scholarly journals "Dainty Predators" and "Carnivorous Families": The Representation of Hunger in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters .

2018 ◽  
pp. 764-771
Author(s):  
Faisal I. Rawashdeh ◽  
Malek J. Zuraikat
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Collective State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Direct Association ◽  
Desire To Eat

The cultural practice of obsessive feasting suggests not only individual attitudes to food but also a collective state of spiritual emptiness. In Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters (1990) most male characters’ hunger for food is never satisfied. Their expressed desire to eat at any given circumstance is often aligned with vocalized or wishful sexual urges. Their female counterparts either eschew food ascetically or demonstrate a corresponding degree of gastronomic crave. In this novel, hunger and its direct association with consumption do not define a festive, harmonious environment. Rather, satisfaction of desires is set against a violent, politically charged background. The discussion below traces the representation of hunger and food consumption in the novel to gain fresh insights into the problematic nature of the neocolonial modes of living in Manila. To this end, we argue that Manila in Hagedorn’s Dogeaters is consumed by a collective insatiability and instability fostered by the hegemony of a capitalistic/postmodern dynamic that continues to define the cultural attitudes and practices of the citizenry in the neocolonial city of Manila.

scholarly journals "Dainty Predators" and "Carnivorous Families": The Representation of Hunger in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

2019 ◽  
pp. 1053-1060
Author(s):  
Faisal I. Rawashdeh ◽  
Malek J. Zuraikat
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Collective State ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Direct Association ◽  
Desire To Eat

The cultural practice of obsessive feasting suggests not only individual attitudes to food but also a collective state of spiritual emptiness. In Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters (1990) most male characters’ hunger for food is never satisfied. Their expressed desire to eat at any given circumstance is often aligned with vocalized or wishful sexual urges. Their female counterparts either eschew food ascetically or demonstrate a corresponding degree of gastronomic crave. In this novel, hunger and its direct association with consumption do not define a festive, harmonious environment. Rather, satisfaction of desires is set against a violent, politically charged background. The discussion below traces the representation of hunger and food consumption in the novel to gain fresh insights into the problematic nature of the neocolonial modes of living in Manila. To this end, we argue that Manila in Hagedorn’s Dogeaters is consumed by a collective insatiability and instability fostered by the hegemony of a capitalistic/postmodern dynamic that continues to define the cultural attitudes and practices of the citizenry in the neocolonial city of Manila.

Mummified Fragments: Characters and Themes in Hariharan’s Novel The Ghosts of Vasu Master

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 827-835
Author(s):  
R. Ramakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
School Teacher ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male Characters

Hariharan’s versatility as an author with a mission to subvert the entire tradition can be recognized in every work of fiction she has created. For this purpose in her second novel, The Ghosts of Vasu Master she experiments with a male protagonist and a host of other male characters. Vasu is the protagonist of the novel. He is a retired school teacher from P.G. Boys’ school, Ellipettai. He leads a lonely widower’s life with two of his sons employed and settled away from home. This article scrutinizes the life of an idower is all aspects.

Homosexualité, Islam et désacralisation du pouvoir royal dans Le jour du Roi d'Abdellah Taïa

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-143
Author(s):  
Taïeb Berrada
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Identification Process ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Oedipal Complex ◽  
The Creation

In his novel Le jour du Roi Abdellah Taïa explores the theme of alterity in its relation to two political and symbolic forces: expressing one’s self in the language of the Other and narrating homo-erotic and homosexual relationships in Morocco under the dictatorship of Hassan II. It is the translation of these two aspects that leads to the creation of a new narrative about homosexual Franco-Moroccan identity. This narrative, in turn, reveals the instability of a model of identification subjected to a normalizing sexual apparatus controlling bodies and minds in a place where homosexuality is still punishable by law. This renders the identification process for the two main characters of the novel particularly problematic as they can no longer sustain it without going back to the sources of foundational myths and more particularly to the original murder in Islam. This article argues that the killing of one character by the other goes back to the original murder of Abel by Cain, a model which becomes emancipated from the Western Oedipal complex, translating a new conception of a love relation between two male characters. By so doing, it calls for a reevaluation of the normativity imposed by the king who is using his power based on a patriarchal interpretation of religious legitimacy in view of political gain.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Pemberian Diet Isokalori Tinggi Serat terhadap Tingkat Satiety pada Kelompok Usia Dewasa Awal

