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Access to Menstrual Resources as a Public Health Issue in the US and Scotland Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Noelle Elizabeth Spencer
Introduction: Menstrual health is an important and complex topic, one aspect of which is access to menstrual resources. Resources in this case will be understood to mean such factors as menstrual products, education, safe restroom facilities, and appropriate and accessible healthcare. Objectives: The objective of this paper was to answer the research question: "in what ways is access to resources related
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The Gift of Happy Memories: A World War II Christmas Puppet Play in Ravensbrück Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Cynthia Lisa Dretel
Szopki, Polish musical nativity puppet plays, were a widespread but relatively unstudied artistic response to Nazi occupation among Polish Catholics in Nazi concentration camps. Polish inmates used the szopki as an opportunity to subvert censorship, as the nativity story is only a small portion of a szopki production. The artist Maja Berezowska and Varsovian actress Jadwiga Kopijowska wrote and performed
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Contagious Otherness: Translating Communicable Diseases in the Modern Italian and Francophone Novel Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Marta Arnaldi
The words ‘contagion’ (‘to touch together') and ‘translation’ (‘to carry across’) share a common course of action and meaning, i.e. that of breaking what ‘should be joined or joining [what] should be separate’ (Douglas, 1966: 113). Continuous yet imperceptible, ideas of risk, corruption and error have been attached as much to the transfer of texts, beliefs and theories as to the spread of diseases
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The Puppet and the Puppet-Master in Ancient Greece: Fragments of an Art Form Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Mali Annika Skotheim
Drawing on literary, epigraphical, and archaeological material, this article addresses the interrelation of the performance context, physical form, and aesthetic of ancient Greek puppetry. Puppeteers performed in a variety of contexts, which included processions and public theaters. During religious festivals, they were hired to supplement competitions in drama and music. I classify ancient Greek puppetry
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‘A Crisis of Transition’: Menstruation and the Psychiatrisation of the Female Lifecycle in 19th-Century Edinburgh Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Jessica Campbell,Gayle Davis
Examining how the female body and lifecycle were constructed within 19th-century Scottish psychiatry, and the wider significance of such portrayals, this article situates the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act within a much longer history that presents menstruation as a problem. We highlight the historical resonance of two prominent features of the Act and the debates leading to it: the
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The Red Gown: Reflections on the In/Visibility of Menstruation in Scotland Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Camilla Mørk Røstvik,Bee Hughes,Catherine Spencer
During the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, menstruation became more present in public discourse in Scotland. Despite this, little attention has been paid to the complex interplay of visibility and invisibility that characterises menstruation’s place in the nation’s wider cultural landscape. In this article, we explore the context of menstruation in the town of St Andrews specifically and Scotland more broadly
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Encoding Queer Erasure in Oscar Wilde’s "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-14 Filipa da Gama Calado
Literary and textual scholars have long speculated about Wilde’s intentions for revising the homoerotic content of his famous novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). More recently, electronic editing tools enable scholars to explore textual composition histories within a digital space. This project uses the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) standard, an electronic editing tool that allows researchers
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Researching the Researchers: The Impact of Menstrual Stigma on the Study of Menstruation Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-11 Lara Owen
Menstruation has been stigmatised through a variety of strategies cross-culturally, including silencing and marginalisation. The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of the perceived nature and impact of such stigmatisation on the professional experience of menstrual researchers. The research cohort was a group of nine scholars from humanities and
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Enfolding the Hand, Entrancing the Eye: Erica Baum’s Dog Ear Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Riley Llewellyn Hanick
This essay situates Erica Baum’s Dog Ear (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011) within the history of the artist’s book. It does so by introducing her ongoing series, begun over a decade ago, in which Baum makes the quotidian act of folding the corner of a book’s page into a sculptural intervention, reorienting and “reauthoring” source texts into works of concrete poetry. While photographs from this series have
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The Geographies of Poverty: Modernist Photo Texts in the Age of Social Media Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Donal Harris
When recent artists have documented the effects of the Great Recession on contemporary life, they have repeatedly turned to the genre of the ‘modernist photo text’ for aesthetic and ethical inspiration. Yet the medial and institutional networks that support and publish these works are vastly different today than they were in the 1930s. This essay turns to two photo text projects, Matt Black’s American
