Yoel H. Kahn
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195373295
- eISBN:
- 9780199893294
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373295.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
The continuous thread which links the diverse history of this liturgical text is the ongoing desire to establish authenticity. Within their respective cultural-religious systems, the Hellenistic and ...
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The continuous thread which links the diverse history of this liturgical text is the ongoing desire to establish authenticity. Within their respective cultural-religious systems, the Hellenistic and Jewish formulations sought to affirm the authenticity and primacy of their cultures. Over time, the continual debate turned on the authentic use of the blessings, in terms of both proper context and authenticity of language. The censored manuscripts often preserve signs of effort to mark the absence of what the copyist knew was the once-authentic language. Later, when the language was deliberately changed, claims for authenticity were made based on the historical record created by the very texts that were themselves the product of censorship. Even moderns, who are explicit in their rejection of many of the core values of the master narratives which generated these texts, nonetheless seek whenever possible to maintain the structural integrity and manifest language of the received tradition.Less
The continuous thread which links the diverse history of this liturgical text is the ongoing desire to establish authenticity. Within their respective cultural-religious systems, the Hellenistic and Jewish formulations sought to affirm the authenticity and primacy of their cultures. Over time, the continual debate turned on the authentic use of the blessings, in terms of both proper context and authenticity of language. The censored manuscripts often preserve signs of effort to mark the absence of what the copyist knew was the once-authentic language. Later, when the language was deliberately changed, claims for authenticity were made based on the historical record created by the very texts that were themselves the product of censorship. Even moderns, who are explicit in their rejection of many of the core values of the master narratives which generated these texts, nonetheless seek whenever possible to maintain the structural integrity and manifest language of the received tradition.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Tenzin Wangyal
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This book provides a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational text of the Bon Dzogchen tradition. This is the first time a Bon philosophical text of this scope has ...
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This book provides a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational text of the Bon Dzogchen tradition. This is the first time a Bon philosophical text of this scope has been translated into any Western language, and as such, it is an addition to the study of Tibetan religion and Eastern thought. The book provides introductory, explanatory, and historical material that situates the text in the context of Tibetan thought and culture.Less
This book provides a study and translation of the Authenticity of Open Awareness, a foundational text of the Bon Dzogchen tradition. This is the first time a Bon philosophical text of this scope has been translated into any Western language, and as such, it is an addition to the study of Tibetan religion and Eastern thought. The book provides introductory, explanatory, and historical material that situates the text in the context of Tibetan thought and culture.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This introductory chapter discusses the religious, philosophical, and pedagogical issues in its exploration of unbounded wholeness raised by Authenticity. It argues that Authenticity offers a system ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the religious, philosophical, and pedagogical issues in its exploration of unbounded wholeness raised by Authenticity. It argues that Authenticity offers a system of logic without framing such logic as a process of authentication. Its overall point that unbounded wholeness and open awareness are not apprehensible by reasoning is widely accepted across both Bon and Buddhist Dzogchen traditions, but in no other instance that we know of is this claim formulated by Dzogchen with the language of tshad ma or pramāna.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the religious, philosophical, and pedagogical issues in its exploration of unbounded wholeness raised by Authenticity. It argues that Authenticity offers a system of logic without framing such logic as a process of authentication. Its overall point that unbounded wholeness and open awareness are not apprehensible by reasoning is widely accepted across both Bon and Buddhist Dzogchen traditions, but in no other instance that we know of is this claim formulated by Dzogchen with the language of tshad ma or pramāna.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Most striking about the title Authenticity of Open Awareness: A Collection of the Essential Reasonings (gTan tshigs gal mdo rig pa'i tshad ma) is its inclusion of key terms from two prominent and ...
