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Metalepsis and the Fringe of Reality in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker
Authors: Mudure Mihaela
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on Tobias Smollett’s epistolary novel, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771), from a narrative point of view. Drawing on Gérard Genette's narratology, the chapter defines metalepsis as a transgression between narrative levels or between distinct fictional worlds. It thus explores a special metaleptic situation: the appearance of the author (Tobias Smollett) in the novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker. The chapter shows how Smollett’s metalepses are parodic critiques of the authoritarian and authoritative claims made by classic omniscience. Smollett’s novel proves to be much more modern than expected from a canonised eighteenth-century novel.
The Best of Smollett, the Worst of Smollett
Authors: Chilton Leslie A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter offers some reflections on the work of editing Tobias Smollett’s writing. As one who engaged in the editing and assisted the editing of certain Smollett titles for the University of Georgia’s The Works of Tobias Smollett between 1990 and 2011, and who has worked on an independent co-edited volume of miscellaneous titles until 2015, the author describes having had the opportunity to help edit not only some of Smollett's best works but also some of his worst. Drawing on an expanded reading of Smollett's work, including those that have been overlooked or disputed, the author offers several insights into the man and his canon. This leads to some questions about the influence of Lewis M. Knapp's still authoritative biography, Tobias Smollett: Doctor of Men and Manners (1949).
The Hidden Politics of the Emblem William Byrd, Elizabeth I, and Cupid
Authors: Rosenholtz-Witt Jason
Published: May 2024

In William Byrd’s 1589 Songs of Sundrie Natures, six songs explore the tyranny of Cupid, revealing previously unnoticed emblematic and political significance. This collection exemplifies the interconnected, cross-media conversations among composers, poets, emblemists, and patrons in the era. Emblems, combining images and allegoric readings, pervaded many aspects of society and represent a powerful hermeneutic tool hiding in plain sight. Byrd’s fall from grace in the 1580s, linked to his association with a Catholic plot against Queen Elizabeth, spurred his strategic use of a powerful Cupid as a political statement. Emblematic Cupid imagery, prevalent in Elizabethan iconography, served to reinforce the queen’s chastity, depicting her triumph over the winged god as a formidable achievement. The songbook, published during Byrd’s tumultuous period, becomes a valuable window into the composer’s personal politics, revealing the complex interplay of music, emblems, politics, and art in Elizabethan England.
“That Worishh, that Devillishe, and Faithlesse Song”
Authors: Rees Owen
Published: May 2024

Byrd’s published motet collections of 1589 and 1591 contain many works which can be read as lamenting the situation of – and expressing support for – Catholics in England. This reading, promoted by Joseph Kerman, was developed extensively by Craig Monson and others, producing a richly contextualised understanding of this aspect of Byrd’s activity as a Catholic musician. However, it is worth noting that
Byrd’s messages were delivered through motet texts which were unobjectionable across the confessional spectrum. In striking contrast, within the 1591 motet collection Byrd also
included a setting of a text – the Marian antiphon Salve regina – whose confessional status bore no such ambiguity, and which held a particularly exalted position within Catholic
devotion. This study looks beyond the utility of such a Salve setting within English Catholic circles – including Byrd’s patrons John Petre (who owned a manuscript copy of the piece) and John Lumley (dedicatee of the 1591 collection) – to analyse and contextualise the composer’s apparently bold decision to publish such a work. The study also locates Byrd’s motet within generic context, considering both the English tradition of Marian antiphon settings and practices within the Salve repertory on the Continent.
Between Text and Act
Authors: Smith David J.
Published: May 2024

Editions of Byrd’s keyboard music hide the degree of disparity between sources in terms of the placement of single- and double-stroke ornaments. A study of a corpus of pieces composed by Byrd before their inclusion in My Ladye Nevells Booke (1591) proves that no two sources of any one piece have the same placement of ornament signs. The signs must have had a consistent, straightforward meaning at any one time, although it is likely that this evolved through the decades. Manuscripts containing Byrd’s keyboard music combine text with elements of performance practice; each source of a piece encapsulates one possible rendition. Variation between sources may be put down to individual performance practice on the part of the scribe or the person responsible for their copytext. The surviving sources tend to be large books that could never have been used at the keyboard and are more akin to a CD collection or playlist. Questions surrounding how they could have been used for performance are addressed in relation to the role of memory and performing arts in Early Modern education, oral culture and the transmission of other material such as poetry and letters.
Joseph Kerman, the “Catholic” Interpretation of Byrd, and the New Musicology
Authors: Rodgers Mark
Published: May 2024

In a series of influential articles and books published in the 1960s and 1970s, Joseph Kerman advanced the argument that the context of William Byrd’s recusancy held the key to interpreting his masses and motets. This article explores Kerman’s development of this argument alongside his contemporaneous writings on “criticism,” culminating in his landmark book Contemplating Music (1985). Placing these different aspects of Kerman’s work in dialogue with one another highlights tensions in his conception of criticism, and it deepens our understanding of his relationship with the new musicology while also throwing new light on the legacy of the “Catholic” interpretation for the field of Byrd studies.
Poltergeist
Authors: McLaughlin Robert
Published: May 2024

