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Italian Lizards and Literary Politics I
Authors: Geller Jay
Published: May 2018

This chapter undertakes a philology-inspired genealogy of Kafka’s invocation of an exemplary lizard on an Italian footpath in his critique of Max Brod’s novel The Jewesses, wherein Kafka remarks upon its failure to counter the everyday practice of identifying Jewish individuals by the undifferentiated collective singular of “the Jew.” Against assumptions about allegedly common identifications of Jews and lizards and consequent allegations of Kafka’s abjection of Judentum, as in Judith Butler’s cavalier tossing of Kafka’s “lizard” into the pickle barrel of contemporary identity politics and the question of Israel-Palestine, this chapter first situates Kafka’s invocation within his actual encounters with lizards in Italy. It then constellates contemporary ressentiment-laden literary politics and Jewish-Gentile relations through the allusive mediations of Brod’s editing of Kafka’s diary and of Karl Kraus and his vicious denunciation of “Heine and the Consequences.” It then turns to two other possible influences on Kafka’s figuration: Goethe’s encounters with lizards during his Italian Journey and Heine’s in the opening chapters of The City of Lucca in his Travel Pictures. Combining allusions to Eduard Gans and Benedict Spinoza with various physical, genealogical, and mental traits Heine’s construction of the lizards may well be, as the Jew-as-Animal, articulating the Jewish animot.
The Rule of Law
Authors: Bernstein J. M.
Published: May 2018

This chapter analyzes the concept of rule of law. It examines Gustav Radbruch's theory since his argument against the extremes of Nazi law was a pivotal moment in the re-emergence of antipositivist conceptions of legality. It then elaborates Lon L. Fuller's account of eight constitutive, formal features of law that, he contends, begin to get at the “inner morality of law.” Next, the chapter offers a version of Caesar Beccaria's argument that the formal and procedural elements constituting the rule of law should be conceived as, on the one hand, generating the necessary conditions for relations between the citizen and the state and, on the other hand, among citizens themselves that will be sufficient to free individuals from coercive, force-based relations both among themselves and between themselves and the state.
Sexual Difference
Authors: Copjec Joan
Published: May 2018

This chapter first examines some of gender theory's basic assumption. It asks: Is it automatically the case that many are superior to two? Many are more numerous, granted, but one balks at this precipitous multiplication, which merely pushes aside questions that need to be asked. Doesn't the proliferation of kinds of subjects (whereby each is her own kind) represent a retreat of thought rather than an advance? The ones are wholes unto themselves and the pluses are signs that relation has been expelled from them. From where do all these individual ones come? It is argued that gender theory is indissociable from its insistence that gender and other differences simply are, they exist, without acknowledging any inexistent (or latent) part. The “latency of sexuality,” refers not simply to a temporal lag in the onset of sexuality but, more radically, to its status as nonbeing.
Preamble: The Ruse of Sovereignty or Agonistic Monism?
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

There is a commonly held narrative about constitutional forms in the Western political and philosophical tradition. The story is schematically as follows: Initially Aristotle and other ancient philosophers, including, influentially, Polybius, propounded the theory of the three constitutional forms—monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. This model assumes a revolution or circularity between the three forms....
The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

This thesis provides a typology of sovereign power from the perspective of how violence is justified.
Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

Through an analysis of stasis as the concept that, through rhetoric, leads to the idea of the constitution, the thesis argues that justification is more primary than legitimacy.
Impact Erasure
Authors: Bachner Andrea
Published: May 2018

This chapter analyzes the use of inscriptive metaphors in trauma theories, from Freud’s psychoanalytical models of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to contemporary theorists such as Agamben, Caruth, Hirsch, and Lyotard. As an unregistered shock that continues to haunt the individual, trauma is an inscription whose impact leaves no trace. Accordingly, the inscriptive metaphors deployed in theories of trauma tend to multiply since they are caught in the dilemma of representing trauma without sacrificing a definition of trauma as the unrepresentable par excellence. For a thorough analysis of the ways in which trauma turns inscriptive, this chapter zooms in on a scandalous counterpoint: that between the number tattoos of Holocaust victims and the mark of circumcision. Whereas the number tattoo brands and produces a human body as inhuman, but can be rewritten as a corporeal memorial, circumcision can be misconstrued as traumatic mark, as a supplement to castration, but can also serve as a model for an ethical thought.
Introduction Queer Disorientations: Four Turns and a Twist
Authors: Moore Stephen D. , Brintnall Kent L. , Marchal Joseph A.
Published: May 2018

