Over the past decade, there has been a burgeoning interest in two overlapping areas of the humanities and social sciences--memory and geography, or more specifically, the study of human space. Both ...have spawned an extraordinary amount in interesting work that has created new fields of study and inquiry.
Rad obrađuje ustroj, poslovanje i likvidaciju Diskontne banke d.d. Zagreb u vremenskom periodu od godine 1920., kada je banka osnovana, pa sve do godine 1948., kada je završena njezina likvidacija. ...Svrha društva bila je obavljanje svih bankovnih, štedioničkih i mjenjačkih poslova, te osnutak i vođenje robnog odjeljenja. Prema izvještajima ravnateljstva banke, taj zavod nije od svojeg osnutka ulazio u veće obveze, nego se je uvijek kretao u dopuštenim granicama, pa uslijed toga nije ni osjetio veliku svjetsku financijsku i ekonomsku krizu u onoj mjeri kao zavodi s velikim obvezama. Usprkos privrednoj krizi poslovanje banke stalno se i sigurno razvijalo. Nakon uspostave Nezavisne Države Hrvatske (NDH) dobila je Diskontna banka kao židovsko poduzeće povjerenika i od 10. travnja 1941. praktički je prestala s radom. Od 16. srpnja 1943. Diskontna banka nalazila se u likvidaciji temeljem rješenja Ministarstva državne riznice Nezavisne Države Hrvatske. Likvidacija je povjerena Štedionici Nezavisne Države Hrvatske. S obzirom na to da nije postojao ni jedan od uvjeta za daljnji uspješan rad Diskontne banke, te obzirom na plansku likvidaciju privatnih novčarskih zavoda, u socijalističkoj Jugoslaviji je 21. listopada 1946. određena likvidacija zavoda, koja je završena 1. srpnja 1948. godine.
This article develops the argument that world-making engenders empathy in readers of imaginary worlds. It employs positioning theory as a methodological framework to argue that the emotional ...responses of readers of literary texts differ subtly from empathy. Since readers relate to the characters and cultural contexts of an imaginary text at various narrative and thematic levels, it proposes that comprehending a literary work is a process of multiple positioning. This essay applies these arguments to an interpretation of Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea. Reading the different forms of attachment elicited by this postcolonial novel, this author claims that Gurnah's novel challenges the possibility of singular and simplistic attachment and instead prompts multiple positioning. Multiple positioning characterizes the interpersonal relations that are engendered by the different narrative perspectives and voices of the text. Multiple positioning is described as a crucial factor in readers' responses to descriptions of cultural difference because it encourages readers to open up toward cultural difference and, indeed, creates affinities between literary characters and text-worlds, as well as with the real cultural communities referred to by them.
Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join ...Smith on his adventures as a naturalist, sportsman, and wildlife biologist, as he pulls us into the field of learning and discovery across wilderness areas of western Montana, the National Elk Refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and a South African temperate forest. Ranging from humorous to harrowing, Smith's essays recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after riding out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears during his research, plus quirky and edifying hunting tales. Throughout his adventures, the magnetism and danger of wild nature are ever present, reminding us that our fascination with wildness often stems from its unpredictability.
El autor parte por problematizar la convencional mirada acerca de “la jovencita” como sujeto social e histórico, desde una mirada que invita a “escucharla hablar” y “a pensar con ella”. Desde allí, y ...desde una puesta en práctica de una “teoría deseante” (una que no captura identidades sino que emite devenires), el ensayo analiza varias narraciones emblemáticas para apreciar la “tesitura antiedípica” de las jovencitas que las protagonizan: la protagonista del conocido cuento de Jorge Luis Borges, “Emma Zunz”, algunas fábulas y poemas en prosa de Marosa di Giorgio, la novela titulada Papi (2005), de Rita Indiana, autora de lo que ella llama la “Trilogía de las niñas insoportables”. Especial atención le dedica a la novela de la boliviana Giovanna Rivero, 98 segundos sin sombra (2016), que presenta no tanto a la escritora como jovencita, sino a la jovencita como escritora, y algunos de sus relatos del libro de cuentos titulado Para comerte mejor (2016). La teoría deseante producida por Giovanna Rivero y sus personajes no conduce a certezas sino a crecientes incertidumbres. Sus relatos figuran entre los más sugerentes y misteriosos de la literatura latinoamericana relacionados con mujeres protagonistas.
In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance, Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist ...Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the neoliberalization of the economy (1994–1996). The theoretical approach of the book combines eventful sociology, path dependency, and institutional political economy. Grinberg argues that historical political events have been shaped not only by political and economic forces but also by resistance struggles of marginal and weaker social groups: organized workers, Palestinians, and Mizrachi Jews. Major turning points in history, like the Separation War in 1948, the military occupation in 1967, and the Oslo peace process in 1993, are explained in the context of previous social and economic resistance struggles that affected the political outcomes.
The aim of this article is to analyse Ian McEwan’s
Nutshell
, published in September 2016, as a modern rewriting of
Hamlet
in relation to the usual issues and themes previously tackled by the author ...throughout his narrative. The novel focuses on the love triangle involving Claude Claudius, Trudy Gertrude and John Cairncross King Hamlet and narrates how the lovers plot the murder of the husband from the unusual perspective of a proto-Hamlet in the womb. Despite the fact that he is rewriting a Shakespearean work, the author remains faithful to his style and favourite topics, displaying the function of the family as destructive rather than constructive, conditioning the later development of the children and rendering them devoid of the affection needed. Similarly,
Nutshell
also depicts his recurrent configuration of mothers as authoritative and destructive, especially for the natural growth of their offspring.
FROM THE EDITORS Scudeler, June; Senier, Siobhan
Studies in American Indian literatures,
04/2019, Volume:
31, Issue:
1/2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
First up is an essay by Pauline Wakeham, one of the foremost scholars on the Canadian project of reconciliation. ...his essay is an implicit response to the critique offered by Pauline Wakeham: it ...uses formal analysis, tribally specific history, and James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson's theory of "trans-systemic" analysis not only to show how the poems themselves evoke Two Row Wampum philosophy and materiality but also to suggest how these epistemologies can "recalibrate relations between Indigenous and settler colonial regimes." In this interview, two humorous and down-to-earth Indigenous writers converse about bear marriage stories, the writing process, poetic form, and Native mother-in-law jokes.
In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two ...eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery-known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat Woman"-enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when it came to light that Dana and Dockery, the alleged murderers, shared their huge, decaying antebellum mansion with their goats and other livestock, which prompted journalists to call the estate "Goat Castle." Pearls was killed by an Arkansas policeman in an unrelated incident before he could face trial. However, as was all too typical in the Jim Crow South, the white community demanded "justice," and an innocent black woman named Emily Burns was ultimately sent to prison for the murder of Merrill. Dana and Dockery not only avoided punishment but also lived to profit from the notoriety of the murder by opening their derelict home to tourists.Strange, fascinating, and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of this local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.
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