What does recovery mean to a forensic mental health patient? A systematic review and narrative synthesis of the qualitative literature

This is a systematic review and narrative synthesis of qualitative literature for forensic mental health patients’ perceptions of recovery. Relevant databases were searched and a total of 11 studies that fit the inclusion criteria were identified. Thematic Synthesis was applied to synthesise the collated themes into six superordinate themes: connectedness, sense of self, coming to terms with the past, freedom, hope and health and intervention. Two superordinate themes were particularly prevalent: connectedness and a sense of self. It is argued that a focus on increasing opportunities for forensic mental health patients to develop a sense of self and connectedness could help improve recovery. Future recommendations to expand on these findings include using grounded theory methods to develop theoretical understanding of the data.     

从旅行文学看日据时期台湾文人的民族认同——以彰化文人的日本和中国大陆经验为中心

日据时期许多彰化作家前往日本或中国大陆旅行或旅居。他们欣赏日本的美丽风景,但心情并不愉快,因他们无法认同统治台湾的殖民者。如叶荣钟诗作充满悲凄落寞之感,虚谷诗风转向清淳淡远,但这只是严峻时局下的隐忍。洪弃生、施梅樵、庄太岳、赖绍尧、杨树德等对大陆充满向往,通过自己或亲友游览祖国壮丽河山,增强了民族自豪感;赖和、周定山等更看到了当时中国的贫穷战乱以及某些国民性弱点,这不仅没有减弱,反而加强和深化了他们的民族意识和认同。     

An interview with Eben Venter: Trencherman and environmentalism in South Africa

This interview explores the role of environmentalism – specifically as it relates to meat and agriculture – in the literature of South African writer Eben Venter. As discussed in the interview, Venter’s novel Trencherman, through its envisioning of a post-apocalyptic South Africa, serves as an especially productive text for examining the interplay of colonialism and ecological violence.     

论彝族毕摩文学

毕摩对彝族文学的繁荣发展起着重要作用,创作出了卷帙浩繁的文学作品。彝族对文献的传统分类有二种,一类是毕摩专门用于宗教仪式方面的经典著作,称“毕摩特依”(祭祀书);一类是用于民间仪式方面的普通文献,称“卓卓特依(民间文学)。本文阐述毕摩及毕摩文学与彝族文学的关系。彝族文学的发展,从创作历史看,卓卓特依(民间文学)要晚于毕摩文学,因此彝族文学是随着部分毕摩的社会职能的改变,即从祭师—经师—歌师的角色衍化而来的,客观上促使彝文应用从宗教领域向民间社会生活的渗透和伸张。     

比较法视阈下民间文学艺术的知识产权保护重构

用法律手段保护民间文学艺术是知识产权保护“国际化”进程的需要,也是保护传统文化、增强文化自信、提升我国文化软实力的迫切要求.民间文学艺术的法律保护问题首先是由发展中国家提出来的,发达国家中对民间文学艺术保护相对较弱.比较法视阈下,民间文学艺术的知识产权保护尽可能既要与现行国内国际立法实现有效对接,又要坚持立法重构,以有效保护民间文学艺术传承、记录、整理和汇编者的合法权益.     

Educating Young Radicals: Shanghai University, 1922-1927*

Abstract

The development of the vernacular language during the New Culture Movement was only intended as a transitional stage to the goal of abolishing the Chinese language. Intellectuals such as Qian Xuantong, Lu Xun, Hu Shi, and Chen Duxiu all advocated to varying degrees the Romanization, Latinization, and abolition of the Chinese language. Chen Yinke, however, argued that the adoption of a Europeanized grammatical structure, and the borrowing of neologisms from abroad, such as Japan, altered the fundamental property of Chinese as an independent language. Reassessing the language reform of the May Fourth today, it is evident that the development of the simplified character, the vernacular language, and the pinyin did not achieve the goal of unifying the spoken and written Chinese. Instead by eliminating the classical language, the language reform removed the ability of the vernacular-speaking masses to create a literature of the written words.     

Bullying Widespread

Abstract

The issue of bullying features prominently in educational administration, academic research, journalism, and public discourse. In this paper, I present a critical examination of research on bullying by addressing dominant themes and preoccupations in the literature. I argue that the proliferation of policies and programs purported to reduce bullying in schools are anchored by what appears to be a common, but problematic, understanding of the notion of bullying. Such policies and programs are utilitarian but misguided. Here, I problematize the very notion of bullying and contextualize it within broader frameworks of educational administration and social oppression. By contrast, I highlight educational theorists who conceptualize school violence in social and political terms rather than psychological, behavioral, and individualistic ones.     

Writing as resistance: Berber literature and the challenges surrounding the emergence of a Berber literary field in Morocco

This article discusses the development of Berber literature in Morocco and the connections between this literature and Moroccan national identity as well as the pan-Amazigh identity movement. Over the last 40 years, the political conjuncture in Morocco has led Berber writers to affirm an alternative definition of Moroccanness, not exclusively based on Arabness, but one in which Berberity is included. This article aims to shed light on modern Berber literature, and on the social space in which it is embedded. It argues that there is no autonomous Berber literary field, the literature being intrinsically bound up with identity issues, but a Berber literary space, located at the intermingling of several fields (the political field and the field of language production in particular). The article first reconstructs the Moroccan political context by exploring the Amazigh movement, its aspirations and its reality. It then focuses on the relationship between the language issues (alphabet, standardization, etc.) and the emergence of a Berber “neo-literature.” Lastly, it moves beyond Morocco into the wider pan-Berber world – the Maghreb and those countries to which Berbers have emigrated – to question the possibility of a transnational Berber literature.     

大国文化身份与当代文论创新

大国文学需要自我身份反省并坚持文论走近经典进而可持续创新。在中国文论经历了一个世纪的西化浪潮之后,应该重新检讨中国文论的精神价值取向,从全盘西化的文论盲视中走出来,重新以“走近经典”的文化高度和精神厚度,审视大众图像时代中的中国文论身份,从西方文论的中国化到中国文论经验的世界化的转型中,关注文化创新与文学理论创新的同步性,进而守正创新——“走近经典”并“创新经典”。