This introduction situates the entire collection within key historical and conceptual turns in queer theories, marking along the way how the various chapters apply, challenge, extend, and complicate what queer theory was, is, and will be. In particular, it focuses on some of the most significant, and most discussed works in queer theory and their interrogations of both temporality and affect. To map the impact of these, the bulk of this introduction provides a summative sketch of four “turns,” orienting the reader to some of the more recent disorientations that have complicated the field of queer theory. Thus, this introduction narrates four, interrelated turns—an antinormative, an antisocial, a temporal, and an affective turn—signaling where the chapters of the collection turn and twist these in new and important ways, not only within biblical, theological, and religious studies, but within queer studies at large. Indeed, the twist is that these turns have long carried theological resonance and echoed religious themes, all while the religiously oriented have grappled in still other queer ways with apocalypse and memory, utopia and trauma, apophasis and violence, affect and desire. This more explicit coupling already feels like a long time coming.
How Soon Is (This Apocalypse) Now? Queer Velocities after a Corinthian Already and a Pauline Not Yet
Authors: Marchal Joseph A.
Published: May 2018

Joseph A. Marchal,’s chapter examines the unexpected value of two ancient apocalyptic perspectives for rearranging queer approaches to temporality, affect, history, and the bible. Carolyn Dinshaw’s imaginative conceptualization of a “touch across time” provides a frame for staging this anachronistic juxtaposition between the first and twentieth century. Thus, after surveying key insights from queer theorists of temporality like Elizabeth Freeman, Lee Edelman, and José Esteban Muñoz, this chapter turns to Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, an exchange stuffed with alternative futures of the past. While Paul insists upon one apocalyptic vision of “not yet,” his letter indicates that the Corinthian women prophets lived and moved out of an alternative, if overlapping apocalyptic vision in their “already.” Both ancient parties engage in contingent varieties of temporal drag and of a critique of reproductive futurity, but the prophetic females are proceeding at a different velocity. Their prayer, prophecy, and withdrawal from social expectations around sex, marriage, and children register significant changes in a relatively short period of time. Greater attention to these changes provides a prophetic sort of apocalyptic praxis, long marginalized and dismissed, yet potentially resonating, if not exactly corresponding, to other more recent orientations to temporality, activism, and urgency in a time like now.
Unbinding Imperial Time: Chrononormativity and Paul’s Letter to the Romans
Authors: Hoke James N.
Published: May 2018

Beginning from a feminist and queer de-centering approach, this consideration of Romans 13:1-7 (Paul’s exhortation that everyone submit to ruling authorities) demonstrates that Paul’s reliance on the imperial sex-gender system in Romans 1 anticipates this exhortation to submission. This chapter applies Freeman’s chrononormativity to a first century context and shows how the Roman Empire binds time by setting itself as the eternal “end of history,” thus arranging life through a sex/gender system that fits these political goals. According to this imperial logic, one’s options exist as binary options: either submission (13:1) to all aspects of imperial hierarchies is the only reasonable response, or active, armed rebellion (13:2,4) is the only alternative. This chapter proceeds to disrupt this seemingly “logical” temporality by affirming how Paul’s epistolary voice participated in a conversation and debate within an assembly of diverse voices: the ancientekklēsia of wo/men. In such a context, Freeman’s work on erotohistoriography helps unhinge interpretation of Romans 13 from its binary logic of submission or overt resistance and opens the possibility that the wo/men who gathered in Rome’s ekklēsia might have shared (with us) in pleasurably “queer” sensations at a tempo that was (and is) “out of joint” with imperial chrononormativity.
Queer Structures of Religious Feeling: What Time Is Now?
Authors: Pellegrini Ann
Published: May 2018

This essay asks what psychoanalysis and religion might have to say to each other in view of Freud’s secular aspirations and queer theory’s temporal turn. Both queer temporality and psychoanalysis offer resources for understanding the multiple ways time coats, codes, and disciplines the body in secular modernity. This is so even though psychoanalysis is one of these disciplines. Nevertheless, the times of psychoanalysis are multiple. On the one hand, psychoanalysis quite frequently lays down a teleology in which the individual subject matures along a set pathway. On the other hand, this developmental imperative is at profound odds with psychoanalysis’s capacity to make room for the co-existence of past and present in ways that confound secular time’s forward march. This latter recognition—co-temporality—may even lay down routes for the cultivation of “counter-codes” (Foucault’s term), ways of living and experiencing and telling time out of sync with the linear logics of what José Muñoz has called “straight time.”
Blanchot’s Resurrection
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

The motif of resurrection does not seem, at least initially, to hold a major place in Blanchot’s work. We find it, although infrequently, in his so-called “theoretical” works. Its presence may be greater in his fiction, but there the themes are necessarily more difficult to isolate as such. Yet resurrection is inseparable from this body of work of death and dying, which we are accustomed to associate with Blanchot’s name. And if dying is not only inseparable from literature or writing but consubstantial with it, it is only to the extent that it is involved with resurrection and does nothing more than to follow its movement. The nature of this movement is what I want to try to approach, putting aside any attempt to reconstitute the economy found in Blanchot’s work, which would be the subject of an entire book....
La Selva
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

for Jacqueline Risset

Multitudinous she remains

On the border of our lives

A lair of panthers

Of enigmas of sky circles

This clearing that stands

Before us indecisive as to

Whether we will penetrate its paths

Their tracks devoid of signs

One so sylvan and leafy...
What Is Black Tradition?
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

