Dream Country Research Articles

Does Richard Rorty have ‘anything to say to blacks’? Greater cruelties, lesser cruelties and the permanence of racism

Richard Rorty does have something ‘to say to [Black Americans]’ and to their racially conscious nonblack allies in the sense that his understanding of liberalism, his prophecies about the future and his urgent appeals to the American Left all paint a picture of a white middle class fully prepared to make life increasingly miserable for Black Americans unless it is ‘protected from catastrophe’. Rorty hopes that this group will undergo a moral transformation that enables it to see past its narrow group interests, but doubts that it will. He, nevertheless, prescribes a politics of hope and appeasement as a hedge against both despair and backsliding. In so doing, he fails to appreciate the availability and the suitability of an alternative ‘racial realist’ (and tragicomic) posture vis-à-vis American liberalism inspired by thinkers like Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Derrick Bell. This alternative enables racially conscious Americans to respond to the intransigence of (certain) white Americans with cunning rather than by escaping into fantasies of a ‘dream country’ unmarked by the damage caused by racism and its long-lingering effects. I uncover and explore this alternative through Rorty’s warnings regarding the white middle class, a somewhat surprising consistency between Rorty’s brand of class politics and Bell’s understanding of ‘racial fortuity’, and, finally, through a development of Bell’s ‘racial realist’ posture combined with Baldwin’s ‘uses of the blues’ resulting in a ‘hard-eyed’ tragicomic sensibility sufficient to effectively pair continued struggle with creative consolation and resilience.

Meaning of Pluralism for Indonesian Imigrant Workers in Malaysia

Workers always get bad reputation as marginal person in people. The critical problem for workers especially like no protection their rights from state in work place. Indonesian imigrant workers in Malaysia has bad image in any coverage press report. But in the other hand Indonesian imigrant workers be on the increase day by day in Malaysia, and they are able to adapted and interacted for their partners from other country in the workplace in Malaysia. All of this works because the Indonesian imigrant workers accept the pluralism in their workplace. This research talk about what the meaning of pluralism of Indonesian imigrant workers in Malaysia (mindset). Research uses convergency symbolic theory from Ernest Bormann which separate symbolic object for 3 factors likes; saga, self identity, and social interaction for other workers. The point of theoretical analysis get constructed the real social interaction Indonesian imigrant workers in Malaysia. Beside it, this research uses naration theory of Fisher De Aubrey which believe that grouping is the important aspect for humanbeing interaction. Paradigm of this research is constructivism, in qualitative model. Research interviews 14 persons Indonesian imigrant workers who had worked in Malaysia. Finding of research, Indonesian imigrant workers have special meaning for pluralism. For Indonesia imigrant workers Malaysia is a dream country, they do not hate that’s country so much. In Indonesian imigrant workers mind there is no pretension to make conflicts in their workplace. Over there work situations very busy and professionalism are completing work if talk about pluralism. Saga in this research find in success stories are so real because local lifestyle and culture of Indonesia and Malaysia are so similar. Construction pluralism for Indonesian workers so positive but they still love of their homeland, Indonesia.

Editor’s Introduction: Dream Country: Pasts and Possibilities in Two-Year College English

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Gwangju and the 1980s film movement: the representation of the minjung in Oh! My Dream Country

ABSTRACT This article explores early cinematic representations of the Gwangju Uprising in the films The Announcement of Mr. Kant (1987, Kim Tae-yeong), Hwangmuji (1988, Kim Tae-yeong), and Oh! My Dream Country (1989, Jangsan-gotmae), with particular attention paid to the final film. These three 16 mm fiction works are all ‘independent films’ made within the context of the emancipator activism of the minjung movement in the 1980s South Korea. This study demonstrates how these three films can be categorized as so called ‘minjung films’ that refer to the ‘independent’ works devoted to the ‘independence’ of the people from the authoritarian South Korean state and the political interference of the United States. I also analyse how Oh! My Dream Country is particularly representative of minjung cinema when considering the collaborative mode in which it was produced and its treatment of the Gwangju Uprising as a pro-democracy struggle. Finally, through a textual analysis of Oh! My Dream Country, I reassess the historical significances of these three early Gwangju films through the lens of gender. I discuss how the minjung, particularly in Gwangju, were problematically feminized as collective victims in the 1980s by the discourse of anti-American nationalism, which was primarily constructed by male intellectuals.

Saranjana in Historical Record: The City's Invisibility in Pulau Laut, South Kalimantan

Saranjana is a mystical city that is a myth for the people of Pulau Laut, South Kalimantan. Rumours about this mysterious city became increasingly excited because its existence, but not recorded on the map of Indonesia. Therefore it is very interesting to examine from a historical point of view. The purpose of this paper is to uncover the historical side of the occult city suggestion on Pulau Laut. This study using the method of history is a method to test and analyze the critical records and relics of the past. The historical method consists of four stages, namely heuristics (data collection), source criticism, interpretation (interpreting facts) and historiography. The results show exist of Saranjana in a place between fact and myth. In conclusion, there are two hypotheses that the Saranjana is ethnic state Dayak Samihim tribe. Then the second hypothesis, that Saranjana is (only) the dream country of Prince Purabaya in the 18th century AD.

