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“To This Favor She Must Come”: Tinguely’s Cow and Hamlet’s Mother
Authors: Melnick Burton
Published: February 2012

In Tinguely’s construction La Vache Suisse—Corso Fleurie [ sic ], the cow’s head is represented, beneath a floral headdress, by the real skull of a dead cow. Drawing on Freud, the author suggests that the bitterness expressed by La Vache Suisse originates largely in infantile resentment at having received insufficient milk from the mother. This resentment is connected not only to a feeling of betrayal but also to a perception that the mother was unavailable for nursing because she was dead. These dynamics, the author argues, also apply to Hamlet , where one of Hamlet’s grievances against women is that they hide their corruptibility under an artificially beautified appearance. After noting an unconscious identification by Hamlet of the two bad parent figures, Claudius and Gertrude, the author points out, again drawing on Freud, the connection between poison and unconscious memories or fantasies of having been improperly nourished by the mother. Following a brief discussion of poison in Hamlet , the author suggests that Hamlet’s revenge may need to combine an “oral” mode of killing (poison) with a “phallic” mode (stabbing). He concludes that Hamlet’s feelings towards his mother may be less excessive than is sometimes claimed since they combine disgust about her behavior in the present with the anger and resentment caused by oral frustration in the past.
Specificity Theory: The Evolution of a Process Theory of Psychoanalytic Treatment
Authors: Bacal Howard A.
Published: February 2012

The author summarizes the perspectives of specificity theory and personal and professional experiences that led to its development. Specificity theory is a contemporary process theory of therapy that holds that each analyst-patient dyad constitutes a unique, reciprocal system, challenging us to reconsider how psychoanalytic therapy is optimally practiced and taught. Therapeutic possibility is co-created in the specificity of fit between the patient's particular therapeutic needs and that therapist's capacity to respond to them, both of which will emerge and change within the unique process of each particular dyad. Specificity theory recognizes that what each therapist effectively offers a particular patient may include but will also transcend considerations of formal theory and its prescribed technique. Evolving against the backdrop of the innovative thinking of Sándor Ferenczi and from the author's personal work with Michael Balint, Wilfred Bion, Donald Winnicott, Marion Milner, and Heinz Kohut, its perspectives are corroborated within contemporary neurobiology, preeminently in the work of Gerald Edelman, and by infant researchers, such as Louis Sander, Ed Tronick, and Karlen Lyons-Ruth.
Danger and Deformation: A Social Theory of Trauma Part I: Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Social Theory, and Healthy Selves
Authors: Prager Jeffrey
Published: February 2012

The concept of trauma has migrated over time. A term first employed to describe a form of bodily or physical harm became a description of an overwhelming psychological experience suffered by an individual. Trauma now can also describe events of a nation's past where prior experiences jeopardize current social solidarity and interfere with members' ability to function freely in the collectivity. The identification of social trauma often serves as a prelude to development of policies of healing, forgiveness, or reconciliation. The following is the first part of a two-part essay that critically reviews the concept of social trauma. I argue that the concept of social trauma fails to distinguish between various types of collectively shared traumatic experiences, where each type yields a distinctive form of socially induced harm. The argument builds upon D.W. Winnicott's and Axel Honneth's intersubjective description of the features of a non-traumatized self that is characterized by the individual's capacity through illusionary experience to feel recognized. This essay posits, in contrast, distinct social settings for trauma when individual recognition is denied and illusion is shattered. Part II will detail a typology of social traumas distinguished by their varied impact upon individuals and that should produce different strategies for social repair depending on the type of trauma experienced.
Mutation of cluster-tilting objects and potentials
Authors: Buan A. B. , Iyama O. , Reiten I. , Smith D.
Published: February 2012

We prove that mutation of cluster-tilting objects in triangulated 2-Calabi-Yau categories is closely connected with mutation of quivers with potentials. This gives a close connection between 2-CY-tilted algebras and Jacobian algebras associated with quivers with potentials. We show that cluster-tilted algebras are Jacobian and also that they are determined by their quivers. There are similar results when dealing with tilting modules over 3-CY algebras. The nearly Morita equivalence for 2-CY-tilted algebras is shown to hold for the finite length modules over Jacobian algebras.
Theta dichotomy and doubling epsilon factors for Sp͠ n ( F )
Authors: Zorn Christian
Published: February 2012

In this work, we aim to prove the theta dichotomy conjecture for dual pairs
of type $(\widetilde{{\rm Sp}}(W),{\rm O}(V))$ with $\dim(V)$ odd. The crux
of the proof relies on the analysis of the reducibility of a certain
degenerate principal series representation of the group $\widetilde{{\rm
Sp}}(W')$ having double the rank of $\widetilde{{\rm Sp}}(W)$. This analysis
is carried out by way of a normalized standard intertwining operator which is
also used to define an epsilon factor coming from the doubling integral
construction of Piatetski-Shapiro and Rallis. In this paper, we also
illustrate the connection between the doubling epsilon factor and the theta
dichotomy conjecture.
Scribam ipse de me : The Personality of the Narrator in Caesar's Bellum Civile
Authors: Grillo Luca
Published: February 2012

