Why are some genocides prominently remembered while others are ignored, hidden, or denied? Consider the Turkish campaign denying the Armenian genocide, followed by the Armenian movement to recognize the violence. Similar movements are building to acknowledge other genocides that have long remained out of sight in the media, such as those against the Circassians, Greeks, Assyrians, the indigenous peoples in the Americas and Australia, and the violence that was the precursor to and the aftermath of the Holocaust. The contributors to this collection look at these cases and others from a variety of perspectives. These essays cover the extent to which our biases, our ways of knowing, our patterns of definition, our assumptions about truth, and our processes of remembering and forgetting as well as the characteristics of generational transmission, the structures of power and state ideology, and diaspora have played a role in hiding some events and not others. Noteworthy among the collection’s coverage is whether the trade in African slaves was a form of genocide and a discussion not only of Hutus brutalizing Tutsi victims in Rwanda, but of the execution of moderate Hutus as well. Hidden Genocides is a significant contribution in terms of both descriptive narratives and interpretations to the emerging subfield of critical genocide studies. Contributors: Daniel Feierstein, Donna-Lee Frieze, Krista Hegburg, Alexander Laban Hinton, Adam Jones, A. Dirk Moses, Chris M. Nunpa, Walter Richmond, Hannibal Travis, and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey
Pandmonium in the mountains. Hoping to avoid a future where Menou dies trying to save Akari, the girl from Japan runs away with her sworn enemy, Momo. The pair ride the rails to a secluded village in the mountains where they believe they’ll be safe for a few days. Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones who decided to stop off there. Manon and Pandmonium have arrived as well, and they aren’t alone. Akari had hoped keeping away from Menou would be enough to spare the girl she holds dear, but keeping the Executioner alive may require a more drastic course of action...
The Lost Ones are wanderers who come here from a distant world known as "Japan." No one knows how or why they leave their homes. The only thing that is certain is that they bring disaster and calamity. The duty of exterminating them without remorse falls to Menou, a young Executioner. When she meets Akari, it seems like just another job...until she discovers it's impossible to kill this girl! And when Menou begins to search for a way to defeat this immortality, Akari is more than happy to tag along! So begins a journey that will change Menou forever...
To kill Akari, Menou scours the outer reaches of the West in search of a legendary blade that turns all it touches into salt. There, she stumbles across Sahara, a monk, who has history with the young Executioner and begs her to take her life for reasons unknown. Meanwhile, one of the Four Major Human Errors begins to unfold in the undeveloped regions of the East and slowly inches toward them, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake...
The duel with Master Flare in the land of salt continues. Menou should have the upper hand now that she’s linked with Akari and her immense supply of Guiding Force, yet reality suggests otherwise. Master Flare still has a few secrets up her sleeve, and she’ll do anything to win. Meanwhile, a mysterious entity that’s hidden in the Star Memory for centuries emerges, ready to enact a plan one thousand years in the making. Menou and Akari have managed to triumph over every challenge set before them thus far, but they’ve never faced anything like what’s coming. Not everyone will escape alive this time...
Is the affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony unbreakable? When intellectuals attempt to retell history from its bottom side, or when writers try to represent the so-called marginalized subject, are they not simply reinforcing the perspective and agenda of society's hegemonic currents? Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation engages in a discussion of the problem of this potentially unbreakable affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony. Through five twentieth-century Mexican literary works: Pedro Páramo (1955, Juan Rulfo); Hasta no verte Jesús mío (1969, Elena Poniatowska); three short stories from Ciudad Real (1960, Rosario Castellanos); Llanto: Novelas imposibles (1992, Carmen Boullosa); and Muertos incómodos (falta lo que falta) (2005, Subcomandate Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II), this book attempts to examine the contradictory phenomenon that emerges when intellectuals' desire to represent a marginalized subject or history clashes with their own limited ability to fully know the marginalized. No critics have compiled these five seemingly unrelated Mexican texts in order to scrutinize such a contradictory tendency. Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation provides an innovative way to connect the five texts by delineating, within specific Mexican historical and geopolitical contexts, how and why intellectuals have difficulty moving away from the reproduction of «otherness», when they attempt to represent a marginalized subject or history. This book can be useful for those who are interested in the Spanish American boom literature, twentieth-century Mexican literature, women writing, testimonial writing, subaltern studies, postcolonial studies, historical novels, and cultural studies.
