J. Dillon Brown and Leah Reade Rosenberg (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781628464757
- eISBN:
- 9781628464801
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628464757.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
The first book to critically redefine and reexamine West Indian literature of the 1950s, Beyond Windrush challenges the myth that an elite cohort of male novelists based in postwar London ...
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The first book to critically redefine and reexamine West Indian literature of the 1950s, Beyond Windrush challenges the myth that an elite cohort of male novelists based in postwar London single-handedly produced Anglophone Caribbean literature and broadens our understanding of Caribbean and Black British literary history. Writers of this cohort, often reduced to George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, and Sam Sevlon, are referred to “the Windrush writers,” in tribute to the S.S. Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated the large-scale Caribbean migration to London. They have been properly celebrated for producing a complex, anti-colonial, nationalist literary tradition, but, as this collection demonstrates, their uncritical canonization has obscured the diversity of postwar Caribbean writers and produced a narrow definition of West Indian literature. The fourteen original essays in this collection here make clear that already in the 1950s a wide spectrum of West Indian men and women—Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean and white-creole—were writing, publishing (and even painting)—and that many were in the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States, rather than London. Moreover, they addressed subjects omitted from the masculinist canon, such as queer sexuality and the environment. The collection offers new readings of canonical authors (Lamming, Roger Mais, and Andrew Salkey); hitherto marginalized authors (such as Ismith Khan, Elma Napier, and John Hearne); commonly ignored genres (such as the memoir, short stories, and journalism); as well as alternative units of cultural and political unity, such as the Pan-Caribbean as well as potentially trans-hemispheric, trans-island conceptions of political identity.Less
The first book to critically redefine and reexamine West Indian literature of the 1950s, Beyond Windrush challenges the myth that an elite cohort of male novelists based in postwar London single-handedly produced Anglophone Caribbean literature and broadens our understanding of Caribbean and Black British literary history. Writers of this cohort, often reduced to George Lamming, V.S. Naipaul, and Sam Sevlon, are referred to “the Windrush writers,” in tribute to the S.S. Empire Windrush, whose 1948 voyage from Jamaica inaugurated the large-scale Caribbean migration to London. They have been properly celebrated for producing a complex, anti-colonial, nationalist literary tradition, but, as this collection demonstrates, their uncritical canonization has obscured the diversity of postwar Caribbean writers and produced a narrow definition of West Indian literature. The fourteen original essays in this collection here make clear that already in the 1950s a wide spectrum of West Indian men and women—Afro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean and white-creole—were writing, publishing (and even painting)—and that many were in the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States, rather than London. Moreover, they addressed subjects omitted from the masculinist canon, such as queer sexuality and the environment. The collection offers new readings of canonical authors (Lamming, Roger Mais, and Andrew Salkey); hitherto marginalized authors (such as Ismith Khan, Elma Napier, and John Hearne); commonly ignored genres (such as the memoir, short stories, and journalism); as well as alternative units of cultural and political unity, such as the Pan-Caribbean as well as potentially trans-hemispheric, trans-island conceptions of political identity.
Honey Meconi
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780252033155
- eISBN:
- 9780252050725
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252033155.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Hildegard’s reception, musical and otherwise, is traced in this chapter. After her death, Theoderic of Echternach completed her Vita, and possibly a series of Eight Readings for her feast day. Gebeno ...
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Hildegard’s reception, musical and otherwise, is traced in this chapter. After her death, Theoderic of Echternach completed her Vita, and possibly a series of Eight Readings for her feast day. Gebeno of Eberbach excerpted her works in the Pentachronon, and official canonization procedures began in 1228 (though the process concluded only in 2012, followed by Hildegard’s recognition as a Doctor of the Church). Rupertsberg was destroyed in 1632 and Eibingen dissolved in the early nineteenth century; the Abtei Sankt Hildegard was created in the early twentieth century. Revival of the music began in the mid-nineteenth century, with the first complete edition published in 1969. But only in 1982, with recordings from Sequentia and Gothic Voices, did Hildegard’s music really begin to reach a broad audience.Less
Hildegard’s reception, musical and otherwise, is traced in this chapter. After her death, Theoderic of Echternach completed her Vita, and possibly a series of Eight Readings for her feast day. Gebeno of Eberbach excerpted her works in the Pentachronon, and official canonization procedures began in 1228 (though the process concluded only in 2012, followed by Hildegard’s recognition as a Doctor of the Church). Rupertsberg was destroyed in 1632 and Eibingen dissolved in the early nineteenth century; the Abtei Sankt Hildegard was created in the early twentieth century. Revival of the music began in the mid-nineteenth century, with the first complete edition published in 1969. But only in 1982, with recordings from Sequentia and Gothic Voices, did Hildegard’s music really begin to reach a broad audience.
Evelyn O’callaghan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781628464757
- eISBN:
- 9781628464801
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628464757.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter engages with the writing of the Scottish-born, Dominican-resident Elma Napier, examining the process of canonization that has allowed this example of Caribbean writing deeply engaged – ...