The Academy Award-winning Poltergeist (1982), created by Steven Spielberg and directed by Tobe Hooper, is a film that can be framed as a cinematic anomaly – a high budget, high profile Hollywood summer blockbuster but also a film which is a legitimate horror movie.
Poltergeist is a film of paradoxes, from its inception, production, and narrative there is a continual sense of contradiction. audiences, reviewers, and critics alike have found it hard to define and categorise the film – as it is an outright horror, family adventure film, blockbuster, and grindhouse text all at the same time.
It is from these opposing standpoints that this book explores the production and themes within – discussing the films sense of duality, dichotomy, and contradiction. The notion of the American Dream, greed, the disregard of the tradition and the importance of family are also key concepts that are debated. This text also explores how Poltergeist is both spine-tingling scary experiences yet also a ‘safe’ movie – a ‘gateway’ text for viewers into the realm of horror and a film that shows a willingness to push boundaries in its implied and explicit depictions to incite these scares.
They’re here
Authors: McLaughlin Robert
Published: May 2024

Poltergeist by MGM focused on Spielberg name and reputation. While Spielberg is credited as the producer of the film, he is also credited for the film’s initial story and screenplay. it is the renowned grindhouse auteur Tobe Hooper. Described as a ‘family’ horror movie throughout its production schedule and marketed as such via the film’s PR, press the promotional material Poltergeist as previously notes focused heavily on Spielberg’s involvement in the film. With these continual contravening presentations of the film via press, publicity, and marketing as well as the potentially deliberate removal of Hooper end credit directorial acknowledgement it is no wonder that people mistakenly still assume that (even after four decades) that Poltergeist is a Steven Spielberg ‘directed’ film rather than a Tobe Hooper directed production.
Introduction
Authors: Tybinko Anna , Aidoo Lamonte , Silva Daniel F.
Published: May 2024

Written by the editors, the introduction conceptualizes contemporary migration patterns across the Luso-Hispanic world. By centering subaltern migrant experiences in an array of cultural production, this introduction seeks to destabilize the postcolonial centrality and dominant discourses of Iberian former metropoles. In this regard, the introduction lays some of the volume’s theoretical groundwork for interrogating current global hegemonies and meanings that impact transnational movement. It will also ponder the possibilities for counter-hegemonic and subaltern global mapping fomented by these migratory patterns.
Unseen Diasporas: Portuguese Labor Migrants in Colonial Plantations
Authors: Bastos Cristiana
Published: May 2024

Cristiana Bastos argues for the need to re-settle Lusophone studies from its connections to the geographies of the Portuguese empire and post-empire. She thus argues that the field should (a) expand towards wider geographies of diaspora and labor migration; (b) accommodate the literature on diasporic societies produced by social scientists, literary scholars, and writers; and (c) address the less visible historical migrant flows of Portuguese into competing empires and nations, in which their communities were shaped by site-specific modes of segregation, ethnicization and racialization. Her chapter thus represents an urgent contribution to the latter item by discussing current research on the flows, mobility and racialization of Portuguese islanders into the British Caribbean plantations in the mid 19th century and into Hawaii’s plantations and New England cotton mills in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Filipinx Negrito : Black Mestizaje and Transpacific Intimacies in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters and José Rizal’s Filipinas dentro de cien años
Authors: Bolton Sony Coráñez
Published: May 2024

This chapter discursively broaches the question of global migration by placing the transatlantic in conversation with the transpacific. In order to reevaluate Spain and Portugal’s colonial legacies and their relevance for contemporary migratory flows to and from the Iberian Peninsula, Bolton highlights the importance of the Hispanic Philippines as a case study whose marginal positionality can illuminate the center. The prioritization of such a margin, located in the “Oriental” excesses of the Spanish colonial legacy is crucial to a consistent and productive interrogation of “broader histories of migration and displacement” as prioritized in this edited anthology. By addressing this dynamic, Bolton critically engages the afterlife of the political economy of slavery and anti-blackness, arguing that Hispanic and US American imperial racialization of “Asia” accretes meaning and power through a transnational solidification of anti-blackness. Blackness, however, always recedes from the horizon of thinkability. Therefore, in considering the recession of blackness and how this conditions Asian racialization, Bolton situates the Hispanic Philippines within the longue durée of US and Spanish imperialism into the 20th century by placing two texts in conversation with two crucial “global” moments in Philippine history
Crossing Borders, Bodies, and Time: A Luso-Hispanic Dialogue on (Post)Colonial Interracial Liaisons
Authors: Sousa Sandra I.
Published: May 2024

