Modes Of Self-expression Research Articles

White Supremacist Submission

Scholars tend to envision the sexual politics of settler colonialism and slavery through masculinist conceptions in which penetration designates mastery and receptiveness subjugation. This article asks instead how white desires for sexual submission to nonwhite men operate within white supremacy. It augments white trans and queer studies' conceptualizations of bottoming with theories of white submission found in Black thought, particularly Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin. And it argues that both sets of ideas find themselves anticipated in the mid-nineteenth-century writings of the white, gender-variant author Theodore Winthrop—particularly their most popular novel, Cecil Dreeme (1861). For Winthrop, bottoming desires occasion two modes of self-expression. First, they facilitate transfeminine embodiment, staging an experience of womanliness predicated on the racist contrast between their own white body and that of nonwhite men they see as exceptionally virile. Second, they allow Winthrop to imagine ways of being other than the self-possession and corporeal autonomy of white subjectivity. In both instances, Winthrop's fantasies rely on the plasticity of the white body under the influence of nonwhite men, even as they underscore the biopolitical unidirectionality of plasticity, tracing patterns in which Black, brown, and Indigenous men exert influence on whites while remaining fundamentally incapable of transformation. This history of racialized access to malleability provides a cautionary tale about the incorporative nature of whiteness and how contemporary politics of self-determination might unwittingly replicate white supremacist logics.

Specificity of Authorial Strategy in 19th Century Women’s Travelogues: A Study of E.A. Sverbeeva’s Travel Diary

The article is dedicated to the interpretation of the phenomenon of women’s writing and its representation in the genre of travelogue. For the first time, the ‘Diary of E.A. Sverbeeva for 1833’ is studied in the context of the evolution of women’s documentary travelogue in the 19th century, focusing on the issue of authorship. It is established that E.A. Sverbeeva’s travel diary expresses the main tendencies of the evolution of ‘women’s writing’ in the 1830s. It is revealed that Ekaterina Alexandrovna’s diary demonstrates a focus on the self, on modes of self-expression, self-analysis, and self-discovery. At the same time, the self is clearly expressed as a feminine self, which is manifested in the selection of objects from real life for describing the journey and in the ways they are characterized. As an individual authorial strategy, a combination of elements of a personal diary and a travelogue can be identified, while more often female travelers differentiated these types of entries, even designating the fundamental difference between them in the text of the travel diary. The analysis of the biographical basis of the diary and the ways in which the self is expressed in the narrative structure allows for the identification of a combination of different perspectives — that of a society lady, a ‘sensitive heroine,’ a mother, a married woman — reflecting the main tendencies in the development of ‘women’s writing’ in the historical-literary process of the 19th century.

Review of the Monograph “Linguistic Transformation of Reality” by V.I. Karasik

The monograph discusses the issues of lingua-semiotics, linguaculturology, axiological linguistics and discourse studies. The characteristics of linguistic and cultural concepts, dramatic plots and types of discourse on the material of the Russian, English and German languages are considered. The monograph consists of three sections: “Conceptual Functionality of Language”, “Narrative Functionality of Language” and “Discourse Functionality of Language”. The basic parametric concepts of space and time (infinity and eternity), regulatory concepts of behavior (power, perseverance and stubbornness, style and reputation), the concept of the mastered world (house, garden, merry-go-round) and natural phenomena (fire and ice) are described. As illustrative material, the plots “journey into the past”, “flight into space”, “eternal youth”, “meeting or joint adventures of twins” are considered. When describing the discourse potential of language, the modes of self-expression in communication, the illogical varieties of world perception in different types of discourse (participation), the peculiarities of mystification, discourse accuracy and inaccuracy, the unification of different types of discourse in a speech act (discourse convergence) are shown. It is meant for philologists and a wide range of researchers developing the foundations of the integral science of man.