This article analyzes the strategies by which the narrator of Caesar's Bellum Civile constructs his authority and promotes his version of the civil war. Despite being generally omnipresent, omniscient and un-intrusive, the narrator can abandon his covert position and all-encompassing knowledge and use multiple devices to guide the readers' perception of salient events. Switches of focalization, inferred motivation, presentation through negation and intratextual echoes color the narrative of key episodes, such as the negotiations of peace with Pompey in Book 1 and the descriptions of the battles at Dyrrachium and Pharsalus.
The " Devotio " of Sallust's Cotta
Authors: Rosenblitt J. Alison
Published: February 2012

This article considers the speech assigned by Sallust in his Historiae to C. Aurelius Cotta, cos. 75 B.C.E. and argues that our reading of the speech must proceed from a consideration of the devotio which is its logical and emotional climax. Sallust constructs this devotio as an incomplete and therefore inherently problematic act. Cotta's inconsistent and self-contradictory rhetoric draws the reader's attention to the problematic status of this non-act. Moreover, Sallust has seized an opportunity to comment upon Cicero's De Natura Deorum , in which the very same Cotta appears as interlocutor. In literary dialogue with Cicero, we find a Sallustian perspective on the role of civic religion, sincerity, and patriotism in the late Republic.
The Politics of Death in Theocritus' First Idyll
Authors: Hunt Jeffrey M.
Published: February 2012

The crux of Daphnis' death in Theocritus' first Idyll may in part be explained through a comparison with the Adonis hymn of Idyll 15, with particular attention given to its political significance. I propose that the imagery used in the Adonis hymn to promote the Ptolemaic agenda accords with scenes in the most problematic passages in Thyrsis' song. The alignment of etiological myths for Ptolemaic cult and the bucolic world suggests a parity between the Ptolemies' efforts to legitimize their rule and Theocritus' creation of literary bucolic. Both use new myths to adapt ancient tradition to contemporary political and literary innovations.
"And Cytherea Smiled": Sappho, Hellenistic Poetry, and Virgil's Allusive Mechanics
Authors: Hall Alexander E. W.
Published: February 2012

This article examines the intertextuality of three passages in the Aeneid : 6.460, 4.441-49, and 4.90-128. In each, Virgil's language alludes to both a Hellenistic poet and Sappho. The Sapphic allusions appear where Virgil diverges from the thematic content of his Hellenistic sources. After analyzing the meaning of each intertext, I conclude that this technique of using Hellenistic intermediaries in "window allusions" to Sappho could be due to the ubiquitous appropriation of Sappho by Hellenistic poets, a Virgilian poetic program which privileges archaic over Hellenistic sources, or a systematic use of Sappho as a mediator and modifier of Hellenistic poetry.
Music in Ritual and Ritual in Music: A Virtual Viewer’s Perceptions about Liminality, Functionality, and Mediatization in the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Authors: Sborgi Lawson Francesca R.
Published: February 2012

Concepts such as liminality, functionality, and mediatization were clearly exemplified in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. The fascinating use of the ancient practice of liminal integration of music and ritual in a modern mediatized performance illustrates both indigenous Chinese and contemporary Western performance theories. Despite the spectacular nature of the opening ceremony, however, it is doubtful that international viewers fully understood the complex messages communicated through this modern ritual performance.
Performativity of Difference: Mapping Public Soundscapes and Performing Nostalgia among Burmese Chinese in Central Rangoon
Authors: Lu Hsin-chun Tasaw
Published: February 2012

This article examines the festive musical practices of Chinese immigrants from 1949 to 1988 in central Rangoon. Eschewing conventional interpretations of diasporic music that view a diasporic community as a fixed unit, the author adopts the mode of ethnographic historiography and focuses on multiple micromusics that emerged in the Burmese Chinese community. This speaks to the music’s performativity of difference whereby music is used as a strategic resource to help articulate differences and lay claim to subjectivity.
Polysynthesis in Hueyapan Nahuatl: The Status of Noun Phrases, Basic Word Order, and Other Concerns
Authors: Hansen Magnus Pharao
Published: February 2012

This article presents data showing that the syntax of the Nahuatl dialect spoken in Hueyapan, Morelos, Mexico has traits of nonconfigurationality: free word order and free pro-drop, with predicate-initial word order being pragmatically neutral. It permits discontinuous noun phrases and has no naturally occurring true quantifiers, suggesting that noun phrases in Hueyapan Nahuatl are adjuncts rather than actual arguments. These findings are contrasted with those of an earlier study by Jeffrey MacSwan, who concludes that Nahuatl syntax has relatively fixed subject-verb-object word order. It is suggested that the differences observed between the two Nahuatl varieties may be a result of methodological problems in MacSwan's collection of data, skewing it in the direction of a more rigid syntax.
Person-Marked Numerals in North Alberta Beaver (Athabaskan)
Authors: Lovick Olga
Published: February 2012

