This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature ...and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.
My Dear Boy Carmaletta Williams, John Tidwell
11/2013
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My Dear Boybrings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light. Carmaletta Williams and John Edgar Tidwell explain that scholars have neglected the vital role that correspondence ...between Carrie Hughes and her son Langston-Harlem Renaissance icon, renowned poet, playwright, fiction writer, autobiographer, and essayist-played in his work.The more than 120 heretofore unexamined letters presented here are a veritable treasure trove of insights into the relationship between mother Carrie and her renowned son Langston. Until now, a scholarly consensus had begun to emerge, accepting the idea of their lives and his art as simple and transparent. But as Williams and Tidwell argue, this correspondence is precisely where scholars should start in order to understand the underlying complexity in Carrie and Langston's relationship. By employing Family Systems Theory for the first time in Hughes scholarship, they demonstrate that it is an essential heuristic for analyzing the Hughes family and its influence on his work. The study takes the critical truism about Langston's reticence to reveal his inner self and shows how his responses to Carrie were usually not in return letters but, instead, in his created art. ThusMy Dear Boyreveals the difficult negotiations between family and art that Langston engaged in as he attempted to sustain an elusive but enduring artistic reputation.
On November 9 and 10, 1938, Nazi leadership unleashed an unprecedented orchestrated wave of violence against Jews in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland, supposedly in response to the assassination ...of a Nazi diplomat by a young Polish Jew, but in reality to force the remaining Jews out of the country. During the pogrom, Stormtroopers, Hitler Youth, and ordinary Germans murdered more than a hundred Jews (many more committed suicide) and ransacked and destroyed thousands of Jewish institutions, synagogues, shops, and homes. Thirty thousand Jews were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Volume 17 of the Casden Annual Review includes a series of articles presented at an international conference titled “New Perspectives on Kristallnacht: After 80 Years, the Nazi Pogrom in Global Comparison." Assessing events 80 years after the violent anti-Jewish pogrom of 1938, contributors to this volume offer new cutting-edge scholarship on the event and its repercussions. Contributors include scholars from the United States, Germany, Israel, and the United Kingdom who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including history, political science, and Jewish and media studies. Their essays discuss reactions to the pogrom by victims and witnesses inside Nazi Germany as well as by foreign journalists, diplomats, Jewish organizations, and Jewish print media. Several contributors to the volume analyze postwar narratives of and global comparisons to Kristallnacht, with the aim of situating this anti-Jewish pogrom in its historical context, as well as its place in world history.
En 1938 tuvo lugar en Glasgow la Empire Exhibition, un evento de escasa repercusión internacional por celebrarse un año antes de la segunda guerra mundial, cuando el conflicto entre las potencias ...europeas se comenzaba a percibir como inevitable. Sin embargo su estudio, dentro del ámbito del desarrollo del diseño y de la arquitectura moderna en Gran Bretaña, tiene mayor interés, al mostrar cómo el Art Déco, con sus formas gráciles y su vitalismo a lo Streamline Moderne, se había ido imponiendo con fuerza sobre el frío estilo racionalista importado desde 1933 por algunos de los arquitectos inmigrados desde Alemania y otros países.
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At the beginning of the Nazi period, 25,000 Jewish people lived in Tarnow, Poland. By the end of the Second World War, nine remained. Like Anne Frank, Israel Unger and his family hid for two years in ...an attic crawl space. Against all odds, they emerged alive. Now, after decades of silence, here is Unger’s “unwritten diary.”
Nine people lived behind that false wall above the Dagnan flour mill in Tarnow. Their stove was the chimney that went up through the attic; their windows were cracks in the wall. Survival depended on the food the adults were able to forage outside at night. Even at the end of the war, however, Jewish people emerging from hiding were not safe. After the infamous postwar Kielce pogrom, Israel’s parents sent him and his brother as “orphans” to France in a program called Rescue Children, a Europe-wide attempt to find homes for Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust. When the Unger family was finally reunited, they lived a precarious existence between France—as people sans pays —and England until the immigration papers for Canada came through in 1951.
In Montreal, in the world described so well by Mordecai Richler, Israel’s father, a co-owner of a factory in Poland, was reduced to sweeping factory floors. At the local yeshiva (Jewish high school), Israel discovered chemistry, and a few short years later he left poverty behind. He had a stellar academic career, married, and raised a family in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The Unwritten Diary of Israel Unger is as much a Holocaust story as it is a story of a young immigrant making every possible use of the opportunities Canada had to offer.
Haja vista que a tese de doutorado em Ciencias da Religiăo de Jung Mo Sung (a primeira a ser defendida na Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo) foi exatamente sobre a ausencia do tema da economia na ...Teologia da Libertaçao latino-americana. Na p. 49, nota de rodapé 64 há uma informaçao equivocada: a estátua de Nossa Senhora foi encontrada por pescadores nas águas do Rio Paraíba do Sul nas proximidades de Guaratinguetá, Estado de Sao Paulo, e năo "nas águas de Guaratinguetá, Minas Gerais" como está no texto. Há que se destacar a distinçao bem feita pelo autor entre a teologia pentecostal (teologia sob o signo do Espírito) da neopentecostal (teologia sob o signo da prosperidade). Mas observe-se que Von Sinner mencionou apenas en passant a teologia evangelical, ou da missao integral, produzida e veiculada pela Fraternidade Teológica Latino-Americana.
Vor allem in der deutschen Diskussion über Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine werden immer wieder Forderungen nach diplomatisch verhandelten Kompromissen zur Kriegsbeendigung laut. ...Verschiedene Möglichkeiten sind vorstellbar, doch hat keine das Potenzial, die Basis für einen halbwegs dauerhaften Friedensschluss zu bilden. Schaut man sich die Geschichte der Beendigung europäischer Kriege an, so zeigt sich, dass in der Konfrontation mit einem derart nationalistisch und kompromisslos auftretenden Akteur wie Russland der einzige Weg zu einem beständigen Frieden ein Regimewechsel ist. Dieser kann und darf nicht von außen bewirkt werden. Daher ist in diesem Fall eine Politik der Gegenmachtbildung des Westens vorerst die einzig verbleibende Strategie.
This book addresses a gap in Ishmael Reed scholarship by contextualizing his use of satire and by establishing which satirical techniques are most frequently used and when. It demonstrates that ...Reed's satire has evolved from a stage which frequently criticizes society through non-standard sexuality (as can be seen in his early novels) to a stage which frequently criticizes through logical argumentation (as can be seen in novels published after 1990). The book connects these two modes of satire to two types of American racism: overt (present in the public discourse until the Civil Rights Movement) and covert (present in the public discourse after the Civil Rights Movement). It concludes by illustrating that as overt racism became unacceptable in American public discourse, Ishmael Reed updated his satire so that it would remain an effective type of social critique. The book is intended for those interested in the novels of Ishmael Reed, African American literature, and satire.
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