Context Of Reception Research Articles

Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan: Dancing in an Eastern Dream by Christopher T. Keaveney

Reviewed by: Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan: Dancing in an Eastern Dream by Christopher T. Keaveney Rebecca Suter (bio) Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan: Dancing in an Eastern Dream. By Christopher T. Keaveney. Lexington Books, 2020. x, 229 pages. $105.00, cloth; $39.99, paper; $38.00, E-book. Christopher Keaveney's monograph is a very welcome addition to the field of transnational and comparative Japan studies, and by extension contemporary cultural studies. Examining the history of Western rock music's engagement with Japan as a form of Orientalist discourse, the book is in conversation with a growing body of scholarship that, ever since Richard Minear's 1980 review of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) for the Journal of Asian Studies, has reflected critically on the applicability of the notion of Orientalism, initially developed by Said in relation to the European discourse on the Middle East, to Anglo-American discourse on East Asia. The book fills an important gap in this debate by examining an understudied area of cultural and creative production, namely rock music. It focuses primarily on rock music of the golden age of the long-playing album, that is to say the decades between the late 1950s and the mid-1980s, but it extends its scope to also consider early twentieth-century and early twenty-firstcentury musical genres such as opera, jazz, and pop. The title of the book is slightly misleading, since the objects of analysis are not so much "Western" artists as British and North American ones. Except for a couple of Australian artists, such as Crowded House and Kylie Minogue, and a couple of "honorary English" groups such as the Swedish band ABBA, the analysis centers almost exclusively on musicians from the United Kingdom and the United States. It could have been interesting to examine a few more examples of Western European musicians who made a career in Japan, such as Claude Ciari, who left the French rock group Les Champions in 1964 to pursue a highly successful career as a solo singer popular with Japanese audiences, or Rosanna Zambon, who after traveling to Tokyo as a vocalist for a rock group as a teenager remained in the country and rose to popularity in the 1970s as part of the duo Hide and Rosanna. Another rich and unexplored object of inquiry potentially very relevant to the book would have been Western European musicians who deployed Japanesque imagery in their lyrics, music videos, or band names, like the 1984 album Rita Mitsouko, by the eponymous French pop rock duo Les Rita Mitsouko, or Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Gabbani's kimono-clad performance of his award-winning "Occidentali's karma" song at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, to name only two. [End Page 248] As a study of British and North American rock artists' encounters with Japan, and of their contribution to Orientalist discourse, Dancing in an Eastern Dream is a brilliant interdisciplinary endeavor, combining a sophisticated close reading of lyrics, sound, and visual imagery deployed in the songs, the albums, and the related promotional videos with an in-depth analysis of the British, North American, and Japanese music industries. The study of the context of reception is equally thorough and persuasive. Particularly convincing is the investigation of the impact of Japanese rock journalism—and of locally specific cultural practices such as the production and distribution of visually striking flyers advertising concerts and albums—on the formation of a distinctive Western rock fan culture in Japan, and the impact of this fan culture, in turn, on the "Budōkan concert" and "live in Japan album" phenomena. Given the focus on the importance of fandom, readers might be curious to learn a little more about actual fan responses and the phenomenon of "gaijin akogare" that could have been gathered for example by examining information drawn from fan letters in rock magazines or from interviews with fans. This, however, would probably be the subject of a different book. The book is based on an impressive number of English- and Japaneselanguage primary and secondary sources in a variety of disciplinary fields. The best part of the study is undoubtedly...

“Immigration Enforcement Is a Daily Part of Our Students’ Lives”: School Social Workers’ Perceptions of Racialized Nested Contexts of Reception for Immigrant Students

This qualitative analysis examines school social workers’ equity work for immigrant students, including their perceptions of immigration enforcement and school climates that support or hinder immigrant student experiences. We conceptually expand understandings of nested contexts of reception and racialized organizations across macro, meso, micro levels, and how they affect immigrant students’ educational experiences, mobility, and belonging. Utilizing open-ended responses from a unique national survey data set, we examine school social workers’ perceptions of the macro, meso, micro racialized contexts that immigrant students encounter, how school social worker perceptions reflect racial attitudes as part of the racialized organization of schools in which they work, and how such racial attitudes influence their actions and potentially disrupt racial inequality in schools. Discussion of the impact of school social workers’ racial attitudes, and perceptions of racialized contexts and how they influence school social workers’ advocacy for immigrant students is offered.