Sandra I. Sousa takes as a point of departure, the 1998 film Zona J (directed by Leonel Vieira), which depicts daily life and societal experiences of African migrant communities in post-imperial Lisbon impacted by systemic racism and the continuities of colonial discourses, this article aims at a better understanding of the colonial and post-independence movements between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. Particularly, through the analysis of two novels, Palmeras en la Nieve [Palm Trees in the Snow] (2012) by Luz Gabás and Os Pretos de Pousaflores [The Blacks of Pousaflores] (2011) by Aida Gomes, Sousa compares the dynamics, motivations, and migratory flows between supposedly different colonizing processes and narratives of colonial endeavor – that of the Portuguese and that of the Spanish. Even though the two novels differ in modes of narration, length, and situational contexts, they both span colonial settlement in Fernando Pó (currently Bioko, Equatorial Guinea) and Angola respectively to their post-independence periods. In both novels, we also follow the movement of more than one generation of colonists and their descendants as they negotiate the racial and historical signifiers that mark their relationship to space and movement.
The Peripheral Subject in Welket Bungué’s Films
Authors: Dias Inês Cordeiro
Published: May 2024

Inês Cordeiro Dias analyzes how Welket Bungué uses performance, poetry, and visual essay, among other resources, to ponder on the black peripheral subject in contemporary Portuguese society. In this paper, I analyse the conceptualization and representation of the peripheral subject in Bungué’s short films, paying particular attention to Treino Periférico, Bustagate and Eu Não Sou Pilatus. Bungué defines the peripheral subject as someone who agglutinates within himself diverse cultures and understandings of the surrounding world. The peripheral subject is a global citizen whose idea of home is dissolving. The films in question meditate on this condition in different manners. Treino Periférico is a film essay where two black characters, named Courage and Race, contemplate what it means to be a black body in the periphery of Lisbon. Bustagate is a hybrid short that departs from an episode of police violence against Cláudia Simões, using footage of the episode to reflect on issues of institutionalized racism in Portugal. Eu Não Sou Pilatus is a manifesto against racism.
Introduction
Authors: Briel Holger , High Michael D. , Heidingsfelder Markus
Published: May 2024

This chapter provides a background on several of the technological, philosophical, and social filiations that produced piracy in the first place. It confirms why piracy is here to stay, describing it as a central and pivotal social practice without which pluralistic societies cannot exist. Piracy is seen as a compass, a metonymical and anarchic intervention, and a necessary threat and challenge to questionable existing political and commercial activities. The chapter considers piracy as an agent of empowerment, an applied critique of particular forms of technologization, a de-colonising practice, and as an instrument to achieve a post-piratical frame of mind and world. It discusses how piracy actively engages individuals and creates communities in order to make a positive difference in human and post-human societies at large.
Pirates of Society
Authors: Heidingsfelder Markus
Published: May 2024

This chapter provides an analysis of the metonymical usage of the word ‘piracy’ to describe varying political interventions akin to it. Politics is simply piracy by different means but for others, piracy is politics by different means. The chapter talks about digital pirates that are heavily invested in changing the world for the better and are activists on a whole slew of issues, such as digital rights, hacking, ecology, and education. It scrutinizes how the piracy movement spawned its own political parties. In many circles, the idea of piracy has become a rallying cry for further engagement, not only in digital matters, but also in what used to be called the ‘real’ world.
Piracy in Nollywood: Dimensions, Contexts, Hazards, and Ways Forward
Authors: Omenugha Nelson Obinna
Published: May 2024

This chapter shows that it is not so much the fight against copyright that leads to piratical practices in the global south, but rather economic necessity. If in the west it was mostly ideological and technology-based developments that were conducive to piracy’s rise, in economically disadvantaged countries it was the economic and regulatory restrictions that gave rise to piracy in the south. The chapter interrogates the complex dimension of piracy in Nollywood, the Nigerian modern film industry. It identifies some of the detailed causes of film piracy, such as weaknesses in extant laws, weak law enforcement regimes, and ignorance of copyright laws by the public. It also examines suggestions by some commentators about the film piracy holding some merits, noting its effect on wider circulation and stimulation of competitive market price.
Michaël Ferrier, Transnational Novelist: French Without Borders
Authors: Kawakami Akane
Published: May 2024

Michaël Ferrier is a prize-winning novelist, essayist and academic whose cosmopolitan life – he grew up in Chad and France, has Mauritian roots and lives in Japan – has inspired him to write fascinating novels that cross generic and geographical boundaries. This book is the first ever dedicated to his works, which explore subjects as various as an African childhood, notions of Frenchness, inter-identities, and post-Fukushima life in Japan. Hybridity is key to his choice of themes, forms and genres, which include – as befits a twenty-first century author – a website, Tokyo-Time-Table, which is discussed in this study. Kawakami uses an eclectic range of frameworks to analyse Ferrier’s output, ranging from translingualism to Environmental Humanities and Ferrier’s own vision of his oeuvre, in order to capture the variety and hybridity of his writing. The study includes an interview between Kawakami and Ferrier, published for the first time in this volume, in which the author discusses themes such as dreams, Japan, the internet, and collaborating with other artists. This book is an indispensable guide to an author who is one of the rising stars of contemporary French and Francophone literature, and a unique voice that crosses all kinds of borders across the globe.
Short Introduction
Authors: Chesi Giulia Maria
Published: May 2024

