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Pragmatics of Eponyms in Political Discourse (On the Material of the Speeches of Politicians)
Authors: Taubayev Zharas
Published: September 2021

Eponyms are complicated, unique constructs named after people
and places used in special-professional areas of science. One of those specific areas is politics/political discourse. The main purpose of this article is to investigate the
political discourse of politicians (Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin) in the period from
2012 to 2017 to reveal the pragmatic potential and skillful use of eponyms used by the latter when they ran for presidency as a means of influence. Results show that eponyms are becoming powerful language tools of political discourse. At each stage of work, various methods were used to complete the analysis. Such methods include the diachronic method, definition analysis (descriptive method), and discourse analysis. Using different methods, especially discourse analysis, considerably facilitated the research process, enabling the identification of the pragmatic effects of eponyms. The
main reasons that eponyms frequently appear in political discourse are the existence
of new political eras, modern political events, and controversial political issues.
Britain and Europe at a Crossroads. The Politics of Anxiety and Transformation, by Andrew Ryder (Bristol University Press, 2020)
Authors: Futo Peter
Published: September 2021

This is an interesting and coherent book which offers a specific interpretation of Brexit by examining the political discourse and investigating its linguistic and rhetoric context. The author applies the method of critical discourse analysis, which links the micro analysis of speech acts (speeches, public statements, political adverts, and interviews) with a macro approach that critically assesses the relationship between speech acts and the historical and socio-economic profile of Britain. The Brexit debate is used as a case study to demonstrate that power is embodied in discourse and knowledge, and that sophisticated verbal constructs are capable of manipulating a range of dispositions, emotions, and
identities to the extreme.
Overwhelmed by a Cloak of Darkness
Authors: Kruse Zack
Published: September 2021

This chapter applies both dark karma and cosmic intraspace to several of Ditko’s pre-Comics Code horror and weird suspense stories produced for Charlton Comics in 1953. The readings and contextualization provided in this chapter demonstrate that many of the ethical and moral concerns that appear in Ditko’s later, supposedly Objectivist comics, actually appear long before he became acquainted with Rand’s work. Rather, as this chapter argues, Ditko folded Objectivism into his pre-existing moral and ethical beliefs, which had a distinctly mystical flavor.
“’Twas Steve’s Idea”
Authors: Kruse Zack
Published: September 2021

Dr. Strange is a character wholly of Ditko’s invention, which other writers later contributed to and altered. This chapter addresses the issue of Dr. Strange’s racial identity as well as the complicated politics of cosmic intraspace on display throughout Ditko’s tenure on the character. This chapter considers one of Ditko’s most knotty and sophisticated narrative arcs as it addresses the creation of the self, how occult and mystical ideas infiltrate (and are infiltrated) by individualist thought, and how the two operate together to create a mystic liberal imagination of self-creation through an internal excavation of the mind.
These Magazines Are Haunted!
Authors: Kruse Zack
Published: September 2021

This chapter provides an overview of many of the major works that Ditko produced after leaving Marvel and developing new superheroes for Charlton Comics. The majority of the comics considered in this chapter are those produced at DC in the late 1960s and 1970s; however, there are also discussions on Ditko’s work at Warren Publications as well as two of his most significant independent works, Static and The Mocker. Each examination places the selected text within the theoretical framework provided early on, and of major importance, each of these comics—produced after Ditko had supposedly devoted his work entirely to Objectivism—demonstrate that the creator’s output was far more interested in cosmic intraspace and the kind of redemption possible through a sort of excavation of the mind.
Notes on an Anxious Genre: Queer Young Adult Literature and Culture
Authors: Mason Derritt
Published: September 2021

This chapter traces the emergence of queer themes and characters in young adult literature, as well as critical commentary on queer YA, to demonstrate how anxiety is the affective form that best characterizes this subgenre of children’s literature. Mason argues that, in the long tradition of children’s literature criticism, queer YA criticism functions as an illuminating index of anxieties about how adults address queer youth. This chapter draws on sociological work on adolescence, as well as psychoanalytic theorists Adam Phillips and Julia Kristeva, to illustrate how adolescence and young adult literature are themselves the products of adult anxiety. Anxiety characterizes the affective economy through which queer young adult literature circulates, Mason argues, while itself evincing a queer temporality that places delay and forward-oriented growth in tension with one another. Overall, Mason demonstrates the utility of children’s literature and its theories for thinking more broadly about adult concerns and anxieties.
“Invasión Del 80/¡Yo Vine Del Mariel!”
Authors: Lapidus Benjamin
Published: September 2021

