Double Life Research Articles

Swimming in the Dark

Swimming in the Dark

From Marginalia to Bookends: Industrialization, Capitalism, and Advertising in Hungary’s Modern Literary Journal, Nyugat

[1],this paper examines Nyugat [‘West’], the premier journal ofmodern Hungarian literature published from 1908 to 1941 and edited by ErnőOsvát (1876-1929), Ignotus (1869-1949), and Miksa Fenyő (1877-1972) until 1917.Although Hungarian scholarship has detailed the role played by Osvát andIgnotus, Fenyő’s contribution to this triumvirate has received less attention,a lack that may have hindered literary historians’ understanding of the morewidespread, sociological reasons underlying Nyugat’s long-lastingpresence in a highly competitive book market. Rather than rely exclusively uponthe sources (correspondence, personal journals, memoirs, reports bycontemporaries, etc.) commonly used to investigate the editorial decisionsunderpinning a journal’s trajectory, I argue that examining Fenyő’s editorial positiondemands the inclusion of marginalia, the term this study utilises to denotethe factory advertisements, banking-related notifications, military supplyannouncements, railway schedules, and eulogies that display Fenyő’s ties to theindustrial lobby organisation GyOSz [‘National Association of HungarianIndustrialists’, also referred to as ‘the Association’] within the pages of ajournal dedicated to promoting fin-de-siècle aestheticism. Although the connectionbetween GyOSz and Nyugat has been examined from the perspective ofpublishing strategies or patronage systems, it has not been detailed within thecontext of the era’s expanding market economy. Exploring what Bernard Lahire woulddescribe as Fenyő’s ‘double life’[2] therebypaves the way to theorising what beliefs and ‘rules of the game’ (illusio)may have determined the connection between Hungary’s wealthiest industrialistsand Nyugat during a period when the journal’s editors and authors soughtto attain both authorial and financial autonomy.[1][2] Bernard Lahire, ‘The Double Lifeof Writers’, New Literary History, 41.2 (2010), 443‒465.

Soviet Secularisation: the Experience of the Old Believers in Eastern Latvia

The article provides the first overview on Soviet secularisation and the response of priest-less Old Believers in Latvia. Unlike Russia, Latvian Old Believers had the experience of longterm living in democracy before they were incorporated in the Soviet system. This fact played a crucial role in the strategies of preserving religiosity under atheism. The studied oral life-stories demonstrate that the majority of Old Believers chose living a double life of a trustworthy Soviet citizen in public and a devoted follower of the faith in private. Overcoming restrictions in social career, education and personal realisation allowed passing the religious traditions to the further generations. At the same time, the lack of systematic religious practice and all-round social pressure contributed to the diminution of the role of religion in people’s life and their worldview.

What I Did for Love: The Double (Half) Life of Mr. Lavern Cummings

An interview with Dennis McBride about female impersonator Paul Lavern Cummings and queer archives more broadly.

“There's really almost nobody there who's trying to make sense of it”

“There's really almost nobody there who's trying to make sense of it”

An exploratory survey of the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual South Africans of Indian descent: towards intersectional insights

Despite a substantial body of research on Indian sub-culture in South Africa, few studies have explored its intersection with sexual and gender diversity. Similarly, despite growing research on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in South Africa, there are few studies exploring its intersection with local Indian sub-groups. This article presents the results of the first national exploratory survey of the psychosocial experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender South Africans of Indian descent. A qualitative, online survey was conducted between June 2017 and July 2020. Participants were invited through a mix of purposive and snowball sampling. Descriptive statistics present a demographic profile of who responded to the survey and reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the qualitative data ( n = 73; aged 18–60). Most participants were gay males, lesbian women, and bisexual men and women, mostly from KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng province. Participants’ religious affiliations were mostly Hindu, Muslim, or Christian. Majority reported a postgraduate education and full-time employment. Four psychosocial themes are discussed: Conforming to conservative cultural norms; navigating a double life; troubled inclusion within lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities; and the possibilities of hope and acceptance. Findings point to a need for an intersectional understanding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identity among South Africans of Indian descent, to deepen psychosocial theorization and empirical work on sexual and gender diversity within this historically excluded sub-group.

