“‘Five Stones Underneath’: Literary Representations of the Lockerbie Air Disaster”

This chapter reviews the books Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (2014), by Raanan Rein, translated by Marsha Grenzeback, and Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas (2014), edited by Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin. Rein’s book deals with the “making” of Argentina through football (soccer), while Muscling in on New Worlds focuses on the “making” of the Americas (mainly the one America, called the United States) through sports. Muscling in on New Worlds is a collection of essays that seeks to advance the common theme of sport as “an avenue by which Jews threaded the needle of asserting a Jewish identity.” Topics include Jews as boxers, Jews and football, Jews and yoga, Orthodox Jewish athletes, and American Jews and baseball. There are also essays about the cinematic and literary representations of Jews in sports.

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The Cursed and the Committed: A Study in Literary Representations of ‘Involuntary’ Shapeshifting in Early Medieval Irish and Old Norse Narrative Traditions

Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature ◽

10.1017/9789048535132.006 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 107-126

Author(s):

Camilla With Pedersen

Keyword(s):

Old Norse ◽

Literary Representations ◽

Early Medieval

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Romanian Folklore and Literary Representations of Vampires

Folklore ◽

10.1080/0015587x.2016.1155358 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 127 (2) ◽

pp. 150-172 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Tudor Balinisteanu

Keyword(s):

Literary Representations ◽

Romanian Folklore

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‘When that great ship went down’: Modern maritime disasters and collective memory

International Journal of Maritime History ◽

10.1177/0843871414551898 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 734-751

Author(s):

Robert C. Moyer

Keyword(s):

Collective Memory ◽

Psychological Impact ◽

Research Approach ◽

Short Term ◽

Qualitative Comparison ◽

Indirect Measurements ◽

Internet Media ◽

The Social ◽

Air Disaster

The aim of this article is to examine the social and psychological impact of modern maritime disasters upon the population of a technologically developed nation. Through an innovative research approach using various indirect measurements of public interest including the internet, media response, music and film, the article explores the interest displayed by the American public following the loss of ships such as the Titanic, Andrea Doria, Edmund Fitzgerald, and Andrea Gail. In order to provide a basis for qualitative comparison, disasters involving other modes of transportation are also considered, including the Hindenburg crash, the ‘Great Train Wreck of 1918’ in Nashville, TN, the Tenerife air disaster of 1977, and the Concorde crash of 2000. The article seeks to explain why the American public seems to display more short-term and long-term interest in maritime disasters than in disasters involving other forms of transportation.

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Literature and the Senses

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1198 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Holly Dugan

Keyword(s):

Cultural Study ◽

Human Perception ◽

Literary Representations ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

The Senses ◽

Historical Periods ◽

Over Time ◽

Culture And Language ◽

Sensory Studies

Sensory studies is an interdisciplinary field connecting insights from history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, religion, literature, and art to the scientific study of human perception. Though research in this field draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and focuses on different historical periods and geographical areas, it is unified through a core tenet: that the human sensorium is as much a cultural, historical, and aesthetic phenomenon as it is an environmental and a biological one. Social mores, geographies, religious beliefs, and individual abilities shape perception in uniquely cultural ways. Put more succinctly, sensory studies, as a field, argues for the cultural study of the senses and the sensuous study of culture. And language is squarely at the center of scholarly questions about perception; literary studies thus provides useful methodological tools for understanding not only how we represent visceral experiences (such as sensation) to others through language but also how these strategies have changed over time. The study of literature and the senses emphasizes the important role of language in representing visceral experience and the important role of aesthetics and history in shaping literary representations.

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The “Latin” Melting Pot

French Historical Studies ◽

10.1215/00161071-8725865 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 85-118

Author(s):

Yuval Tal

Keyword(s):

National Identity ◽

Literary Representations ◽

Immigrant Assimilation ◽

Melting Pot ◽

The North ◽

The Creation ◽

French National Identity ◽

Nationality Law ◽

Communal Organization ◽

Ethnic Origins

Abstract This article explores how, through discussions about immigrant assimilation in fin de siècle Algeria, French republicans contemplated and wrote into law the ethnic traits of French national identity. Republicans assumed that the North Mediterranean immigrants who settled in Algeria shared ethnic origins with French settlers and consequently asserted that France should work to “fuse” the two groups. Assertions about immigrants' ethnicity took different forms. In the colony they appeared either at the margins of colonial administrators' attacks against immigrant communal organization or in literary representations of French-Mediterranean fusion. In the metropole republican legislators portrayed immigrants as innately prone to becoming French and thus supported the 1889 nationality law that naturalized them. The passing of the 1889 law prompted the creation of an explicitly ethnorepublican assimilatory model. The model's proponents combined sociological and eugenicist principles to both socialize immigrants into the nation and promote the transfer of their Mediterranean “vigor” into French bodies. Cet article examine les efforts des intellectuels et des dirigeants républicains pour assimiler les immigrés européens en Algérie à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Il affirme que les identités communautaires et la prépondérance démographique des immigrés ont poussé l'élite républicaine à envisager leur capacité ethnique à s'assimiler à la société française, et montre que l'idée que les Français et les immigrés avaient la même origine ethnique a façonné les débats sur l'assimilation nationale et a influencé la formation des lois républicaines fondamentales. En Algérie, des affirmations à propos de l'identité ethnique des immigrés européens apparaissaient en marge des discussions politiques sur leur organisation communautaire et dans les romans des écrivains algérianistes. En métropole, des législateurs républicains supposaient que la « ressemblance ethnique » entre Français et immigrés assurait l'assimilation rapide de ces derniers et ils ont soutenu la loi de 1889 sur la nationalité qui les a naturalisés. A l'issue de la législation de 1889, une vision de fusionnement des colons français et des membres de la « race méditerranéenne » en Algérie s'est développée. Ses partisans ont combiné des principes sociologiques avec des principes eugéniques dans le but d'incorporer les immigrés européens dans la nation et de faire transporter leur « vigueur » dans les corps des Français.

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Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474457880.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Lisa C. Robertson

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Built Environment ◽

Social Economic ◽

Domestic Space ◽

Domestic Architecture ◽

Literary Representations ◽

Collective Identities ◽

Domestic Practice ◽

Domestic Design ◽

Discursive Patterns

This book uncovers a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social, economic and political changes in nineteenth-century London, and investigates the literature that gave expression to their novelty. It brings together visual and literary representations to identify a series of new designs for domestic space that change the way people lived together in the metropolis, including model dwellings, women’s residences, settlement housing and the garden city suburb. It focuses on the ways that language shapes the built environment and domestic architecture in particular, but also attends to the ways that domestic practice shapes discursive patterns and literary representation. It argues that these new designs for urban living responded to shifting perspectives about gender, class and sexuality; but equally, it demonstrates that these innovations in domestic design forged opportunities for refashioning both individual and collective identities. Home and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London offers readers a new blueprint for understanding the ways in which literature imaginatively and materially produce the city’s built environment. In so doing, it also indicates what resources the nineteenth-century city — and the literature that responded to it — can offer for thinking through the most urgent problems of today’s urban environment environments.

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