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Refugee Memoirs: Kouamé’s Revenu des ténèbres (2018) and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee (2019) and the challenge of refugee narratives 难民回忆录：库阿梅的《难民的复仇》（2018）和迪娜-纳耶里的《忘恩负义的难民》（2019）以及难民叙事的挑战
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqae066
Ashwiny O Kistnareddy
{"title":"Refugee Memoirs: Kouamé’s Revenu des ténèbres (2018) and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee (2019) and the challenge of refugee narratives","authors":"Ashwiny O Kistnareddy","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqae066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae066","url":null,"abstract":"In their introduction to Values of Literature, Hanna Meretoja and Pyro Lyytikäinen argue that ‘little attention has been paid to the ethical relevance of different literary genres and to the very different functions of literary texts that make literature valuable’.1 Literature has several ‘uses’ according to Rita Felski (2008), amongst which are the ‘knowledge’ and ‘shock’ elements insofar as they enable readers to change their perception of the world. Examining what I term ‘refugee memoirs’ as an emergent genre and its uses in enabling readers to interrogate dominant discourses about refugees in the UK, Europe and North America, I argue that refugee memoirs contest right-wing narratives that seek to shape society’s view of asylum-seekers and refugees and enable readers to see refugees' lived experiences through new perspective. Thereby, these narratives also permit a rehumanization of refugees and a comprehension of their losses and positions.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142202109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Beauty with an Explanation and the Poetics of Acculturation: How, and Why, Michael Ondaatje’s Poetic Novels Work 有解释的美与文化适应的诗学：迈克尔-翁达杰的诗意小说如何以及为何有效
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqae054
Darryl Whetter
{"title":"Beauty with an Explanation and the Poetics of Acculturation: How, and Why, Michael Ondaatje’s Poetic Novels Work","authors":"Darryl Whetter","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqae054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae054","url":null,"abstract":"Michael Ondaatje’s first three novels, those which cemented his international fiction career, each use a pattern in which metaphors which begin as isolated comparisons of A to B are also sequentially repackaged into the lesser known (but equally substitutive) trope of metonymy. In sequence, this metonymic use of metaphor fuses the self-evident comparison of metaphor with the more acculturated substitution of metonymy – a substitution taught within a culture, not self-evident like a metaphor – ultimately enacting a poetics of acculturation. Loading a novel’s metaphorical terms with sequential meaning was crucial to an Ondaatje who was not only transitioning from poet to novelist, but doing so in an aesthetic fusion of the postmodern and the postcolonial also found in other late-twentieth-century postcolonial novels.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Semantics of Beauty in Spanish Adjectives: Conceptual Structure and Implications for Folk Aesthetics 西班牙语形容词中美的语义：概念结构及其对民间美学的影响
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-06-28 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqae047
Ernesto Wong García
{"title":"The Semantics of Beauty in Spanish Adjectives: Conceptual Structure and Implications for Folk Aesthetics","authors":"Ernesto Wong García","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqae047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae047","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents an analysis of Spanish adjectives that express positive aesthetic evaluation, framed in terms of Conceptual Semantics. The sample of ninety-six adjectives (with one hundred and forty-eight individual meanings) was taken from the Diccionario ideográfico y semántico de la valoración estética positiva en español. Semantic analysis of dictionary definitions showed that beauty is ascribed by way of three distinct conceptual structures, with beauty seen respectively as an intrinsic quality, as cause or effect or as a resemblance. It further showed a clear prevalence of visual attributes and part structure as targets of aesthetic evaluation, with other secondary qualities (like daintiness, perfection, effort, grace, taste and uniqueness) also being ascribed. A quantitative analysis yielded informative correlations between some of these pieces of semantic information, in the form of asymmetries between human and non-human beauty, which point to some interesting implications and questions for Spanish folk aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141550152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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‘Ein Strudel der Selbstauflösung’: The Contested Role of Form in Poetry from the Concentration Camps Ein Strudel der Selbstauflösung"：集中营诗歌中形式的争议性作用
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqae029
Elizabeth Robinson-Self