The Double Life of Ibn Bajja: A Platonic Philosopher among the Potentates of His Time

Abstract Ibn Bajja both lavishly praises Plato, and quietly alters his teaching. He develops a novel version of the Platonic city, taken partly from Alfarabi, which completely excludes non-philosophers from it, arguing that the gap between purely intellectual philosophy and mostly corporeal politics is simply too great. This allows Ibn Bajja to escape many of the problems associated with the exposition and implementation of the city of the Republic and Political Regime, but raises a new difficulty, namely, the relationship of the small, weak city of the philosophers to the stronger, larger cities of human beings more generally, in the midst of which it must somehow flourish. Ibn Bajja’s solution, ironically, points to the frenetic political engagement for which his biography is known, and which he himself may eventually have come to regret.

“Erasing a mural does not erase reality”: Queer visibility, urban policing, and the double life of a mural in Ecuador

Halted by the police, repeatedly defaced, and ultimately erased, the mural El Amor No Tiene Género (Love Has No Gender) lasted less than one week on the streets of Quito before it disappeared under a layer of whitewash in July 2019. The image – a trio of kissing couples – was painted by local street artist Apitatán to celebrate Ecuador’s landmark approval of marriage equality. Its destruction inspired widespread media coverage, direct-action activism, and institutional support for the mural which culminated in its revival two months later. This article investigates what the double life of Apitatán’s mural reveals about the politics of visibility in Quito at a critical moment of consolidating political rights for the country’s LGBTQ community. Drawing on digital ethnography and storytelling methods, I weave together these two visibility disputes – about the mural and about queer love – to illustrate how public visibility is always contingent. To do so, my analysis explores the interplay between erasure and policing practices to enforce conditions of visibility within the urban environment.

The lives and work of Bob Dylan

According to the website Come writers and critics, which keeps a running list of all ‘documents related to Bob Dylan printed on paper’, by the end of 2021 (Dylan's 80th year), there were 829 books about him in English and 723 in 36 other languages (from 175 in German to one each in Bulgarian and Vietnamese).1 The list is indiscriminate in terms of the various books’ quality, originality or readability, but looking at the bibliographies of the various works I'm reviewing here, it seems that there are at least 50 Dylan books that academic Dylanologists take seriously (and many more journal articles).2 From this perspective, my four titles provide a useful cross-section of the most common academic Dylan studies in disciplinary terms: biography, literary criticism, musicology and cultural studies. I should also note that in March 2016 the George Kaiser Family Foundation bought Bob Dylan's personal archive (for $22 million according to Heylin) and gave it a permanent home in Tulsa. This has opened up significant new research possibilities. In its own words: The Bob Dylan Archive® highlights the unique artistry and worldwide cultural significance of Bob Dylan. Housed at the University of Tulsa's Helmerich Center for American Research at Gilcrease Museum, the archive includes decades of never-before-seen handwritten manuscripts, notebooks and correspondence; films, videos, photographs and artwork; memorabilia; personal documents; unrecorded song lyrics and chords. Like the writer and composer archives to be found in many university libraries, the Bob Dylan collection is accessible onsite (and by appointment) to ‘individuals with qualified research projects’, and The World of Bob Dylan is, in effect, a celebration of a new era for Dylan scholarship. Its editor, Sean Latham, is the Director of the related Institute for Bob Dylan Studies.3 However, the first book to draw on the Bob Dylan Archive systematically is Clinton Heylin's The Double Life.

We're Here

We're Here

Characteristics and Meaning of Narrative Development Appearing in <Banghanrimjeon>

This thesis examines the characteristics of the narrative development in <Banghanrimjeon> and finds its literary meaning. While accepting the material of women disguised as men in the existing hero novels, we examine the narrative background in which the subject matter of same-sex marriage could be inserted. The first narrative quality is that appearance and action appear to be proportional. The reason that Bang Kwan-ju was able to finish the final narrative with a heroic figure was because the masculine figure and actions were proportional. Young hye-bing, who agreed to same-sex marriage, also shows the proportionate nature of appearance and behavior. This work revolves around the narrative that the special way of life of same-sex marriage exists in the world and that all humans are noble. The characteristic of the second narrative is that it develops with a complex mix of opposing emotions. The main character of <Banghanrimjeon> is a woman, but she lived with the opposite attitudes and emotions of being a man. Just as Bang kwan-ju lived a double life of a woman and a man and lived in mixed emotions, Young hyeBing lived as a woman in the Joseon Dynasty, dreaming of freedom beyond that era. It is because of these conflicting emotions that <Banghanrimjeon> was able to focus on same-sex marriage and also appeared as a novel in the 19th century. The third characteristic of the narrative is that the main character uses a material that does not live long by changing it into a material that will live long. <Banghanrimjeon> is a work that properly arranges the material in which the main character of the biographical novel does not live long and the material in the heroic novel where the main character lives for a long time. <Banghanrimjeon> enjoys happiness such as expression of free will, career advancement, and beautiful marriage, but the process of Bang kwan-ju s re-entering the male world changes it to a life that does not last long. Through this short-lived life, it focuses on “the great discovery of a man, not a woman.” <Banghanrimjeon> uses these three narrative qualities to correct the confused emotions of Bang kwan-ju and Young hye-bing. In the meantime, while accepting the conservativeness of the existing heroic novels, it embodies the literary meaning of this work by adding romance. In order to persuade same-sex marriage , it is a work that embraces the conservativeness of existing heroic novels, but balances romanticism with aspirations for a new life.