This short introduction to Section I: Technologies and Bodies, by Giulia Maria Chesi, explores the definition of technosoma and sets the scene for chapters 1-5.
Galen’s Thrasybulus : Medicine, Gymnastic Trainers, and the technosoma
Authors: King Daniel
Published: May 2024

Chapter 6 by Daniel King discusses Galen’s various works on gymnastics and physical training that show an interest in the development and maintenance of the ‘natural’ body. This chapter focuses on the treatise Thrasybulus. It is wide-ranging and polemical: it is both a dismissal of alternate arts concerned with the body and specific practitioners of those alternate arts, as well as a treatise which explores the philosophical methods for defining bodily technai, the value of sophistical arguments about the body, and argues for a particular understanding of the ultimate and singular good for the sōma. The body emerges as a subtle combination of art (technē) and nature, in which nature is achieved through the practices of technical knowledge and skill.
Mansplaining with Ovid: Ars–cultus–munditia and the ‘Natural’ Body
Authors: Johnson Marguerite
Published: May 2024

Chapter 9 by Marguerite Johnson examines Ovid’s preference for unadorned female elegance and examines the tensions exhibited in his work between natural beauty on the one hand, and – ironically – the efforts required to achieve it, on the other. This approach not only places emphasis on technosômata in Ovidian Rome, but also brings to prominence the male-imposed value system of bodily aesthetics for women, which he champions. The chapter privileges not only the written artefact in the form of Ovid’s poetry, but the material artefact as well, in its consideration of the recipes and various beauty accoutrements mentioned in the Medicamina in relation to the archaeological evidence.
Short Introduction: Hybrid Pleasures
Authors: Chesi Giulia Maria
Published: May 2024

This short introduction to Section III: Body Technologies and Sexuality, by Giulia Maria Chesi, sets out the parameters for the following discussions in chapters 12-14 on the relationship between the artificial and sexuality.
Stories
Authors: Mendes Alexander
Published: May 2024

“Stories” brings teacher voices to the fore in an analysis of interviews of educators on the island from Corsica, Italy, Morocco, Sweden, and Valencia (Spain). The interviews are framed as knowledge that is situated and co-constructed in concert with the researcher. Focal participants’ reflections on local language and cultural dynamics reveal subjective experiences of competing language hierarchies. Language teachers participate in shaping and enacting what gets understood as multilingualism and globalization in their embodied orientations to place and time as they struggle to reconcile personal experiences in their search to establish a multilingual subject position. The chapter concludes with a discussion of meditation and translingual praxis.
Power, Politics and Territory in the 'New Northern Ireland'
Authors: DeYoung Elizabeth
Published: May 2024

In the wake of the Good Friday Agreement, the redevelopment of the former Girdwood Army Barracks in North Belfast was hailed as a ‘symbol of hope’ for Northern Ireland. It was a major investment in a former conflict zone and an internationally significant peacebuilding project. Instead of adhering to the tenets of the Agreement, sectarianism dominated the regeneration agenda. Throughout the process, politicians, community groups and paramilitaries wrangled over the site’s future, and territorial contest won out over housing need. After eleven years of negotiation and £11.7 million, the EU-funded Girdwood Community Hub opened its doors to the public in 2016, but its impact has been underwhelming. The Hub’s redevelopment is a microcosm of the peace process itself, and the ways in which post-Agreement politics have failed to deliver a ‘shared future’ for the people of Northern Ireland, twenty-five years on. However, the story of Girdwood also demonstrates the presence of activists who challenged the status quo and reclaimed space through community work, protest and collective action. This ethnography provides a lively account of Girdwood’s redevelopment and a wry critique of the fractious political context around it. Through flânerie and encounter, the author brings us across peace walls, into community meetings and behind the scenes of decision-making in Northern Ireland. Girdwood’s story also sheds light on how power, politics and territory intersect in divided cities globally.
‘Frictions, Factions and Fractions’
Authors: DeYoung Elizabeth
Published: May 2024

Chapter Three sets the scene for how identity politics around demography and territory shaped the first phase of Girdwood’s development. In 2001, the notion of physical and symbolic Catholic/Nationalist ‘growth’ and Protestant/Unionist ‘decline’ sparked the infamous Holy Cross dispute in North Belfast. The fallout from Holy Cross resulted in the creation of the North Belfast Community Action Project (NBCAP), which recommended the development of a major site to serve as a symbol of hope for North Belfast. The chapter goes on to outline how Girdwood initially fit into this vision. At the time, peacebuilding money and private investment flowed into the post-Agreement ‘New Northern Ireland’, underlining a neoliberal turn towards redevelopment. In theory, Girdwood offered the opportunity for an internationally significant regeneration project. Along with the adjacent Crumlin Road Gaol and Courthouse, the site was slated for major development. It seemed the peace dividend was arriving in North Belfast at last.
Carve-Up or Compromise?
Authors: DeYoung Elizabeth
Published: May 2024