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From Print to Digital: Reappropriation of the Ready-Made Image in Works of Margit Sielska and Weronika Gęsicka Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Karolina Koczynska
This article traces the connections between print and digital photomontage practices through the works of two women artists, Margit Sielska (1900–1980) and Weronika Gęsicka (1984–), addressing the way these lesser-known, non-Anglophone artists reveal a continuity of interests across time. Changes in technology have allowed the cut and paste technique of photomontage to evolve from the use of scissors
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Brandon is a Network Not a Name: Fictocriticism & the Cyberfeminist Art of Shu Lea Cheang Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Zach Pearl
The cyberfeminist art practice of Shu Lea Cheang evinces a particular relation of generative complicity with the art object—what Canadian cultural theorist Jeanne Randolph referred to as 'the amenable object' (1983). Randolph, who pioneered 'ficto-criticism'—a method of writing that intentionally blurs theory, poetics and narrative—wrote of the amenable object as an incomplete creation whose 'ambiguous
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'Grasp All, Lose All': Raising Awareness Through Loss of Grasp in Seemingly Functional Interfaces Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Diogo Marques
From baroque proto-cybertexts to countercultural gestures by historical avant-gardes, there is a longstanding tradition of disruptive strategies used by artists at the interstices of societies’ demands for order, control, and functionalism. For the avant-gardes and their multiple artistic inf(l)ections, radical changes to the way sensory perception had come to be depicted since Modernism became a central
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Introduction: Representation in/of Classical Music Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Adrian Curtin,Adam Whittaker
This essay introduces the special collection 'Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century'. The editors outline what the collection is about and explain how it developed before providing synopses of the articles and linking them together. They argue for the importance of joined-up thinking between scholars from multiple disciplines, artists working across different media forms, and professionals
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ringl + pit: (Un)figuring the New Woman Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-11 Stephanie Danielle Bender
The photography of Ellen Auerbach and Grete Stern of the studio ringl + pit consistently shirks established advertising formulas. The emphases on traditional gender roles and an exaggerated femininity in conventional Weimar advertisements reaffirm heterosexual male desire and attempt to combat the development of the modern female ‘type’ into the independent and androgynous masculine woman [männliche
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In the Beginning There Were Dragon(cillo)s: Using Shadow Puppetry to Engage Young Audiences Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Esther Fernández,Jason Yancey,Jonathan Wade,Jared White
Dragoncillo Puppet Troupe was established in 2018 by Esther Fernández, Jonathan Wade, Jared White, and Jason Yancey. A staging of The Fabulous Johnny Frog at the 2018 Association for Hispanic and Classical Theater’s (AHCT) yearly symposium marked their beginning as a troupe. This work, adapted by Yancey, focuses on the controversial Juan Rana character and was designed as an outreach
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Last Rites: Self-Representation and Counter-Canon Practices in Classical Music through Radhe Radhe Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-07 None Sharanya
To commemorate the centenary of the 1913 Paris premiere of The Rite of Spring, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill organised The Rite of Spring at 100. As part of this, the Carolina Performing Arts (CPA) commissioned new pieces interpreting and responding to The Rite. Among these was Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi, created by the Indian-American composer-scholar and pianist Vijay Iyer, performed
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Staging Scores: Devising Contemporary Performances from Classical Music Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Michael David Pinchbeck,Kevin Egan
In this article, Egan and Pinchbeck combine Postdramatic Theatre (Lehmann, 2006), Composed Theatre (Rebstock and Roesner, 2012) and Score Theatre (Spagnolo, 2017) to address the representation of classical music in two separate contemporary performances they were involved in making. Egan addresses the question of ‘adapting scores’ in relation to Plane Performance’s Traviata (2010), where Verdi’s operatic
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Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola's 'La Faute de l'abbé Mouret' Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Kit Yee Wong
This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret (The Sin of Father Mouret, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republican discourses compete. Using Paul Ricœur’s theory on Christianity’s
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Uniting the Nation through Transcending Menstrual Blood: The Period Products Act in Historical Perspective Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Bettina Bildhauer
This article situates the Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021 in the context of historical imaginations both of menstruation and of the nation. It shows that despite the law- makers’ stated intentions, traditional menstrual stigma still underlies the Act and its parliamentary debates. This allows politicians speaking about menstruation to distance themselves from those who menstruate
