Adiel Schremer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195383775
- eISBN:
- 9780199777280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383775.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion in the Ancient World
This chapter introduces the reader to the theme of “Jewish and Christian relations in Late Antiquity,” as treated by students of early rabbinic Judaism. It describes recent developments in scholarly ...
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This chapter introduces the reader to the theme of “Jewish and Christian relations in Late Antiquity,” as treated by students of early rabbinic Judaism. It describes recent developments in scholarly views of the relations between classical rabbinic texts and early Christian texts, and critically discusses especially the contributions of Israel J. Yuval and Daniel Boyarin to the field. It suggests that the early rabbinic reaction to Christianity should be seen as part of the rabbinic discourse of minut, which, following a theory current in sociological literature, should be understood as a discourse responding to an identity crisis and re-establishing group identity, by the ousting of some of society's member and their placement beyond the pale. The chapter concludes with explicating the book's historical approach to rabbinic texts and their interpretation.Less
This chapter introduces the reader to the theme of “Jewish and Christian relations in Late Antiquity,” as treated by students of early rabbinic Judaism. It describes recent developments in scholarly views of the relations between classical rabbinic texts and early Christian texts, and critically discusses especially the contributions of Israel J. Yuval and Daniel Boyarin to the field. It suggests that the early rabbinic reaction to Christianity should be seen as part of the rabbinic discourse of minut, which, following a theory current in sociological literature, should be understood as a discourse responding to an identity crisis and re-establishing group identity, by the ousting of some of society's member and their placement beyond the pale. The chapter concludes with explicating the book's historical approach to rabbinic texts and their interpretation.
Jos C.N Raadschelders
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693894
- eISBN:
- 9780191731877
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693894.003.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Public Management
In this chapter the rationale for the study is developed against the background of discussions about the nature of the study and its emergence and growth since the seventeenth century. Public ...
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In this chapter the rationale for the study is developed against the background of discussions about the nature of the study and its emergence and growth since the seventeenth century. Public administration’s academic identity is especially discussed in the United States but is just as relevant to public administration scholarship elsewhere in the world. First, because government is a global phenomenon. Second, because public administration cannot be but an interdisciplinary study, and this is recognized more in Europe than in the United States. Third, because the study is hardly unique in its concern about academic identity as a discussion of comparable challenges across the branches of knowledge shows. The method used in this book, conceptual mapping, is discussed at the end.Less
In this chapter the rationale for the study is developed against the background of discussions about the nature of the study and its emergence and growth since the seventeenth century. Public administration’s academic identity is especially discussed in the United States but is just as relevant to public administration scholarship elsewhere in the world. First, because government is a global phenomenon. Second, because public administration cannot be but an interdisciplinary study, and this is recognized more in Europe than in the United States. Third, because the study is hardly unique in its concern about academic identity as a discussion of comparable challenges across the branches of knowledge shows. The method used in this book, conceptual mapping, is discussed at the end.
Zuzanna Olszewska
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264591
- eISBN:
- 9780191734397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264591.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter addresses issues of identity and rootlessness as expressed through poetry. It focuses in on the second generation of Afghan refugees who were portrayed as a confused generation subjected ...
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This chapter addresses issues of identity and rootlessness as expressed through poetry. It focuses in on the second generation of Afghan refugees who were portrayed as a confused generation subjected to the ‘pains of exile’ and ‘identity crisis’. It explores the representations of Afghans in Iran and examines the ways in which the Iran-educated Afghans responded and defied their marginalization through their own discourse and poetry. By examining the poetry of these second generation Afghan refugees, the social transformations taking place in this group or refugees and the tensions in the Iranian society are illuminated. These poems illustrate the distressing ambivalence experienced by the second-generation Afghan refugees in Iran.Less
This chapter addresses issues of identity and rootlessness as expressed through poetry. It focuses in on the second generation of Afghan refugees who were portrayed as a confused generation subjected to the ‘pains of exile’ and ‘identity crisis’. It explores the representations of Afghans in Iran and examines the ways in which the Iran-educated Afghans responded and defied their marginalization through their own discourse and poetry. By examining the poetry of these second generation Afghan refugees, the social transformations taking place in this group or refugees and the tensions in the Iranian society are illuminated. These poems illustrate the distressing ambivalence experienced by the second-generation Afghan refugees in Iran.