Connecting multiple academic areas, this book addresses three aspects of the poetry of José Watanabe: 1) the construction of "Japaneseness" in the poetic works and public figure of the poet, 2) the skillful manipulation of literary devices characteristic of his poetry, 3) the unique sensibilities and moods of ephemerality and ineffableness prevalent in his poetic works. The trans/interdisciplinary nature of the book intends to promote a dialogue and exchange of ideas across academic fields neglected in most studies on the Peruvian poet. Written by researchers based in Japan, it offers a unique perspective of Japanese cultural phenomenon unavailable in previous studies. The goal of the book is to shed light on how Japan continues to be seen by the West through essentialist notions and stereotypical representations, as well as to highlight the fact that the literary quality of Watanabe’s poetic artistry does not reside in it being “Japanese” and can be appreciated without resorting to essentialist categorizations based on positive Japanese stereotypes.
Your eyes don’t deceive you, Alina! That’s Guildmaster Glen Garia waiting at your reception desk in the Iffole Counter. And yes, of course he knows-that's his skill, after all. So listen to your boss and meet the elite Silver Sword party at the guild headquarters. All you’ll have to do for him to overlook your moonlighting is to win a few little bouts... Is not only her day-job, but her life at risk as well? Or can the strongest skill blow away the details of an employment contract too?
TAKE A HAMMER TO OVERWORK!Alina Clover signed up to be a receptionist for the Adventurers Guildthinking it would be her ticket to the good life—stable pay, regular hours, and safe workplace conditions. Unfortunately, her dream gig turns into a nightmare of endless paper work and overtime whenever the adventurers she helps coordinate get stuck clearing a dungeon. But people aren’t made to grind forever, so Alina sneaks off at night to give the monsters holding things up a beatdown, courtesy of her massive war hammer. Keeping this all under wraps to avoid violating her office’s ban on second jobs is difficult, especially when the tales of her exploits start to spread, but Alina somehow manages to keep her identity safe...until the leader of the strongest party in the guild catches her defeating a boss one fateful night! Does Alina have what it takes to stop her life from going topsy-turvy?!
Menou sets out after Flare, determined to take back Akari. If Akari must die, Menou is determined to be the one that kills her, at the very least. To do so, Menou must seek the Sword of Salt—a difficult task even without a time limit. Still, the Executioner is determined to triumph and surpass her former teacher, no matter what taboos she must commit...
The new dungeon, Chalk Tower, is riddled with unpredictable situations—first, boss-class foes wandering the halls, and then the annihilation of Rufus’ party at the hands of an unknown enemy...! Silver Sword reluctantly opts for a temporary withdrawal. That means escape from adventuring duty for Alina, and a return at last to her beloved job as a receptionist! But for some reason, a sense of unease lingers... Meanwhile, Rufus joins Silver Sword as the vanguard and the party attempts to clear the Chalk Tower once more. But do they have any chance against a humanoid monster with Divine Relic!?
Long-buried secrets. Menou and her group venture deep into the City of Ruins to reach the Astrologer, who controls the Starhusk. Instead of finding the ultimate weapon to defeat Hakua, they discover a lost one who should’ve died a thousand years ago. And she’s not the only one hiding below. Genom Cthulha has left the Mechanical Society to set himself up in the ancient city. Does Menou stand a chance against an enemy even Master Flare couldn’t beat?
ENJOYING YOURSELF IS HARD WORK! Iffole’s annual Centennial Festival is right around the corner, and Alina is hell-bent on indulging in the food and fun this year instead of working overtime like she did the last two festivals. But just a few days before the event kicks off, her aspirations are jeopardized when a massive group of adventurers swarm Iffole Counter! It turns out they’ve all been tricked into believing that anyone who finds and clears a secret quest will get a powerful Dia kill. So what’s a girl to do? Simple—give the creator of that baseless rumor a beatdown!
Half a year has passed since Menou’s battle with Master Flare. Still on the run from the Faust, she searches for a way to restore Akari, her dearest friend. Her hunt leads her to the Starhusk, one of the Four Major Human Errors. A once in a decade event called “the Hatching” seems to be the key. But to have any chance of reaching the Starhusk, Menou must contend with the Inquisitor Ivory dispatched to stop her-Michele.
When Alina is assigned to oversee a battle tournament held once every four years, she knows she's in for one hell of a workload. Good thing Iffole Counter is holding the grand prize, a rare and valuable statue which is, crucially, unbreakable—it’s the perfect thing to take out her frustrations on. That is, until she smacks it too hard, and its head pops right off! Will she have to pay for it? And worse, what if someone finds out a mere receptionist broke the unbreakable? Alina’s only choice is to glue the thing back together, win the tournament, and take home the prize herself!