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This chapter engages with the writing of the Scottish-born, Dominican-resident Elma Napier, examining the process of canonization that has allowed this example of Caribbean writing deeply engaged – in terms of both politics and ecology – with the individual landscape of a particular island to be critically shunned. The chapter vividly recaptures the contours of Napier’s varied writing career (including journalism, the novel A Flying Fish Whispered, and her memoir Black and White Sands) and the ways it interacted with her concrete political activities in Dominica. In doing so, it positions Napier as a crucially important cultural producer whose authorial modes – invested in local, ecological politics rather than those of national autonomy – combined with her identity as a white, foreign-born landowner, led to the exclusion of her work from most Caribbean literary-critical discussions. Returning to this overlooked writer’s work, the chapter argues, eschews traditional Caribbean identity politics to reveal a mid-century proto-ecological discourse that assumes increasing relevance as the depredations of global capitalism continue to impact the post-independence Caribbean environment.Less
This chapter engages with the writing of the Scottish-born, Dominican-resident Elma Napier, examining the process of canonization that has allowed this example of Caribbean writing deeply engaged – in terms of both politics and ecology – with the individual landscape of a particular island to be critically shunned. The chapter vividly recaptures the contours of Napier’s varied writing career (including journalism, the novel A Flying Fish Whispered, and her memoir Black and White Sands) and the ways it interacted with her concrete political activities in Dominica. In doing so, it positions Napier as a crucially important cultural producer whose authorial modes – invested in local, ecological politics rather than those of national autonomy – combined with her identity as a white, foreign-born landowner, led to the exclusion of her work from most Caribbean literary-critical discussions. Returning to this overlooked writer’s work, the chapter argues, eschews traditional Caribbean identity politics to reveal a mid-century proto-ecological discourse that assumes increasing relevance as the depredations of global capitalism continue to impact the post-independence Caribbean environment.
Michael Loadenthal
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781526114457
- eISBN:
- 9781526128454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526114457.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
This chapter continues the genealogical account of illegalism, propaganda of the deed, revolutionary warfare, and post-millennial, insurrectionary networks of attack. To this end, the chapter ...
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This chapter continues the genealogical account of illegalism, propaganda of the deed, revolutionary warfare, and post-millennial, insurrectionary networks of attack. To this end, the chapter explores the strategy of Paris communard Louis Auguste Blanqui, the contribution of ‘classical anarchists’ and the twentieth century, the influence of European theorists such as Alfredo Bonanno, Tiqqun and The Invisible Committee, and the contributions anonymous thinkers who have frequently authored key texts. In the latter portion of the chapter, the focus shifts towards the contributions of Queer insurrectionary praxis and the experience of rejectionist, anti-assimilationists. Finally, the chapter revisits the question of canonization in preparation for the subsequent chapter, which outlines the insurrectionary tendency discursively.Less
This chapter continues the genealogical account of illegalism, propaganda of the deed, revolutionary warfare, and post-millennial, insurrectionary networks of attack. To this end, the chapter explores the strategy of Paris communard Louis Auguste Blanqui, the contribution of ‘classical anarchists’ and the twentieth century, the influence of European theorists such as Alfredo Bonanno, Tiqqun and The Invisible Committee, and the contributions anonymous thinkers who have frequently authored key texts. In the latter portion of the chapter, the focus shifts towards the contributions of Queer insurrectionary praxis and the experience of rejectionist, anti-assimilationists. Finally, the chapter revisits the question of canonization in preparation for the subsequent chapter, which outlines the insurrectionary tendency discursively.
Pamila Gupta
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719090615
- eISBN:
- 9781781708002
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090615.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
In 1624 the Estado da Índia and the Society of Jesus jointly staged a reception to honour Francis Xavier's recent papal canonization (1622), a celebration that was markedly different from the small ...
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In 1624 the Estado da Índia and the Society of Jesus jointly staged a reception to honour Francis Xavier's recent papal canonization (1622), a celebration that was markedly different from the small reception held in 1554 to honour the arrival of his "incorrupt" corpse in Goa from Sancian via Malacca. The third chapter develops a discourse and materiality of Goa Dourada by situating the eyewitness testimonies of two ritual participants (one Italian, the other Portuguese) within a larger historical context, as well as those of a multitude of European travellers who flocked to Portuguese India, often described as a "Rome in India" throughout the seventeenth century, Xavier's "miraculous" corpse a recently featured attraction. The focus is on how ritualization provides an arena in which colonial and Jesuit officials promote their respective and collective strengths through the success of Xavier's canonization. However, because of the colonial state's increasingly evident decline, ritual simultaneously serves as a point of distraction from its visible signs of decline, decadence and decay. The spectacle of canonization then turns the focus away from this saint’s corporeality towards his accoutrements in much the same manner that Goa itself had been "dressed up" for this special occasion.Less
In 1624 the Estado da Índia and the Society of Jesus jointly staged a reception to honour Francis Xavier's recent papal canonization (1622), a celebration that was markedly different from the small reception held in 1554 to honour the arrival of his "incorrupt" corpse in Goa from Sancian via Malacca. The third chapter develops a discourse and materiality of Goa Dourada by situating the eyewitness testimonies of two ritual participants (one Italian, the other Portuguese) within a larger historical context, as well as those of a multitude of European travellers who flocked to Portuguese India, often described as a "Rome in India" throughout the seventeenth century, Xavier's "miraculous" corpse a recently featured attraction. The focus is on how ritualization provides an arena in which colonial and Jesuit officials promote their respective and collective strengths through the success of Xavier's canonization. However, because of the colonial state's increasingly evident decline, ritual simultaneously serves as a point of distraction from its visible signs of decline, decadence and decay. The spectacle of canonization then turns the focus away from this saint’s corporeality towards his accoutrements in much the same manner that Goa itself had been "dressed up" for this special occasion.