{"title":"‘Ein Strudel der Selbstauflösung’: The Contested Role of Form in Poetry from the Concentration Camps","authors":"Elizabeth Robinson-Self","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqae029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae029","url":null,"abstract":"German-language concentration camp poetry has been frequently criticized for its formal failings, particularly its lack of innovation and overreliance on traditional forms. In this article, I undertake close readings of three formally conventional texts: Alfred Kittner’s ‘Molotschna’ (composed in Obodowka, a Transnistrian extermination camp, in 1943), Fritz Löhner-Beda’s ‘Sonett auf das Revier im KZ-Buchenwald’ (composed in Buchenwald in 1940) and Heinrich Steinitz’s ‘Wo bist Du, Gott?’ (composed in Buchenwald between 1938 and 1942). I will demonstrate how traditional forms provided stability in the midst of extremity through their regularity, structure and link to a more stable past and identity. Moreover, I will propose that they were not simply readily available containers for the poet’s suffering, but also enabled the poet to shape their individual depiction of the camps and therefore provide as valid an insight as those works which respond to extremity with fragmentation and innovation.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"2010 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141191731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Dual Role of Code-Switching in Alejandro Morales’s Reto en el Paraíso 亚历杭德罗-莫拉莱斯的《Reto en el Paraíso》中代码转换的双重作用
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqae024
Cecilia Montes-Alcalá
{"title":"The Dual Role of Code-Switching in Alejandro Morales’s Reto en el Paraíso","authors":"Cecilia Montes-Alcalá","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqae024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae024","url":null,"abstract":"Although most contemporary Chicano authors tend to write exclusively in one language, English or Spanish, they have a range of linguistic options available to them – as would any member of a bilingual community – including code-switching. Code-switching in US literature dates back to the Mexican–American War and has been employed to establish aesthetic or stylistic credibility and to communicate biculturalism or ethnic identity. This article examines the dual role of code-switching in Alejandro Morales’s only bilingual novel, Reto en el paraíso. It explores how code-switching serves as a narrative technique to develop character identity in a bilingual and bicultural context, while also performing some of the socio-pragmatic and communicative functions commonly attested in natural bilingual discourse. Morales’s linguistic choices exemplify how Chicano writers living between two cultures may, and often must, use both languages to depict accurately the intricate cultural and linguistic realities of their characters.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140578047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Metalinguistic Dimension of Literary Multilingualism: Linguistic Biographies in Italian Fiction 文学多语言的金属语言学维度：意大利小说中的语言传记
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqae001
Riikka Ala-Risku
{"title":"The Metalinguistic Dimension of Literary Multilingualism: Linguistic Biographies in Italian Fiction","authors":"Riikka Ala-Risku","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqae001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqae001","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I argue that a thorough analysis of literary multilingualism and code-switching needs to take their metalinguistic dimension into account. Many scholars have noticed multilingual authors’ tendency to frame code-switches with metalinguistic comments, but they are sometimes treated marginally, or as just one of the many functions of code-switching. My article argues that metalanguage is, in fact, a fundamental characteristic of literary multilingualism, and key to its interpretation. This is particularly evident when we look at how the contemporary Italian writers Laura Pariani, Silvana Grasso and Elena Ferrante construct their characters through linguistic biographies, and how they describe dialect use, bilingualism, language loss and shift and other collective and individual sociolinguistic processes. I also show that metalanguage needs to be analysed together with other tools used by authors to flag multilingualism: namely intratextual translations and peritextual elements (such as glossaries or notes), but also visual cues, such as italics.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140026438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On Being Tongue-Tied: Franchise, Fluency, and Precarity in Montaigne’s ‘De la vanité’ 关于 "舌尖上的中国"：蒙田《De la vanité》中的特许权、流畅性和先入之见
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-12-19 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqad066
Luke O’Sullivan
{"title":"On Being Tongue-Tied: Franchise, Fluency, and Precarity in Montaigne’s ‘De la vanité’","authors":"Luke O’Sullivan","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad066","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing attention to a key but overlooked moment in Montaigne’s ‘De la vanité’, this article interrogates the relationship between two aspects of the essayist’s ‘franchise’: his personal freedom and his frank, direct speech. It offers a reading that runs counter to Montaigne’s self-characterization as ‘le plus libre et moins endebté’ person he knows, underscoring the precarity of his ‘franchise’ and his anxieties surrounding it. In this context, ‘franchise’ is shown to be hemmed in by a cluster of obligations, even as the essayist seeks to escape them. In contrast to the critical interest in Montaigne’s reflections on free-thinkers and courageous speakers, including Socrates, Seneca and Cato the Younger, and complementing studies that have highlighted the motif of babble and loquacity in the Essais, this article focuses on Montaigne seeing himself in a frightful inversion of ‘franchise’: the looking glass of Lyncestes and the story of his death as a consequence of his disfluency. Reading ‘franchise’ in this light helps us to learn what Montaigne considered one of the first lessons worth learning: the difference between ‘liberté’ and ‘licence’.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"198 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138743506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Decolonial Gazing and Hermeneutic Resistance: Black German Challenges to White German Cultural Hegemony in the Museum 非殖民化凝视与解释学抵抗:博物馆中德国黑人对德国白人文化霸权的挑战
