USING EXTERNSHIPS TO INTRODUCE FAMILY LAW STUDENTS TO NEW PROFESSIONAL ROLES

Law schools are seeking ways to familiarize family law students with exciting new professional roles arising in connection with family court reform. This article describes the family law externship program at William Mitchell College of Law which includes a classroom component allowing students placed in different practice settings to compare and contrast their experiences. The program assists students in making career choices and enhances their ability to counsel future clients.     

Over the centuries: a history of Wollstonecraft reception

ABSTRACT

Both Wollstonecraft’s fame and infamy are attributable to her lived experience as the woman author of the only radical republican feminist text published in the pamphlet war of the 1790s. Yet, her radical republican politics were divorced from her gender politics in the early reception. This paper argues that this separation was subsequently sustained in part by interpretive practices that rest on the suppression of the original split. It shows that over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both outside and within academia, the dominant interpretive tendency of neglecting Wollstonecraft’s radical republican politics has deradicalized both her historical political thought and her iconic image. This conventional reception has both enabled and limited the resources made available through Wollstonecraft to feminists throughout history.     

The fascist who would be king: Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk

ABSTRACT

Macklin and Fowlie explore the political life of Count Potocki de Montalk, a poet, pagan and pretender to the Polish throne. Count Potocki is perhaps most famous as a minor cause célèbre among London’s literary intelligentsia after his imprisonment for obscene libel in 1932. Historians, when they consider him at all, often discount him, viewing him as little more than a colourful eccentric, a view reinforced by Stephanie de Montalk’s fascinating biography of the man, which appeared in 2001. Eccentric he most certainly was. However, as this article demonstrates, Potocki also played a key role as an enabler of fascist and extreme right-wing activism through the services he provided myriad groups as a printer of their literature, a career that spanned the interwar and post-war periods. The article examines how his preposterous pursuit of the Polish Crown, coupled with the innate elitism this engendered, led him to reject egalitarianism and democracy and embrace fascism. While the Spanish Civil War saw an outpouring of literature from his literary contemporaries in support of the Spanish Republic, Potocki responded by establishing The Right Review as a mouthpiece for his own personal mélange of monarchism and fascism. Utilizing newly released security service files combined with archival research in the newly deposited Searchlight archive at Northampton University, this article pays closer attention to the political side of Potocki’s activities than has hitherto been the case, particularly his wartime publishing activities. This includes his anti-Soviet pamphlet on the Katyn massacre, which caused great vexation in government circles for fear of the harm Potocki’s (correct) accusations might do to relations with Britain’s crucial wartime ally. The authors conclude with a detailed examination of the role Potocki played in post-war National Socialist networks, for both personal and political ends, not least of which was his continued efforts to further his claim to the Polish throne, which he never ceased to believe was his by divine right.     

Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Networks and the Production of Come Back,Africa

In 1957, American filmmaker Lionel Rogosin arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, determined to make a film about apartheid. “Anti-apartheid Solidarity Networks and the Production of Come Back, Africa” discusses the film’s historical and cultural significance, and— a topic which deserves more attention— the film’s production. The article examines the interconnected and international nature of early anti-apartheid activism. International movements against apartheid may have been relatively small between 1957 and up until March of 1960, but Come Back Africa’s production shows that anti-apartheid activists and artists were becoming increasingly connected in a transnational web spanning the Atlantic with hubs in South Africa, Europe, and the United States. In the case of Come Back, Africa, relationships forged between Rogosin, black South African artists-activists (such as Lewis Nkosi, William “Bloke” Modisane, and Miriam Makeba) and white liberal anti-apartheid activists (including Father Trevor Huddleston, Reverend Michael Scott, and Mary Benson) proved mutually beneficial.     

Ghosts in the Shell: On South Africa,the USA and Japan

This article surveys American literary responses to the rise of Japan as an economic power during the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and examines how these responses were anticipated in the writings of the South African author Laurens van der Post. Paying particular attention to van der Post’s autobiography, Yet Being Someone Other (1982), I suggest that the author’s formative experiences aboard a Japanese trading vessel in 1926, coupled with South Africa’s close-knit trading relationship with Japan in the 1980s, enabled a perspective on Japan’s economic ascendancy that was markedly less reactionary than those in the USA. By emphasizing the historical contexts that held true at the time of publication, I situate Yet Being Someone Other in a framework that deliberately circumvents—without necessarily confronting—van der Post’s preferred version of his life story. Rather than “recovering” the author’s ‘place in the canon of South African literature, this article is intended to incorporate the author’s work into ongoing discussions of the representation of Japan and the Japanese in twentieth-century Anglophone writings.     

“微音讯逝”的《乌有乡消息》首译本

大革命失败后，进步人士渴望在左翼书籍中找到出路；1930年，威廉·莫里斯的《乌有乡消息》全译本应运而生。林微音的译本看似“忠实”，却置换了其中最重要的概念并“陌生化”了书名与作者名,间离了读者层累积十年的阅读期待。如此种种翻译策略看似规避国民党当局查禁，实则寄寓了林微音消极的人生态度和“为艺术而艺术”的文艺观。“摩登”的林微音为译本晕染了一抹彼时黄埔滩头消费主义的色彩，使“去左翼化”进一步滑向“庸俗化”。因此，该译本不仅有负20世纪30年代读者以革命文学促成革命政治的期待，亦难以规避查禁。“上下”交困的首译本虽“微音迅逝”，但莫里斯所倡导的艺术社会主义却渐成时代强音。     

弗莱诗学的浪漫主义追求

浪漫主义研究在弗莱的诗学体系中占据中心地位，是弗莱诗学的基本追求。弗莱认为浪漫主义文学是通过对前浪漫主义文学中原型体系的置换和再创造，实现以新的人学“神话体系”来改造传统神学“神话体系”的文化革命。以浪漫主义诗人威廉·布莱克为个案，弗莱详细阐释了布莱克的诗歌如何在颠覆传统圣经理解的基础上，通过置换圣经神话的叙事结构和原型意象，再创造了一部“地狱的圣经”。     

安守廉与曲解的中国知识产权史——反思国际知识产权不平等秩序之突破点

哈佛大学的安守廉（WilliamAlford）教授在其名著《窃书为雅罪》一书中,认为中国传统文化与知识产权是不兼容的。此一观点在中外流传甚广、影响极深。安教授采用了文化类型学的研究方法,未对史料从跨学科的角度进行“微观考古”,故其结论与史实不符。而且,安教授对西方自身的知识产权史及当代知识产权的不合理扩张,均缺乏全面认知,简单地认为发达国家对中国这样的发展中国家进行“合理干预”是正当的,使被误解的中国在国际上处于极被动的局面。     

华兹华斯诗学中的语言乌托邦王国

在批判继承英国经验主义哲学家约翰·洛克的语言观的基础上，华兹华斯诗学形成了自已语言观的三大基本原则：一是语言重要性原则；二是语言规约性原则；三是情感表达性原则。现代语言学理论已证明了华兹华斯诗学中语言规约性原则带有明显的理想色彩。由于语言规约建立的不可能性，导致了华兹华斯诗学中的语言乌托邦王国的产生。