eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3792

Kalala Ngalamulume

引用次数: 1

Weep for the Coming of Men: Epidemic and Disease in Anglo-Western Colonial Writing of the South Pacific 为人类的到来而哭泣:南太平洋英西殖民写作中的流行病与疾病

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3783

Chrystopher Spicer

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引用次数: 1

Pandemics and 'Zombies': How to Think Tropical Imaginaries with Cinematic Cosmologies 流行病和“僵尸”:如何用电影宇宙学思考热带的想象

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3768

M. Kroulík

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引用次数: 1

“State of Intoxication:” Governing Alcohol and Disease in the Forests of British North Borneo “醉酒状态”：英属北婆罗洲森林中的酒精和疾病

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3779

David Saunders

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引用次数: 1

Kuwamai: Historic Epidemics and Resilience of Cariban-Speaking Peoples, Northern Amazonia Kuwamai:北亚马逊地区加勒比语民族的历史流行病和复原力

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3759

Renzo S. Duin

引用次数: 2

A Rush Hour Ride on the Dwarf Planet: Neotropical Imaginings from a Postpandemic Colony 矮行星的高峰时刻之旅:大流行后殖民地的新热带想象

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3776

Christina Yin

引用次数: 1

Beyond Exotic Wet Markets: COVID-19 Ecologies in the Global Meat-Processing Industry in Brazil 超越异国情调的湿市场：巴西全球肉类加工行业的新冠肺炎生态

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3794

Jean Segata, L. Beck, Luísa Menuci Muccillo

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引用次数: 6

Impacts of Historical Pandemics on India: Through the Lens of 20th Century Hindi Literature 从20世纪印地语文学的视角看历史大流行病对印度的影响

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3791

P. Priyanka

引用次数: 0

Running Naked and Unmasked in Goa: Pleasure in the Pandemic 在果阿赤裸裸地奔跑:大流行的乐趣

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3789

R. Ferrão

引用次数: 3

No Wild Iris 无野生鸢尾

eTropic Pub Date : 2021-04-19 DOI: 10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3773

C. Benitez

{"title":"No Wild Iris","authors":"C. Benitez","doi":"10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.25120/ETROPIC.20.1.2021.3773","url":null,"abstract":"The Philippines, as a tropical archipelago, is “concurrently a country of premodern, modern, and postmodern societies[:] our rural areas, small communities, and villages, while we may sweepingly characterize them as premodern, possses at the same time some of the trappings of postmodern cities like Manila, Los Angeles, or Paris” (Cruz-Lucero, 2007, p. 7). And yet, as a nation, this concurrence of temporalities is ultimately flattened, so as to turn it into “a sociological organism moving calendrically through homogeneous, empty time” (Anderson, 2006, p. 26). What emerges, therefore, is a Philippine time that is also a disjuncture: multiplicities that insist on a singularity, or a singularity that insists on being multiple. Keeping time with this contradiction between the diverse temporalities in the archipelagic tropics (see Carter, 2013) and the adamant dream toward a nation-state, this poem meditates on the concurrence of various events that happen in the archipelago nation during the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic. Taking cues from the 1992 poem “The Wild Iris” penned by the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature recipient Louise Glück, “No Wild Iris” attempts to interrogate the experience of homogenous and empty time in the longest lockdown in world history. By interweaving the personal, the political, and the ecological, it harnesses the lyrical while also disclosing its limits, if not outrightly refusing the tendency to sentimentality and universality as a poem.","PeriodicalId":37374,"journal":{"name":"eTropic","volume":"20 1","pages":"42-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44827133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

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