Refashioning Muslim femininity: YouTube as the facilitator of entrepreneurial motherhood

This article analyses YouTube channels of two Muslim women from Kerala – Silu Talks Salha and Zehera & Samseer – which have created a virtual space of sorority among Muslim women users of internet and smartphones, by way of a discourse of contemporary modernity embedded in the everyday domestic space. I engage critically with the ways in which these channels generate a discourse of entrepreneurial identity in negotiating with one’s lived realities. This discourse simultaneously makes appeal to be dutiful to conventional domestic roles, while being innovative and enterprising in them. Such modes of self-expression, which platforms such as YouTube enable, present conceptual challenges with regard to the categories of the individual and community. Arguing that the videos on these channels complicate the figure of the ‘conventional Muslim woman’ through their constant invocations of modernism and entrepreneurialism, this article illustrates how they produce an Islamic ‘mother community’ virtually. I show how these channels transform into a public yet intimate space, providing an online platform for Muslim women from Kerala to be seen and heard.

Airing the Gospel: Christian radio broadcast and multiple narratives in early reform-era China

ABSTRACT This article explores the influential role that international Christian broadcasting enterprises played in the conversion of the Chinese during the transition from the Maoist to the Reform era. Despite being an official tool of propaganda and information dissemination, the popularization of radio offered an opening for the Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) and the Seventh-day Adventists in the British colony of Hong Kong to air religious programs in Cantonese and Mandarin. These foreign radios created an invisible, electronic platform for Mainland Christians to form a listening community of believers, seeking spiritual or moral guidance from the outside world. Listening to Christian programs became part of the Chinese faith practice when the Maoist state closed places of worship and prohibited public religious activities throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Accessing valuable religious and secular information abroad emancipated the listeners from the confinement of socialist collectivism, especially when the Communist utopia lost its appeal in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Consulting dozens of Chinese listeners’ letters, this study highlights the ways in which the believers navigated a changing social and cultural landscape, from one monopolized by the one-party state to a more dynamic domain semi-regulated by the government and the market. Because the letters are constructed source materials at a particular moment in history, it is important to treat the listeners’ accounts as indicative of their efforts to theologize personal struggle and faith experience and to seek new modes of self-expression.

Designing for international law: The architecture of international organizations 1922–1952

AbstractSituating itself in current debates over the international legal archive, this article delves into the material and conceptual implications of architecture for international law. To do so I trace the architectural developments of international law’s organizational and administrative spaces during the early to mid twentieth century. These architectural endeavours unfolded in three main stages: the years 1922–1926, during which the International Labour Organization (ILO) building, the first building exclusively designed for an international organization was constructed; the years 1927–1937 which saw the great polemic between modernist and classical architects over the building of the Palace of Nations; and the years 1947–1952, with the triumph of modernism, represented by the UN Headquarters in New York. These events provide an illuminating allegorical insight into the physical manifestation, modes of self-expression, and transformation of international law during this era, particularly the relationship between international law and the function and role of international organizations.

#Palestine2Ferguson a community created through words

PurposeThe purpose of this essay is to highlight how the digital age makes visible community expression and organization on an international scale.Design/methodology/approachThis project provides a rhetorical analysis of the sub-cultural twitter hashtag “#Palestine2Ferguson”. By focusing on #Palestine2Ferguson, this piece interrogates the ways groups that have been displaced by oppression can build bridges in the new digital age. Through the adaptation of Deluca and Peeples “public screen”, this project reveals how increased sophistication of discernment adds a new “touch” to the screen.FindingsAn analysis of #Palestine2Ferguson through the lens of “the public touchscreen” emboldens rhetorical studies understanding of how ethnic/racial minority individuals are capable of self-selecting their method and modes of self-expression when building community.Originality/valueThe transformation of life within the digital age has created an exigence for a reconsideration and expansion of Deluca and Peeples concept of “public screens”.

