In the trap of Beatrice: On Florence Conard’s war memories and disciplinary turns

2020 ◽  
pp. 175069802092775
Author(s):  
José Aguirre Pombo ◽  
Erma Nezirevic
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
War Memories ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between the family archive and Memory Studies. It analyzes the archive of a young woman, Florence Elizabeth Conard, whose writings of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) are archived in the Kautz FamilyYMCA Archive in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her story is narrated and edited by her father affirming her existence as a literary witness. We, the authors, use Borges’ reading of The Divine Comedy as a productive analogy to approach memory through the lens of literature, opening a path for further interrogation of narrative and moving from that which is narrated to that which is narratable and redactable. It illustrates how the mnemonic practices of memory reside in their narratability. Just the same, the academic field of Memory Studies grappling with these practices is not a fashionable product of the twentieth-century traumas, but has existed as a practice before the archive, which gives it a space.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Baer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Francisco Franco ◽  
Mikhail Bakunin ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to show how the ebb and flow of Spanish anarchist migrations to Argentina helps explain the development of both a transnational anarchist ideology and related organizations that connect these two countries. It follows the lives, careers, ideas, influence, and travel of dozens of individuals who moved between these two countries in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century. The life stories of individual immigrants allow us to explore their movements and understand how supranational links influenced the growth of the anarchist movements in Spain and Argentina. This study encompasses the period between 1868, when the ideas of Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin first became known in Spain, and the end of the Spanish Civil War, after which the regime of Generalíssimo Francisco Franco and the Second World War effectively ended the relationship between these two countries' anarchist movements. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

Bodies, theology and Dante’s Divine Comedy

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 159-182
Author(s):  
Rozelle Robson Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Ample Opportunity ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
The Relationship

Placing the words Comedy and Africa in the same sentence, is like laying claim to two expansive and complex entities which do not immediately bear relation to another and yet, there is ample opportunity for engagement. The article begins by showing how a young South African’s reading of the Divine Comedy through the lens of her own preoccupation with the body and its theo-performative demeanour can bring fresh perspectives to the fore. A primary instance of the intersection between the body, God and theological performance is the Ethiopian artist Aïda Muluneh’s interpretation of Inferno, canto xx. Muluneh’s performative expression transforms the scope and meaning of tears in the Comedy by bringing to bear her own particularity. Here, tears become central in unveiling the truth that the Comedy speaks. The article explores the significant role that gestures have in giving form to the Divine Comedy. As the logic of relationality, love forms the spine of this article while drawing together the themes of creation and incarnation. The article ends by suggesting that if one has a proper understanding of the relationship between humans and the created order, one might find a theology from below latent in the Comedy.

scholarly journals “Non vide mei di me chi vide il vero”: l’arte “verace” nel girone dei superbi come mise en abyme dell’arte dantesca nella Commedia

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-65
Author(s):  
Maria Maślanka-Soro
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Universe

“Non vide mei di me chi vide il vero”: L’art “verace” in the circle of proud as a mise en abyme of Dante’s art in the Comedy The purpose of this study is to discuss the problem of meta-poetic themes in the Divine Comedy, focusing in particular on the relationship between God’s art and Dante’s art in the context of the impression caused by the sight of the rock reliefs in the cornice of the proud in the Purgatorio, where the poet, presenting and imitating the art of God, in fact shows the mastery of his own art. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the examples of humility and pride carved on the walls and the rock path – the perfect work of God-the Artist, vibrant with life and called by Dante visibile parlare – are, on the one hand, a mise en abyme of its macroscopic version, which is the Universe created by him, and, on the other hand, a mise en abyme of the universe narrated with the simile perfection by Dante.

‘LET US SWIM IN THE POOL OF LOVE’: LOVE LETTERS AND DISCOURSES OF COMMUNITY COMPOSITION IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY TANZANIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreana C. Prichard
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
National Imagination ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Letters ◽  
Political Act ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article uses a series of love letters exchanged between an African Anglican priest and a teacher-in-training before their marriage to investigate the relationship between the fashioning of the individual self, marriage, and community at the dawn of Tanganyika's independence. When seen through marriage's historical position as an institution central to community composition, these letters illustrate how the family – and the intimate process of building families – could become an alternate site of national imagination. These two young lovers understood their marriage as an explicitly political act of community composition, and cast themselves as characters in the drama of national imagination. In negotiating their twentieth-century marriage, Rose and Gideon became political innovators, selecting, producing, and testing the content and boundaries of the nation.