IF 0.2 3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqad053
Maureen O Gallagher
{"title":"Decolonial Gazing and Hermeneutic Resistance: Black German Challenges to White German Cultural Hegemony in the Museum","authors":"Maureen O Gallagher","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad053","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I highlight the ways that Black Europeans challenge universalizing notions of cultural heritage to emphasize decolonial possibilities. Focusing on the German context, I show how Black artists, intellectuals and activists interrogate the collection, display and spectatorship of museum objects in majority-white contexts using the strategies of decolonial gazing and hermeneutic resistance. I use the Berlin Ethnological Museum in its former and current iterations as a representative example of debates about collecting and looking at museums, showing how scholars like Fatima El-Tayeb and initiatives like No Humboldt21! challenge universalizing discourses and reflect the gaze back on whiteness. Finally, I offer a reading of a literary challenge to white hegemony within and beyond the museum in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s 2021 novel Adas Raum [Ada’s Realm].","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138541868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Jazz Music and Intermedial References in Toni Morrison’s Love 托妮·莫里森《爱情》中的爵士音乐与中间参考
3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqad052
Yakiv Bystrov, Nataliya Telegina
{"title":"Jazz Music and Intermedial References in Toni Morrison’s <i>Love</i>","authors":"Yakiv Bystrov, Nataliya Telegina","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad052","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper proposes an intermedial reading of Toni Morrison’s Love (2003) and applies the concepts of intermediality theory to discuss the jazz narrative strategies used in the novel. In this article, intermediality is on the one hand associated with the musicalization of fiction; on the other hand, it is viewed from the perspective of expanding the representational modes of a given medium. The article explores the links between jazz music and literature, and argues that the structure of Morrison’s Love has a certain similarity to a jazz music composition. We identify in the structure of the novel a number of solos and the polyphonic overlapping of the voices, and we show that the interaction of voices gives the narrative a dialogic character, which results in multiple interpretations of the complex characters and ambiguous situations. Juxtapositions, temporal shifts, syncopation, rhythmically arranged sequences, meaningful chords, improvisation, repetition and variations are explored and interpreted as jazz narrative strategies. The article identifies a double riff based on counterpoint, and its role in harmonizing the sounds of the voices at the end of the novel. The rich imagery contributing to the performative character of the narrative is analysed. We argue that Morrison’s Love serves as a vivid example of the musicalization of fiction, which results in expanding the representational modes of literature.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"41 21","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135977556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Amor mundi: The Ecology and Praise of Transience in Rilke’s Duino Elegies 世界之爱:里尔克的杜伊诺挽歌中对短暂的生态与赞美
3区 文学
FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES Pub Date : 2023-10-31 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqad048
Alexander Sorenson
{"title":"<i>Amor mundi</i>: The Ecology and Praise of Transience in Rilke’s <i>Duino Elegies</i>","authors":"Alexander Sorenson","doi":"10.1093/fmls/cqad048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqad048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Among the many puzzles in Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies is the ninth elegy’s declaration that the things of the world are disappearing, but that the only way to rescue them from this fate is to make them ‘invisible’. To make sense of this paradoxical scenario, the present article first examines in the light of several theoretical frameworks (for example, Walter Benjamin’s aura, Jean-Luc Maron’s apophasis and Hannah Arendt’s natality) how Rilke portrays the relationship between praise and mourning, proposing as an interpretive key hymnic language’s depicted capacity to illuminate transience. The article then demonstrates how this dimension of Rilke’s text articulates a vision of an authentically ecological relation to phenomena, one that involves an ecstatic exchange between subject and environment and that ultimately upends paradigmatic hierarchies of ‘human/non-human’ by introducing a modality of love grounded in loss rather than in possession.","PeriodicalId":42991,"journal":{"name":"FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES","volume":"21 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135977062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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