Nelayan dan Kemiskinan : Studi Kualitatif Strategi Nelayan Desa Teluk Setimbul Dalam Memenuhi Kebutuhan Hidup Keluarga

The amount of income earned by fishermen in Teluk Setimbul village is very worrying, the fishermen in Teluk Setimbul village do not have a steady income. The income of fishermen is very dependent on the catch of fish, if fishermen do not succeed in getting fish, they will not get income to meet the needs of their families. This study aims to obtain a clear and in-depth picture of the survival strategies carried out by fishermen in meeting the needs of family life. This research was conducted using a qualitative approach, which attempted to describe the efforts of the fishing community in overcoming poverty through the case study method. Data collection techniques were carried out by interview, observation, and documentation study. The results of the study show several strategies carried out by fishermen, including; make loans to relatives or neighbors, do a double life pattern, and do side jobs to increase family income. Keywords : Fishermen, Poverty, Subsistence Strategies.

Transposable Elements: Major Players in Shaping Genomic and Evolutionary Patterns.

Transposable elements (TEs) are ubiquitous genetic elements, able to jump from one location of the genome to another, in all organisms. For this reason, on the one hand, TEs can induce deleterious mutations, causing dysfunction, disease and even lethality in individuals. On the other hand, TEs can increase genetic variability, making populations better equipped to respond adaptively to environmental change. To counteract the deleterious effects of TEs, organisms have evolved strategies to avoid their activation. However, their mobilization does occur. Usually, TEs are maintained silent through several mechanisms, but they can be reactivated during certain developmental windows. Moreover, TEs can become de-repressed because of drastic changes in the external environment. Here, we describe the ‘double life’ of TEs, being both ‘parasites’ and ‘symbionts’ of the genome. We also argue that the transposition of TEs contributes to two important evolutionary processes: the temporal dynamic of evolution and the induction of genetic variability. Finally, we discuss how the interplay between two TE-dependent phenomena, insertional mutagenesis and epigenetic plasticity, plays a role in the process of evolution.

Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage

In tracing married women's same-sex desire between 1945 and 1989, Her Neighbor's Wife illuminates major postwar changes in American marriage and sexual culture and dissects the sometimes-contradictory relationship between social and cultural categories such as “marriage” and “homosexuality” and the messy reality of human experience. Lauren Jae Gutterman shows how these wives moved from deploying “caution and discretion” to facing both greater freedom and greater pressure to “come out” and divorce after 1970—changes particularly influenced by gay and lesbian liberation and the divorce revolution. Strikingly, she argues that wives in the early period did not always live the stereotypical pain-filled “double life.” Through silence, discretion, and, surprisingly often, acceptance by husbands, many were able to balance lesbian affairs with marriage, with its “legal rigidity and its flexibility as a lived experience,” finding relationships among fellow suburban women in neighborhoods, churches, and parent-teacher associations. Later, lesbian rights groups such as the...

Hazel Shade's Russian Sisterhood, or Is Pale Fire a Feminist Novel? In memory of Gennady Barabtarlo