Chapter Six charts the proposal for Girdwood that emerged from this political context. In 2009, Belfast City Council submitted a funding bid to the EU PEACE III programme to build a ‘Community Hub’ on the site. Initially, Sinn Fein supported the prospect of social housing provision on the site, but the DUP continued to be unequivocally against any type of housing. After a series of trade-offs, including an alleged deal on the Maze/Long Kesh prison site, the DUP and Sinn Fein reached a compromise on the Community Hub. Two separate areas of social housing were planned: 60 houses on the Catholic/Nationalist side of the development and space for housing on the Protestant/Unionist side, despite there being no demand for the latter. The decision was deemed by many to be a ‘sectarian carve-up’ and involved Sinn Fein giving up on social housing provision for Catholic/Nationalist North Belfast.
Cold War Negritude
Authors: Bonner Christopher T.
Published: May 2024

Cold War Negritude is a study of French Caribbean literary aesthetics in the ideological context of the global Cold War. The book explores how the bipolar order changed how, demonstrating how these authors worked through their ambivalent political belongings in and through their literary practices. Through the late 1940s, Francophone intellectuals from Sartre to Senghor agreed that Surrealist-inspired avant-garde poetry held special political purchase for colonized black writers. By the 1950s, however, the Cold War forced Antillean writers to reckon with their relationship to literary modernism and to communism. Through close readings of literary, theoretical, and polemical texts by Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and René Depestre, Christopher T Bonner shows that this reflection on politics and form reflected radically changed understandings of what it meant to write engaged literature in a new, bipolar world order. These authors’ trajectories spanned all three “worlds” of the 1950s Cold War order, affording them unique insights into the Cold War world order as it took shape. The book discusses literary discourse as a proxy battlefield where Antillean writers argued for different visions of an emancipated Caribbean modernity in alignment with the broader world. Finally, Cold War Negritude shows how these authors developed original aesthetic responses to the Cold War that creolize a diverse array of global Marxist literary tendencies.
Black Bloc
Authors: Bonner Christopher T.
Published: May 2024

This chapter pinpoints the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists as the event that crystallized the terms and fault lines of the literary debates traced in subsequent chapters. Alioune Diop and the editorial team of Présence Africaine organized the meeting under the sign of the 1955 Bandung Conference, emphasizing cultural solidarity of the monde noir as a non-aligned, decolonial alternative to the bipolar paradigm. It first traces how the Congress’s framing around a capacious definition of culture made culture a screen for the Cold War ideological antagonisms. Within this overall setting of politicized cultural debate, the chapter proceeds by exploring the contestations of literary form at the Congress, showing how these functioned as a major proxy battlefield at the event.
Comrade Depestre
Authors: Bonner Christopher T.
Published: May 2024

This chapter analyzes René Depestre’s 1950s writings through the lens of his alignment with global communism. Depestre’s Cold War trajectory was extraordinarily peripatetic: at turns benefitting from his communist ties and at other times suffering for them, Depestre was kicked back and forth across the Cold War worlds more than once. I start by revisiting Depestre’s much-discussed debate with Aimé Césaire over “national poetry.” Departing from most criticism on the Césaire–Depestre debate, this chapter is framed with Depestre as protagonist. Through close readings of poems from Minerai noir (1956), The chapter reconstructs the poetics Depestre developed through engaging with Aragon’s poetry: an aesthetic of class solidarity oriented towards referentiality and political education in contrast to Negritude’s avant-garde aesthetics and its vision of political belonging based upon racial solidarity.
“A Good Thing Spring Up”: The Breadfruit Story in the Caribbean
Authors: Savory Elaine
Published: May 2024

This chapter traces the story of the breadfruit from its native Pacific to the Caribbean, exploring the fruit’s entwinement with historical events, such as the mutiny on the Bounty, and examining its links to colonialism and capitalist extraction. The chapter also establishes the central role the breadfruit plays in the Caribbean today. As well as attending to the botany of the plant, and establishing its importance in medicine and food across the region, the chapter explores the breadfruit’s place in Caribbean literature, including in the works of Austin Clarke, Jamaica Kincaid, Erna Brodber, Paule Marshall, and Derek Walcott. It concludes with a meditation on the plant’s adaptability, including to climate change.
The Politics of Yerba Mate
Authors: Gerassi-Navarro Nina
Published: May 2024

This chapter argues that the history of Yerba mate is intertwined with the history of colonization in South America, from the arrival of the Spanish and the establishment of Jesuit missions, to the struggles of nation building, and to the plant’s current global commercialization. The chapter contends that the history of the plant also illustrates the politics embedded in the development of scientific knowledge in the late eighteenth century, when European naturalists explored the southern regions of the Americas, eager to uncover and classify the new continent. Interweaving political, cultural, economic, and scientific perspectives, this essay reveals the intricate relationship between the production of mate and the asymmetrical power relations embedded within the process.
The Vine at the End of the World: Reimagining Kudzu in the U.S. South
Authors: Martell Jessica , Vernon Zackary
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on the representation of kudzu in the American South, from Depression-era agricultural deus ex machina to gothic bio-menace. Exploring literary and filmic texts featuring the vine, including James Dickey’s poem “Kudzu” and J.D. Wilkes’s 2017 novel The Vine that Ate the South, it shows how, in the southern imaginary, the vine has stood for things feared, things buried, and things desired. The chapter concludes, however, by challenging the plant’s default status as an ominous metaphor or, more literally, an eradication target, and argues that learning to live with kudzu can encourage new paradigms of kinship with the non-human world.
France's Memorial Landscape
Authors: Fuggle Sophie
Published: May 2024

