Bert Williams-a Black man forced to perform in blackface who
challenged the stereotypes of minstrelsy. Eva Tanguay-an
entertainer with the signature song "I Don't Care" who flouted the
rules of ...propriety to redefine womanhood for the modern age. Julian
Eltinge-a female impersonator who entranced and unnerved audiences
by embodying the feminine ideal Tanguay rejected. At the turn of
the twentieth century, they became three of the most provocative
and popular performers in vaudeville, the form in which American
mass entertainment first took shape. A Revolution in Three
Acts explores how these vaudeville stars defied the standards
of their time to change how their audiences thought about what it
meant to be American, to be Black, to be a woman or a man. The
writer David Hajdu and the artist John Carey collaborate in this
work of graphic nonfiction, crafting powerful portrayals of
Williams, Tanguay, and Eltinge to show how they transformed
American culture. Hand-drawn images give vivid visual form to the
lives and work of the book's subjects and their world. This book is
at once a deft telling of three intricately entwined stories, a
lush evocation of a performance milieu with unabashed entertainment
value, and an eye-opening account of a key moment in American
cultural history with striking parallels to present-day questions
of race, gender, and sexual identity.
This article explores Elizabeth Madox Roberts' use of the colloquial term "techous" in her short story "The Scarecrow" to portray sexual difference in the rural American South. Referring to Jack ...Halberstam's work on rural queer identity, I discuss how techous, which is used to describe Joan, the story's protagonist, for her aversion to human touch, can be understood to represent a unique sexual identity. I analyze one of the story's central images—Joan's creation of a doppelgänger to scare away crows, which Roberts links symbolically to men—as a proto-trans* act, the creation of a body not defined by sex.
Wheeling focuses on Kentucky reconstruction which intrigue in Elizabeth Madox Roberts' "Record at Oak Hill." Roberts has been lauded mainly for her novels covering the sweep of white pioneer ...settlement in the Bluegrass State, where she lived most of her life. In A Buried Treasure (1931), the Civil War is indirectly referenced via the discovery of a pail of gold buried during the conflict. A farming family unearths and admires the treasure but ultimately reburies a past for which they have no use.
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The Jews of Pinsk is the most detailed and comprehensive history of a single Jewish community in any language. This second portion of this study focuses on Pinsk's turbulent final sixty years, ...showing the reality of life in this important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community. From the 1905 Russian revolution through World War One and the long prologue to the Holocaust, the sweep of world history and the fate of this dynamic center of Jewish life were intertwined. Pinsk's role in the bloody aftermath of World War One is still the subject of scholarly debates: the murder of 35 Jewish men from Pinsk, many from its educated elite, provoked the American and British leaders to send emissaries to Pinsk. Shohet argues that the executions were a deliberate ploy by the Polish military and government to intimidate the Jewish population of the new Poland. Despite an increasingly hostile Polish state, Pinsk's Jews managed to maintain their community through the 1920s and 30s-until World War Two brought a grim Soviet interregnum succeeded by the entry of the Nazis on July 4th, 1941.
For the first volume of this two-volume collection, see "a NULL"The Jews of Pinsk, 1506-1880.
Das Standardwerk zur Justiz im NS liegt nun in verbesserter Auflage vor. Eingehend wird der persönliche und berufliche Werdegang des Deutschnationalen Franz Gürtner (1881-1941), Hitlers langjährigem ...Justizministers, geschildert, der Aufbau eines zentral organisierten Justizapparates bis 1935, die Personalpolitik in der Justizverwaltung und in der Anwaltschaft, die Verfolgung von Straftaten von Angehörigen der "Bewegung", die Umgehung der Justiz bei illegalen Maßnahmen der politischen Führung, das brisante Verhältnis der Justiz zur SS und zur Polizei und die Entwicklung des Rechtswesens. Der Autor: Lothar Gruchmann war bis zu seine Pensionierung langjähriger wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Zeitgeschichte. Pressestimmen zur 1. Auflage: "Das nun von Lothar Gruchmann nach vieljährigen Studien vorgelegte monumentale Werk ist nicht nur wissenschaftsgeschichtlich ein Abschluß, indem es die Perspektive persönlicher Schuldzuschreibungen verläßt und endgültig Historiographie im klassischen Sinne bietet, es ist auch die wohl bedeutsamste Forschungsleistung zum Rechtswesen des NS-Staates, die wir bis jetzt haben. ... Geschichtswissenschaft und Neuere Rechtsgeschichte sind Lothar Gruchmann für diese Leistung zu großem Dank verpflichtet, und zwar nicht nur wegen der hier geleisteten Kärrnerarbeit, sondern weil nun endlich eines der schwierigsten und sensibelsten Gebiete mit Anteilnahme, aber in ruhigem Ton, mit dem Willen zu größtmöglicher Objektivität und mit dem Wissen um die Vieldeutigkeit der scheinbar so eindeutigen Vorgänge analysiert worden ist. Von diesem Buch wird alle künftige Forschung über NS-Justiz auszugehen haben." (Michael Stolleis, in: Historische Zeitschrift, Band 249, 105 ff.) "Nach jahrelangen intensiven Studien ist Gruchmann hier eine Darstellung des Verfalls des Rechts im nationalsozialistischen Herrschaftssystem
gelungen, der ein großer Leserkreis zu wünschen ist, zumal das Buch auch in einer Sprache geschrieben ist, die sich wohltuend von so manchem heute üblichen und kaum verständlichen Wissenschaftsjargon abhebt." (Die Zeit, 27.10.1989) "... ein höchst lesenswertes Grundlagenwerk, das weitere insbesondere rechtshistorische Arbeiten zur NS-Rechts- und Justizgeschichte ermöglichen dürfte." (Juristische Rundschau, 9/1989).
Chekhov, Anton, "Gusev," "Sleepyhead," "Peasants," "Rothschild's Fiddle," in various editions; "Ward #6" and "My Life in Ward #6" in Ward Six and Other Short Stories DuBois, W.E.B., "Of Work and ...Wealth," "The Damnation of Women," "The Servant in the House," "Of Beauty and Death" in Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil In addition, a number of films were shown; these included "Gervaise" (L'Assomoir), "Salt of the Earth," "Nothing But a Man," and "The Organizer."
Kentucky author Elizabeth Madox Roberts has received a resurgence of attention in recent years including a society, a conference, a previously unpublished manuscript, and several publications ...concerning her work. Despite a lull in critical consideration of her work in the mid- to late-twentieth century, contemporaries believed her to have a claim to a position in the front rank of American novelists and felt her first novel, The Time of Man (1926), challenged the hegemony of women novelists long held by Mrs. Wharton, Mrs. Cather, and Mrs. Glasgow.