Alison Sharrock
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198277125
- eISBN:
- 9780191684159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198277125.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter discusses the identity problem of the Arab minority in Israel. A study suggests that the identity of Arabs in Israel classified into four ...
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This chapter discusses the identity problem of the Arab minority in Israel. A study suggests that the identity of Arabs in Israel classified into four concentric circles, which may be labelled Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic. Arabs perceive their identity as a mixture of these four concentric circles, and this is responsible for their identity crisis. The Arabs cannot define their own collective belonging and group relationship, but they need to deal with the challenge of coping with the problems of identity because it is a central facet to the politicization and radicalization that they are currently undergoing.Less
This chapter discusses the identity problem of the Arab minority in Israel. A study suggests that the identity of Arabs in Israel classified into four concentric circles, which may be labelled Israeli, Palestinian, Arab, and Islamic. Arabs perceive their identity as a mixture of these four concentric circles, and this is responsible for their identity crisis. The Arabs cannot define their own collective belonging and group relationship, but they need to deal with the challenge of coping with the problems of identity because it is a central facet to the politicization and radicalization that they are currently undergoing.
Susanne Schmidt
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226686851
- eISBN:
- 9780226686998
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226686998.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Building on earlier conceptions of women’s new lease on life in middle age, the journalist Gail Sheehy made the midlife crisis known as a concept of social criticism. Although the psychoanalyst ...
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Building on earlier conceptions of women’s new lease on life in middle age, the journalist Gail Sheehy made the midlife crisis known as a concept of social criticism. Although the psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques coined the term “mid-life crisis” in the 1950s, it only came into general use two decades later, with Sheehy’s best-selling Passages (1976), as a feminist idea that applied to women and men and challenged the work-and-life styles of the nuclear family. Chapter 3 sheds light on Sheehy’s critical engagement with social scientific research and theory. Rather than promoting academic concepts, she drew on them to bolster her own ideas. Moreover, she took a swipe at psychological and psychoanalytic concepts of the life course. Her best-known target was the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, who had formulated one of the most widely circulating concepts of the life course, the “Eight Stages of Man” (1950). Participating in feminist critiques and redefinitions of psychology—among them Betty Friedan’s appropriation of Erikson’s notion of “identity crisis”—Passages contested the psychoanalysts’ androcentric model of human development. By juxtaposing male and female life courses, Sheehy made available to women identities, activities, and opportunities traditionally reserved for men, and revalued empathy, attachment, and subjectivity for men.Less
Building on earlier conceptions of women’s new lease on life in middle age, the journalist Gail Sheehy made the midlife crisis known as a concept of social criticism. Although the psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques coined the term “mid-life crisis” in the 1950s, it only came into general use two decades later, with Sheehy’s best-selling Passages (1976), as a feminist idea that applied to women and men and challenged the work-and-life styles of the nuclear family. Chapter 3 sheds light on Sheehy’s critical engagement with social scientific research and theory. Rather than promoting academic concepts, she drew on them to bolster her own ideas. Moreover, she took a swipe at psychological and psychoanalytic concepts of the life course. Her best-known target was the psychoanalyst Erik Erikson, who had formulated one of the most widely circulating concepts of the life course, the “Eight Stages of Man” (1950). Participating in feminist critiques and redefinitions of psychology—among them Betty Friedan’s appropriation of Erikson’s notion of “identity crisis”—Passages contested the psychoanalysts’ androcentric model of human development. By juxtaposing male and female life courses, Sheehy made available to women identities, activities, and opportunities traditionally reserved for men, and revalued empathy, attachment, and subjectivity for men.