The Experiences of Bangladeshi Muslim Community in Japan

The Clash of Civilizations is a famous theory of Samuel Huntington (1996) claims that Muslims do not undoubtedly integrate with the cultures of receiving country. The Islam has always been a misinterpret subject. Since the 9/ 11 attacks, People all around the world assume that all Muslims are extremist and will not hesitate to kill innocent people in the favor of their beloved God. Such people believe that Muslims have no place in modern world. In this situation, I found the article from the Japan Times titled “Can Japan show the West how to live peacefully with Islam? In this article, Nicolas Gating writes, “It has been striking to see Japan’s efforts to make this minority feel at home”. On the contrary, Japan is described a zero-immigrant country and Muslims migrants usually considered to be low from Western people. Recently, Japan has gradually become a dream country for migration to Bangladeshi Muslims The main focus of the study is to examine various experiences and identity construction among Bangladeshi Muslim migrants in Japan. This thesis is an ethnographic research, a qualitative study, conducted in numerous cities broken into several types: direct participation in many community events, interview, and focus group discussion. Bangladeshi Muslims between the yeas of 2015 to 2017. A total of 135 migrants participated to the study. The result is, Bangladeshi Muslim in Japan, are culturally, linguistically, and racially unique from the society of Japan. “Perfect” social adaptation is nearly impossible. Firstly, Bangladeshi Muslim group attempt to create tight knit autonomous communities operate in a modus vivendi structure for retention their root culture identity. Secondly, Bangladeshi make alliances with local citizens and other migrants groups developing business and opportunities. The construction of what I have termed multicultural symbiosis ties. Some elements of the diaspora are also visible in the Bangladeshi Muslim community in Japan.

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

Dream Country by Shannon Gibney

An Ecocritical Reading of Thomas Hardy’s &lt;i&gt;Far from the Madding Crowd&lt;/i&gt;

This article aims to analyze Thomas Hardy’s novel,Far from the Madding Crowd, from the perspective of ecocriticism and study where Hardy’s ecological consciousness originates from and how it is represented and interwoven in the characters, setting and plot of the novel. It also focuses on such questions as how Gabriel Oak can be the voice of harmony in nature and what does the portrayal of this character tell us about today’s ecological crises? Ecocriticism, a newly found theoretical framework, explores the ways in which how environment is illustrated in literature and, by so doing, examines and proposes possible solutions concerning our contemporary environmental situation. In an era where a long-established rustic order are giving way to the giants of technology and industrial capitalism, there remains no more appealing vision than that of England’s pastoral and green land. In his Wessex, a part real and a part dream country which is the setting for most of his works, Hardy vividly and skillfully describes his vision and longs for the rustic nature of England. He lays stress to the intrinsic values of nature where men establish a harmonious relationship with their environments.

“They’re creepy and they’re kooky” and They’re Copyrighted: How Copyright Is Used to Dampen the (Re-)Imagination

“They’re creepy and they’re kooky” and They’re Copyrighted: How Copyright Is Used to Dampen the (Re-)Imagination

Smart Mediterranean Logics. Old - New Dimensions and Transformations of Territories and Cites-Ports in Mediterranean

The land coast, with particular emphasis the port-city, are in fact used more and more like a menu in which different users increasingly move freely according to their needs. The new definition parameters with respect to which the landscapes are recognizable, articulating configurations, immutable, and not concluded, but on the contrary, variables are always open and more leads, not the placement of functions, but the interaction between subjects, and actually pushed social, cultural, political and economic. The port city now seems more like a miscellany, and a composite variable, the definition of which combine multiple devices and whose understanding and operational management appears to be no longer in the perimeter of registers and formal, but the identification of rules and tactics logical drive and able to predict particular outcomes and the evolution of the different dynamics and vocations. 'Dream City', 'Dream Lands' and 'Dream Country' will constitute the new benchmarks in the definition of geographies based on imagination, perception and use of spaces and scenarios from the sensitivity of each individual and class user, until the size of the global imaginary fantasy, with respect to which space, urbanity and territories are distinguished as 'complementary' or 'complementary' depending on the specific 'action brands' and 'areas of opportunity'.

