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‘The Age-Old Struggle’
Authors: Hepworth Jack
Published: May 2022

This conclusion elaborates the key explanatory factors which the book identifies as integral to Irish republican heterogeneity. Place remains salient among republicans, informing identities within the movement and continually reframing the conflict’s legacies. Republican experiences of class and interactions with socialism also undergirded the movement’s complex ecology. Especially after 1969, networks within republicanism usually formed what this book terms ‘pragmatic’ and ‘orthodox’ milieux. The distinction between these networks was more fluid and contingent than fixed categories of generation, geography, or rank within the movement. Especially at moments of crisis or heightened debate within republicanism, pragmatists were more open to tactical adaptation, perceiving new political opportunities. Their degree of readiness to alter course usually correlated with confidence in the movement’s leaders. By contrast, orthodox republicans stressed the political authority of tradition in ‘the age-old struggle’.
Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Secret Music
Authors: Connolly Thomas C.
Published: May 2022

Those who knew Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine (1941-1995) often recalled his habit of reciting his poems by shouting them out loud. In critical appraisals of this Moroccan poet's proteiform literary oeuvre, an implied equation has developed between the violence of this delivery and the violence of his texts, as if one justifies and explains the other. Through a close reading of a poem in Soleil arachnide (1969), alongside readings of works by the English painter Francis Bacon, and Gilles Deleuze's Logique de la sensation (1981), I challenge the commonplace notion of Khaïr-Eddine as iconoclast, instead attending to what the poet calls his "secret music," thereby identifying something of the complex interplay of body, voice, violence, rhythm, and art that motivates Khaïr-Eddine's poetics.
Barthes, Blondin, and the Tour de France of the Trente Glorieuses
Authors: Cooke Ruadhán
Published: May 2022

Ruadhán Cooke considers how observations of the race by Roland Barthes and Antoine Blondin blur the distinctions between high and popular culture, thereby legitimizing sport as a theme that has literary merit. Although it is sometimes considered a commercial ‘product’ owned and exploited by a private media organization, cycling’s Tour de France has always enjoyed the almost unconditional support of national, regional and local authorities, and has ultimately become an institution belonging to the public. In the 1960 film documentary entitled ‘What is Sport?’ Barthes declares a Frenchman’s geography to be that of the Tour, and describes the race as a spectacle that captivates the entire nation. The 1955 Tour inspired Barthes to write his essay ‘The Tour de France as Epic,’ published in Mythologies in 1957. This same Tour was covered in its entirety by the French writer Antoine Blondin, who wrote a daily chronicle of the race in the pages of L’Équipe from 1954 to 1982, as this newspaper’s chosen ‘Novelist on the Tour’. Cooke’s analysis illustrates how, at a pivotal time in the country’s history, these two authors helped legitimize sport as a theme worthy of literature and academic study.
Cape Fear
Authors: Daniel Rob
Published: May 2022

Can a film made in one genre be better understood by viewing it as another? This book investigates this question in relation to Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of Cape Fear. Scorsese approached the film as a thriller, but Cape Fear is thematically and formally more coherent when viewed as a horror film. Across an introduction and five chapters, this book explores why this is the case. How Scorsese’s Catholicism and passion for horror has informed artistic decisions throughout his career, and the ways in which it reached an apex when he directed Cape Fear. The ways in which conventions of Gothic literature and fairy tales influenced this richly metatextual film, plus the impact of historical trends in horror cinema. How Robert De Niro’s research into antagonist Max Cady created a character who is closer to cinematic bogeymen rather than the more earthbound villains expected in thrillers. Film theory models around genre are utilised, along with interviews with key personnel on the film. Including a primary source interview with screenwriter Wesley Strick, who relates his experiences. Scorsese’s hyper-stylised directorial technique in Cape Fear is analysed for the ways in which it works to creates sensations typically associated with horror cinema, and the film’s legacy is also reviewed. Sexual politics and the controversy that surrounded Cape Fear’s depiction of sexual threat is also analysed, within the context of Scorsese’s depiction of women and accusations of misogyny that have been levelled against him during his career.
Legacy and Impact
Authors: Daniel Rob
Published: May 2022

The concluding chapter reviews Cape Fear’s legacy, and its impact on Martin Scorsese’s subsequent career, plus wider pop culture, e.g. The Simpsons. The film’s critical reception and commercial reception is discussed, plus how it fit into a trend of “insane geniuses” in 1990s horror (other examples include The Silence of the Lambs and Seven). The chapter analyses how the artistic and commercial ripples from Cape Fear, and horror cinema in general, are evident in a wide variety of Scorsese’s subsequent films. A comparison of Cape Fear with Scorsese’s next remake, The Departed, and the surprisingly considerable number of ways the two films overlap. The book closes with how Scorsese is championing modern horror cinema, while bemoaning the juggernaut of the Marvel franchise. He compares the latter to a series of remakes, and the book’s final comments focus on how Cape Fear bucks the trend of what Scorsese himself considers the pitfalls of remake cinema.
Possession
Authors: Taylor Alison
Published: May 2022