Michael Ingham
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099197
- eISBN:
- 9789882207103
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099197.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
PTU is an underappreciated noir masterpiece by one of Hong Kong's most prolific and commercially successful directors. Johnnie To Kei-fung has been called the poet of post-1997 and the economic ...
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PTU is an underappreciated noir masterpiece by one of Hong Kong's most prolific and commercially successful directors. Johnnie To Kei-fung has been called the poet of post-1997 and the economic savior of the Hong Kong film industry for an extraordinary range of films produced during some of Hong Kong cinema's most difficult years. While many of To's celebrated films—such as Election, Exiled, and The Mission—feature themes of criminal glory and revenge, PTU centers on the ethical dilemmas, personal dramas, and stoic teamwork in the elite Police Tactical Unit. The story follows the PTU's all-night search for an officer's missing gun as they navigate triad turf struggles and marauding jewel thieves from mainland China. Shot over several years in the hauntingly empty pre-dawn streets of Tsim Sha Tsui, and released amid the 2003 SARS panic, the film evokes Hong Kong's post-handover economic despair and multiple identity crises. This book argues that PTU is the most aesthetically rigorous and satisfying of To's many films in terms of character development and psychological complexity.Less
PTU is an underappreciated noir masterpiece by one of Hong Kong's most prolific and commercially successful directors. Johnnie To Kei-fung has been called the poet of post-1997 and the economic savior of the Hong Kong film industry for an extraordinary range of films produced during some of Hong Kong cinema's most difficult years. While many of To's celebrated films—such as Election, Exiled, and The Mission—feature themes of criminal glory and revenge, PTU centers on the ethical dilemmas, personal dramas, and stoic teamwork in the elite Police Tactical Unit. The story follows the PTU's all-night search for an officer's missing gun as they navigate triad turf struggles and marauding jewel thieves from mainland China. Shot over several years in the hauntingly empty pre-dawn streets of Tsim Sha Tsui, and released amid the 2003 SARS panic, the film evokes Hong Kong's post-handover economic despair and multiple identity crises. This book argues that PTU is the most aesthetically rigorous and satisfying of To's many films in terms of character development and psychological complexity.
Kendall Lori
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520230361
- eISBN:
- 9780520935983
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520230361.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter deals with identity and relationships mediated by computers, with particular attention to the effects of gender. It discusses the effects of the mediated and networked character of ...
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This chapter deals with identity and relationships mediated by computers, with particular attention to the effects of gender. It discusses the effects of the mediated and networked character of Internet, communications on online interaction; when combined with the cultural context of the Internet, such effects create a special vulnerability of online social groups. Names constitute an important identity peg on which one hangs knowledge of a person, summoning up that knowledge by reference to the name. In online worlds names assumes even greater significance as visual cues are unavailable. The article also describes how exclusively textual communications can facilitate deception and lead to identity ambiguity and confusion. The possibilities for identity masquerade, ambiguity, deception, and confusion on muds can make it difficult to know to whom you are talking. Muds that do not require registration impose few limits on people's ability to change identity representations at will to withstand such situations.Less
This chapter deals with identity and relationships mediated by computers, with particular attention to the effects of gender. It discusses the effects of the mediated and networked character of Internet, communications on online interaction; when combined with the cultural context of the Internet, such effects create a special vulnerability of online social groups. Names constitute an important identity peg on which one hangs knowledge of a person, summoning up that knowledge by reference to the name. In online worlds names assumes even greater significance as visual cues are unavailable. The article also describes how exclusively textual communications can facilitate deception and lead to identity ambiguity and confusion. The possibilities for identity masquerade, ambiguity, deception, and confusion on muds can make it difficult to know to whom you are talking. Muds that do not require registration impose few limits on people's ability to change identity representations at will to withstand such situations.
