Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.2.0292
Pierre Fournier
abstract:This article explores the meaning of response events in the historiography of graphic design. The demonstration is based on a statement formulated by Jean-François Lyotard in "To Intrigue or the Graphic Designer's Paradox," where he defines the poster as an object made to "suspend the sight." This article introduces a difference in the French uses of graphisme (graphic art) and design graphique (graphic design), to develop a historical point of view about Lyotard's definition of graphic design. Lyotard questions the necessity for graphic designers to conceal aesthetic and political statements. Looking through the history of twentieth-century graphic design, we can identify moments where designers chose to stand for their political views through aesthetic statements. What Lyotard identifies as response events in graphic design are what we could call graphisme (graphic art).
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.2.0213
Raili Marling
abstract:This article juxtaposes the work of Kathy Acker and Olivia Laing's adoption of the Kathy Acker persona in her novel Crudo (2018). It seeks to find out to what extent these two writers' re-enactments and defamiliarization of authentic experience play with affect and affectlessness to create a countersentimental effect. This countersentimental effect is contrasted to affective display of conventional autobiography and autofiction to explore narrative modes of responding to contemporary cruel optimism (Berlant 2011). The difficulty of reading the texts and responding to them leads to the broader question of whether such difficult texts can also produce what are within this special issue called response events. The article uses Rita Felski's (2020) discussion of attunement to address the encounter with works that impress us with their "thereness." Unlike sudden events, attunement can be "a slow and stumbling process, a gradual coming into view of what we would otherwise fail to see" (Felski 2020, 60).
{"title":"Affect and Attunement in Experimental Autofiction: Response Without an Event?","authors":"Raili Marling","doi":"10.5325/intelitestud.24.2.0213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/intelitestud.24.2.0213","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article juxtaposes the work of Kathy Acker and Olivia Laing's adoption of the Kathy Acker persona in her novel Crudo (2018). It seeks to find out to what extent these two writers' re-enactments and defamiliarization of authentic experience play with affect and affectlessness to create a countersentimental effect. This countersentimental effect is contrasted to affective display of conventional autobiography and autofiction to explore narrative modes of responding to contemporary cruel optimism (Berlant 2011). The difficulty of reading the texts and responding to them leads to the broader question of whether such difficult texts can also produce what are within this special issue called response events. The article uses Rita Felski's (2020) discussion of attunement to address the encounter with works that impress us with their \"thereness.\" Unlike sudden events, attunement can be \"a slow and stumbling process, a gradual coming into view of what we would otherwise fail to see\" (Felski 2020, 60).","PeriodicalId":40903,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Literary Studies","volume":"68 1","pages":"213 - 231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73408249","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 : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.2.0254
Jean Arnaud
abstract:This article concerns the way in which a perceptual shock caused by a tree can constitute an event for artists, to the point of motivating the project and then the production of a work. In other words, the issue is to analyze how the encounter with certain alive or dead trees, whether physical or through a medium/reported, can determine a creative process in which memory plays an important role. The analysis will be carried out through two works in progress that are very different in their conception as well as in their means of production (the "Beuys' acorns" project by the artist couple Ackroyd and Harvey and a personal project entitled "Forces confuses"). Various conceptual tools from psychoanalytical theory, anthropology, sociology, phenomenology of perception, theory of memory, and art history structure the case studies; these define a specific relationship between the life of forms and forms of life, linked in the experience of these works, in relation to the aesthetic, ecological, and sociopolitical context of the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.5325/intelitestud.24.2.0188
Damien Beyrouthy, Sara Bédard-Goulet
abstract:Artworks and cultural productions affect us in various degrees. In rare occasions, their encounter can trigger a life-changing event. These rare and unexpected individual moments can be shared as narratives, some of which are found in literature. Among these literary accounts, many attribute to texts the prompting of personal events and such narratives have been studied by literary scholars interested in reader–response theory. Less attention has been paid to accounts of such reactions to other types of media, which also require additional theoretical input to study them. To examine these specific events in narratives, we consider them as "response events" and analyse their characteristics through research and artistic means. Adding to the existing contributions in literary theory, we use a methodology originating from the art field, that is research-creation. In this article, we start by presenting our research-creation approach and the interdisciplinary tool that we developed. We then present a brief overview of the results from the literary corpus analysis and of the artistic experimentations that they triggered. We also describe how our research on the response event has led Damien Beyrouthy to think this concept through his artistic practice, from which other concepts emerged.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v35i01.43686
