{"title":"Silence, Space, and Absence in Joseph Conrad's African Fiction","authors":"John G. Peters","doi":"10.7560/tsll63403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63403","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In Heart of Darkness and \"An Outpost of Progress,\" Joseph Conrad's characters initially associate African space with silence and absence and European space with sound and fullness. As these tales progress, however, the barriers between empty African space and full European space break down, as Conrad reveals the activity and sound of the West to be merely a surface that obscures its underlying emptiness, an emptiness that reflects a universe absent of order or meaning.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"381 - 409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47187083","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}
{"title":"Construction of Teaching Resource Database of Intercultural Communication in Minzu Universities","authors":"Li Xu","doi":"10.3968/12322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12322","url":null,"abstract":"This paper carefully sorts out the current situation of intercultural communication teaching resources, analyzes the existing problems, and aims to put forward the corresponding measures for the construction of resource database in combination with the training objectives of intercultural communication curriculum in Minzu universities.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"28 1","pages":"39-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74500349","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}
{"title":"Translating Nonverbal Behaviour in Literature: With Pai-tzu as An Example","authors":"Jing Liu","doi":"10.3968/12295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12295","url":null,"abstract":"Nonverbal behavior plays an important role in literary work but receives little attention in literary translation. Different use of linguistic devices by translators in representing nonverbal behavior of the source text would portray different images of characters. This paper, taking Chinese writer Shen Congwen’s short story Pai-tzu as an example, compares the translation of nonverbal behavior in its two English versions (by Ching Ti and Hsu Kai-yu). It firstly reviews definition and category of nonverbal behavior by scholars in diverse fields, as well as related theories in literature and translation. It then compares the two versions in dealing with the paralanguage and kinesics of the two characters, and explores how the differences between them lead to different features of the characters. This paper comes to the following conclusion: Ching’s version, by the choice of material or behavioral process and illocutionary verbs indicating voice quality, shapes a louder and more dynamic image of the woman, in contrast with a static image in Hsu’s version; the image Pai-tzu is vividly portrayed by Hsu due to the use of marked vocabulary and addition of chronemics and proxemics elements, in contrast with core vocabulary and word omission in Ching’s version; in dealing with body parts as agent metonyms, Ching’s version is closer to the style of the original due to the choice of agent metonyms and material process, while Hsu opts for mental process with human agent.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"81 1","pages":"33-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85238075","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}
{"title":"Mental Health Conditions in Omobowale’s Seasons of Rage","authors":"Esther Oluwapelumi Odewale","doi":"10.3968/12294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12294","url":null,"abstract":"The sub-discipline of “Literature and Mental Health” is gradually gaining root in the Nigerian literary scholarship. The depiction of medical experiences in literature have enjoyed some critical patronage, especially on trauma and scriptotherapy. Earlier studies on Nigerian Literature have privileged socio-cultural and socio-political issues to the marginalization of its mental health relevance. This study examines the mental conditions in Emmanuel Babatunde Omobowale’s Seasons of Rage. This text robustly represents mental health conditions through characterisation. Freddy is diagnosed of bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder and depression. This is evident through his character, as his mental state tends to be unstable. At some points, he would behave strong, bold and confident just as he did during the board meeting. At other points, he would be broken, weak and feel defeated as shown when he heard the news of his father’s death and Miriam’s kidnap. Martin also portrays the symptoms of obsession, depression and anxiety. This is evident in his inordinate desire for their father’s wealth and the various unreasonable means he employed to ensure that the whole wealth becomes his. The text also reveals that there is a psychological disorder peculiar to the Fezannis. This is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). They all tend to be obsessed with taking drugs and substances. Omobowale’s creative works have demonstrated capacity to embed the study of Literature and Medicine. The exploration of Literature and mental health in Nigerian literary scholarship is capable of enriching mental education and practice in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"92 1","pages":"27-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82763430","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}
{"title":"Clothing and Body Narrative Strategies in The Great Gatsby","authors":"Mina Yu","doi":"10.3968/12345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12345","url":null,"abstract":"Body became the generative center and presentation of narrative meaning in modern fiction; it is not only the physiological existence, but also the collection of ideas and the signifier of meaning. In modern novels, the signifying meaning of characters will be revealed by the presentation of private body. Description of clothing is significant in body narrative, while paradoxically,clothing is,in one way the medium of meaning construction and expression of body, and in another way the cognitive obstacle covering the body and delaying the revealing of truth. Fitzgerald, taking full advantage of this paradox, adopted different strategies to depict the clothing of the two groups of main characters in The Great Gatsby, constructing a contrast between the visible body and the invisible body,thus to disclose the different body representations of American Dream and their respective failure.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"14 1","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73565769","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}
