bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Bít ống ngực qua da điều trị tràn dịch dưỡng chấp màng phổi kéo dài sau phẫu thuật fontan: Báo cáo ca bệnh
Authors: Anh Nguyễn Thị Hải , Hùng Nguyễn Quốc , Huy Bùi Quang , Đại Trần Đắc , Thu Đoàn Thị Hoài , Vân Đặng Thị Hải , Cương Nguyễn Ngọc
Published: May 2021

Tràn dịch dưỡng chấp màng phổi là thách thức trong điều trị bệnh nhân tuần hoàn Fontan. Tình trạng này kéo dài thời gian nằm viện, tăng tỷ lệ tử vong, tăng chi phí điều trị. Chúng tôi báo cáo một trường hợp tại Trung tâm Tim mạch - Bệnh viện E, bệnh nhân 3 tuổi hậu phẫu Fontan tràn dịch dưỡng chấp màng phổi kéo dài đã được chụp bạch mạch và bít ống ngực qua da thành công. Kỹ thuật này xâm lấn tối thiểu và khá an toàn có thể được chúng tôi tiếp tục thực hiện trong các ca bệnh tương tự.
Hiệu quả của cấy chỉ catgut trong điều trị đau thắt lưng do thoái hóa cột sống
Authors: Chiến Nguyễn Văn , Hân Bùi Thị Ngọc , Trang Lê Thị Thu
Published: May 2021

Đau thắt lưng ngày càng gia tăng và phổ biến tại Việt Nam và trên thế giới. Nghiên cứu nhằm so sánh hiệu quả điều trị đau thắt lưng do thoái hóa cột sống bằng phương pháp cấy chỉ catgut và điện châm kết hợp bài thuốc Độc hoạt tang ký sinh thang tại khoa Đông y - Bệnh viện đa khoa tỉnh Kon Tum. 60 bệnh nhân được chia thành 2 nhóm: cấy chỉ và điện châm. Kết quả cho thấy hiệu quả giảm đau theo VAS, tầm vận động cột sống, tình trạng co cơ, chức năng sinh hoạt và vận động hàng ngày theo thời gian điều trị đều cải thiện rõ rệt (p < 0,05) ở cả hai phương pháp. Tuy nhiên, không có sự khác biệt giữa hai nhóm về mặt thống kê (p > 0,05). Chưa thấy tác dụng không mong muốn của phương pháp cấy chỉ trong điều trị đau thắt lưng do thoái hóa cột sống.
Covid-19: come la pandemia ha aumentato la food insecurity e alterato il regime alimentare nelle famiglie italiane
Authors: Dondi Arianna , Candela Egidio , Morigi Francesca , Lenzi Jacopo , Lanari Marcello
Published: May 2021

Background - The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic and subsequent containment measures are causing a worldwide increase in food insecurity (FI). Food insecurity has been related to a number of negative health implications, particularly for the most vulnerable population, including children and adolescents. Aim - To investigate the effects on FI during the lockdown in Italy and the changes in eating habits and body weight in the paediatric population 6 months after the beginning of the pandemic. Materials and Methods - An online anonymous cross-sectional survey was elaborated and proposed to the parents of children < 18 years old. Results - 8.3% reported that their families were at risk of FI before the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This percentage dramatically doubled after the pandemic began. Moreover, 27.3% of the parents reported that their children were eating more, with a concomitant increase in “junk food” consumption. About one third of respondents declared an increase in children’s weight, while weight loss were uncommon and prevailed among adolescents. It was observed that parents’ higher age, higher parents’ school grade and working parents were protective factors against FI. Conclusion - Since the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is requiring restrictions again, it is crucial that health care and social protection programmes take into account concepts of equity and sustainability to ensure adequate food and nutrition security for everyone.
Un bambino che non mangia… e non sta seduto
Authors: Trippella Giulia , Iacopelli Jessica
Published: May 2021

The Authors describe the case of an 11-month-old infant with severe vitamin B12 deficiency consequent to a strict vegan diet followed by the mother during pregnancy and to a strictly vegan weaning. The child presented with food refusal, somatic growth arrest and seriously compromised maturational patterns. The encephalic MR showed a marked white matter atrophy. Symptoms improved after vitamin B12 supplementation.
The Nexus between Instagram and Digital Entrepreneurship
Authors: Adekunle Bamidele , Kajumba Christine
Published: May 2021

Social media platforms have transformed entrepreneurial activities. These social platforms are used for communication and marketing, connecting current and prospective customers to service providers, and connecting and engaging marketers to end users. Instagram is one of the fastest growing and most popular social platforms for socialization, personal indulgence, and information and product sharing. Based on this premise, it is important to understand the role that Instagram plays in digital entrepreneurship. In order to have a better understanding of the socioeconomic implications of the use of social media, this article analyzed secondary and primary data, direct and participant observations, and inductive reasoning. It presents Instagram's visual power and high number of followers, which enhance sales and attract a new set of entrepreneurs who would otherwise be disadvantaged as a result of cultural, economic, and political barriers.
Theology as Inquiry, Therapy, Praxis
Authors: Raposa Michael L.
Published: May 2021

