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Published: 01 November 2003
...This chapter presents an obituary for Professor Stanislaus A. Blejwas, one of the foremost scholars of Polish and Polish American history in the United States. Blejwas was the most important historian of the Polish immigrant experience in New England, producing a steady stream of articles...
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Published: 01 June 2018
... Lewis American history 19th century Andrew Jackson Bank war second Bank of the United States Jefferson and/or Mussolini Italian Fascism “Perché,” asked Mussolini, “vuol mettere le sue idee in ordine?” The question, asked during Pound’s audience with the Italian dictator in January 1933...
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Published: 01 November 2000
... to determine with global processes of decolonisation and to subscribe to a particular interpretation of Latin American history. Zea precisely reflects Frantz Fanon's universalism, his refashioned humanism, and the Martiniquan's comparative perspective on decolonisation in Africa and the Americas. This chapter...
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Published: 01 February 2019
... to African American history, such as jazz, blues, rock 'n' roll, reggae, disco music, soul, and hip hop. It also mentions the British scholar of cultural studies named Paul Gilroy, who defined the production conditions of hip hop as transnational structures of circulation and intercultural exchange...
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William Blazek (ed.) and Laura Rattray (ed.)
Published online: 20 June 2013
Published in print: 01 June 2007
..., the novel has, in myriad readings, been viewed as: a marriage novel, a text of disturbed psychology, a text nostalgically marking the passing of a talent and a time, an outdated ‘Jazz Age’ story, and ‘the great novel about American history’. This collection opens criticism of Tender is the Night...
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Published: 15 May 2018
... by the housing authority as a going concern and turned into designer condos. Likewise, Helen is seen working on her research at the University, while black menial workers toil as cleaners in the background well aware of the legend of the Candyman. However, Bernard Rose consciously invokes American history...
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Published: 01 December 2021
... Richard modernism The Making of Americans Stein Gertrude The Hanging on Union Square Tsiang H T ANCIENT EPIC MODERNISM PROSE EPIC AMERICAN EPIC MOCK EPIC AMERICAN HISTORY At first blush, modernism and epic seem strange bedfellows. The mention of epic calls to mind Gilgamesh...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... Hirsch David John Donne Anatomy Dissection American history History of Medicine No matter how great our minds, or how ambitious our plans, human endeavours are still defined by the capabilities, and limitations, of the physical body. Even in today’s age of artificial intelligence, the technology...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... Herbert Clark Kenneth Morrison Toni Davison Adenike Van Evrie J H White Supremacy and Negro Subordination Gerber Marjorie Douglass Frederick Ikard David Young Harvey Harris Trudier Exorcising Blackness Morton Samuel Banneker Benjamin Gould Steven Jay Jefferson Thomas African American History...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... Atchley Heath J Harack Katrina Laist Randy Crosthwaite Paul Jameson Frederic Passaro Vince Trauma Survivorship American history 9/11 Don DeLillo The physical and emotional trauma that Keith Neudecker, the protagonist of Don DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007), sustains as a victim...
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Published online: 24 January 2019
Published in print: 01 May 1999
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Published: 01 November 2007
...This chapter examines the works of American poet Susan Howe in the context of the Surreal-O-bjectivist nexus. It highlights Howe's concern for the ‘dark side’ of American history and suggests that her ‘project of recovery’ has a stake in the Surreal-O-bjectivist nexus. This chapter also considers...