Yellow House Research Articles

THE STRUGGLE FOR TRUTH: UNVEILING EFFORTS TO DISCREDIT THE HISTORY AND STABILITY OF KOSOVO

This paper examines three cases of espionage arrests in Kosovo, involving two Serbian individuals and two Albanians linked to the Serbian Information and Security Agency (BIA). The aim of these spies was to discredit the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), alter the narrative of the Reçak massacre, create a “yellow house” similar to the one in northern Albania, and destabilize the state of Kosovo by inciting interethnic conflicts. Through the analysis of specific cases and motivation theories, this paper sheds light on the reasons why individuals engage in espionage against their own country, Serbia’s efforts to manipulate the history and stability of the region and the tendencies to invade Kosovo.

The Yellow House.

The Yellow House.

João de Deus’s musical perversions: a case study on the music and sexuality in two films by João César Monteiro

ABSTRACT This article addresses the music and its interactions in two films directed by João César Monteiro – Recordações da Casa Amarela [Recollections of the Yellow House] and A Comédia de Deus [God’s Comedy]. These are the first two films in God’s Trilogy, a trilogy released between 1989 and 1999. Together, they tell the story of a character called João de Deus, who lives and behaves in ways that deviate from social and moral norms, establishing obsessive and perverse relationships with several women. In this article, we approach the music and sounds we hear in certain scenes and the way these work in representing the character’s ‘self’. Thus, by analysing the music that accompanies the voyeuristic behaviour of the character João de Deus towards Julieta, his sexual overvaluation of Rosarinho, and the fetishism evidenced in his relationship with Joaninha’s underwear, we can both better define the main character’s personality and understand the role music plays in developing the plots of Monteiro’s cinema.

Saul Bellow in Utah: “Leaving the Yellow House”

ABSTRACT Saul Bellow wrote “Leaving the Yellow House” with a setting in Utah although it is based on his sojourn in Nevada in 1955 and 1956. The location at Sego Desert Lake is historically significant in relation to the theme, which concerns economic networks of exchange, notably gift exchange (potlatch). Central to the narrative is the treatment of native Americans, past and present, and the gifts they gave to the early Mormon settlers, which rebounded upon them. The protagonist, a self-styled pioneer who relies on gifts that come back to haunt her, is a woman and one of the few in Bellow’s fiction to turn her back on money and status and negotiate an identity outside intellectual and material frames.

Notes from the “Yellow House”. The Case of A. A. Zinoviev

The outstanding thinker Alexander Zinoviev encountered in his life the unique experience of fi rst losing all his academic degrees and ranks and then their reinstatement. In both cases it was he initiative of the Institute of Philosophy at the Soviet Academy of Sciences (in 1976 and 1990), where Alexander Zinoviev also worked until 1976. The documentary history of those events re-constructed on the basis of the archival materials, allows to add substantial facts to the scientifi c biography of the thinker. This also demonstrates the moral and psychological atmosphere and specifi cs of the scientifi c discussions and decisions in the institute of philosophy in various historical periods. The institute is of interest as a representational organization of academic science, as well as colorful social and cultural phenomenon of the Soviet and post-Soviet society.

Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret

Reviewed by: Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret Jonathan Daniel Wells (bio) Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts. Jeff Forret. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-2208493031. 482 pp., cloth, $29.95. Before 1850, in the putative land of liberty, several slave-trading firms operated with abandon in the nation’s capital. Among these nefarious businesses, William H. Williams’ Yellow House was one of the most profitable and the best known, a preeminent capitalist enterprise with tentacles reaching far across the slave South. Untold numbers of Black captives were bought and sold, transactions that would likely mean forced transportation to the newly opened and fertile fields of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, where once Native lands would be converted into cotton and sugarcane fields to clothe and feed consumers in rapidly globalizing markets. In this highly detailed, meticulously researched, and engagingly written study, historian Jeff Forret recounts the shady dealings and shrouded lives of the slaver Williams and the twenty-one men and six women who would become the prime figures in a highly interesting series of antebellum court cases that would endure into the Civil War. The controversy launched in 1840 when the enslaved men and women were “convicted”—without due process, of course, and via ad hoc county courts of oyer and terminer—of serious felonies, such as murder and arson. Sentenced to be executed, the enslaved had their lives spared by the Virginia governor, who ordered them to be sold outside of the United States. Upon purchasing the enslaved convicts, Williams promised to sell them in Texas, which was yet to become a part of the Union. The problem, however, was that Williams’ reputation for underhandedness meant that Virginia officials, including Alexandria mayor Bernard Hooe, remained suspicious that he would renege on his promise and sell them in New Orleans instead. Hooe kept a wary eye on Williams’ movements, and when the latter loaded his human cargo onto the Uncas, Virginia officials sent word to counterparts in Mobile and New Orleans that Williams might dock in their ports. [End Page 426] Thanks to such forewarnings, when Williams landed first in Mobile and then in New Orleans, he drifted into communities on high alert, as newspaper notices and a flurry of government communications inflamed public opinion about the approaching ship. The communities, of course, were neither concerned about the fate of the human captives nor alarmed by the injustice of their so-called convictions. No Southern city wanted to be the recipient of potentially dangerous, troublemaking slaves. In fact, in 1817 Louisiana had passed a law prohibiting the importation of enslaved convicts. The problem, as Forret documents in rich and enlightening prose, was that any such persons were by the same law to be sold within the state, thereby undoing the law’s purpose in the first place! Arrested under the contradictory 1817 law in November 1840, Williams and his brother Thomas spent the next two decades in and out of jail as first the Louisiana courts and then the US Supreme Court tried to make sense of state law, Williams’ intentions, and the internecine battles of the domestic slave trade. Forret documents these cases in comprehensive chapters that reveal every nuance of discussion and controversy, but he accomplishes this exhaustive retelling with lively and passionate style. The plight of those arrested as illegally imported enslaved convicts is more obscured, but Forret reveals the agency and individuality of those who had sparked the interstate wrangling. Since it would be foolish to abide by the 1817 law’s contradictory strictures, the men and women were put to labor on public works, foreshadowing the ruthless chain gangs of the New South. Unsurprisingly, Louisiana officials proved insouciant overseers, and by 1843 at least some of the enslaved convicts had died. This study deserves a wide audience, not the least because it reveals the endlessly complicated consequences of holding human beings as property. Williams more than learned this lesson, but he nonetheless fared far better than the enslaved convicts he may or may not have intended to sell in New Orleans. Thanks to the Compromise of 1850...

PLAYA DYNAMICS AND SALINITY: A STUDY OF YELLOW LAKE ON THE HIGH PLAINS OF TEXAS

Saline playas on the Southern High Plains are almost always located on large cattle ranches but they are of limited value to the herds of cattle grazing around their outer margins. Saline playas are often without water for extended periods and, after inundation, they experience considerable evaporative loss leading to hypersaline conditions. The primary goal of this study was to develop a quantitative method that combines the transitory nature of playa lakes and the variability of salinity into a set of parameters that can be used to compare playas or other surface water sources. Regarding water quality, a variable was developed that describes the fraction of observations with salinity levels below the salt tolerance threshold for cattle. With regard to water availability, water depth measurements were used to compute the fraction of time that a playa contains water. These two variables are combined to form a new variable that represents the fraction of time that water is both available and of acceptable quality. To demonstrate the utility of this method, data was collected at Yellow Lake, a large saline playa located on the Yellow House Ranch northwest of Lubbock, Texas. Results suggest that the playa contained water 50.8% of the time over a five-year period but the fraction of water samples with acceptable salinity was only 6.5%. The resulting fraction of time that water was both available and of acceptable quality was only 3.3%. This technique could be used to compare other ephemeral surface water sources in the region.

Seasonal prey availability and diet composition of Lesser Asiatic Yellow House Bat Scotophilus kuhlii Leach, 1821

Diet is an important factor in understanding bat ecology and conservation. This study assessed seasonal prey availability and diet composition of the Asiatic Lesser Yellow House Bat Scotophilus kuhlii in various districts of Uttar Pradesh between January 2016 to December 2018. Fecal and insect samples were collected seasonally using sweep nets between 1800 and 1900 h. From each location 20 fecal pellets were selected for analysis and searched for taxonomically recognizable remnants. The analysis revealed that S. kuhlii fed on Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Odonata, Blattodae, Lepidoptera, and Hemiptera, identified from legs, antennae and wings/elytra in fecal pellets. Seasonal variation in the presence of isolated insect remnants and insect abundance at foraging grounds was observed. Thus S. kuhlii is a voracious feeder and plays an important role as a pest control agent.