Jos C. N. Raadschelders
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693894
- eISBN:
- 9780191731877
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693894.001.0001
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Public Management
Public administration seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure and functioning of government, in all its complexity, and its interaction with society and its citizens. ...
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Public administration seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure and functioning of government, in all its complexity, and its interaction with society and its citizens. The book provides an account of the discipline, considering its history, growth, boundaries, and underlying assumptions. It tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services, and situates it within the three branches of knowledge – natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It maps out the sources of knowledge of public administration, and how this is fragmented within the discipline’s specializations, the social sciences, and government and society at large. It examines how leading authors map the discipline, the application of different theories, the associated schools of thought and intellectual debates, and the role of knowledge integration. Scholars in public administration initiated much debate as to whether it should be treated as a science, a craft or profession, or an art. This book argues that to develop a comprehensive understanding of government and its complexity requires a truly interdisciplinary approach.Less
Public administration seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of the internal structure and functioning of government, in all its complexity, and its interaction with society and its citizens. The book provides an account of the discipline, considering its history, growth, boundaries, and underlying assumptions. It tracks the emergence of the field against a background of the expanding conception of the state and the growth of public services, and situates it within the three branches of knowledge – natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It maps out the sources of knowledge of public administration, and how this is fragmented within the discipline’s specializations, the social sciences, and government and society at large. It examines how leading authors map the discipline, the application of different theories, the associated schools of thought and intellectual debates, and the role of knowledge integration. Scholars in public administration initiated much debate as to whether it should be treated as a science, a craft or profession, or an art. This book argues that to develop a comprehensive understanding of government and its complexity requires a truly interdisciplinary approach.
Scott Richard Lyons
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816666768
- eISBN:
- 9781452946856
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816666768.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter examines controversies surrounding Indian identity—including ethnic fraud, disenrollment, and banishment—and relates them to a larger identity crisis. It considers the most nagging and ...
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This chapter examines controversies surrounding Indian identity—including ethnic fraud, disenrollment, and banishment—and relates them to a larger identity crisis. It considers the most nagging and most basic question in Native intellectual discourse: who is an Indian? It also looks at the role played by “circumstances” in the construction of Indian identity and why Indians want to keep their communally constructed, intersubjective identities. By discussing some of the historical meanings of Indian identity and the possibility of making good x-marks, the chapter highlights the increasingly privileged realms of language and tradition. Finally, it proposes a model for critical analysis that analyzes Indian identity more for what it does and not for what it is.Less
This chapter examines controversies surrounding Indian identity—including ethnic fraud, disenrollment, and banishment—and relates them to a larger identity crisis. It considers the most nagging and most basic question in Native intellectual discourse: who is an Indian? It also looks at the role played by “circumstances” in the construction of Indian identity and why Indians want to keep their communally constructed, intersubjective identities. By discussing some of the historical meanings of Indian identity and the possibility of making good x-marks, the chapter highlights the increasingly privileged realms of language and tradition. Finally, it proposes a model for critical analysis that analyzes Indian identity more for what it does and not for what it is.
Philip Kitcher
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195321029
- eISBN:
- 9780199851317
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195321029.003.0017
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
When Shaun reappears, he has acquired a new name, “Jaunty Jaun”, after a long and wearing journey. He then speaks at great length, almost without interruption. As the beginning makes clear, the ...
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When Shaun reappears, he has acquired a new name, “Jaunty Jaun”, after a long and wearing journey. He then speaks at great length, almost without interruption. As the beginning makes clear, the speech is to be a homily, a piece of instruction for the frail creatures whom Jaun is to leave behind, and it proves to be a torrential outpouring of advice, commands, threats, blandishments, exhortations, accusations, warnings, predictions, and even insults. After the failures of Part II, the manic series of struggles to find some element within Shaun that can underpin the value of a life appears as the dreamer's last, desperate opportunity to resolve his central problem. Shaun was first discerned in the gloom by his light, his “belted lamp”, and the “paling” of his light has evoked his loss.Less
When Shaun reappears, he has acquired a new name, “Jaunty Jaun”, after a long and wearing journey. He then speaks at great length, almost without interruption. As the beginning makes clear, the speech is to be a homily, a piece of instruction for the frail creatures whom Jaun is to leave behind, and it proves to be a torrential outpouring of advice, commands, threats, blandishments, exhortations, accusations, warnings, predictions, and even insults. After the failures of Part II, the manic series of struggles to find some element within Shaun that can underpin the value of a life appears as the dreamer's last, desperate opportunity to resolve his central problem. Shaun was first discerned in the gloom by his light, his “belted lamp”, and the “paling” of his light has evoked his loss.
