URBAN IDENTITY IN COLONIAL TUNISIA: THE MAQĀMĀT OF SALIH SUWAYSI AL-QAYRAWANI

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-712
Author(s):  
Kimberly Katz
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Language Structure

AbstractThis article presents a microhistory of an early 20th-century Tunisian intellectual, Salih Suwaysi, within the context of cross-regional (Maghrib–Mashriq) literary and intellectual trends. Analyzing Suwaysi's use of the conventional literary genre of maqāmāt illustrates his deep understanding of the problems caused by France's occupation of Tunisia and highlights the significance of historical and contemporary urban space for the author. Revitalized during the nahḍa period, maqāmāt were employed by writers to address issues and problems facing contemporary society, in contrast to some of the earlier maqāmāt that focused on language and language structure more than on narrative content. Suwaysi followed his eastern Mediterranean, especially Egyptian, contemporaries in turning to this genre to convey his critical commentaries on social, religious, and political life under the French Protectorate in Tunisia.

Dr Ada English: patriot and psychiatrist in early 20th century Ireland

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Davoren ◽  
Eugene G Breen ◽  
Brendan D Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
Additional Research ◽  
Psychiatric Services ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Easter Rising ◽  
Member Of Parliament

AbstractDr Adeline (Ada) English (1875-1944) was a pioneering Irish psychiatrist. She qualified in medicine in 1903 and spent four decades working at Ballinasloe District Lunatic Asylum, during which time there were significant therapeutic innovations (eg. occupational therapy, convulsive treatment). Dr English was deeply involved in Irish politics. She participated in the Easter Rising (1916); spent six months in Galway jail for possessing nationalistic literature (1921); was elected as a Teachta Dála (member of Parliament; 1921); and participated in the Civil War (1922). She made significant contributions to Irish political life and development of psychiatric services during an exceptionally challenging period of history. Additional research would help contextualise her contributions further.

scholarly journals FASCYNACJA LUDEM JANA LUDWIKA POPŁAWSKIEGO

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Michał Kowalczyk
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Common People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Democratic Ideology

Jan Ludwik Popławski (1854-1908) was one of the fathers of the Polish National Democratic ideology in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was particularly fascinated with matters pertaining to the common people, and especially Polish peasantry. He considered them to be the genuine Poles, free of foreign influences. It is worth pointing out that that he also served as an inspiration to Roman Dmowski, the founder of the National Democracy movement and one of the leaders whose efforts secured Polish independence. According to Popławski, the Polish gentry were servile to the powers occupying Poland. He therefore hoped that the common people would play a greater role in the political life of the nation. 

scholarly journals Impact of Motherly Affection in Chokher Bali and Sons and Lovers: A Comparative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 58-62
Author(s):  
Salma Parvin Suma
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Culture ◽  
The Impact

Rabindranath Tagore’s Chokher Bali and D.H Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers are two famous novels in the early 20th century from two different social culture. Both these novels have particular important issues in them to be discussed. As in Chokher Bali we find Tagore has presented his idea in feminism, man-woman relationship, woeful condition of widow in his contemporary society etc. In the same way in Sons and Lovers Lawrence has talked about critical mother-son relationship, social bondage among the characters, description of nature, problems in the lives of working class etc. Though Chokher Bali and Sons and Lovers are from different social context but they can be compared through the commonly discussed issue in them that is complex mother-son relationship and the impact of motherhood to the sons. This paper is going to discuss the impact of excessive motherly affection to the life of son, similarities and dissimilarities in mother-son relationship in Chokher Bali and Sons and Lovers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3381310

scholarly journals A Place of Pretense and Escapism: The Coffeehouse in Early 20th Century Budapest Jewish Literature

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 320
Author(s):  
Mari Rethelyi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Jewish Writers

In Budapest, going to the coffeehouiennese Café and Fin-De-Siecle Cultuse was the quintessential urban habit. The coffeehouse, a Judaized urban space, although devoid of any religious overtones, was Jewish in that most of the owners and significant majority of the intellectual clientele were Jewish—secular and non-affiliated—but Jewish. The writers’ Jewishness was not a confessed faith or identity, but a lens on the experience of life that stemmed from their origins, whether they were affiliated with a Jewish institution or not, and whether they identified as Jews or not. The coffeehouse enabled Jews to create and participate in the culture that replaced traditional ethnic and religious affiliations. The new secular urban Jew needed a place to express and practice this new identity, and going to the coffeehouse was an important part of that identity. Hungarian Jewish literature centered in Budapest contains a significant amount of material on the coffeehouse. Literature provided a non-constrained and unfiltered venue for the secular Jewish urban intellectuals to voice freely and directly their opinions on Jewish life at the time. In the article I examine what the Jewish writers of the early 20th century wrote about Budapest’s coffeehouses and how their experience of them is connected to their being Jewish.

scholarly journals A small river within the urban space. The evolution of the relationship using the example of Łódź

2017 ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Kobojek
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Textile Industry ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
Small River ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The aim of this article is to present the relationship between an industrial city and a small river within the last 200 years and the contemporary development and functions of rivers and valleys. The study was conducted in Łódź (currently nearly 699,000 inhabitants). In the 19th and in the early 20th century, the spatial development of the city also caused considerable transformations of rivers and their valleys. It was only at the turn of the 20th century, i.e. after the fall of the textile industry and a rise of the focus on ecological structures within a city, that the authorities decided to repair the utilisation of rivers and valleys.

The Knowledge Society

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Luppicini Rocci
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Industrialized Nations ◽  
Production And Distribution

Generally speaking, all societies in history were knowledge societies. However, the modern, conceptualization of the ” knowledge society’ can be traced to John Stuart Mill’s (1831) The Spirit of the Age where social progress was explained through the diffusion of knowledge (intellectual wisdom) and increased opportunities for individual choice arising from industrialization. This was an early indicator foreshadowing the transformation of modern society into a knowledge society. Beginning in the early 20th century, industrialized nations became increasingly reliant on economic investment in the production and distribution of knowledge in training, education, work, research and development (Abramovitz & David, 2000). Also, the importance of knowledge in society became even more pronounced through the advent of specialized areas of science and technology in society. As stated by Stehr (2002), “Contemporary society may be described as a knowledge society based on the extensive penetration of all its spheres of life and institutions by scientific and technological knowledge.”

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