Tradition is a central theological category, and it has also been a central category in black studies as scholars recover, for example, the “black radical tradition.” Yet tradition is particularly fraught in the context of black experience since a constitutive feature of black experience is the involuntary severing of tradition. Paradigmatically, the Middle Passage detached blacks from their families, culture, and language, leaving them orphaned in the New World. Colonialism and mass incarceration also have functioned to sever blacks from their past. In such a context, to speak of black tradition is necessarily theological, and this chapter tracks how theological ideas and images have repeatedly been so employed. The prophetic and the messianic, in particular, are theological means of conjuring impossible tradition. But this chapter also shows how the desire to imagine black tradition too often falls back on a patriarchal desire to create a right relationship with fathers and sons, a worry that is really about black secularism contaminating black theology.
The Postracial Saint: On Barack Obama
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

All saints are, in a sense, post-racial. By definition, saints transcend worldly concepts and categories, but in doing so they draw on the specificity of their worldly features. During the 2008 election campaign and in the early days of his presidency, Barack Obama was represented as saintly. Was this merely a metaphor, or is there something about the theological structure of sainthood that captures Obama’s representation (and self-presentation)? By moving back and forth between analysis of Obama’s image and reflection on sainthood, this chapter attempts to move both conversations about black politics and about sainthood forward, helping us racially inflect our understanding of saints and helping us theologically deepen our understanding of the first black president.
The Jew or Patriarchy (or Worse)
Authors: Levinson Brett
Published: May 2018

Numerous scholars claim that theory—in particular, deconstruction—posit the Jew as the human being without specific qualities, hence as the people whose essence is hidden. As such, the Jew incarnates the secret, exemplifying all humanity (the human race, unlike other races, supposedly being without mark). He or she thereby serves to illustrate the nature of racism itself, whose purpose is to control, contain, or eliminate the threat of the unknown. Levinson argues that, despite the fact that many of these critics turn to Derrida and deconstruction for their model, all of Derrida’s late work, in particular that on the marrano, is geared to challenge this idea of the exemplarity of the Jew.
Afterword
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: May 2018

“Marrano” enters into the non-finite sequence of “non-synonymous substitutions,” becoming one of the
“quasi-transcendentals” (alongside trace, writing, pharmakon and the rest) that hold Derrida’s work together in its somewhat gathered dispersion, but that entail that no one of those terms (not even “quasi-transcendental”) could ever become the proper name for what Derrida is endlessly trying to write.
Reparative Objects in the Freudian Archives
Authors: Lin Lana
Published: May 2018

This chapter returns to the Freudian narrative of loss, specifically to sites of his memorialization in the two Freud Museums. Forced into exile after living in Vienna for seventy-eight years, Freud escaped to London where most of his material objects followed him. The chapter examines the reconstruction of Freud’s Viennese study and consulting room at what is now the Freud Museum in Hampstead, London, where Freud died in the presence of his massive collection of antiquities. Whereas the Freud Museum, London, now houses all the “good” Freudian artifacts, objects that could be said to function reparatively, the museum that occupies Freud’s former residence in Vienna compensates for his expulsion and the evacuation of his prized possessions through a fetishizing and melancholic reliance upon photographs taken by Edmund Engelman prior to the objects’ displacement. The chapter interprets the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, as a space of irremediable loss where Freud’s missing objects—his couch, books, and antiquities—take on the character of fantasied partial objects enlisted to perform the work of mourning.
Conclusion
Authors: Lin Lana
Published: May 2018

This chapter revisits some of the resonant themes of Freud’s Jaw by threading together anecdotes drawn from the author’s own experience, from Freud’s, Lorde’s, and Sedgwick’s lives, as well as autopathographies by Edward Said and Christina Crosby. The chapter contends that loss and gain are imbricated, not unlike destruction and creation, and disidentification and identification. It concludes that the collaborative project of survival may be a means of provisional reparation by which incomplete individuals can face the future.
South Africa, Chile, and the Cold War
Authors: Bystrom Kerry
Published: May 2018

This chapter develops a series of reflections on the character of the Chilean general who appears in Mark Behr’s postapartheid novel The Smell of Apples (1995). It asks what the presence of a Latin American general might mean to the protagonist of the novel and to South Africa in the early 1990s more generally. Analyzing the forms of mimicry and doubling at play in the text, it argues that the Chilean general serves as an uncanny double whose representation helps to reveal the psychological mechanisms of acknowledgement and repression that underpinned Afrikaner support for apartheid. It further argues that Behr’s use of Pinochet’s Chile as an uncanny double for apartheid South Africa points to a set of South Atlantic and Cold War anti-communist military and political networks—routed through the United States but also existing bi-laterally between Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and South Africa—that allowed for the circulation of both technologies and cultures of state-sponsored terror, and which later opened into shared modes of democratic transformation. It finally reflects on strategies of reading transnationally and literary comparison across the South Atlantic.
Marvelous Autocrats
Authors: Armillas-Tiseyra Magalí
Published: May 2018