성매매 집결지의 복합적 이해와 성매매 종사자들의 투쟁: 인천시 숭의동 ‘옐로우하우스’ 사례를 중심으로

성매매 집결지의 복합적 이해와 성매매 종사자들의 투쟁: 인천시 숭의동 ‘옐로우하우스’ 사례를 중심으로

Jeff Forret. Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts.

There will never be enough scholarship on American slavery. Every new book reveals additional horrors about the system of forced labor, family separation, brutality, and rape that built the United States, and there is much more yet to be told. So it is with Jeff Forret’s recent book, Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts. It is not a jab to say that the book is somewhat mistitled. Although the fate of twenty-seven enslaved people provides the narrative spine, it is actually the story of William H. Williams’s entire career as a slave trader, and his ownership of the most notorious slave pen in Washington, DC. Beginning in the mid-1830s and continuing through 1850, Williams operated the “Yellow House,” a slave jail and trading depot located within sight of the US Capitol. The best-known inmate at the Yellow House was Solomon Northup, a free...

Integrative taxonomy and biogeography of Asian yellow house bats (Vespertilionidae:Scotophilus) in the Indomalayan Region

Yellow house bats (Scotophilus) have been known for centuries as a widespread genus of vesper bats in the Indomalayan Region. Despite this, their taxonomic status and phylogeographical patterns remain unclear due to differing criteria employed by early taxonomists and inconsistencies between morphological and molecular assessments. To address these issues, we undertook a comparative phylogeographic analysis of Asian Scotophilus spp. using integrated genetic and morphological analyses of samples collected across the region. These demonstrate that yellow house bats in Asia can be classified into just two widespread species, namely the smaller S. kuhlii (e.g., FA ≤ 53.1 mm, GLS ≤ 20.18 mm) and the larger S. heathii (e.g., FA ≥ 53.4 mm, GLS ≥ 20.85 mm), which occur in sympatry in different parts of the Indomalayan Region. Although these two sympatric species share similar eco‐ethological preferences, they differ considerably in their geographic distributions and intraspecific variation in mtDNA sequences and morphological traits. These disparities were likely misinterpreted as indicating potential cryptic diversity in previous studies, whereas we suggest they are related to interspecific differences in sex‐biased gene flow and phenotypic plasticity to adapt to varying environments. Our study highlights the importance of using multiple datasets to resolve taxonomic uncertainties and reconstruct demographic and phylogeographic histories of sympatric species.

Make a fence

Make a fence Jessica Jacobs (bio) said the rabbis, around the Torah. And this worldis lousy with them. More than we can counton our dog walk alone: chainlink and stone and white wooden pickets. Fences to keep people's bad barking dogsin, to keep our bad barking dog out. His nostrils flaringwide as a twirled skirt as he reads the tales of past passersby on fences that mark what is another's burden, another'sprivilege to tend, and what is open to the traffic of strangers.Called before the Torah, a reader tracks the cramped letters with a yad, a metal pointer topped by a tiny pointing hand.If it feels colder than the air, it's because silver stealsyour body's heat, this tool to keep your place, to keep you in your place, to keep you from marring even a single sacred letter.This, one fence among many: Do not bring the Torahin the bathroom, do not sit beside it on a bench, do not stand before it naked (lest you be buried naked, stripped of all the good you did).But sometimes barriers grow so large it's hard to seewhat they're protecting. And here is the fig tree yearning past its yard, reaching toward the walk with its fat-fingered leaves.Here, the arbor propping branches slumped as the shouldersof a weary giant—yet under its hunch, an exuberance of mulberries. There, the yellow house whose bramble is more than worth its thorns:rops of ink dripping from the branches, the blackberries call usto make a quill of our tongues. Let every fence in my mind have a gate. One with an easy latch and well-oiled hinges. Our neighborsurge us to indulge—There's more than we can possibly eat—sohere, love, is fruit with the sun still inside it. Let me thumb the juice from your chin. Let us honor what we love by taking it in. [End Page 161] Jessica Jacobs jessica jacobs is the author of Take Me with You, Wherever You're Going, winner of the Devil's Kitchen and Goldie Awards, and Pelvis with Distance, winner of the New Mexico Book Award. Chapbook editor for Beloit Poetry Journal, she coauthored Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire with her wife, Nickole Brown. Copyright © 2021 Center for the Study of the American South