This chapter discusses the immediate musical impact of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift by examining some of the dancers and musicians who arrived in New York City at that time: Orlando “Puntilla” Ríos, Manuel Martínez Olivera “El llanero solitario” (The Lone Ranger), Roberto Borrell, Rita Macías, Xiomara Rodríguez, Félix “Pupy” Insua, Pedro Domech, Daniel Ponce, Fernando Lavoy, Gerardo “Taboada” Fernández, Gabriel “Chinchilita” Machado, and many others. The chapter highlights the musical activities of these people and other musicians and its long-term effects on the folkloric and Latin popular dance music scenes in New York and the greater United States, not only in the performance realm but in many cases also as teachers for subsequent generations of Cuban and non-Cuban musicians, particularly Puerto Ricans in New York City. This group of artists who arrived during El Mariel would also serve as important points of connection for the next major wave of newly arriving musicians and dancers in the early 1990s, known as the balseros (raft people). Ultimately, the chapter provides an analysis of and insight into this overlooked era of Cuban musical history in New York and how it would impact Latin music in New York and elsewhere.
Two Arrivals
Authors: Ross Charles D.
Published: September 2021

This chapter begins with detailing the arrival of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred Earnest Albert, second son of Queen Victoria and second in line to the throne, on the public wharf in Nassau. It investigates how the royal visit had by chance coincided with the beginning of one of the most action-packed eras in the history of the island. Nassau was about to experience a storm of events that would be remembered long after Prince Alfred was long forgotten. A little over three years later another boat made a much less auspicious landing. On February 26, 1865, Captain John Maffitt lowered a small boat from the blockade runner Owl into the roaring surf off Shallotte Inlet, about forty miles south of Wilmington, North Carolina. The chapter traces the implications of the two arrivals to Nassau and in the Confederate capital. It analyzes how William Boyd Sterrett, a native Virginian, made his way to Nassau in the second half of the Civil War. The chapter then outlines the adventure of Irishman Thomas Connolly, a member of Parliament from County Donegal, in the dying Confederacy.
Heyliger Arrives
Authors: Ross Charles D.
Published: September 2021

This chapter highlights the troubles that Sam Whiting encountered before and after he arrived in Nassau. It presents Whiting's depressing observation he had made in his short time in Nassau: “There is a strong feeling in favor of the rebellion army among British officials and merchants.” The chapter also introduces merchant Henry Adderley, the soon-to-be most powerful man in the Bahamas. Though it was early in the game, Whiting had already recognized one of the key features of the way Adderley and others would operate. By using his pre-war connections in ports like Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Adderley would secure goods from the North and from England for shipment to the Confederacy and use these ports as false destinations on the manifests of the ships he sent to Charleston, Wilmington, and Savannah. Ultimately, the chapter illustrates the importance of Lewis Heyliger in Nassau. It analyzes the critical part he played in the Great Carnival and the business dealings he made in the Bahamas.
The Bay Street Boys
Authors: Ross Charles D.
Published: September 2021

This chapter recounts how Bahamian society in 1861 was still largely divided by color. The chapter argues that the power was in the hands of a small group of wealthy white men, even though the people of color comprised 80 to 90 percent of the population. Many of these were merchants of Bahamian birth, while others were Englishmen appointed to high office on the island. Because of the locations of many of the shops, this merchant clique has often been referred to as the Bay Street Boys. The chapter focuses on the most powerful merchants who drove the important decisions on the island. It distinguishes the wealthiest merchants, known as the Upper Ten, and the slightly lower in stature known as the Lower Upper Ten. The chapter also introduces the preeminent merchant in the Bahamas — Henry Adderley. Adderley transformed his modest pre-war shipping operation into a blockade-running tour de force that made his name known on both sides of the Atlantic. The chapter displays the list of men who were involved with blockade running by the summer of 1862. Ultimately, and it investigates why Nassau became the most important transshipment point for the Confederacy.
A New Consul
Authors: Ross Charles D.
Published: September 2021

This chapter highlights Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation that promised freedom to millions of slaves in the South. It also explicates how the proclamation coincided with an important change in Nassau: Sam Whiting's tenure in the Bahamas came to an end. After dealing with the August accusations against him by William Butler, Whiting had been busy in September dealing with Dacotah and other issues. The chapter then explains how he caused a “disgraceful scene” in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen on the British Queen. After Whiting wrote to Secretary of State Seward acknowledging the acceptance of his resignation and asserting that he would continue in his duties, the chapter demonstrates Seward's task on finding a replacement. The chapter introduces New York Police Department Chief Clerk Seth Hawley, and discusses his awareness of the trade between New York and Nassau.
Living for the Hour
Authors: Ross Charles D.
Published: September 2021

This chapter investigates how blockade running from Nassau ran wild for most of the year, even with Seth Hawley and Charles Wilkes gone. It argues that the supplies continued to flow through Nassau in great quantities almost to the end of the war. With such an unprecedented opportunity to make money, the chapter looks at people of all sorts who began to take up residence in Nassau. Many of them lived at the Royal Victoria, a hotel that had been a speculative venture by the Bahamian government but was now bursting at the seams and staying full all year. It then presents the two interesting lodgers at the hotel: British naval officers Augustus Charles Hobart-Hampden and Charles Murray-Aynsley. These two, along with fellow officers William Nathan Wrighte Hewett (who would captain the blockade runner Condor) and Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, were granted furloughs to try their hand at running the blockade. The chapter also details the first vessel built expressly for blockade running and would be the first all-steel ship to cross the Atlantic — the Banshee. The chapter also displays some notable British citizens who passed through Nassau and found themselves doing business in the city.
Like a Town Sacked and Burned by the Enemy
Authors: Ross Charles D.
Published: September 2021