This essay shows how the idea of the South Atlantic as a space
of dictatorships and banana republics was contested on the ground by literary experimentation and transoceanic influence. Armillas- Tiseyra uses Sony Labou Tansi’s La vie et demie (Life and a Half 1979) as an example of a dictator novel, a genre that spans the Global South. Armillas-Tiseyra argues for the term “constellation” to be used in place of “magical realism” to classify the genre. “Constellation” here serves as a figure both for the relationship of
individual texts or textual features to each other (a loose configuration or grouping) and for a mode of comparison that proceeds by juxtaposition and collage rather than more rigid hierarchical systematization. The allows Armillas-Tiseyra to approach and grapple with the difficult relationship between critique and narrative form.
Withholding Names: Periphrasis in Mary Wroth’s Urania
Authors: Rosenfeld Colleen Ruth
Published: May 2018

Following a set of characters who travel through the Urania while conspicuously withholding the names of their love objects, chapter six argues that periphrasis, that figure of speech which names an object by talking around that object, models a peculiar form of possession: Periphrasis is the figure that permits characters to maintain their grasp on precisely that which they do not have. While Wroth’s readers have tended to read her romance as a roman à clef, this chapter suggests that the Urania’s orientation towards history does not take the form of a topical allegory but a circumlocution. Periphrasis becomes the instrument by which Wroth’s fictional world brings about precisely that which history denied.
The Internet Revealed through Google
Authors: Cassin Barbara
Published: May 2018

The revolution that Google’s search engine technology has brought to organizing information is seen as comparable in historical terms to Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press. Google’s achievements are read with the keen eye of a philologist and philosopher and placed in the context of contemporaneous developments, including Wikipedia and the Internet Archive.
Introduction
Authors: Zigon Jarrett
Published: May 2018

In addition to introducing the aim, argument, and approach of the book, the introduction also includes a lengthy discussion of what Heidegger calls “the modern form of ontology,” i.e., metaphysical humanism, which is linked to both contemporary academic analysis and political practices. In doing so, the link between ontology, politics, and ethics is made, which frames the rest of the book.
Maximus the Confessor and Christological Realization
Authors: Purpura Ashley M.
Published: May 2018

Although Maximus hardly ever invokes the word “hierarchy” directly, he adopts the Dionysian concept of hierarchy as a theological given and draws on it to facilitate his own theological maneuvering of ecclesial authority. Maximus links the Dionysian ideal of hierarchy to a specifically orthodox confession of faith and adopts it as the foundation for his naming of that which renders both lay and ordained humanity divinized and God manifest. Maximus uses this concept to affirm the importance of order, unity, particularity, and liturgical hierarchy, even while the historical (and hagiographical) evidence of his life displays a discontinuity with what one might otherwise identify as ecclesiastical hierarchy. Maximus is an example of Dionysius’s hierarchic legacy existing beyond the mere adoption of a term as a way to name the boundaries of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, legitimate and illegitimate positions of authority, and the image of God in the world.
“An Interpreter and Not a Judge”: Insights into a Christian-Islamic Comparative Theology
Authors: Takács Axel Marc Oaks
Published: May 2018

Axel Marc Oaks Takács steps away from the ordinary subject matter and methods of Muslim-Christian relations as these have been manifested throughout history and argues that modern Christian comparative theology engaging the Islamic religious tradition has more often than not been overly constrained by the historically received interactions between the traditions and, as a result, too narrowly confined to the creedal concerns of orthodoxy. Takács seeks to challenge and unsettle both standard Islamic-Christian interreligious scholarship and the concept of “method” as it relates to the practice of theology, comparative or otherwise. In the words of Hans Urs von Balthasar, objective teaching (part of a uniform theologia spiritualis) must “be realized in practice, in the life of faith, hope and charity.” He exemplifies his fresh approach by the close reading of a text by the thirteenth-century mystic-philosopher Muḥyiddin ibn al-ʿArabī.
Incarnational Speech
Authors: Bannon Brad
Published: May 2018