Abstract: The essay traces Nabokov's representation of women from the Russian-language works in which he shows a sustained interest in women's lives to the English-language works whose plots often double as whodunnits, driven as they are by questions such as "who is she?" and "what has she done?" I argue that The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, "The Vane Sisters," Lolita, Pale Fire, and Ada dramatize what feminist commentators have identified as properties of patriarchal literary representation: the primacy of women coupled by their absence (De Lauretis), under-description (Heldt), and action delimited by the Love Story plot (Russ). Though some of Nabokov's works perpetuate these conventions, his most enduringly mysterious fiction forces readers to care and wonder about women characters who are under-described and overlooked. The essay also uses the insights of feminist scholars who have written on Lolita (Kauffman, Patnoe, Herbold) to argue that Pale Fire extends the achievements of Lolita by staging a different kind of entrapment: readers are seduced into colluding with Shade's obliteration of his daughter Hazel by focusing too much on her body and disregarding her mind. In one of Pale Fire's subtlest ironies, Shade treats his grief at his daughter's loss by foregrounding his own spiritual quest but continuing to ignore hers. I argue further that the importance of Hazel's spiritual strivings become most clear if seen through the lens of Russia's literary tradition. The second half of the essay traces important bonds of kinship that connect Hazel to Tatyana Larin, the female protagonist of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, and Cecily von Lindenborn, the protagonist of Karolina Pavlova's only novel A Double Life (1848). Pavlova's novel, combining as it does prose and verse, offers more than a formal precedent for Pale Fire: the plot rescues Hazel from the captivity of the Love Story plot and places her in a context that is more relevant to her own concerns. The essay ends with a tribute to Gennady Barabtarlo, for whom Hazel's predicament anticipated the predicament of another beloved but disregarded daughter: Martyshka of Tarkovsky's Stalker.

Comparing the Effect of Intangible Assets and Macroeconomic Parameters on the Stock Prices in Firms Listed on the Stock Exchange of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq

Comparing the Effect of Intangible Assets and Macroeconomic Parameters on the Stock Prices in Firms Listed on the Stock Exchange of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq

Die (Un)möglichkeit des Seins in Sally Perels Autobiografie Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon

Sally Perel is a German-Jewish author and Holocaust survivor. During WW2, he tried to protect himself by camouflaging as an ‘Arian’ member of the Hitler Youth, thereby leading a double life as a perpetrator and victim in one person. In Perel, these two identities got along like fire and water and were still present in the same body. This article explores Perel’s autobiography entitled Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon, focusing on the representation of life experiences and the depiction of National Socialist mechanisms through the eyes of a contemporary witness. Based on theories by Theodor W. Adorno, this study analyzes Perel’s text as an example of the resistance against forgetting and the conscious memorization of atrocities. Thus, Perel’s text is regarded against the backdrop of Adorno's theories, such as Erziehung zur Entbarbarisierung, Erziehung zur Mündigkeit, Erziehung nach Auschwitz and Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit. Subsequently, it is investigated with focus on the (im)possibility of existence. In other words, Perel’s opposing life as a member of the Hitler Youth and a Jew but also his identification with those ethnicities are illustrated in the given paper.

The Double Life of Dissent: Art, Politics and the Predicaments of Democracy in India

The article focuses on two moments in India’s political history, in which out-rightly expressed dissent underlines analytical shifts in the nature and course of the country’s democracy. It asks two questions: First, what does a self-proclaimed, democratic state do with peaceful dissenting artists? The second question follows from this. If indeed the state stigmatizes and suppresses that dissent, what does the artist do? By foregrounding the relationship between the dissent and offence-taking, the article shows the increasingly complex changes in the nature of the democratic state, role of the art market therein, the dynamic patterns of dissent itself, which underline the cyclic outbursts of violence against artists.

Review: Piranesi Unbound

Review: <i>Piranesi Unbound</i>

СРБИ У ПОМОРИШЈУ: ИЗМЕЂУ СЕЛА И ГРАДА

Based on the fieldwork research of Serbs in Arad county (Romania) done in 2013– 2015, the paper analyzes narratives about personal relocation to the city of Arad and elements of biographical stories given in the form of digressions in narratives covering the themes of traditional Serbian culture. Collected material comes from the settlements of Nadjfala/Satu Mare, Felnak/Felnac, Monoštor/Mănăştur Munara/Munar, Tornja/Turnu, town of Arad, as well as from published memories of the victims of communism. The time period covered in the narratives starts from the period of communism, through the Revolution of 1989, all the way to the modern, parallel world and double life in the villages and Arad at the same time. The narratives are divided into five thematic units that cover the current situation in the settlement, memories of the Felnac tamburitza orchestra, trips to Arad from a children’s perspective, fragments about everyday life in Arad and today’s situation of emotional division between the village and the city. The attached transcripts are verbatim and reflect the different degrees of preservation of the Serbian language (Šumadija-Vojvodina dialect) and the corresponding influence of the Romanian language in each individual participant.