its ulterior reception: on the few occasions when the play was revived (in 1902 for the centenary of Hugo's birth, and in 1977 when it was produced by Antoine Vitez), both the audience and the critics persistently referred to 1843 and to Les Burgraves's alleged failure, as if it were always to be understood on the basis of its original reception. The narrative construction of 1843 as an event thus conditioned the play's reception when it was revived on such occasions, and the premiere continued to be perceived as a failure, even though the play's first production was in fact a success.
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