This article describes person-marked numerals in North Alberta Beaver, a dialect of Beaver Athabaskan. North Alberta Beaver numerals are frozen complex forms consisting of a numeral stem incorporated into a form of the verb theme d + Ø + t'yii 'to be thus'. By illustrating how the word category of numerals is formed through reanalysis of existing verbal paradigms, this article contributes to the typology of numerals and to the description of minor word categories in Athabaskan.
Crafting Ethics: The Dilemma of Almsgiving in Russian Orthodox Churches
Authors: Tocheva Detelina
Published: February 2012

With the liberalization of religious practices after the fall of the Soviet regime in Russia, almsgiving to beggars in Russian Orthodox churches has become one of the most widespread forms of Orthodox charity. However, the priests are faced with an ethical dilemma: should they be charitable with beggars or should they sanction those who do not live according to certain moral standards? This article examines how Orthodox priests interact with different groups of beggars and how they create ethical ways of acting. It proposes that contemporary Russian Orthodox ethics are multi-referential, anchored in historicity, relatedness, interaction, and creative reasoning.
Religious Feasting in Apuleius's Metamorphoses : Appetite for Change?
Authors: Tilg Stefan
Published: February 2012

The phenomenon of religious feasting in Apuleius's Metamorphoses has been largerly overlooked or played down by scholarship so far. In fact, food and feasting constitute a significant part of the last, so-called Isis Book of the Metamorphoses , all too often reduced to the story of a more or less ascetic religious experience. The significance of shared meals at the ultimate stage of Apuleius's narrative has consequences for our interpretation of the Metamorphoses in general and allows some conjectures about its potential secondary reception through recitals.
Virgil's Program of Sabellic Etymologizing and the Construction of Italic Identity
Authors: Ferriss-Hill Jennifer L.
Published: February 2012

I argue that several Sabellic glosses, in addition to the two already recognized by Servius, are to be found in Aeneid 7, and that the preponderance of Sabellic etymological plays in this book constitutes an implicit declaration by Virgil that the remaining half of the epic is to be anchored to Italian soil.
Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances
Authors: Jarmakani Amira
Published: February 2012

Through a consideration of desert romances (mass-market romances whose hero is a sultan, sheikh, or desert prince), this essay argues that the racialization of Arabs and Muslims in contemporary popular culture operates by conflating ethnicity, religion, geography, and the notion of civilization. As the racialization of actual Arabs and Muslims in the global North has become more overt, the representational racialization of sheikhs in desert romances has become more covert. Ironically, precisely because romance novels must protect the fantasy narrative by submerging any overt references to race, they are useful for exploring the shifting meanings of race vis-à-vis Arabs and Muslims.
Salvage Anthropology and Displaced Mourning in the Lais of Marie de France
Authors: Khanmohamadi Shirin Azizeh
Published: February 2012

The article views Marie within the frame of insular history in order to argue that in seeking to preserve the Celtic stories of the Lais , Marie was enacting a form of ‘salvage anthropology,’ the salvage of cultural materials under threat of colonial incursion and loss, while giving expression to anxieties over her own shifting cultural boundaries.
Obsidian Sourcing in Bandung, Indonesia
Authors: Chia Stephen , Yondri Lufti , Simantunjak Truman
Published: February 2012

This article presents the results of a study to determine whether the obsidian artifacts found in Gua Pawon, Dago, and Bukit Karsamanik in Bandung came from the well-known sources of Gunung Kendan in Nagreg, Kampung Rejeng in Garut, or elsewhere. Obsidian artifacts for this study were obtained from earlier archaeological excavations at Gua Pawon and from chance finds at the sites of Dago and Bukit Karsamanik in Bandung. Samples of obsidian were also collected from the known obsidian sources in Gunung Kendan in Nagreg and Kampung Rejeng in Garut for comparative purposes. Analyses of these samples were done on a scanning electron microscope using the energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer at the University of Science Malaysia, Penang, and the electron microprobe at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. Multi-element analysis was undertaken, and statistical procedures were performed on data obtained from the artifacts and the sources. The results of the study thus far suggest that the obsidian artifacts from Gua Pawon were made using obsidian obtained from both Gunung Kendan and Kampung Rejeng sources, while those from Dago and Bukit Karsamanik have yet to be determined. More samples from all the known obsidian sources are needed to determine the variability within and between all the different sources. Temporally, the study also revealed that prehistoric humans at Gua Pawon exploited the same obsidian resources over several thousands of years.
An Examination of Chronology, Ethnic Group, and Social Ranking Based on Mortuary Data from Central Korea
Authors: Kang Bong Won
Published: February 2012

Archaeological excavations conducted in 1997–1998 at the Hageori site in central Korea uncovered a total of 63 burials. The range of dates for the burials varies widely. Mortuary analysis was conducted on 24 burials thought to date sometime between the fifth and seventh century a.d. According to the archaeological data, mortuary practices at the site changed through time from multiple burials (in a side-passage stone-chamber tomb) to single burials. This article describes the mortuary practices at the site and attempts to explain how and why they changed over time. Using archaeological data and a literature review, the ethnic group of the tomb builders is inferred. In addition, attention is given to examining the relationship between energy expenditure and social stratification based on stylistic variation of the burials discovered at the site.
Social Variation and Dynamics in Metal Age and Protohistoric Central Thailand: A Regional Perspective
Authors: Eyre Chureekamol Onsuwan
Published: February 2012