This chapter narrates how Nassau resumed its normal state as a forgotten and destitute outpost. It outlines the effects of the Civil War in the United States, the cessation of blockade running, and the financial windfall of 1862–1864. The chapter then looks at the powerful hurricane that hit the city, in which hundreds of homes and businesses were completely destroyed. It recounts the center of opposition to blockade-running efforts during the war — the US consulate, and the four men who occupied that office to stop the shipping of contraband: Sam Whiting, Seth Hawley, and Vice-consul William Thompson. It also discusses the significance of Charles Jackson, John Howell, and Epes Sargent in providing aid to the consul's office during the war. The chapter argues that former US consul Timothy Darling was the only prominent merchant to be an ardent supporter of the Union cause, adding he was a true New Englander living in the tropics and was in strong opposition to the slave-holding Confederacy. The chapter also notes the contributions of Lewis Heyliger in Confederate departments, the cotton brokers, and the shipments coming in from Europe. Ultimately, it highlights how Henry Adderley, his son Augustus, and their business partner and Henry's son-in-law George David Harris epitomized the success of the opportunism surrounding the Great Carnival.
Racial Terrorism
Authors: Hasian Jr. Marouf A. , Paliewicz Nicholas S.
Published: September 2021

This book provides readers with a critical rhetorical study of Montgomery, Alabama’s Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Using critical genealogical methods, the authors argue that the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), led by Bryan Stevenson, uses these particular sites of memory for a variety of rhetorical functions, including the recovery of forgotten lynching pasts as well as reparatory efforts. The book takes the stance that Stevenson and the EJI are not only interested in helping American communities remember lynching histories but are also interested in using lynching legacies for modern-day mass incarceration reformation. Using the concept of “racial terrorism” the EJI uses places like the Legacy Museum to try and convince American audiences who may not have confronted fraught lynching pasts that they need to acknowledge these pasts if they hope to ever become involved in true reconciliation with those who suffer from the ravages of genocidal histories and traumatizing pasts.
Participatory Rhetorics at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum
Authors: Hasian Marouf A. , Paliewicz Nicholas S.
Published: September 2021

This chapter analyzes the participatory rhetorics of Montgomery’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Using participatory critical rhetoric as a methodology for criticism, we show how this place of memory uses affective, visual, and embodied appeals to create participatory spaces for remembering lynching pasts (and presents) in U.S. counties where lynchings occurred. As a supplement to the Legacy Museum, which exists down the street from the memorial, this memorial provides a dark tourist countermemorial that powerfully ruptures dominant civil rights memories.
R. Crumb
Authors: Calonne David Stephen
Published: September 2021

Robert Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self is the first monograph to explore the intersection between Crumb’s love of literature, his search for the meaning of life and the ways he connects his own autobiography with the themes of the writers he has admired. Crumb’s comics from the beginning reflected the fact that he was a voracious reader from childhood and perused a variety of authors including Charles Dickens, J.D. Salinger, and, during his adolescence, Beat writers like Jack Kerouac. He was profoundly influenced by music, especially the blues, and the ecstatic power of music appears in his artwork throughout his career. The first chapter explores the ways Robert Crumb illustrates works by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Charles Bukowski. The book continues with individual chapters devoted to Crumb’s illustrations of biographies of blues musicians Jelly Roll Morton and Charley Patton; Philip K. Dick; Jean-Paul Sartre; Franz Kafka; and concludes with an exploration of Crumb’s illustrations to the book of Genesis. In all his drawings accompanying literary texts, Crumb returns to a number of key themes regarding his personal spiritual quest such as suffering and existential solitude; the search for romantic and sexual love; the impact of entheogens such as LSD on his quest for answers to his cosmic questions. We discover that Crumb gradually embraces a mysticism rooted in his studies of Gnosticism. In the final chapter on the book of Genesis, readers may observe the ways Crumb continues his critique of monotheistic religion in a variety of subtle ways. Robert Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self concludes with an Epilogue which discusses Crumb’s present-day life in France and the ways he has continued to engage with spiritual and philosophical themes in his later work.
Jean-Paul Sartre and the Existential Quest
Authors: Calonne David Stephen
Published: September 2021

This chapter explores Crumb’s interest in existentialism which began in his adolescence with his reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The chapter goes on to demonstrate the influence of Classics Illustrated on Crumb’s adaptations of literary works and then launches into an analysis of Crumb’s illustrations for Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel Nausea. Crumb responded strongly to the themes of solitude, alienation, and despair in Sartre’s work and powerfully depicts the anguish which Roquentin endures in the novel through his expert use of cross-hatching, perspective, and cinematic techniques. The chapter then turns to another of Crumb’s masterpieces, the autobiographical “Walkin’ the Streets,” in which he incorporates existential ideas with his own experiences as a young man. Another example of this intersection between Crumb’s autobiography and Sartre’s ideas is Crumb’s “Life Certainly is ‘Existential’!” which also demonstrates how thoroughly Crumb had absorbed the main concepts of the French philosopher and seamlessly incorporated them into his own art. However, Crumb “Americanizes” Sartre by depicting drab, quotidian, and sordid aspects of life in America which contrast with his ways of illustrating Sartre’s French novel. The chapter ends with a discussion of the concept of free will, which of course is central to existentialism, and which also preoccupied Crumb.
In the Beginning
Authors: Calonne David Stephen
Published: September 2021

