Dancing Sita/reinventing a body disappeared: Notes from from Sita: Lament,fury, and a plea for peace

Richard Shannon's solo performance piece, The Lady of Burma, takes his audience inside Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's imprisonment as she tells her story, moving between memory and the present. This excerpt begins as Suu Kyi has returned to Burma to care for her ailing mother, just as students begin to take to the streets against the ruling junta. In this sequence, Suu Kyi re-enacts the early violence subjected to the democracy activists (scenes that are eerily reminiscent of the spectacle of violence documented in Iran over the past year). As the scene continues, Suu Kyi describes her gradual engagement with the democracy activists, building to her famed address at the sacred Shwedagon Pagoda, in which Suu Kyi mobilized many of the nation's population in their struggle for liberation. The excerpt ends as Suu Kyi continues her struggle to lead the Burmese people to freedom through peaceful revolution, at the same time that her mother's life is coming to a close.     

Imagining a dialectical African modernity: Achebe's ontological hopes,Sembene's machines,Mda's epistemological redness

In Chinua Achebe's book of essays Hopes and Impediments, he asserts that Nigeria's failure to ‘develop’ and ‘modernise’ like Japan is because of a ‘failure of imagination’. Yet for many Africans, modernity is a tainted ‘gift’ because it was introduced into the African continent along with European colonial capitalism which simultaneously caused an ontological crisis of self. Although many Africans want to ‘catch up’ with the West, how is it possible when Western technological superiority was equated with white racial superiority? Achebe declares that, as Africans ‘begin their journey into the strange, revolutionary world of modernization’, literature should function as guide. Hence, I examine Ousmane Sembene's novel God's Bits of Wood which depicts Africans laying claim to ‘race-less’, ‘language-less’ ‘machines’. But does (Western) technology change culture? Can African culture appropriate technology to form a dialectical African modernity? If so, what role does ‘tradition’ play? In Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness, we witness the emergence of a traditional modernity made possible by a dialectical epistemology.     

中国日语教育史视阈中的张我军论

张我军主编的《日文与日语》杂志作为“民国以来国人创办的第一份有影响的日语研究期刊”,对日语语言文学学科而言,具有重大的学科史意义;张氏日语系列教材大大推进了日语在中国各阶层普及;作为一位师者,他不仅以有中国特色的日语教学法培养了一批精英之才,更以高度的社会责任感,为将日语教育引入正轨做出了自己的努力。“研究者、编者、著者、师者”四重身份的重合、互动使张我军成为中国日语教育史上具有划时代意义的教育家。     

The Connotation and Logic of Embellish and Vilify in the Seventeen Year’s Literature Critic

Embellish and vilify is a normal standard in the seventeen year's literature critic. Embellish often means mistakenly embellishing the figures of the bourgeoisie, petty bourgeois, the feudalism and the Kuomintang reactionaries and US imperialism in literary works. On the other hand, vilify indicates vilifying the figures of peasant mass, soldiers of PLA, the CPC members and the new society etc. Firstly, the distorted embellished and vilified criticism exerts important effect on literature itself and the certain scope of writing is disciplined; therefore literary narration becomes a type of “passive narration”. Although the embellished and vilified criticism is against the historical and art reality, from the logic of politics, its application has certain sense of inevitability and rationality. Secondly, there exists logic in aspect of national cultural psychology. Finally, there is logic of emotion. The criticism pattern of embellishing and vilifying still has real warning function in the existing literature criticism practices.     

商贾精神和南宋陆游诗歌创作的新变

深受南宋时代商贾精神影响的陆游的诗文创作,增添了一些新变的因素：由唐代李白、白居易等人的“悔作商人妇”,到陆游诗中的“宁嫁与商人”,张扬商人妇甘居市民（包括商贾）阶层、反叛封建权势的精神;从中唐刘禹锡、白居易等人的“贾雄则农伤”,到陆游以羡慕之情看待商贾的逐利与享乐;从北宋范仲淹、欧阳修、苏轼等注重内政的弊端到陆游注重外敌的入侵,将重商忧商之意与抗金爱国之情交织在一起,诗风悲壮苍凉,骨气奇高,显示出新的社会价值与审美价值,与洪迈的《夷坚志》等小说相互补充,相得益彰。     

论日常生活题材在当代文学史上的价值变迁

日常生活题材在当代文学史上的命运一波三折.它曾经被作为无价值的低级趣味题材受到长期的排斥,在新时期文艺创作中则被看作是一个揭示更有意义生活的"入口".1980年代末期以后,该题材获得了充分的价值认可.这一价值变迁既与政治因素的进退有关,又是60年社会生活主题变奏的结果.     

浅析希腊罗马神话对英国文学的影响

希腊罗马神话故事对世界文学、雕刻和绘画等产生过巨大影响,对英国文学的影响也是毋庸置疑的。从希腊罗马神话里衍生了许多相关的英语词汇,极大地丰富了英语语言。此外,许多英国诗人和作家都纷纷用神话故事为创作素材,或直接引用神话人物和主题,或把神话故事改编成戏剧等,或在作品中塑造了以神话人物或题材为原型的人物。以希腊罗马神话为原型的英国文学作品不仅极大地加深了英国文学的寓意和内涵,而且丰富了英国文学作品的宝库。     

金圣叹“锦心绣口”说鉴赏论探究

金圣叹终生致力“六才子书”评点,并形成了以文学作品的审美特征及艺术境界为着眼点的文学批评观——“锦心绣口”说。他强调文学的艺术性及文学中心观。从鉴赏论角度出发,金圣叹“锦心绣口”说中的鉴赏是建立在一定文学艺术接受能力之上的主体自我实现的过程。     

宋元成都地方文献的历史地理学价值——以《蜀祷杌》、《锦里耆旧传》、《岁华纪丽谱》为例

本文以《蜀椅杌》、《锦里耆旧传》和《岁华纪丽谱》三本书为例,分析了宋元时期成都文献的历史地理学价值。《蜀祷杌》和《锦里耆旧传》记载了前、后蜀成都历史城市地理,四川历史游乐地理、历史灾害地理（地震,水、旱灾等灾害）、历史军事地理（王建取西川,后唐灭前蜀、宋灭后蜀的进军路线）和历史政区地理。《蜀祷杌》还记载了“芙蓉城”的得名由来。《岁华纪丽谱》记载了成都市历史游乐地理。三本书有一定的历史地理学价值。