Southeast Asia is one major region where applications of sociopolitical frameworks emphasizing progressive development and increasing degrees of social hierarchy have been argued as inadequate for understanding past societies. Settlement systems in Thailand that existed throughout the period of technological change incorporating the bronze and iron ages have not yet been investigated from a heterarchical viewpoint. While reconnaissance and systematic surveys conducted over the past few decades in Thailand have discovered hundreds of prehistoric sites, a recent survey stressing intensive methodologies to test heterarchical and hierarchical frameworks for best fit with settlement patterns in the region of Kok Samrong-Takhli Undulating Terrain (KSTUT) in the eastern side of the Upper Chao Phraya River Valley has revealed unexpected patterns of land use and settlement systems. This article discusses the methodology and results of the KSTUT Survey in central Thailand. A two-stage survey, a reconnaissance survey followed by a 58 km 2 intensive survey, was conducted in order to locate sites across different landscapes, to identify subregional ceramic variation and possibly geographic shifts in ceramic subregions over time, and to determine evidence for economic specialization among sites of varying sizes. The 25 sites dating between 2000 b.c. and a.d. 1000 provide evidence for a prehistoric settlement system emphasizing long-lived, often large, but heterarchically related occupations. Sharp changes including the appearance of site hierarchy occurred rapidly just prior to the protohistoric period c. a.d. 400, about 1000 years later than previously thought.
Founders of the Field: China Introduction
Authors: Liu Siyuan
Published: February 2012

From the 1930s to the 1980s political circumstances in China limited American access to information about Chinese theatre. In this era Englishman A. C. Scott and Australian Colin Mackerras became major scholars documenting changes taking place and theatre practice they saw, creating a foundation for current scholarship on Chinese performance.
James R. Brandon
Authors: Jortner David , Foley Kathy
Published: February 2012

James R. Brandon has been a force in the development of Asian theatre studies since the 1960s with work on Southeast Asian, pan-Asian, and especially Japanese forms. His directing and teaching at the University of Hawai‘i has helped build a program where performance of Asian genres and scholarship intertwine.
“Modern Theatre for the Twenty-first Century”?: Shanghai Conservatory of Music’s Staging of The White Goddess (2009).
Authors: Thorpe Ashley
Published: February 2012

In 2009, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SMC), the Oriental Digital Media Arts Research and Development Centre (based at the SMC), Shanghai Technological Engineering University, and members of the Shanghai Jingju Company united to create a new performance of the jingju (Beijing opera) classic The White Snake (Baishezhuan). Billed as “Multimedia Beijing Opera Music Theatre” and ostensibly staged as a Western symphony rather than as a jingju, the performance offered an apparently innovative take on the possibilities for contemporary traditional Chinese performance by synthesising a range of musical and theatrical forms with multimedia stage technology. This article analyzes the impact of these innovations, not only theatrically, but also through an examination of the challenges the production offers to established Western theories of postdramatic and multimedia theatre.
The Association for Asian Performance: A Brief History
Authors: Brandon James R.
Published: February 2012

This short narrative of the life of the Association for Asian Performance (AAP) is both a personal statement and an institutional history. It is not a description of personal careers, of books written, of plays directed. It is personal in the sense that I call on people’s memories, including my own, to tell a story spanning forty-six years. Memory can deceive. To some extent, I am describing the elephant based on partial accounts of ears, legs, trunk, and tusks, and I may have made mistakes. Still, without memory we are not human. The narrative is also an institutional account, a story of a changing institution based in part on information published in news bulletins and newsletters (see Published Works Cited). Many thanks to AAP members who shared their reminiscences. And my sincere apologies to the many wonderful AAP members and officers whose names do not, for reasons of space, appear below.
Founders of the Field: Japan Introduction
Authors: Jortner David
Published: February 2012

Any foray into the historiography of Japanese theatre written by Western theatre historians confronts the political and social interactions of both Japan and the United States, specifically the ending of the sakoku period in Japan and the Occupation and Cold War positioning of Japan after the Pacific War. This introduction will give the reader a basic overview of some of the major thematic concerns involved in the writing of Asian theatre history, as well as historicize the Occupation and Cold War eras in which many of the first generation Asian theatre scholars were writing and teaching in the American academy.
Founders of the Field: South and Southeast Asia Introduction
Authors: Foley Kathy
Published: February 2012

Significant research on South and Southeast Asian genres in the United States was not undertaken by theatre scholars until the 1960s, when political changes created funding opportunities and new alliances that made Americans welcome. New approaches to theatre as performance rather than focusing solely on text made the work more accepted in the discipline. American puppet and mask theatre scholars made significant contributions to understanding Indian and Southeast Asian genres.
“Flower” as Performing Body in Nō Theatre
Authors: Amano Yuka
Published: February 2012