Male Monsters Still Stalk, Yet More Violent: A Comparative Analysis of Original Slasher Films and Their Remakes

Since its origins in the mid-1970s, the slasher has been defined as a subgenre of horror in which a serial or mass killer stalks and massacres middle-class youngsters, and preferably attractive young women, using cutting weapons or projectiles. In that regard, the twenty-first century has seen a revival of the slasher, combining the release of original movies with remakes of classic films, adapting the traditional plots to the current context. In this paper, a comparative content analysis is performed on 13 slasher films made during the 1970s and the 1980s and 13 remakes premiered in the new millennium, focusing on the differences stemming from the adaptation of the latter to the new sociocultural context. The results indicate that, although there have been a number of changes, such as higher doses of explicit violence and profanity and in the fight responses of the victims, most of the subgenre’s defining traits have remained intact, whereas others, such as those relating to the defining traits of the victims, should be questioned. The limited differences found between the original films and the remakes provide the basis for drawing interesting conclusions about the subgenre itself, as well as to raise discussions about the different contexts of production and reception.

Scalanie uniwersum. Krytyka translatorska pośród kontekstów recepcji przekładowej poezji H.P. Lovecrafta w Polsce

Consolidating the Universe. Translation Criticism among Contexts of Translational Reception of H.P. Lovecraft’s Poetry in Poland The article discusses the influence of translator’s criticism and other extra-textual factors on the translations of poetry by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Since the very first renditions of his Fungi from Yuggoth sonnets by Jerzy Płudowski and Leszek Lachowiecki included in two anthologies of horror poetry, Polish versions of Lovecraft’s verses have always been modified in the process of interlinguistic transfer according to either sole preferences of the publishing houses and evaluations proposed by critics of the English originals or the translators’ reception of the previous Polish variants. In most cases these modifications resulted from more or less stereotypical visions of the American writer held by the translators and were aimed at establishing links to his other works already published in Poland (short stories, essays, letters). Thus effects of the semantic shifts, detectable also in the latest variants by Krzysztof Azarewicz and Mateusz Kopacz, can be referred to as consolidating the universe of the writer’s biographical legend and literary works which is more coherent in the Polish target texts than in the originals.

Intercultural Theater and the Local Context of Reception: Lady Macbeth 2016 and the South Korean Presidential Scandal

Intercultural Theater and the Local Context of Reception: Lady Macbeth 2016 and the South Korean Presidential Scandal

Calcidius on Plato’s Timaeus: Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts by Gretchen Reydams-Schils

Reviewed by: Calcidius on Plato’s Timaeus: Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts by Gretchen Reydams-Schils Sara Ahbel-Rappe REYDAMS-SCHILS, Gretchen. Calcidius on Plato’s Timaeus: Greek Philosophy, Latin Reception, and Christian Contexts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. 232 pp. Cloth, $99.99; paper and eBook, $29.99 This carefully written study is the first to address in its entirety the fourth-century Latin commentary on Plato’s Timaeus by the otherwise unknown Calcidius. The commentary appears together with a partial translation of the dialogue (“The translation goes up to 53c and the commentary covers the section from 31 to 53c”). In framing this work as part of the Platonic commentary tradition, Reydams-Schils moves us beyond the misunderstanding that the work is a paraphrase of now lost sources (primarily Porphyry and/or Nemesius). She treats the commentary as an original composition by an independent thinker steeped in middle Platonic, stoic, and even Aristotelian philosophy. As such, the work, alongside that of Cicero, Boethius, Macrobius, and Martianus Capella, is one of the crucial conduits for the transmission of Platonism to the Latin West. Reydams-Schils offers an evenhanded assessment of the text’s central arguments. Her immense erudition and meticulous research, together with fine-grained readings of the text in the original Latin, are everywhere in evidence. The book also relies on two decades’ worth of her own writing about and exploration of the intellectual world of this dialogue in concert with other scholars. The book falls into three parts: part 1 gives us a roadmap of the commentary; part 2 assesses the importance of its philosophical themes; and part 3 places Calcidius’s work alongside his reading of stoic, Peripatetic, middle Platonic, and Christian sources. By the end of the volume, we come away with a rich knowledge of Calcidius’s project together with a deeper understanding of what has been called eclecticism in the context of middle Platonic philosophy. As Reydams-Schils shows, [End Page 396] this work should not be taken as sharing in the late antique Neoplatonic milieu that characterizes Proclus or even Boethius, for example. Instead, Calcidius’s commentary develops as an original interpretation of the meaning of Platonism and especially of Plato’s doctrines of creation. The heart of the commentary, as Reydams-Schils unfolds it, relates to the theme of universal providence, an emphasis that has Calcidius reading the Timaeus primarily as an ethical work. In his articulation of how providence works in the world, Calcidius transgresses in fundamental ways the root division that runs through the original dialogue, between the works of intelligence and the works of necessity, between the intelligent cause and the errant cause (Timaeus 47e). Reydams-Schils writes, “the notion [of providence] is so important for Calcidius that he in effect rewrites Plato’s account in crucial passages to make room for it.” She pays attention to how Calcidius (deliberately?) mistranslates Plato’s Greek and thus insinuates his own version of the creation story to accord with a doctrine that borrows a great deal from the Stoic understanding of divine providence. Thus, for example, Calcidius has prouidae mentis intellectus instituit for the Greek “τὰ δία νοῦ δεδημιουργημένα,” where the original Greek entirely lacks any mention of providence. The longest and most theoretically sophisticated section of the commentary forms a subtreatise on the topic of matter (a word that Calcidius admits does not occur in Plato’s text). Reydams-Schils neatly connects the philosophy of providence that Calcidius earlier weaves together through his understanding of the function of the world soul with his philosophy of matter. She shows how Calcidius leans heavily on the stoic delineation of matter as a passive substance in order to circumvent the resistance or even recalcitrance of Plato’s receptacle, by describing matter as “a providential form of obedience in necessity found upon reason.” Strange words for a Platonist, indeed. The third part of the book is a judicious review of previous scholarship on Calcidius’s sources, his dependence on (actually, to a great extent, Reydams-Schils demonstrates, independence from) them, together with a survey of issues surrounding the possible religious identity of Calcidius. (There is no reason to think he is Christian, according to Reydams...