Crumb spent four years illustrating the book of Genesis and this chapter explores the ways Crumb attempts to faithfully reproduce the text of Genesis while at the same time including strongly subversive interpretations. As he declared: “I did not adapt it reverently. I respected the text insofar as I did not want to ridicule it. But I see the text as actually a quite primitive document.” The chapter shows how Crumb struggled with how to portray God, as well as Adam and Eve, trying out a variety of possibilities. Crumb rejects patriarchy and he depicts female characters in the Bible such as Rachel as strong, independent and capable women. The common understanding of Crumb as a misogynist is contradicted by the ways he emphasizes a feminist interpretation of the Bible. The chapter also shows how Crumb was influenced by Assyrian art in his depiction of scenes of warfare. Here again, Crumb implicitly critiques the celebration of war in the Bible and the celebration of aggressive masculinity. The chapter also explores the theme of the spiritual double which occurs in the scene depicting Jacob wrestling with the angel and the “dark night of the soul” as well as in Crumb’s illustrations to the medieval text Piers Plowman.
Epilogue
Authors: Calonne David Stephen
Published: September 2021

The Epilogue brings Crumb’s life up to date with his residence in France and shows how he has continued to be a prolific creative artist, producing several Sketchbooks as well as R. Crumb’s Dream Diary, a valuable compilation of his dreams that demonstrate the ways ideas for his artwork have their origin in his dreams. We may also see how his struggle to find his authentic self continues in his later work as he returns obsessively to the effort to shed psychological conditioning and to arrive at his true identity. While in France, Crumb began to meditate regularly, and the Epilogue shows how his interests in Hinduism and Buddhism, the occult, out-of-body experiences, aliens, and UFOs continued to be central aspects of his intellectual life and central themes in his art. The Epilogue concludes with a discussion of the art Crumb provided for the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo in which he satirized Islamic extremism, thus emphasizing again his distaste for monotheistic, orthodox religions and stating his preference for the free, individual pursuit of spiritual knowledge and understanding.
Crossing Bar Lines
Authors: Williams James Gordon , Kelley Robin D. G.
Published: September 2021

This book provides an interpretive framework for understanding how African American creative improvisers think of musical space. Featuring a Foreword by eminent scholar Robin D.G. Kelley, this is the first critical improvisation studies book that uses Black Geographies theory to examine the spatial values of musical expression in the improvisational and compositional practices of trumpeters Terence Blanchard and Ambrose Akinmusire, drummers Billy Higgins and Terri Lyne Carrington, and pianist Andrew Hill. Bar lines in this book serve as a notational and spatial metaphor for social constraints connected to systemic and structural white supremacy. Crossing them therefore applies not only to conceptions of Black spatiality in musical practices but also to how African American musicians address structural barriers to fight the social injustices that obstruct freedom and full citizenship for African Americans and other marginalized groups. Defined by both liminal and quotidian reality, Black musical space, like Black feminist thought, is about theorizing through the lived experiences of Black people which reflect different genders, sexual identities, political stances, across improvisational eras. Using this theory of Black musical space, the book explains how these dynamic musicians explicitly and implicitly articulate humanity through compositional and improvisational practices, some of which interface with contemporary social movements like Black Lives Matter. Consequently, Crossing Bar Lines not only fills a significant gap in the literature on African American, activist musical improvisation and contemporary social movements, but it gives the reader an understanding of the complexity of African American musical practices relative to fluid political identities and sensibilities.
Entering a Theory of Black Musical Space
Authors: Williams James Gordon
Published: September 2021

This chapter introduces the theoretical framework of Black musical space for the five case studies on African American improvisers. This chapter defines what is meant by crossing bar lines relative to Black sociality represented in the musical practices.
Ambrose Akinmusire’s Satchel of Origami
Authors: Williams James Gordon
Published: September 2021

This chapter discusses trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s use of unconventional music strategies to create innovative musical and performance art commentaries on police brutality across all of his recordings. It is argued that his compositions with lyrics “My Name Is Oscar” (2011) and “Rollcall for Those Absent” (2014) and “Free, White and 21” (2018) articulate his unflinching Black political thought on systemic violence whereas his improvised note choices on instrumental compositions like “Confessions to My Unborn Daughter” (2011) is a spatial art of collage that exploits and explores musical textures that represent his understanding of a Black sense of musical space. The chapter also claims that Akinmusire’s approach is not a rebellion toward what some critics would call jazz orthodoxy but a focused study of musical space and the lexicon of ancestral improvised language.
The Sonic Archive of Black Spatiality
Authors: Williams James Gordon
Published: September 2021