Born in the shadow of marital turmoil and political rupture, it is almost inevitable that Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession (1981) would be caught between two worlds. In Cannes, the film premiered in competition for the illustrious Palme d’Or; in the UK it was put on trial for charges of obscenity as part of the infamous ‘video nasties’ campaign. Beginning with a marital breakdown and ending with an apocalypse, Possession is a fascinating and confounding artefact skirting the boundaries between art and exploitation, visceral horror and cerebral reverie. Shot against the Berlin Wall at the height of the Cold War and replete with tales of a disappearing producer, drunken stunt doubles, and Haitian voodoo trances, the film’s production history is almost as bizarre as the finished product. Possession’s mystique has not dissipated over time; its transgressive imagery, histrionic performances, and spiral staircase logic continue to mesmerise audiences 40 years after its original release. Including new interview material from Sam Neill, extracts from the original shooting script and the BBFC’s archival reports, this book takes a deep dive into Possession’s history, stylistic achievement, and legacy as an enduring and unique work of horror cinema.
Faith and Chance
Authors: Taylor Alison
Published: May 2022

There really is no other film quite like Possession. Its unwieldy and complicated plot is difficult to reduce to summary. It offers familiar genre markers—the horror film; spy thriller; monster movie—while defying the expectations of these genres at every turn. This chapter considers the challenges that approaching Possession poses. It contextualises the film within Polish cinema, Żuławski’s greater oeuvre, as well as in the horror landscape of the period more broadly. Finally, chapter one presents a brief overview of the terrain the remaining book will cover, underscoring Possession’s significance and longevity.
Trouble Every Day
Authors: Robertson Kate
Published: May 2022

Transgressive both in its narrative and in its filmmaking, Trouble Every Day (2001) envisions the monster inside, unspeakable urges and an overwhelming need for complete incorporation. A plant discovered in the South American jungle produces in its test subjects a terrible, unnatural and uncontrollable hunger. Vicious, all-consuming desire begets excessive violence and a turn to cannibalism, which situates Trouble Every Day into a tradition of challenging cinema, a film maudit that pushes the boundaries of what can be shown on screen. But while it is certainly an unflinching film, it is deserving of reassessment as part of Clare Denis’ filmography as well as a broader cinematic lineage.
Focusing on close textual analysis, this book delves into the surfeit of visual, literary, and non-fiction references that shape Trouble Every Day while thwarting attempts to firmly situate it. It considers its place in a lineage of films that push the boundary of taste and representation, aligned as much with Un Chien andalou (1929) as the New French Extremity. It also considers the film’s relationship to such sub-genres as classic monster movies, video nasties, mad science, gothic, vampire, body horror, and Italo-exploitation cannibal films, and directors such as Abel Ferrara, Brian de Palma, Jean Renoir and Jacques Tourneau. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including art, philosophy and phenomenology, this study explores how Trouble Every Day elicits a visceral response to a cinematic experience that beguiles and violates.
Situating the Film: References and Lineage
Authors: Robertson Kate
Published: May 2022

Trouble Every Day is replete with visual and narrative references that shape the film while also constantly thwarting attempts to firmly situate it. Though most often assessed in terms of its place in the New French Extremity movement, the film is part of a long lineage of boundary-pushing cinema; the silent Surrealist film Un Chien Andalou (1929) is as much its predecessor as the Italian cannibal exploitation films of the 1970s and 1980s. This chapter examines its nods to various genres and time periods, including mad science, video nasties, Italo-exploitation, the Gothic, Golden Age Hollywood horror and contemporary genre cinema. It then broadens its scope to explore a range of references, such as the tale of Beauty and the Beast, the gothic stories of Sheridan Le Fanu, Jeff Wall’s photography and Abstract Expressionism.
Re-Animator
Authors: Falvey Eddie
Published: May 2022

Since its release at the mid-point of the 1980s American horror boom, Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) has endured as one of the most beloved cult horror films of that era. Greeted by enthusiastic early reviews, Re-Animator has maintained a spot at the periphery of the classic horror film canon. While it has not entirely gone without critical attention, Re-Animator has often been overshadowed in horror studies by more familiar titles from the period. This book, which represents the first book-length study of the film, repositions Re-Animator as one of the more significant American horror films of its era. For Falvey, Re-Animator epitomises various developments that were taking place within the context of 1980s American horror. He uses Re-Animator to explore the rise and fall of Charles Band's Empire Pictures, a prolific if short-lived studio specialising in genre B-movies, the revival of the mad science sub-genre, the emergent popularity of both gore aesthetics and horror-comedies, as well as a new appetite for the works of H.P. Lovecraft in adaptation. This book tracks the film's various legacies, observing not only how Re-Animator's success gave rise to a new Lovecraftian cycle initiated by Gordon’s success here, but also how its cult status has continued to grow, marked by sequels, spin-offs, parodies and re-releases. As such, this book is both about Re-Animator itself and about the various contexts that birthed it and continue to reflect its influence.
“I Suggest you get Yourself a Pen.” Watching Re-Animator Today
Authors: Falvey Eddie
Published: May 2022