Eudora Welty Foundation

Eudora Welty Foundation Jeanne B. Luckett The Eudora Welty Foundation's 2020 organizational, educational, and public activities were impacted considerably by the Coronavirus pandemic. Many events were canceled, and others were reformatted to assure safety for participants. In spite of these necessary accommodations, appreciation for Welty's works and enthusiasm for connecting with others who had similar interests kept the Welty Foundation busy. Likewise, when all public events at the Welty House & Garden scheduled from March 23 through May were canceled by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the staff of the Welty House & Garden developed innovative means of connecting with visitors as circumstances and regulations permitted. Gradually, following safety protocols, the public was permitted to take unguided free tours of the Welty Garden, and in July, limited tours of the Welty House & Garden resumed. Working together, the Welty Foundation and the House & Garden, along with Millsaps College and other partners, offered creative programming during this most challenging year. As was the case with many other organizations, the internet played an important role in our communication. Authors Sarah Broom and Kiese Laymon Discuss Their Memoirs Before the pandemic necessitated programming changes, authors Sarah M. Broom and Kiese Laymon presented a discussion on their memoirs at Millsaps College on February 25, 2020. Broom's memoir, The Yellow House, received a 2019 National Book Award among other honors. Laymon's Heavy received the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in addition to other awards. The discussion was sponsored by the Millsaps Visiting Writers Series; the Eudora Welty Foundation; the Millsaps Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation; and the Center for Art and Public Exchange at the Mississippi Museum of Art. [End Page 275] Jolly Lecture with Ron Rash Canceled; Other Rash Book Events Held The annual Bettye Jolly Lecture, scheduled March 19, 2020, with award-winning poet and fiction writer Ron Rash, was the first event to be canceled. The Foundation anticipates rescheduling Rash for the Lecture as soon as circumstances permit. On April 13, 2020, Eudora's birthday, Rash's short story collection Something Rich and Strange was the subject of the monthly Brown Bag Book discussion moderated by Welty scholar Suzanne Marrs. Usually held over lunch at the Welty Education and Visitors Center, the discussion was the first virtual program coordinated by the Welty House & Garden staff and offered via Google Hangouts. Later in the year, Rash's latest book, In the Valley, a selection of short stories and a novella based on his best-selling book Serena, was scheduled as the January-February 2021 selection for the virtual Welty-at-Home Book Club. Spring Plant Sale Canceled, Replaced with Plant Purchase Opportunities Set for April 11, 2020, the annual Spring Plant Sale, benefitting the Welty Garden and usually featuring some plants propagated from those grown in the Garden, was canceled. But heirloom plants cultivated by the Welty House staff, Cereus Weeders, and other volunteers, were made available for sale at the Welty Education and Visitors Center. Scholastic Writing Award Winners Honored by Video and Through Mail Scheduled for April 19, 2020, to honor 321 winners from around the state, the Scholastic Writing Awards ceremony, generously supported with a grant from the C Spire Foundation, was canceled. The keynote speaker, author Maurice Carlos Ruffin, 2020-21 Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, recorded a video of his remarks which was sent to the award winners. A transcript of the talk was provided on the Welty Foundation website. Certificates were mailed to the honorees, and all gold medalists received a copy of A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty by Carolyn Brown, through the generosity of Jean Nicholson Medley, Welty Foundation Board member. The 2021 Scholastic Writing program began September 1 with packets distributed to teachers statewide, and the deadline for entries was December 15, 2020, according to program administrator Sally Birdsall. [End Page 276] Virtual Welty-at-Home Book Club Attracts Nationwide Audience Making use of the audio and video conferencing platform Zoom, the Welty House & Garden staff, working with Welty biographer and scholar Suzanne Marrs, developed plans for a virtual book club focused on Welty but exploring other authors' works as...

Impalpable Scars: Dual Traumas in Hemingway’s “Now I Lay Me” and “A Way You’ll Never Be”

Abstract This article aims to contribute to the body of scholarly discussion surrounding Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories as interconnected works of subtle yet complex depictions of trauma and memory. It primarily focuses on two stories, “Now I Lay Me” and “A Way You’ll Never Be,” and attempts to unearth hidden parallels between the two, ultimately positing that each story informs the other in vital ways. The article does so through an examination of memory types, the narrative nature of episodic personal memory, and incorporation of an analysis on the disruptive nature of traumatic memory. Using that framework, it examines the function of screen memory and trauma in “Now I Lay Me,” a story of nocturnal haunting, and unearths the existence of dual traumas within the text, those suffered in combat and those in childhood. Connections are made to the events and experiences of “A Way You’ll Never Be,” with the episodes Nick suffers interpreted as dreams. Thus, the image of the unplaceable yellow house is viewed as a manifestation of the domestic trauma of Adams’s childhood, with the home itself representative of the terror of obliteration, a second trauma revealed and existing beyond the boundaries of the text.