‘Wearing Presumption’s Garb’: Isaac Brandon’s Fragments: In the Manner of Sterne

Three fragments from Isaac Brandon’s volume of Shandean imitations are here introduced, transcribed, and annotated. The introduction situates the volume in its publication and reception contexts, and further considers the book in relation to radical Whig politics of the 1790s. Fragments: In the Manner of Sterne was erroneously attributed to William Combe in 1935 by L.P. Curtis, though there exists plentiful documentary evidence indicating Isaac Brandon’s authorship; this evidence is here collected and analysed for the first time in order to settle the question of attribution .

A validation of the Perceived Negative Context of Reception Scale with recently-arrived Venezuelan immigrants in Colombia and the United States.

Millions of Venezuelans have left their country in search of safety and stability in the United States (U.S.) and Colombia, two countries where recent increases in anti-immigrant rhetoric and sentiment have occurred. The Perceived Negative Context of Reception Scale captures the degree to which immigrants report feeling that people from their country are unwanted/marginalized within their new receiving context. In the present study, we examine the psychometric properties of the Perceived Negative Context of Reception Scale with recent Venezuelan immigrant adolescents and adults in the U.S. and Colombia. We conducted confirmatory factor analysis using data from the Colombia and Miami's Newest Arrivals (CAMINAR) Study, which collected data from Venezuelan adults in Bogotá, Colombia, and South Florida in October-November 2017, and the Venezolanos en Nuevos Entornos (VENE) Youth Project which surveyed Venezuelan youth living in Florida between November 2018 and July 2019. We found that the negative context of reception evidenced strong psychometric properties among immigrants in both the U.S. and in Colombia, among adolescents and adults, and among male and female respondents. We also found that negative context of reception scores was associated with elevated scores on criterion-related factors-that is, perceived discrimination and depressive symptoms-in ways that are theoretically coherent and support measure validity. We provide new evidence that the Perceived Negative Context of Reception scale is reliable and valid for use with Venezuelan immigrants in the U.S. and Colombia. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Review of “Iraqi Refugees in the United States: The Enduring Effects of the War on Terror”

Scholars working in refugee studies have long been concerned to address what is called refugeeness. Conditions of existence in which persons deemed legally eligible for refugee status are subject to social, political, economic and cultural processes, and practices of reception which divest them of a historical and agentive identity. In the contemporary narrative of Western moral authority, refugees are diminished persons; objects to be rescued and re-invested with integrative interventions appropriate to the receiving state. Refugeeness is compounded by globally instituted distinctions, which authorize refugees only as involuntary movers, in contrast to voluntary migrants. The refugee/migrant distinction bolsters the notion that refuge confers legitimate victim status—objects of conflict or persecution—that is open to abuse by “voluntary migrant pariahs in disguise.” Refugees are therefore compelled to negotiate this victim-pariah duality in which their status as legitimate victims is implicitly called into question and must be continuously proved. Refugeeness presents a challenging research terrain for scholars in that the specificities of refugee experiences as historical actors should be validated without bolstering the victim-pariah construct, particularly in Western reception contexts.