The medieval Japanese artist Zeami’s metaphor of the flower (hana) is extremely ambiguous. By linking Zeami’s terminology with theoretical approaches to the body, this article understands the flower as the flexible and mutable body of nō performance itself. Using Zeami’s play Tadanori as the primary text, the article examines the way in which the flexible employment of the body in nō is closely connected with traditional Japanese aesthetics. Furthermore, the article argues that physical as well as psychological cross-bordering in nō performance allows the audience’s emotional involvement in the dramatic space while actualizing their latent desires and dreams on stage, an aesthetic moment perceived by the audience as flower.
Remapping the Korean Theatre Tradition: A Case Study of Gwolhui, a Theatre of the Confucian Students in the Chosun Dynasty
Authors: Park Jungman
Published: February 2012

Traditional theatre scholarship maintains that Chosun-era Korean theatrical forms are rooted deep in the collectivity of the minjung —the economically, socially, and politically deprived—and are essentially minjung theatricalities. While the forms performed and viewed by commoners, such as talchum (mask dance), pansori (epic song performance), geurimja-geuk (shadow drama), and inhyeong-geuk (puppet show), are well researched, theatres of the privileged class or yangban have been obscured and consequently ignored by Korean theatre scholars. Gwolhui (moot royal court play), performed by the Confucian students of the Sungkyunkwan, the national university of the Chosun dynasty, offers evidence of a theatre of the privileged class. Gwolhui shares characteristics found in minjung theatre—collective participation, episodic structure, and bottom-up satire of the society. It is the yangban counterpart to the minjung theatrical forms and, therefore, should be considered part of the Korean theatre tradition.
The Midwife and the Church: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Midwives in Brie, 1499-1504
Authors: Vann Sprecher Tiffany D. , Karras Ruth Mazo
Published: February 2012

At the turn of the sixteenth century in Paris, midwifery was an emergent profession regulated by the church. This article analyzes fourteen entries in the Registre de causes from the archdeaconry of Brie, 1499-1504, within the context of midwives' relationship with the church. It suggests that midwives were important appendages of the ecclesiastical bureaucracy. Midwife regulation was one aspect of the French church's attempts to maintain its autonomy against secular powers. Regulation by the ecclesiastical bureaucracy provided midwives with professional advantages and disadvantages. The ecclesiastical bureaucracy played a vital role in creating and sustaining midwifery as a profession, but also circumscribed midwives' practices. Overall, however, bureaucratic control was unsystematically applied, and midwives were often left to negotiate their own professional and social positions.
Healing Options during the Plague: Survivor Stories from a Fourteenth-Century Canonization Inquest
Authors: Archambeau Nicole
Published: February 2012

Witness testimonies in the 1363 canonization inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimchel help us explore differing reactions to the first two waves of plague in 1348 and 1361, the diverse social and healing networks available to the sick, and the importance of affect in the healing process. Every witness in the inquest had lived through both the 1348 and 1361 epidemics. Their testimonies show that sufferers actively sought out healing even when they feared that none existed, healing practitioners continued to care for the sick through both waves of epidemic, and emotion played an important role in sufferers’ healing. Their language allows us to look at the interaction between miracle and medicine, the interaction of healing practitioners, and the expectations of sufferers during severe epidemics in the later Middle Ages.
Introduction: Life Writing as Intimate Publics
Authors: Jolly Margaretta
Published: February 2012

This special issue of Biography begins from the US cultural critic Lauren Berlant’s term “intimate public” to explore new constituencies of belonging in relation to life writing and life storying across media. Life writing creates affect worlds, where strangers meet through emotional connection, worlds that are economically and politically dynamic. This collection assesses them as global forms, including British televisual genealogy, post-Communist Eastern European memoir, Scottish oral history, Iranian blogging, Chinese sentimental essay, and American genomic dataset. It includes Berlant’s response, the first time she has engaged directly with life writing.
The Present of Intimacy: My Very Public Private Life
Authors: Goldsworthy Vesna
Published: February 2012

Vesna Goldsworthy’s “The Present of Intimacy: My Very Public Private Life” reflects on the aftermath of the publication of a bestselling memoir. Combining personal account and critical examination, this hybrid study explores the intersections and tensions between public and private, as well as individual and collective elements in autobiographical writing.
Introductory Notes: Performing Queer Lives
Authors: Royster Francesca T.
Published: February 2012

How are life writing and queer theory at odds with what we've come to expect in autobiographical narratives? The essays in this collection intervene in the traditional project of autobiography by taking as their subject the process of queered meaning making. Our focus on "queer" and "performing" brings the following challenges to life writing: fi rst, to expand the social defi nitions of the self or "I" as the readable, recognizable subject; second, to introduce the resistant, playful, and sometimes odd or eccentric aesthetics of "queer" into life writing's language, form, and treatment of the social fabric; and third, to give special attention to the performative as a process of self-making and selfrecognition that is active, ongoing, contingent on relationships to others, and grounded in embodiment. All written by folks of color, the essays in this cluster are also liberation narratives, centrally concerned with freedom and social change larger than but including ourselves. Using queer theory, performative writing, memoir, and interview, these essays explore queer ways of knowing, while suggesting how queer bodies can teach the world by naming the unnamable, courting the illusive, and training us to see and feel differently.
Fela! : Fela Kuti, Bill T. Jones, and the Marketing of Black Masculine Excess on Broadway
Authors: Royster Francesca T.
Published: February 2012

