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This article studies the narratives of voices identifying the harrowing aftermath of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, and the representations of the contemporary effects of partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Ice Candy Man. The narrative unfolds past experiences through the eyes of different characters and surroundings from different social, political and religious backgrounds. The novel vividly portrays the horror of violence during the partition, as communities that once coexisted peacefully become engulfed in a whirlwind of hatred and bloodshed. Sidhwa's polyphonic narrative experiences reflect the multifaceted nature of violence, from communal riots to personal tragedies creating a poignant portrayal of human suffering and resilience. The theme of partition, violence, and memory permeates throughout the novel, encapsulating the socio-political upheavals that marked the birth of two nations – India and Pakistan. This paper, therefore, attempts to analyse the novel in order to understand the ideas of the 'polyphonic narrative' of Mikhael Bakhtin's theory and many other postcolonial critic's ideas. For portraying the human experience amidst a backdrop of partition and historical turmoil in shaping narratives as presented in the text by applying the theoretical framework of Postcolonial theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research suggests that for every suicide as many as hundreds of people are left behind to bear the loss, referred to in the literature as suicide survivors. Part of survivors' difficulty in processing this loss is the negative emotional chaos it engenders; notably stigma, shame, blame, regret, and anger. While suppression and avoidance are commonly used to counteract these responses, some grief and trauma experts have emphasized attending to one's emotions and thoughts, rather than working to stifle them. This phenomenological study carried out with three suicide survivors highlights the capacity of leisure, as understood philosophically, to create opportunities for survivors to lean into their loss and express their grief to transform the suicide event from a tragedy to a more positive renewal. Sitting with the pain, upholding love, and sustaining hope were all relevant to the participants' ongoing grief journeys. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ovid’s Metamorphoses tells the story of Icarus-his tragic flight with man-made wings, the melting of the wax that bound them, and the ensuing fall to his death. This moment has been immortalized across the arts and through several mediums, but none are more notable than Bruegel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. Described as a “painter for poets,” Bruegel’s work served as inspiration for several writers, with this piece in particular providing the basis for ekphrastic poems by W.H. Auden and William Carlos Williams. Though each of these works has a different focus, the unifying theme is that human tragedy is too often placed on the periphery of notice. They are effective reminders to physicians and other healthcare providers about the human aspect of suffering and pain in medicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reconsidering Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman in view of newly discovered textual discrepancies between editions and critical scholarship, this essay makes a necessary intervention in the reading tradition of the rape-fall-punishment triad by shifting the central event of the novel to the murder as it relates to aspects of the novel's religious framework. It argues that Tess's actions are contingent on a critical phrase, "a shining light," that has been suppressed through the novel's complicated publication history and reconnects sections of the plot to restore the significance of tragedy in the novel without explaining that tragedy through her violation. By recovering the religious significance of conversion in the text as crucial to a structure of extralegal justice on which the events of the novel hinge, the essay argues that Tess's crime, rather than serving as mere irony, is motivated by faith and an understanding of justice that illuminates the problem of the uncanny God of the nineteenth century, present through absence. As the salvation plot is brought back into relevance with the marriage plot, the concept of Tess's love as a powerful force that should be able to overcome all is reduced to a failed attempt at epistemic reform. Through her failure, the novel raises questions about the possibilities of radical world-making that have historically been overlooked by Hardy's critics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last 25 years, a number of concepts that broadly centre on human suffering, conflict, and death have developed and proliferated in heritage studies. As a 'trauma and truth telling' discourse is embraced globally, there is a marked increase in the recognition of heritage connected to trauma, suffering and tragedy. Yet, despite the breadth and depth of research in this space, psychological trauma has been largely unexamined in the field of heritage studies. Therefore in this interdisciplinary paper, we ask: what is trauma? What is the relationship between trauma and heritage? And what does it mean to be trauma-informed? We introduce the concept of trauma-informed heritage (TIH) and suggest that heritage connected to traumatic