Jim Breen’s Japanese Page

Narration in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim: A Postcolonial Reading

This study is an attempt at a colonial and postcolonial reading of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. It is specifically focused on the narrative strategies used in the novel. In other words, it investigates the connection between the narrative strategy and a possible tone of imperialism in Conrad’s novel. For the introduction, a brief review of Conrad’s manner of writing and his peculiar ambiguity is p...

The Introductory Essay: Richard Wright's Covert Challenging of Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism

Richard Wright’s introductory essay to his collection of short stories Uncle Tom's Children describes hidden forms of resistance against Jim Crowism and Uncle Tomism. The essay entitled The Ethics of Living Jim Crow: An Autobiographical Sketch relates Wright’s daily confrontations with Jim Crowism with a particular emphasis on his evasive actions, and his covert activities, such as silence, pla...

Cubic Structures and Ideal Class Groups

We establish a generalization of Breen’s theory of cubic structures on line bundles over group schemes. We study such “n-cubic structures” inductively using multiextensions. As a result we obtain information on the set of isomorphism classes of line bundles with n-cubic structures over finite multiplicative group schemes over Spec (Z) by relating this set to certain corresponding eigenspaces of...

The CSC as an LF condition: Evidence from Neg-raising in Japanese

Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America In

s for the Annual Meeting are planned to go into the June issue and will be organized by Program Chair Elwin Stewart. We hope to post the abstracts on the MSA Home Page. Wes on the MSA Home Page. We are looking for a volunteer to edit the new "Dialogue" section in Inoculumcontact Ellen Farr (or any MSA Officer) if you are interested. Controversial exchanges, when they arise for possible publicat...