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From Messianic Subjectivity to Immaculate Objectivity: An Etymology 从弥赛亚的主体性到完美的客观性:一个词源学
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12821
Nick Groom
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Objectivity and the Historian: Beyond the Fried Egg Test 客观性与历史学家:超越煎蛋测试
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-04-18 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12824
David Stack
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Objectivity in the Age of Story 故事时代的客观性
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12820
Jenny McCartney
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Failing Better: Inauthenticity, Collusion and the Politics of Truth 《做得更好:不真实、共谋和真相政治》
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12819
Kathy Smith
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Sri Lanka 斯里兰卡
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12802
Angelique Richardson
{"title":"Sri Lanka","authors":"Angelique Richardson","doi":"10.1111/criq.12802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12802","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the river that runs beneath Kallady Bridge, Batticaloa, on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, there are singing fish. They are known as Oorie Coolooroo Cradoo, which is Tamil for ‘crying shells’. Their song is said to have stopped during the civil war between the Tamils and the Sinhalese that broke out in 1983 and endured for 26 long years. Now, it is diminished by the effects of overfishing, pollution and climate breakdown. But for centuries, this underwater song caught the attention of fishermen and passersby who listened.</p><p>Minoli Salgado's collection of stories, <i>Twelve Cries from Home: In Search of Sri Lanka's Disappeared</i>, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is shocking, powerful and courageous. It is work that follows a war. The first record of civilian testimonies on the civil war from across this beautiful island, it documents extraordinary violence from the perspective of ordinary people who are both victims and survivors. They have seen torture, bombing, shelling and extrajudicial killings. Colonialism has long dictated the lives of Sri Lankans, with its aftermath still brutally felt. Tens of thousands of young people were killed, lost or ‘disappeared’. Gendered violence was part of the war, and women were brutally raped. Bearing witness to atrocity, it is not possible for Salgado to give answers.</p><p>As the survivors seek to tell their stories, to piece together what parts of the past they can, their agency is restored. Dahanayake (she gives her family name only) lost her youngest brother, Bandula, to abductors while waiting at Matara bus station. She searched for him for 10 years. He was ‘the beating heart’ of the family, ‘a scamp’, ‘a mentor’, who was, most movingly, ‘above difference’. Salgado provides a record of what happens when political divisions become entrenched, differences intensified, and the possibilities of peace eroded. For some of the survivors, justice is a need to strike at those who have harmed them, but forms of forgiveness are emerging. For many, it is a time to move and to heal. Sujatha keeps focused on her husband's love and a courtship that began with a bicycle bell. In some cases, through a deep humanism, time builds bonds between a perpetrator and a survivor's family. Asking Dahanayake if she has a message for those outside Sri Lanka, Salgado realises her story is about the most basic of human rights, the right to security, the right to life.</p><p>Following the preferential treatment of Tamils under colonial rule, the Sinhala Only Act of 1956 marginalised the Tamil community in all areas of civic life from employment to higher education. Universal adult franchise had been extended, in theory, to all Sri Lankans in 1931 under the Donoughmore Constitution. While this was an unprecedented development under colonial rule in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, with the commissioners appointed by the socialist Sidney Webb, Secretary of State for the Colonies in the Lib-Lab coalition government of 1927, ther","PeriodicalId":44341,"journal":{"name":"CRITICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"67 2","pages":"107-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/criq.12802","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145271767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Avant-Garde Difficulty and the Shape of Claudia Rankine's Poetic Career 先锋困境与克劳迪娅·兰金诗歌生涯的形成
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-11-27 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12799
Eric Weiskott
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Gothic and Racism – A Review 哥特与种族主义——评论
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12803
Rebecca Duncan
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Defined As 定义为
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12800
Peter Womack
{"title":"Defined As","authors":"Peter Womack","doi":"10.1111/criq.12800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12800","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In March 2024, the then UK Communities Secretary, Michael Gove, unveiled a new official definition of ‘extremism’. It turned out to be something of a damp squib, but the attendant announcements and guidance notes suggested that he meant it to be important. The exercise was informed, then, by the assumption that defining a word may be a consequential political act in itself. Is that so? Is there a politics of lexicography?</p><p>The definition is politically slanted, but it presents itself as the straight answer to a straight question: what is extremism? It does not even admit to having an author; the definition of the word appears as an impersonal fact. This effect of objectivity has obvious ideological advantages. In Orwell's <i>1984</i>, sinister philologists rewrite the dictionary so as to make the English language incapable of expressing liberal ideas. If you can determine what words mean, you can control thought.