"The Western circus tradition provides a particularly relevant framework for representations of animals in magic realist fiction, since magic realism and the circus are both closely related to Bakhtin's idea of the carnivalesque. Conceptualized as 'circensian spaces', the circus' influence on magical realism manifests itself as what Foucault calls 'heterotopias', 'other spaces', which are inherently contradictory, polyphonic, and 'impossible to think'. As the circus traditionally represents, reinforces and at the same time subverts Western conceptualizations of animals, this discussion focuses on the relationship between Linnaean taxonomy and circensian spaces in Peter Carey's 'Illywhacker', Richard Flanagan's 'Gould's Book of Fish', Gabriel García Márquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and Isabel Allende's 'The House of the Spirits'. This article examines the significance of circensian animal spaces within the Australian and Latin American context, and discusses why 'circensian animals' may be particularly suitable agents in the subversion of Western paradigms."
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-11
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25098
Notes:
3 pages., Third in a special series of professional development features for IFAJ members regarding crisis communicating. Produced through a partnership of IFAJ and the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, University of Illinois.
"This paper discusses the meanings of ‘race’ in the Portuguese empire on the basis of two historical case studies. The twin processes of miscegenation, in the biologi-cal sense, and cultural intermixing has engendered intermediate strata that have long stimulated the imagination of historians. In Brazilian historiography, consid- erable emphasis has been given to the invention of the ‘mulato’, as proposed by Alencastro (2000, 345-356), and the ethnogenesis of the ‘pardo’ in Portuguese America, as described in an article by Schwartz (1996). Compared to these inter- pretations of the emergence of these intermediate categories in Portuguese Amer- ica, the two cases presented here appear to suggest a more central role for the early demographic impact of access to manumission in colonial society and the possibili- ties for social mobility among the free peoples of African descent.";
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C24005
Notes:
23 p. Paper presented at the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists' 103rd annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. [Agricultural Communications Section].
