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76 · Representative Documents: Websites Showcasing Faculty Research VIRGINIA TECH Visible Scholarship Initiative http://www.lib.vt.edu/events/vsi/ Visible Scholarship Initiative |University Libraries |Virginia Tech http://www.lib.vt.edu/events/vsi/[9/17/14 12:36:21 PM] America Exemplary ambivalence in late nineteenth- century Spanish America addresses the curiously “bad” examples written into Spanish American creole narratives from the end of the 19th century. Such narratives, authored by the post- independence creole elite, seek to shape their readers by prescribing socio-political ideals for the Spanish American republics. This study interrogates the ideological fissures within postcolonial social and racial mythologies, reading exemplarity as an unintentional narrative of creole writing subjects’ social fears. Max O. Stephenson and Laura Zanotti: Building walls and dissolving borders Walls play multiple social, political, economic and cultural roles and are linked to the fundamental question of how human beings live together. Globalization and urbanization have created high population density, rapid migration, growing poverty, income inequality and frequent discontent and conflict among heterogeneous populations. The writers in this volume explore how walls are changing in this era, when social “containers” have become porous, proximity has been redefined, circulation has intensified and the state as a way of organizing political life is being questioned. The authors analyze how walls articulate with other social boundaries to address feelings of vulnerability and anxiety and how they embody governmental processes, public and social contestation, fears and notions of identity and alterity. Matthew Heaton: Black skin, white coats Black Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s. Working in the contexts of decolonization and anticolonial nationalism, Nigerian psychiatrists sought to replace racist colonial psychiatric theories about the psychological inferiority of Africans with a universal and egalitarian model focusing on broad psychological similarities across cultural and racial boundaries. Corinne Noirot: Entre Deux Airs Rhétorique et poétique entretiennent à la Renaissance un dialogue fructueux et tendu, qu’éclaire dans cet essai l’examen comparatif et rarement pratiqué de deux poètes traditionnellement opposés. Clément Marot et Joachim Du Bellay font ici l’objet d’un parallèle qui ne raisonne pas en termes d’influence du premier sur le second, les deux projets poétiques restant très contrastés. De part et d’autre du prétendu fossé de 1550, Marot et Du Bellay choisirent chacun à leur manière de ressusciter et de reconvertir le style simple (ou bas) de la tradition rhétorique, le genus humile ou subtile. Comment, pourquoi oser ainsi revendiquer le moins lyrique et le plus prosaïque des genres de discours ?Si humanisme, évangélisme et gallicanisme sous-tendent en