‘Guilty Pleasures’, ‘Forbidden Fruits’ and ‘Brave Confusion’: Queer Love in the Music and Videos of South African Singers Toya Delazy and Nakhane Touré

Guided by socio-musicological perspectives, this article contends that Toya Delazy and Nakhane Touré grapple with issues pertaining to love and sexuality in their music. This is against the background of South Africa being hailed as a progressive country, especially relating to its constitution that acquiescently protects the rights of sexual minorities. Notwithstanding such constitutional protections, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders (LGBT) continue to be victimised particularly in the impoverished townships of this country. Although they celebrate same-sex love, this article contends that such celebration is based on guilt and shame. Singing against such guilt and shame is a significant element in the construction of their sexual identity and acceptation of their same-sex love. The article concludes that Toya Delazy and Nakhane Touré’s songs are pioneering in South Africa for their open depiction of queer love in a socio-cultural milieu that considers such identities and modes of self-expression as unnatural, deviant and taboo. This music can thus be considered as a transgressive space that seeks to rehabilitate the manner in which same-sex love is perceived.

Street arts of resistance in Tahrir and Gezi

ABSTRACTWith the tremendous visibility of popular mobilization in the last decade, scholars have increasingly directed their attention to the streets to examine the dynamics of power and resistance. Among emerging venues of politics, this study examines street art and graffiti as a performance of resistance in the 2011 Tahrir Revolution and 2013 Gezi Protests in Egypt and Turkey, respectively. As re-appropriation of the urban landscape and modes of self-expression, street art and graffiti lie at the intersection of politics, space, and identity. Inspired by James C. Scott's concept of ‘arts of resistance’, this study takes up these ‘street arts of resistance’ as revealing the hidden transcript, namely, the self-disclosure of subordinates under the politics of disguise. While unpacking that subversive power, this study rests on its claim that street art and graffiti not only seek to represent, but also to perform and interject. Thereafter, it examines how these modes of visual culture interrupt time, space, and the self, along with their respective effects.

Using Go-Alongs for exploring immigrant entrepreneurs’ native customers

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the methodological practice of Go-Alongs for exploring immigrant entrepreneurs’ native customers, a barely developed subfield within immigrant business research. Through accompanying individuals on outings in their familiar environments, Go-Alongs as a qualitative data collection method are used to gain access to practices, experiences and interpretations of individuals in their everyday routines. Drawing on current qualitative research on native customers in immigrant grocery shops in Vienna, the article demonstrates how Go-Alongs can be used for exploring consumption practices and patterns of interethnic interaction in this specific setting. What becomes apparent is that Go-Alongs provide an opportunity to gain access to reflexive aspects of lived experience in situ, in the present case expressed by spontaneous and emotional comments when the shop, ethnic products or interethnic interactions are commented on and evaluated. Moreover, Go-Alongs allow insights into modes of self-expression. However, Go-Alongs have limitations as they cannot capture consumption practices beyond the limited time and space of shopping. Furthermore, they do not fully provide access to narratives and discourses; therefore, Go-Alongs are most useful in combination with in-depth interviews.

Re-Imagining Screen and Stage in a Human Rights-Centered Curriculum

This essay explores the benefits of teaching and learning Latin American theatre in dialogue with film. Specifically, I discuss the dialogue between documentary modes of performance in the context of interdisciplinary courses on human rights and the arts that I have designed and taught in a Latin American studies program at American University. In my courses, I introduce theatre as a fundamental paradigm for understanding the collective, embodied, and intersubjective formations of human rights movements and action. Recent Latin American documentary theatre and film reveal a rich cross-pollination between genres; plays frequently incorporate documentary film footage, while many documentary films have become more theatrical or performative in nature. In this essay I show how studying documentary Latin American theatre and film in tandem can deepen and enhance an understanding of how these genres shape new modes of self-expression and activism, unsettle divisions between fact and fiction, advance and question existing forms of truth-telling, contribute new archives of knowledge, and engage discourses of memory, history, and human rights. I begin the essay by offering a theoretical framework and pedagogical rationale for learning and teaching documentary theatre in conjunction with documentary film. At the end of the essay, I propose the pairing of two Argentine works—Albertina Carri’s film Los rubios (2003) and Lola Arias’ play Mi vida despues (2009)—as a case study for how to approach the joint teaching of documentary film and theatre.