The epilogue expands on the purpose of the book and the author’s approach to it. Although the book does not abandon positivism, the author never privileges traditional research musicological methods over his own lived experience—as an African American improviser, composer, and theorist—or the lived experiences of the improvisers discussed in the book. The chapter expresses a hope that the book will provide further insight into the relationship between African American improvised music and cultural notions of spatiality in relation to improvisation. The chapter further elaborates on Black musical space: it is not defined by a defiance of whiteness or white supremacy. It is defined by joy, struggle ad infinitum, and reliance on community. Black musical space expressed through humanity ultimately escapes attempts to codify it. The chapter continues with a final summary of the author’s findings about each musician discussed in the book. While Blanchard, Higgins, Carrington, Akinmusire, and Hill express their ideas differently in the language of Black musical space, they are all connected by how they cross bar lines to emphasize the social context connection between their lived experiences and their improvisational and compositional practices.
Los Tres Grandes
Authors: Miller Sue
Published: September 2021

This chapter examines the different manifestations of mambo in Havana and New York to demonstrate the musical connections between the big bands, son conjuntos, and charangas across three decades of regular Cuban dance music performance. The Palladium, in addition to the music venues in the Bronx, provided various opportunities for New York-based musicians to create their own versions of Cuban dance music. Recordings by mambo big bands are analyzed alongside Arsenio Rodríguez’s mambo diablos and Antonio Arcaño’s charanga composition “Mambo” to outline the historic connections between these formats.
“An Ireland over There”?
Authors: Goek Sara S.
Published: September 2021

This chapter explores the role of dance halls in British and American cities among the Irish communities after World War II. It incorporates historical and cultural analysis of Irish traditional music in dance halls, stressing the symbiotic relationship between place and diasporic identities. It offers a window on the way Irish negotiated, contested, interpreted, and performed their Irish identity while living abroad.
Cumbias y Rebajadas
Authors: Restrepo Juan David Rubio
Published: September 2021

This essay explores negotiations and disruptions that are taking place in Monterrey, Mexico, through the cumbia rebajada, in particular the way in which the cultural adoption of Colombian music in Monterrey has generated a complex and long-standing phenomenon by technological means. The author gives special attention to the way the cumbia rebajada subculture has been a locus to negotiate and resist marginalization.
Cubatón’s Transnational Creolizations
Authors: García-Medina William
Published: September 2021

The author studies the musical subculture of Cubatón, a fusion of melodic Cuban timba beats with reggaetón, focusing in particular on musicians’ ability to make their subculture, which had limited state support, known. The chapter provides a rich narrative of what became an underground musical culture, analyzing the cultural, economic and political repercussions of the Special Period in Cuba.
Connecting Identity
Authors: Chevers Ivy
Published: September 2021

This chapter analyses the aesthetic codes and political values associated with indigenous Jamaican reggae rhythms and Rastafarian culture and identity in and around Columbus. The author examines the way in which the appropriation of Rastafarian culture through reggae music can express a possibility of hope for the movement’s liberating and emancipatory politics. The chapter describes how Rastafarian culture emerged as a black socio-political movement in Jamaica to become a contemporary cultural phenomenon popularly associated with the genre of reggae music.
La Música Ranchera in the Reconfiguration of Hispanismo and Mexicanidad in Musical Exchanges between Spain and Mexico
Authors: Sánchez Martha I. Chew
Published: September 2021

This chapter analyses the continuous negotiations and dialogues that are happening on both sides of the Atlantic regarding the construction of Mexicanidad and Hispanismo through música ranchera. The author emphasizes the role of Hispanismo during La época de oro del cine mexicano (The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema) from 1936 to 1959: for example, in the construction of Mexicanidad through Chavela Vargas, and through the appropriation of the estilo bravío performed originally by Lucha Reyes. This chapter explores especially the legacy of Cuco Sanchez and Chavela Vargas and concludes with a consideration of the new cultural dialogues that are currently taking place regarding música ranchera.
British Asian Culture and Its Margins in East London
Authors: Bhattacharjya Nilanjana
Published: September 2021

During the summer of 1999, references to South Asian culture abounded within London—from the painstaking recreation of Hindi film star Dimple Kapadia’s bedroom in the Selfridges department store to McDonald’s introduction of the Lamb McKorma sandwich. This so-called “Indian Summer” served as a backdrop to the prominent commercial and critical success of British Asian musicians such as Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney, and Asian Dub Foundation and the emergence of British Asians in the mainstream media as poster children for Britain’s campaign to present itself as a vibrant cosmopolis. However this celebration of British Asian musicians, writers, artists, and actors sat uneasily alongside the socioeconomic reality of the Bangladeshi population in East London. The author explores two concurrent events—the Arts Worldwide Bangladesh Festival and the 000: British Asian Cultural Provocation Exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery—and attempts to navigate the quagmire of geography, music, and cultural identity they exposed.
You’re the Inspiration
Authors: Vosen Callens Melissa
Published: September 2021

