... In this chapter, Willis provides a long-overdue Žižekian analysis of Gaétan Soucy’s La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes ( The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches ), a novel whose highly figurative depiction of what Žižek would characterize as “the decline of symbolic authority...

... Slavoj Žižek the Real symbolic authority Gaétan Soucy The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches ...

..., Willis provides a long-overdue Žižekian analysis of Gaétan Soucy’s La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes ( The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches ), a novel whose highly figurative depiction of what Žižek would characterize as “the decline of symbolic authority” provides the literary...

... The epilogue offers a first-person travelogue of the author's research in the Brazilian interior, and on what the memory sites symbolize for how the Prestes Column is remembered in the present day. Rather than follow directly in the column's path, the author charted an itinerary that linked...

... The volume’s coeditors conducted an interview with the author, Cui Zi'en. They discussed the genesis of the book’s stories; Cui’s family background and literary influences; Cui’s career as a writer, filmmaker, educator, and activist; the meanings of the book’s title and symbols; and the cultural...

... symbolic and material struggles over political, economic and cultural authority. the body empire entanglement Māori missionaries tattooing ...

... This essays considers the centrality of the iconic twentieth-century Hindi author Munshi Premchand in an emerging Dalit literary critical discourse. It investigates how Premchand has emerged as a singularly powerful cultural symbol around which Dalit literary and political identities...

... Based on archival sources and interviews, this chapter explores the processes by which the government rehabilitated birangonas , whereby the rehabilitation program established the sovereignty—the lawmaking authority—of the new nation. After the war, the government eulogized the raped women...

..., the local authorities installed a plaque to the deserter. As an abstracted thought, the message of the plaque is one of political Dasein. Yet the radical nature of what is being signaled can be accommodated for it is, like many social justice causes embraced, removed from our everyday life concerns. Like...

... This chapter chronicles how disability transforms family life as disabled kids move through the life cycle. Their atypical experiences reverberate through their families, reframing taken-for-granted assumptions about kinship, normalcy, and caregiving. The authors learned that the unfolding...

... For more than a century, Inka territory spread far beyond its home base in Cuzco, reaching north and south along the mountain chain of the Andes. As Pedro Cieza de León’s chronicle attests, the Inka combined military might with symbolic and material enticements to win over the regional Aymara...

... authorities’ assertion that Cuba was a “Catholic nation” heralded the heightened status of Catholicism in a young republic self-conscious of its national image—particularly with regard to race. The coronation is interpreted in relationship to the ascendance of another arts and letters movement, named...

... leader Cumbay both negotiated and warred with Spanish authorities as well as with patriot creole armies over some fifteen years in order to defend Chiriguano autonomy. On two occasions, in 1799 and 1801, Cumbay went to the Audiencia of Charcas to solicit territorial rights. The remarkable account...

...; the introduction of alcohol which led to the surrender of their treasures and the relinquishment of their symbol of political authority, the golden staff of rule; and the baptism of their governor with the name of San Felipe de Austria, in honor of King Philip III of Austria. The name was also given to the city...

..., and authority are always gendered and raced. The practice of improvised soloing in taiko is embedded in transnational circuits of gendered and racialized desire. The author addresses how, when, and why taiko players improvise; how improvisation acts out deep values and contradictions; how it is loved...

... sphere modernity Dalit identity literature caste  This essays considers the centrality of the iconic twentieth-century Hindi author Munshi Premchand in an emerging Dalit literary critical discourse. It investigates how Premchand has emerged as a singularly powerful cultural symbol around which...

...The Wheel of Causes This chapter focuses on what the author labels “ergo-audition”: listening to sounds that we cause, be it consciously, semiconsciously, or unconsciously. Ergo-audition is different from passive listening and involves intervening in and usually attempting to control sounds...

... in Oriente (eastern Cuba) coincided with the appeals to the Virgin and to civil authorities Indians shrine creole El Cobre Oriente The cult of the Virgin spread among demographically diverse, geographically dispersed nineteenth-century constituencies of the Spanish colony. In Cuba’s western...

... church and state. Civic and church authorities’ assertion that Cuba was a “Catholic nation” heralded the heightened status of Catholicism in a young republic self-conscious of its national image—particularly with regard to race. The coronation is interpreted in relationship to the ascendance of another...