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The sound of silence
Yoshio delights in the everyday sounds of Tokyo, but when a musician tells him that her favorite sound is ma, the Japanese word for silence, Yoshio sets out to hear this sound for himself among the hustle and bustle of the city. Includes information on the Japanese concept of ma.
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The Grace to Go on Living: The Dialectics of Everyday Life and Christian Japanization in Endō Shūsaku’s Silence
This study reinterprets Father Rodrigues’s apostasy in Endō Shūsaku’s Silence not as a religious failure, but as a process of Christianity’s “Japanization,” analyzed within the context of postwar Japanese intellectual history. Where existing criticism often falls into the binary opposition between martyrdom and betrayal, this study introduces the perspective of individual conviction versus organizational authority. First, Rodrigues’s act resonates with Yoshimoto Takaaki’s tenkō (ideological conversion) theory, specifically defined as the “third form of tenkō.” This form represents the choice to pursue the integrity of personal conviction over obedience to an organization. This links Rodrigues’s action to the spiritual continuity of the Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christians), arguing that the essence of his apostasy is a betrayal of the Church institution, not of faith itself. Furthermore, through the theme of the dialectic of everyday life, the study demonstrates that salvation is discovered not in the glorious death of martyrdom, but within the secular fabric of daily existence. Rodrigues’s paradoxical condition of being both weak and strong as Okada San’emon after the fumie is an extension of the Kakure Kirishitan’s survival, who maintained their faith amid secular labor. In conclusion, Endō’s literature serves as a testimony for the “cowards” and a plea for the grace to go on living. It illuminates the process through which individual faith transcends institutional authority and takes root in the indigenous Japanese way of life, thereby completing the vision of Christianity’s “Japanization.”
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The silence slips in
\"In this illustrated picture book, a young child learns to find comfort in silence when the world becomes too noisy.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Listen to the Silence: Reconsidering Race in Marcia Muller's Sharon McCone Hard- boiled Detective Novels
This article examines the development of the Native identity of Marcia Muller's female private eye, Sharon McCone. McCone initially is identified with one-eighth Shoshone heritage. In Listen to the Silence (2000), McCone learns of her adoption and the membership of her birth parents in the Shoshone Nation. The series' second half explores McCone's Native identity, and contemporary Native experience, with increasing nuance and detail.
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The Sound of Silence: On Giordano’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano’s novel, The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2009), seemingly a coming-of-age romance, mixes narrative with the language of mathematics. The two protagonists, Alice and Mattia, are equaled to two twin prime numbers: solitary and isolated numbers, close to each other but separated by a single number. Similarly, they are united by the same differences, attracted to each other, but never truly together because divided by an insurmountable obstacle. Giordano’s fiction is a window into the twenty-first century, a space in which individuals are kept apart (or together) by waves of solitude, silence, and marginalization.
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Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome: A Pluriversal Narrative to Decolonise the Past and Confront Universal Eurocentrism
The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a convoluted journey through time and space. At once a work of science fiction, a medical mystery, and a history of malaria research, this hybrid novel sets into rivalry India’s old-time wisdom and spirituality against Western science and English colonial presumptuousness, thus advocating transmodernity and the pluriversality put forward by critics such as Rosa María Rodriguez Magda, Enrique Dussel and Walter Mignolo, among others. This paper will analyse the way in which this novel denies the existence of a universal scientific method by deconstructing the certainties of an exclusively rationalist discourse whose discoveries have often gone hand in hand with exploitation, unequal power relations and colonization. Jacques Derrida’s notion of différance and Emmanuel Levinas’s ideas about the ethics of silence and knowledge will also be used to analyse silence as an alternative epistemological framework through which the dominant discourse can be undermined and the subaltern heard, and as a means to make amends for the injustices of the past by reclaiming the histories written by those who were made ‘others’ by the English imperial power.
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Metaphors of Depression, Illness, and Silence: A Close Reading of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (2022)
The horror history of the Partition in 1947 is inscribed in the hearts of South Asians, strongly to those, who crossed borders for survival. Nuances of the “fluid border” stimulate the psychological catastrophe of the individuals who lived a life in the pre-Partition era and faced its bloody consequences and the phases of refugee life in the aftermath. In the arena of literary representation of historical trauma, Geetanjali Shree’s masterpiece Tomb of Sand (2022) is grounded on the pain of a female survivor with an envisioning understanding of metaphorical expressions and manifestations. Metaphor as a conceptual theory of mapping thoughts, emotions, and linguistic expressions by George Lakoff engages with the psychological understanding of individuals’ mental images. Victims and survivors of the subcontinent often suffer from depression, hallucination, a shroud of silence, and insomnia and communicate their traumatic pain through metaphorical expressions. This article critiques the significance of the metaphors used by individuals, particularly female survivors of the Partition, to express their disturbed thoughts, disoriented behaviors, and unresolved and hidden pains regarding their loss of home and homeland, forceful displacement, and communal violence. Taking the prism of metaphor theory in the method of critical metaphor analysis, this article will analyze selected metaphors to highlight the trauma of female survivors of the Partition as manifested by the central character in the post-Partition fiction.
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Poe's Prehistoric Fiction and Pre/Post-Humanity: Speculation via 'Silence'
The word \"prehistoric\" came into general use in the 1860s, and it was not until around the turn of the twentieth century that saw the emergence of prehistoric fiction in English. In his 1838 tale, \"Silence,\" however, Edgar Allan Poe had presented a form of prehistoric narrative by creating a fictional setting of West Central Africa. While casting new light on prehistoric fiction by discovering the tale's unexplored potential, this study finds itself associated with philosophy with special reference to the French-Continental philosophers Jacques Derrida and Quentin Meillassoux. Their deconstructive/speculative philosophies serve to reveal what has been unexplored in \"Silence,\" hence allowing an understanding of how widely open it is to what belongs outside of history and humanity. An attempt is ultimately made to demonstrate that the tale's potentiality lies in its capacity to generate fresh perspectives not only on prehistory but also on pre-humanity and even on post-humanity.
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The Rest Is Silence: Postmodern and Postcolonial Possibilities in Climate Change Fiction
In this essay, I consider postmodernist tendencies in two recent climate change novels, Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) and Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014). While I hesitate to claim that these herald a distinct postmodern turn in climate change fiction, I argue that these novels’ postmodernist self-awareness constitutes a promising new direction for fiction in the Anthropocene. Displaying a postcolonial awareness and deploying the postmodernist strategies of metafiction and magical realism, the novels undermine the omniscience of third-person narrators and the reliability of focalizers in order simultaneously to destabilize realist, imperialist, and anthropocentric constructions of the world. Indeed, they not only question the dominance of master-narratives; they question domination per se. That is, in these novels, voice itself comes under suspicion as an anthropocentric fallacy.
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