In this chapter, theology is portrayed as a form of inquiry, a kind of therapy, and a mode of praxis. These are not perfectly separable roles for theology but can be distinguished for purposes of analysis. Peirce’s theory of inquiry, adapted here for theosemiotic purposes, is shown to be more complex than the standard account, organized around doubt as the stimulus for inquiry, tends to suggest. After a lengthy survey of the links between philosophical pragmatism and certain forms of contemporary psychotherapy, a theosemiotic grounded in pragmatic insights is presented as potentially therapeutic in its strategy and effects. The chapter concludes with an analysis of theology as praxis, as it must be conceived if it is grounded in pragmatism; the resonance of such a conception with liberation theology is also explored here.
Communities of Interpretation
Authors: Raposa Michael L.
Published: May 2021

Questions are raised in this chapter about how the size of a community might affect the solidarity of its members, about whether communities can be purely virtual, about “who is my neighbour,” and about what makes a community something worth caring about. Peircean and Roycean ideas about love and loyalty are evaluated as crucial to understanding the bonds that form a genuine and potentially universal communities. Communities are portrayed as being governed by both the logic of classes and a logic of systems, the latter helping to explain the phenomenon of “semiotic complementary.” The last section of the chapter evaluates how some of these ideas might be useful for elaborating both a comparative theology and a liberation theology from a theosemiotic perspective.
A Joyful Spectrum of Service
Authors: Carroll James T.
Published: May 2021

In 1853 a small group of nuns arrived on the waterfront of New York City commencing the service of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) to New York City and its environs. In time the Dominicans served in health care, education, parish work, and a myriad of social services. The evolution of the Order of Preachers in New York eventually included friars, nuns, sisters, and lay members—a singular distinction. The Dominican roots in New York spread to other parts of the United States and to various foreign missions.
Aggiornamento on Campus
Authors: Renz Christopher J.
Published: May 2021

Beginning in 1960, William Blase Schauer, a Dominican friar of the Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus, developed innovative ideas for telling a story to disengaged college students of the fundamental relationship between Catholic worship (Mass and domestic rituals) and its cultural heritage—its rich tradition of art, music, and theater. Using the themes of symbol, season, and heritage, he capitalized on the catechetical nature of the liturgy in order to draw them back more deeply into their Catholic faith. With initial success in Las Cruces, he transferred the “experiment” to Santa Fe where it achieved national success in educating clergy and parish leaders about Catholic liturgy and culture.
More Than a Mustard Seed
Authors: Kennedy Diane
Published: May 2021

The Parable was conceived by a group of Dominican women and men who imagined a future of collaboration from a past of cooperation in traditional ministries. The transformative grace of Vatican II and the renewed understanding of the Order as the Dominican Family were catalysts stimulating a new sense of possibilities for the renewal of Dominican life and mission—the possible revelation of “the extraordinary within the ordinary.” For more than thirty years Parable Conference for Dominican Life and Mission generated a vast network of Dominicans coming together to renew Dominican energies for mission and to strengthen the bonds of family. Within those years the prophetic mustard seed grew into an abundant living reality of retreats and conferences, think tanks and publications, and lectures and workshops that welcomed all branches of the Dominican Family.
From Teacher to Tutor
Authors: Bachanov Arlene I.
Published: May 2021

In the late 1980s, the Adrian Dominican Sisters faced an issue common to religious communities: the aging of its membership and a lesser need overall for sisters to teach in the parochial-school system. Wanting to find a way for its highly trained educators to remain active, and to address a significant societal need at the same time, the Adrian Dominicans began a literacy center in Detroit for adult learners. More centers followed in Michigan, Florida, and Illinois. Other Dominican communities have established literacy centers as well. The centers each serve a wide range of adult learners, including immigrant populations, in helping these learners to build better lives for themselves and their families. This essay looks at each of the Adrian Dominican-sponsored literacy centers as well as those of other communities, with input from directors, tutors, and learners.
Introduction Moroccan Channels, Channeling Moroccanness
Authors: Schulthies Becky L.
Published: May 2021

This chapter introduces the ways Moroccans engaged media despite a widespread feeling of communicative failure. It also outlines how they viewed language and media as sharing some of the same channeling qualities at the same time that they tried to distinguish their views from others. Ethnographic vignettes lay out the key laments generating relationality in Fez: media failure, language mediation, and Moroccanness. This chapter also explains the key semiotic theories on multimodality and phatic connectivity developed throughout the book.
Scripting Sounds and Sounding Scripts
Authors: Schulthies Becky L.
Published: May 2021