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The Phenomenal Side of the Operatic Performance: Implications of Promotion Strategies on Cinematic Representations of the 21st Century Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Johanna Ethnersson Pontara
During recent decades, scholars have paid attention to the ways in which marketing strategies surrounded the participation of professional opera singers in 1930s/1940s Hollywood films. Opera singers used cinema to promote themselves as film stars, while Hollywood, in turn, made use of real-life celebrities in order to market films containing opera to a wider audience. Recent cinema, just like films
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Meaning after Humanism? On Reading in Ruins Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Julia Hoydis,Roman Bartosch
Introduction to OLH Special Collection 'Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies'
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Doubling, Decay and Discontinuity: Pathology and the (post)human body in Marie Darrieussecq’s Notre vie dans les forêts Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Francoise Campbell
This article focuses on the portrayal of corporeal and textual embodiment in Marie Darrieussecq’s novel Notre vie dans les forêts (2017), a science fiction dystopia in which all bodily diseases have been cured by advancements in cloning technology. In so doing, it explores how the novel’s paradigm of bodily enhancement questions both the physical limits of the human body and the ways in which corporeal
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The Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Act 2021 in the context of menstrual politics and history: An introduction Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-11-04 Bettina Bildhauer,Camilla Mork Røstvik,Sharra L Vostral
In January 2021, Scotland became the first country in the world to make universal access to free period products a legal right, an initiative which attracted extraordinary international attention as a “world first”. This introduction outlines from the perspective of the history of menstruation what is indeed new and ground-breaking about this law, and what merely continues traditional and widespread
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Classical Music Goes Viral: Memeings and Meanings of Classical Music in the Wake of Coronavirus Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius
As a rich and diverse genre of digital folklore, memes are an integrated part of popular discourses on classical music. Memes provide communicative tools in everyday discourse on aesthetics, the historical canon, music theory, careers and professional life, among other things. During the coronavirus pandemic, classical music memes commenting on different aspects of the outbreak have provided insight
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Opera as Comics: Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in Craig P. Russell’s Graphic Adaptation Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Michaela Weiss,Miroslav Urbanec
The article explores the capacity of the comics medium to represent a complex opera cycle in a graphic narrative. It analyses specific features of transmedial transmission between opera and comics through the example of the most recent graphic adaptation of Richard Wagner’s dramatic tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung by P. Craig Russell, published by Dark Horse Comics (2000-2001). The adaptation, which
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The Transhumanist Creep: Posthumanism, Pedagogy, and the Praxeological Mangle Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Roman Bartosch
This contribution takes one of posthumanism’s most powerful conceptual distinctions – between posthumanist thought and its ill-famed doppelgänger, transhumanism – as the starting point for a critique of posthumanist thinking in education. Pointing to moments in which both post- and transhumanism become harder to distinguish in educational theory and practice, it utilises the notion of the ‘creep phenomenon’
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‘Wherever You Are Whenever You Want’: Captivating and Encouraging Music when Symphony Orchestra Performances are Provided Online Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Åsa Bergman
This article examines how ideas about music and music listening are articulated and what listening practices are constructed when symphony orchestras provide concert performances through streaming services. This is achieved by paying attention to how listening situations connected to symphony orchestras’ digital performances are characterized, how the audience is positioned in relation to the performances
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Shifting Paradigms of Sadness, Brain Disease or Emotional Distress: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Late Antiquity and the 21st Century. What psychologists can learn from ascetics in Late Antiquity and why historians should or should not buy DSM 5 Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Klaas Huijbregts,Veronika Wieser
In this article, we address expressions of sadness, grief and social alienation from two different perspectives and on an interdisciplinary level. The various forms of perceiving these experiences and the method for classifying emotions (particularly emotional distress) in modern psychiatry represent the starting point for comparison. Special attention will be paid to the current method of classification
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Dialogues with the Machine, or Ruins of Closure and Control in Interactive Digital Narratives Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Julia Hoydis