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 237
Author(s):  
Maura Tirta Nabila ◽  
A. Fahmy Arif Tsani ◽  
Ayu Rahadiyanti ◽  
Fillah Fithra Dieny
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analogue Scale ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Analogue Scale ◽  
T Test ◽  
Group Design ◽  
Consecutive Sampling ◽  
Desire To Eat ◽  
Paired T Test

Latar Belakang: Belum banyak penelitian yang membandingkan pengaruh diet tinggi serat larut air dan diet tinggi serat tidak larut air terhadap tingkat satiety.Tujuan:Menganalisis pengaruh pemberian diet isokalori tinggi serat terhadap tingkat satiety pada kelompok usia dewasa awal status gizi normal.Metode: Penelitian eksperimentaldengan rancangan pre-post group design. Subjek penelitian adalah 16 orang dewasa awal usia 20-23 tahun (10 perempuan dan 6 laki-laki) yang diambil secara consecutive sampling. Semua subjek diberikan 2 jenis diet isokalori dengan rasio serat larut air : serat tidak larut air sebesar 3:2 dan 1:3 dengan masing-masing wash out period selama 1 hari. Energi yang diberikan sebesar 20% dari total kebutuhan masing-masing subjek. Variabel yang diukur adalah tingkat satiety yang terdiri dari tingkat desire to eat, hunger, fullness dan prospective food consumption/PFC menggunakan kuesioner Visual Analogue Scale. Analisis statistik menggunakan paired t-test, wilcoxon, mann-whitney dan independent t-test.Hasil: Diet tinggi serat larut air memiliki efek lebih lama 1 jam dalam menekan hunger dan desire to eat dan memiliki efek lebih lama 30 menit dalam menekan PFC dibandingkan diet tinggi serat tidak larut air, namun kedua diet tersebut sama-sama baik dalam meningkatkan fullness hingga 3 jam setelah intervensi.Kesimpulan: Pemberian diet tinggi serat dapat menekan tingkat desire to eat, hunger, PFC dan meningkatkan fullness. Diet tinggi serat larut air mempunyai efek lebih lama terhadap tingkat satiety dibandingkan diet tinggi serat tidak larut air.

scholarly journals Nicholas Urfe’s Masculine Trap or the Construction of Manhood, its Ambivalences and Limitations in John Fowles’s The Magus

2017 ◽  
pp. 73-86
Author(s):  
Irina Strout
Keyword(s):  
Western Society ◽  
The Novel ◽  
John Fowles ◽  
Lone Wolf ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Male Power ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
And Control

Western society and its fiction faces the overwhelming problem of masculinity and its modeling. The era of war, capitalism, the challenges of feminism affect the ideology within which men are constructed both as individuals and as a social group. John Fowles’s fi ction tackles the crucial issue of male power and control as masculinity is put to test and trial in his 1965 novel The Magus. The defi nition of manhood, male virility and social respectability of the period shape the 20th century male characters in Fowles’s fi ction. This paper aims to explore how John Fowles investigates the role of masculinity and power myths on the personal level of relationship and a wider scale of war and capitalism in The Magus. Notions of masculinity off er the protagonist, Nicholas Urfe, a sense of a superiority and power over women in the course of the novel. Among the goals of the project is to examine the mythical journey of Nicholas, which becomes a testing ground of his masculinity and maturity, as well his trial and ‘disintoxication,’ which is intended to help him to reevaluate his life and his relationships with women. One of the issues posed is whether Nicholas Urfe is reborn as a new man at the end of his search for redemption or if he remains the same egotistic, ‘lone wolf’ as he appears in the beginning of the novel.

scholarly journals Cultural attitudes to the aged: An Indian perspective

1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
P. Gounden ◽  
T. Puckree
Keyword(s):  
Time Perspective ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Indian Thought ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Elderly Health ◽  
Indian Perspective

Institutionalization of elderly Indians seems to have been increasing with the aging of the twentieth century. This paper looks at Indian thought and cultural practice with regard to the elderly in time perspective.  Historically, although the main prescription to cultural practice and respect for the elderly came from the various Indian Scriptures, this was coloured by the specific needs of each society which changed when these societies were nomadic, settled farmers or were actively engaged in war. Later other factors like industrialization resulted in a breakdown of the extended family in which the father no matter how old or productive was the authority figure who demanded respect. This trend was also seen in published literature about the attitude of other nationalities towards their elderly. Health professionals have been grappling with the role of health care workers in achieving successful patients outcomes based on attitudes towards the elderly. More work needs to be done on this subject in this country.