events can be conceived as trauma-heritage (TH). Together, the TIH and TH concepts shine a light on heritage connected to trauma, which is multiplex and multiscalar. We offer this framework to better acknowledge and understand trauma and critically explore the relationships between trauma and heritage. This frame will provide awareness of the impact of trauma on people in the wake of traumatic events and help mitigate the risk of re-traumatising, now and for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the extent to which the use of the optical medium of binoculars in Der Condor and Der Hochwald reflects the experience of a paradigmatically new way of seeing. In Der Condor, the refractive power of 'Durchs‐Fernglas‐Schauen' is demonstrated by means of a kaleidoscopic fragmentation of the narrative perspective. The portrayal of the hot air balloon ride at the beginning of the story gives tragic evidence of the loss of the beloved as well as of the loss of an overall sense of perception due to the crossing of gazes that are technically mediated. An emancipatory aspect is expressed in that it is a female figure who becomes aware of the 'transzendentale Obdachlosigkeit' of modern man. The catastrophe perceived technically from a distance in Der Hochwald raises the question of the fundamental possibilities of representation. The experience of seeing, re‐created here from a narratorical point of view, is a dynamic process of de‐ and restructuring storytelling itself, anticipating moments of non‐representational strategies in the literary modernism of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The partition of India on the dissolution of British Raj into two dominions is known to have been violent, polarizing and caused large-scale loss of life (about two million) and an unprecedented migration of 14 million people between the two dominions, India and Pakistan. It is not known how well the then scientific community covered this man-made disaster, and the response of the international community with aid. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted using different electronic databases of PubMed, Econlit, United Nations resolutions, Government of India websites, and Google Scholar for the period January 1947 to December 1951 on the impact of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, and to identify the international response toward this humanitarian crisis. Result: We could locate only twenty-four publications. Partition not only caused monumental humanitarian suffering, but also contributed to food deficits, adverse impact on trade and industries, national income and harmed public health. In contrast, no significant attention was expressed by the international scientific community or the United Nations, or aid provided during this catastrophic event. Conclusion: The review demonstrates the apathy by the contemporary international scientific research community on the social as well as economic damage caused by the partition of India. We suggest that the international scientific and research community should play the role of vigilante and fact finder to unearth the facets of mass human tragedy and its long-term consequences so that global consciousness is awakened, and help and aid flows when it is most needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience as a child of polygamous marriages, her relationship with her father, and her journey of healing and identity formation.

This article explores the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil radicalizing Foucault's notion of governmentality. While dominant scholarship has been interpreting the human tragedy of the outbreak in Brazil in terms of necropolitics and Bolsonaro's populist rhetoric, the present work highlights other dimensions. It shows that the management of the pandemic was deployed to govern the conduct of the Brazilian population. This article detects novel economies of medical truth, obedience, and salvation. It also examines the struggles and (bio)political resistance of Brazil's vulnerable communities. While academic debates interpreted those movements in terms of care and compassion, this article highlights their radical political aspects. Extending Foucault's notion of "counter-conducts," this article reveals how those collectives shaped new forms of medical dissent. More concretely, they brought forward political practices of hope, solidarity, and resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This manuscript stages the West and China as civilizations rooted in contrasting myths. The Western leading paradigm is the Faustian Man whose ambition created modernity and the tragedy of progress. It is a tragedy already condemned by history but, being Faust's construction site unfinished, it is a tragedy that everyone seems keen to re-enact. On the other hand, China conceived the concept of stability, rather than competition, the key for a durable success. Behind Zheng He's voyages and the Ming Dynasty's choice to go westbound, rather than eastbound, lies an anti-Faustian attitude, the essence of Chinese philosophy, to be read not as anti-modernity but the attempt to shape an alternative modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social media platforms evolved into significant arenas for comprehending crises, hardships, violence, and murder. This paper contributes to the discourse within the intersection of social media and crime by delving into the narratives through which people