Con lagreme bagnandome el viso: mourning and music in late medieval Padua

ABSTRACTIn the years before his death, Johannes Ciconia (1370?–1412) set to music several poems penned by the young Venetian humanist Leonardo Giustinian. One of the earliest of these settings isCon lagreme bagnandome el viso. This article proposes that both the poem and its setting by Ciconia operate within the emotional community of early humanists active at Padua in the decades around the year 1400. The public funeral oratory of one of the high-profile humanists active in this community in Padua, Pier Paolo Vergerio, reveals a renewed interest in ancient rhetoric that was instrumental in the development of new modes of self-expression within this emotional community. Different types of musical repetition in Ciconia's setting ofCon lagremeserve as musical analogues to rhetorical figures of pathos witnessed in the orations of Vergerio.

The Legal Logic of the Master-Signifier in Pseudo-Freedom of Expression: A Self-Guarantee for the Reformist Modes of Self-Expression in Islamic Republic of Iran

AbstractAppearing in the “Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam” as an

Identity technologies: constructing the self online

Identity Technologies is a substantial contribution to the fields of autobiography studies, digital studies, and new media studies, exploring the many new modes of self-expression and self-fashioning that have arisen in conjunction with Web 2.0, social networking, and the increasing saturation of wireless communication devices in everyday life. Identity Technologies explores the various ways that individuals construct their identities on the Internet, while also offering historical perspectives on ways that technologies intersect with identity creation. Bringing together scholarship about the construction of the self by new and established authors from the fields of digital media and auto/biography studies, this volume presents new case studies and fresh theoretical questions emphasising the methodological challenges inherent in scholarly attempts to account for and analyse the rise of identity technologies. The collection also includes an interview with Lauren Berlant on her use of blogs as research and writing tools.

Self-Expression and World-Expression: Critical Multicultural Literacy in Maxine Hong Kingston and Sandra Cisneros

Self-Expression and World-Expression:Critical Multicultural Literacy in Maxine Hong Kingston and Sandra Cisneros Fatima Mujcinovic (bio) Speaking the word is not a true act if it is not at the same time associated with the right of self-expression and world-expression, of creating and recreating, of deciding and choosing and ultimately participating in society's historical processes. —Paulo Freire Since slave narratives and early immigrant autobiographies, literacy has been featured in United States literature as a major issue in minorities' struggle for power and equality. Some minority writers, such as Native Americans Zitkala-Sa and Simon Ortiz, have depicted the acquisition of dominant literacy as a forcefully imposed method of cultural assimilation. At the same time, Sa and Ortiz have acknowledged the fact that English proficiency, both oral and written, allows Native Americans to communicate their struggles for physical and cultural survival to wider audiences. For many Native American writers who publish in English, the use of dominant language to express indigenous content is an act of political activism and cultural preservation.1 Other minority authors, most notably Frederick Douglass and Richard Wright, have rendered English literacy as an effective instrument for self-empowerment and social integration. Exposing the systemic practices of denying or segregating education on the basis of race, their autobiographies have emphasized the importance of equal access to formal education in minority Americans' struggles for emancipation. As young men, both Douglass and Wright quickly comprehended the link between knowledge and power and pursued literacy/education as a means of reclaiming control over their lives.2 Revealing the meaning of literacy policies as deeply embedded in specific social arrangements and ideologies, these approaches counter the dominant view of literacy as a neutral, autonomous practice. In more recent literary works, US minority authors have gone further to question Western literacy/education as a monolithic ideological concept, exposing its failure to recognize the existence and validity of non-Western forms of knowledge. In their contemporary approaches to the meaning and practice of education in minority contexts, literacy is often presented in relation to cultural difference, hybrid identities, and political agency. For instance, contemporary US Latino/a writers have stressed the [End Page 98] importance of bilingualism in their portrayals of bicultural experiences, linking the concept of bilingual literacy to Latinos' cultural and political rights in the United States. Integration of Spanish and/or Spanglish in their writing in English serves not only to develop distinctly Latino settings and themes but also to interrogate homogenous definitions of modern American culture. Reflecting their strong commitment to cultural diversity and equality, the performance of multicultural literacy allows US minority writers to present non-dominant cultural practices, values, and symbols as meaningful parts of national culture. These interventions also communicate demands for multicultural models of knowledge: as they themselves participate in the creation of such models, minority writers strive to ensure that members of their communities in general are allowed to transform and create literacies. Because traditional definitions of literacy cannot fully convey marginal experiences, new conceptions are being produced and embraced as necessary modes of self-expression. The noted Asian American author Maxine Hong Kingston affirms this idea when commenting on her unique style of writing: "I am trying to write an American language that has Chinese accents; I write the American language the way I speak it. So in a way, I [am] creating something new, but at the same time, it's still the American language, pushed further" (qtd. in Rabinowitz 182). Sandra Cisneros, a prominent Mexican American writer, points out a similar linguistic polyphony in her work: "What I am especially aware of lately is how the Spanish syntax and word choice occurs in my work even though I write in English" ("Ghosts and Voices" 72). To tell the story of their communities, minority authors like Kingston and Cisneros recognize that inserting marks of otherness into the English language enables them to present the uniqueness of their ethnic traditions while also claiming their place in America's culture and language. This conscious process of adapting dominant literacy to create new literary models reflects a democratic understanding of culture, elucidating the need for inclusive and diverse literacy practices...