{"title":"(Re) membering the Traumatized Other through Resurrecting the Dead in Dennis Scott’s An Echo in the Bone","authors":"Leqa’a Salam Abu-Mahfouz","doi":"10.3968/12313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12313","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the presence and impact of trauma in Dennis Scott’s An Echo in the Bone (1974). It discusses the traumatic effects of slavery and colonization on the individual and the society in Jamaica and the Caribbean. The action of the play takes place in Jamaica where people struggle against the oppression of European system of slavery and British colonial system. Scott retrieves the grievous memories of slavery, where the phrase ‘echo in the bone’ refers to racial memories of oppression and exploitation. Scott’s creativity appears through recalling cinematic flashbacks with concentric notions that depict the painful experiences of slaves and colonial policies. Recalling the continuous effects of trauma, which contemporary Jamaicans had been encountering since the history of slavery until the postcolonial era, are explored. The framework of the play’s action is provided by the Nine Night ceremony of the dead – a tradition that transcends the mourning manifestation of funeral traditions to glorify and liberate the dead person’s spirit. To this end, the researchers argue that recalling trauma through Jamaican tradition is a means of asserting that trauma is a heritage that was passed down through several generations. The researchers conclude that the play resurrects all the traumatic experiences of oppression and exploitation under the systems of slavery and colonialism to address the traumatic conditions encountered by the contemporary post-independence society in Jamaica.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"1 1","pages":"7-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74842605","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}
{"title":"To End the War: A Global Agenda of Focu-Feminism","authors":"Nkechinyere Chukwu","doi":"10.3968/12316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3968/12316","url":null,"abstract":"Most gender inclined theories are aimed at awareness creation on experiences of women in order to promote their welfare. However, there is contention about the practicability of some of them because of their insensitivity to race and class. The controversy arises from the fact that none of them has the capability to completely tackle oppression against women, because, one which is applicable to a particular woman’s situation in a certain cultural background, might be totally unfeasible to another in a different cultural environment. This contention is what this study perceives as an intra-theoretical war, which focu-feminism emerges to end. Focu-feminism argues that women’s oppression varies from one circumstance to another and from one cultural background to another; each woman, therefore, requires to focus on herself and employ an approach she considers most suitable to overcoming oppression of any kind. The aim of this study is to investigate the global feasibility of focu-feminism with a view to ascertaining its applicability to the situation of the African woman. Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter is used for this investigation.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"40 1","pages":"49-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76577568","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}
{"title":"A Man in Search of Family: Kinship and Decline in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission","authors":"Jay N. Shelat","doi":"10.7560/tsll63305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines the role of family in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission. It argues that homodiegetic narration and analepsis are ways for the French author to convey the political shifts protagonist François confronts as a tumultuous election sees the rise of a new, nonsecular government. These narrative devices underscore François’s yearning for kinship amid Western decline. Ultimately, the article shows the inextricable interrelations of the macro (political) and the micro (domestic) spheres.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"320 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44755964","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}
{"title":"“The Surface on Which You Work”: Self-Alienation and the Culture of Narcissism in The Edible Woman","authors":"Cailin Flannery Roles","doi":"10.7560/tsll63303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/tsll63303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman traces the increasing self-alienation and inability to eat of the protagonist, Marian. Her identity as a young, single working woman is contextualized in 1960s Toronto, a culture marked by competitive individualism where consumption itself is a way of life, per Christopher Lasch. I argue Marian regains agency by reading through and empathizing with the material realities of commodities, ultimately recognizing her own position as a commodity unwilling to be consumed.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"276 - 298"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41959900","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}
{"title":"Creative Creatures","authors":"P. Ingham","doi":"10.7551/mitpress/1975.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1975.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay reads the fifteenth-century Arthurian romance The Awntyrs off Arthur at the Terne Wathelyn (The Adventures of Arthur at Wadelyn Lake) in the context of medieval debates on human creativity as a function of creatureliness. Demonstrating a keen interest in the vulnerability and creatureliness shared by human and non-human animals, the romance encodes nuances of shared affect, vulnerability, and expressive communication across species. Such considerations, here and in select Arthurian texts, poignantly undermine any presumed human-animal divide.","PeriodicalId":44154,"journal":{"name":"TEXAS STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE","volume":"63 1","pages":"233 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42609289","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}