Brad Bannon argues that comparative theology both challenges and enables us to think differently about how scriptural revelation takes place. He begins by considering how to reformulate Christian theological questions through comparative theology. A half-century ago, Lutheran theologian Rudolf Bultmann provocatively answered “no” to a question he posed: Can the written words of John’s Gospel reveal the Word-become-flesh? Through an engagement with classical Vedānta texts, Bannon encourages us to reformulate Bultmann’s question: How might scriptural revelation occur as an event in the community’s midst, aside from—or subsequent to—the (necessary) activity of reading? Bannon then explores the question and possible answers in two primary and very influential instances of Hindu and Christian theological works: Śaṅkara’s commentarial Vedānta and a sermon by Nicholas of Cusa. By (re)incarnating the Word (whether Johannine or Vedic), the preacher and guru envision revelation as taking place beyond and subsequent to the activity of reading, in the lived and practiced word.
Colonial and Postcolonial Birds of Game, Games of Bird
Authors: Mustafa Fawzia
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines the figurative play of birds in two works that illuminate the colonial and neo-colonial collusion of wildlife conservation and Big Game politics in Africa. The historical backdrop for Yvette Christiansë’s Unconfessed (2006), set during the transfer between Dutch and British systems of slavery in Cape Colony, coincides with the transformation of certain animal species into “Game.” The chapter examines how the figurative play on seagulls (and bird-shit) articulates, as postcolonial critique, the interrelation between discourses of slavery and Big Game conservation. Turning then to the documentary film Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959), the chapter examines how its vision of wildlife conservation depends on a technological projection of spectral bird and animal forms that perpetuates colonial regimes of enslavement and big game politics through a neo-colonial displacement of human populations in the name of conservation. Tracing the effect of Derrida’s “animot” (and Lippit’s “animetaphor”) through both of these works, the chapter reads the postcolonial critique of the one (in the bird-shit of its seagulls) and the neo-colonial technology of the other (in the bird’s-eye view of the aircraft camouflaged with zebra-stripes) as illustrating the ongoing agonistic struggle between colonial and neo-colonial forms of wildlife conservation and big game politics.
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies
Authors: Nguyen Viet Thanh
Published: May 2018

Born out of mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection which considers—almost fifty years after its student protest founding—the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has—and, at times and more provocatively, has not—responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education.
Five Decades Later: Reflections of a Yellow Power Advocate Turned Poet
Authors: Uyematsu Amy
Published: May 2018

Uyematsu considers the past/present/future applications of the Asian American movement and activism via a reflection on her foundational essay, “The Emergence of Yellow Power.”
Has Asian American Studies Failed?
Authors: Yu Timothy
Published: May 2018

Focused on the ways in which Asian American studies has and has not been accessed in mainstream and contemporary debates concerning race, ethnicity, and nation, Yu contemplates the possibilities and limitations of a field that is institutionalized yet largely absent in public discourse.
No Muslims Involved: Letter to Ethnic Studies Comrades
Authors: Rana Junaid
Published: May 2018

This chapter considers the ways in which Muslim Americans and subjectivity have been—from the outset—integral to Ethnic Studies as a distinct political, racial, and identarian project.
Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: The BDS Movement and Liberatory Solidarities across Settler States
Authors: Fujikane Candace
Published: May 2018

Following the focus on Palestine in the previous chapter, Chapter 9 takes as a critical starting point the complicit relationship Asian American politicians such as Senator Daniel Inouye shared with Israel. Such complicit “yellowwashing,” which involves a strategic remembrance of World War II–era Japanese American incarceration, presages Fujikane’s alternative evaluation of “liberatory solidarities” between Pacific Islanders and Palestinians.
The Forgiveness to Come
Authors: Banki Peter
Published: May 2018

The book addresses the difficulties posed by the Holocaust for a thinking of forgiveness inherited from the Abrahamic (i.e., monotheistic) tradition. As a way to approach these difficulties, it explores the often radically divergent positions in the debate on forgiveness in the literature of Holocaust survivors. Forgiveness is sometimes understood as a means of self-empowerment (Eva Mozes Kor); part of the inevitable process of historical normalization and amnesia (Jean Améry); or otherwise as an unresolved question, that will survive all trials and remain contemporary when the crimes of the Nazis belong to the distant past (Simon Wiesenthal). On the basis of an examination of Jacques Derrida’s concept of forgiveness (as forgiveness of the unforgivable) and its elaboration in relation to the juridical concept of Crimes Against Humanity, the book undertakes close readings of Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower (Die Sonnenblume (1969)), Jean Améry’s At the Mind’s Limits (Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne (1966)), Vladimir Jankélévitch’s Forgiveness (Le Pardon (1967)), and Robert Antelme’s The Human Race (L’espèce humaine (1947)). In addition, it analyses the documentary film Forgiving Doctor Mengele (2006) on Eva Mozes Kor. Each of these works bears witness to “aporias,” or unsolvable impasses, of forgiveness, justice and responsibility in relation to the Holocaust. The book argues that Derrida’s concept of forgiveness has the capacity to transform the debate about forgiveness and the Holocaust and open new ways to read the literature, which turns around this question.
Rearing, bird type and pre-slaughter transport conditions I. Effect on dead on arrival
Authors: Villarroel Morris , Pomares Fernando , Ibáñez Miguel A. , Lage Almudena , Martínez-Guijarro Paula , Méndez Jesús , De Blas Carlos
Published: May 2018