On Departing Empire: A Mission of the Church in the Caribbean

AbstractThe church partnered colonial powers in the establishment and maintenance of empire in the Caribbean: this article reminds readers of these realities before exploring some implications for the mission of the church today. The article argues that the church has a role to play in giving spiritual and moral leadership in the complex process of departing empire; it also offers observations on the challenge to the church to stand firm in its emancipatory commitment to move beyond empire, not least by developing new modes of self-expression and counter-discourse. In the article, particular reference is made to responsibilities facing the Caribbean Council of Churches.

현대패션에서 패셔너블 테크놀로지 연구

테크놀로지와 패션은 얼핏 보기에는 서로 거리가 멀어 보이나 사실은 그렇지 않다. 초기 착용형 장치는 기능성을 갖추었으나 입기에 불편하고 보기에도 좋지 않았다. 오늘날의 착용형 장치는 스타일을 가지고 있는 동시에 편안한 의류를 만들어냄으로써 패션계의 기대를 충족하고 있다. 착용형 장치의 개인화를 통해 패션 아이템을 대중에 어필하기 위한 본질적인 요소인 새로운 자기표현이 가능해졌다. 의류에 포함된 기술과 전자 섬유에 통합된 기능은 패셔너블 착용형 장치의 ‘착용성’과 편안함, 미학적 특성에 영향을 준다. 이러한 요소를 고려하는 것은 사용자 중심의 패셔너블 착용형 장치를 만드는데 중요한 디자인 프로세스이다. 디자이너는 목적과 사용자, 상호 교류, 상업적 가능성, 가격에 대한 포괄적인 이해를 가지고 있어야 한다. 직관적인 인터페이스를 갖춘 뛰어난 디자인을 통해 성공적인 패셔너블 착용형 장치를 만들 수 있다. Technology and fashion are not as distant from each other as it might first seem. Early wearables were functional but awkward to wear and to look at. Today wearables are rapidly rising to meet the fashion world on its own terms by producing garments that are both stylish and comfortable. Personalization of wearables allows for new modes of self-expression, which is an essential factor in making fashion items that appeal to the public. Embedded technologies in the garment and the functionalities integrated into the electronic textiles influence the ‘wearability', comfort and the aesthetic of a fashionable wearable. Considering these factors is an essential part of the design process when creating user-centered fashionable wearables. Designers have to have a comprehensive understanding of the purpose, the user, the interaction, and in commercial applications, the right price point. An appealing design in combination with an intuitive interface will make for a successful fashionable wearable.

