Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture

Moore, Dennis; Greenblatt, Stephen

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“…Thus, corpse-power theory further proposes that a dead body has an identity and meaning, even the disposable one, and is surrounded by various narratives with political, social and economic possibilities as corpses 'can be used to demonstrate veneration of a hero or to effect an ultimate punishment on an enemy' (Clymer, 1999: 92). Corpses are riddled with 'personal and institutional conflicts, negotiations and appropriations' (Greenblatt, 1990).…”

Section: On Theory: Mugabeism Zanuism and Corpse-powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Ruling from the Grave? The Political Instrumentalization of Robert Mugabe’s Corpse in Contemporary Zimbabwean Politics

Mpofu

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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This qualitative research is a critical analysis of news media reports, political debates, and political and family behaviours to interrogate the centrality of death, corpses, funeral and mortuary rituals in African politics by using the death of Zimbabwe’s former President, Robert Mugabe as a case study. At death, it became clear what a polarizing and yet unifying figure Mugabe was. His dead body became a contested political asset. The paper explores how Mugabe’s family resisted President Mnangagwa’s attempts at gaining control of Mugabe’s dead body for political expediency after he disposed of him in a military coup in 2017. The paper concludes that, true to Mugabe’s wife’s assertions that he will rule Zimbabwe from the grave, Mugabe, as a dead man, caused some considerable political tensions between his family and ruling magnifying the coup architects’ legitimacy challenges and his power in Zimbabwean politics.

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Section: On Theory: Mugabeism Zanuism and Corpse-powermentioning

confidence: 99%

Ruling from the Grave? The Political Instrumentalization of Robert Mugabe’s Corpse in Contemporary Zimbabwean Politics

Mpofu

2022

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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“…This remembrance can be likened to a historical analysis which should be integrated in the review of texts, like new historicism. Influenced by Foucault's critical theory, Stephen Greenblatt (2007) describes new historicism as literary criticism that acknowledges the rich, indispensable history of certain cultural phenomena and claims to admit the inadequacies of terms used in such criticism. These inadequacies extend not "only of contemporary culture but of the culture of the past" (Veeser, 2013, p. 111) text to context in new historicism thereby emphasizing on hegemony and struggle in discourses.…”

Section: Remembrance and Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

Organizing bell hooks’ Frameworks for Interrogating Representations

Biana¹

2021

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The feminist bell hooks is a staunch critic of sexist, racist, and classist media representations. Despite this, hooks has been called out for being unscholarly and disorganized in her cultural criticism. Through a close reading of hooks’ works, this paper attempts to make sense of and organize her cultural criticism frameworks toward a possible system for a critical discourse analysis. Hooks’ works are taken apart to examine how the parts fit together to understand the order, interventions, and intellectual motivations of her methods. Certain processes by which these frameworks may be used by scholars and critics for interrogating sex, race, class, and other intersectional representations are also discussed.

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“…History is textual and text is historical. New Historicists locate the context of the text to recover repressed and mute histories of the text and investigate the bond between historical and cultural connotations of the text to trigger the reader's cultural recurrently refurbishing the "marvelous at the heart of the resonant" (Greenblatt, 1990as cited in Raj 2015. Chung-Hsiung Lai (2006) in "Limits and Beyond: Greenblatt, New Historicism and a Feminist Genealogy" mentions:"In Louis Montrose's most famous dictum, the new orientation to history in literary studies may be characterized as a dynamic dialogue between literature and history and it has a reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history" (p. 2).…”

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Revisiting History In Bhupi Sherchan’s Poem “Galat Lagchha Malai Mero Deshko Itihas”

Dhungel

2023

Am. J. Arts Hum. Sci.

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This article attempts to explore how Bhupi Serchan destabilizes the conventionally established official history of Nepal and efforts to rewrite a true history of the margins raising the voice of the voiceless and choice of the choiceless through his poem Galat Lagcha Malai Mero Deshko Itihas (I Think My Country’s History is a Lie). It also analyzes Serchan’s concerns on the rulers’ hypocrisies, pomposities, immoralities, atrocities, follies, fopperies, tyrannies and corrupt discriminatory attitudes concealed in the history with the false consciousness of patriotism, nationalism and morality in the formally recorded history by the power-holders. This article shows Serchan’s critical analysis and revisiting of history in favour of the margins leading to a moral, just, equal and humane advanced society. It also projects how the poet exposes the falsities of the so-called true history displaying the helplessness, dumbness and deafness of the great people in the form of the statue and even of the god in the steeple of the temples. Serchan’s endeavor to prove the Nepalese official history totally false projecting the true picture of the people and society engulfed in hunger, thirst, poverty, corruption, injustice, inequality, helplessness, humiliation and lack everywhere making whole life hellish has been highlighted in the paper. It also depicts the poet’s feeling of distrust, disgust, and mockery at the traditional Nepalese history after his total observation of the suffering people, dilapidated buildings, dim and dark streets and dwellings, deteriorated and silenced statues of the great men and shattered dreams and souls of the national heroes. The new-historicist ideas of Michel Foucault, Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher have been used to revisit history in order to remake it. This research is historically significant for its attempt to highlight on the need of rewriting history of people and nations including the excluded.

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Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture

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Ruling from the Grave? The Political Instrumentalization of Robert Mugabe’s Corpse in Contemporary Zimbabwean Politics

Ruling from the Grave? The Political Instrumentalization of Robert Mugabe’s Corpse in Contemporary Zimbabwean Politics

Organizing bell hooks’ Frameworks for Interrogating Representations

Revisiting History In Bhupi Sherchan’s Poem “Galat Lagchha Malai Mero Deshko Itihas”

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