This chapter analyses the text of Re-Animator using a series of critical frameworks. After recounting the plot of the film, the textual analysis moves focus to the film’s uses of body horror, a popular mode within the context of 1980s American horror, which provides metaphysical commentary on death and representation. Next the chapter considers the film’s focal interest in mad science as a vehicle for the discussion of toxic masculinity which is often rendered impotent in the film. Maintaining attention on gender, the analysis then tracks the film’s inversion of the scream queen trope as a way of prefacing the film’s status as a meta-horror film.
Introduction
Authors: Clare David , McDonagh Fiona , Nakase Justine
Published: May 2022

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the history of Irish women playwrights, highlighting their major contributions since the 1700s and examining the contemporary landscape of Irish theatre production. We argue that women have always been significant players in Irish theatre but have been excluded from the canon due to their disproportionate lack of productions, revivals, and publication – three processes that we explore in depth. Finally, we outline the scope of the collections’ two volumes, which attempt to re-introduce women’s playwriting into the canon as a political act of reclamation.
“Something left over from the Eighteenth Century, undergoing a slow process of decay”
Authors: van den Beuken Ruud
Published: May 2022

First performed at the Dublin Gate Theatre in 1931, Mary Manning’s Youth’s the Season–? depicts three days in the life of a particularly morose group of Dublin upper-class twenty-somethings as they slouch through their Georgian houses and mope in drawing rooms, feigning attempts at escaping their disaffected existence. While this representation of the youngest generation of the bourgeoisie is ostensibly comical, Youth’s the Season–? ends on a much darker note as it violently renounces the notion that the Ascendancy has any meaningful legacy in an independent Ireland. Furthermore, Manning’s characters are inhibited by the trauma of growing up during the cataclysmic years of the revolutionary period in Ireland (1916-1923). Accordingly, this chapter illustrates how the disaffected antics that Manning depicts are pathological responses to a world in which their social class has become obsolescent.
Social Class, Space, and Containment in 1950s Ireland
Authors: Leeney Cathy , McFeely Deirdre
Published: May 2022

Maura Laverty wrote her first play, Liffey Lane (1951), for Dublin’s Gate Theatre at the suggestion of Hilton Edwards that she adapt her 1946 novel,Lift Up Your Gates, for the stage. She went on to write two further plays, both also for the Gate, Tolka Row (1951) and A Tree in the Crescent (1952). In Part 1, this chapter explores Laverty’s portrayal of Dublin life in light of the social and moral politics of 1950s Ireland. Part 2 considers how Laverty’s trilogy tests the uses of theatrical space to represent social and personal experiences of urban class structures and aspirations in 1950s Ireland.
Challenging “Good Taste”
Authors: Burke Mary
Published: May 2022

This chapter considers The Baby Doll Project (2003) by Traveller dramatist, performer, and activist within the intersections of Traveller, disability, and gender issues, Rosaleen McDonagh. The play is an autobiographical depiction of the institutionalisation of children with disabilities and Traveller children, and the chapter concludes that the under-examination of the disproportionate degree to which Traveller children were institutionalised in post-independence Ireland fuels McDonagh’s writing and activism. It suggests that McDonagh’s 2016 play, Mainstream, constitutes a forceful return to the theme of her 2003 drama, albeit one informed by the recent revelation of a mass burial of infant remains on the grounds of theSt. Mary’s/Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home at Tuam, County Galway. McDonagh’s intersectional drama aims to participate in what she has termed a “Traveller canon” that would challenge centuries of “insular,” “white”, Settled” misrepresentation and effacement of the Travelling community, queerness, and disability within the national narrative.
“We are here, we were here all along”
Authors: O’Connell Brenda
Published: May 2022

Amy Conroy’s play I (Heart) Alice (Heart) I (2010) is concerned with the lesbian relationship between Alice Kinsella and Alice Slattery, both in their sixties. Formulated as a documentary-style piece, it is in every sense a domestic drama, revealing both the mundane and the extraordinary of the women’s lives. This chapter argues that queer, ageing women are the most invisible in Irish society. The play, a work of intergenerational dialogue, successfully challenges areas of persistent blindness and marginalisation in Irish contemporary culture, thereby succeeding in normalising ageing lesbians and recovering otherwise lost queer histories into cultural consciousness. The chapter further argues that Conroy’s decision to cast herself and fellow actor Clare Barrett (both in their thirties) in the roles, is problematic; as analysis shows, it upholds the practice that directors regularly cast actors against their chronological ages.
Nevertheless, She Persisted
Authors: Ó Conchubhair Brian
Published: May 2022