The interrelations between literary studies, and posthumanism deserve attention beyond the focus on the representation of posthuman identities on the story level. To explore these, this article looks at examples of interactive digital narratives (IDN): Bandersnatch (2018), a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’-type instalment of Netflix’s dystopian SF-anthology series Black Mirror, the short film The Angry
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Art Music, Perfection and Power: Critical Dialogues with Classical Music Culture in Contemporary Cinema Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Tobias Pontara
During the last three decades music scholars have provided a growing amount of critical accounts of what they contend is a fundamental conceptual support behind the performance of classical music, namely the belief in aesthetically autonomous and endurable musical works free-standing from any cultural and social context. According to this ontology, the primary obligation of the performer is to present
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Jacqueline du Pré as 'The Cellist' (2020) Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Adam Whittaker
Few musicians of the twentieth century are as recognisable as Jacqueline du Pré. Her dazzling and distinctive talent, said to have enraptured audiences the world over, was overcome by a tragic diagnosis of MS. This sense of tragedy was all the more heightened by Du Pré’s famed physicality on the stage, leading critics to use all manner of analogies in describing her playing as a physical (and even
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Céspedes y la colonialidad del archivo: historias de negritud y fuga en la modernidad española peninsular Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Esther Mayoko Ortega Arjonilla
Las actas del proceso inquisitorial que se produjo en Toledo entre los años 1587 y 1589 contra la persona de Céspedes da pie a este artículo. En primer lugar, el artículo realiza una revisión de cómo este archivo ha sido leído por parte de la historiografía y realiza una crítica a estas lecturas por la colonialidad de estas miradas. En segundo lugar, el artículo propone una lectura que pone en primer
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Racial Dynamics: The Casting of Lucian Msamati as Salieri in the National Theatre’s 2016 Production of Amadeus Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-05-28 Adrian Curtin
This article examines the casting of Lucian Msamati as Antonio Salieri in the 2016 production of Peter Shaffer’s 1979 play Amadeus by the National Theatre in London. This was the first time an actor of colour had played the role of Salieri in a professional production of Shaffer’s drama. How did the casting affect interpretation of the play? And what was its cultural significance in the context of
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From Unspeakability to Inequality Talk: Why Conversations about Inequalities May Not Lead to Change Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-05-21 Christina Marie Scharff
This article draws on eighteen qualitative in-depth interviews with female, early-career classical musicians to investigate if, and if so in which ways, recent discourse around the lack of diversity in the classical music profession has affected how young musicians talk about inequalities in the field of classical music. The article demonstrates that the research participants were aware of ongoing
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Introduction: The Abolition of the University Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Martin Paul Eve
An introduction to the special collection "The Abolition of the University".
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The Future of the Open Library of Humanities: Milestones, Governance, and Sustainability Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-05-12 Martin Paul Eve,Rose Harris-Birtill
As the Open Library of Humanities reaches its fifth birthday, this editorial reflects on the future strategic direction for the platform.
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The Present as Past: Science Fiction and the Museum Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Amy Butt
This article explores the role that science fiction (sf) texts might play in the museum, offering a perspective on acts of collection, curation, exhibition, and museum architecture, to ask what the museums of science fiction futures can offer those of us concerned with the role and responsibility of the museum in the present.It draws together methods, content and reflections from a workshop held at
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Displacements: Framing (and) Ruins in John Berger’s King and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Kylie Crane
This essay brings John Berger’s King (1999) together with Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People (2007) to think through displacements with/in ruins. I interpret the settings of the novels, consider the narrative voices used to articulate the stories, and contemplate the contexts provided by various paratextual devices, in order to address this primary concern. The lives depicted in King and Animal’s People
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Contranarrativas a través del teatro foro: nuestras formas de ser-en-el-mundo Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Cristina Zhang-Yu,Jiun Isabel Zhang-Yim
In this article, we intend to develop the complexity of ‘being a Chinese woman’ in the Spanish State through our experiences. Specifically, we embrace autoethnography as a methodological tool for analysis due to its potential as a generator of knowledge located in our racialized corporeality. From this place and under this narrative, we analyse our experiences with forum theater as an artistic-political
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Brainfucked about Britain: Sibylle Berg’s Transnational Novel GRM Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Barbara Korte,Christian Mair