Building from the rhymed prose register, chapter four analyzes the ways laments about Arabic writing have shaped practices of phatic connection in Fez. I look at the ways Fassis engaged darīja writing as a blending of multisensory channels tied to specific media platforms: folklore books, WhatsApp, advertising billboards, and newsprint. Instead of foregrounding the aural/spoken soundscape or the visual/graphic linguascape, I examine the intertwining of these sensorial channels in the sounding of darīja script and scripting of darīja sounds by reading subjects, everyday Moroccans who authorized themselves to weigh in on the politics of writing. Scholars have written about Arabic soundscapes, the acoustic environments, listening practices, and ritual sounding in which Arabic shapes public discourse and Muslim subjects. Others have focused on the emergence of Arabic dialect writing movements as expressions of political movements, local advertising campaigns, and youth-driven social change movements. Both the soundscape and darīja writing literatures hint at the multisensory channel practices and ideologies mobilized to make Moroccan persons, and they include laments about modality failures that motivated writing changes in the last decade. In the face of debates about the role of language in Moroccan national identity, Fassi everyday scriptic heterogeneity pointed to a practice of ambivalence toward written darīja in specific media platforms (billboards, websites, and mobile apps), but not others (books and newsprint). The platforms of writing mattered to the phatic work of making Moroccans in Fez.
Colorful Dreams
Authors: May Christopher J.
Published: May 2021

Pärt’s music for film, although a major component of his Soviet-era output, has received little critical attention. This chapter makes the case for studying it. Following a general overview and tabulation of Pärt’s film scores, the chapter identifies (and challenges) three main reasons why Anglo-American Pärt scholars, in particular, have consistently declined to engage with these scores: Pärt’s own attitude, Alexei Yurchak’s “binary socialism,” and a habit of partitioning Pärt’s music into discrete periods. Through a series of case studies, the chapter then illustrates the extent to which film work was a platform for Pärt’s technical development throughout his Soviet years—in Pärt’s own words, a “creative laboratory” facilitating creative flow between different spheres of compositional activity. The case studies yield both direct and indirect connections to Pärt’s tintinnabuli works, demonstrating that critical narratives of tintinnabuli will stand incomplete for as long as they ignore the film output.
B. R. Ambedkar’s Sciences
Authors: Elam J. Daniel
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines the work of Dalit activist and thinker B. R. Ambedkar. It argues that a proper understanding of Ambedkar’s repudiation of caste must come from a more rigorous understanding of the particularity of Ambedkar’s academic training, which included not only sociology and law, but philological and orientalist training as well. Consequently, it argues for “sociophilia” and contagion as the key to understanding Ambedkar’s annihilation of caste.
Idolatry of Facts
Authors: Vandeputte Tom
Published: May 2021

“What is precisely most valuable about philosophy,” Nietzsche writes in one of his early notebooks, “is to constantly teach the counter-doctrine to everything journalistic (die Gegenlehre alles journalistischen zu lehren).” This hyperbolic remark serves as a starting point for this chapter, which examines the preoccupation with journalism that runs throughout Nietzsche’s work, ranging from the writings of the early 1870s, when he was working on the Untimely Meditations, to the period in which he wrote Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where acerbic caricatures of newspapers readers and an “idolatry of the factual” occur alongside images of a different, archaic kind of news and rumors of an unknown future. As this chapter demonstrates, Nietzsche’s critical engagement with journalism is interwoven with key themes in his work, such as his reflections on language, rhetoric and reading, the death of God and the “last human being,” and untimeliness and the “eternal return.”
The Messianic: Waiting for the Future
Authors: Derrida Jacques
Published: May 2021

This chapter evaluates the messianic tone that deconstruction has recently adopted, which is the turn it takes toward the future. The messianic future which deconstruction dreams is the unforeseeable future to come, absolutely to come, the justice, the democracy, the gift, and the hospitality to come. Jacques Derrida at first avoided the notion of the messianic on the grounds that it entailed the idea of a “horizon of possibility” for the future and, hence, of some sort of anticipatory encircling of what is to come. But after this initial hesitation, Derrida adopted the term “messianic.” Deconstruction is not the destruction of religion but its reinvention. It helps religion examine its conscience, counseling and chastening religion about its tendency to confuse its faith with knowledge, which results in the dangerous and absolutizing triumphalism of religion. Derrida also distinguishes the “messianic” as a universal structure from the various “messianisms,” which are a little too strong.
Impact of Covid-19 on Teaching and Learning in Africa Assessed by the Education Unions
Authors: Nwokeocha Steve
Published: May 2021

The study investigated the situation and views of the Education International (EI) member unions in Africa regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. The EI, a global body of education unions with over 32.5 million members in 384 unions across 178 countries in the world, is a critical global education stakeholder. It commissioned this study to obtain evidence to inform its policies about the pandemic. The primary data are based on the opinions of union leaders from 58 education unions in 34 African countries who responded to a semi-structured online questionnaire, while additionally, thirteen union leaders across the African countries and the Chief Regional Coordinator of the EI Africa Region were interviewed. The findings revealed a massive disruption of education, exacerbated educational inequalities, teachers’ poor digital skills and lack of infrastructure, and increased vulnerability of the marginalized learners shut out of school. Recommendations were made for EI, African Union and Governments.
Issues to develop tertiary education in line with regional development
Authors: Otgonkhuu Tsedev-Ish , Altanbagana Myagmarsuren
Published: May 2021