The Irish monologue play (in English) arguably reached its apex in the 1990s and Noughties. Yet this still-popular form is strangely absent in the Irish-language theatrical tradition. This absence is all the more striking given the role attributed to the Irish oral tradition that seems to haunt the English-language monologue form in Ireland. As in much of her other creative work – dramatic, musical, and poetic – Celia de Fréine is in this regard a ground-breaker and paradigm shifter. Her 2016 Irish-language monologue Luíse focuses on Luíse Ghabhánach Ní Dhufaigh who established Scoil Bhríde, Ireland’s first Irish-language immersion school in Dublin. The play explores the life, times, and socio-political views of this remarkable woman in a way that captures her energy, vision, and independence of mind. This chapter demonstrates that the monologue form is the ideal one for this topic but also offers a potentially rich tool for Irish-language theatre.
Introduction
Authors: Couti Jacqueline
Published: May 2022

The introduction delineates Sex, Sea, and Self’s Black feminist methodology which it uses to investigate how notions of Blackness and gender in the French Caribbean remain entangled with French Creole and French continental principles of whiteness and to expose detrimental epistemologies generated in French colonial discourses. This approach questions the complex history and polysemy at play in the intricate construction and representation of Caribbean women of African descent in certain masculine discourses, whether produced in Europe or the Americas. Considering these representations of women not only as colonial tropes but as appellations d’origine contrôlée (AOC) [“protected designations of origin”] of the imaginary allow us to see how these persistant tropes still cause exclusion and dissension and negatively affect the contemporary French Antilles.
Whiteness and Masculinity Gone Wild
Authors: Couti Jacqueline
Published: May 2022

Chapter 5 examines the Martinican Raphaël Tardon’s short story “La Rédemption de Barbaroux” [“The Redemption of Barbaroux,” 1946] and novel Starkenfirst (1947), in order to demonstrate how this author undermines Western humanism and the colonial project. “La Rédemption de Barbaroux” depicts the barbarities of a white Creole Bluebeard-like character who is a famous rum producer from Martinique. This character attacks women, regardless of color and nationality; their corpses flavor his best-selling rum, enjoyed by male connoisseurs. This idea of consuming women signifies a patriarchal and colonial order naturalizing the non-human and inhumanity. In Starkenfirst, Tardon revisits the period right before and after the 1848 February Revolution and the French proclamation of Emancipation but uses a broader, transatlantic and transnational scope, following the travels of an American slave-ship from Africa to the United States and then the peregrinations of the American slaver Starkenfirst. Looking into another iteration of the flesh trade, he uses representations of sexuality and sexual coercion of white and Black women to denounce European colonialism as a mercantilistic, sexualized project of domination. In each text, Tardon’s ideology does not delve in the promotion of Blackness or Africanity, yet he still denounces colonialism, racism, capitalism, and consumerism.
Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures
Authors: Mohite Ragini
Published: May 2022

Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures offers a fresh critical perspective on the work of Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats from the beginning of the twentieth century, the point at which their international collaborations most significantly influence the cross-border lives of their literature. This book foregrounds the Yeats-Tagore relationship, Yeats’s complex engagement with South Asia, the fraught beginning to Tagore’s international fame and the value of reading his English translations as independent products on the global stage.
Exploring the thematic parallels and generic innovations in the two authors’ works allows us to recognize the significant moments of tension, intersections, and divergence in their oeuvres. Engaging with their works across genres, with particular attention to the socio-cultural and political backgrounds of the time, this comparative study examines the transnational lives of the texts and provides a timely perspective on how aesthetic and cultural dialogues carry national conversations across borders and into the present day.
Hellenic Beauties and Marginalized Women
Authors: Mohite Ragini
Published: May 2022

This chapter is concerned with the woman-as-nation trope as it plays out in the works of Tagore and Yeats. it suggests that feminine nationalist symbolism can be disrupted and reconceptualized to strategically address reformist concerns in political terms. This is done by both authors with a particular view of their own socio-cultural agendas. Tagore’s Chokher Bali and Yeats’s poems on Crazy Jane are only some of the texts that are perform these disruptions. This chapter argues that such poetic and prosaic depictions of women also speak to the cyclical histories and aesthetics invoked in the modernist writings of both authors which are dramatically fictionalised in two plays with undeniable thematic affinities: Cathleen ni Houlihan and Red Oleanders.
“Of all the many changing things” 1
Authors: Mohite Ragini
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines the essential familial basis and paternalism that act as thematic foundations of much of Yeats’s and Tagore’s works, particularly those composed during times of personal and socio-political turmoil. In play are their ruminations about the role of the poet as part of the nation-making projects in Ireland and India. This chapter demonstrates that children as literary subjects and symbols embody visceral forms of hope, fear, parental anxiety, and perform politicized acts of border-crossing in several ways. In addition to the poetry of both authors, this chapter casts necessary light on Tagore’s The Post Office, a play that attests to the significance of ethical commentaries on social formations and empathetic dramatizations of trauma and grief through its rich transnational history of performance and adaptation through the twentieth century to the present day.
Naming and Identity
Authors: Foley O'Connor Elizabeth
Published: May 2022