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Most striking about the title Authenticity of Open Awareness: A Collection of the Essential Reasonings (gTan tshigs gal mdo rig pa'i tshad ma) is its inclusion of key terms from two prominent and radically disparate streams of discourse. This book shows that tshad ma, the Tibetan translation of the classic term pramāna, most literally means “measure” in the sense of applying an authoritative standard. To take the authentic, valid, or correct measure of an object is to know it authentically. A mind capable of taking the correct measure of its object, whether through direct perception or correct reasoning, is a valid, authentic mind. To validate or authenticate is a key concept in Buddhist epistemology and central to the thought of Dignāga and Dharmakīrti.Less
Most striking about the title Authenticity of Open Awareness: A Collection of the Essential Reasonings (gTan tshigs gal mdo rig pa'i tshad ma) is its inclusion of key terms from two prominent and radically disparate streams of discourse. This book shows that tshad ma, the Tibetan translation of the classic term pramāna, most literally means “measure” in the sense of applying an authoritative standard. To take the authentic, valid, or correct measure of an object is to know it authentically. A mind capable of taking the correct measure of its object, whether through direct perception or correct reasoning, is a valid, authentic mind. To validate or authenticate is a key concept in Buddhist epistemology and central to the thought of Dignāga and Dharmakīrti.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter examines unbounded wholeness and considers its relation to reasoning, which cannot access it fully, and to open awareness, which can. From this vantage point, this chapter studies how ...
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This chapter examines unbounded wholeness and considers its relation to reasoning, which cannot access it fully, and to open awareness, which can. From this vantage point, this chapter studies how Authenticity's presentation differs from certain (arguably more conservative) elements of pramāna epistemology and from the use of reasoning in certain interpretations of Madhyamaka. More specifically, it considers how an inferential reasoning consciousness is not authentic when it comes to open awareness and unbounded wholeness. These differences derive in significant measure from the fact already noted that unlike either of these systems Dzogchen is not governed by the two truths.Less
This chapter examines unbounded wholeness and considers its relation to reasoning, which cannot access it fully, and to open awareness, which can. From this vantage point, this chapter studies how Authenticity's presentation differs from certain (arguably more conservative) elements of pramāna epistemology and from the use of reasoning in certain interpretations of Madhyamaka. More specifically, it considers how an inferential reasoning consciousness is not authentic when it comes to open awareness and unbounded wholeness. These differences derive in significant measure from the fact already noted that unlike either of these systems Dzogchen is not governed by the two truths.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
If Authenticity is understood as a journey from the project of authentication to authenticity, this would reflect on how such authenticity relates to delusion or unawareness. Authentication, it would ...
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If Authenticity is understood as a journey from the project of authentication to authenticity, this would reflect on how such authenticity relates to delusion or unawareness. Authentication, it would seem, relieves delusion ('khrul ba). How can delusion even arise in the face of primordial wisdom? Beyond this, if delusion must end for open awareness to begin, then neither it nor authenticity can be primordial. To address these matters, a bird's eye view of the metaphorical and metaphysical “location” of primordial open awareness is considered, followed by a closer look at how delusion arises and functions. This provides yet another vantage point on the matter of Authenticity's deflection of oppositionality. After all, ignorance and wisdom or, in the language of this book, unawareness and open awareness, would seem to provide the most central opposition in all of Buddhist thought. Therefore, to see this dichotomy undermined is to suggest something crucial to the text's view of oppositionality in general.Less
If Authenticity is understood as a journey from the project of authentication to authenticity, this would reflect on how such authenticity relates to delusion or unawareness. Authentication, it would seem, relieves delusion ('khrul ba). How can delusion even arise in the face of primordial wisdom? Beyond this, if delusion must end for open awareness to begin, then neither it nor authenticity can be primordial. To address these matters, a bird's eye view of the metaphorical and metaphysical “location” of primordial open awareness is considered, followed by a closer look at how delusion arises and functions. This provides yet another vantage point on the matter of Authenticity's deflection of oppositionality. After all, ignorance and wisdom or, in the language of this book, unawareness and open awareness, would seem to provide the most central opposition in all of Buddhist thought. Therefore, to see this dichotomy undermined is to suggest something crucial to the text's view of oppositionality in general.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Spontaneity is a hallmark of Buddhahood. A central principle of Authenticity, spontaneity, is also integral to many features vital to Dzogchen's unique identity. Wisdom's status as primordial has to ...