For Mongolia, which has a small population, a large territory, and abundant natural, agricultural, and mineral resources, regional development of the education sector, especially tertiary education, which is significant for population settlement, is an important issue for regional development. The purpose of this study is to optimize spatial planning of the tertiary education sector in line with regional development. This research used statistical and spatial analyzing methods to achieve the sets of research objectives. The key indicators of the tertiary education sector included a number of universities, institutes, and colleges, students, full-time teachers, new entrants, and graduates from general educational schools and the relevant datasets were collected from the National Statistical Office (NSO) and the Ministry of Education and Science (MES) covering the period from 1990 to 2019. As can be seen from research results, 92.5 per cent of tertiary educational institutions, 88.9 per cent of all employees working in the sector, 92.6 per cent of all students, and 92.2 per cent of new entrants are all located in Ulaanbaatar alone, which means that Mongolia’s tertiary education sector is overcrowded in the Capital city only. This study suggests that it is necessary to support the establishment of vocational and tertiary education institutions, research centers, institutes, and their branches outside of the capital city by first reviewing the status and functions of national and aimag-level cities, which are in line with regional and local unique and economic priorities.
História da educação na região Oeste do Paraná: a implantação da escola rural de dois irmãos (1953-1959
Authors: Andrade Rodrigo Pinto , Garuti de Andrade Francielle Aparecida , Arnaut de Toledo Cézar De Alencar
Published: May 2021

Este texto analisa a história da implantação da Escola Rural de Dois Irmãos, uma das primeiras instituições escolares construída e mantida pelo poder público na região Oeste do Paraná. A escola foi fundada em 1953 visando atender aos filhos dos trabalhadores rurais que residiam na localidade. Trata-se de um estudo histórico e documental. Sua realização se deu por meio da análise de documentos que descrevem o processo de migração, colonização e escolarização do oeste paranaense, bem como a trajetória histórica desta escola. Para a efetivação da pesquisa foram utilizadas as seguintes fontes: livros-ata de exames finais; livro de registros dos primeiros anos de funcionamento da escola; diários de classe; ata de fundação; decretos e leis municipais; jornais da época da fundação da instituição e materiais iconográficos das atividades escolares na década de 1950. Os dados revelados pelas fontes foram analisados à luz da literatura sobre instituições escolares e relacionados às condições sociais do contexto político/econômico em que foram produzidos.
A Closer Look at the Culture of Infidelity
Authors: Ortiz Steven M.
Published: May 2021

This chapter takes a deeper look at the culture of infidelity that pervades the world of professional sports, why wives share a universal fear that their husbands will be unfaithful, and how they are affected by the possibility or actuality that their husbands will engage in sexual or emotional relationships with other women. Three patterns of infidelity are identified in the context of the sport marriage: the one-time encounter, the short-term affair, and the long-term affair. The concept of suspicion work is introduced to examine how wives try to manage the fear that their husbands may succumb to temptation and to specify how denial can be part of this process. The chapter discusses re-entry routines and communication methods some couples use when husbands return from travel, and the boundaries of fidelity and forgiveness wives establish as they attempt to cope with the realities of their husbands’ lives on the road.
Searching for Champions and Finding Enemies
Authors: Kemper Kurt Edward
Published: May 2021

Chapter 2 focuses on the rise of the NAIA, NIT, and NCAA postseason college basketball tournaments and the forces and rivalries that shaped their early identities. Like the civil war between the NCAA, YMCA, and AAU, the relationship between the tournaments took on a hostile, paranoid, and destructive tone. The creation of the NCAA Tournament, the last of the three, was a response to the perception that the other two were encroaching on the NCAA’s domain. And perhaps worse, many within the NCAA saw them as creating a collegiate championship, with attendant profits, outside the NCAA purview, akin to college football bowl games. NCAA partisans saw the other two events as illegitimate and actively worked to undermine or destroy them, even engaging in conspiracy at one point. The creation of the tournaments, along with other innovations and rule changes in the 1930s, helped create big-time commercialized college basketball, on the same trajectory, if not yet the same scale, as big-time college football. However, no sooner had the NCAA created its tournament than it immediately ran into criticisms over how it selected teams, particularly the obvious bias shown to members of the most commercialized conferences that pursued big-time basketball.
Cosmological Time
Authors: Henig David
Published: May 2021

This chapter examines the role of Islamic temporal cosmology in villagers’ lives. It focuses on how moments of daily prayer, fasting, and worship are entwined with the materials of temporal textures, in particular in their calendric and time-measuring forms. These entwinements co-constitute villagers’ religious experience, and offer improvised techniques for making meaning and organizing social life. This chapter argues that any study of secular temporal orientations needs to be viewed in parallel with the modes of temporal reasoning and practice that are derived from Islamic temporal conceptions.
The Case for Shared Community Stories
Authors: Wenzel Andrea
Published: May 2021