Chapter 1 explores Colman Smith’s origins, arguing that her frequent moves helped create the outsider perspective that was to become a fundamental characteristic of her life and art. Born into an extended New York-based family that included well-known artists, actors, and political figures, Colman Smith spent the first decade of her life primarily in England, which laid the foundation for her decision to return as an adult and settle as an expatriate artist. Her early exposure to Swedenborgianism helped instill an interest in religious mystery and ritual that continued throughout her life and infused much of her work. After the collapse of her father’s mercantile firm, the family moved to Jamaica where she became fascinated with the country, especially its history, folklore, and Obeah spiritual practices. This inspired her to collect Afro-Jamaican Anansi folktales. Her time in Jamaica also provided her with firsthand knowledge of imperialistic primitivism, which fueled both her interest in a wide range of cultures and religious traditions and her, at times, appropriation of Jamaican folktales. The chapter concludes by arguing that the plays she produced for her miniature theater were important in the development of her feminist voice.
The American Individual
Authors: Nemmers Adam
Published: May 2022

This chapter introduces John Dos Passos’s epic novel U. S. A. published in three installments across the 1930s. As a modern(ist) epic novel, U. S. A. subverts the longstanding American ideology of individualism, which was itself tightly imbricated with American democracy and American capitalism. Much of the fealty Americans paid to individualism developed on the frontier, where settlers were expected to provide for their own welfare, safety, and livelihood away from the limiting influence of cloistering society. At the same time, as the nation became increasingly populated the model of the self-sufficient farmer or frontiersman became increasingly outdated and unrealistic, especially as the mass economy of the twentieth century threatened to make each worker no more than a cog in a machine. New models of collectivism promised a more equitable future upon adoption.
Capitalism and Marxism in America
Authors: Nemmers Adam
Published: May 2022

This chapter introduces the strange and unlikely literary figure of H. T. Tsiang, a Chinese immigrant who lived, studied, and wrote in New York City during the 1930s. His modern(ist) epic novel, The Hanging on Union Square, has been linked to John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, which itself has been variously labelled an epic over its long and popular history. The chapter also chronicles the emergence of capitalism as a fundamental American value alongside democracy, individualism, and progress, while exploring the countervailing development of Marxist ideology in the 20th century. In delivering the allegorical journey of Mr. Nut through Manhattan, Tsiang playfully offers a strong challenge to the capitalist status quo.
Freedom Beyond Confinement
Authors: Hall Michael Ra-Shon
Published: May 2022

Freedom Beyond Confinement examines the cultural history of African American travel and the lasting influence of travel on the imagination particularly of writers of literary fiction and nonfiction. Using the paradox of freedom and confinement to frame the ways travel represented both opportunity and restriction for African Americans, the book details the intimate connection between travel and imagination from post Reconstruction (ca. 1877) to the present. Analysing a range of sources from the black press and periodicals to literary fiction and nonfiction, the book charts the development of critical representation of travel from the foundational black press and periodicals which offered African Americans crucial information on travel precautions and possibilities (notably during the era of Jim Crow) to the woefully understudied literary fiction that would later provide some of the most compelling and lasting portrayals of the freedoms and constraints African Americans associated with travel. Travel experiences (often challenging and vexed) provided the raw data with which writers produced images and ideas meaningful as they learned to navigate, negotiate and even challenge racialized and gendered impediments to their mobility. In their writings African Americans worked to realize a vision and state of freedom informed by those often difficult experiences of mobility. In telling this story, the book hopes to center literary fiction in studies of travel where fiction has largely remained absent.
Detours Through the Past
Authors: Hall Michael Ra-Shon
Published: May 2022

Demonstrating how the concerns of early writers publishing during Jim Crow finds continuity in the fiction published by post-segregation, post-civil rights writers, the fourth chapter considers travel as literary device in Octavia Butler’s speculative novel Kindred. Grounded by historical research on enslavement, Kindred uses the trope of time travel in a way that troubles easy distinctions between the figure of the enslaved and the traveler and reveals the paradox of freedom and confinement as an almost inescapable dialectic that continues to persist even given a speculative trope that seemingly holds out the possibility of altering history. Reading Kindred against contemporaneous works employing the speculative trope of time travel, the chapter argues that Butler’s representation of time travel (particularly as she dissociates time travel from technology) forces her readers to confront experiences of enslaved Africans in the antebellum South and continuities of those experiences of freedom and confinement as they persist during Jim Crow and into the novel’s present (1976). Even more, Butler presents her narrative from the perspective an African American woman Dana who is married to a European American man Kevin, encouraging readers to also examine issues of gender and race in both the novel’s present and historical past.
Introduction
Authors: Williams Samuel , Ashton Susanna
Published: May 2022

In 2010, a few weeks after my third child had been born, I received a handwritten letter. I am ashamed to admit that in some sort of postpartum haze I misplaced it almost immediately after reading it and lost the details about the sender, but I remember the gist of it well....
After De Union
Authors: Aleckson Sam
Published: May 2022