Trek to Everest Base Camp: (Re)composing a Sound-Trek and (Re)experiencing as Soundscape Remix

This ethno-artistic essay proposes to contribute to debates concerning soundscape ecology, ecomusicology and the Anthropocene by investigating the human context and personal dimension of soundscape reception, perception and intervention through varying outputs. It seeks to tie in with this special issue of CfP "A Sonic Anthropocene – Sound Practices in a Changing Environment" via the suggestion of new forms of discursive involvement with the changing environment, such as artistic (re)interpretation or remix of soundscape source material, audio-visual and literary storytelling, and also textual travel logging and field notes. My goal with this essay is three-fold. The first, to conduct a poietic re-signification of various soundscapes recorded in 2018 during a trek between Lukla and Mount Everest, Nepal. The second, to provide a more in-depth ethno-artistic proposal via the presentation of accompanying audiovisual essays in the form of story maps (thus further demonstrating transformational processes between lived and relived experiences), and thirdly, due my own trek playing a part in the ongoing touristification of Everest, to suggest – through my audio-textual-visual work – possible creative, reverential and positive potentialities in alternate methodologies for ethnographers and data-gatherers alike, particularly in documenting the shifting Everest environment and providing a ‘picture in time’ of its changing land and soundscape.

‘Islands of Sound in the Silent Flow of Film’: German Part-Talkies Around 1930 as a Hybrid Medium

Looking at the German production and reception context, this article argues for increased attention to part-talkies as a transitional phenomenon and hybrid medium in film history. Part-talkies are films that alternate between silent and sound film sequences, creating ‘changes in register’, ruptures and ambiguities, which point to the unevenness and duration of cinema’s conversion to sound. The article presents several types of part-talkies and other hybrid films from around 1930, giving reasons for their marginalization in film historiography and the need for a critical and non-judgmental examination of their cultural, economic, and aesthetic implications. As a look at contemporary reviews in German trade papers reveals, part-talkies were the subject of heterogeneous debates on film aesthetics, in which differing views on their artistic value clashed. Furthermore, an exemplary historical analysis of the German part-talkie Cyankali (Cyanide) (dir. Hans Tintner, 1930) shows how the film’s hybridity resulted from its production history and became the focus of contemporary censorship debates. A close reading of some of the film’s sound sequences brings to the fore the complex audiovisual methods operating in the film, especially at moments of transition.

The Difference an Editor Makes

The Difference an Editor Makes

Transfert stylistique des registres langagiers dans la traduction audiovisuelle vers le français des deux films égyptiens Femmes du Caire et Les Femmes du Bus 678

Stylistic Transfer of Language Registers in the Audiovisual Translation into French of the Two Egyptian Films Femmes du Caire and Les Femmes du Bus 678 
 Pre-recorded interlinguistic subtitles are texts added in the lower part of the image to translate simultaneously the scene seen and heard. Subtitling is a delicate operation in which one must find the balance between the oral context presented on the screen and the written translation that scrolls at a pace that the viewer cannot control. During the stylistic transfer of the film dialogue, subtitles are perceived not as syntaxico-semantic units read in isolation, but as an inseparable component of the audiovisual multimodal text. The present study aims to provide answers to the following questions: what TAV strategies did the subtitler adopt to translate the dramatic cinematographic narration of the two films studied? And how does this affect the interpretation of a particular sequence by the second recipient, namely the French- speaking audience? What impact could a translational choice have on audiovisual adaptation in the target language-culture? We identified in “Femmes du Caire” and “Les Femmes du Bus 678”, two language registers, namely the common speech and the colloquial register whose use we examined in different scenes considering the linguistic classification of the language levels in French and in Arabic, and taking into account the cultural and the situational frameworks, the context of production and reception and the relationship between the interlocutors. Considering the spatio-temporal constraints of this mode of AVT requiring from the translator-adapter a hierarchy of the information contained in the speech in the light of a possible condensation, reformulation, economy, even omission, if necessary, we also based our analysis on the theory of meaning and the theory of dynamic equivalence essential for the interpretation of the source language and the production of an intelligible target subtitles stylistically appropriate to the language level used.