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Spontaneity is a hallmark of Buddhahood. A central principle of Authenticity, spontaneity, is also integral to many features vital to Dzogchen's unique identity. Wisdom's status as primordial has to do with its being spontaneously arisen from the base and thus not dependent on causes. Likewise, wisdom is not paired oppositionally with delusion nor love with hatred, and so on, because all such qualities spontaneously arise in relation to the base. Wisdom's spontaneous presence also allows Dzogchen to maintain that wisdom itself is the path, meaning that path and goal are one, that meditative stabilization and its aftermath are a continuum, and that effort, being always conceptual, is not part of the path. This observation brings forward the question how a focus on virtue can itself be delusional, including such virtues as the cultivation of meditative stabilization. Virtue, like reasoning, has its limits, but is at the same time a crucial element in the overall pallet of scholar and practitioner alike. Here the inextricable connections between claims of spontaneous presence, primordiality, and unbounded wholeness can be seen.Less
Spontaneity is a hallmark of Buddhahood. A central principle of Authenticity, spontaneity, is also integral to many features vital to Dzogchen's unique identity. Wisdom's status as primordial has to do with its being spontaneously arisen from the base and thus not dependent on causes. Likewise, wisdom is not paired oppositionally with delusion nor love with hatred, and so on, because all such qualities spontaneously arise in relation to the base. Wisdom's spontaneous presence also allows Dzogchen to maintain that wisdom itself is the path, meaning that path and goal are one, that meditative stabilization and its aftermath are a continuum, and that effort, being always conceptual, is not part of the path. This observation brings forward the question how a focus on virtue can itself be delusional, including such virtues as the cultivation of meditative stabilization. Virtue, like reasoning, has its limits, but is at the same time a crucial element in the overall pallet of scholar and practitioner alike. Here the inextricable connections between claims of spontaneous presence, primordiality, and unbounded wholeness can be seen.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Samantabhadra has a special and well-known place in both Bon and Nyingma understandings of Dzogchen's origins. Authenticity's further contribution is to invite Samantabhadra to preside over an ...
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Samantabhadra has a special and well-known place in both Bon and Nyingma understandings of Dzogchen's origins. Authenticity's further contribution is to invite Samantabhadra to preside over an inquiry into the relevance of reasoning, language, and concept to a path of nonconceptuality. In this regard, however, Authenticity does not consider a problem that its root text commentary must entertain — the extent to which phenomena that are the same in nature can authenticate or indicate the presence of one another. For, as an opponent observes, if one could use the sign, or reason, of one phenomenon to establish the presence of another with which it has no other relationship than being one in essence (ngo bo gcig) with it, then one would have to be able to establish an ox through the reason of a horse. This won't work, as there is no proof which establishes a connection between horse and ox, even though in a sense they are one in their nature of unbounded wholeness.Less
Samantabhadra has a special and well-known place in both Bon and Nyingma understandings of Dzogchen's origins. Authenticity's further contribution is to invite Samantabhadra to preside over an inquiry into the relevance of reasoning, language, and concept to a path of nonconceptuality. In this regard, however, Authenticity does not consider a problem that its root text commentary must entertain — the extent to which phenomena that are the same in nature can authenticate or indicate the presence of one another. For, as an opponent observes, if one could use the sign, or reason, of one phenomenon to establish the presence of another with which it has no other relationship than being one in essence (ngo bo gcig) with it, then one would have to be able to establish an ox through the reason of a horse. This won't work, as there is no proof which establishes a connection between horse and ox, even though in a sense they are one in their nature of unbounded wholeness.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
In the body of Authenticity, poetic and syllogistic voices provide a philosophically rich mythos about their own origins and purpose. The expansive metaphysical vision of Authenticity is signaled by ...