N. Megan Kelley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496806277
- eISBN:
- 9781496806314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496806277.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines how passing in Hollywood films that were produced in the late 1950s changed from being represented as an accepted external social strategy to one that reflected a ...
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This chapter examines how passing in Hollywood films that were produced in the late 1950s changed from being represented as an accepted external social strategy to one that reflected a psychologically motivated identity crisis. This is evident in films like Island in the Sun and Imitation of Life, which were portrayed as a pathological psychological failure to accept an imagined authentic identity. The chapter attributes this shift to a change in attitudes toward passing as the civil rights movement, the rise of black stars including Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge, post-passing narratives, and the psychoanalytic turn in Hollywood redefined how Americans understood race. It suggests that passing evolved into a sign of a deeper internal psychological disability and became marginalized and relegated to unsympathetic and/or supporting characters. It also considers how anxiety about racial ambiguity was framed as a crisis about sexual deviance and masculinity.Less
This chapter examines how passing in Hollywood films that were produced in the late 1950s changed from being represented as an accepted external social strategy to one that reflected a psychologically motivated identity crisis. This is evident in films like Island in the Sun and Imitation of Life, which were portrayed as a pathological psychological failure to accept an imagined authentic identity. The chapter attributes this shift to a change in attitudes toward passing as the civil rights movement, the rise of black stars including Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge, post-passing narratives, and the psychoanalytic turn in Hollywood redefined how Americans understood race. It suggests that passing evolved into a sign of a deeper internal psychological disability and became marginalized and relegated to unsympathetic and/or supporting characters. It also considers how anxiety about racial ambiguity was framed as a crisis about sexual deviance and masculinity.
Muna Ali
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190664435
- eISBN:
- 9780190664466
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190664435.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter considers the narrative of an alleged “identity crisis” among young Muslim Americans, whereby they are torn between seemingly irreconcilable worlds of home/community/Islam and a secular ...
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This chapter considers the narrative of an alleged “identity crisis” among young Muslim Americans, whereby they are torn between seemingly irreconcilable worlds of home/community/Islam and a secular society and that presumably puts them at risk for radicalization. The chapter dissects this narrative, then examines the theoretical landscape for identity formation and constructs an alternative synthesis that serves as the theoretical framework for this book. The chapter then explores the participants’ self-narrations of how they see themselves through recountings of childhood experiences at home, school, college, and as adults. This chapter argues that rather than suffering from this pathologized “identity crisis,” young Muslims struggle with issues of normal development, recognizing the difficulty of being a young person marked in American society by multiple differences (race, ethnicity, and religion); but they learn to navigate that challenging course and construct a sense of self that incorporates all the different “parts” of themselves, as one of the participants put it.Less
This chapter considers the narrative of an alleged “identity crisis” among young Muslim Americans, whereby they are torn between seemingly irreconcilable worlds of home/community/Islam and a secular society and that presumably puts them at risk for radicalization. The chapter dissects this narrative, then examines the theoretical landscape for identity formation and constructs an alternative synthesis that serves as the theoretical framework for this book. The chapter then explores the participants’ self-narrations of how they see themselves through recountings of childhood experiences at home, school, college, and as adults. This chapter argues that rather than suffering from this pathologized “identity crisis,” young Muslims struggle with issues of normal development, recognizing the difficulty of being a young person marked in American society by multiple differences (race, ethnicity, and religion); but they learn to navigate that challenging course and construct a sense of self that incorporates all the different “parts” of themselves, as one of the participants put it.