(Mis)Reading Hardy: ‘Wessex’ as green imaginary

The aim of this paper is to explore the parallels between Thomas Hardy’s depiction of ‘Wessex’, and Kirkpatrick Sale’s utopian vision of the bioregion. Although a fragmentary composite of the ideal and the actual, Hardy’s Wessex can be (re)interpreted as a form of ‘green imaginary’, an idea that finds its fullest expression in The Woodlanders. Nevertheless, there are contrasts as well as similarities between Wessex and bioregion. In particular, Hardy’s ‘partly real, partly dream country’ challenges both the viability and desirability of the bioregion as exclusionary entity, concerns that have grown steadily more relevant in the light of both globalised capitalism and a global environment crisis. However, Hardy’s sense of place is itself more fluid and wide ranging than the (perhaps inevitable) association of Wessex with the local and parochial. Reread in terms of a process of imaginative reinvestment in the local and the global – a process that is most obvious in The Dynasts – Hardy’s Wessex suggests a different and more adaptable kind of ‘ecological thought’. It also raises serious questions about the extent to which human ‘nature’ is itself compatible with environmental ideals. Ultimately, therefore, the most ecotopian aspect of Hardy’s Wessex may be its conventional, realist emphasis on human scale and human agency, and the promissory possibility that the individual can in the end make a difference.

Neil Gaiman’s “Façade” and Patronal Feminism

Robert Loss looks at Neil Gaiman's Dream Country as a meditation on femininity, power and imagination that nevertheless expresses a patronal feminism.

Living in a Dream Country: Assessing Stressors Affecting Mental Health in Migrants

Living in a Dream Country: Assessing Stressors Affecting Mental Health in Migrants

FILIPINO VILLAGE IN SOUTH KOREA

This is a case study of Filipino migrant workers, most of whom are low-wage factory workers living in an industrial city of suburban Seoul in Korea. Filipino Village is the centre of their community in the city. This study describes Filipino immigrants’ housing and their community in the city. Factory jobs, cheap rental rooms, and the support of the church and migrant centre made the Filipino Village today. It explores the meaning of ‘the place’ that Filipino workers occupy in Korean society. Their basement rooms and furniture taken from the street clearly show the nature of their lives. The boundary between Koreans and immigrant workers is obvious and deep. Korean society continuously gives immigrant workers the strong message that Korea cannot be the dream country where they settle with their children. Este es una investigación del caso de los trabajadores inmigrantes filipinos. La mayoría de ellos trabajan en las fábricas recibiendo un bajo salario, y viven en las ciudades industriales en el suburbano de Seúl, Corea. El barrio filipino es el centro de su comunidad en la ciudad. Los trabajadores de fábrica, viviendas baratas, el soporte de la Iglesia y el Centro de inmigrantes formaron el barrio de hoy. Esta investigación analiza el sentido del término ‘lugar’, donde ocupan los filipinos en la sociedad coreana. Las habitaciones subterráneas y los muebles recogidos de la calle demuestran claramente sus vidas. El límite que hay entre los coreanos y los trabajadores inmigrantes es lógico y profundo. La sociedad coreana da continuamente un fuerte mensaje de que Corea no es el país soñado en que ellos desean establecerse con sus hijos.

Thriving on war: The Angolan conflict & private business

With their huge demand for arms and substantial natural resource revenues, Angolan belligerents have made Angola a ‘dream country’ for savvy businessmen able to juggle political relations, arms dealing, and natural resources brokering. Recent investigations by the French judicial system, the UK‐based NGO Global Witness, and UN sanctions monitors have cast a new light on the arms deals and corruption that plagued Angola throughout the 1990s. This Briefing retraces the rise of two businessmen who benefited from and participated in the Angola tragedy. Their careers highlight the inadequacies and ambiguities of the international community and international law in terms of regulating businesses during armed conflicts. Recent initiatives bringing about more transparency and accountability in the use of resource revenues are important steps forward, but an international legal framework is required to take into account the commercialised nature of contemporary wars and war economies.

“Loyal to a Dream Country”: Republicanism and the Pragmatism of William James and Richard Rorty

Our nation has been founded in what we may call our American religion, baptized and reared in the faith that a man requires no master to take care of him, and that common people can work out their salvation well enough together if left free to try.William James, “Robert Gould Shaw Oration,” 1897[T]he civic religion of which Whitman and Dewey were prophets … centered around taking advantage of traditional pride in American citizenship by substituting social justice for individual freedom as our country's principal goal … You have to be loyal to a dream country rather than to the one to which you wake up every morning.Richard Rorty, “A Cultural Left,” 1997James and Rorty refer here to what sociologists used to call the American civil religion. In 1967, Robert N. Bellah coined this phrase to suggest how Americans, shaped by the complex interplay of republican and Christian traditions, believe they have an obligation “to carry out God's will on earth.” Since the 1970s, though, it has been historians like J. G. A. Pocock who have shown how republicans throughout the modern West have for the last five centuries blended the millennialist beliefs of Christianity with the ancient conviction that humans realize their political nature through the virtuous acts required to sustain republics in a cosmos ruled by fortune. As James once said of pragmatism, republicanism is a new name for an old way of thinking.

Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading": A Critical Companion

In an unnamed dream country, Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for gnostical turpitude, an imaginary crime that defies definition. After spending his last days in jail, he simply wills his executioners out of existence.