This introductory chapter offers an overview of key concepts and the book’s argument for a model of community-centered journalism to build trust between local news media and communities. It outlines how the book conceptualizes trust (looking at factors including perceived representation and motives), solutions journalism (reporting focused on responses to social problems), and engaged journalism (practices that involve community members in journalistic production). It then sets out key questions tackled by other portions of the book, including how place-based interventions using engaged and solutions journalism practices can present boundary challenges to journalism norms and influence what communication infrastructure theory (CIT) calls community “storytelling networks”—the links between residents, community groups, and local media which can be indicators of an area’s communication health and predictors of civic participation. Finally, it offers an outline of the chapters that follow.
To Repair, or to Burn It Down?
Authors: Wenzel Andrea
Published: May 2021

The concluding chapter summarizes the argument for a community-centered process model that uses communication infrastructure theory to assess local storytelling networks and design interventions that aim to strengthen them. It reviews key questions about how local journalism can share power with and offer more wholistic narratives of stigmatized communities—and how this will require journalists to challenge some norms and practices. The chapter maps out steps in a process, including assessing information needs, convening a participatory design process, and piloting, monitoring, and evaluating interventions. It reflects on how intervention may work to address barriers to trust including perceived negative/inaccurate coverage, polarization, and objectivity norms that create distance between journalists and communities. Finally, it reviews how outcomes of this process will vary depending on local place and power dynamics, and how these cases add to communication infrastructure theory by illustrating how trust operates in local storytelling networks.
Central American Migrants
Authors: Villeda Suyapa G. Portillo
Published: May 2021

This chapter employs a queer migration approach to analyze the implications of liberal advocate and activist organizing around the child in political and movement discourse about Central American migration. Turning to rhetorical appeals from the 2014 “crisis” of child migration, the chapter reveals that liberals’ compassionate response and pro-family rhetoric in defense of the child paradoxically justifies militarized and securitized futures that are decidedly anti-migrant and anti-children. As Obama’s 2014 executive actions on immigration indicate, liberal pro-family, pro-child rhetorics traffic in discourses of vulnerability, innocence, and compassion that are easily deployed to extend stringent immigration policies that harm all migrants, including the children they claim to protect.
Unsafe Present, Uncertain Future
Authors: Sarı Elif
Published: May 2021

From the perspective of its founding executive director, this reflection provides an account of the formation and work of the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project (QDEP), which bridges the immigration justice and prison abolition movements. Centering those most impacted by institutional violence including trans and queer migrants, QDEP is an intersectional project that resists state violence and works to create conditions for thriving.
Facing Crisis
Authors: Tsilimpounidi Myrto , Carastathis Anna
Published: May 2021

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, travesty, and intersex (LGBTTI) migration from Central America is one of the most understudied issues in scholarship. This reflection centers on the author’s experience as an expert in the immigration courtroom for LGBTTI asylum cases. The reflection explores the disciplining of all LGBTTI people in the context of immigration courts. Giving expert testimony involves relying on often contradictory narratives about safety that locate these migrants outside of their context and history.
Fantasy Subjects
Authors: Brown AB
Published: May 2021

Recent discourses around resettlement and national security often produce male heterosexual Syrian refugees as “threats” escaping war and their queer counterparts as “safe” refugees escaping only homophobia. Focusing on U.S. resettlement cases of Syrian LGBT applicants in Turkey, this chapter challenges this war/threat vs. homophobia/safe binary and argues that resettlement also targets Syrian LGBT refugees for securitization. By focusing on cases where the applicants were deemed illegible for resettlement because of failing to uphold war and homophobia as mutually exclusive grounds for seeking asylum, this chapter concludes that decision-makers in resettlement cases need to take into account the complex and intersectional lives and flight narratives of Syrian LGBT refugees.
Coda
Authors: Mitchell Koritha
Published: May 2021

The Coda tells a basic truth that should not go unsaid: the investment in know-your-place aggression led many Americans to react to the Obama administration—and the image of a black first lady—by putting Donald Trump in the White House. Committed to keeping people who are not straight, white, and male in a subordinate position, Americans took the nation “From Mom-in-Chief to Predator-in-Chief.” What better way to tell women, especially women of color, that they aren’t at home than with the election of Donald Trump, despite his admitting to sexual predation? Americans spoke loudly and acted out of their belief that the American Dream might be for white men who damage communities and institutions, but it is certainly not for accomplished black women. [124 of 125 words]
Bringing Female Spectacle to the “Western Country,” 1835–1840
Authors: Lampert Sara E.
Published: May 2021

