RECREATING HOME: AN ANALYSIS OF PREETHI NAIR'S ONE HUNDRED SHADES OF WHITE

Immigrant writers depict the multi-cultural ethos, which gyrate around questions of belonging, race, gender, sexuality, cultural differences and multiple identities. This involves the recognition of 'difference', 'otherness' 'femaleness', 'colour', 'ethnicity', in short, pluralism as such. The writers reveal the Indian diaspora as heterogeneous and not as something monolithic, for the paradigms from within which each immigrant writer works out her raw materials vary. The nuances of cultural interaction become the striking thematic link evident in their works. They incorporate the experiences of dislocation experienced by immigrant women protagonists in their respective foreign spaces. The Indian immigrants, who vacillate between the two cultures, confront identity crisis which is painful, yet inevitable. Preethi Nair's One Hundred Shades of White depicts the attempts made by the protagonists Nalini and Maya to ?nd a meaningful place for themselves in the foreign culture to which they have migrated.

Pátria, mátria, frátria: construção da geografia emocional / Patria, matria, fratria: construcción de la geografía emocional / Pátria, mátria, frátria: constructing an emotional geography

A autora parte de uma trajetória de vida por três continentes para construir a narrativa de uma geografia emocional (pátria, mátria, frátria). Lança mão dos conceitos de estranho (Freud) e de conflito estético (Meltzer) para pensar a experiência externa da violência traumática da perda do país de nascimento e as inevitáveis rupturas das migrações involuntárias, paralelamente à construção interna do sentimento de pertença e de identidade. Pátria, exílio e língua/cultura são os três eixos, intra e intersubjetivos, ao redor dos quais articula a transformação da tragédia do destino em espaço potencial de criatividade em face das perdas catastróficas.

La autora parte de una trayectoria de vida en tres continentes para construir la narrativa de una geografía emocional (patria, matria, fratria). Utiliza conceptos como lo siniestro (Freud) y el conflicto estético (Meltzer) para pensar la experiencia externa de la violencia traumática de la pérdida del país natal y las rupturas inevitables de las sucesivas migraciones involuntarias, viviendo simultáneamente la construcción interna del sentimiento de pertenencia y de identidad. Patria, exilio y lengua/cultura son los tres ejes, intra e intersubjetivos, en torno a los cuales se articula la transformación del destino trágico en un espacio potencial creativo ante las pérdidas catastróficas.

The author's purpose in this paper is to elaborate the narrative of an emotional geography by recounting a life journey across three continents. The author makes use of Freud's definition of uncanny and Meltzer's concept of aesthetic conflict in order to analyze the external experience of the traumatic violence of losing the country of birth. According to this author, unavoidable disruptions of involuntary migration have happened while the sense of belonging and identity has been internally developed. Homeland, exile and language/culture are the three intra and inter-subjective axes around which the author develops her narrative. She writes about the way tragedy of fate may turn into a potential space of creativity towards catastrophic losses.

Reseña histórica de la Cátedra Martiana de la Facultad de Enfermería "Lidia Doce"

La Extensión Universitaria de la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana se ha redimensionado y dentro de su quehacer encontramos la atención a las Cátedras Martianas que constituyen un área de resultados claves de gran importancia en torno al conocimiento de la vida y obra de José Martí y otros próceres latinoamericanos, y propician un espacio académico de reflexión y debate, además de contribuir a la formación integral de los futuros profesionales de la salud. Se realizó un estudio de corte histórico con el objetivo de describir la historia de la Cátedra Martiana de la Facultad de Enfermería "Lidia Doce". Se utilizaron, como método teórico, el análisis documental y, como método empírico, las entrevistas. Se concluye que la Cátedra Martiana ha contribuido al desarrollo de valores, profundizado en el estudio de la vida y obra de José Martí y fomentado en nuestros estudiantes, profesores y trabajadores el estudio de la historia de la patria, y contribuir así a la formación integral de los futuros profesionales de la salud.

The University Extension in the Havana University of Medical Sciences has resized and inside its tasks we find the dedication to the Marti's Cathedra that constitutes an area of key results of great importance about the knowledge of the life and work of José Martí and other Latin American eminent persons, propitiating an academic space for the reflection and debating, also contributing to the integral education of the futures professional in the health sector. Was carried out a historical study with the goal of describing the history of the Marti's Cathedra of the of Nursing College "Lidia Doce" It was used as theoretical methods the analysis of documentation and as an empiric method, the interviews. Was concluded that the Marti's Cathedra of Nursing College "Lidia Doce"", has contributed to the development of values, deepen inside the study of the life and work of José Martí, also encouraging our students, professors and workers the study of the homeland's history, contributing at the same time to the integral formation of the futures professional of the health sector.

Será possível acabar de uma vez por todas com o exílio? "O xale", de Cynthia Ozick / Can we finish with exile? "The shawl" by Cynthia Ozick

O exílio, do francês antigo essl, que provém do latim exsillum, significa a expulsão de alguém de sua pátria, com proibição de retornar. É a obrigação de residir fora de um lugar, longe de uma pessoa cuja ausência é lamentada. No conto "The shawl" [O xale] da escritora norte-americana Cynthia Ozick, o xale do bebê pode ser bebido como um líquido, como se o sujeito fosse uma criança, como se fosse seu próprio filho. Nós não podemos sair de uma vez por todas de nossa condição de infans, aquele que não fala. Não há paraíso perdido do qual estaríamos exilados - nossa infância, por exemplo.

Can we finish with exile? Exile, from the old French essil, which comes from the Latin exsillum, means the expelling of someone from his/her homeland and the forbidding to return. It's the enforcement to living out of a place, away from someone whose absence is mourned. In the novel The Shawl, by the American novelist Cynthia Ozick, the baby's shawl can be drunk as if it was liquid, as if one were a baby, one's own child. We cannot leave once and forever our condition of infans, that which doesn't speak. There's no lost paradise from where we were exiled - our childhood, for instance.

The five spirits should be advocated in scientific research / 中国实用内科杂志

Academician Zhong Nanshan advocates to broad scientific and technical workers nationwide five spirits which should be upheld in scientific research:first,scientific and technical workers should love their homeland;second,they should respect and promote science;third,they should advocate innovation;fourth,they should respect and stick to honesty;and fifth,they should advocate the spirit of cooperation.