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In the body of Authenticity, poetic and syllogistic voices provide a philosophically rich mythos about their own origins and purpose. The expansive metaphysical vision of Authenticity is signaled by its opening homage to Samantabhadra and by the centrality given to the principle of unbounded wholeness figured by Samantabhadra. The traditional Bon histories offer an equally vast panorama, filled with bold events and mythically enshrined human beings. The narrative surrounding Authenticity presumes the existence of Zhang Zhung, a geographical area with its own language, history, and mythic prestige. It presumes as well an early, often conflictual relationship between Zhang Zhung and Tibet, as well as between Bon and Buddhism, including events that precipitate the text's burial in the 8th century.Less
In the body of Authenticity, poetic and syllogistic voices provide a philosophically rich mythos about their own origins and purpose. The expansive metaphysical vision of Authenticity is signaled by its opening homage to Samantabhadra and by the centrality given to the principle of unbounded wholeness figured by Samantabhadra. The traditional Bon histories offer an equally vast panorama, filled with bold events and mythically enshrined human beings. The narrative surrounding Authenticity presumes the existence of Zhang Zhung, a geographical area with its own language, history, and mythic prestige. It presumes as well an early, often conflictual relationship between Zhang Zhung and Tibet, as well as between Bon and Buddhism, including events that precipitate the text's burial in the 8th century.
Anne Carolyn Klein and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195178494
- eISBN:
- 9780199784790
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195178491.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
The authenticity of the collection of essential reasonings is explained so as to disprove and eliminate erroneous views of unrealized beings and those with erroneous conceptions, as well as those ...
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The authenticity of the collection of essential reasonings is explained so as to disprove and eliminate erroneous views of unrealized beings and those with erroneous conceptions, as well as those attracted by limited perspectives accessing merely the words and not the meaning and also for those who lack profound and correct experience. Through blessings of the Victor Samantabhadra bon-dimension (bon sku, dharmakāya), reflexive open awareness (rang rig pa, svasavedana), a wholeness that is the heart essence of our ancestor is understood by the White Shen Deity, protector of beings. That itself, the very essence of mindheart understanding, dawns as open awareness in the mindheart of {49.1} Shenrab, the emanation dimension. Lyrical speech, the musical expression of this [open awareness], is addressed to fortunate ones, the heroically minded Yung Drung Shen-practitioners [Bodhisattvas].Less
The authenticity of the collection of essential reasonings is explained so as to disprove and eliminate erroneous views of unrealized beings and those with erroneous conceptions, as well as those attracted by limited perspectives accessing merely the words and not the meaning and also for those who lack profound and correct experience. Through blessings of the Victor Samantabhadra bon-dimension (bon sku, dharmakāya), reflexive open awareness (rang rig pa, svasavedana), a wholeness that is the heart essence of our ancestor is understood by the White Shen Deity, protector of beings. That itself, the very essence of mindheart understanding, dawns as open awareness in the mindheart of {49.1} Shenrab, the emanation dimension. Lyrical speech, the musical expression of this [open awareness], is addressed to fortunate ones, the heroically minded Yung Drung Shen-practitioners [Bodhisattvas].
Daniel Lea
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719081491
- eISBN:
- 9781526121097
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719081491.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This study explores the landscape of contemporary British fiction through detailed analysis of five authors that have emerged to critical prominence in the 21st century. The authors addressed - Ali ...