This chapter connects the growth of the American starring system in the 1830s to the expansion of trans-Appalachian markets and the popularization of new female-centered repertoire from Europe. The national reach of “big stars” like Ellen Tree and Celeste Elliott created the context in which women and girls pursued starring careers by introducing new breeches roles in melodramas and English opera and dance featuring female spectacle. The case study of St. Louis, Missouri, demonstrates how western theaters depended upon recruiting stars even as managers and critics remained ambivalent about some of this new entertainment. Although they did not always enjoy professional autonomy, starring women ensured the economic viability of western theater while using these markets to expand their repertoire and renown.
The Shadow of Institutions
Authors: Avilez GerShun
Published: May 2021

This chapter investigates the relationship between the Black queer body and medical diagnosis, elaborating how minorities negotiate the authority of state-empowered medical institutions. The central contention is that Black diasporic queer writers create narratives concerned with autonomy and desire to undermine medical control and definition. Novelists K. Sello Duiker and Jackie Kay show how gay and transgender bodies under medical care must be reclaimed or hidden in the shadows to dodge the possibility of material or discursive violence of medical care. Duiker presents a counterinstitution rooted in same-sex desire as a possible means of escape. Kay suggests that narrative is a productive way to negotiate the threat of injury. Both writers imagine strategies of how queer individuals may elude the social definition of medical diagnosis.
Creating and Conceptualizing a Balinese American Gamelan Community
Authors: Clendinning Elizabeth A
Published: May 2021

The chapter examines the foundation of academic gamelans and their relationships to nearby community gamelans. Using as an example the gamelans in Colorado and across the Rocky Mountains that are taught by I Made Lasmawan, the chapter discusses how gamelans are founded and supported and the types of artistic and administrative partnerships that are conducive to long-term maintenance of such programs. In this case, substantive financial support for Lasmawan from one key institution, Colorado College, was crucial to his ability to support his family and teach other ensembles part-time at neighboring institutions. In addition, the artistic and logistical support of his family and of members of the high-level Denver-based community group Gamelan Tunas Mekar was crucial for enhancing the quality of academic ensembles’ performances. The chapter concludes that models for academic-community interdependence vary within different geographic and institutional contexts, but building connections between academic and community programs strengthens the likelihood that ensembles will be sustainable.
Kembali: To Return or Change
Authors: Clendinning Elizabeth A
Published: May 2021

The chapter examines the ways in which three generations of Balinese and Balinese American musicians have negotiated personal and professional lives that have spanned two continents, two systems of institutionalized higher education, and a gamelan world increasingly shaped by transnational exchange. The oldest generation (born from the 1940s to the 1960s) helped invent the culture bearer/teacher model and establish the institutional architecture that exists today, where most Balinese artists reside long-term in North America during the academic year and return to Indonesia in the summer. In contrast, the middle generation (born in the 1970s and 1980s) and the youngest generation (starting in the late 1980s) of Balinese and Balinese American teachers have worked to redefine these models in ways that offer higher levels of artistic exchange and economic equity, even as all three generations continue to face ethnic discrimination.
Cultivating New Flowers
Authors: Clendinning Elizabeth A
Published: May 2021

By examining the self-narrative of college Balinese gamelan teacher Dewa Ketut Alit Adnyana, the chapter juxtaposes and recontextualizes key themes from the entire volume, including the construction of musical lineages, transnational artistic communities, personal negotiations of artistic and social status, pedagogical creativity, and personal sacrifice. Biography is presented as an important medium for understanding the impact of teaching and performance; ethnomusicology, as a field that constitutes a way of life rather than a professional occupation alone. The chapter concludes with suggestions for creating more sustainable academic world music communities, including improving access and representation, and for reconsidering the distinctive and powerful role that ensembles can play in cultivating cultural and artistic diversity in higher education.
Conclusion
Authors: Morgan Danielle Fuentes
Published: May 2021

The book concludes with Dave Chappelle and his return to the stand-up comedy stage and Saturday Night Live. It examines a burgeoning sense of African American satire in the twenty-first century as focused not necessarily on inspiring easy laughter but instead on opening up space for Black selfhood. A post-“post-racial” United States demands that our satirists offer productive ways to express Black identity in a world that seems increasingly self-satirizing. This conclusion underscores the idea of kaleidoscopic Blackness and the variety of valid ways of autonomously choosing to express Black identity in the twenty-first century.
Small-Town Greek Confectioners
Authors: Beck Ann Flesor
Published: May 2021

Chapter 8 recounts the varied stories of more than a hundred Greek immigrants who opened candy and soda fountain stores in over forty small towns in central Illinois. These Greeks’ lives most closely resembled that of Gus Flesor in Tuscola, but each also represented a unique story. Networking and chain migration are important themes in this chapter, as is the mutual support immigrants offered each other. The place of the Orthodox Church, to which they traveled each Sunday, is also emphasized. This chapter underscores the Greek American success story of immigrants arriving with few resources but evolving into notable entrepreneurs.
The Darkness between the Stars
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