Editors' Notes

Editors' Notes John David Zuern and Craig Howes International Year in Review I began writing this note introducing the fourth installment of Biography's International Year in Review on the first day of June 2020, which meant that I couldn't help reflecting on this year's collection of essays across a horizon defined by both the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on May 25. These uprisings have inspired people in London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and other cities around the world to take to the streets, despite stay-at-home orders and curfews, to express their outrage at systemic injustice in the US and in their own countries. In many places, the two phenomena are linked: the disproprotionate impact of the coronavirus on particular populations—in the US, people of color, low-income workers, and the elderly—has dramatically exposed longstanding inequities and the failure of institutions to protect the most vulnerable members of society. The individual names and foreshorted life stories of those who have died, whether by outright brutality or malign neglect, are providing powerful touchstones for collective demands for change. This year a striking number of contributions attest to the important role of life narratives in confronting inequality and institutionalized violence. In the first essay in the lineup, Kylie Cardell surveys a range of publications in Australia that engage urgent social concerns, among them Behrouz Boochani's No Friend but the Mountains, the Kurdish writer's account of his detention in an Australian government facility for asylum seekers on Manus Island, and the anthology Stories from the Australian Movement: #MeToo. The #MeToo movement in the US provides the framework for Leigh Gilmore's discussion of Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House, Brittany Cooper's Eloquent Rage, Chanel Miller's Know My Name, and several other memoirs and essay collections that bear witness to women's experiences of sexism, racism, sexual violence, and domestic abuse. Two of the memoirs Nick Tembo reviews decry the South African medical establishment's callousness and indifference toward people with conditions like autism (Ilana Gerschlowitz's Saving My Sons) and HIV (Helena Kriel's The Year of Facing Fire). Along similar lines, Liam Harte's presentation of Emilie Pine's Notes to Self, Sinéad Gleeson's Constellations, and Mary Cregan's The Scar emphasizes these memoirists' indictment of the pervasive misogyny of the medical profession in Ireland. Sleiman El Hajj directs our [End Page v] attention to texts and performances that contest the marginalization of non-conforming members of Lebanese society such as queer people, Syrian refugees, sex workers, prisoners, and women who wear the hijab, while Alana Bell explores how both Harold R. Johnson's Clifford and Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth disrupt conventional narrative forms to convey the precarity of Indigenous lives in Canada. Ricia Anne Chansky introduces us to the "mass-listening projects" that are giving survivors of the waves of natural disasters in Puerto Rico a space to tell their stories and distribute resources in the absence of adequate government support. Essays by Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir (Iceland), Heui-Yung Park (Korea), Ana Belén Martínez García (Spain), and Szidonia Haragos (United Arab Emirates) also touch on works that demonstrate life writing's capacity to document injustice and spur resistance. Life narratives by and about political figures continue to be well represented. Ilaria Serra includes Antonio Scurati's biography of Benito Mussolini in her selection of publications in Italy; Lu Chen discusses a variety of recent works representing the life of Akihito, who abdicated his position as Emperor of Japan in 2019; Rose Mary Allen and Jeroen Heuvel devote their essay to Bernadette Heiligers's biography of Miguel Pourier, the former prime minister of Curaçao; and Maarit Leskelä-Kärki gives a sensitive reading of Johanna Venho's formally inventive narrative of a short period in the life of Sylvi Kekkonen, the wife of former Finnish Prime Minister Urho Kaleva Kekkonen. As in past years, I'm impressed by the wide variety of approaches our contributors have taken. Some give us an expansive view of the publishing scene in their countries...

Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret

Reviewed by: Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts by Jeff Forret Richard Bell Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts. By Jeff Forret. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv, 470. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-108-49303-1.) He had painted the building yellow. It was three stories high, made of brick, and daubed in plaster that he had slathered in an eggy hue. First-time visitors to this residential block just south and west of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., sometimes mistook this yellow structure for a happy private home, unaware that it was actually one of the busiest slave prisons anywhere in North America. William H. Williams owned and operated the Yellow House between 1836 and 1850, using it as a detention center and depot for enslaved people he had purchased from across the Chesapeake region. From this private prison, across the street from the modern-day site of the Hirshhorn Museum, Williams dispatched "untold thousands of slaves" in coastwise shipments to buyers in New Orleans and across the country (p. 7). Indeed, Zachary Taylor, future president and Baton Rouge resident, was among the firm's customers. Williams was a driven and determined operator who was always looking for fresh opportunities to line his pockets, and in 1840 he believed he had discovered a new source of income: convict slaves. That September he purchased from the commonwealth of Virginia twenty-one enslaved men and six enslaved women incarcerated in the Richmond penitentiary. Virginia's governor had authorized their sale and transportation outside the United States—an unusual but not unheard-of practice—and Williams planned to take them to the Red River region of Texas, an independent country friendly to slavery. But then things began going wrong. When the ship stopped in Mobile, Alabama, locals, disturbed by the possibility that Williams might try to sell these convicted felons domestically, hounded him out of town. In New Orleans, where he stopped next, he was arrested on suspicion of the same. State officials there confiscated his enslaved captives, incarcerated them in the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Baton Rouge, and, over the next several years, sent many of them to labor on all manner of public works projects. In Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts, Jeff Forret reconstructs this extraordinary odyssey using the voluminous court records created by the ensuing legal proceedings, which dragged on for almost two decades and eventually entangled Louisiana's highest court, its legislature, and even the Supreme Court of the United States. The result is a rich and layered history of the domestic slave trade as seen through the "sordid business dealings" of one of its most ambitious traffickers (p. 8). It is in conversation with recent scholarship on this species of legal human trafficking by Joshua Rothman, Walter Johnson, Steven Deyle, and Robert Gudmestad, and there are several stand-out chapters: one, on Williams's business practices; [End Page 913] another, on the ban on slave trading in Washington, D.C., enacted in 1850 that forced him to shutter and sell the Yellow House to a florist who made "bo[u]quets made 'to order'" (p. 289); and a third on the compensated emancipation of enslaved people in the District of Columbia in 1862. Yet the great strength of Williams' Gang—its breadth and depth—is also its weakness. Forret, a previous winner of the Frederick Douglass Prize, is a tenacious researcher, but he follows too many rabbits down too many holes to maintain forward motion. We learn too little about the enslaved themselves, but far more than we need to know about the many white lawyers and judges who played supporting roles in this unfolding drama. Williams' Gang also lurches unsteadily between thematic analysis and narrative. As a result, chronologies are often scrambled (for example, the Civil War plays out immediately before a chapter on the 1840s), and readers are left uncertain as to these events' larger significance, an impassioned epilogue sketching the contours of racialized mass incarceration in our own era notwithstanding. Richard Bell University of Maryland Copyright © 2020 Southern Historical...

Quatro coisas encontradas: análise espacial da casa no romance "Para Sempre" de Vergílio Ferreira

O artigo apresenta a análise espacial da casa no romance Para Sempre (1983) de Vergílio Ferreira, um dos maiores escritores existencialistas da literatura portuguesa. Paulo, o narrador autodiegético, está de regresso à casa amarela, à casa da sua infância. É o regresso definitivo que inicia a última fase da sua vida, o tempo que lhe falta até à morte. Deambulando pela casa, percorrendo corredores, subindo e descendo escadas, entrando em cada quarto, encontra um tempo imóvel que revela o seu passado, e o faz pensar sobre o futuro e os seus sonhos. Encontra também quatro coisas-símbolos (o violino, o chapéu de palha, o relógio e a estatueta de anjo) que funcionam como chaves. Com o apoio da obra filosófica A poética do espaço (La poétique de l’espace, 1957) de Gaston Bachelard constatamos que a casa amarela representa a vida de Paulo.

