Introduction

Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays from Supernova Remnants

“…As it is seen in Fig.7 Fermi data are situated almost in the middle between the predictions of leptonic and hadronic scenarios. While the hard measured spectrum at GeV energies is interpreted by the Fermi collaboration [82] and in some theoretical considerations [83,84] as a strong argument in favor of a leptonic scenario the origin of γ-ray emission of RX J1713.7-3946 is still debated.…”

Amiable with Big Teeth: The Case of Claude McKay’s Last Novel

“…66 In this way, the literary metamorphosis of facts into clues points to an archival morality that shows factual evidence to always be manipulated, made malleable by poetic and deceitful political hands, and that takes "advantage of the novel's capacity for telling the truth while actually telling a 'lie.'" 67 It is in this sense that McKay's archival aesthetic is a hidden ethic, a responsibility he feels toward his readers. In reconstituting, reactivating, reclassifying and rewriting his own vagabond archive, McKay appropriates for himself, and in the service of his community, the strategies usually reserved for institutional or imperial governance.…”

The Color of Memory

“…These intrusions, for example, the possessions of the evicted family or the encounter with the white woman, are at the same time calls to look around the corner, to "confront, to peer into, the shadow of [the] past." 81 That is the evocative function of the traces scattered, kaleidoscope-like, throughout the Invisible Man. They mark out an uneven social landscape in which the past protrudes, incompletely but insistently, into the here-and-now.…”

“…63 The loss of a past is then intimately related to identity as a problem, a question that, Ellison says, gives purpose to his writing. 64 People place themselves in the world, distinguish themselves from others, and come to recognize themselves through a gathering in of the past. This they do as individuals (as in Ellison's focus on the memorial power of names, objects, smells, and so on) and as a community.…”

“…First, Ellison was sharply critical of what he took to be an oversimplifying emphasis on race, and a neglect of the "complex resources" of the African American heritage including its part in a shared American experience. 10 He is therefore often read, and sometimes criticized or praised, as an author who resisted the idea of race and culture, offering in its place a view of (or hope for) the United States as post-racial, though fed from the tributaries of its many communities. 11 To be sure, Ellison objected to a narrow focus on race, and to the idea of a black culture apart from its context, preferring instead to emphasize its diversity and its place in the confluence of American life.…”