This essay brings to the fore a condition that afflicts the tongues of those of us attempting to speak: through bearing witness so that history will not forget us, we consume ourselves beyond ...recognition or repair. Drawing on my interior life as Lebanese, Arab, Arab-American and a former journalist, I make the case that the near-universal framing of ongoing crises in Lebanon as unprecedented enables, and indeed makes necessary, witnessing outside history. This essay makes plain passions and superlatives, endemic to our language as writers in and of English, which amputate the very possibility of a collective. Nowhere is this more at play than in the plethora of first-person witnessing and personal essays following the 4 August 2020 port bombing of Beirut. Ultimately, this essay raises the question of how, and whether it is possible, to speak without consuming the self. As a means of redressing that question, this essay espouses the language of those doing the living, or 'surviving.' It does not feature translations. To borrow from Toni Morrison, this essay does not speak for, nor does it speak to. It speaks among.
Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany's ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed. The educational and political institutions Germany built for its satellite state could not ...alleviate Poland's hostility to the plundering of its resources to fuel Germany's war effort.
The Resistance Network is the history of an underground
network of humanitarians, missionaries, and diplomats in Ottoman
Syria who helped save the lives of thousands during the Armenian
Genocide. ...Khatchig Mouradian challenges depictions of Armenians as
passive victims of violence and subjects of humanitarianism,
demonstrating the key role they played in organizing a humanitarian
resistance against the destruction of their people. Piecing
together hundreds of accounts, official documents, and missionary
records, Mouradian presents a social history of genocide and
resistance in wartime Aleppo and a network of transit and
concentration camps stretching from Bab to Ras ul-Ain and Der Zor.
He ultimately argues that, despite the violent and systematic
mechanisms of control and destruction in the cities, concentration
camps, and massacre sites in this region, the genocide of the
Armenians did not progress unhindered-unarmed resistance proved an
important factor in saving countless lives.
Historical research into the Armenian Genocide has grown tremendously in recent years, but much of it has focused on large-scale questions related to Ottoman policy or the scope of the killing. ...Consequently, surprisingly little is known about the actual experiences of the genocide's victims. Daily Life in the Abyss illuminates this aspect through the intertwined stories of two Armenian families who endured forced relocation and deprivation in and around modern-day Syria. Through analysis of diaries and other source material, it reconstructs the rhythms of daily life within an often bleak and hostile environment, in the face of a gradually disintegrating social fabric.
In 1919 the British historian G. M. Trevelyan complained about the 'not very large stock of English literature on Italy's part in the war' that had just ended, a phenomenon he attributed to 'the ...mutual ignorance of the English-speaking and Italian peoples'. Nearly a hundred years later the situation seems to be no better. Secondary sources as there are devote only passing mention (if any) to the war stories that were put together by British and American writers who visited, served or worked as volunteers in the Italian front between 1915 and 1918. This article intends to give some details about the Italian front writing of these committed individuals, whose praiseworthy contribution to the war effort was, indeed, fighting the above-mentioned ignorance.
Insofar as The Twin Sister's Double series both flaunts and undermines the logic of scientific seriality as a dominant organizing principle in post-Enlightenment modernity, it emblematizes the ...central conceit of what I call the mystery-crime serial, arguably the most prolific genre in American serial film production between 1914 and 1924. Unexamined quality distinctions haunt his discussion, a hesitation one can hear in his description of the serial-queen melodrama as "an extraordinarily formulaic product"; this "bare-bones narrative structure-the repeated capture and recapture of the weenie, along with the entrapment and liberation of the heroine-afforded a sufficiently simple, predictable, and extensible framework on which to hang a series of thrills over fifteen weeks."
Se estudia la trayectoria biográfica y la contribución de José Sánchez Pozuelos (Murcia, c. 1885-1936) al periodismo médico español del primer tercio del siglo XX, una época que en Murcia, como en el ...resto de España, fue un período de resurgir cultural y científico manifestado, entre otras cosas, por la edición de numerosas revistas médicas que pretendieron difundir entre los profesionales la producción científica más relevante, nacional y extranjera. En ese marco el médico José Sánchez Pozuelos, perteneciente a la burguesía murciana que detentaba el poder político local, e identificado con ideologías de carácter conservador y religioso, interesado al mismo tiempo por sacar del atraso a su tierra, fundó y dirigió Murcia Médica (1915-1918) y Estudios Médicos (1920, 1924-34), revistas que se convirtieron en la herramienta de difusión de la actividad de la Real Academia de Medicina de Murcia, pero también de otros profesionales españoles, y de los trabajos más relevantes procedentes de diversas publicaciones nacionales y extranjeras; Estudios Médicos llegó a ser además la revista médica nacional de mayor tirada. El ambiente de inestabilidad social que precedió a la sublevación militar de 1936 y el enfrentamiento bélico que le siguió truncaron el desarrollo de estas publicaciones y de los profesionales que las impulsaron.
Russians from all walks of life joyously celebrated the end of Nicholas II's monarchy, but one year later, amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. ...Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new perspective on Russia's revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its devastating effect on ordinary people.
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