Focusing on African American novelist Gloria Naylor’s fiction Mama Day, this article intends to analyze Mama Day and George’s distinctive relationships with maternal spaces, particularly based on French philosopher ...Focusing on African American novelist Gloria Naylor’s fiction Mama Day, this article intends to analyze Mama Day and George’s distinctive relationships with maternal spaces, particularly based on French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s philosophy concerning maternal spaces and a feminine way of communication. It is to argue that the two characters’ different ways of communicating with the maternal spaces result in their different endings in the narrative, as well as their different degrees of healing, either healing their own wounded relationships with their mothers or healing the disconnection between men and women. This finding unravels Naylor’s implicit ethical and philosophical messages in writing George’s mystic and tragic death. In addition, by engaging Mama Day in active and feminine communication with maternal spaces, Naylor successfully re-establishes “the missing pillar” of the female ancestry that Irigaray observes on Western civilization, thus offering a possibility for a woman to construct her female subjectivity with reference to her maternal origin.展开更多
The Gloria Hotels & Resorts 2011 Road Show kicked off on September 1 at the Celebrity International Grand Hotel Beijing with a "Xiexie Evening." The cele bration was held to thank media, corporate client...The Gloria Hotels & Resorts 2011 Road Show kicked off on September 1 at the Celebrity International Grand Hotel Beijing with a "Xiexie Evening." The cele bration was held to thank media, corporate clients,travel agents and partners for their support of Gloria Hotels & Resorts in China and abroad.During the evening,展开更多
This essay analyzes the Mestizo consciousness in Borderlands:The New Mestiza,by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua,together with the short story“Olhos d'Agua”by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo...This essay analyzes the Mestizo consciousness in Borderlands:The New Mestiza,by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua,together with the short story“Olhos d'Agua”by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo.In both works,there is an attempt to return to the indigenous tradition as a way of opposing Western male domination.Both writers,belonging to historically marginalized social groups and finding themselves in the middle of two cultures,take elements from precolonial cultures in their texts to propose a decolonized new way of understanding the world.展开更多
A signing ceremony was held recently at Kolam Gloria Plaza Hotel Hefei for the signing of the management contract between Gloria Hotels and Resorts and The Real
The present study was carried out in Tungnath alpine meadows of Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary,Western Himalaya from subalpine to upper alpine zone.A total of four summits were selected along an altitudinal gradient an...The present study was carried out in Tungnath alpine meadows of Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary,Western Himalaya from subalpine to upper alpine zone.A total of four summits were selected along an altitudinal gradient and sampled for detailed vegetation analysis using multi summit approach as per Global observation research initiative in alpine environments(GLORIA).Species richness,diversity,and evenness among four summits as well as the interaction between environmental variables with plant communities were assessed.Monthly mean soil temperature was calculated using data retrieved from geo-precision temperature logger in order to identify the trend of soil temperature among different season and altitudinal gradient and its implications to plant communities.Soil samples were analyzed fromeach summit by collecting randomized composite soil samples.The indirect non-metric multidimensional scaling(NMDS)and direct canonical correspondence analysis(CCA)tools of ordination techniques to determine the linkage between plant species from various sample summits and biotic/abiotic environmental gradients were used in the present study.The results of the study demonstrated increase in species richness as soil temperature increases,the ecotone representing summits were found most warm summits followed by highest species richness.Annual soil temperature increased by 1.43°C at timberline ecotone.Whereas,at upper alpine zone the soil temperature increased by 0.810 C from year 2015 to 2016.S?rensen's similarity index was found to be increased between subalpine and upper alpine zone with increase in the presence of subalpine plant species at upper alpine zone.Both the ordination tools separate the subalpine summit and their respective vegetation from summits representingtimberline ecotone and upper alpine zone.Soil p H,altitude,soil cation exchange capacity were found as the key abiotic drivers for distribution of plant species.展开更多
文摘Focusing on African American novelist Gloria Naylor’s fiction Mama Day, this article intends to analyze Mama Day and George’s distinctive relationships with maternal spaces, particularly based on French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s philosophy concerning maternal spaces and a feminine way of communication. It is to argue that the two characters’ different ways of communicating with the maternal spaces result in their different endings in the narrative, as well as their different degrees of healing, either healing their own wounded relationships with their mothers or healing the disconnection between men and women. This finding unravels Naylor’s implicit ethical and philosophical messages in writing George’s mystic and tragic death. In addition, by engaging Mama Day in active and feminine communication with maternal spaces, Naylor successfully re-establishes “the missing pillar” of the female ancestry that Irigaray observes on Western civilization, thus offering a possibility for a woman to construct her female subjectivity with reference to her maternal origin.
文摘The Gloria Hotels & Resorts 2011 Road Show kicked off on September 1 at the Celebrity International Grand Hotel Beijing with a "Xiexie Evening." The cele bration was held to thank media, corporate clients,travel agents and partners for their support of Gloria Hotels & Resorts in China and abroad.During the evening,
文摘This essay analyzes the Mestizo consciousness in Borderlands:The New Mestiza,by Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldua,together with the short story“Olhos d'Agua”by the Afro-Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo.In both works,there is an attempt to return to the indigenous tradition as a way of opposing Western male domination.Both writers,belonging to historically marginalized social groups and finding themselves in the middle of two cultures,take elements from precolonial cultures in their texts to propose a decolonized new way of understanding the world.
文摘A signing ceremony was held recently at Kolam Gloria Plaza Hotel Hefei for the signing of the management contract between Gloria Hotels and Resorts and The Real
基金conducted as a part of the project Alpine Ecosystem Dynamicssupported by SAC,ISRO,Ahmedabad,India(EPSA/ABHG/ALPINE/PRACRITI-II 01/13)
文摘The present study was carried out in Tungnath alpine meadows of Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary,Western Himalaya from subalpine to upper alpine zone.A total of four summits were selected along an altitudinal gradient and sampled for detailed vegetation analysis using multi summit approach as per Global observation research initiative in alpine environments(GLORIA).Species richness,diversity,and evenness among four summits as well as the interaction between environmental variables with plant communities were assessed.Monthly mean soil temperature was calculated using data retrieved from geo-precision temperature logger in order to identify the trend of soil temperature among different season and altitudinal gradient and its implications to plant communities.Soil samples were analyzed fromeach summit by collecting randomized composite soil samples.The indirect non-metric multidimensional scaling(NMDS)and direct canonical correspondence analysis(CCA)tools of ordination techniques to determine the linkage between plant species from various sample summits and biotic/abiotic environmental gradients were used in the present study.The results of the study demonstrated increase in species richness as soil temperature increases,the ecotone representing summits were found most warm summits followed by highest species richness.Annual soil temperature increased by 1.43°C at timberline ecotone.Whereas,at upper alpine zone the soil temperature increased by 0.810 C from year 2015 to 2016.S?rensen's similarity index was found to be increased between subalpine and upper alpine zone with increase in the presence of subalpine plant species at upper alpine zone.Both the ordination tools separate the subalpine summit and their respective vegetation from summits representingtimberline ecotone and upper alpine zone.Soil p H,altitude,soil cation exchange capacity were found as the key abiotic drivers for distribution of plant species.