In 2019, Sibylle Berg’s novel GRM Brainfuck was published to considerable acclaim. Berg, a German writer based in Switzerland, uses a contemporary British setting for a satirical speculation on the future of Western societies. The novel represents the UK as a social constellation that combines a tradition of class privilege with the worst excesses of global capitalism, technological surveillance, and
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Imperio, colonia y dictadura: Una lectura poscolonial de la formación histórica del fascismo español Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Javier García Fernández
This text proposes to consider the political culture of Spanish colonialism and the Hispanic imperial project from a historical perspective in relation to so-called Spanish fascism. This contribution argues that Spanish fascism was the consequence of colonial ideology derived from the Spanish Empire in a context that could be considered as the return of coloniality into the Iberian Peninsula in the
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‘The Returned Pilgrim’: Nancy Astor and Plymouth Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Judith Rowbotham
This article focuses on the evolution of Nancy Astor’s political persona, dating it back to 1908 when she first visited Plymouth when her husband Waldorf Astor was being considered as the junior Unionist candidate for the borough. It reveals how, by 1919 when she was elected, she had already formed the political ideas and identified the key campaigning issues that she would pursue between 1919 and
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Huellas del Trauma Colonial Romaní-Gitano en España (1499–1978): Narrativas de Recuperación y Reparación de un Pueblo con Historia(-s) Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Iván Periáñez-Bolaño
The constant colonial intervention on Roma bodies, practices and knowledge in the Spanish nation-state has been incardinated from 1499 to the present day in a specific type of racism: anti-Gypsyism or anti-Roma racism. Although denied, undervalued or hidden by historiography, institutions, academies and the state educational system alike, the tracing of its ideological, normative and historical constants
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Neblina de fantasía: El trauma colonial y la descolonización de la identidad canaria Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Roberto Gil Hernández
Canarian identity is founded on trauma. For this reason, those who have thought about the Islands have used fantasy to represent aspects such as its location and history, as well as race, gender, class and the knowledge attributed to its population. Through an anthology of discourses on Islands identity, this article tries to demonstrate the existence of links between Canarianism and coloniality. From
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VPIP: A Lexical Identification Procedure for Perceptual, Cognitive, and Emotional Viewpoint in Narrative Discourse Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Lynn S. Eekhof, Kobie Van Krieken, José Sanders
Although previous work on viewpoint techniques has shown that viewpoint is ubiquitous in narrative discourse, approaches to identify and analyze the linguistic manifestations of viewpoint are currently scattered over different disciplines and dominated by qualitative methods. This article presents the ViewPoint Identification Procedure (VPIP), the first systematic method for the lexical identification
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Horizon Magazine and European Culture, 1940–1945 Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Ann-Marie Einhaus
For the first four and a half years of its life, from 1940 to 1945, Cyril Connolly’s cosmopolitan, British-based magazine Horizon operated under wartime conditions. This not only entailed dealing with shortages of paper and the absence of many potential domestic contributors on active service, but also difficulties obtaining new material from abroad and engaging in exchange with foreign periodicals
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Computer-Generated Text as a Posthuman Mode of Literature Production Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Annika Elstermann
A central idea of posthumanism in a technological society is the actual transition of the human towards a post-human entity, the cyborg. This entanglement between humanity and technology can not only be found in – actual and fictional – cyborgs, but also in computer-generated text production. Through the close collaboration between human creativity and artificial intelligence, algorithmically facilitated
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The Ship Who Sang: Feminism, the Posthuman, and Similarity Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Nicole Falkenhayner
The fact that there is an affinity between the agendas of feminist theory and critical posthumanism is well-known, but warrants further exploration when used for the analysis of specific popular cultural representations. By outlining the similarities between the two critical movements, it is proposed that the conceptual use of the notion of similarity in cultural analysis, as introduced by Bhatti and
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A Laboratory as the Infrastructure of Engagement: Epistemological Reflections Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Urszula Pawlicka-Deger
Today’s big challenges―the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, migration, and refugee crises―are global in scale, transcending geographical, national, and cultural boundaries, but responded to at the local level. It has therefore become necessary to reflect on the following questions: what kind of new forms of organizations are needed to tackle real-world problems? How can we enhance the humanities
