A collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.
This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a writer's creativity and hard work, but also of an ongoing collaborative effort among ...professionals to help maintain the writer's place in the public eye.
Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave ...feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about feminism migrated from activist and intellectual circles into the American mainstream in the last three decades of the twentieth century. More than most social movements, feminism was transmitted and understood through culture-art installations, Ms. Magazine, All in the Family, and thousands of other cultural artifacts. But the phenomenon of cultural feminism came under extraordinary criticism in the late 1970s and 1980s Gerhard analyzes these divisions over whether cultural feminism was sufficiently activist in light of the shifting line separating liberalism from radicalism in post-1970s America. She concludes with a chapter on the 1990s, when The Dinner Party emerged as a target in political struggles over public funding for the arts, even as academic feminists denounced the piece for its alleged essentialism. The path that The Dinner Party traveled-from inception (1973) to completion (1979) to tour (1979-1989) to the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum (2007)-sheds light on the history of American feminism since 1970 and on the ways popular feminism in particular can illuminate important trends and transformations in the broader culture.
As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of ...news they received; some wrote so that their children, already safe in another country, might one day understand what had happened to their parents; and some wrote to furnish unknown readers in the outside world with evidence against the Nazi regime.Were these diarists resisters, or did the process of writing make the ravages of the Holocaust even more difficult to bear? Drawing on an astonishing array of unpublished and published diaries from all over German-occupied Europe, historian Alexandra Garbarini explores the multiple roles that diary writing played in the lives of these ordinary women and men. A story of hope and hopelessness,Numbered Daysoffers a powerful examination of the complex interplay of writing and mourning. And in these heartbreaking diaries, we see the first glimpses of a question that would haunt the twentieth century: Can such unimaginable horror be represented at all?
As a result of the National Struggle, which can also be described as the struggle for the survival of Turkishness, the Turkish nation has shown the whole world what they can endure for the sake of an ...inch of land even under very difficult conditions. In the absence of a regular army during the period of the National Struggle, we see that a number of patriotic formations emerged to protect the unity of the homeland. These formations, called Kuvâ-yi Milliye, mean voluntary militia units that came together against the occupation forces for the independence of the homeland by taking strength from their national feelings. During the National Struggle, Turkish people supported the independence movement in all regions. In this process, Bayat district of Afyonkarahisar, known for its proximity to strategic cities in the National Struggle such as Eskişehir, Akşehir and Afyonkarahisar, was exposed to the occupation attempts of the Greek army in its struggle for independence. Although Bayat was not directly in the hot spot in the Battle of Sakarya and the Major Assault of Turkish Army due to its location, it was a settlement where the necessary military services and Tekâlif-i Milliye orders were implemented for the National Struggle. Lieutenant Colonel Arif Bey, who has not been sufficiently mentioned in the pages of history, came to his hometown Bayat as a result of the arrest warrant issued by the Istanbul Government against him, supported the Kuvâ-yi Milliye movement in the Central Anatolia region and played an active role in suppressing the rebellions that emerged in the immediate vicinity. One of the important works of Lieutenant Colonel Arif Bey in this process is that he united the militia forces around him under his command and established the Karakeçili National Regiment and created an important support force for the National Struggle. In this study, which was created by making use of archival documents, memoirs, researches and information in periodicals, we aimed to make a historical contribution to the understanding of the local and national values of Turkish independence.
The first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing ...principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. Original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminates his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments in their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this manuscript appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literatures in general.
The work Slovak Coup, which maps the events associated with the end of the First World War in Slovak realities, is one of the key works of Karol Anton Medvecky, who was an important political, ...ecclesiastical and cultural figure in Slovak society in the first third of the twentieth century. As secretary of the Slovak National Council and a signatory of the Martin Declaration, he was an important participant in the groundbreaking events of 1918. In this paper, we discuss some selected aspects of the origin and significance of Mevecky’s work, such as the social background, the author’s aim, the reaction in the political battles of the interwar period and an assessment of its relevance for today’s historiography, which in our opinion provide the basic characteristics necessary to understand the Slovak Coup and its author from social as well as historiographical point of view. The work does not attempt to exhaust the examined issue, but does want to be the basis and stimulus for its deeper research.
On 28 May 1936, a Polish military intelligence agent, Lieutenant Stefan Kasperski, working officially as a clerk of the Polish Consulate General in Kiev as Albert Ran, was arrested in Moscow. The ...case of Kasperski’s arrest and detention in Moscow prisons, and its repercussions on the activities of Polish military intelligence in the Soviet Union has already been quite well discussed. However, nothing was known until now about the “Projectile Affair”, i.e. establishing the cooperation by the Second Department of the General Staff of the Polish Army and its course with a key person in Kasperski’s affair, who was Hans Wieser, working in the Soviet Union German engineer, and a ballistics expert. It was only known that he was an agent of the Soviet counterintelligence and that he was arrested and shot in 1937. Nothing was known about the beginning of the Wieser’s cooperation and its course. This article discusses this issue in detail. The discovery of new archival sources makes it possible to present the complete picture of the events that led to the biggest failure of the Polish military intelligence in the USSR in the 1930s, which was the Ran affair.
The immortal leader of the nation, the kind commander, the liberator, Poland’s finest son, and finally, beloved grandfather. This is how, inter alia, the newspapers described Józef Piłsudski after ...his death. The press emphasised that he had fought steadfastly for the freedom of Poland, freed the country from the shackles of slavery and then defended its borders, protecting Poles from their enemy. How the magazines addressed to children and adolescents wrote about it in the middle of the 1930s? The author looks for an answer to this question by analysing the successive issues of the weekly “Płomyk” magazine. He checks what picture of mourning emerges from the articles published in the magazine. He studies how the memory of the Marshal was built, maintained and cared for. The author of the article analyses, inter alia, poems, stories, mentions and letters sent to the magazine and the staff’s responses to the received correspondence. In this way, he tries to reconstruct the emotions, to which the authors of the papers published in “Płomyk” are responding or trying to evoke.
