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Epilepsy in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot - Language, Stigma, and Mythology 陀思妥耶夫斯基《白痴》中的癫痫——语言、耻辱和神话

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2021-03-14 DOI: 10.2218/FORUM.31.5496

A. Shukla

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In Sickness and in Health 无论疾病还是健康

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2021-03-14 DOI: 10.2218/FORUM.31.5492

A. Waterson

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On Disruption 在中断

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2020-07-21 DOI: 10.2218/forum.30.4483

Dorothy Lawrenson

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Barriers to the Self 自我障碍

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2019-06-29 DOI: 10.2218/FORUM.28.3048

Natalie Wall

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“A lie that pandered to racism and xenophobia” “迎合种族主义和仇外心理的谎言”

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2019-06-29 DOI: 10.2218/FORUM.28.3049

Orlaith Darling

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Across the Divide 跨越鸿沟

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2019-06-29 DOI: 10.2218/FORUM.28.3046

C. Dowling

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Walls: An Introduction 墙壁:介绍

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.2218/FORUM.28.3054

Dominic Richard

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City Limits 市区范围

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.2218/forum.28.3045

Alice Bilger

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Redrawing Boundaries 重新划定边界

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.2218/forum.28.3053

Uttara Rangarajan

{"title":"Redrawing Boundaries","authors":"Uttara Rangarajan","doi":"10.2218/forum.28.3053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.28.3053","url":null,"abstract":"Colonialism, as a material, discursive and imaginative process was based on constructing colonized territories and native populations in rigid and specific ways. Colonized territories were depicted as lush, wild and hostile, the opposite or ‘other’ to the colonizing nation. A spatial binary of civilized and ordered metropoles contrasted with unruly and disorganized colonies, marginalized and subordinated the latter. Yet, colonialism’s attempts to organize and control differences often met opposition from those who existed in ambivalent spaces that didn’t fit colonial binaries. This paper explores the work of two such authors Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield and argues that their writings subvert and challenge colonial boundaries by depicting spaces as fluid and heterogeneous. As white women from the colonies (Caribbean and New Zealand respectively) Rhys and Mansfield occupied liminal positions, unable to fit within colonial binaries of white and native, they were marked as inferior due to their social background as well as gender. This gave them unique insight into the patriarchal colonial system and it’s arbitrary boundaries. Focusing on Rhys’ novels Wide Sargasso Sea and Voyage in the Dark and Mansfield’s short stories 'Prelude and At The Bay', this paper examines the blurring of colonized, native and metropolitan spaces in these works. Analyzing the authors’ depiction of natural spaces, this paper further argues that Rhys and Mansfield highlight instances of colonial insecurity and expose the shaky foundations of colonial knowledge. By eschewing the male, colonizing gaze Rhys and Mansfield depict spaces as contradictory and multidimensional and in this process break down colonial walls and boundaries.","PeriodicalId":439591,"journal":{"name":"FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts","volume":"191 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132628880","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}

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Breaking Down Walls 打破藩篱

FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Pub Date : 2019-06-28 DOI: 10.2218/FORUM.28.3047

James Cleverley

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