Philip Kitcher
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195321029
- eISBN:
- 9780199851317
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195321029.003.0016
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Part III of the Wake is dominated, at least initially, by the long-promised hero, Shaun. The dreamer's fresh start conjures a vision of innocence. After the enthusiasm of the introduction, the ...
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Part III of the Wake is dominated, at least initially, by the long-promised hero, Shaun. The dreamer's fresh start conjures a vision of innocence. After the enthusiasm of the introduction, the invocation of Shaun as a wonderful new beginning is followed with disappointment. Shaun feels contradictory pressures—should he defend his father or the community that has rejected HCE? Within him as well is a desire not simply to transmit the culture but also to contribute to it, to be an innovator, an artist even. However, Shaun doesn't know how to define himself. As the clever ass, the donkey-narrator, presses him, the best he can do is to present himself by opposition—he is not Shem. But that fails to resolve his fundamental problem, the problem of isolating “I” from multiple “Mes”.Less
Part III of the Wake is dominated, at least initially, by the long-promised hero, Shaun. The dreamer's fresh start conjures a vision of innocence. After the enthusiasm of the introduction, the invocation of Shaun as a wonderful new beginning is followed with disappointment. Shaun feels contradictory pressures—should he defend his father or the community that has rejected HCE? Within him as well is a desire not simply to transmit the culture but also to contribute to it, to be an innovator, an artist even. However, Shaun doesn't know how to define himself. As the clever ass, the donkey-narrator, presses him, the best he can do is to present himself by opposition—he is not Shem. But that fails to resolve his fundamental problem, the problem of isolating “I” from multiple “Mes”.
Edith W. Clowes
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801448560
- eISBN:
- 9780801460661
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801448560.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has ...
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Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and the signposts of a new debate about Russian identity. This book argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today. The book lays out several sides of the debate. It takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers. The most vocal, visible, and colorful rightist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin, the founder of neo-Eurasianism, has articulated positions contested by such writers and thinkers as Mikhail Ryklin, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Anna Politkovskaia, whose works call for a new civility in a genuinely pluralistic Russia. Dugin's extreme views and their many responses—in fiction, film, philosophy, and documentary journalism—form the body of this book. The book provides the keys to a vital post-Soviet writing culture; it is a guide to the variety of post-Soviet efforts to envision new forms of social life, even as a reconstructed authoritarianism has taken hold; and it introduces non-specialist readers to some of the most creative and provocative of present-day Russia's writers and public intellectuals.Less
Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and the signposts of a new debate about Russian identity. This book argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today. The book lays out several sides of the debate. It takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers. The most vocal, visible, and colorful rightist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin, the founder of neo-Eurasianism, has articulated positions contested by such writers and thinkers as Mikhail Ryklin, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Anna Politkovskaia, whose works call for a new civility in a genuinely pluralistic Russia. Dugin's extreme views and their many responses—in fiction, film, philosophy, and documentary journalism—form the body of this book. The book provides the keys to a vital post-Soviet writing culture; it is a guide to the variety of post-Soviet efforts to envision new forms of social life, even as a reconstructed authoritarianism has taken hold; and it introduces non-specialist readers to some of the most creative and provocative of present-day Russia's writers and public intellectuals.
Andrew Lincoln
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748626069
- eISBN:
- 9780748651870
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748626069.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter studies two novels where the supposed superiority of the western observer is both represented and tested in relation to oriental ‘others’. It begins with a section on Guy Mannering, with ...