In this chapter, Vosen Callens explores what it means to be a member of Generation X. Additionally, the chapter discusses pop culture’s profound impact on coming-of-age Gen Xers, serving as both babysitter and friend. The chapter examines how this relationship led to monumental contributions by Gen Xers to the entertainment industry, including the grunge movement in music, the proliferation of social media sites, and a catalogue of movies capturing Gen X attitudes, in addition to the new Netflix series, Stranger Things.
From the Ground Up
Authors: Jiménez García Marilisa
Published: September 2021

This chapter centers on the education and role of “ethnic” librarians during the founding and professionalization of children’s literature and librarianship at the New York Public Library, tracing a legacy back to Afro-Boricua public pedagogies in Puerto Rico. This chapter also analyzes the centrality of Blackness and activism project of Latinx children’s literature as a US tradition grounded in the work of librarians of color, interweaving the stories of Pura Belpré and Arturo Schomburg, both key figures in the Harlem Renaissance and history of African American and AfroLatinx literature.
Nicholasa Mohr Writes Back
Authors: Jiménez García Marilisa
Published: September 2021

This chapter analyzes Nicholasa Mohr as a voice for those children of the Puerto Rican diaspora, born and raised in New York, who felt increasingly out of touch with the island described in Belpré’s folklore. Mohr underlines children’s literature as of utmost importance in terms of searching for representation in an imagined literary landscape. Here, through readings of Nilda (1973) and El Bronx Remembered (1975), this chapter shows how Mohr resists established Puerto Rican and Anglo iconography which had been established in children’s literature by the 1970s.
“It Ain’t Hardly Worth the Trouble to Go on Living”
Authors: Mellette Justin
Published: September 2021

Chapter 2 focuses on Erskine Caldwell and seeks to complicate understandings of his best-known works Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre. Though often derided for mocking the poor and using them as comic relief, Caldwell works to instil a sense of anger in readers as he reveals the economic plight of tenant farming during the Great Depression. In addition, the chapter looks at Caldwell's nonfiction work, including his phototext You Have Seen Their Faces, written with photographer Margaret Bourke-White, and contrasts its cultural context with the comparatively better known Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. In addition, the chapter considers Caldwell's journalism, which originally raised national attention to the plight of the farmers he later immortalized in his fiction. Finally, the chapter closes by considering Caldwell’s later career and fall from critical favour.
“It Aint Nothing But Jest Another Snopes”
Authors: Mellette Justin
Published: September 2021

This chapter investigates how William Faulkner presented poor whites and white trash across his oeuvre, with particular emphasis on his fairly unheralded Snopes trilogy. The chapter charts how poor whites are presented in different eras of his writings, from As I Lay Dying until the final Snopes novel published shortly before his death. While Faulkner is well known for his attempts at discussing the evolving racial situation in the South since the end of the Civil War, most critics have considered his depiction of whiteness as fairly homogeneous, a fact that this chapter's sustained focus on the Snopeses seeks to complicate. In short, while the Snopeses are frequently villainous characters, they are still met with language that stigmatizes them as a racial other, and as an inferior form of whiteness to the more well-to-do denizens of Yoknapatawpha.
Carnivalized Adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray on Screen
Authors: Doǧan Emine Akkülah
Published: September 2021

Contributor Emine Akkülag Doğan investigates a series of filmic adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), to reveal the ways in which The Picture obtains its own agency and performs a clear sense of Bakhtinian carnival. Doğan settles on this view of the picture after breaking each of the adaptations she discusses from the normal view brought to adaptations of Wilde's book. Rather than fixating on perceived homosexuality in Wilde's novel, Doğan sees the adaptations that follow as instances of Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of the carnivalesque. Doğan justifies this shift through a sustained interest in the use of The Picture, which she assigns an unmistakable agency, across three adaptations, Albert Lewin’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Oliver Parker’s Dorian Gray (2009), and John Logan’s Penny Dreadful (2014–16).
Sicarios and the Latin American Assassin on Film
Authors: Vela Richard
Published: September 2021

Contributor Richard Vela discusses a range of Latin sicario films before comparing the focus of that tradition to Taylor Sheridan’s two recent screenplays, Sicario (2015) and Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018). Vela reveals how carefully Sheridan articulates the ethical codes at play in the “Land of Wolves,” the intellectual and emotional space that Alejandro (Benicio del Toro) most especially occupies, and the physical space the border tolerates. Vela explores the ethical questions Sheridan sets in this space to show that his films tempt audiences to justify even the worst atrocities if the benefit appears to warrant it. Vela contrasts this message to the more restrained code of the sicario as it is realized in Latin traditions. The difference raises a number of issues as they relate to representations of border violence, the cartels and the American government, and the way these dramas implicate young people on both sides of the border.
RoboTEduca. Proyecto en educación STEM con robótica para edades tempranas
Authors: González-Cervera Ana , Santaolalla Pascual Elsa , González-Arechavala Yolanda
Published: September 2021