The transport of broilers to slaughter normally results in a small percentage of dead on arrival (DoA) but little is known about the effects of flock thinning or bird weight. A multivariable linear model was used to analyse the incidence of DoA over one year in 1,856 flocks of Ross broilers (9,188 shipments). Each flock was categorized according to broiler type (yellow-skinned females and males, white-skinned females and males and roaster females) and thinning (birds transported after thinning, remaining birds after thinning and non-thinned flocks), in addition to transport distance, waiting time, maximum and minimum daily temperatures, precipitation and maximum wind speed. The overall percentage of DoA was 0.187%. The effect of the daily maximum outside temperature on DoA was quadratic with minimum DoA at 21.5ºC. Arrival time to the slaughterhouse and waiting time increased DoA by 0.0044% and 0.0021% for every 60 min increase, respectively. DoA were higher in males (which were heavier than females), and in the flocks that were previously thinned. An interaction between thinning and bird type was found, so that DoA were higher in previously thinned flocks of male broilers and roaster females. Despite the high incidence of thinning and larger bird weight, the percentage of DoA was comparable to previous studies. This research provides one of the largest detailed analyses of DoA in commercial broiler production in the Iberian Peninsula. The models described allow to quantify how increases in temperature, transport distance, waiting time, bird weight and the practise of thinning can all increase broiler mortality.
Genetic variability assessment in ‘Muscat’ grapevines including ‘Muscat of Alexandria’ clones from selection programs
Authors: Peiró Rosa , Soler Jaume X. , Crespo Andrés , Jiménez Carles , Cabello Félix , Gisbert Carmina
Published: May 2018

Genetic variability is needed to face environmental changes and pathogen constrains. In addition, the search for intravarietal variability contributes to the avoidance of genetic erosion, preserving clones that are adapted to particular conditions. Variability is also important to diversify grapevine-derived products. In this work, we have analyzed the genetic variability of ‘Muscat germplasm’ including samples from neglected vineyards from Alicante and Valencia provinces, accessions of the germplasm collections of ‘Colección de Vides de El Encín’ (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid) and ‘La Casa de las Vides’ (Agullent, Valencia), accessions supplied by nurseries of Valencia province, and ‘Muscat of Alexandria’ clones selected using differential ampelographic characteristics in selection programs (La Marina, Alicante). Fifteen microsatellites (SSRs) were used to study intervarietal variability. The SSR fingerprinting allowed the identification of some accessions, variants, and synonymies. Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphisms (AFLPs) markers and Microsatellite-AFLPs were used to determine the variability attended in ‘Muscat of Alexandria’ accessions. A CAPs (Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequences) marker, recently developed for the discrimination of ‘Muscat’ flavor genotypes using the SNP1822 G>T, was assessed and showed that all the analyzed accessions were ‘Muscat’ flavored. The variation found among the analyzed germplasm is very interesting because variants within ‘Muscat of Alexandria’, ‘Muscat Italia’, and ‘Muscat d’Istambul’ have been identified. In addition, intravarietal genetic variation was found among the analyzed accessions in ‘Muscat of Alexandria’ from selection programs.
Numerical simulation of BOD5 dynamics in Igapó I lake, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil: Experimental measurement and mathematical modeling
Authors: Romeiro Neyva Maria Lopes , Mangili Fernanda Bezerra , Costanzi Ricardo Nagamine , Cirilo Eliandro Rodrigues , Natti Paulo Laerte
Published: May 2018

A concentração da demanda bioquímica de oxigênio, BOD5, foi estudada para avaliar a qualidade da água do lago Igapó I, em Londrina, Paraná, Brasil. A simulação foi realizada por meio da discretização da geometria do lago Igapó I em coordenadas curvilíneas, juntamente com os métodos de diferenças finitas e elementos finitos. A avaliação do modelo numérico proposto para a qualidade da água foi realizada através da comparação dos valores experimentais de DBO5 com os resultados numéricos. A avaliação do modelo mostrou resultados quantitativos do parâmetro simulado compatíveis com o comportamento real do lago Igapó I. A análise qualitativa das simulações numéricas permitiu uma melhor compreensão da dinâmica da concentração de DBO5 no lago Igapó I, mostrando que tais concentrações nas regiões centrais do lago apresentam valores acima daqueles permitidos pela legislação brasileira. Nossos resultados podem ajudar a orientar escolhas pelos órgãos públicos, como: (i) melhorar os mecanismos de identificação de emissores de poluentes no Lago Igapó I, (ii) contribuir para o tratamento ótimo da recuperação do ambiente poluído e (iii) proporcionar  uma melhor qualidade de vida para os frequentadores do lago, bem como para os moradores que vivem na beira do lago.
Thickness Effect on the Optical Band Gap of V2O5 Thin Films Deposited by Thermal Evaporation
Authors: Cardozo Amorin Luís Henrique , Da Silva Martins Larissa , Lopes Fábio , Urbano Alexandre
Published: May 2018

