Thundering and inventive, The Arid Sky narrates the signature moments in the life of Germán Alcantara Carnero: a man who is both exaltedly, viscerally real and is an ageless, nameless being capable of embodying entire eras, cultures, and conflicts. This is an unsparing yet magnificent land, whose only constants are loneliness, hatred, loyalty, and the struggle to return some small measure of meaning to life.
In addition to literature, the book considers examples of villainy in film, TV and media, revealing that performance, performative control and maneuverability are the common characteristics of villains across the different literary and filmic genres and eras studied in the volume.ĭescribed as “a literary atomic bomb” (Luisán Gámez), Mexican literary star Emiliano Monge’s English-language debut is the Latin American incarnation of Cormac McCarthy: an artistically daring, gorgeously wrought, and eviscerating novel of biblical violence as told through the story of a man “who, though he did not know it, was the era in which he lived.” Set on a desolate, unnamed mesa, Emiliano Monge’s The Arid Sky distills the essence of a Latin America ruthlessly hollowed out by uncontainable violence. The volume covers medieval literature to contemporary literature and also examines important aspects of evil in literature such as social and political identity, the gothic and systemic evil practices. This collection brings together scholars and artists with different institutional standings, cultural backgrounds and (inter)disciplinary interests with the aim of energizing the ongoing discussion of the generic and thematic issues related to the representation of villainy and evil in literature and media. Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras.
Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media Book Review: The work can be useful in guiding how the appraisal framework can be applied in textual analysis. The work is also based on Bakhtin's notion that all language is in some ways dialogic. It is also endeavored to find how this analysis is used to create and resist power structure. The work also focuses on the lexical choices which create a web of power relations and this appraisal analysis. The work addresses the issue of how major and minor characters in My Feudal Lord foregrounds interpersonal resources in negotiating poer in the existing power system. She explores the role that evaluative meanings play in the dissemination of ideology in negotiation of writer/reader relationship. The author offers an insight into the nature of evaluative language. The author has applied this framework to explore the power structure in My Feudal Lord, an autobiographical book by Tehmina Durrani. Power Structure Embedded In Tehmina Durrani s My Feudal Lord Book Review:Īppraisal Framework has been duly acknowledged and given due importance in the works of J.R Martin and Peter White. Saga's record of his long conversations with him provides a wonderful substitute for that meeting. And in the end, when his tale is finished, you feel you would probably have liked him if you'd met him in person. What emerges is a contradictory personality: tough but not unsentimental stubborn yet willing to take life more or less as it comes impulsive but careful to observe the rules of the business he had joined.
He explains how the games were run and the profits spent why the ties between members of "the brotherhood" were so important and how he came to kill a man who worked for him. Briefly, and matter-of-factly, he describes how he cut off the little finger of his left hand as a ritual gesture of apology. He remembers his first love affair, and the girl he ran away with, and the weeks they spent wandering about the countryside together. He talks about his first police raid, and the brutal interrogation and imprisonment that followed it. In his low, hoarse voice, he describes the random events that led the son of a prosperous country shopkeeper to become a member, and ultimately the leader, of a gang organizing illegal dice games in Tokyo's liveliest entertainment area. It wasn’t a "good" life, in either sense of the word, but it was an adventurous one and the tale he has to tell presents an honest and oddly attractive picture of an insider in that separate, unofficial world. This is the true story, as told to the doctor who looked after him just before he died, of the life of one of the last traditional yakuza in Japan.