Through their participation in an unequal Atlantic commerce, African merchants on the Gold Coast consciously transformed their dress in ways that expressed their cultural dynamism and economic ...success in an increasingly interconnected world. In discussing the web of cross-cultural commercial exchanges between Africa, Asia, and Europe, this article moves away from the tendency to regard Africans who adorned themselves in imported European clothing and textiles as ‘creole’ or ‘Europeanized’ elites. Labels like these not only assume the existence of an African cultural essence, but (inadvertently) deny the dynamism that has always characterized African cultures prior to the Atlantic economy. In the case of the Gold Coast, I examine how the Gã and Fante mercantile elite translated imported textiles and clothing into new cultural meanings, aesthetics and norms that emphasized family integrity, power as well as the ancestral, material and commercial value of inherited imported articles of adornment.
Die vorliegenden Bände versammeln jene Briefe, die Bertolt Brecht während der Zeit seines Exils (1933–1949) erhielt. Es handelt sich dabei um bisher zum größten Teil unveröffentlichte Briefe ...(Initial- ebenso wie Antwortbriefe), die komplementär zu Brechts eigenen Briefen, publiziert in der Großen Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe, erstmals einen umfassenden Einblick geben in seine Beziehungen zu Freunden, Geliebten, Mitarbeitern, Genossen und Geschäftspartnern. Auch über Brechts äußerst vielfältige Produktion im Exil gibt die Korrespondenz aus ganz unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Aufschluss. Von herausragender kulturgeschichtlicher Bedeutung, dokumentieren die hier versammelten Briefe das intellektuelle Leben der 1930er und 1940er Jahre in Europa und Amerika sowie die persönliche Situation vieler Intellektueller und Künstler. Unter Brechts Briefpartnern jener Jahre finden sich so bedeutende Namen wie Walter Benjamin, Arnold Zweig, Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Bloch, George Grosz, Erwin Piscator, Heinrich und Thomas Mann. Die Briefe werden durch eine Einleitung, Kommentare und Indizes erschlossen.
Steppenwolf Hesse, Hermann; Wayne, Thomas
2010
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Thomas Wayne presents a contemporary take on Hesse's classic story, so apt today, of the lone individual lost in the ironic good fortune and security of bourgeois banality and cultural conformity. ...Harry Haller has all the insight, all the leisure, all the material goods he needs, yet he is not at peace with his life. A potent combination of Eastern and Western insights into the human search for meaning is given new life in a fresh translation.
Although some of the most distinguished German novels written since about 1770 are generally considered to be Bildungsromane, the term Bildungsroman is all too frequently used in English without an ...awareness of the tradition from which it arose.
Professor Swales concentrates on the roles of plot, characterization, and narrative commentary in novels by Wieland, Goethe, Stifter, Keller, Mann, and Hesse. By pointing out that the goal in each work is both elusive and problematic, he suggests a previously unsuspected ironic intent. His analysis adds to our awareness of the potentialities inherent in the novel.
Originally published in 1978.
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