Increasing Visibility of the Turkish Fans of South Korean Popular Culture through Translation

Having made a remarkable contribution to social questions in translation studies, the sociological approach to translation explores the interaction between human agents, translated texts, and their context of production and reception (Chesterman, 2006; Wolf & Fukari, 2007; Wolf, 2011). The research in this study is focused on target text users/pro-consumers. In line with this aim, this study is centered on Turkish fans of South Korean popular culture, most of whom have consumed, produced, and distributed diverse Korean popular culture products largely through translation. The present research particularly intends to problematize Korean fandom in Turkey considering John Fiske’s approach to fandom, which is based on Bourdieu’s consideration of culture, operating like an economic system to distribute its resources unequally and therefore distinguishing between individuals who possess greater degree of capital and the others deprived of it. This research, based on the Internet-mediated interviews (with 43 Turkish fans of South Korean pop culture), argues that Bourdieu’s consideration of fans as a group that is devoid of social and cultural power and is considered undistinguished in their cultural preferences and interpretative practices partly fails to enlighten the case of the Korean Wave fans in Turkey. This study has revealed that, cultural capital is not fixed but open to struggles, disclosing the fact that accumulation of popular cultural capital can bring prestige to certain fans that are more involved in and possess high knowledge within the fan community. Then, it has been posited that social networks play a far more major role in the formation and persistence of the fan community than does the accumulation of cultural capital. It has also been observed that popular cultural capital of Korean Wave fans can readily be converted into high social capital since Turkish fans who display their accumulated popular cultural capital are able to broaden their reach to other fans. Lastly, this research discloses that, Turkish fans’ increasing visibility and their influence over mass culture appear to form a particular kind of fan habitus which allows for variability in tastes and actions of the fans.

Study of Mouse Deer and Snail Characters in Fable (Deconstruction Approach)

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 The presence of the mouse deer and snail fable is considered to contribute in education field. The character of the mouse deer with its strengths and the snail with its weaknesses brings its own spirit to the reader that the irrationality of the weak can defeat the strong is acceptable logic. Thus, the strong mouse deer is judged as a loser and the weak snail is judged as a hero by the readers. In fact, in a certain sense, the meaning of an event conveyed through the characters of the story can be inversely to the reader's interpretation so far. The objectives of this study were (1) to describe the characters of the mouse deer and snail in deconstruction studies; and (2) to describe the relevance of deconstruction studies with critical thinking activities in the independent learning era. The research was a descriptive qualitative research based on research studies using Derrida's deconstruction. Data analysis was carried out in stages, namely: reading repeated texts carefully so that the original context and reception context were found, tracing binary opposition, and presenting other logic or other perceptions. The results of the study shows that (1) the snail character who has been predicted to be a good character can be considered an arrogant and fraudulent character. Meanwhile, the mouse deer figure who has been regarded as an arrogant figure can be considered an honest and kind character, and (2) the deconstruction study method is relevant to critical thinking activities in the independent learning era.

The culturally intelligent way of acculturating: Examining cultural intelligence and acculturation orientations among foreign workers in the Danish context of reception.

In contemporary globalized societies, the number of foreign workers is increasing, resulting in greater intercultural contact and adaptation. Foreign workers apply their cultural intelligence when adapting to and working in multicultural environments, resulting in affiliations with both their cultural heritage and their destination cultural stream. We examined foreign workers' (N=264) intercultural adaptation in the globalized context of Denmark. We found that cultural intelligence was directly and positively linked with adaptable work performance. Furthermore, cultural intelligence was indirectly and negatively associated with sociocultural adaptation difficulties through endorsement of Danish culture. Likewise, perceived negative context of reception was indirectly and positively associated with sociocultural adaptation difficulties through low endorsement of Danish culture. Additionally, perceived stress predicted adaptable work performance, whereas perceived context of reception and sociocultural adaptation difficulties did not. Overall, our results suggest involvement in the destination culture as a culturally intelligent way of applying one's cultural capabilities, suggesting that the perceived context of reception is of great importance for helping foreign workers adapt to their destination cultural environments.