</p><p>Of course that is one of Orwell's boldly Swiftian simplifications. Real-life lexicographers do not wield such power, and a definition is not a once-for-all edict; it is common for a single word to be defined variously, depending on what the definition is for. So ‘salt’, say, will have one definition in a dictionary for foreign learners of English, and a different one in a glossary for students of chemistry. Definitions which are adapted to particular contexts in this way can hardly claim general authority. But among these contexts, there is at least one in which definitions really are designed to be arbitrarily authoritative—namely, the specification of terms that normally forms part of the text of a law. A legislator's definition is not the same thing as a lexicographer's, because the legislator actually is in the business of exercising power.</p><p>So far from explaining what is meant by ‘infrastructure’, this merely repeats the word itself, apparently in the belief that it is self-explanatory. Despite what they say, the authors of this section are not really interested in meaning. Rather, the function of their definition is to delineate a class of objects which one can be prosecuted for disrupting. The class has no general validity: it exists only for the purposes of this law, and according to a later clause it can be altered by statutory instrument—that is to say, ‘key national infrastructure’ denotes what the Secretary of State may at any time say it does. The expression is semantically empty in the same way as ‘category A prison’ or ‘grade 2 listed building’: the definition is not an exposition of what the words mean, it is the label on a box.</p><p>The opposite kind of definition is elegantly exemplified, as it happens, by another account of ‘extremism’, produced in 2016 as part of the judgment in a libel case.<sup>4</sup> The Chief Imam at an Islamic centre, Shakeel Begg, had been described as an extremist on a BBC current affairs television programme and was seeking damages; the BBC's defence was that what had been","PeriodicalId":44341,"journal":{"name":"CRITICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"67 1","pages":"101-110"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/criq.12800","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Keywords: Decolonise 关键词:Decolonise
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12798
Seth Mehl
{"title":"Keywords: Decolonise","authors":"Seth Mehl","doi":"10.1111/criq.12798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12798","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Decolonising</i> has become central to contentious discourses connecting historical (in)equalities and (in)justice to the present day. Recent debates have revolved around proactive inclusion and forcible exclusion, and the concrete and abstract elements of <i>decolonising</i>, and it is these competing semantic elements, alongside recent rapid semantic change, that render <i>decolonising</i> a keyword. In this journal, <i>decolonising the curriculum</i> was described as ‘perhaps the most important slogan in British academic letters in recent years’.<sup>1</sup> Usage of <i>decolonise</i> has recently extended well beyond narrow, established specialist or technical debates, such as the decline of empires or <i>decolonising the curriculum</i>. Even as those debates have hit mainstream news, <i>decolonising</i> itself has spread to other domains and expanded semantically into equalities discourses unrelated to colonial histories.</p><p><i>Decolonise</i> is formed from <i>de-</i> and <i>colonise</i>, which in turn derives from <i>colony</i>. <i>Colony</i> itself has a rich history, borrowed into Early Modern English from Middle French <i>colonie</i>. <i>Colony</i> has referred to a wide range of specific human settlements established by emigrants, whether under political and economic control by the emigrants' country of origin or not (C16). In extended use, it could refer to a sub-group moving away from a larger population to pursue a disparate lifestyle, as in <i>artists' colony</i> or <i>nudist colony</i> (from C17); or, in contrast, forcibly removed, as in <i>leper colony</i> or <i>penal colony</i> (from C19). In broader usage, it could refer to a sub-group living within a larger population, but distinguished from that population by, for example, status or occupation (from C16), or nationality, race or religion (from C19). <i>Colony</i> thus refers from earliest usage to in-group and out-group status.</p><p><i>Colonise</i> has currency from C17, first referring simply to the settlement in a new territory by a group of people; then (from early C18) to settlement by a group alongside deliberate political, military, and economic appropriation, occupation and/or exploitation by that group's country of origin; and finally (from late C18) to such deliberate exploitation without any population settlement at all.</p><p><i>Decolonise</i> was rare before late C20. Early examples from C19 have one of three senses: (1) to ‘undermine’ colonial occupation; (2) to free from the political and military occupation of a colonial power; (3) to free from the social and cultural influence of a colonial power. It seems that the first sense can represent only the stance of the coloniser, implying legitimacy to the colonial enterprise. The second and third senses can reflect the stance of the colonised and the work for liberation, and it is these two senses that reappear in mid-C20. <i>Colonise</i> develops a variation of this third sense in late C20, meaning to soc","PeriodicalId":44341,"journal":{"name":"CRITICAL QUARTERLY","volume":"67 1","pages":"111-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/criq.12798","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144148424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Clinch 赢得的
IF 0.2 4区 文学
CRITICAL QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1111/criq.12801
Anna Devereux
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