Se presenta una propuesta de innovación en educación STEM que incluye dos actividades enmarcadas en un aprendizaje basado en proyectos sobre los animales. Están diseñadas para llevarse a cabo mediante rincones de aprendizaje para favorecer el trabajo en pequeños grupos. Ambas actividades se han planteado en dos modalidades distintas (con y sin materiales robóticos) con el objetivo de comparar los resultados y su significancia. Sin embargo, ambas modalidades persiguen los mismos objetivos, independientemente del material empleado.
Eres un artista
Authors: Ruiz Delgado Milagrosa
Published: September 2021

No encontrarás nada que no sepas en este artículo, quizá ya lo habías reflexionado, pero no quería quedarme sin decirte que, si eres maestro, bien profesor, o bien padre, tienes el deber de pararte a pensar qué vas a enseñar. “El cómo” está muy estudiado y cambia rápido. De hecho, “el cómo” nos entretiene de nuestro propósito real. Enseñar también es un arte y tú eres el artista. Cuanto más delicado sea el trabajo, más orgulloso estarás del resultado.
In silico/computational analysis of mevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase gene families inCampanulids
Authors: Cui Minghui , Lin Limei , Guo Hongyu , Zhang Duoduo , Zhang Jie , Cheng Wenwen , Song Xin , Xing Zhaobin , Long Yuehong
Published: September 2021

Mevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase (MPD) is a key enzyme in terpenoid biosynthesis.MPDplays an important role in the upstream regulation of secondary plant metabolism. However, studies on theMPDgene are relatively very few despite its importance in plant metabolism. Currently, no systematic analysis has been conducted on theMPDgene in plants under the order Apiales, which comprises important medicinal plants such asPanax ginsengandPanax notoginseng.This study sought to explore the structural characteristics of theMPDgene and the effect of adaptive evolution on the gene by comparing and analyzingMPDgene sequences of different campanulids species. For that, phylogenetic and adaptive evolution analyses were carried out using sequences for 11Campanulidsspecies.MPDsequence characteristics of each species were then analyzed, and the collinearity analysis of the genes was performed. As a result, a total of 21MPDproteins were identified in 11Campanulidsspecies through BLAST analysis. Phylogenetic analysis, physical and chemical properties prediction, gene family analysis, and gene structure prediction showed that theMPDgene has undergone purifying selection and exhibited highly conserved structure. Analysis of physicochemical properties further showed that theMPDprotein was a hydrophilic protein without a transmembrane region. Moreover, collinearity analysis in Apiales showed thatMPDgene on chromosome 2 ofD. carotaand chromosome 1 ofC. sativumwere collinear. The findings showed thatMPDgene is highly conserved. This may be a common characteristic of all essential enzymes in the biosynthesis pathways of medicinal plants. Notably,MPDgene is significantly affected by environmental factors which subsequently modulate its expression. The current study’s findings provide a basis for follow-up studies onMPDgene and key enzymes in other medicinal plants.
Performance of Combustion and Emissions Characteristics of Ethanol Dual Injection Spark Ignition Engine
Authors: AL-MUHSEN NIZAR F.O. , Hong Guang , Ismail Firas Basim
Published: September 2021

Ethanol dual injection (DualEI) is a new technology to maximise the benefits of ethanol fuel to the spark-ignition engine. In this study, the combustion and emissions characteristics in a DualEI spark-ignition engine with a variation of the direct injection (DI) ratio and engine speed were experimentally investigated. The volume ratio of DI was varied from 0% (DI0%) to 100% (DI100%), and two engine speeds of 3500 and 4000 RPM were tested. The spark timing for maximum brake torque (MBT) was first determined, and then the results of the effect of DI ratio on the engine performance at the MBT conditions were discussed and analysed. The results showed that the MBT timing for the DI and spark timings were 330 and 30 CAD bTDC, respectively. At the MBT timing, the indicated mean effective pressure slightly increased from 0.47 to 0.50 MPa when the DI ratio increased from DI0% to DI100%. However, the maximum combustion pressure significantly decreased by 8.32%, and volumetric efficiency increased by 4.04%. This was attributed to the reduced combustion temperature due to the cooling effect of ethanol fuel enhanced by the DI strategy. The indicated specific carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons significantly increased due to poor mixture quality caused by fuel impingement associated with the overcooling effect. However, the indicated specific nitric oxides significantly decreased due to the temperature reduction inside the combustion chamber. Results showed the potential of DualEI to increase the compression ratio and consequently increase the engine thermal efficiency without the risk of engine knock.
The impact of school principal's leadership styles on organizational learning: Mediating effect of organizational culture
Authors: Kızıloğlu Mehmet
Published: September 2021

Educational institutions also focus on improving the quality to adapt to today's world's continuous and rapidly changing conditions. In improving the quality of educational institutions, the leadership styles of school principals and the organizational learning that can be applied in school are significant. The leadership styles of school principals and organizational learning are also influenced by the culture that has been settled in the school. In this context, this study was conducted to investigate the impact of leadership styles on organizational learning in high schools. The main focus of this research study is on analyzing the critical role of different leadership styles on organizational learning through the use of a quantitative research approach. The primary data in the current study has been collected from 310 high school teachers working in educational institutions of Turkey. The study found that leadership styles have a significant impact on organizational learning. In addition, transformational and transactional leadership styles positively affect organizational learning, and laissez-faire leadership style hurts organizational learning. However, organizational culture has also been found to mediate the relationship between leadership styles and organizational learning significantly.
The effect of occupational commitment and mobbing on the intention to leave in road transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic period
Authors: Yangınlar Gözde , Bal Nurgün
Published: September 2021