During August 1942 several women jumped to their deaths from a second story window at the tile factory in the small town of Milles near Aix-en-Provence. Between 1939 and 1942 the factory assumed various roles as internment camp, transit camp and ultimately deportation camp. This book is about the view from the ‘suicide window’ as it is presented within the Camp des Milles memorial museum which opened in 2012. It explores how this view might help us to understand and imagine the world of internment and deportation camps operating in France during the Second World War and their memorial today. The book uses the views framed by the window to think critically about the museography of the memorial within the wider context of France’s relatively late acknowledgment of its role in the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War.
Introduction
Authors: Fuggle Sophie
Published: May 2024

The subtitle of the introduction ‘This is not a camp’ is intended as a provocation intended to draw attention to the memorial museum as a series of ‘representations’ of the camp. In providing the reader with a comprehensive history of the site, the introduction offers a warning against an oversimplified reading of the memorial as camp or as a stand-in for the camp network operating across France during wartime. The introduction is organised around a series of disclaimers which will contextualise Camp des Milles historically, geographically and philosophically before providing an outline of the book’s main chapters.
Window Frame
Authors: Fuggle Sophie
Published: May 2024

This chapter emphasizes the window frame as part of the view from the second floor at Les Milles. It considers the window as a unique space within the exhibition and examines the role of natural and artificial light throughout the memorial in evoking an interplay of light and darkness associated with the camp as both material and imagined space. Drawing specifically on Virilio’s work in War and Cinema, the window is contrasted with the use of video screens throughout the exhibition. From the window as producing light to the window as frame, the chapter goes on to consider the window frame within the context of other types of ‘framing’ occurring both within the memorial exhibition and other forms of visual culture associated with the representation of the Holocaust. The chapter then moves to the personal act of photographing the window. Via Benjamin’s work on both photography and souvenirs, the photograph is explored as object and souvenir rather than straightforward representation. Developing existing scholarship on Holocaust tourism and with specific reference to Primo Levi and Giorgio Agamben’s work on witnessing and the camp, the chapter asks whether the visitor to the memorial can take part in a meaningful form of witnessing?
The Total Mountain
Authors: Garlick Ben
Published: May 2024

The work of 20th century Scottish author Nan Shepherd explores the relationships between nature, culture, landscape and the body. Widely regarded as an important figure in early 20th-century Scottish literature for her evocative poetry and fiction, Shepherd’s work has gained renewed attention following the re-publication and subsequent celebration of her nonfiction treatise The Living Mountain in 2009, by contemporary new nature writers such as Robert MacFarlane (2007; 2015). In this phenomenological meditation on walking in the Cairngorms of Scotland, Shepherd works through the sensory apparatus of her own body to consider the multiple ‘ways in’ to the mountainous plateau it affords. This chapter develops the notion of ‘the total mountain’ introduced within The Living Mountain, in concert with the lyrical evocations of landscape found throughout Shepherd’s prose and poetry, rooted in her own experiences of northeast Scotland’s environment. It figures her writing as offering, after Brian Massumi (2002), a series of ‘exemplars’, or ‘parables’, that both articulate and sensitise us to the affective qualities of space. The chapter presents Shepherd’s concept of ‘the total mountain’ as framing an alternative ontology of the mountainous as situated, excessive and alive with potential.
Politics of Representation in Mountaineering
Authors: Hall Jenny , Hall Martin
Published: May 2024

This chapter summarises the findings of the work in the book and crucially, proposes the new avenues of work which need to be completed. There are ideas uncovered in this volume which as questions for new areas of scholarship and this chapter investigates how effectively the collected works here have questioned the scope of mountain literature, and have nuanced dominant narratives of consumption within leisure and tourism spaces by contributing novel accounts of mountain environments and the communities associated therein. The chapters acknowledges the dominance of Western academic voices and subjects in this volume and call upon academics to take seriously issues of inclusion across multiple axes of social distinction.
History and Heritage
Authors: Busteed Mervyn
Published: May 2024

The chapter outlines the circumstances surrounding the foundation of the Order in the troubled context of late eighteenth century Ireland, its rapid diffusion through the insecure Protestant population who adopted King William 3rd as a hero figure, his 1690 victory at the Boyne over the Catholic King James 2nd as an iconic even and the family colour orange as a defining motif. The transplanting of the Order to England by returning veterans and its resonance with the traditional anti-Catholicism in English and British popular nationalism are explained, along with the attractions of socialising in lodge meetings and parades on 12th July. The pressures leading to dissolution in 1836 are discussed along with the conditions enabling survival at local level and eventual re-emergence as a national organisation in 1876
The Liverpool Context
Authors: Busteed Mervyn
Published: May 2024