Announcemnets of Emancipation Black code laws designed to oppress civil rights. Discussion of Carpetbaggers or northerns come to the south for various ventures, discussion of General Wade Hampton and pressures on Williams to vote for Hampton. Young Williams gets a job running errands for a white business in Charleston. Williams discusses the “Negro problem” in the United States
The Pedagogy of Open Form Poetics
Authors: Mortenson Erik
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores the pedagogical practices of Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman, focusing specifically on how each attempts to teach writing’s relationship to the passing moment. Olson took the helm of Black Mountain as the college was slowly dissolving, but despite its folding under his leadership, Olson developed a pedagogical stance worthy of closer examination. Waldman and Ginsberg came out of a different pedagogical lineage, but their poetics program, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, was united with Black Mountain in the idea that education should focus more holistically, producing enlightened citizens rather than simple scholars. Focusing on both points of intersection, such as their shared belief in confronting the student with spontaneity, chance, and the present moment, as well as their differences, this chapter provides not only a better understanding of the Black Mountain and Naropa teaching projects but draws on those conclusions to discuss the lasting implications of both schools for contemporary debates surrounding education.
TECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE IRANIAN POWER PLANTS: A SEMI-DISPOSAL DEA APPROACH
Authors: Mokari Masod , Ghiyasi Mojtaba , Emami Meybodi Ali
Published: May 2022

One of the most important issues is to achieve maximum production of energy from a particular energy source, which ensures the complete protection of the environment. The current paper as the first application of flexible and powerful semi-disposability approach, performs an empirical technical and environmental efficiency analysis for 39 natural gas and gasoline power plants, including governmental and private property, during the years 2011–2016. Different scenarios for environmental analysis, namely, weak disposability, strong disposability and semi-disposability with different returns to scale assumptions are performed in the analysis. The primary results of multivariate assessment based on constant returns to the scale shows that 7 power plants with state ownership and 8 power plants with private ownership were among the most efficient power plants from the technical-environmental perspective. Parametric and non-parametric tests are performed and the result shows better performance of private power plants compared with governmental power plants.
U-SHAPED RELATIONSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION AND INNOVATION AS DRIVERS OF INTERNATIONALISATION OF FIRMS
Authors: Wach Krzysztof , Maciejewski Marek , Głodowska Agnieszka
Published: May 2022

This article aims to identify and verify the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and innovation of internationalised firms from Poland as a former emerging market. The article assesses this relationship in terms of the internationalisation scope. We adopted a quantitative research design and conducted a CATI survey on a sample of 355 firms operating in Poland. To verify the various assumed relationships, we used statistical instruments, including descriptive statistics and simple linear regression. Entrepreneurial orientation influences the innovations of internationalized firms. The impact depends on the scope of internationalization and is U-shaped. The impact of entrepreneurial orientation on innovation is greater for firms with large and small scope of internationalization. A relatively lower impact of entrepreneurial orientation on innovation is visible for firms with a moderate scope of internationalization. The study is an original contribution to the literature. Firstly, we perceive entrepreneurial orientation as a variable that can determine corporate innovation. Secondly, most of the empirical research to date focuses on highly developed markets. Firms that go beyond the borders of emerging markets see internationalization as a way of gaining experience, learning, and an opportunity to improve their innovative capacity. Thirdly, the study contributes to the development of theories combining entrepreneurial orientation with innovation by applying a new concept of a U-shaped curve.
Role of Longitudinal Waves in Alfvén-wave-driven Solar Wind
Authors: Shimizu Kimihiko , Shoda Munehito , Suzuki Takeru K.
Published: May 2022

We revisit the role of longitudinal waves in driving the solar wind. We study how the p-mode-like vertical oscillation on the photosphere affects the properties of solar winds in the framework of Alfvén-wave-driven winds. We perform a series of one-dimensional magnetohydrodynamical numerical simulations from the photosphere to beyond several tens of solar radii. We find that the mass-loss rate drastically increases with the longitudinal-wave amplitude at the photosphere by up to a factor of ∼4, in contrast to the classical understanding that acoustic waves hardly affect the energetics of the solar wind. The addition of the longitudinal fluctuation induces longitudinal-to-transverse wave mode conversion in the chromosphere, which results in enhanced Alfvénic Poynting flux in the corona. Consequently, coronal heating is promoted to give higher coronal density by chromospheric evaporation, leading to the increased mass-loss rate. This study clearly shows the importance of longitudinal oscillation in the photosphere and mode conversion in the chromosphere in determining the basic properties of the wind from solar-like stars.
Phylogenetic relationships of a new catfish of the genus Trichomycterus (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from the Brazilian Cerrado, and the role of Cenozoic events in the diversification of mountain catfishes
Authors: Costa Wilson J. E. M. , Mattos José Leonardo O. , Sampaio Wagner M. S. , Giongo Patrícia , de Almeida Frederico B. , Katz Axel M.
Published: May 2022