pour meaning online into tragedies with personal significance. When people experience life-changing events, some go through a process of "sense-making" to fully understand the events and their implications, and reach closure. Processes of "sense-making" become increasingly public and collaborative through stories people tell on social media. Still, a dearth of literature exists that systematically examines these stories as conduits for infusing meaning into tragedies. This article bridges this gap by analyzing the narratives emanating from Facebook groups commemorating Tair Rada and advocating for justice for Roman Zadorov, who was convicted with her murder. These narratives not only challenge Zadorov's culpability but also recount the sequence of events leading to the tragedy. Furthermore, they delve into the identity and motivations of the perpetrator(s), resuscitating neglected lines of police investigation and occasionally introducing alternative narratives. To establish their narratives' credibility, authors employ a range of strategies such as integrating source materials, employing categorical language, and cultivating an atmosphere of personal witnessing or knowledge acquisition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549" by Mark Stoyle is a gripping account of the English Reformation. The book focuses on the events in Sampford Courtenay, Devon, where an argument over the Book of Common Prayer escalated into a widespread protest and violent conflict between rebels and the crown. Stoyle challenges the view that the rebels were "blood-crazed class warriors" and instead presents them as ordinary people seeking to protect their religious traditions. The book provides new insights into the motivations and military power of the rebels, highlighting their significance in the broader history of state authority and religious reform in sixteenth-century England. [Extracted from the article]

Shinzo Abe, Japan's former and longest-serving prime minister was assassinated on 8 July 2022. As the world expressed sorrow of the human tragedy, nationalists in China were celebrating the disappearance of a hardline Chinese hawk with great enthusiasm. When a Chinese journalist sobbed for Abe's death during a live report of the assassination, the surging anti-Japan sentiment exploded and soon developed into a hashtag-based nationalist protest attacking Abe and the journalist. Drawing from cyber nationalism and hashtag activism literature, the author coined a concept 'hashtag nationalism' to analyze this protest, the interactions between state-led nationalism and popular nationalism, and the role of digital media in the public-state relation. This article also generalized three affordances of hashtag – interconnectivity, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity – to approach the role of social media in digital activism from a relational perspective. Finally, the analysis revealed the discursive and networked nature of hashtag nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All human experience is organized in the dynamic space between necessity and contingency, and these values play a significant role in therapeutic issues such as human encounters, trauma, racism, physical disease, accidents and minority experience. How and in what form do contingency and necessity emerge in our therapeutic works? How can we help our patients to live with human tragedy and the inevitable contingencies and necessities of the human world? Through a case vignette of a traumatized female patient, I attempt to explore how the therapist's recognition of being a player-witness—the recognition that "I could have been my patient"—can help both the therapist and patient to share the transience of the world and hope for the future. I conclude that the sense of surprise—that comes with the therapist's realization that there is no reason why the trauma experienced by the patient could not have happened to them—allows the therapist, and patient, to be open to many other possibilities in their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Haddis Alemayehu's classic novel ፍቅር እስከ መቃብር (Fikir iske Mekabir , Love until Death , 1958 Ethiopian Calendar, 1965/6 Gregorian Calendar), is lauded by critics as a pioneering realist and modern novel in the Amharic literary tradition. My aim in this article is to scrutinize this take by examining the novel's narrative temporalities and modes through a dialectical lens. This leads me to argue that the novel's realism is marked by contradiction and fluidity. Specifically, the emergence of realism in Fikir iske Mekabir is accompanied by its breakdown while the realist narrative mode is accompanied by the traditional narrative modes of epic and hagiography (or, gedl). This hitherto unexamined textual and intertextual quality of Haddis's novel reveals new insights into its thematic content regarding modernity, tradition, and social reproduction under the old Ethiopian order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nietzsche's interest in tragedy continues throughout his work. And yet scholarship on Nietzsche's account of tragedy has focused almost exclusively on his first book, The Birth of Tragedy – a work which is in many ways discontinuous with his more mature philosophical views. In this paper, I aim to illuminate Nietzsche's post-Birth of Tragedy views on tragedy by setting them in the context of a particular historical conversation. Ever since Plato banished the tragic poets from the kallipolis, various philosophers have attempted to respond to his challenge to offer a 'defense of poetry'. What Nietzsche offers, I argue, is a distinctive form of response to Plato's challenge. I show how Nietzsche takes seriously Plato's worries, and even ends up in partial agreement with him: tragedy is not (unqualifiedly) valuable; it can be spiritually dangerous. Key to Nietzsche's account is a distinction he draws between two types of tragic audience. For the 'lower types', tragedy is – as Plato feared – dangerous. For the 'higher types', however, tragedy can act as a regenerative force. Finally, I discuss a distinctive form of value that tragedy makes available to a modern audience: tragedy can act as a stimulus towards the process of the revaluation of values. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland" by Patrick Radden Keefe is a well-researched and well-written book that explores the post-1969 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland. The book focuses on the abduction and murder of Jean McConville, a widow and mother of ten, by Republican paramilitaries. Keefe's journalistic background allows him to write in an emotive but effective fashion, vividly describing the cruelty of McConville's separation from her children. The book also delves into the lives of Marian and Dolours Price, two prominent members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), and their involvement in bombings and hunger strikes. Keefe's narrative contrasts with the denial of PIRA membership by Gerry Adams, a recurring theme throughout the book. The book also touches on the controversial academic project at Boston College, which aimed to establish an oral history of the 'Troubles' through interviews with participants. Overall, "Say Nothing" sheds light on the clandestine 'dirty wars' in Northern Ireland and the human tragedies that occurred during this period. [Extracted from the article]

Tragedy and Philosophy: A Parallel History: by Agnes Heller, edited by John Grumley, David Roberts, and Pauline Johnson, Leiden, Brill, 2021, 125 pp., €90.00 (cloth) As with tragedy, Heller has a very specific idea of what counts as philosophy: "Just as tragedy was replaced by serious dramas ... so the holistic transparent philosophical systems were replaced by philosophical fragments" (17). While tragedy in the bad-news sense is universal, tragedy in Heller's sense is a literary form that has developed only under particular historical conditions - namely, when "the times are out of joint", in Shakespeare's phrase. [Extracted from the article]

In this paper, we will attempt to analyze the reasons behind suicide and human self-sacrifice involving the salvation of polis in Euripides' fragmented tragedy Erechtheus, written in the last quarter of the 5th century B. C. It is our purpose to provide evidence of the complex perspective that the Athenian dramatist had on such topics, especially considering the display of his talents in a play that reveals the impossibility of reconciliating antagonistic visions on voluntary self-sacrifice. In that sense, we intend to present the existence of a conceptual problem, as well as pose questions concerning voluntary selfsacrifice which continue to linger beyond Ancient times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the eve of Halloween on 29 October 2022, a crowd was killed in a narrow alley of the South Korean capital. Known for its diversity and ethnic communities, Itaewon is a melting pot of cultures and the mediating place to enjoy a new culture, and aptly so, for the celebration of Halloween. The common response to the tragedy was that of mystery and disbelief. However, the real mystery is why none of the local district offices, police, and business associations, who have governed and managed festivals in the area, had prepared safety measures nor anticipated a tragedy of this nature. After the incident, a series of demonstrations have been held by bereaved families and civil societies to demand a thorough investigation, legal punishment of those responsible, and protective advancements. Although relevant authorities have expressed regret publicly, there was neither an official apology nor sincere condolences to the victims and their families. In the case of the Halloween tragedy in Itaewon, the mourning is politicized and delayed as debates on whether public mourning is deserving have started. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resilience is the ability to adapt successfully in the face of difficulty, trauma, tragedy, threats, or significant sources of stress. Subjective well-being is an individual's own appraisal of their level of happiness and life satisfaction. The aim of the present study was to explore the constructs of Resilience and Subjective Well-being among Indian adolescents (13 to 19 years). The sample consisted of 60 high school and undergraduate students from across the country. The research design followed for this particular study was a quantitative correlational design. Measures of Brief Resilience Scale and BBC Subjective Well-being Scale (BBC-SWB) were used. Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated to be +0.5055. This was found significant at 0.01 level. Thus, the results indicated a moderate positive correlation between resilience and subjective well-being of adolescents. The t-test value for resilience between high school students and undergraduates was 0.67, pointing towards an insignificant value. The t-test value for subjective well-being between high school students and undergraduates was 0.50, which was not significant. Further analysis was performed on the scores of the sub-domains of BBC-SWB scale, namely psychological well-being, relationship domain and physical health and well-being, and no significant differences were found between high school and undergraduate students on the sub-domains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Natural disasters are devastating in many ways; the impact is worse when government response is insufficient. Guatemala's government has a history of corruption and of contributing to socially constructed vulnerability; government policies have made parts of the population more insecure and vulnerable to disasters. Our study examines individual perceptions of how volunteers, first responders, and members of nongovernmental organizations responded to the deadly eruption of Volcán de Fuego (Volcano of Fire) in Guatemala in 2018, and how this experience influenced their views of the government as well as their own role in civil society. To gain an understanding of civil society reaction, we conducted field research in Guatemala in 2019 and 2020; in addition, we analyzed Facebook posts from a nongovernmental organization formed in the wake of the disaster over the course of two and a half years. Our research suggests that, in the absence of government efficacy, civil society will take a greater role in responding to disasters, despite incurring personal risk by doing so. In addition, it gives voice to the experience of many who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the disaster, adding their insights to the narrative of the tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, in a Western secular context, the affective phenomenon of religious zeal is often associated, or even identified, with religious intolerance, violence, and fanaticism. Even if the zealots' devotion remains restricted to their private lives, "we" as Western secularists still suspect them of a lack of reason, rationality, and autonomy. However, closer consideration reveals that religious zeal is an ethically and politically ambiguous phenomenon. In this article, I explore the question of how this ambiguity can be explained. I do so by drawing on Paul Ricœur's theory of affective fragility and tracing back the ambiguity of religious zeal to a dialectic inherent to human affectivity and existence itself. According to Ricœur, human affectivity is constituted by the two poles of vital and spiritual desires which are mediated by the thymos. As I show, this theory helps us to understand that religious zeal as a spiritual desire is neither plainly good nor plainly bad, but ambiguous. Moreover, it enables us to acknowledge the entanglement of abstraction and concretion that is inherent to the phenomenon of religious zeal. Finally, this theory helps us to understand why religious zeal, as one possible expression of the human quest for the infinite, is both a promise and a threat. In conclusion, human existence is tragic not in that we necessarily fail, but in that no matter which path we take with regard to our spiritual desires—that of affirmation, rejection, or moderation—we are and remain fallible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Schiller's essays on tragedy attempt to argue that tragic experience is ethically valuable by forging a connection with Kant's conception of autonomy. Standard interpretations hold that the connection lies in the fact that tragedies depict characters (primarily the hero) exercising autonomy. This paper argues that Schiller also views the experience prompted by tragedy as itself involving autonomy. Drawing on Kant's discussion of aesthetic "symbols", Schiller holds that the audience members' experience at the tragedy is isomorphic with the autonomous exercise of practical reason. Only in this way, I argue, can we make sense of Schiller's contention that tragedy actively cultivates freedom in its viewers. Additionally, the interpretation shows how Schiller can hold that tragedy yields a kind of cognition of transcendental freedom while maintaining Kantian strictures on noumenal knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The category of "insufficiency" is widely used in criticism that addresses César Vallejo's poetry; however, frameworks that deploy this category tend to omit that poetry's ethical dimensions. The genealogical method of this paper denaturalizes the concept of insufficiency to show a previously unacknowledged ethical critique of sacrificial history, which emerges through a negative order of perception. Drawing on Maria Zambrano's sociopolitical thought to describe active modes of insufficiency, I argue that the ethos of Vallejo's poetry sought to rehumanize political life by elevating the subject's indivisible constitution as protagonist and author of history, while proposing a responsible anagnorisis in response to the nightmare of tragedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores George Buchanan's play "Baptistes" (1577) as a complex model of classical reception, revealing the interconnectedness of literary and political elements in early modernity. Topics include the intertextual knot formed by Buchanan's engagement with Euripides' Medea, the play's relationship to political theory, and its allegorical connections to contemporary politics, particularly in the context of Mary Queen of Scots.

