7. Chekhov’s heirs

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Long Line ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Anglo American

‘Chekhov’s heirs’ highlights Anton Chekhov’s influence on the Anglo-American tradition of the short story. From the 1920s, and especially from the 1950s, a long line of short story writers have virtually self-identified as Chekhovians. Technically, there is no formula for writing a Chekhovian story. However, Chekhov advises against ‘lengthy verbiage’ and favours ‘extreme brevity’ and ‘total objectivity’. Chekhov’s stories are full of unfulfilled dreamers and therefore rich in ironies that usually remain latent, but once perceived show everything in a new light. Three fascinating stories written by Chekhovians include: Raymond Carver’s ‘Errand’ (1987), Grace Paley’s ‘A Conversation with my Father’ (1972), and Frank O’Connor’s ‘A Bachelor’s Story’ (1955).

Jus Tempus in the Magna Carta: The Sovereignty of Time in Modern Politics and Citizenship

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 463-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth F. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Right ◽  
Constitutional Tradition

In the English constitutional tradition, subjecthood has been primarily derived from two circumstances: place of birth and time of birth. People not born in the right place and at the right time are not considered subjects. What political status they hold varies and depends largely on the political history of the territory in which they reside at the exact time of their birth. A genealogy of early modern British subjecthood reveals that law based on dates and temporal durations—what I will call collectivelyjus tempus—creates sovereign boundaries as powerful as territorial borders or bloodlines. This concept has myriad implications for how citizenship comes to be institutionalized in modern politics. In this article, I briefly outline one route through whichjus tempusbecame a constitutive principle within the Anglo-American tradition of citizenship and how this concept works with other principles of membership to create subtle gradations of semi-citizenship beyond the binary of subject and alien. I illustrate two main points aboutjus tempus: first, how specific dates create sovereign boundaries among people and second, how durational time takes on an abstract value in politics that allows certain kinds of attributes, actions, and relationships to be translated into rights-bearing political statuses. I conclude with some remarks about how, once established, the principle ofjus tempusis applied in a diverse array of political contexts.

scholarly journals Autobiographisches Schreiben in Alfred Anderschs Prosa der 50er Jahre

2017 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Joanna Jabłkowska
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Alfred Andersch

Alfred Andersch´s autobiographical texts from the 1950s have been heavily criticized in recent literature on the topic. W.G. Sebald´s essay about Andersch was of crucial importance. The details of Andersch´s stay in the Dachau concentration camp as well as the writer´s motivation to desert at the end of the war were questioned. The article aims at a new reading of Andersch´s autobiographical texts with regard to their credibility. It compares the early short story Flucht in Eturien with the autobiography Die Kirschen der Freiheit and a few less known texts. The analysis leads to the conclusion that Andersch “re-wrote” his biography as a creation that fulfils unconscious wishes of a whole generation. His intention was to adapt the image of decent young men of antifascist beliefs whose only guilt was the loyalty to their comrades.

Favelas for Sale

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kátia da Costa Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Way

This chapter analyzes the short-story “Maria Déia” written by Lia Vieira, which traces the story of some residents who were evicted from Morro de Santo Antonio in the 1950s. It also examines the video ImPACtos produced in 2010 by the collective multimedia group Favela em Foco. These two cultural productions enable us to trace a series of discourses/modes of representation that have been used to legitimize and justify urban interventions. This chapter examines the way both cultural productions challenge the recurring, dominant representations of favelas as a space of otherness and/or spectacles of consumption. The chapter illustrates how these cultural productions allow us to understand that these urban interventions are not simply a dispute over the control of a territory, but are part of the continuing struggle over the meanings and boundaries vis-à-vis conflicting views of citizenship and belonging.

The Anglo-American Tradition

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-138
Author(s):  
B. Guy Peters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Public ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Definition Of

The Anglo-American tradition is perhaps the most difficult to characterize. Although there are common roots, there has been a divergence between the United Kingdom and other Westminster systems and the United States. There are common roots among these cases, including a contractarian conception of the state, an emphasis on the separation of politics and administration, an emphasis on management rather than law in the role definition of public administrators, and less commitment to uniformity. But these common values are interpreted and implemented differently in the different countries. For example, the United States has a more developed system of administrative law than do most of the Westminster systems. All these administrative systems, however, have been more receptive to the ideas of New Public Management (NPM) than have other governments, although the United States and Canada had implemented many of those ideas long before NPM was developed.

Remembering the "Forgotten Zone"

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey Campion
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
English Language ◽  
Allied Occupation ◽  
Unique Experience ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Anglo American

In much of the English-language scholarship on the post-1945 Allied occupation of Germany, French officials appear as little more than late arrivals to the victors’ table, in need of and destined to follow Anglo-American leadership in the emerging Cold War. However, French occupation policies were unique within the western camp and helped lay the foundations of postwar Franco-German reconciliation that are often credited to the 1963 Elysée Treaty. Exploring how the French occupation has been neglected, this article traces the memory of the zone across the often-disconnected work of French-, German-, and English-speaking scholars since the 1950s. Moreover, it outlines new avenues of research that could help historians resurrect the unique experience of the French zone and enrich our appreciation of the Franco-German “motor” on which Europe still relies.

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