The Brazilian Cerrado highlands shelter the headwaters of the three largest South American hydrographic basins, where a great species diversity is concentrated, but some biological groups are still insufficiently known. The focal taxa of this study are trichomycterid catfishes of the subgenus Cryptocambeva, genusTrichomycterus, endemic to mountain areas of south-eastern Brazil. The primary objective of this study is to test through a molecular phylogeny if a new species collected in streams of the upper Rio Paraná basin draining the Serra da Canastra is sister toT. macrotrichopterus, endemic to the upper Rio São Francisco at another facet of the Serra da Canastra, as suggested by morphological data. The analysis corroborated sister group relationships between these two species, besides supporting four main clades inCryptocambeva, each of them endemic to distinct mountain regions. A time-calibrated analysis supported the divergence timing between the new species andT. macrotrichopterusat the Pliocene, which is chronologically compatible with the final period of intense fluvial configuration re-arrangement, when São Francisco headwater streams were captured by the Paraná basin. The new species herein described is similar toT. macrotrichopterusand distinguished from all other species ofCryptocambevaby having a long pectoral-fin filament. These two species are distinguished from each other by characteristics of the latero-sensory system, colour pattern and bone morphology.
Examining the Clinical Utility of the Brief Interview for Mental Status
Authors: Li Chih-Ying , Arthur Paul , Downer Brian , Velozo Craig A. , Kuo Yong-Fang , Tzeng Huey-Ming , Ottenbacher Kenneth J.
Published: May 2022

The Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) is used to identify delirium and needed supports in patients living in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) and long-term care facilities (LTCFs). We analyzed 3,537,404 patients discharged from acute hospitals to SNFs or LTCFs with factor and Rasch analyses to examine the clinical utility of the BIMS. More than 40% of the sample had maximum scores, indicating a ceiling effect. “Repetition of three words” was the easiest and the only misfit item (Outfit = 3.14). The ability of the BIMS to distinguish individuals into two cognitive levels (with person strata of 1.48) was limited. Although the BIMS is a widely used screening tool for cognitive impairment, we found it lacked sensitivity for approximately one half of patients admitted to SNFs/LTCFs. Our results suggest the BIMS should be interpreted with caution, particularly for patients with mild cognitive impairment. [
Research in Gerontological Nursing, 15
(3), 124–130.]
Decision-making strategy based on Heronian mean operators for managing complex interval-valued intuitionistic uncertain linguistic settings and their applications
Authors: Ali Zeeshan , Mahmood Tahir , Aslam Muhammad
Published: May 2022

This analysis diagnoses a well-known and dominant theory of complex interval-valued intuitionistic uncertain linguistic (CI-VIUL) settings, which is considered to be a very powerful and capable tool to handle ambiguous sorts of theories. Furthermore, to enhance the features of the newly developed CI-VIUL information, we diagnose the algebraic laws, score value and accuracy value. Moreover, keeping in mind that the Heronian mean (HM) operator is a massive dominant operator that can suggest information on interrelationships, in this manuscript, we develop the CI-VIUL arithmetic HM (CI-VIULAHM) operator, CI-VIUL weighted arithmetic HM (CI-VIULWAHM) operator, CI-VIUL geometric HM (CI-VIULGHM) operator, CI-VIUL weighted geometric HM (CI-VIULWGHM) operator and their well-known achievements in the form of some results, important properties and a discussion of some specific cases. At the end, we check the practicality and usefulness of the initiated approaches, and a multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) technique is implemented for CI-VIUL settings. The reliability of the proposed MADM tool is demonstrated by a computational example that evaluates the impact of the diagnosed approaches on various well-known prevailing theories.
Fractional integral estimations pertaining to generalized $ {\gamma} $-convex functions involving Raina's function and applications
Authors: Bin-Mohsin Bandar , Awan Muhammad Uzair , Javed Muhammad Zakria , Kashuri Artion , Noor Muhammad Aslam
Published: May 2022

In this paper, we derive a new fractional integral identity and using this identity as an auxiliary result, some new trapezium like inequalities essentially using the class of generalized $ {\gamma} $-convex functions are established. In order to show the efficiency of the obtained results, we discuss and present some special cases and applications.
New iterative scheme for fixed point results of weakly compatible maps in multiplicative $ {G_{\boldsymbol{M}}}- $metric space via various contractions with application
Authors: Gamal Mohamed , Rasham Tahair , Cholamjiak Watcharaporn , Shi Fu-Gui , Park Choonkil
Published: May 2022

In this manuscript, we induced several vivid common fixed point theorems for four maps in the setting of complete multiplicative $ {G_{\boldsymbol{M}}}- $metric space via various contractive conditions such as $ \Delta $-implicit contractions. Some new definitions and results are introduced in multiplicative $ {G_{\boldsymbol{M}}}- $ metric space.Moreover, illustrative examples are given to validate our obtained results and an application to a system of nonlinear integral equations are provided to show the novelty of our new results.
Dimensions in EDI Policy Development
Authors: Gay Brian Roland
Published: May 2022