This article examines how Korean narrative songs have, since the Middle Ages, formed and transmitted the memories and figures of women. These narrative songs have been created and handed down as labour songs mainly by lower-class women, reconstructing women's specific experiences and memories. Korean narrative songs in traditional society are mostly concerned with the life of a woman in a male-centred, patriarchal society. The female figures expressed in these songs show how Korean women recognize their social reality. The figuration of women in Korean narrative songs can be categorized into 4 branches according to whether or not adversity is resolved to meet personal or social expectations. The A type (Personal expectations +, social expectations +) and the B type (Personal expectations +, social expectations -) are very rare in narrative folk songs. In the C type (Personal expectations -, social expectations +), the female figure lives according to social expectations or commits suicide. Most Korean narrative songs belong in the D type (Personal expectations -, social expectations -). When her personal expectations conflict with social expectations, the female figure commits suicide or becomes a monk. These female figures continue to reappear in women's memories and are embodied in narrative songs. This shows the tragedy of women's lived experiences and their perception of reality in Korean traditional society. The narrative songs were suitable for women's work because they were lengthy and replaced expectation and frustration with the sequence of events. Women poured out their sorrows by singing narrative songs, allowing them to forget the suffering of hard work. Narrative folk songs still have many implications in Korean society because the status and reality of women still does not match that of the democratic, equal society we believe we have achieved. However, it cannot be denied that narrative songs contributed to the movement towards gender equality in Korean society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on Irish writer, playwright and television screenwriter Eugene McCabe’s fictional representation of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ in his trilogy Victims, published in the collection Heaven Lies about Us (2005). Living most of his life on his family farm on the Monaghan/Fermanagh border between Northern Ireland and the Republic, McCabe had a deep understanding of the historically entrenched hatreds, bigotry and fundamentalisms of its inhabitants, and his fiction reflects the human tragedy underlying the violence. This paper draws on an eco-philosophical framework to suggest that by capturing the entanglement between the natural and cultural place-world McCabe’s poetics offers, from a liberal humanist perspective, an indictment of anthropocentric patriarchy at the root of violent dispute. McCabe’s literary world, evoking natural and cultural landscapes, encapsulates the absurdity of isolating territories via false political borders, marginalizing the value of bioregion and diversity and ignoring the vital oneness of humanity. Thus, though McCabe’s short stories are indeed culturally and politically specific, in shedding light on the self-destructiveness of human behaviour they are ultimately timeless and universal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issue of Vietnamese nationals consistently having some of the highest numbers of referrals into the UK's National Referral Mechanism (NRM) is increasingly apparent. However, this did not gather nationwide attention until the Essex tragedy of October 2019 which saw 39 Vietnamese nationals found lifeless in a lorry after they were brought into the country by a criminal network of human traffickers and smugglers. This paper seeks to understand the circumstances of these Vietnamese victims of human trafficking to the Britain by reviewing the situation in both countries—Vietnam and the UK. Three instances of Vietnamese nationals trafficked to the UK have been chosen as case studies. Through semi-structured interviews, issues regarding how voluntary migration led these vulnerable people into slavery will be explored and this will be analysed alongside a review of literature in the field. This paper reveals the complexity of the matter, which is primarily derived from the multinational nature of trafficking and the different attitudes and approaches of the various countries involved, as well as the difficulty facing the authorities when combating this particular crime involving this specific group of vulnerable people, especially in terms of victim support. The ultimate goal of this paper is to offer authorities and practitioners in both countries a fresh review of the challenges in supporting these victims, and to redirect their focus on the obstacles to addressing Vietnamese trafficking. These obstacles include the prevalence of—often illicit—labour-exporting companies in Vietnam, instances of initial voluntary engagement in labour migration relationships which later become coercive, and the failure of the UK and Vietnam to agree what constitutes a genuine trafficking victim. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detection of Landmines, especially anti-tank mines, bombs, and unexploded substances, is one of the major challenges facing humanity. The devastation and human tragedy associated with undetected explosives are self-evident in war-torn communities. To deal with this problem, we are only left with proactive measures that such substances must be detected and dealt with before the fallout. Most available solutions have major shortcomings, such as cost, efficiency, and accuracy, where the trade-offs among them are inversely related. On the other hand, advances in deep learning, unmanned aerial vehicle, and sensing are making their way as potential technologies to revolutionize the detection and removal of landmines. In this paper, we go through the literature reviewing the most recent work featuring computerized technologies to detect landmines. To our knowledge, no such study has taken place in this respect. Our aim is to find out how deep learning can be integrated with landmine detection. We identify open challenges toward viable automated solutions that enable deep learning to optimize performance effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Human tragedy could be summed up a single word—death. One first encounters it through the death of others, and then everyone faces it for themselves. The Christian faith confronts humanity's final foe head on, delivering sustained hope amidst the sorrow and despair of impending death. This paper will first address the central role of the resurrection of the dead in First Corinthians. Second, the paper will present Paul's retort to several challenges raised against the notion of the resurrection. Finally, the paper will attempt to systematize the means by which Paul proves the resurrection of the dead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is no doubt that the poetry of Nazik al-Malaika is one of the first poems whose topics were discussed and investigated in the history of contemporary Arab literature. Therefore, this research was concerned with the intention of walking into the depths of the Nazik poem; To know the meanings, purposes and connotations that surround it, which are formed, colored and shaded by different shades; According to the many experiences in the life of the poet between tragedy, darkness and complaint, hope, light and songs of life, which were the thread to reach the depths of this research; Which followed the descriptive and analytical approach, including the poet's view of light and the look of darkness. The research included two topics: the first focused on defining light linguistically and idiomatically and the symbolism of light in the poetry of Nazik the angels. The most prominent results, including Most of the poems of Nazik the Angels contain symbolic references, and these symbols are used to denote and suggest life meanings, and their own emotional experiences [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Offering a comparative case study of two different postcolonial responses to Sophocles's tragedy Antigone from European and African perspectives, this article brings together Magnet Theatre's Cape Town production of Antigone (not quite/quiet) with Thomas Köck's play antigone. a requiem that premiered almost simultaneously in September 2019 in Hannover, Germany. Both re-examine Sophocles's tragedy to come to terms with their respective colonial histories and postcolonial challenges: while Magnet Theatre engages with the ancient material to reflect on the difficulties of fully overcoming the legacies of colonialism in post-apartheid South Africa, Köck explores the afterlives of 'thebaneuropean' colonialism as manifested in current European migration policies. Comparing the adaptation principle of Magnet Theatre's 'ruinous', fragmenting approach to the literary and theatrical archive of European colonialism to Köck's postdramatic recomposition of Antigone as a requiem for migrant deaths and for European tragedy itself, the article discusses the productions in their respective contexts of political protest movements. Drawing on cultural theory of ungrievability, domopolitics, and postcolonial shame, it explores the central functions of the chorus – indecisive Europeans on the verge of anagnorisis in Köck's play, the post-apartheid South African generation caught between rage and disillusionment in Magnet Theatre's production – and as well as the prominence of Ismene as a problematic survivor figure in both adaptations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the place and importance of pity