Sisal

Catling, Dorothy; Grayson, J.

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“…His writing had given it life, with all the detail of its population. 66 Catling's Vorrh is a feral, green cacotopia, the antithesis to European spatial coding: 'Nobody could work for more than two days in the Vorrh without contamination'. Some blamed it on 'an unknown toxicology of plant and oxygen', while others saw a 'magnetic disturbance' as the cause, or perhaps it was just 'haunted'.…”

Section: Penetrating the Vorrh: A Geocriticism Of Catling's Built-worldmentioning

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Reimagining the colonial wilderness: ‘Africa’, imperialism and the geographical legerdemain of the Vorrh

Saunders

2018

cultural geographies

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Novelists and other cultural producers have long employed the African continent as a palimpsest to construct fantastical tales. From Sir John Mandeville to Joseph Conrad, Africa’s blank spaces on the map have been filled with monstrous creatures that fuel the western imagination. As a consequence, this constant othering of the so-called ‘Dark Continent’ has had a deleterious impact for African states and their citizenries, as spectacularly evidenced in U.S. President Donald Trump’s now-infamous labelling of the entire continent as a host of ‘shithole countries’. This article wrestles with the continuation of this trend in popular culture via an empirical examination of the speculative fiction of the British novelist and performance artist, B. Catling. Publishing in 2015, The Vorrh is the first of the three novels set in a parallel Africa, specifically a former German colony that is home to remnants of the Garden of Eden. Focusing on the enchanted forest known as the Vorrh and the colony’s (fictional) capital, Essenwald, this article employs methods drawn from geocriticism and popular geopolitics to interrogate Catling’s built-world. This is done with the aim of connecting structures of iteration in the representation of fictional ‘Africas’ to the West’s imperially inflected geopolitical codes towards the actual physical and human geographies that constitute the world’s second largest and most populous continent.

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Section: Penetrating the Vorrh: A Geocriticism Of Catling's Built-worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reimagining the colonial wilderness: ‘Africa’, imperialism and the geographical legerdemain of the Vorrh

Saunders

2018

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Characterisation Studies and Impact of Chemical Treatment on Mechanical Properties of Sisal Fiber

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Guru

Padmakaran

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The availability of natural fibers with their high performance and low cost contributes to a healthy ecosystem and fulfills the economic interests of the society. Sisal fiber, which is easily cultivated, is one of the most widely used natural fibers. For the present studies, characterisation of locally available sisal fiber of M.P. state in India was carried out with the investigation on the effect of alkali treatment with a wide range of different concentrations on the mechanical properties of sisal fiber. The physical and chemical properties of sisal fiber were analyzed with known methods and results were found to be similar to earlier reported values. Alkali treatment was carried out with different concentrations and mechanical properties were evaluated with Lloyd Fiber Testing Instrument. The results show that the chemical treatment enhances the mechanical properties of fiber up to a limit and is found to decrease with further increase in concentration. Scanning Electron Microscopy was used to investigate the morphology of untreated and alkali treated sisal fibers which indicated that the different concentrations of alkali alter the fiber surfaces with variations. Sisal fibers before and after alkali treatment were characterised further by thermogravimetry to establish their thermal stability, and measurements showed that alkali treated fiber became more thermal resistant than the untreated fiber and it was also noticed that thermal resistance decreases at higher concentration.

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Sisal

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Reimagining the colonial wilderness: ‘Africa’, imperialism and the geographical legerdemain of the Vorrh

Reimagining the colonial wilderness: ‘Africa’, imperialism and the geographical legerdemain of the Vorrh

Characterisation Studies and Impact of Chemical Treatment on Mechanical Properties of Sisal Fiber

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