Choreographer Bill T. Jones and Nigerian Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti have both shaped careers that have confounded categorizations, exploring sometimes contradictory spaces of gender, sexuality, race, and national loyalty through performance. This essay considers the recent Broadway show Fela! , a biographical and performative exploration of Fela Kuti and his life, directed and choreographed by Jones, as a means of thinking about the queer interconnections between these two performers.
Holding
Authors: Rowe Aimee Carrillo
Published: February 2012

"Holding" is a braided lyric essay that weaves narrative, performance, and theoretical strands to pose the question: How do we hold trauma, without it holding us? This question is particularly acute for queer people of color, who often undergo or inherit legacies of imperial trauma. It is also vital for researchers, writers, and performers who excavate imperial trauma. I suggest that collective and individual sacred healing practices provide a means of recovery, allowing us to disentangle ourselves from trauma's grasp, while remaining present to its effects.
Pinocchio's road to adulthood from Carlo Collodi to Christos Boulotis
Authors: Staniou Elena , Tsilimeni Tasoula
Published: February 2012

This study aims to present Pinocchio's road to adulthood based on the concept of the Bildungsroman, beginning with the original version by Carlo Collodi and continuing through the subsequent versions created by the Greek author, Christos Boulotis.
Picture books as graphic novels and vice versa: The Australian experience
Authors: Foster John
Published: February 2012

What is the state of the graphic novel and picture book in Australia? In this thought provoking article Foster explores the current tendency for picture books in Australia to include features that fulfill criteria that for some define graphic novels. At the same time, he argues that graphic novels sometimes contain important aspects of picture books. The nature of these new hybrids gives one pause to reconsider our understanding of what is and what is not a picture book.
The artist as narrator: Shaun Tan’s wondrous worlds
Authors: Hunter Linnet
Published: February 2012

Linnet Hunter honors the work of the 2011 ALMA winner by acknowledging his ability to tell a story without boxing himself into a style, format or genre. Instead she describes him as a narrative artist who “can make us question what we thought we had seen and known, and to look again at what was once familiar and see it afresh.”
Resistant Rituals: Self-Mutilation and the Female Adolescent Body in Fairy Tales and Young Adult Fiction
Authors: Cowdy Cheryl
Published: February 2012

In spite of its history as an unintelligible activity in Western society, self-mutilation entered the discourse of childhood as a significant motif of feminine experience the moment children appropriated the fairy tale. Since then, it has functioned as a complex motif in literature, offering scholars an opportunity to identify the different ways troubling or disturbing subjects are treated based on the target audiences of texts. Taking "Cinderella" and "The Little Mermaid" as representative, this paper argues that self-mutilation functions as an act of self-mutilation functions as an act of self-sacrifice to romantic hetero-normative narratives. Meanwhile, cutting in the Canadian young adult novels As She Grows by Lesley Ann Cowan () and Cheryl Rainfield's Scars () is represented ambivalently, exposing both the potential for violence and for agency in self-mutilative acts. In their refusal of pathologization, representations of self-mutilation in YA fiction offer readers a ritualistic occasion for their own empathic resistance to the hegemonic incorporation of symbolic demands, encouraging the development of creative strategies for self-expression within dysfunctional societies.
Engendrado por la guerra: El hijo Venturoso de Lope de Vega
Authors: Checa Jorge
Published: February 2012

El hijo Venturoso acoge el tema, recurrente en el primer Lope, del desconocimiento del propio origen familiar en la figura del protagonista de la comedia. El subsiguiente intento por Venturoso por forjarse una identidad desarrollando su potencial aparece conectado en este texto dramático con el tópico de la dignidad del hombre según lo reformula Pico della Mirandola, quien hace hincapié en la indeterminación y autonomía de los seres humanos como fundamento de su libertad. A la vez que Lope se hace eco de estos principios filosóficos, su comedia muestra cómo los impedimentos sociales obstaculizan el proyecto autocreativo de Venturoso. Para alguien, como él, desposeído de linaje y abandonado por sus padres, la carrera de las armas termina siendo la única vía posible de aserción, éxito y prestigio, en la medida en que sólo allí se reconoce la primacía del mérito individual sobre el nacimiento ilustre. Al dramatizar esta idea, propagada en varios tratados militares contemporáneos de la comedia, Lope vincula su tratamiento literario de la dignidad del hombre a importantes problemas suscitados por la crisis de los ejércitos españoles a fines del siglo XVI.
Visión de México y sus criollos en El semejante a sí mismo de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Authors: Robalino Gladys A.
Published: February 2012

Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, uno de los grandes dramaturgos del Siglo de Oro, ha sido estudiado tanto dentro del canon peninsular como del mexicano. La crítica ha buscado con interés singularidades de su trabajo que se pudieran atribuir a su origen americano. Una de sus obras menos leídas, El semejante a sí mismo, es uno de los pocos casos dentro de las obras alarconianas en que encontramos una larga descripción directamente relacionada con México. Irónicamente, esta descripción ha recibido poco interés de la crítica o, en todo caso, ha sido para referirse a su condición marginal tanto estructural como temáticamente dentro de la obra. Un ejemplo es el de José Amezcua, quien dice que Ruiz de Alarcón, “sin causa aparente, suelta 62 versos de un paisaje que nada tiene que ver con los hechos referidos.” En este trabajo, propongo una lectura diferente de este fragmento, en la cual éste es el elemento central de la obra. Desde este punto de partida, estableciendo consistencias entre esta sección y la trama general de la obra, emergen visiones sobre las relaciones políticas entre España y México, así como sobre la contribución de los criollos en la construcción del imperio.
El retrato como síntoma y representación en el teatro de Ana Caro y María de Zayas
Authors: Montauban Jannine
Published: February 2012

El escaso interés que ha mostrado la crítica por el retrato en las comedias de autoría femenina en el teatro de los Siglos de Oro contrasta con la amplitud de trabajos dedicados al estudio de la pintura en las obras de autores canónicos como Lope y Calderón. Este trabajo ofrece un estudio de las funciones que cumplen los retratos en La traición en la amistad de María de Zayas y en Valor, agravio y mujer y El Conde Partinuplés de Ana Caro en el contexto de las discusiones teóricas acerca del estatuto del retrato y sus relaciones con la literatura, con la magia y con la tradición artística en general. A pesar de que podrían pasar inadvertidos debido a su pequeñez y a la fugacidad de sus apariciones, los retratos en estas tres obras actúan como síntomas textuales, cumpliendo un papel esencial en su continuidad dramática y convirtiéndose en el espacio donde se decide el destino de los personajes.
Bridging and Bonding: Ethnic Background and Voluntary Association Activity in Canada
Authors: Grabb Edward , Hwang Monica , Andersen Robert
Published: February 2012

This paper is the first Canadian analysis to consider voluntary association activity among a large array of ethnic groups, using national sample survey data and applying multivariate controls. Findings from the Economy, Security, and Community Survey of 2000 indicate that most of Canada’s major ethnic or racial minority groups differ little in their average number of voluntary association involvements. The main exceptions are relatively low levels of association membership for Latin/Central/South Americans and East Asians, especially before controls, and quite high levels for the Jewish minority. Further analyses reveal that minorities are more likely than other groups to join associations related to their own particular ethnic group and that this partly accounts for the relatively small differences in overall voluntary activity between ethnic minorities, on the one hand, and non-minorities, such as North/West European and British respondents, on the other hand. The implications of these results for understanding the “bridging” and “bonding” roles of voluntary associations in Canadian society are briefly discussed.

Cet article présente la première analyse canadienne sur les activités d’associations de bénévolat au sein d’un grand nombre de groupes ethniques, à partir d’une enquête de 2000 sur l’économie, la sécurité et les communautés, portant sur un échantillon national et y appliquant des contrôles multivariables. Selon les résultats obtenus, au Canada l’engagement dans ces associations n’est en moyenne guère différent pour la plupart des groupes, qu’ils appartiennent à des majorités ethniques ou à des minorités raciales. Les principales exceptions sont soit des niveaux relativement bas de membres, quand ils viennent d’Amérique latine / centrale / du Sud et d’Asie de l’Est, en particulier avant les contrôles, soit des niveaux nettement plus élevés dans la minorité juive. Des analyses plus poussées révèlent que dans les minorités, on se joindra plus qu’ailleurs à des associations reliées à son propre groupe ethnique , d’où en partie les différences, somme toute mineures, dans les acti-vités de bénévolat en général entre les deux : minorités ethniques d’une part, et non-minorités d’autre part, telles qu’Européens du Nord et de l’Ouest, ainsi que britanniques. Nous examinons brièvement ce qu’impliquent ces résultats qui permettent de comprendre les rôles de “relais” et de “liaison” que jouent les associations bénévoles dans la société canadienne.
Becoming a Model Minority: The Depiction of Japanese Canadians in the Globe and Mail, 1946–2000
Authors: Hawkins Naoko
Published: February 2012

This paper examines the questions of whether the portrayal of Japanese Canadians in the media has changed over time and what accounts for the change or the lack thereof. These questions were addressed by conducting a content analysis of the portrayal of Japanese Canadians in the Globe and Mail from 1946 to 2000. Using frame analysis, this paper shows that the frames used to portray Japanese Canadians changed from the Unthreatening Community Frame, 1946–1980, to the Justified Victims Frame, 1981–1990, to the Model Minority Frame, 1991–2000. The findings indicate that the frames are not just imposed on Japanese Canadians by the media, but that they reflect the interaction of the changing norms of the Globe and Mail , as well as the changing Japanese Canadian experience. However, all the frames overlook the complex nature of the Japanese Canadian community and minimize past and current discrimination.

