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Journeys of Becoming: Hair, the Blogosphere and Theopoetics in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

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Darroch F.
Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture
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2020
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issue 10
135-150
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah provides provocative reflections on intertextuality and becoming by exploring the potentially transformative power of “blog-writing.” Through a combined reading of Mayra Rivera’s Poetics of the Flesh and Adichie’s Americanah, this article details intersections between the virtual and the material; writing in the (imagined “other-wordly”) blogosphere about the organic matter of hair. The narrator of the novel, Ifemelu, establishes a blog after she shares her story to decide to stop using relaxants and to allow her hair to be natural, via an online chat-room; she refuses to go through ritual performances in order to succeed as a migrant in America. In this article I argue that Adichie’s detailing of Ifemelu’s relationship with her hair explores the way in which creative practice, or poetics, is intimately connected to the journey of our flesh; social history is marked on our bodies. The blog becomes a confessional which details the demeaning effect that social constructions of race have had on her body. But the blog ultimately becomes self-destructive. It is only when Ifemelu returns to Nigeria that she embodies the transformative and cathartic power of contemporary modes of story-telling, and where she is finally able to “spin herself into being.”
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Włosy w kobiecych narracjach lagrowych

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Czarnecka B.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
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2017
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vol. 42
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issue 4
189-211
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The article is the analysis of women’s lager narrations that reflect the procedure of shaving hair applied to female lager prisoners. It shows cultural, social and psychological meanings of this procedure, presents it as the element of the wide scale lager violence strategy, degradation ritual, the form of female identity and intimacy violation. Through the presentation of various circumstances in which women were shaved in concentration camps the text presents the situation complexity of the lager experience – its phases and the context. The article relates the variety of sources and includes the experiences of women of different nationalities, for example: German, Polish, Jewish.
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Użyteczność identyfikacyjna sierści psa (Canis lupus familiaris) i kota (Felis catus) na podstawie wybranych cech budowy morfologicznej w aspekcie badań kryminalistycznych

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Karczmarczyk S., Gryzińska M.
Problemy Kryminalistyki
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2019
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issue 306
21-32
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Theoretical assumptions of this the work present the range of selected morphological features of the dog (Canis lupus familiaris) and cat (Felis catus) hair. The practical part consisted in morphological analysis of 270 samples of dog and cat hair recovered during an investigation conducted in the territory of Cracow by the local Prosecutor’s Office. For this purpose, microscopic slides were made and analysed under an optical microscope for: colour, life cycle phase, shape of the medulla and the end of hair. Analysis of the results from the part dedicated to the examination allows answering the question whether microscopic analysis of dog and cat hairs based on selected morphological features allows identification of species.
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Teoretyczne założenia tematu pracy przedstawiają zakres wybranych cech morfologicznych sierści psa (Canis lupus familiaris) i kota (Felis catus). W ramach części praktycznej dokonano analizy morfologicznej 270 próbek sierści psa i kota zabezpieczonych podczas śledztwa prowadzonego na terytorium Krakowa przez miejscową prokuraturę. W tym celu sporządzono preparaty mikroskopowe i za pomocą mikroskopu optycznego analizowano je pod kątem: barwy, fazy cyklu życiowego, kształtu rdzenia oraz zakończenia. Analiza wyników z części badawczej pozwala odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy analiza mikroskopowa sierści psa i kota oparta na wybranych cechach morfologicznych umożliwia jej identyfikację gatunkową.
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Znaczenie włosów w obrzędach żałobnych wybranych kultur antycznych: grecko-rzymskiej i egipskiej

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Liwoch B.
Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
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2014
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issue 1
103-115
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Hair carried a significant symbolic value among the cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt. In this article I analyse the connection between hair and funeral customs, ceremonies and the mourning. Firstly I discuss Greek and Roman rituals. Subsequently I try to confront mentioned notions with Egyptian culture. Main rituals that undergo comparison are: shaving, cutting, growing and letting hair loose. I also try to explain these ceremonial gestures. In the analysis that I carried out I use examples of literary nature as well as historic ones.
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Women’s hair in Lager narratives

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Czarnecka B.
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
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2017
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vol. 46
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issue 8
145-166
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The article offers an analysis of women’s Lager narratives in which the procedure of removing hair from female prisoners of concentration camps was reflected. It indicates the procedure’s cultural, social, and psychological meanings presenting it as an element of the extensive camp strategy of violence, a ritual of downgrading, and a form of violating a woman’s identity and intimacy. By presenting various circumstances in which women were shaved in the camps, it also indicates the situation-based complexity of the camp experience, its various stages, and contexts. The text refers to various sources, and considers the experiences of women of various nationalities, e.g. Germans, Poles, and Jews.
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