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This chapter studies two novels where the supposed superiority of the western observer is both represented and tested in relation to oriental ‘others’. It begins with a section on Guy Mannering, with which Scott turned to a story that permitted him to reflect more on the material and cultural changes included in the modernisation process. The chapter determines that this work can be viewed as an attempt to investigate and manage a crisis of identity engendered by the experience of empire. The two heroes in the fiction are used to represent the various aspects of a divided Anglo-British identity. The Talisman, on the other hand, represents medieval European civilisation in relation to an Islamic civilisation. Here Scott addresses the enlightenment critique of the crusades, the repressive Christian ideology and the issue of slavery.Less
This chapter studies two novels where the supposed superiority of the western observer is both represented and tested in relation to oriental ‘others’. It begins with a section on Guy Mannering, with which Scott turned to a story that permitted him to reflect more on the material and cultural changes included in the modernisation process. The chapter determines that this work can be viewed as an attempt to investigate and manage a crisis of identity engendered by the experience of empire. The two heroes in the fiction are used to represent the various aspects of a divided Anglo-British identity. The Talisman, on the other hand, represents medieval European civilisation in relation to an Islamic civilisation. Here Scott addresses the enlightenment critique of the crusades, the repressive Christian ideology and the issue of slavery.
N. Megan Kelley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781496806277
- eISBN:
- 9781496806314
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496806277.003.0002
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores how concepts about identity changed after World War II by focusing on cultural contexts which affected the ways that Hollywood films were produced and consumed. In particular, ...
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This chapter explores how concepts about identity changed after World War II by focusing on cultural contexts which affected the ways that Hollywood films were produced and consumed. In particular, it considers the rise of psychology, cultural anthropology, and the culture of the Cold War. It discusses the idea that identities were malleable and how it coexisted with discourses about authenticity and “identity crisis.” It also shows how Hollywood reflected and promoted atomic and Cold War fears, identity anxiety, and the rise of psychoanalytic discourse. The chapter suggests that all the divergent ideological strands and cultural beliefs that characterized the postwar period, including Cold War fears of an “enemy within” and the proliferation of identity studies, had influenced Hollywood representations of racial, gender, sexual, and political identities on-screen as well as audience interpretations of those representations.Less
This chapter explores how concepts about identity changed after World War II by focusing on cultural contexts which affected the ways that Hollywood films were produced and consumed. In particular, it considers the rise of psychology, cultural anthropology, and the culture of the Cold War. It discusses the idea that identities were malleable and how it coexisted with discourses about authenticity and “identity crisis.” It also shows how Hollywood reflected and promoted atomic and Cold War fears, identity anxiety, and the rise of psychoanalytic discourse. The chapter suggests that all the divergent ideological strands and cultural beliefs that characterized the postwar period, including Cold War fears of an “enemy within” and the proliferation of identity studies, had influenced Hollywood representations of racial, gender, sexual, and political identities on-screen as well as audience interpretations of those representations.
Michael J. Goleman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812049
- eISBN:
- 9781496812087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812049.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter examines the collective identity crisis Mississippians underwent in the years immediately following the Civil War. White Mississippians faced an uncertain identity within the Union. Some ...
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This chapter examines the collective identity crisis Mississippians underwent in the years immediately following the Civil War. White Mississippians faced an uncertain identity within the Union. Some hoped to retain their identity as Confederates without appearing as traitors and rebels. Transitioning back into the Union proved much more difficult than their previous decision to secede. The end of slavery shattered the social structure on which many whites built their sense of identity, causing them to struggle with their place in society. Black Mississippians started to form their own sense of national identity in the wake of the Civil War as Congressional Reconstruction brought full citizenship and the ability to participate in politics.Less
This chapter examines the collective identity crisis Mississippians underwent in the years immediately following the Civil War. White Mississippians faced an uncertain identity within the Union. Some hoped to retain their identity as Confederates without appearing as traitors and rebels. Transitioning back into the Union proved much more difficult than their previous decision to secede. The end of slavery shattered the social structure on which many whites built their sense of identity, causing them to struggle with their place in society. Black Mississippians started to form their own sense of national identity in the wake of the Civil War as Congressional Reconstruction brought full citizenship and the ability to participate in politics.