Dans cet article, nous examinons si le portrait des Canadiens japonais a changé dans les média avec le temps et ce qui explique cette évolution ou ce statu quo. Pour traiter de ces questions, nous avons analysé comment le journal le Globe and Mail les a dépeints de 1946 à l’an 2000. À partir d’une analyse du cadrage de Goffman, nous démontrons que celui servant à représenter les Nippo-Canadiens a changé du temps du « cadrage d’une communauté non-menaçante » (1946 –1980), au « cadrage des victimes justifiées » (1981 – 1990) et au « cadrage d’une minorité mo-dèle » (1991 – 2000). Les résultats indiquent que ces cadrages ne sont pas simplement imposés à ces derniers par les média, mais qu’ils reflètent l’interaction des changements normatifs du Globe and Mail autant qu’une mutation de l’expérience des Canadiens japonais. Pourtant, aucun ne tient compte de la complexité qui règne au sein de la communauté nippo-canadienne, et tous minimisent la discrimination passée et actuelle.
Fiction, Faction, and Formula in the Regional Novels of Lois Lenski
Authors: Kuznets Lois R.
Published: February 2012

Lois Lenski thought she was doing something new in her regional novels, something new in children's literature and the art of storytelling and writing in general. This paper is an examination of Lenski's theory about her regional novels, of the life experience and literary practice that went into that theory, and of some of the works that were influenced by, or perhaps themselves influenced, that theory. It concludes that, although Lenski experimented with subject matter and ways of gathering material, she did not experiment with form and produced, therefore, not something new but a species of popular formulaic novel.
Gladly Would They Teach but Would They as Gladly Learn? : Didactic Literature for Children in 15th Century England
Authors: Keenan Hugh T.
Published: February 2012

Literature for children in this period consists mainly of courtesy books reflective of the tastes and aspirations of an increasingly powerful middle class. Their goals are adult ones: concern for money, proper choice of a spouse, moral and religious observances, sobriety, industry, and the conduct of children who serve meals. Those written by pedagogues reinforce this overbearing parental guidance. Only a few surviving riddles, charms, gnomes, and poems lighten this double load with fantasy and delight in word play. Thrift and upward mobility were the lessons parents wished to teach children in 15th century England.
Reading and Mapping: Directions in Children's Fantasy
Authors: Billman Carol
Published: February 2012

This is an exploratory essay about finding places and finding one's place in fantastic stories for children. It proceeds from a consideration of the actual maps illustrators have provided to help readers visualize fantastic realms to a discussion of the geographical boundaries and shapes of these realms on to what having a sense of place means to children traveling to and in new fictional worlds. Finally, it offers a hypothesis about how mapping provides, not simply a metaphor for what goes on in reading fantasy, but also a working description of the actual process by which young readers engage themselves in or "play" the genre of fantasy.
Quintilian on the Child as a Learning Subject
Authors: Bloomer W. Martin
Published: February 2012

Quintilian communicates definite ideas about the educability of children. From the perspectives of the history of education and childhood, his innovation is a theory of the child as a learning subject. The child (consistently represented as the male, free puer ) has a native mimetic ability lacking judgment but with a natural, almost bodily need for book learning. The teacher (not parent) shapes the child’s developing mind just as if he were writing a book from a clean slate. The maturation of the child is imagined not in biological or social terms but as a correlate to the process of writing.
Instrumentality and Referentiality in Poetry (Thomas Kling)
Authors: Lőrincz Csongor
Published: February 2012

The essay deals with the interrelations between an instrumental technicity and the textual dynamics in the poetry of Thomas Kling (1957-2005). Visual effects and imaging technics are investigated, in addition to their relation to the textual spatialization and synchronization, identified as specific lyric features. The aims of the essay are primarily theoretical and methodological: to affiliate the paradigm of mediality with a literary reading, and to pursue a new possibility for reading images and their medial backgrounds and techniques in lyrical texts—the performative and referential effects of plurivocally medial staging of the poetry at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries.
Deciphering the Language of Nature: Cryptography, Secrecy, and Alterity in Francis Bacon
Authors: Clody Michael C.
Published: February 2012

The essay argues that Francis Bacon's considerations of parables and cryptography reflect larger interpretative concerns of his natural philosophic project. Bacon describes nature as having a language distinct from those of God and man, and, in so doing, establishes a central problem of his natural philosophy—namely, how can the language of nature be accessed through scientific representation? Ultimately, Bacon's solution relies on a theory of differential and duplicitous signs that conceal within them the hidden voice of nature, which is best recognized in the natural forms of efficient causality. The "alphabet of nature"—those tables of natural occurrences—consequently plays a central role in his program, as it renders nature's language susceptible to a process and decryption that mirrors the model of the bilateral cipher. It is argued that while the writing of Bacon's natural philosophy strives for literality, its investigative process preserves a space for alterity within scientific representation, that is made accessible to those with the interpretative key.
The Arc of the 0(0000)
Authors: Collignon Fabienne
Published: February 2012

The essay considers Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) in conjunction with works by, mainly, J. G. Ballard, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Stanley Kubrick, in order to discuss what Pynchon terms the rocket's "Ideology of the Zero," which predominantly manifests itself as a whitening. The premise of the essay is to discuss the ICBM's deathward trajectory as a series of approaches toward zero—ground zero in space, but also in mind; corporeal dissolutions are, further, discussed as mergers, the integration between man and machine, as well as man and animal.