scholarly journals Linguistic Choices in Hamid’s Moth Smoke: A Transitivity Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 303
Author(s):  
Hafiz Muhammad Qasim ◽  
Mubina Talaat ◽  
Qamar Khushi ◽  
Musarrat Azher
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Frequency Of Occurrence ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Relational Processes ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Verbal Processes

The present study is aimed at an investigation of how meanings are construed in a literary text. The main theoretical framework employed for the data analysis was transitivity, which finds its roots in Halliday’s (1994) Systemic Functional Grammar. 21 texts from Hamid’s novel, Moth Smoke (MS) were selected as data. A sample size of 1100 complex clause sentences containing different processes, participants and circumstances was drawn for analysis. The focus of the study was the identification of transitivity patterns associated with the main characters of the novel following Simpson (2004) who viewed it “useful indicator of character in prose fiction” (p. 119). The findings of transitivity constructions showed that all types of processes were found in MS. Based on the rank of frequency, material processes were computed the most frequent processes. They did have frequency of occurrence as (1076=51.45%). The projection of mental processes was (13.91%) in the second position. The verbal processes were (11.23%), relational processes (19.75%) while the lowest projection was found in behavioural (2.63%) and existential (0.86%) processes. Male characters were ascribed with more material and verbal processes while females were drawn as having mental and attributive process clauses. The current study concluded that transitivity options can function as a useful analytical tool in the analysis of a literary text.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in the Appetite Response to a Satiating Diet

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Bédard ◽  
Anne-Marie Hudon ◽  
Vicky Drapeau ◽  
Louise Corneau ◽  
Sylvie Dodin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Premenopausal Women ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Time Interaction ◽  
Desire To Eat ◽  
Analogue Scales ◽  
Over Time

We examined gender differences in appetite sensations when exposed to Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) meals and determined whether there are gender differences in the change in the satiating properties of the MedDiet over time. Thirty-eight men and 32 premenopausal women consumed a 4-week isoenergetic MedDiet under controlled conditions. Visual analogue scales were used to measure perceived appetite sensations before and immediately after each meal consumed over the course of one day (Wednesday) of the first and the fourth week of intervention. Women reported greater decreases for desire to eat, hunger, and appetite score than men in response to the consumption of the MedDiet meals (gender-by-meal interactions, resp.,P=0.04,P=0.048, andP=0.03). Fullness and prospective food consumption responses did not significantly differ between men and women. Between the first and the fourth week of intervention, premeal prospective food consumption increased with time in men (P=0.0007) but not in women (P=0.84;Pfor gender-by-time interaction = 0.04). These results indicate gender differences in appetite sensations when exposed to the MedDiet. These results may be useful in order to have a better understanding of gender issues for body weight management.

The Soldier and the Aesthete: Homosexuality and Popular Culture in Gilded Age America

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary W. Blanchard
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Collective State ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
Renaissance Art ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Aesthetic Movement ◽  
Change Perceptions ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Military

The aftermath of civil strife, note some historians, can change perceptions of gender. Particularly for males, the effect of exhaustive internal wars and the ensuing collapse of the warrior ideal relegates the soldier/hero to a marginal iconological status. Linda L. Carroll has persuasively argued, for instance, that, following the Italian wars, one finds the “damaged” images of males in Renaissance art: bowed heads, display of stomach, presentation of buttocks. In fact, male weakness and “effeminacy” can, notes Linda Dowling, follow on the military collapse of any collective state. Arthur N. Gilbert argues, in contrast, that historically in wartime, male weakness in the form of “sodomites” was rigorously persecuted. From 1749 until 1792, for instance, there was only one execution for sodomy in France, while, during the Napoleonic Wars, the period of 1803–14, seven men were executed. Such analysis suggests that, in the aftermath of civil wars, cultural attitudes toward effeminate or homosexual men shifted from suppression or persecution during martial crisis to one of latitude and perhaps tolerance in periods following the breakdown of the military collective.The aftermath of America's Civil War, the decades of the 1870s and 1880s, provides a testing ground to examine attitudes toward the soldier/hero and toward the effeminate male in a time of social and cultural disarray. At this time, an art “craze,” the Aesthetic Movement, captured popular culture. Aestheticism, seen in the eighteenth century as a “sensibility,” had, by the nineteenth century, an institutional base and a social reform ideology.

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