Filmes finos V2O5 têm sido usados como eletrodo passivo para ser aplicado em dispositivos eletrocrômicos que requer determinadas propriedades óptica, cristalográfica e de energia eletroquímica. Essas propriedades são influenciadas pela espessura do filme. Neste trabalho foram determinadas a dependência da espessura, a absorção óptica espectral e o tamanho de partícula dos filmes finos de V2O5 depositados por evaporação térmica com três espessuras nanométricas. A partir dos resultados, ficou claro que esses tamanhos de partículas, aparentemente, não são influenciados pela espessura do filme em sua formação. Assim, verificou-se que a microestrutura, principalmente a espessura, influencia fortemente as propriedades ópticas, especialmente a energia de absorção, dessas amostras. A energia de gap óptico diminui à medida que a espessura do filme aumenta. Isso realmente prova que a espessura do filme pode ser usada como forma de modular a absorção óptica de materiais em dispositivos ópticos e optoeletrônicos.
Predicting Growth Components – Unemployment, Housing Prices and Consumption Using Both Government and Corporate Yield Curves
Authors: Saar Dan , Yagil Yossi
Published: May 2018

In this study, we predict changes in specific segments of economic growth including the unemployment rate, the housing prices and changes in personal consumption by employing corporate and government bonds. Our hypothesis is that the use of yield curves of corporate bonds will improve the predictions over previous models that used only the yield curves of government bonds. Our results support that contention. We find that corporate bonds’ spreads actually help predicting the changes in both the unemployment rate and housing prices. We also find a significant positive relationship between bond spreads and future changes in personal consumption levels, but the results are weaker than in the other two segments. One additional finding worth noting is that government bonds are better predictors for the long-term, whereas corporate bonds are better indicators for the short-term.
Effective Groupwork Strategies: Faculty and Students’ Perspectives
Authors: Rezaei Ali
Published: May 2018

The goal of this research study was to find what makes groupwork to be successful. We asked faculty why they give groupwork assignments to their students and what their opinions about the best practices in creating effective groupwork environment for their students are. It was also intended to compare instructors’ opinions with research findings to find out how much their groupwork strategies match research findings in this area. Likewise, we asked students about features of successful groupwork to see if faculty and students’ viewpoints on features of successful groupwork were similar. The results reveal the most prevalent groupwork strategies practiced by faculty and the favorite ones among students. Results show faculty and students’ attitudes towards groupwork are very similar, however, many faculty do not follow the guidelines suggested in earlier studies to improve the effectiveness of groupwork assignments.
Does Road Investment Really Promote the Export? Evidence from Sichuan County-level Data of China
Authors: Xu Lihe , Liu Jiaqi , Yan Xiaoshan
Published: May 2018

Whether road infrastructure promotes export is still a concerned issue debated in the previous studies. In this paper, we conduct a panel data using two data sources from year 2003 to 2013, examining the relationship between road investment and export. The primary results show that road investment significantly restricts local export. A further test indicates that the road infrastructure benefits service sector, 1) abstract more private capital investment on service sector than manufacturing sector, 2) reduce the employee of tradable sector. Then manufacturing sector was constrained. The results are robust when a set test is carried out.
Using Comprehension Questions and Reader-Response Strategies with Second-Semester University Spanish Students
Authors: Hibbs Brian
Published: May 2018

For most of the 20th century, literary criticism has focused on uncovering the author’s intended meanings of a given text. In contrast, reader-response theorists have concentrated on the role of the reader in literary interpretation. This article details an exploratory study which documents second-semester university Spanish students’ perceptions of their experiences reading children’s novels in Spanish. Learners participated in curricular engagements designed to facilitate their understanding and promote the development of their own interpretations of the books. Results of the study suggest that such engagements may either contribute or impede students’ comprehension and interpretation of literary texts due to various contextual factors.
Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres, editado por Luz Gil-Salom y Carmen Soler-Monreal
Authors: Sánchez-Jiménez David
Published: May 2018

Reseña de Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres, editado por Luz Gil-Salom y Carmen Soler-Monreal.
Proposal of Project Management Methods and Tools Oriented Maturity Model
Authors: Kostalova Jana , Tetrevova Libena
Published: May 2018

Project management maturity greatly influences the success rate of the project implementation. However, available project management maturity models (PMMMs) are costly, time-consuming and demanding in terms of organization and competence when it comes to application. Moreover, there is no PMMM that evaluates in detail the usage of recommended project management methods and tools. The goal of this article is to design a user-friendly PMMM that would evaluate the project management maturity based on assessment of the usage of project management tools and methods within each stage of project life cycle taking into account the predominant type of projects implemented. The authors used the critical and comparative analysis, based on that the available project management maturity models were assessed and the new PMMM was designed using analogy, deduction, and induction, based on the synthesis of the acquired knowledge combined with the expert experience of the practitioners. It is a unique PMMM, characterized by complexity, user friendliness and financial flexibility. In addition, it is a model that can be used not only in companies of various branches, but also in organizations of other institutional sectors.
Visualização da Informação e Métodos Visuais como Ferramentas Estratégicas para o Gerenciamento de Projetos
Authors: Barbosa Fabio José Marques , França Renata De Souza , Rodrigues Rodrigo Fonseca e , Parreiras Fernando Silva
Published: May 2018