Middeleeuse Studies, Mediëvalistiek en Mediëvalisme: Kritiese onderskeide en samehange

Medieval Studies, Medievalist Studies and Medievalism: Critical distinctions and intersections. The aim of this article is to clarify Medievalism (Mediëvalisme) as a research challenge in Medieval Studies, thereby contributing to the discipline’s methodological and contemporary-discursive development. In conjunction with the author’s recent analyses of three subject-internal problems in Medieval philosophy ([1]the calibration of periodisation; [2] latent Orientalism and the subsequent problem of ‘two registers’ [‘East’ and ‘West’]; as well as [3] the problem of the ‘canon’), Medievalism is presented as the idea-historical postulation of a Medieval ‘Other’ with the subtle intent to alleviate the notion of some contemporaneous ‘Self’; in other words, Medievalism points toward the apparent spontaneous acceptance of a disparity between a superior post-Medieval Self and an inferior Medieval Other. This includes the essentialising of a single aspect, or contingent aspects, of the Medieval Other, which results in conjectures of deeply caricaturised and quasi-comprehensive views of the Middle Ages. Medievalist Studies (translated for the sake of clarity, as Mediëvalistiek in Afrikaans to circumvent the curious and confusing overlapping of the terms ‘Medievalist Studies’ and ‘Medievalism’ in English), the discipline that studies the post-Medieval reception of the Middle Ages (in whatever form or genre), is presented as a legitimate supplementary tool for exposing Medievalism, particularly in non-specialised contexts. The article henceforth argues for the systematic employment of Mediëvalistiek in its countering of Mediëvalisme as an effective supplementary resource in Medieval Studies – especially within the context of the contemporary Neoconservative reception of the Middle Ages.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Dealing with a millennium-long variety of discourses, Medieval Studies functions in a Venn-diagrammatical relationship with Medieval philosophy, Medieval history, church history, patristics, philosophy of religion and sociology of religion. Whenever these proximate disciplines are impacted by specialist Medieval research, it may well have noteworthy implications. Such is the case in this critical distinction between and clarification of the intersections between Medieval Studies, Mediëvalisme (Medievalism) and Mediëvalistiek (Medievalist Studies).

The Reception, Consumption and Broader Context of a French Vernacular Plague Tract Printed in 1495

Abstract This article focuses on the physician Thomas Le Forestier’s French vernacular plague tract published in Rouen in 1495, to explore how medical advice on epidemic illness was consumed and disseminated in Normandy and further afield in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. While plague was an urgent issue facing all people at this time, and the publication of this text in the vernacular ostensibly made its advice more accessible than material in Latin, the article finds that it was probably read above all by physicians or other medical practitioners, including those from a monastic or ecclesiastical context, rather than by a more diverse range of readers. These medical readers sometimes assembled personalised Sammelbände (volumes in which separately produced printed and/or manuscript works were bound together), gathering together a range of health-related texts that could be read alongside each other. Although the extant copies of Le Forestier’s tract do not appear to have travelled beyond France, continental plague printings in Latin were annotated by English readers, indicating the transnational dissemination of such material in the scholarly language shared across Europe.

Anathema und Übergabe an den Satan als Aktualisierungen des göttlichen Gerichts in den paulinischen Gemeinden

Abstract Curses are an exegetically increasingly current topic. In this discussion the cultural-historical classification of these texts against the background of the Greek-Roman practice of cursing, in particular the defixiones, is central. The present contribution focuses on the Pauline use of the lexeme anathema (Gal 1:8–9; 1 Cor 16:22) and the syntagma “delivering to Satan” (1 Cor 5:5) against the background of their respective specific semantics, history of tradition, and contexts of reception. It sheds light on the theological dimension of these “curses,” whose effects beyond the Pauline letters can also be observed in the grave-robber curses from the context of the Galatian and Corinthian communities.

Postcolonial Geopolitics: Reading Contemporary Geopolitics in Maghrebi-French War Films

ABSTRACT This article examines geopolitical responses to postcolonial films on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Maghrebi-French films Days of Glory (French: Indigenes) (2006), Outside the Law (French: Hors la loi) (2010) and Free Men (French: Les hommes libres) (2011) collectively re-tell Algerian histories of resistance and anti-colonialism in the Second World War and the Algerian War of Independence, using Hollywood combat and gangster genre to do so. This paper finds that the specific temporal and spatial narratives of (post)colonial France and Algeria are transformed and read geopolitically as allegories of more familiar conflict, namely the War on Terror, the Arab Spring and Israel-Palestine. Drawing on the fields of postcolonial theory and popular geopolitics, this article extends the scope of popular geopolitics to consider postcolonial film and its reception as a site of geopolitical contestation. In doing so, this article highlights how the reception of ‘foreign-language’ postcolonial stories in the Anglosphere is mediated by popular geopolitical frames of reference, and is dependent on the context of reception and (post)colonial power relations.