B. R. Nanda
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195672039
- eISBN:
- 9780199081417
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195672039.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
This essay presents the identity crisis experienced by Mahatma Gandhi. While studying in England, Gandhi decided to assume a thick veneer of English culture. He wore suits made by the most ...
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This essay presents the identity crisis experienced by Mahatma Gandhi. While studying in England, Gandhi decided to assume a thick veneer of English culture. He wore suits made by the most fashionable tailors in London, adorned his watch with a gold chain from India, and took lessons in elocution, dancing, and music. This chapter argues that Gandhi later realized his religious and cultural identity because of Shrimad Rajchandra and his study of the Hindu scriptures. It also contends that if Gandhi had not gone to South Africa, he would in all likelihood have undergone an identity crisis on the question of Westernizing or modernizing his mode of life.Less
This essay presents the identity crisis experienced by Mahatma Gandhi. While studying in England, Gandhi decided to assume a thick veneer of English culture. He wore suits made by the most fashionable tailors in London, adorned his watch with a gold chain from India, and took lessons in elocution, dancing, and music. This chapter argues that Gandhi later realized his religious and cultural identity because of Shrimad Rajchandra and his study of the Hindu scriptures. It also contends that if Gandhi had not gone to South Africa, he would in all likelihood have undergone an identity crisis on the question of Westernizing or modernizing his mode of life.
Anne McNevin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231151283
- eISBN:
- 9780231522243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231151283.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter establishes the theoretical groundwork for the book as a whole. It asks who irregular migrants are and why this particular designation of status has so much to reveal about contemporary ...
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This chapter establishes the theoretical groundwork for the book as a whole. It asks who irregular migrants are and why this particular designation of status has so much to reveal about contemporary dynamics of citizenship. It argues that irregular migrants are brought into being in relation to particular constructions of citizenship. In recent decades, this co-constitution reflects a growing crisis of identity against the backdrop of globalization. As migration becomes more hierarchical, we are witnessing the illegalization of certain kinds of migrants as a bulwark against citizens' vulnerabilities. The chapter contends that both border policing against irregular migrants and the strategies employed by irregular migrants to contest their “illegal” status add a crucial dimension to the question of citizenship's future.Less
This chapter establishes the theoretical groundwork for the book as a whole. It asks who irregular migrants are and why this particular designation of status has so much to reveal about contemporary dynamics of citizenship. It argues that irregular migrants are brought into being in relation to particular constructions of citizenship. In recent decades, this co-constitution reflects a growing crisis of identity against the backdrop of globalization. As migration becomes more hierarchical, we are witnessing the illegalization of certain kinds of migrants as a bulwark against citizens' vulnerabilities. The chapter contends that both border policing against irregular migrants and the strategies employed by irregular migrants to contest their “illegal” status add a crucial dimension to the question of citizenship's future.
Katherine J. Cramer
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199357505
- eISBN:
- 9780199357536
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199357505.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
How do people make sense of economic crises? This chapter uses ethnography with groups of people who meet of their own accord in settings in which they regularly gather to investigate. It focuses on ...
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How do people make sense of economic crises? This chapter uses ethnography with groups of people who meet of their own accord in settings in which they regularly gather to investigate. It focuses on the U.S. Midwestern state of Wisconsin, between May 2007 and February 2011. It reveals the split between public and private employees that erupted in protests in Madison, the state capital, and across the state, in February 2011. The results expose the logic of the perspectives through which public employees are to blame for the recession.Less
How do people make sense of economic crises? This chapter uses ethnography with groups of people who meet of their own accord in settings in which they regularly gather to investigate. It focuses on the U.S. Midwestern state of Wisconsin, between May 2007 and February 2011. It reveals the split between public and private employees that erupted in protests in Madison, the state capital, and across the state, in February 2011. The results expose the logic of the perspectives through which public employees are to blame for the recession.