O gerenciamento de projetos tem possibilitado melhores resultados e vantagem competitiva nas organizações. Os projetos, geralmente, são alimentados por uma vasta quantidade de informações que necessitam ser analisadas e seus significados extraídos para a solução de problemas. Manter um gerenciamento adequado e sistemático não é uma tarefa fácil execução e, muitas vezes, se torna uma barreira. Nessa perspectiva, surgem os métodos visuais e a visualização da informação como ferramentas estratégicas para mitigarem os problemas do gerenciamento de projetos. Por meio de métodos visuais e da visualização, as informações são descobertas e explicitadas, a equipe é coordenada e o volume de informações é tratado substancialmente. O objetivo desse estudo é analisar a influência dos métodos visuais e da visualização da informação nos fatores de gerenciamento de projetos: comunicação, demandas (restrições) e ciclo de vida. Com uma pesquisa descritiva e quantitativa, foi aplicado um questionário semiestruturado com escala do tipo likert, composto por cinco variáveis: ciclo de vida, demandas do projeto, comunicação, visualização da informação e métodos visuais. Foram aplicados 386 questionários a alunos de Pós-Graduação Lato Sensu em Gerenciamento de Projetos, Stricto Sensu em Sistemas de Informações e profissionais da área. Obteve-se 359 respondentes válidos e verificou-se que há o reconhecimento da importância dos métodos visuais e visualização da informação no gerenciamento do projeto, além da existência de relações incipientes.
IT Project Manager Competencies and Team Commitment: A New Scale Proposal
Authors: Araújo Cintia Cristina Silva de , Pedron Cristiane Drebes , Silva Filipe Quevedo Pires de Oliveira e
Published: May 2018

Project managers are required to develop competencies that will help them to lead their teams in stressful, challenging and dynamic environments such as in many Information Technology (IT) project settings. Project managers should also develop team commitment in order to improve team performance. Therefore, this study addresses the question: Which IT project manager competencies influence team commitment? The main objective is to develop and validate a new instrument to measure project manager competencies and team commitment in IT projects. To accomplish this objective, we, firstly, did an exploratory and qualitative research. Then, we did a quantitative research in which we collected 484 responses. Besides providing a new scale, this research also presents pertinent implications to the practice of project management in IT settings. For instance, organizations can use the measuring instrument to evaluate project managers, to evaluate the work environment as well as to structure training programs for their employees.
Introduction
Authors: Tucker Terrence T.
Published: May 2018

This chapter establishes the definition of comic rage and traces the history of humor and militancy in African American literature and history. It distinguishes between comic rage and satire, culminating in an examination of George Schuyler’s Black No More. It details how comic rage acts as an abjection (from Julia Kristeva) that breaks down simplistic ideas about race and representations that appear in literature and popular culture. While identifying Richard Pryor as the most recognizable employer of comic rage, this chapter also points to figures like Sutton Griggs, Ishmael Reed, and Malcolm X; who embody the multiple combinations of anger and comedy that appear in the chapters of the book. It outlines the contents of the chapters that trace the development of comic rage in relation to the various political and literary moments in American and African American life.
Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx
Authors: Tucker Terrence T.
Published: May 2018

This chapter links the development of comic rage in African American literature to similar and perpendicular changes in stand-up comedy. While Dick Gregory embodies the convergence of the civil rights movement and the emergence of stand-up as a critical form of expression, this chapter also traces influential figures like Moms Mabley and Redd Foxx to identify the elements from which Gregory pulls in his deployment of comic rage. Mabley’s embrace of community allowed her to challenge patriarchal assumptions about sexual and gender relations while Foxx’s performance of, what I call, the Comic Bad Nigger produces a tone of fearlessness that Gregory imbeds in his act. Gregory’s ability to maintain the balance of both elements creates a space where he and his audience constructively explored race in a way that mirrored the push for integration and equality.
From Absence to Flight
Authors: Tucker Terrence T.
Published: May 2018

This chapter explores radicalization of comic rage in Douglas Turner Ward’s Day of Absence and Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada. Emerging in the middle of the transition from the integrationist period of the civil rights movement to the nationalism of the Black Power movement, both works openly challenge fundamental concepts about race. In addition to targeting fundamental assumptions of Western superiority, these works also question simplistic counter-representations that African Americans present to combat racist stereotypes. Using forms increasingly important in African American literature, like drama and neo-slave narratives, these works enact comic rage as way to depict unique and powerful forms of resistance.