{"title":"Diasporic Representations of the Orient: Re-Orientalism in Amulya Malladi's The Mango Season","authors":"C. Özmen, Cengiz Karagöz","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Re-Orientalism as a concept was developed by Lisa Lau in her 2009 article \"Re-Orientalism: The Perpetration and Development of Orientalism by Orientals\" to ensure postcolonial studies can successfully configure new ways of analyzing contemporary global culture and its artistic and literary output. It has proven to be an apt framework for scrutinizing literary productions by diasporic authors who, through their unique positionality had acquired cultural insight into their country and their fictional representations gain additional credibility. This credibility is a legacy of centuries of Orientalist discourse which dominated the way knowledge was produced about the Orient and its peoples via political speeches, scientific works, travel literature and fiction. In this article, we aim to illustrate how a diasporic author, Amulya Malladi in her The Mango Season (2003) exemplifies how Orientalism was perpetrated by an Oriental author. The novel not only makes use of Orientalist tropes commonly used in literary representations of the Orient but also positions its protagonist and narrator as a distant observer who regards her own country as an exotic destination where she cannot feel a sense of belonging.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"76 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41652249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back with Butterflies: (Post-)World War II Fiction of Américo Paredes","authors":"T. Matsuda","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This manuscript examine Paredes's short stories set in Japan immediately after WWII, which depict interracial relationships between Mexican American soldiers and Japanese women. As opposed to many white-authored mainstream narratives which often emphasize the war's end with its depictions of romantic relationships between white soldiers and Japanese women, Paredes's stories satirically expose the issue of racism, sexism, and imperialism in such relationships to claim that the war was continuing throughout the occupation. This article analyzes two stories, unpublished \"21,000 Ping Pong Balls: A Story of the American Occupation of Japan,\" archived at University of Texas, and \"Getting an Oboe for Joe\" from The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories (1994).","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"37 - 57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46972296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cynthia Ozick's Midrashic Imagination in Heir to the Glimmering World","authors":"Rebecca Nicholson-Weir","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article discusses the novel Heir to the Glimmering World and the ways in which Cynthia Ozick draws on Judaism's midrashic heritage, asserting writing and representation as ethically charged acts capable of both creation and destruction. Using interviews and Ozick's considerable body of criticism, this essay maps Ozick's concept of art and creativity, situating Heir within Ozick's ongoing interrogation of art and imagination within the Jewish tradition.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"58 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47899077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"But Aren't We All?\": Bathos in the Poetry of Danez Smith, Elizabeth Bishop, and Matthea Harvey","authors":"Caroline A. King","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the use of contemporary bathos in poetry by Danez Smith, Elizabeth Bishop, and Matthea Harvey, widening into a larger discussion of what we look for when reading poetry. Though these poets create bathos through varied means, all demonstrate its power to reflect human consciousness and existential truth. This research can generate discussions among both readers and writers of poetry about how and why this poetic device is used.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"24 - 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lena Khor, Caroline A. King, Takuya Matsuda, Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, C. Özmen, Cengiz Karagöz, W. Vaughan, Saswat Samay Das, Dhriti Shankar, M. Soderblom, Jean-Hugues Bita'a M.
{"title":"Closed Morality and Open Love in Dave Eggers' What is the What","authors":"Lena Khor, Caroline A. King, Takuya Matsuda, Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, C. Özmen, Cengiz Karagöz, W. Vaughan, Saswat Samay Das, Dhriti Shankar, M. Soderblom, Jean-Hugues Bita'a M.","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article attends to two key concerns in Dave Eggers' What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel (2006), namely: (1) why people don't (and do) fulfill their moral duties to those in need and (2) how to get people to do so. The novel contends that people don't help because they don't know, don't care, or aren't moved enough to act. It proposes that powerful storytelling can make people aware, care, and act. It embodies this solution by telling a moving story of Valentino, who needs help. At the same time, however, the novel is uncertain if skillful storytelling about those in need will be enough.I argue that What is the What's solutions to its two key concerns, while admirable, ultimately fall short because the novel overlooks a key factor that affects whether we meet our moral duties to humanity—our picture of morality. Our standard picture of morality codes and socializes us to fulfill our duties to family first, nation next, and finally humanity. This key insight is provided by Alexandre Lefebvre's Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson's Political Philosophy (2013), an interpretation of Henri Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1935). This article contributes to a gap in the scholarship on What is the What as well as the scholarship on literature and human rights that to date has predominantly focused on the aesthetics and ethics of representing human wrongs rather than the conditions that might allow for the righting of those wrongs","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"1 - 100 - 101 - 104 - 105 - 107 - 108 - 110 - 111 - 112 - 113 - 113 - 23 - 24 - 36 - 37 - 57 - 58 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45308556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconsidering Laura Ingalls Wilder: Little House and Beyond ed. by Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Anne K. Phillips (review)","authors":"M. Soderblom","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"105 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42803980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler (review)","authors":"Saswat Samay Das, Dhriti Shankar","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"68 1","pages":"101 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia by Brent Tarter (review)","authors":"Jean-Hugues Bita'a M.","doi":"10.1353/scr.2021.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"108 - 110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/scr.2021.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66453565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The End: A Conversation by Alain Badiou and Giovanbattista Tusa's (review)","authors":"W. Vaughan","doi":"10.1353/SCR.2021.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/SCR.2021.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"100 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/SCR.2021.0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41929938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Entrepreneurial Feminist Subject of New Screen Media from Ghana: Labor, Pleasure, and Power","authors":"C. Garritano","doi":"10.1353/scr.2020.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/scr.2020.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This analysis of recently produced women-centered media from Ghana takes up a rather uncommon theme in the study of Africa: pleasure. It considers pleasure represented in, and provided to audiences by, commercial cultural forms from Africa, which are expanding the boundaries of African subjectivity, the African future, and as I discuss here, African feminism. Pushing against the current of the dominant gender discourse, the Ghanaian media company Sparrow Productions has pioneered women-centered content built around the new Ghanaian women, a feminist ideal who is unapologetically passionate about and takes pleasure in her career, and who seeks sexual pleasure without shame and despite censure. Drawing on feminist theory as well as on Michel Foucault’s notion of the entrepreneurial subject, this article attends to the relations between pleasure and power as imagined in screen media made by Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s Sparrow Productions. It situates Sparrow Productions historically to better appreciate the advances and limitations represented by Sparrow’s new Ghanaian woman.","PeriodicalId":42938,"journal":{"name":"South Central Review","volume":"37 1","pages":"15 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/scr.2020.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47226929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}