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Kamel Daoud, Algerian novelist and journalist

Names & Naming—Identity, Self-Determination, Power

August 30, 2016 by Steven A. Burr

Well just look at all the other Musas in this dive, one by one, and imagine—as I do—how they could have survived a shot fired in bright sunlight or how they managed never to cross paths with that writer of yours or, in a word, how they’ve managed to not be dead yet. — The Meursault Investigation, Kamel Daoud (translated by John Cullen) The question is not whether Lincoln [in the Gettysburg Address] truly meant “government of the people” but […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Baltimore unrest, Camus, colonialism, Franz Fanon, identity, L’Étranger, memory, Nietzsche, racism, self-determination

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“Living between sand and skin”

August 20, 2015 by William Eaton

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been pondering these lines from the poem Going Back, which was written in Catalan by Gemma Gorga; translated to English by poet, linguist, and translator Anna Crowe; and published in Six Catalan Poets (Arc Publications, 2013). This poem might be one of those rare gems that transcends those large questions of poetry in translation, such as whether the conversion should focus on the vocabulary, the overall sense, the meter and rhyme, or something else […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Catalan, identity, poetry

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Online Legacy: A world of images they haven’t asked for

July 14, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

About a week ago I landed, not entirely accidentally, right in front of an article I had long been waiting to discover. Its advertising line warned: “Children born to the Facebook generation will grow up to find a huge number of photos of themselves available online.” That is, they will find a huge online legacy about themselves even if they don’t want it. The article, written by Hannah Webster, Communications Manager at Independent Association of Prep Schools in the UK, […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: Facebook, identity, Internet surveilance

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The “P” Word: mediated pornography (IV)

February 17, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

When Margaret Grebowicz writes about the body, she usually means the female body. The body is the main site where pornography and life happen. It is the private place where we make decisions and plan on asserting who we are. But it is also the public space that limits how others see us. In one of the last chapters of Why Internet Porn Matters, Grebowicz offers a beautiful account of the value of the body as a private and public site. Her analysis […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: ethics, identity, philosophy, politics, pornography, sexuality

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Identity, Illness, Guillain-Barre

November 19, 2013 by Adrian Wittenberg

Click for PDF. Illness, Identity, and the Redefinition of Self through Narrative My Experience with Guillain-Barré Syndrome By Adrian Wittenberg Adrian Wittenberg holds an M.A. in humanities and currently resides in San Francisco, California. Introduction The mind and body are linked in an individual’s self-identity. A disease—an abnormal biological condition—thus leads to illness, “[the] innately human experience of symptoms and suffering. . .” which includes the ways that “the sick person and members of the family or wider social network […]

Categories: Article, Fall 2013 Issue • Tags: identity, illness, narrative, Oliver Sacks