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This study explores the landscape of contemporary British fiction through detailed analysis of five authors that have emerged to critical prominence in the 21st century. The authors addressed - Ali Smith, Andrew O’Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall, and Jon McGregor – have all established themselves through popular and critical success, but have received significantly less attention than some of their peers. This book does not seek to thrust these authors into a putative canon of 21st century literary writing, but rather to explore through close attention to the resonances, continuities, elisions, and frictions across their works the temper of the contemporary moment as it is expressed by a group of writers. Each is devoted a chapter that analyses their creative output to-date within the frame of their stylistic and thematic development, as well as drawing comparisons across their writing and that of their peers. The intention is never to provide the kind of synoptical overview that a period-study might suggest, instead Twenty-First Century Fiction: Contemporary British Voices seeks to juxtapose critical readings within a constellation of contemporary literary concerns to examine what cultural energies and flows are emerging in the new century. In doing so, it identifies three recurrent areas of concern that might be said to infiltrate our times; these are Materiality, Connectivity, and Authenticity. In many forms and through many articulations, these issues emerge as insistent – if inchoate – questions about how current literary practice is responding to the challenge of the post-millennial world.Less
This study explores the landscape of contemporary British fiction through detailed analysis of five authors that have emerged to critical prominence in the 21st century. The authors addressed - Ali Smith, Andrew O’Hagan, Tom McCarthy, Sarah Hall, and Jon McGregor – have all established themselves through popular and critical success, but have received significantly less attention than some of their peers. This book does not seek to thrust these authors into a putative canon of 21st century literary writing, but rather to explore through close attention to the resonances, continuities, elisions, and frictions across their works the temper of the contemporary moment as it is expressed by a group of writers. Each is devoted a chapter that analyses their creative output to-date within the frame of their stylistic and thematic development, as well as drawing comparisons across their writing and that of their peers. The intention is never to provide the kind of synoptical overview that a period-study might suggest, instead Twenty-First Century Fiction: Contemporary British Voices seeks to juxtapose critical readings within a constellation of contemporary literary concerns to examine what cultural energies and flows are emerging in the new century. In doing so, it identifies three recurrent areas of concern that might be said to infiltrate our times; these are Materiality, Connectivity, and Authenticity. In many forms and through many articulations, these issues emerge as insistent – if inchoate – questions about how current literary practice is responding to the challenge of the post-millennial world.
Jason Herbeck
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781786940391
- eISBN:
- 9781786944948
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940391.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, ...
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Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century—whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in the 1940’s, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.Less
Construction of identity has constituted a vigorous source of debate in the Caribbean from the early days of colonization to the present, and under the varying guises of independence, departmentalization, dictatorship, overseas collectivity and occupation. Given the strictures and structures of colonialism long imposed upon the colonized subject, the (re)makings of identity have proven anything but evident when it comes to determining authentic expressions and perceptions of the postcolonial self. By way of close readings of both constructions in literature and the construction of literature, Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean proposes an original, informative frame of reference for understanding the long and ever-evolving struggle for social, cultural, historical and political autonomy in the region. Taking as its point of focus diverse canonical and lesser-known texts from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Haiti published between 1958 and 2013, this book examines the trope of the house (architecture) and the meta-textual construction of texts (architexture) as a means of conceptualizing and articulating how authentic means of expression are and have been created in French-Caribbean literature over the greater part of the past half-century—whether it be in the context of the years leading up to or following the departmentalization of France’s overseas colonies in the 1940’s, the wrath of Hurricane Hugo in 1989, or the devastating Haiti earthquake of 2010.
Sonia Ryang
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839352
- eISBN:
- 9780824868222
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839352.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Sonia Ryang writes Eating Korean: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity as much as an eater as a researcher. Her encounters with key Korean food items ...
