Women and War

Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black (1983) is a radical example of women's Gothic horror. It is a popular ghost story that has been successfully adapted for the London stage. In addition, it offers a social critique of motherhood and contemporary rhetoric surrounding the family. Scullion interprets the novel from several critical perspectives: feminist, psychological, biographical, generic and intertextual. Principally, however, she offers a reading of the novel that engages with its immediate historical context. The contention is that Hill's novel mediates women's anxieties about motherhood and autonomy during the early 1980s when the institution of the family in Britain was an ideological battleground. Set primarily during the 1860s, The Woman in Black exposes Victorian hypocrisy towards the unmarried mother, and indirectly probes the quasi-Victorian values promulgated in the 1980s, during the first term of a Conservative right-wing government. The protagonist of the novel, the eponymous woman in black, resists the lot of the so-called fallen woman. In her physical form, she refuses to submit to Victorian patriarchal values by attempting to reclaim her illegitimate child. In spectral form, she repeatedly inflicts suffering on families by causing the death of their children. Her excessive revenge knows no compassion, and recognizes no boundaries of place and time. Her ghost is never laid to rest. Neither is order restored by the closing pages. Thus the novel, as well as being a popular ghost story, challenges assumptions about women's 'natural' acquiescence and their unconditionally generous responses to husbands, partners and children. Shaped by the social climate in which it was written, The Woman in Black suggests that mothers under extreme pressure have the potential, like any other members of the family, for cruelty to children. Through its forceful rejection of either idealized or derogatory stereotypes of women, this novel belongs to the genre of radical Gothic horror.     

印度尼西亚的创世神话

按照东部印度尼西亚和西部印度尼西亚的划分,印度尼西亚的创世神话呈现出一些不同的神话特质,也透露出不少值得关注的文化信息.这都是地理、民族、外来影响等因素共同作用的结果.     

Cultural Identities of Adolescent Immigrants: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study Including the Pre-Migration Period

This article investigates the cultural identities of adolescent immigrants in the pre-migration period and during the first 3 years after immigration. The target population consists of high-school Jewish adolescents from Russia and Ukraine participating in an Israeli immigration program. In this program, Jewish adolescents immigrate to Israel without their parents, live in kibbutzim and boarding schools, and study in Israeli schools. Participants filled out questionnaires four times: half a year before their departure from the homeland and once a year for three consecutive years after their arrival to Israel. Changes in the cultural identities during immigration were curvilinear. Three stages were distinguished: devaluation of the homeland and idealization of the country of immigration in the pre-migration period, disillusionment with the receiving country and strengthening of the homeland cultural identity in the first year after immigration, and the formation of an inconsistent bi-cultural identity in the later post-migration period. Throughout the entire post-migration period, immigrants’ attitude towards the receiving country was more positive than their attitude towards their homeland; however, immigrants’ sense of belonging to the homeland was stronger than their sense of belonging to the receiving country. Pre-migration cultural identities and perceived discrimination in the receiving country predicted post-migration cultural identities of immigrants. Immigrant adolescents from ethnically homogenous Jewish families had a less positive attitude towards Russia/Ukraine, a more positive attitude towards Israel, and a weaker sense of belonging to Russia/Ukraine as compared to immigrants from ethnically mixed families.

民族性视野下的中国早期乡土文学之现代性求取

中国早期乡土文学是在启蒙理性的追求、时代的批判与俗世的阐述大背景中展开的。批判性主题的展现、理性价值的求取、乡土文化隐喻是早期乡土文学现代性特征的主要表证。早期乡土文学是乡土作家们带着理性的审视、反省态度进行文学创作的结果,是在民族性视野中"人的发现"启迪基础上的"故乡的发现"。比照30年代以后文学发展的历程,可以说,中国文学"走出中世纪"的标志是早期乡土作家站在民族性认同的话语背景中,在创作乡土文学时对文学现代性的求取。     

移居印度的傣族后裔阿洪姆人的历史文化变迁

今天居住在印度东北部阿萨姆邦一带的阿洪姆人的祖先,是13世纪以后从中国云南德宏一带地区迁过去的傣族,他们的先民辗转迁徙到今天的印度东北部地区以后,在当地建立了一个叫做“勐顿孙罕”的王国并统治了当地。这些傣族移民的后裔后来被当地人称为阿洪姆人。在他们统治印度东北部地区的同时,他们也逐渐接受了印度教和当地的语言,文化上发生了很大的变化。     

构建社会主义和谐社会的文化生态支撑

文化对社会主义和谐社会的构建发挥着重要作用。文化生态系统中内含的各种具体文化形式,即主导文化、精英文化、大众文化会给和谐社会的构建有力的支撑。主导文化确立了社会主义和谐社会的价值导向,精英文化是推动社会主义和谐社会的内在动力,大众文化拓展着构建社会主义和谐社会的群众基础。     

"文革"叙事的女性主义书写——论徐坤的《招安,招安,招甚鸟安》

在《招安,招安,招甚鸟安》中,徐坤以超越父权制中心化价值体系压抑的书写策略,来实现作为主人公的徐小红艰难的自我指认和建构作为叙述者的徐小红"本真"的女性声音.小说中恣情凸显的女性主义姿态不仅仅具有女性独有的性别意识、生命体验和叙事欲望,更富有一种"性政治"的理论自觉与女性自审意识、自省意识所带来的反思的力量,这就使得徐坤在对"文革"进行书写时独具特色.     

人类学在民族旅游开发中的作用

民族旅游是一种以民族文化及其自然生态环境为资源进行的旅游开发。基于人类学基本理念和方法的基础上取得的文化研究成果对民族旅游开发具有重要的意义。本文主要从人类学的文化研究、文化变迁理论、田野调查等方法、民族平等观念等方面阐述人类学研究在民族旅游开发中的作用。     

济南城市文化产业发展分析

济南是一个具有五千年文明历史的古城,作为经济和文化大省——山东的省会城市,具有文化发展的独特优势。济南城市文化的发展应该在政府支持下创新机制,把文化资源保护和开放相结合。     

非物质文化遗产保护公众参与的法律制度构建

公众参与原则在非物质文化遗产保护中具有重要的现实意义,同时,该原则也是联合国教科文组织《保护非物质文化遗产公约》所确定的基本原则之一,我国作为该公约的缔约国有义务在本国法中予以落实。但是,由于我国长期缺乏公众参与的制度保障,因而有必要转变观念,构建保障公众知情权、受教育权、参与权和监督权的法律制度。