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The Problem with Steel: Garth Evans’ Placement with the British Steel Corporation (1968–71) Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Katherine Jackson
From 1968–1971, sculptor Garth Evans participated in an artist placement with the British Steel Corporation. Evans’ placement was associated with the Artist Placement Group, a coalition of artists that negotiated placements in government and industry throughout the UK and Western Europe during the 1970s. This essay utilizes archival photographs, feasibility studies and reports, to consider Evans’ placement
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Posthumanism and Colonial Discourse: Nineteenth Century Literature and Twenty-First Century Critique Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Caroline Koegler
Nineteenth Century novelists frequently picture life beyond and across the edges of humanity—figuratively moving the ‘posts’ of humanity—a practice that this article calls ‘posthumanisation’. Inspired by the accelerating as well as mutually reinforcing dynamics of colonial expansion, empiricism, new biological and scientific findings (Darwin, paleontology, and psychology), and the rise of industrialisation
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Welsh Women MPs: Exploring Their Absence Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sam Blaxland
Between 1918 and the end of the 1990s, Wales had only four women members of Parliament. This article concentrates largely on that period, exploring who these women were, and why there were so few of them. It analyses the backgrounds and careers of Megan Lloyd George, Eirene White and Dorothy Rees, the first three women to be elected, arguing that two of them were aided into their positions by their
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Parameters of Narrative Perspectivization: The Narrator Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sonja Zeman
Narrations have traditionally been seen as linguistic artefacts that are mediated by someone who is telling the story. As such, the narrator’s perspective constitutes a central parameter when exploring the possibilities of a unified approach to narrative perspective. With this in mind, this paper aims to take a closer look at the narrator from both theoretical and empirical viewpoints. Based on a review
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WWFD or What Would a Forger Do: A Critical Inquiry of Poorly Argued Contemporary Cases for Forgery Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Timo S. Paananen
This article discusses the contemporary debates on fakes and forgeries and notes the lack of constrained criteria in the evaluation of suspected manuscripts. Instead of controlled criteria, scholars have opted for an informal and non-explicated method—here labeled WWFD (What Would a Forger Do?)—in which an internally consistent story from the first-person perspective of the alleged forger functions
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Women MPs from Northern Ireland: Challenges and Contributions, 1953–2020 Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Yvonne Galligan
This article investigates women’s representation as Northern Ireland (NI) MPs in the House of Commons since 1953. The central argument of the study is that the political and cultural positions dominant at the formation of NI in the early 20th century reverberate through the generations and continue to inform women’s political under-representation today. The article provides an historical context for
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‘To Keep It in the Family’: Spouses, Seat Inheritance and Parliamentary Elections in Post-Suffrage Britain 1918–1945 Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Eleanor Lowe
This article analyses the parliamentary phenomenon that historians have referred to as the ‘halo effect’. A model adopted by Nancy Astor, the ‘halo effect’ describes candidates fighting parliamentary seats that had previously been contested by their spouse and accounted for almost a third of the women elected to parliament between the wars. Instead of dismissing its presence as a lack of political
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Umbanda: Africana or Esoteric? Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Steven Engler
Umbanda is a dynamic and varied Brazilian spirit-incorporation tradition first recorded in the early twentieth century. This article problematizes the ambiguity of categorizing Umbanda as an ‘Afro-Brazilian’ religion, given the acknowledged centrality of elements of Kardecist Spiritism. It makes a case that Umbanda is best categorized as a hybridizing Brazilian Spiritism. Though most Umbandists belong
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Nancy Astor, Women and Politics, 1919–1945 Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Pat Thane
Nancy Astor was the first woman elected to the House of Commons, in 1919. She succeeded her husband in his Plymouth constituency when he inherited a seat in the House of Lords, so avoided the discrimination which for decades prevented the selection of many women for winnable seats. She was not a suffragist, or, when elected, a feminist, but the hostility of many men, in and out of parliament, to her
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Erotic Class Masquerade: Sex and Working-Class Dialect in D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover Open Library of Humanities Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Courtney Pina Miller
This article examines the inter-class relationship between Lady Connie Chatterley and gamekeeper Oliver Mellors in D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) and the novel’s startling, but tantalizing triangulation of sex, class, and language. By analysing occasions of sexual and linguistic role playing through the lens of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnival, this article demonstrates how class-based