Designing for learning in the Yellow House: a comparison of instructional and learning design origins and practices

ABSTRACT For the past two decades, there has been persistent debate around whether there is a difference between the fields of instructional design (ID) and learning design (LD). While differences in the two approaches are certainly apparent, there are cross-over points that can provide ID and LD researchers and practitioners with opportunities for dialogue about the purposes and remit of research-based practices for optimal design. Though potentially disruptive, initiating dialogues among learning and instructional designers could lead to more thorough and critical analyses of both ID and LD repertoires. Should boundary crossings occur, there is a potential for a third space for the contemplation, research, and practice of design. A goal of this article is to use the notion of Van Gogh’s Yellow House as an anchoring metaphor for the third space – a location for shared discourse, inspiration, collaboration, and challenge for a community of designers of/for learning. Using the impressionist and expressionist terminology to help elucidate the ways of thinking of designers of both traditions, this article examines the history, underlying philosophical approaches, methodologies, and design goals of ID and LD. We conclude that the emergence of a third space for design can help us move beyond the LD and ID dichotomies. We suggest that a socio-materialist perspective alleviates issues of incommensurability by acknowledging ontological multiplicity.

“Not walled facts, their essence”: Derek Walcott’s Tiepolo’s Hound and Camille Pissarro

Life writing — a genre which goes beyond traditional biography, includes both fact and fiction, and is concerned with either entire lives or days-in-the-lives of individuals, communities, objects, or institutions — has always played an important role in Derek Walcott’s work. This body of work reaches from Another Life (1973),Walcott’s autobiography in verse, to his last play O Starry Starry Night (2014), where he re-imagines Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh’s (often tempestuous) cohabitation in the so-called “Yellow House” in 1888 Arles. In Tiepolo’s Hound (2000), Walcott’s life rhymes with that of the Impressionist painter Jacob Camille Pissarro, who was born in the Caribbean island of St Thomas in 1830. In this work, biographical and autobiographical impulses, fact and fiction, are productively combined, as “creation” (what “might have happened”) shapes Walcott’s life writing as much as “recreation” (what “actually” happened). Walcott’s Pissarro is an individual immersed in a set of historical networks. He is also a figure at the centre of a web of imagined relations which illuminate the predicament of present and past artists in the Caribbean region and the ways in which they articulate their vision vis-à-vis the metropolitan centre, their relationship with their social and natural environment, and their individual and collective identity. Tiepolo’s Hound is enriched by the inclusion of 26 of Walcott’s own paintings which engage in conversation with the poet’s words and add complexity to his meditation on the nature and purpose of (re)writing and (re)creating lives. Extending the catholicity of life writing to animals, in this case dogs and, in particular, mongrels, Tiepolo’s Hound also entails a careful, if counterintuitive, evaluation of anonymity.

Designing for Networked Learning in The Third Space

The focus of the argument in this paper is first situated in an allegory based on Van Gogh’s Expressionist masterpiece, The Yellow House, in that, our argument shares Van Gogh’s theme of looking for a home for a diverse community, engaged in a shared social movement, imagined/acted upon to evoke change. Our argument is fraught with commitments, investments, hopes, debates, rifts, and conflicts involved in the tentative, emergent nature associated with social movements. Within this diverse and contested context, networked learning praxis is set apart from mainstream e-learning and educational technology theories and practices. The problem of designing learning, in general, and designing for networked learning, in particular, is critically examined through a comparison of the projects, histories, and tenets of instructional design (ID) and learning design (LD). Associated notions of teacher-centred, learner-centred, and community/context-centred approaches to design are compared. Contrasts are drawn and commonalities are identified. The shared LD/ID claims that their projects are pedagogically neutral is interrogated. We then introduce Third Space theory as a way to open a dialogue between ID/LD proponents/researcher-practitioners. Third Space theory begins with abandoning aspirations for emergence of consensus from difference, arguably a practical stance to take when dealing with wide-ranging diversities across multicultural, interdisciplinary, international contexts. Having abandoned consensus, Third Space theory is directed toward ‘multilogues’ that promote boundary crossings and hybridisations, which can result in the emergence new “presences”: newly co-constructed ways to identify and accomplish shared goals. If we conceptualise The Third Space as, (Dare we suggest, an Expressionist social movement?), then based on historical examples of earlier social movements, it is relatively safe to suggest that this space too will likely be marked by misunderstandings and incommensurabilities. Third space ‘multilogues’ will involve participants sometimes talking ‘past each other’ rather than ‘with each other.’ We can expect substantive disagreements and retreats to previously held positions prior to arriving at places of mutual recognition, and perhaps even one or more forms of reconciliation. The paper concludes with an invitation for LDs and IDs to enter The Third Space with a view to finding varied, but sustainable, hybridised conceptualisations of design theories and practices that can contribute to designing future opportunities for networked learning across multicultural, multilinguistic, international, interdisciplinary context.