Hua Zhang, Yosra Ibrahim
Mo Yan is the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. After he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in October 2012, he immediately drew the attention of the world. In the past nine years, there have been many theoretical articles on Mo Yan’s creative style and narrative art, but a very few articles on Mo Yan’s root-seeking characteristics from the perspective of symbolism. This paper attempts to explore the ways Mo Yan searches for his roots through his writings.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v35i01.43674
Jiva Nath Lamsal
Theatre plays a vital role in the struggle for democracy, functioning as an alternative medium for presenting social problems “of and to” the people and proving its efficacy as a powerful creative force in unravelling the hidden truths of repressive regimes. This article examines and compares the role of theatre in a Nepali and Filipino context, in particular its deployment in response to repressive regimes, and argues that theatre is both adaptable and efficacious as a tool for social and political justice. Although never colonised, Nepal was under the control of the Rana Oligarchy for over one hundred years (1846-1951). This period of oligarchical rule was followed by three decades of totalitarianism under King Mahendra’s party-less Panchayat system (1960-1990). Despite and because of this climate of political brutality and oppression, theatre and performance traditions endured. These traditions made “the invisible visible,” serving to awaken the population to their democratic rights. In the Philippines, theatre and performance traditions have been used to push back against centuries of foreign influence. More recently, these traditions have been deployed in response to the authoritarian rule of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, in particular his aggressive war on drugs. As this study shows, theatre has been a powerful means to fight against autocratic polity and restoration of democracy in Nepal and colonial forces as well as dictatorship in the Philippines.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v35i01.43685
Keshav Raj Chalise
Vedic texts have established the cult of worshipping natural phenomena, which from the surface understanding is the process of personification, but in real, Vedic hymns show on how the Vedic people have understood the underlying power of nature. Vedas, Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda, have joined the human culture with the philosophy of nature in the mode of natural theology. The culture of sacrifice taught through Vedic hymns has conveyed the knowledge of mutual dependence of man, God and nature. Vedas have proven the natural theological notion of nature-God relation with the hymns devoted to nature phenomena as the metaphors of power, creativity, essence and purity in the forms of deities. Vedas have pertained ecocentrism as the cultural practice of nature eminence. They have further addressed the idea of environmental ethics through the Vedic view of cosmological and ontological unity in nature, and the ethics of natural law in the form of rita, dharma and karma. With the examination of Vedic priority to nature, especially from the Rig Veda, this study anticipates to link Vedic natural religion with the nineteenth century philosophy of natural theology and late twentieth century ecological study of environmental ethics.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v35i01.43672
B. Rauniyar
Gurung women of Mustang, Nepal, and Ute women of Colorado, USA, are fascinating people and subjects. They have upheld matriarchy in the predominantly patriarchal world. Their free, symphonic life presents a model for other women. The two tribal womenfolk living in two different poles show keen relations regarding many customs and rituals as well as in displaying women power. It is an interesting and meaningful study to compare the societies of these two tribal womenfolk and trace their relationship with one another. They may have been distantly related to each other in their origin as such studies imply about them.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.3126/litstud.v35i01.43677
Prabeen Kumar Awasthi
Despite being placed at the bottom of the society, Indian subalterns have always gained central position in the political sphere. This paper investigates the substantive representation of marginalized groups and the way they employ their consciousness to dismantle injustices by analyzing Jawaharlal Nehru’s autobiography Toward Freedom (1936) and Arundhati Roy’s novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (2017). The subaltern struggle in the society in the quest of their autonomous self and it is achieved with the help of continuous resistance on their part. Colonized Indians display their resistance to counter the British Raj. In the like manner, Hijras, women and Dalits resist the conventional norms of the mainstream by developing anti-normative body and by adopting new roles in the society. Delving on Antonio Gramsci, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Ranajit Guha’s ideas of the subaltern, this study analyzes the life of the colonized Indians, the transgender, and the untouchables located in the periphery of social, economic and political strata of the colonial and the post-millennial India. Besides the Subaltern Studies’ scholars, Tamen and Garnett’s notion on ‘self,’ ‘interpretation,’ ‘agency’ and ‘resistance’ have been applied to show the way subalterns overcome their subordination in the existing social order. From the standpoint of Nehru’s promise, this study critiques the politics and the position of the subaltern in the first decade of the twentieth century as presented in Roy.
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