A ‘Lost Crowd’: Reconfiguring the Harlem Renaissance as a Post-War ‘Lost Generation’

Abstract

Traditionally for black Americans, World War I did not signify the traumatic removal of traditional Victorian ideals, the end of any romantic notions of battle, or, as it would for white American literature, the disillusionment and alienation of a literary ‘Lost Generation’. Although experiencing continued racism upon their return, the recognition that black Americans had received in wartime France came to characterize a budding enthusiasm for the social prospects of the post-war era. Yet many novels of the Harlem Renaissance certainly resonate with the disillusionment of the Lost Generation and similarly grapple with notions of war trauma and traumatic post-war (re)integration into a chaotic American society. This article considers the endeavour to reconcile feelings of post-war national unity with the African-American struggle for racial equality in the early twentieth century. By evaluating the analogous themes of alienation, masculinity, and place represented by both the Lost Generation and Harlem Renaissance, this article seeks to highlight traumatic parallels between post-war literatures of two divergent ‘lost’ generations.     

中日文学视野下的贾平凹小说中的城市意念

首先,比较《废都》与日本现代作家川端康成《古都》,解析代表历史古都的城市意象内涵与城市发展变化。其次,贾平凹自认为是农民,从农村与城市的角度解读其小说《白夜》、《土门》、《高兴》中的城市意念演变。最后,观照安部公房追求的大城市意念,探析贾平凹笔下经济发展后的城市想象。     

伍尔夫和严歌苓笔下的“双性同体”解读——以《到灯塔去》和《白蛇》为例

在《到灯塔去》和《白蛇》中,伍尔夫和严歌苓分别以女性视角写出了受时代影响的女性气质的被摧残和迷茫错乱。伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》和严歌苓的《白蛇》都从人性化角度出发,对“双性心理”的女性给予关注,以超性别立场对同性恋给予了肯定。     

The Blackened body and White governmentality: Managing the UK academy and the production of shame

In this article, we conceptualize the production of shame in the Blackened body as a mechanism of White governmentality in UK academia. By identifying shame as a racist anti‐woman form of governmentality that is utilized by universities to silence, alienate and degrade women of colour, we conceive how shame is imposed on her body as a form of disciplining by the White academy. We term this governmentality of recoding her corporeal body and affectivity as pornographic in its capacity and quest to possess her body and manipulate her senses. This recoding occurs within a libidinal economy that structures psychic and emotional life. For management, disciplining the racialized woman derives both pleasure and shame. For the racialized subject, the shame is carried in her body and transformed from a pornography to a psychology of power in which she re‐narrates herself as a body in deficit; lacking networks, motivation, likeability and so on. We posit that understanding the production of shame as a mode of disciplining of the Blackened body in the White academy provides a means for recovery, agency and solidarity for the Blackened body.     

Latinos Participating in Multiethnic Coalitions to Prevent Substance Abuse

Abstract

This paper presents a case study of a neighborhood based coalition formed by two major participants, a neighborhood association formed by white and older neighbors and a school based parents association formed by younger Latino neighbors. Differences in their communication and organizational sales emerged after an external agency brought them together to form a substance abuse prevention coalition. This paper explores emerging themes as two different communities attempt to organize around shared community concerns. Challenges and guidelines for developing multiethnic urban coalitions are also provided.     

State-level personality and presidential vote share in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections

Recent research has examined how variation across the states in the “Big Five” personality trait taxonomy helps explain the proportion of votes the presidential candidates receive in the states, concluding that state personality traits had a direct effect on presidential vote share in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 presidential elections. The current study has three goals: First, to examine the influence of personality traits on Barack Obama's vote share in the 2008 and 2012 elections; second to test whether the influence of personality traits on vote share holds under stricter controls for political factors and white racial prejudice; and, third, to test for potential meditating effects of state-level political characteristics and white racial prejudice in linking state-level personality traits with Obama's vote share. The findings indicate that two state personality traits – conscientiousness and openness – had indirect effects on Obama's 2008 and 2012 vote share through their influence on state ideology, partisanship, and white racial prejudice.     

A Black and White Model for Teaching Family Therapy: Empowerment by Degree

In this article, I describe and reflect on the rationale, development and teaching of the first university‐based post‐graduate course in family therapy delivered to Aboriginal child, family and health workers. Alongside my Cultural Consultant, Shaun Coade, and with support from key staff at the Bouverie Centre in Melbourne, I developed and delivered the first four iterations of the La Trobe University Graduate Certificate in Family Therapy to Aboriginal students and a relatively small number of non‐Aboriginal students. Since 2008, the course has been successfully completed in six Victorian locations and is currently being delivered at Shepparton and in Cooktown, Queensland. The term, ‘Black and White’ was coined by Shaun and by the Aboriginal family therapy students to describe the delivery of a family therapy curriculum that meets mainstream University requirements while being embedded in Aboriginal culture and Aboriginal wisdom. A largely unanticipated bonus was the realisation that the model of teaching also has important implications for the mainstream teaching of family therapy. After providing a brief summary of enrolment and graduation rates, the article picks up on elements of the teaching and learning that proved to be central to the successful delivery of the course.     

朱先生和他的“鏊子说”

《白鹿原》中的朱先生是在生活原型的基础上经过作者的再加工而塑造的艺术人物形象。其原型是科举制度废除前的清朝最末一届举人牛兆濂,但朱先生并不等同于牛兆濂。关于＂鏊子＂说,是小说中的朱先生面对白鹿原上＂农民运动＂被残酷镇压的一个比喻,是对农民运动中的某些过火行为及运动被镇压后地主阶级的残酷报复所发的感慨。作品人物对某个事件的看法和表态,是作品中的人物以他的是非标准和价值判断作出的表述,不是作者的是非标准和意义判断的表述。     

从《白鹿洞赋》看朱熹的诗意栖居

朱熹<白鹿洞赋>是辞赋类文学中的精品,在辞赋史上具有重要的地位.朱熹是诗人思者,他关于白鹿洞的言说也就是他关于人格养成的诗性言说.朱熹的人格极为丰满,其显著特点是雍容不迫,宠辱不惊.这种特点表现在其诗作中就是淡泊而有味,清通而绵长.朱熹一生诗意地栖居于其尚淡而清通的诗歌之中.从朱熹的诗意栖居出发,我们可以更好地把握世界文化的发展趋势,从而在日趋激烈的竞争之中保持大众化的姿态,诗意地栖居在这变动的世界之中.