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Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Sonia Ryang writes Eating Korean: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity as much as an eater as a researcher. Her encounters with key Korean food items including cold noodle soup, pancakes, barbecued beef, and bibimbap, rice with mixed vegetables, in four different locations of Los Angeles, Baltimore, Hawaii (Kona and Honolulu), and Iowa City are at once entertaining, insightful, yet deeply moving, while asking the reader to stop and think about food we eat every day in close connection to colonial histories, ethnic displacements, and global capitalism. The book is dedicated to Sidney Mintz, a prominent anthropologist and the author’s mentor.Less
Based on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, Sonia Ryang writes Eating Korean: Gastronomic Ethnography of Authenticity as much as an eater as a researcher. Her encounters with key Korean food items including cold noodle soup, pancakes, barbecued beef, and bibimbap, rice with mixed vegetables, in four different locations of Los Angeles, Baltimore, Hawaii (Kona and Honolulu), and Iowa City are at once entertaining, insightful, yet deeply moving, while asking the reader to stop and think about food we eat every day in close connection to colonial histories, ethnic displacements, and global capitalism. The book is dedicated to Sidney Mintz, a prominent anthropologist and the author’s mentor.
Myra S. Washington
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496814227
- eISBN:
- 9781496814265
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496814227.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Kimora Lee Simmons’s career as a fashion model and media figure offers an alternative reading of Blasians as potentially resistive and subversive campy subjects. This chapter delves into how her use ...
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Kimora Lee Simmons’s career as a fashion model and media figure offers an alternative reading of Blasians as potentially resistive and subversive campy subjects. This chapter delves into how her use of camp is predicated on the performative nature of identity and her refusal to settle for the primacy of visibility and authenticity as key measures of race. Analyses of Simmons’s advertising campaigns, reality television show, and social media usage highlights the ways her Blasianness publicly challenges the idea of a color-blind, post-racial United States.Less
Kimora Lee Simmons’s career as a fashion model and media figure offers an alternative reading of Blasians as potentially resistive and subversive campy subjects. This chapter delves into how her use of camp is predicated on the performative nature of identity and her refusal to settle for the primacy of visibility and authenticity as key measures of race. Analyses of Simmons’s advertising campaigns, reality television show, and social media usage highlights the ways her Blasianness publicly challenges the idea of a color-blind, post-racial United States.
Erik Dussere
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199969913
- eISBN:
- 9780199369027
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199969913.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The book conceives the literary and cinematic category of “noir” as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post–World War II America. It analyzes ...
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The book conceives the literary and cinematic category of “noir” as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post–World War II America. It analyzes works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a “noir tradition” that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present. All of noir’s evolutions have taken place as responses to consumer culture; in the postwar era this consumer culture has become conflated with American citizenship, and the noir tradition presents itself as an “authentic” alternative to this republic of consumption. In order to see how noir and its descendants stage the confrontation between consumer culture and authenticity, my analysis is concentrated on how the texts that I write about represent various kinds of American commercial spaces. This analysis has a three-part structure, organized around the three key moments in the development of the noir tradition that I identify: (1) the postwar moment, as represented by classic film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction; (2) the sixties era, during which noir film and fiction are transformed and take the new form of the conspiracy narrative; and (3) the post-eighties period of dominant postmodernism, in which noir themes and aesthetics are revived, with a difference, to facilitate ways of responding to the phenomenon of global capitalism.Less
The book conceives the literary and cinematic category of “noir” as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post–World War II America. It analyzes works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a “noir tradition” that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present. All of noir’s evolutions have taken place as responses to consumer culture; in the postwar era this consumer culture has become conflated with American citizenship, and the noir tradition presents itself as an “authentic” alternative to this republic of consumption. In order to see how noir and its descendants stage the confrontation between consumer culture and authenticity, my analysis is concentrated on how the texts that I write about represent various kinds of American commercial spaces. This analysis has a three-part structure, organized around the three key moments in the development of the noir tradition that I identify: (1) the postwar moment, as represented by classic film noir and hard-boiled detective fiction; (2) the sixties era, during which noir film and fiction are transformed and take the new form of the conspiracy narrative; and (3) the post-eighties period of dominant postmodernism, in which noir themes and aesthetics are revived, with a difference, to facilitate ways of responding to the phenomenon of global capitalism.