This chapter reviews literature for a discussion on future influences on workplace diversity management. With an emphasis on the role culture plays on the moral philosophy of individuals, it is taking the viewpoint that there is a distinction between workplace and business ethics. By placing the individual within the realm of non-traditional and traditional, the chapter intends to add to the discourse of future influences on EDI policy development and subsequent understanding. The term language is viewed not only from its linguistic function. It is also presented from its ability to influence power dynamics. When speaking of language, due to the geographical regions of the research papers and the dominant research areas, the performative language is English. This chapter applies a multidisciplinary lens as it presents the following dimensions as key determinants in the emerging workplace ethical field: diversity's constant state of discovery and redefinition, multiculturalism, interculturalism, and intersectionality.
Affordable Childcare as a Means to Encourage Women Workforce Participation
Authors: Chanda Amrita
Published: May 2022

In this chapter, the researcher will explore how globally the jobs of women have been impacted. There is a gap in the employment of men and women, and after COVID-19, there is a greater risk of women losing their jobs. The goal of the chapter is to answer the research question of whether affordable childcare encourages participation in the workplace from an international perspective and in India. The chapter includes studies that focus on childcare practices in different countries to understand the problems and scope of the issue. It also attempts to recognise the impact of COVID-19 on women. Instead of asking why, the chapter will answer how women can be integrated into workplaces with the provision of childcare. It has a solution-focused approach to provide suggestions so that the workplaces are supportive and family-friendly to maintain a work-life balance.
Institutional Factors Hindering Equitable and Inclusive Women Entrepreneurship in Northeast Nigeria
Authors: Abdulrahman Farhana Tugga , Dodo Fardeen , Raimi Lukman
Published: May 2022

The influence of institutional factors in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion among entrepreneurs in developed countries has been well researched, but very few studies exist on equitable and inclusive women entrepreneurship in developing countries. To advance the diversity and inclusion literature, this chapter discusses institutional factors hindering equitable and inclusive women entrepreneurship and the influence of these factors on the financial performance of women entrepreneurs who are members of the Farin Wata Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society in Yola, Northeast Nigeria. Five findings finally emerged. Estimations from Hypotheses 1, 2, and 3 indicate that ease of registering a business, access to finance, and entrepreneurship support have a significant influence on financial performance. However, estimations from Hypotheses 4 and 5 suggest that work-family conflict and managerial skills have no significant influence on financial performance. The chapter validates the argument that institutional factors influence equitable and inclusive women entrepreneurship.
Synthesizing Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts
Authors: Andrews Sharon K. , Crawford Caroline M.
Published: May 2022

Anti-human trafficking efforts have been broadly classified as originating from within governmental and non-governmental organizations. This chapter presents a framing overview of these efforts, as well as the known vulnerability risks to trafficking as introductory material. This is followed by the identification and supporting discussion of a set of vulnerability amplifiers that may increase the vulnerability of victims to trafficking. These amplifiers include the presence of social normalization of deviance, a lack of enforcement of labor laws, a remaining lack of recognition regarding labor trafficking, and resulting ramifications. These risk amplifiers form the basis for a set of paths forward principles, offered to guide community development actions to improve prevention and detection of human trafficking.
Psychology Applied to Prevention and Detection of Human Trafficking
Authors: Dryjanska Laura
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores the role of psychological science and practice in prevention and detection of human trafficking, taking into account different subfields of the discipline. It delineates formal resolutions proposed by the American Psychological Association, in the light of some global standards on mental health of human trafficking survivors. Psychologists work on three levels to fight human trafficking: individual-community, systemic, and global; they play a significant role in identifying and properly interpreting indicators of human trafficking. In order to recognize victims of this crime, a knowledge of common behavioral responses associated with complex trauma appears helpful. Psychologists are uniquely positioned to comprehend and explain the manipulation and invisible chains that bind the victims. Successful prevention and detection of human trafficking should take into account cultural differences, stereotypes, empowerment of survivors, as well as their resilience and meaning-making processes.
Preventing and Detecting Human Trafficking in the Hotel Sector
Authors: Meo Sarah , Shelley Louise Isobel
Published: May 2022

In the United States, as elsewhere in the world, hotels and motels are frequently used by human traffickers to exploit their victims. Analysis of 47 civil cases filed in federal courts since 2015 by human trafficking victims against hotels and hotel chains reveals that much abuse of victims is facilitated or tolerated by hotel employees. Despite recent corporate efforts to establish policies to counter human trafficking, these cases reveal that the training and procedures established by leading corporations in the hospitality sector are inadequate to address the problem as hotels remain the key locus of prosecuted cases of sex trafficking in the United States. The chapter provides a series of policies that hotel entities can adopt to combat sex trafficking more effectively on their properties, including expanding whistleblower protections, collaborating with local law enforcement, improving human trafficking awareness training, and providing better monitoring of surveillance cameras and hotel Wi-Fi networks.