Meir Shahar
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824847609
- eISBN:
- 9780824868130
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824847609.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Chapter 1 (Sons and Fathers) examines the Nezha legend in the context of the seventeenth-century Canonization of the Gods, which gave it its present-day shape. It demonstrates that the myth’s ...
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Chapter 1 (Sons and Fathers) examines the Nezha legend in the context of the seventeenth-century Canonization of the Gods, which gave it its present-day shape. It demonstrates that the myth’s patricidal undercurrent is intimately related to the novel’s central topic of regicide. Other stories of conflicts between fathers and sons are also examined, including the cannibalistic tale of King Wen who ate his filial son Bo Yikao.Less
Chapter 1 (Sons and Fathers) examines the Nezha legend in the context of the seventeenth-century Canonization of the Gods, which gave it its present-day shape. It demonstrates that the myth’s patricidal undercurrent is intimately related to the novel’s central topic of regicide. Other stories of conflicts between fathers and sons are also examined, including the cannibalistic tale of King Wen who ate his filial son Bo Yikao.
Jacalyn Duffin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199743179
- eISBN:
- 9780199345045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743179.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Duffin explains her personal involvement as a hematologist in the miracle eventually ascribed to Marie-Marguerite d’Youville. She then describes her journey to Italy for the canonization ceremony. It ...
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Duffin explains her personal involvement as a hematologist in the miracle eventually ascribed to Marie-Marguerite d’Youville. She then describes her journey to Italy for the canonization ceremony. It involves robbery, storms, parties, and more saints. She visits the Cosmas and Damian Basilica in Rome and notices its proximity to the ancient temple of the twins Castor and Pollux. That observation that triggers the main project of this book. Were the medical twins simply a holdover from the ancient pagan religion? Upon her return to Canada, she discovers some authors have already wrestled with that possibility and she discovers the Toronto feast day celebration for saints Cosmas and Damian.Less
Duffin explains her personal involvement as a hematologist in the miracle eventually ascribed to Marie-Marguerite d’Youville. She then describes her journey to Italy for the canonization ceremony. It involves robbery, storms, parties, and more saints. She visits the Cosmas and Damian Basilica in Rome and notices its proximity to the ancient temple of the twins Castor and Pollux. That observation that triggers the main project of this book. Were the medical twins simply a holdover from the ancient pagan religion? Upon her return to Canada, she discovers some authors have already wrestled with that possibility and she discovers the Toronto feast day celebration for saints Cosmas and Damian.
Jacalyn Duffin
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199743179
- eISBN:
- 9780199345045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199743179.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The research had to be carried to Europe for two reasons: first, to uncover the connections to original sites of devotion to the medical saints, possibly extending back to the pagan twins; second, to ...
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The research had to be carried to Europe for two reasons: first, to uncover the connections to original sites of devotion to the medical saints, possibly extending back to the pagan twins; second, to investigate what exactly were the miracles approved by the Roman Catholic Church in saint-making. Scholar and collector, Pierre Julien, in Paris provided useful orientation. A ramble to the leading Italian sites of veneration in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2001 feast-day celebrations provoked encounters with custodians of local traditions from Torino to Sicily and many places in between. A first foray into the Vatican archives revealed the great similarities of the approved miracles to those of the American feast-day pilgrims: they were all about physical healing. Many more trips to the Vatican resulted in a book on the miracles used in four centuries of canonization.Less
The research had to be carried to Europe for two reasons: first, to uncover the connections to original sites of devotion to the medical saints, possibly extending back to the pagan twins; second, to investigate what exactly were the miracles approved by the Roman Catholic Church in saint-making. Scholar and collector, Pierre Julien, in Paris provided useful orientation. A ramble to the leading Italian sites of veneration in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2001 feast-day celebrations provoked encounters with custodians of local traditions from Torino to Sicily and many places in between. A first foray into the Vatican archives revealed the great similarities of the approved miracles to those of the American feast-day pilgrims: they were all about physical healing. Many more trips to the Vatican resulted in a book on the miracles used in four centuries of canonization.