Su Holmes
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748627523
- eISBN:
- 9780748671212
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748627523.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Television
Long before reality TV, ‘ordinary’ people provided a core spectacle in the quiz show — the genre invites ‘ordinary’ people into the ‘special’ space of television. This chapter examines how this ...
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Long before reality TV, ‘ordinary’ people provided a core spectacle in the quiz show — the genre invites ‘ordinary’ people into the ‘special’ space of television. This chapter examines how this ‘ordinariness’ is necessarily a construction, and how this is played out within the particular generic framework of the quiz show. It examines the delimited roles on offer to the contestant (the relations of power in which they perform in the genre), and explores instances when contestants seek to disrupt the cultural rules of the game space. The chapter then examines how (much like reality TV today), there has always been a particular anxiety surrounding discourses of ‘authenticity’ where the quiz show contestant is concerned. The chapter ends by considering the predominance of white males in the genre, examining the marginalisation of women, and the (even greater) marginalisation of contestants from ethnic minorities.Less
Long before reality TV, ‘ordinary’ people provided a core spectacle in the quiz show — the genre invites ‘ordinary’ people into the ‘special’ space of television. This chapter examines how this ‘ordinariness’ is necessarily a construction, and how this is played out within the particular generic framework of the quiz show. It examines the delimited roles on offer to the contestant (the relations of power in which they perform in the genre), and explores instances when contestants seek to disrupt the cultural rules of the game space. The chapter then examines how (much like reality TV today), there has always been a particular anxiety surrounding discourses of ‘authenticity’ where the quiz show contestant is concerned. The chapter ends by considering the predominance of white males in the genre, examining the marginalisation of women, and the (even greater) marginalisation of contestants from ethnic minorities.
Erik Dussere
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199969913
- eISBN:
- 9780199369027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199969913.003.0000
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The introduction is divided into two parts. The first part, “Authenticity Effects,” explains and defines the central terms that I am using—authenticity, noir, consumer culture, and American ...
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The introduction is divided into two parts. The first part, “Authenticity Effects,” explains and defines the central terms that I am using—authenticity, noir, consumer culture, and American (national) identity. I discuss the particular versions of these terms that I will be using, as well as the relationships between them, all of which is necessary in order to describe the shape of the argument I will be making. In the second part, “Out of the Past, into the Supermarket,” I examine commercial spaces as representatives of postwar American consumer culture, taking the supermarket as an emblematic example. Then I bring all these threads together in a reading of three supermarket scenes in the noir tradition that recreates in miniature the evolution described throughout the course of the book.Less
The introduction is divided into two parts. The first part, “Authenticity Effects,” explains and defines the central terms that I am using—authenticity, noir, consumer culture, and American (national) identity. I discuss the particular versions of these terms that I will be using, as well as the relationships between them, all of which is necessary in order to describe the shape of the argument I will be making. In the second part, “Out of the Past, into the Supermarket,” I examine commercial spaces as representatives of postwar American consumer culture, taking the supermarket as an emblematic example. Then I bring all these threads together in a reading of three supermarket scenes in the noir tradition that recreates in miniature the evolution described throughout the course of the book.
Erik Dussere
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199969913
- eISBN:
- 9780199369027
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199969913.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter examines the Coen brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy. The film looks back, from the perspective of the nineties, to the postwar era in order to introduce yet another mutation in the evolution ...