In chapter 2, Bradbury enters the public debate over the curtailment of the Apollo program, beginning with his Los Angeles Times op-ed column, “Apollo Murdered: The Sun Goes Out.” For the moment, Bradbury placed more hope on unmanned Mars missions such as Mariner 9, and played a prominent role in the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mariner 9 events and book, Mars and the Mind of Man. Bradbury wrote the forward and the conclusion for this book, citing Arnold Toynbee’s concept of “challenge and response,” the need to face up to cultural challenges or face extinction, as the motivation for colonizing other worlds.
The Sleep of Reason
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

Bradbury’s sensitivity to the supernatural opens chapter six with his fictional reflections on his long-dead father. His sense of immortality and creative purpose opened out from a request by director George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn to script Maeterlinck’s The Bluebird as an international film project. The chapter goes on to track his conviction that intellect is a danger to creativity and his belief in fiction writing as an intuitive search for truth. Bradbury’s anti-intellectual tendencies and his self-taught views on visual art surface in mid-1970s Los Angeles Times book reviews he published on photojournalist Archie Lieberman, comics creator Stan Lee, and the photography of Yoshikazu Shirakawa.
The Inherited Wish
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

The chapter begins with an analysis of “The Inherited Wish,” his introduction to William F. Nolan’s Ray Bradbury Companion. The phrase was originally Sir Lawrence Olivier’s way of explaining his inherent love of his acting life, and Bradbury adapted it to explain his own inherent love of his writer’s life. The chapter continues to track Bradbury’s abiding resistance to the intellectual establishment’s occasional attacks on science fiction’s rise into the literary mainstream. Bradbury’s compelling mystical vision attracted Marcel Marceau with a collaboration proposal that neither man had time to develop. Stuart Gordon’s successful Chicago stage productions of The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit was soon followed by his participation in NASA’s “Why Man Explores” symposium with explorer Jacques Cousteau and novelist James A. Michener.
Beyond Eden
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

Chapter 13 opens with commentary on Bradbury’s 1980 Omni magazine article “Beyond Eden,” an essay commissioned to support the projected Space Shuttle program. In this essay, Bradbury defined his Space-Age Trinity—God, humanity, and the machines of interplanetary flight. The chapter goes on to document Bradbury’s April 1980 interviews with friends who had achieved prominence in the new generation of science fiction films: producers Gary Kurtz and Gene Roddenberry, director Irvin Kershner, and special effects artist John Dykstra. Bradbury never completed the article on the future of science fiction films that these interviews were intended to support, but he did articulate a maturing sense of Toynbee’s “challenge and response” as a way to focus the kind of human growth required to reach other worlds.
The Great Shout of the Universe
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

“The Great Shout of the Universe,” Bradbury’s planetarium scenario for the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, proved too far removed from the more factual presentation that the Smithsonian expected, and the project did not move forward. Chapter 15 shows how Bradbury was able to salvage the concept and have it mounted instead in the Aerospace Museum in Los Angeles as “The Windows of the Universe.” Bradbury went on to compose original verses in the Spanish saeta tradition for “Our Lady Queen of the Angels,” built by Hollywood set designer Tony Duquette and mounted in the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry. Bradbury’s work with the American Film Institute seminars and the George Pal Memorial Lecture concludes the chapter.
A Eureka Year
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

Chapter 16 opens with Bradbury’s award-winning “The Electric Grandmother” adaptation for NBC’s Project Peacock 1982 special and another adaptation of “All Summer in a Day,” later rebroadcast as part of the PBS Wonderworks series. Bradbury’s summer 1982 return to Washington, D.C. included a lecture at the Library of Congress, time with Senator Robert Packwood on Capitol Hill, and an unscheduled trip to the White House, where he received a tour hosted by the press office and discussed his support for Reagan-era NASA initiatives. His support of the Reagan administration’s policies was selective, focusing on economic policies and long-range space exploration planning.
Memories of Murder
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

Bradbury had little control over the texts of his early detective stories, but he was able to add a contextual introduction when they appeared in the Dell paperback collection, A Memory of Murder. Chapter 20 describes how this frustration was counterbalanced by Quest, a short film adapted from Bradbury’s “The Creatures That Time Forgot” (better known as “Frost and Fire”), a 1946 story inspired by a thought experiment posed by Nobel laureate Henri Bergson. Quest was filmed and produced by famed Hollywood title artist Saul Bass in 1983, and won prizes from the Moscow Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, and the Aspen Film Festival.
Time Flies
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

The chapter documents Bradbury’s collaboration with composer-lyricist Jimmy Webb on a new 1989 musical stage version of Dandelion Wine, and the subsequent series of performances at Kermit Christman’s Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Theater in Florida. “Time Flies,” Webb’s new song for the Florida production, would later be recorded by Linda Ronstadt, Rosemary Clooney, and Michael Feinstein. The chapter concludes with a summary of the third and fourth seasons of Ray Bradbury Theater and the successful negotiations to clear rights (with the NBC Chronicles mini-series producers and Disney Studios) to film episodes based on The Martian Chronicles and “The Black Ferris,” the original source tale for Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Beyond the Iron Curtain
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