To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society (review)

Louis A. Perez Jr. To Die in Cuba: Suicide and Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.463 pp.Nationalism can be calculated in many ways. Louis A. Perez Jr. has adopted an ethnonationalist analysis that configures national identity not through constitutions and laws, but through a people's psychological and cultural communication.1 Suicide, Perez demonstrates, has moral and ceremonial currency in Cuba. People recognize it as more than an act of desperation, anger, or failure, but as a gesture much greater than individual self-absorption. Suicide may be committed in defense of the nation or of one's honor. It may also restore personal honor or protest the dishonor of the society at large. The common property of an honorable suicide was and is the ideal of honorable sacrifice. Cubans view life and death as sacrifices made for causes greater than the individual and often involving the nation.Perez begins his study by observing that Cubans have had one of the highest suicide rates since statisticians have been measuring its occurrence. For suicide to be consistently high suggests that the act must have a derived national meaning and popular approval. Therefore, Perez inquires into its origins and its connection with national identity. He examines cultural values that convince people to end their lives, values such as honor and dishonor, morality, hopelessness, and political protest. His study begins with the indigenous and slaves, but its archival heft is placed on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. An ethnonationalistic study requires a multidisciplinary method. Perez is, after all, exploring the intimacy of people's public and private covenants with life and contracts with death. To this end, he has read diaries, public health records, and census reports, and has examined literature, popular culture and visual art, popular music and jingles, legends, medical and prison records, suicide notes, personal testimonies of suicide survivors and of the families of suicide victims. Newspaper articles, census data, and political speeches substantiate his study of people's decisions to die by their own hands. To Die in Cuba is vintage Perez for its bountiful research, compelling writing, and contribution to a central aspect of the Cuban condition.Perez's premise is that for suicide to be so prevalent, it must retain some code or convention that manifests Cubans' relationship with life and death. Approval for ending life and finding release in death have persisted despite Catholic and political values that consistently condemned self-destruction. Support for some kinds of suicide has transformed into modes of self-expression and even forms of rational thought. Suicide, then, has not always resulted from mental illness or nervous breakdowns, since it is also an aspect of common behavior and a national trait.Perez's study begins with the nineteenth-century campaigns for independence and the commitment ofthe insurgents to freedom or death. La Patria was every Cuban's cradle and part of his soul. Interestingly, Perez mandates that dying for La Patria was purely a male affair. The rebels in all three wars of independence were poorly armed and fought guerrilla campaigns. They either died in battle, of starvation or disease in the field, in concentration camps, or before firing squads. The point was they died willingly, even joyfully. Indeed, to be a man meant to die heroically in struggle. To die in bed was a disgrace. Fully one-third of all the generals ofthe Liberation Army perished as a result of the conditions of the independence wars (79). Dying was part of what it meant to be Cuban, and the Cuban brotherhood ritual involved blood sacrifice.Perez claims that women inspired men to die for Free Cuba, grieved their deaths, and commemorated heroism. They expected widowhood and the tragedy of losing their sons, and they bore up bravely before the threat. They encouraged their men to make the ultimate sacrifice, and some women involved themselves in political negotiations. …

What a King is this: Narmer and the Concept of the Ruler

Narmer, the best-attested Egyptian king from the period of state formation, reigned at a time of great social and political change, a time when the modes of self-expression and the mechanisms of rule employed by the governing elite were undergoing rapid and radical reformulation. In other words, Narmer presided over a crucial transition in the concept of the ruler. His reign displays certain features characteristic of Egypt's prehistoric past, but also some early examples of the new forms that were to distinguish pharaonic civilisation. A recognition of this dichotomy brings new insights into the meaning of Narmer's name, the artistic significance of his famous palette, and the identification of the early royal tombs at Abydos.

Assertiveness Among Japanese, Malaysian, Filipino, and U.S. White-Collar Workers

The author investigated modes of self-expression as they reflect the quality of assertiveness among Japanese, Malaysian, Filipino, and U.S. white-collar workers. The author collected respondents' answers to a questionnaire consisting of 33 items involving assertiveness related to modes of expression typical of the Japanese people. Several modes of expression considered specific to the Japanese people–styles of group-oriented behavior, younger people's courtesy toward older people, and the deference of the individual to group consensus–were also found among the Malaysian and the Filipino respondents. These behaviors were in contrast to those observed among the U.S. respondents.