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This chapter examines the Coen brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy. The film looks back, from the perspective of the nineties, to the postwar era in order to introduce yet another mutation in the evolution of authenticity that began with classic noir. In its exploration of corporate spatial organization, it creates a symbolic space based on the principle of simultaneity, in which sixty years of Hollywood history are contained in the film’s representation of the Hudsucker Building. This spatial model enables the film to think critically about film genre, particularly in its unlikely meshing of film noir with the screwball comedy. Ultimately the several genres and movie traditions that the film uses as its building blocks are themselves considered as consumer products. In its refusal to condemn these consumer products, Hudsucker creates not the effect of authenticity, but a meditation on the dialectics of authenticity itself.Less
This chapter examines the Coen brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy. The film looks back, from the perspective of the nineties, to the postwar era in order to introduce yet another mutation in the evolution of authenticity that began with classic noir. In its exploration of corporate spatial organization, it creates a symbolic space based on the principle of simultaneity, in which sixty years of Hollywood history are contained in the film’s representation of the Hudsucker Building. This spatial model enables the film to think critically about film genre, particularly in its unlikely meshing of film noir with the screwball comedy. Ultimately the several genres and movie traditions that the film uses as its building blocks are themselves considered as consumer products. In its refusal to condemn these consumer products, Hudsucker creates not the effect of authenticity, but a meditation on the dialectics of authenticity itself.
Richard I. Cohen (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912628
- eISBN:
- 9780190912659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0024
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism, Religion and Society
This chapter reviews the book Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought (2015), by Ken Koltun-Fromm. Imagining Jewish Authenticity examines the ways in which texts and ...
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This chapter reviews the book Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought (2015), by Ken Koltun-Fromm. Imagining Jewish Authenticity examines the ways in which texts and images interact in American Jewish culture to promote a vision of Jewish “authenticity,” while also highlighting the deep anxieties harbored by Jews with respect to their own identities. Koltun-Fromm argues that claims of authenticity are most perceptible in both the conscious and unconscious interface between text and image, which provides authors and artists with an outlet to make the contradictory claims at the root of neurotic conflict. He identifies three hotbeds of social and political tensions that have sat at the center of Jewish anxieties in the modern era: Jewish space, the Sabbath, and Jewish food. The book also explores “how Jews deploy language in texts to materialize authenticity in Jewish, gendered, and racial bodies.”Less
This chapter reviews the book Imagining Jewish Authenticity: Vision and Text in American Jewish Thought (2015), by Ken Koltun-Fromm. Imagining Jewish Authenticity examines the ways in which texts and images interact in American Jewish culture to promote a vision of Jewish “authenticity,” while also highlighting the deep anxieties harbored by Jews with respect to their own identities. Koltun-Fromm argues that claims of authenticity are most perceptible in both the conscious and unconscious interface between text and image, which provides authors and artists with an outlet to make the contradictory claims at the root of neurotic conflict. He identifies three hotbeds of social and political tensions that have sat at the center of Jewish anxieties in the modern era: Jewish space, the Sabbath, and Jewish food. The book also explores “how Jews deploy language in texts to materialize authenticity in Jewish, gendered, and racial bodies.”
Dene Grigar
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262035972
- eISBN:
- 9780262339018
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035972.003.0006
- Subject:
- Information Science, Communications
This chapter provides a reexamination of Bill Bly hypertext We Descend. Previously criticized for its quality as a work of hypertext fiction, the work instead is recast as a hypertext archive, a ...
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This chapter provides a reexamination of Bill Bly hypertext We Descend. Previously criticized for its quality as a work of hypertext fiction, the work instead is recast as a hypertext archive, a compilation of texts relating to four distinct time periods held together through a focus on the character Egderus. Hypertext functions, the chapter argues, as a mechanism for moving through multiple disparate storylines chronicled in “generations of historical documents” and collected over a long period of time. At the heart of We Descend lies the nature of truth and what constitutes authenticity, particularly when evidence itself is questionable and controlled by a political agenda.Less
This chapter provides a reexamination of Bill Bly hypertext We Descend. Previously criticized for its quality as a work of hypertext fiction, the work instead is recast as a hypertext archive, a compilation of texts relating to four distinct time periods held together through a focus on the character Egderus. Hypertext functions, the chapter argues, as a mechanism for moving through multiple disparate storylines chronicled in “generations of historical documents” and collected over a long period of time. At the heart of We Descend lies the nature of truth and what constitutes authenticity, particularly when evidence itself is questionable and controlled by a political agenda.
