The sub-discipline of “Literature and Mental Health” is gradually gaining root in the Nigerian literary scholarship. The depiction of medical experiences in literature have enjoyed some critical patronage, especially on trauma and scriptotherapy. Earlier studies on Nigerian Literature have privileged socio-cultural and socio-political issues to the marginalization of its mental health relevance. This study examines the mental conditions in Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale’s Seasons of Rage. This text robustly represents mental health conditions through characterisation. Freddy is diagnosed of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and depression. This is evident through his character, as his mental state tends to be unstable. At some points, he would behave strong, bold and confident just as he did during the board meeting. At other points, he would be broken, weak and feel defeated as shown when he heard the news of his father’s death and Miriam’s kidnap. Martin also portrays the symptoms of obsession, depression and anxiety. This is evident in his inordinate desire for their father’s wealth and the various unreasonable means he employed to ensure that the whole wealth becomes his. The text also reveals that there is a psychological disorder peculiar to the Fezannis. This is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). They all tend to be obsessed with taking drugs and substances. Omobowale’s creative works have demonstrated capacity to embed the study of Literature and Medicine. The exploration of Literature and mental health in Nigerian literary scholarship is capable of enriching mental education and practice in Nigeria.
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Body became the generative center and presentation of narrative meaning in modern fiction; it is not only the physiological existence, but also the collection of ideas and the signifier of meaning. In modern novels, the signifying meaning of characters will be revealed by the presentation of private body. Description of clothing is significant in body narrative, while paradoxically，clothing is，in one way the medium of meaning construction and expression of body, and in another way the cognitive obstacle covering the body and delaying the revealing of truth. Fitzgerald, taking full advantage of this paradox, adopted different strategies to depict the clothing of the two groups of main characters in The Great Gatsby, constructing a contrast between the visible body and the invisible body，thus to disclose the different body representations of American Dream and their respective failure.
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This paper examines the presence and impact of trauma in Dennis Scott’s An Echo in the Bone (1974). It discusses the traumatic effects of slavery and colonization on the individual and the society in Jamaica and the Caribbean. The action of the play takes place in Jamaica where people struggle against the oppression of European system of slavery and British colonial system. Scott retrieves the grievous memories of slavery, where the phrase ‘echo in the bone’ refers to racial memories of oppression and exploitation. Scott’s creativity appears through recalling cinematic flashbacks with concentric notions that depict the painful experiences of slaves and colonial policies. Recalling the continuous effects of trauma, which contemporary Jamaicans had been encountering since the history of slavery until the postcolonial era, are explored. The framework of the play’s action is provided by the Nine Night ceremony of the dead – a tradition that transcends the mourning manifestation of funeral traditions to glorify and liberate the dead person’s spirit. To this end, the researchers argue that recalling trauma through Jamaican tradition is a means of asserting that trauma is a heritage that was passed down through several generations. The researchers conclude that the play resurrects all the traumatic experiences of oppression and exploitation under the systems of slavery and colonialism to address the traumatic conditions encountered by the contemporary post-independence society in Jamaica.
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Most gender inclined theories are aimed at awareness creation on experiences of women in order to promote their welfare. However, there is contention about the practicability of some of them because of their insensitivity to race and class. The controversy arises from the fact that none of them has the capability to completely tackle oppression against women, because, one which is applicable to a particular woman’s situation in a certain cultural background, might be totally unfeasible to another in a different cultural environment. This contention is what this study perceives as an intra-theoretical war, which focu-feminism emerges to end. Focu-feminism argues that women’s oppression varies from one circumstance to another and from one cultural background to another; each woman, therefore, requires to focus on herself and employ an approach she considers most suitable to overcoming oppression of any kind. The aim of this study is to investigate the global feasibility of focu-feminism with a view to ascertaining its applicability to the situation of the African woman. Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter is used for this investigation.
大多数性别倾向理论的目的是为了提高对妇女经验的认识，以促进妇女的福利。然而，由于它们对种族和阶级不敏感，其中一些方法的实用性存在争议。争论的原因在于，它们都没有能力完全解决对妇女的压迫问题，因为一个适用于某一文化背景下的特定妇女的情况的方法，在另一个不同的文化环境中可能是完全不可行的。这种争论是本研究认为的一场理论内部的战争，焦点女权主义的出现结束了。焦点女性主义认为，女性所受的压迫因环境和文化背景的不同而不同;因此，每个女人都需要专注于自己，并采用她认为最适合的方法来克服任何形式的压迫。本研究的目的是调查焦点女权主义的全球可行性，以确定其适用于非洲妇女的情况。Mariama Ba的《So Long a Letter》被用于这次调查。
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News has become a popular way for people to get to know the world. During the period of obtaining foreign information, the translation of news plays a decisive role for people to understand the timeliest information from abroad. Under the context of cross-cultural communication, the thesis takes the English translation of “Want to Be the Mayor of New York? Better Know Your Wings and Dumplings” as an example to analyze the embodiment of the translator’s subjectivity in news translation, and reveal a new perspective of the translators with a full extent. Showing it well and better explaining the role of the translator’s subjectivity at the level of the text.
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ABSTRACT:This article examines the role of family in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission. It argues that homodiegetic narration and analepsis are ways for the French author to convey the political shifts protagonist François confronts as a tumultuous election sees the rise of a new, nonsecular government. These narrative devices underscore François’s yearning for kinship amid Western decline. Ultimately, the article shows the inextricable interrelations of the macro (political) and the micro (domestic) spheres.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/1975.003.0006
P. Ingham
ABSTRACT:This essay reads the fifteenth-century Arthurian romance The Awntyrs off Arthur at the Terne Wathelyn (The Adventures of Arthur at Wadelyn Lake) in the context of medieval debates on human creativity as a function of creatureliness. Demonstrating a keen interest in the vulnerability and creatureliness shared by human and non-human animals, the romance encodes nuances of shared affect, vulnerability, and expressive communication across species. Such considerations, here and in select Arthurian texts, poignantly undermine any presumed human-animal divide.
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ABSTRACT:Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman traces the increasing self-alienation and inability to eat of the protagonist, Marian. Her identity as a young, single working woman is contextualized in 1960s Toronto, a culture marked by competitive individualism where consumption itself is a way of life, per Christopher Lasch. I argue Marian regains agency by reading through and empathizing with the material realities of commodities, ultimately recognizing her own position as a commodity unwilling to be consumed.
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ABSTRACT:This essay draws on the discourse of sentimentality to define the political work of address in Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004). Rankine’s sentimentality takes the form of an affective state that I call the miserable communion, in which readers develop an ability to communicate about the historical and social causes of what is typically regarded as the private emotional experience of sadness. The politics of the miserable communion rest in what it renders possible to articulate.
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ABSTRACT:Charles d’Orléans uses avian imagery in his French and English verse to figure his personae, literary forms, and poetic practices. Birdsong contributes atmosphere to the emotional landscape. Allegorical birds advance the narrative, represent lyric form, or gesture toward family emblems. Throughout his writing, Charles’s birds relate to literature and literary performance, whether production or consumption. In this way, his bird devices are among his most self-referential and humanizing ones.
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