An analysis of three factors which seemed to endow historic Orange fears with immediate local veracity, enabling the Order to become deeply rooted in working class Protestant Liverpool. The labour force was dominated by casual dock work, triggering development of nearby dense residential neighbourhoods, large scale Irish Catholic immigration in the 1840s massively reinforced existing Irish neighbourhoods, where an intense parish based associational culture developed, reigniting atavistic ultra-Protestant opposition to Catholicism, eloquently voiced in a series of campaigns led by Ulster born Reverend Hugh McNeile. The local Conservative party, seeing an electoral opportunity, adopted a strongly Protestant ethos which attracted a significant working-class vote, enabling a century of political dominance.
Neoliberal Subjectivity and the Alterity Paradigm
Authors: Jaising Shakti
Published: May 2024

Chapter 1 challenges the alterity assumptions underlying Wendy Brown and Aihwa Ong’s influential theories about subject formation in neoliberal North America and East Asia respectively. It argues that while these Foucauldian theories provide valuable insight into the construction of subjectivities in the contemporary moment, they tend to overemphasize what they characterize as fundamental differences between the Global North and South. The dichotomy between North and South that both Brown and Ong suggest obscures, on the one hand, the impact of economic violence and precarity on large numbers of people in the advanced capitalist world, and on the other hand the potency of “soft power” in normalizing ideas of entrepreneurial individualism, especially among middle classes in the South. The chapter ends by suggesting an approach that is attuned to the role of material interests and compulsions in the shaping of subjectivities all over the world.
The Neoliberal Script
Authors: Jaising Shakti
Published: May 2024

This chapter demonstrates the formation and proliferation across advanced capitalist contexts like the US and emerging economies like India of a neoliberal script over the last four decades, which has eroded the social currency of redistributive approaches such as Keynesianism and developmentalism. The chapter tracks resonances between diverse performances of this script—from Chicago School neoliberal Milton Friedman’s 1980 documentary series, Free to Choose, to former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s iconic addresses in the wake of economic liberalization in the early 1990s, and public intellectual Gurcharan Das’s bestselling national biographies about the rise of New India. By highlighting the role of Indian elites, and not simply Northern agents, this chapter complicates the widely held belief that the neoliberal turn in the Global South results primarily from material and ideological pressures imposed by the North.
The Maturing Entrepreneur of Popular Indian Fiction
Authors: Jaising Shakti
Published: May 2024

Chapter 3 begins the book’s examination of the interactions between literature and the neoliberal script. It analyses bestselling author Chetan Bhagat’s The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2003) alongside lesser-known writer Parinda Joshi’s Made in China (2019)—both examples of a popular subgenre of the Indian English novel that, since the 2000s, has attracted a significant domestic audience, been frequently adapted to Hindi cinema, and contributed to a publishing boom within India. Underlying Bhagat’s and Joshi’s narratives is a common arc that traces the professional and ethical maturation of a small-town businessman from Gujarat (a potent site of capitalist mythology in India). Together with their filmic adaptations [Kai Po Che (Dir. Abhishek Kapoor, 2013) and Made in China (Dir. Mikhil Musale, 2019)], these bildungsromane illustrate vividly how the neoliberal script and its fantasy of a mature as well as socially just capitalism has travelled across the Indian public sphere and impressed upon the consciousness of large sections of the middle class.
Fixity Amid Flux: Literary Fiction and Rural Dispossession
Authors: Jaising Shakti
Published: May 2024

Chapter 5 turns to serious or “literary” fiction from the Global South, through its examination of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide (2004) in conjunction with Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness (2000). Unlike the popular fiction examined in earlier chapters, these novels by Ghosh and Mda consist of layered “network narratives” that oscillate between temporalities and points of view in their depictions of rural life in India and South Africa respectively. But although formally and intellectually complex, these narratives are nonetheless structured by the neoliberal script— which becomes especially clear in how they each track the moral transformation and entrepreneurial development of metropolitan characters, while framing rural peasants as fixed and idealized figures. In the end, Ghosh’s and Mda’s novels appear to be animated by a philosophical and aesthetic tension between networks and nostalgia, or between fluidity and fixity. This tension speaks to the problematic ways in which the novels mourn the losses that attend neoliberal capitalism’s destruction of rural ecologies.
From Philosophy to Theology
Authors: Sicari Stephen
Published: May 2024

This chapter argues against the commonplace that Stevens is a philosophical poet who reckons with the death of God. The chapter argues, against presentations of Stevens as a philosopher, that it is better to consider Stevens within a theological framework, because it is only through such an approach that we can apprehend and understand the presence of transcendent elements (the ‘angel’ of the title) in our experience of reality. The chapter in particular draws from the work of the theologian Raimon Pannikar and his ideas around trinitarianism.
Unilateral Glaucoma Without Facial Angioma in a Pediatric Patient: A Suspected Sturge-Weber Syndrome Variant
Authors: Naithani Rizul , Joseph Suzanna , Sathiamoorthi Saraniya , Freedman Sharon F.
Published: May 2024

The authors report a case of a 5-month-old full-term infant with chronic conjunctival redness and elevated intraocular pressure in the right eye. Magnetic resonance imaging ruled out leptomeningeal angiomatosis. Despite lacking a typical port-wine mark, the diagnosis of Sturge-Weber syndrome was established based on specific observations in the right eye that involved unilateral vascular glaucoma. These findings included Haab striae, a larger axial length measurement, an increased number of episcleral vessels with blood in Schlemm canal, and a thicker choroid in the macular region. This is the first reported pediatric case with these specific ocular manifestations in the absence of facial angioma, highlighting the need for awareness among clinicians to avoid misdiagnosis and facilitate proper management.