With the development of new synthetic procedures and technological processes, the interest in biomimicry has gathered rejuvenation in the past decades. One particularly interesting research method is the atomic layer deposition (ALD), which was established in various fields of technology as a vacuum-based chemical-processing technique and enabler for the deposition of extremely thin functional coatings. The benefits of this technology over similar techniques make it increasingly attractive for applications in biomimicry. In this chapter, short descriptions of the technology and its benefits and drawbacks are given. Subsequently, we summarize development in various research topics involving ALD and biomimicry.
Phospholipids are no longer considered exclusively as the building blocks of biomembranes, but are now regarded to be exceptionally important to cellular signalling.Another conclusion resulting from studies over the past several years is that no single general scheme for the role of phospholipids during cell activation can be drawn as representative of all cells. This book presents a comprehensive view of the recent advances made in certain major research areas within the field of phospholipid metabolism in cellular signalling. Topics discussed within this volume include lipid composition of cellular membranes and their organization in biological systems, the dynamic aspects of phospholipid metabolism and its regulation by extracellular stimuli, and the role of newly discovered glycosyl-phosphatidylinositols in insulin action . The book also discusses two biologically active phospholipids: the sphingolipids, and ether-linked glycerophospholipids (the platelet activating factor). Phospholipid Metabolism in Cellular Signaling is an important research reference that should be considered required reading by all scientists and graduate students working on cell activation (e.g., growth factors, hormones, and oncogenes).
Alina Clover thought being a receptionist for the Adventurers Guild would be her ticket to the good life...but her dream gig turns into an overtime nightmare whenever adventurers get stuck clearing a dungeon. To save herself from paperwork, Alina turns to the simplest solution at hand—beating down the monsters herself! A mysterious adventurer showing up out of nowhere, soloing the boss, then disappearing without taking credit is bound to create rumors, and Alina’s treasured job forbids side hustles. So there might be trouble when the leader of the Silver Sword party discovers her secret...!
Journey to where the fog never lifts… Libelle, a city by the sea. Those who venture into its fog are said never to make it back alive—a murderous phenomenon that’s another of the Four Major Human Errors that has ravaged the world. But for Menou, it just may be the solution she’s looking for. To fulfill her role as Executioner, she needs to find a way to murder Akari, the girl who seems to spring back to life whenever she’s killed. Maybe this time, Menou will be successful in carrying out her duty... but a calculated encounter with Manon, the daughter of Count Libelle, shifts all their fates in a direction that even Akari never could have predicted. Just what will become of the Executioner and her seemingly unkillable target...?
Despite her best efforts to avoid doing so, Alina Clover finds herself sneaking off in the night yet again to smash monsters (and walls) in dungeons to cut down on her overtime. But a glimmer of hope emerges when Alina learns of a new policy being implemented at the reception counter: Employees who submit a compelling operational improvement plan will be given a day off on their birthday. Now Alina is fixated on getting that birthday break...even though she’s totally stumped for ideas to propose!
Red is improving rapidly as a Pokemon trainer, and so is his competition. But now Red must team up with his biggest rival Blue and thief Green to defeat a common enemy!
Sirènes sylvestres La forêt d’Aokigahara au Japon, autrement appelée “la mer d’arbres” ou “la forêt des suicidés”... Un homme y perd la vie, comme guidé par de mystérieuses créatures. Quelque temps après, Kai, son petit frère, arrive sur place, bien décidé à découvrir les raisons de sa disparition. Mais au fur et à mesure qu'il s'enfonce au cœur de cette forêt, le lieu semble se transformer... Et si la rencontre d'un humain et d'une sirène pouvait influencer l'avenir du monde ? Après Jizo, Ningyo est la deuxième collaboration de la dessinatrice Mato et Mr Tan sur le thème des folklores japonais. De la fusion de ces deux esprits créatifs est née une forêt envoûtante où le rêve se mélange à la réalité, où l'Histoire se conjugue avec le présent. Suicide, extinction d'une ethnie... les sujets abordés ne sont pas faciles, mais la douceur du trait de Mato, comme le regard bienveillant que Mr Tan porte sur son récit ne laissent jamais l'obscurité prendre le pas sur l'espoir. Sensible et onirique, Ningyo plaira bien évidemment à tous ceux qui ont aimé Jizo, mais aussi à toute personne s'intéressant au manga pour une première lecture.
Adventures inspired by the best-selling Pokémon video games! All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga! More exciting Pokémon adventures starring Gold and his rival Silver! First someone steals Gold's backpack full of Poké Balls (and Pokémon!). Then someone steals Prof. Elm's Totodile. Can Gold catch the thief--or thieves?! Keep an eye on Team Rocket, Gold... Could they be behind this crime wave?
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