Ray and Maggie Bradbury’s winter 1990 stay in Paris began as Bradbury successfully negotiated a fortieth anniversary hardbound edition of The Martian Chronicles from Doubleday. Chapter 26 also narrates how Bradbury discovered that his perennial popularity in Eastern Europe was expanding as the Iron Curtain collapsed, especially in Czechoslovakia, where newly elected President Vaclav Havel proved to be a Bradbury enthusiast. The chapter closes with Bradbury’s unexpected invitation to a May 1990 luncheon for President Gorbachev held at the Russian Embassy in Washington. Bradbury and Isaac Asimov were invited as the favorite writers of the Gorbachev family. Bradbury was also beginning to learn of the scattered and informal Bradbury reading clubs that had existed in Russia throughout much of the Cold War period.
A Graveyard for Lunatics
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

Chapter 27 describes the development and publication of A Graveyard for Lunatics, Bradbury’s second exercise in sustained autobiographical fiction within a five-year span. If Death Is a Lonely Business had explored the late 1940s moment when he overcame his fear of losing his creativity, A Graveyard for Lunatics focused on the period in the 1950s and early 1960s when he realized that he must not be swallowed up by his love of writing for Hollywood. Bradbury knew that he would lose all the future stories he would ever write if he assumed the secure but anonymous life of a screenwriter, working only with the works of other writers. The resulting fantasy offered an effective satire of the Hollywood studio system.
Disputed Passage
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

The summer of 1990 found Bradbury slowly revisiting his screenplay for a new Fahrenheit 451 adaptation, and the successful run of a new musical production of The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit created by the popular composer and singer Jose Feliciano. Chapter 28 continues with Bradbury’s collection of essays on various creative topics collected as Yestermorrow, where he explored the nature of metaphor and the value of child-like reverie to his creative process. The chapter describes Bradbury’s role as a judge in the controversial Turner Tomorrow Award in June 1991, where he took issue with the views of fellow judges William Styron and Peter Matthiessen and earned the gratitude of prize founder Ted Turner. A final visit with Federico Fellini in Rome concludes the chapter.
“Make Haste to Live”
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

Bradbury’s 1999 induction into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame opens chapter 36. That year he also received the George Pal Memorial Award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, followed in 2000 by a National Book Foundation Medal. His November 1999 stroke and subsequent loss of sight in his left eye did not prevent him from attending this ceremony, or from finally gathering his half-century-old stories of the supernatural Elliot family into a novelized story collection, From the Dust Returned. The chapter closes with Bradbury’s cautions against the loss of freedom of the imagination; these thoughts had resurfaced in his new book’s inter-chapter bridges and in his letter to Leon Uris reflecting on the mid-century climate of fear.
Farewell Summer
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

In 2006 Bradbury was finally able to complete the Illinois novel that had eluded him for sixty years. Many chapters had been removed and bridged into Dandelion Wine (1957), but the shell remained as an unfinished exploration of the differences between young and old in the context of a Midwestern town. As Farewell Summer, the completed novel probed the boundaries between life and death as seen through the eyes of youth and old age, but it remained an uneven work. Chapter 40 continues with an account of the Space Program mementos and awards that were accumulating throughout Bradbury’s home, contributing to the way that other gifts, books, and projects had turned his home into an outward representation of his own subjective realities and loves.
Visions of Mars
Authors: Eller Jonathan R.
Published: May 2021

The digitized copy of The Martian Chronicles, along with many other stories, novels, and science fiction art inspired by the Red Planet, finally reached Mars aboard the Phoenix lander in 2008. Chapter 43 describes Bradbury’s final trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory the following year, the publication of his last story collection, We’ll Always Have Paris (2008), and the passing of Don Congdon, his agent for more than sixty years. Bradbury had come to measure each story he finished as one more victory over death, but the stories were coming more slowly now. Bradbury’s reflections on mortality during the final decades of his life, and his unfinished plans for a final story collection, close out chapter 43.
Pedagogy I
Authors: Preston Katherine K.
Published: May 2021

Bristow was a music educator for most of his professional life. Teaching was a reliable source of income, but also helped to fulfill his goal “to do all that he could for art,” for he believed strongly in the power of music. His first teaching job was at the American Musical Institute (1847), after which he began to teach piano privately. He fell in love with a succession of his female students, which inspired him to write a series of nocturnes. He created several pedagogical publications, including vocal textbooks Cantara I and Cantara II, and a method book for organ.
Pedagogy II
Authors: Preston Katherine K.
Published: May 2021

Bristow taught music in the New York Public Schools (1854-1898), even after relocating to Morrisania. He taught simultaneously in as many as six different schools and was known as an effective teacher. Most of his students (boys and girls) were foreign-born. The inclusion of music pedagogy in the public school system was a long and gradual process. Students in the schools with music teachers learned and performed fairly difficult choral repertory at commencements, in special concerts, and as fund-raising activities. In 1870 Bristow oversaw a “Grand Juvenile Beethoven Festival.” He also taught in private conservatories and institutions, including the New York Conservatory, where he was director for several years.