in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus. Although the feeling of pity or compassion is just the basic emotional reaction expected from the audience, it is the most important element that takes place in the center of the plot of Oedipus Tyrannus and determines the course of events in the tragedy. Sophocles made some important changes about the Oedipus myth in the tragedy of Oedipus Tyrannus and reconstructed the plot of the tragedy in an original way. Our main claim here is this: The main character's pity is the basis of the critical changes Sophocles made in the myth. For just as the feeling of pity was decisive when Laios’ slave did not leave the baby Oedipus on the mountain, but gave it to the Corinthian messenger to raise him, there is also the intense fear and pity behind Oedipus’ important decisions that led him to investigate the cause of the great plague epidemic in the city of Thebes and left the administration to Creon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Peter Pan, The Lost Child" by Kathleen Kelley-Lainé is a book that explores the author's own life, the work of Sigmund Freud, and the life of J.M. Barrie, the creator of Peter Pan. The author uses the story of Peter Pan as a framework to reconstruct her own lost childhood using psychoanalytic methods. The book delves into themes of childhood trauma, the desire to stay forever young, and the search for identity. It also examines the connection between J.M. Barrie's life and the character of Peter Pan. Overall, the book is a thought-provoking exploration of memory, trauma, and the human experience. [Extracted from the article]

This study analyzes how two recent productions of the Bacchae in the USA—by the SITI Company and the Classical Theatre of Harlem—activated Euripidean themes that confront the politics and rhetoric of Donald Trump. Through various interventions and adaptations, the ancient tragedy yields contemporary resonances: patriarchal control and authoritarianism are constructed and sustained by manufacturing threats posed by marauding bands of foreigners, even as the haunting denouement reveals that the most destructive perils reside within. In the drama as in Trump's ascendency, political domination is pursued through performances that reorient illusion and reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we have analyzed the conflict raised in the Almeria rear after the arrival of the refugees from Malaga in February 1937, a human tragedy that caused a political confrontation. And we have done it with the hypothesis that this drama evidenced two models of directing the institutions in the republican zone, in the context of the war/revolution debate: the one lived in the capital of Malaga since the failure of the insurrection, and the one that already existed in Almería at the end of 1936. Thus, we consider that in the province of Almería there was a direct antecedent of the events of May in Barcelona. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces the formation of Hayden White's chapter on Hegel in Metahistory by comparing it with his earlier essay titled "Hegel: Historicism as Tragic Realism." It also analyzes White's review of George Armstrong Kelly's Idealism, Politics and History and White's well‐known essay titled "The Burden of History." This article argues that White's main concerns in his review essay and in Metahistory were (1) to respond to the existentialist challenge, posed especially by Camus, that history does not matter and (2) to use Hegel to articulate an answer regarding how historical consciousness and action can be combined. White created his version of Hegel early in "Hegel: Historicism as Tragic Realism" by absorbing (probably) Josiah Royce's interpretation of the Absolute and (more certainly) Erich Auerbach's idea of tragic realism. However, White's idea of tragedy, which focuses on the consequences of action, is not the same as Auerbach's idea, which concerns treating the psychological depth of characters seriously. In his review of Idealism, Politics and History and in Metahistory, White further injected the Kantian philosophy of history—as interpreted by Lucien Goldmann and Lewis White Beck—into Hegel's idea of tragedy and comedy. In doing so, White affirmed the philosophical activist's ability not only to recognize the tragic circumstance of the past and the present but also to hold on to the hope for a better, comic future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La Marr Jurelle Bruce's I How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity i is a paradigm-shaping book for future scholarship around mental difference. At the same time, Bruce does not romanticize madness; the hardships and potential tragedies of madness are still very much at play, and "madness is capacious enough to hold the sensation of blessing and curse at the same time" (237). [Extracted from the article]