The road transportation sector is an integral part of foreign trade and the locomotive of economic development. The COVID-19 outbreak caused the closure of customs gates for a certain period in addition to a decrease in demand for goods and services and thus profoundly affected the road transport industry. For businesses operating in the road transportation sector, occupational commitment and exposure to mobbing of employees during the pandemic are vital in terms of business performance. This study examines occupational commitment and mobbing on the intention to leave during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although there are many studies in the literature on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no study examining the relationship between these three variables in the road transportation industry.  This study is the first empirical study to examine variables such as intention to leave, mobbing, and professional commitment during the pandemic period in Turkey. The research universe consists of 45 logistics companies that provide transportation, customs clearance, storage, insurance, logistics value-added services. The sample consists of businesses engaged in national and international road transport, strengthening the representation ability. As a result of the study, it was determined that mobbing sub-factors did not decrease emotional, occupational commitment, and mobbing increased the intention to leave. Thus, it has been proven that there is a negative relationship between emotional and normative occupational commitment and intention to leave. It is expected that this study will contribute significantly to the businesses and the literature operating in road transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CEO düzenleme odağı, operasyon stratejisi ve KOBİ performansı: Hollanda bahçecilik endüstrisinde bir analiz
Authors: Ateş Nüfer Yasin , Akın Ateş Melek
Published: September 2021

KOBİ’lerin performansı operasyon stratejileri ile yakından ilgilidir. Önceki çalışmalar, CEO özelliklerinin firma stratejileri ve performansı üzerindeki etkilerinin büyük işletmelere kıyasla KOBİ’lerde daha fazla olduğunu göstermişlerdir. Düzenleme odağı teorisine göre, CEO kaçınma ve yönelim odağı yöneticilerin temel güdülenme eğilimlerini açıkladığı için önemli bir CEO özelliğidir. Bu araştırma, operasyon stratejisi, düzenleme odağı ve firma performansı arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Araştırmanın örneklemi olarak Hollanda bahçecilik endüstrisine odaklanılmış ve veriler 627 CEO’dan anket yolu ile toplanmıştır. Kümeleme analizi kullanılarak, rekabetçi önceliklere dayalı bir operasyon stratejisi taksonomisi geliştirilmiş ve dört farklı operasyon stratejisi bulunmuştur: “Gelenekçiler”, “Mükemmeliyetçiler”, “Niş Oyuncular” ve “Odaksızlar”. Bulgular göstermektedir ki “Mükemmeliyetçiler” ve “Niş Oyuncular” stratejileri ağırlıklı olarak yönelimci baskın odağa sahip CEO’lar tarafından, “Gelenekçiler” stratejisi ise ağırlıklı olarak kaçınmacı baskın odağa sahip CEO’lar tarafından tercih edilmektedir. “Odaksızlar” stratejisini uygulayan CEO’ların ise baskın bir düzenleme odağı sergilemediği gözlemlenmiştir. Ayrıca, sonuçlar eşsonluluk görüşünü destekleyerek “Odaksızlar” stratejisi dışındaki diğer tüm operasyon stratejilerinin benzer performans ile uygulanabileceğini göstermiştir.
Çevrimiçi alışverişte sepeti terk etme ölçeğinin Türkçeye uyarlanması
Authors: Çavuş Genç Esin , Karaduman İlkay , Özkan Ayşegül
Published: September 2021

Bilindiği üzere günümüzde artan bir hızla geleneksel alışverişe bir alternatif olarak çevrimiçi alışverişin payı gün geçtikçe artmaktadır. Geleneksel alışverişte müşterilerin bir alışveriş sepetine doldurdukları ürünleri satın almadan bırakmaları ender rastlanan bir durumken; çevrimiçi alışverişte her beş alışveriş sepetinden dördü terk edilmektedir. Bunun nedenlerinin araştırılması ve azaltılması hem akademisyenler hem de işletmeler açısından büyük önem arz etmektedir. Bu çalışmada Kukar-Kinney ve Close (2010) tarafından geliştirilen “Alışveriş Sepeti Terk Etme Oranı Ölçeği”’nin Türkçeye uyarlanması hedeflenmiştir. Analizler basit tesadüfi örneklem ile gönüllü katılımcıların olduğu üç farklı örneklem üzerinde yapılmıştır. Araştırmanın örneklemi, Türkiye’deki çevrimiçi alışveriş yapan bireylerden oluşmaktadır. Analizde güvenirlik analiz, frekans analizi, faktör analizi, KFA ve DFA’dan faydalanılmıştır Yapılan analizler sonucunda 5 faktörlü ve 17 maddeli bir ölçek elde edilmiştir. Elde edilen bu ölçeğin araştırmalarda kullanılmasının literatürdeki boşluğa fayda sağlayıcı düşünülmektedir.