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J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus
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The fourth power mean of the generalized quadratic Gauss sums associated with some Dirichlet characters
Authors: Wang Xuan , Wang Li , Chen Guohui
Published: May 2024

In this paper, the fourth power mean values of the generalized quadratic Gauss sums associated with the $ 3 $-order and $ 4 $-order Dirichlet characters are given by using the properties of the Dirichlet characters and Gauss sums.
Stability for Cauchy problem of first order linear PDEs on $ \mathbb{T}^m $ with forced frequency possessing finite uniform Diophantine exponent
Authors: Guan Xinyu , Kang Nan
Published: May 2024

In this paper, we studied the stability of the Cauchy problem for a class of first-order linear quasi-periodically forced PDEs on the $ m $-dimensional torus:

   \begin{document}$ \begin{eqnarray*} \left\{ \begin{array}{l} \partial_t u+(\xi+f(x, \omega t, \xi))\cdot \partial_x u = 0, \\ u(x, 0) = u_0(x), \ \end{array} \right. \end{eqnarray*} $\end{document}

where $ \xi\in \mathbb{R}^m, x\in \mathbb{T}^m, \omega\in\mathbb{R}^d, $ in the case of multidimensional Liouvillean forced frequency. We proved that for each compact set $ \mathcal{O}\in\mathbb{R}^m $ there exists a Cantor subset $ \mathcal{O}_\gamma $ of $ \mathcal{O} $ with positive Lebesgue measure such that if $ \xi\in\mathcal{O}_\gamma, $ then for a perturbation $ f $ being small in some analytic Sobolev norm, there exists a bounded and invertible quasi-periodic family of linear operator $ \Psi(\omega t) $, such that the above PDEs are reduced by the transformation $ v: = \Psi(\omega t)^{-1}[u] $ into the following PDE:

   \begin{document}$ \begin{eqnarray*} \partial_t v+ (\xi+ m_\infty(\omega t))\cdot\partial_x v = 0, \end{eqnarray*} $\end{document}

provided that the forced frequency $ \omega\in \mathbb{R}^d $ possesses finite uniform Diophantine exponent, which allows Liouvillean frequency. The reducibility can immediately cause the stability of the above Cauchy problem, that is, the analytic Sobolev norms of the Cauchy problem are controlled uniformly in time. The proof is based on a finite dimensional Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theory for quasi-periodically forced linear vector fields with multidimensional Liouvillean forced frequency. As we know, the results on Liouvillean frequency existing in the literature deal with two-dimensional frequency and exploit the theory of continued fractions to control the small divisor problem. The results in this paper partially extend the analysis to higher-dimensional frequency and impose a weak nonresonance condition, i.e., the forced frequency $ \omega $ possesses finite uniform Diophantine exponent. Our result can be regarded as a generalization of analytic cases in the work [R. Feola, F. Giuliani, R. Montalto and M, Procesi, Reducibility of first order linear operators on tori via Moser's theorem, J. Funct. Anal., 2019] from Diophantine frequency to Liouvillean frequency.
Efficacy Testing of the Comprehensive Institutional Model (CIM) using Design-based Research: Instrumental Case Study
Authors: McCray Pamela D. , St. Clair Norman
Published: May 2024

COVID-19 was a “black swan” event that forever altered higher education’s adult teaching and learning landscape by requiring a pathway shift in institutional resources to meet student and faculty support needs for academic success and institutional sustainability. Over the last two years, thousands of scholarly articles have been published about the challenges that higher education institutions (HEIs) faced during COVID-19 and their lasting impact on student learning, faculty engagement, and institutional operations in the post-COVID environment. Many researchers offer strategies and guidance to help address the challenges; however, research is limited to testing these strategies and proposed models designed to mitigate the challenges and manage such a crisis in the future. The proposed study will help close this gap by assessing the efficacy of the Comprehensive Institutional Model (CIM), developed based on the findings of Perceptions of Online Strategies and Digital Readiness in the COVID-19 Environment: An Instrumental Case Study by McCray et al. [19]. The CIM aims to provide HEIs with a model to support Hy-flex learning environments to ensure readiness for new emergencies and the aftermath of a “new normal” in higher education. The model organizes how aligning administrators, faculty, and graduate students impacts effective Hy-flex teaching and learning environments. Design-Based Research (DBR) will be used to systematically collect and analyze evidence-based testing results of the CIM across three iterations.