Changing Political Attitudes in Totalitarian Society: A Case Study of the Role of the Family

1956 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-205
Author(s):  
Kent Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
National Ideology ◽  
The Relationship

There is general agreement among Western scholars that the modern totalitarian state is distinguished in part by its possession of a unitary and systematically elaborated ideology. While it will be found that expert opinions vary considerably in regard to the importance of the role played by ideology in the origin and continuation of totalitarianism, there is little question but that the ruling power of the totalitarian society is not indifferent to the relationship between national ideology and popular attitudes. Indeed, history shows that the rulers of twentieth-century totalitarian states have devoted considerable effort to the development among their citizenries of attitudes of acceptance toward the social philosophies and goals associated with their regimes.

scholarly journals A busca pela eternidade: aproximações entre Murilo mendes e Dante Alighieri.

2021 ◽  
Vol E4 (2021) ◽  
pp. 132-149
Author(s):  
João Victor Santos
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Divine Comedy ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Divine Comedy ◽  
The Relationship

With the intention of studying the relationship between Being and Eternity, the present study sought to bring together As metamorfoses, by Murilo Mendes, and The divine comedy, by Dante Alighieri. With the support of texts such as those by Carvalhal (1986) and Nitrini (2015), we used Comparative Literature as a theoretical framework in order to compare the lyric verses of one and the epics verses of the other, in order to analyze how it was the process of receiving the Italian work by the Brazilian. Based on Lucchesi (2013), for whom the dantesque comedy is seen in a diluted way in 20th century Brazilian poets, we undertook the appreciation of murilian verses and raised hypotheses about how they would associate with Italians through thematic and sonorous relationships imagery. With that, we were able to conclude that As metamorfoses absorbs traces of The divine comedy and is different from it, managing to maintain the balance between influence and originality.

Teachers and Sowers

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-163
Author(s):  
Dominic Scott ◽  
R. Edward Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Florence Nightingale ◽  
Thought Leader ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Twentieth Century America ◽  
Rational Communication ◽  
Teacher Model

This chapter begins by considering the relation between the models of the teacher and the sower, which might seem very similar to each other. In Plato’s Phaedrus, the thought leader sows ideas by teaching; and teachers leave behind students capable of teaching others, so extending the original teacher’s legacy. The models are nonetheless distinct, even if they often converge: the teacher model focuses on the relationship between the leader and their immediate followers, stressing the need for rational communication; the sower looks beyond the relationship between the leader and their immediate followers towards subsequent generations, and to the perpetuation of ideas. Most of the chapter is then taken up with two case studies that show the two models working hand in hand: Florence Nightingale, who revolutionized nursing, and Margaret Mead, the US anthropologist, who helped transform attitudes to the family and sex in twentieth-century America.

Into the Family Life of Strangers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine E. Rymph
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Child Welfare League ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Us ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Religious Aspects ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter surveys the origins of foster care in earlier methods for supporting dependent children dating back to the colonial period, including indenture, orphanages, “placing out” (also known as orphan trains), boarding out, and adoption. It attends to the racial and religious aspects of these systems and to the relationship between private and public systems of child welfare. The chapter also discusses the importance of the professionalization of the child welfare field in the early twentieth century, particularly the creation of the US Children’s Bureau and the Child Welfare League of America.

Intergenerational Family Relations in Luxembourg

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Albert ◽  
Dieter Ferring ◽  
Tom Michels
Keyword(s):  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Generation Gap ◽  
Intergenerational Solidarity ◽  
Acculturation Gap ◽  
Family Obligations ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Model Family

According to the intergenerational solidarity model, family members who share similar values about family obligations should have a closer relationship and support each other more than families with a lower value consensus. The present study first describes similarities and differences between two family generations (mothers and daughters) with respect to their adherence to family values and, second, examines patterns of relations between intergenerational consensus on family values, affectual solidarity, and functional solidarity in a sample of 51 mother-daughter dyads comprising N = 102 participants from Luxembourgish and Portuguese immigrant families living in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Results showed a small generation gap in values of hierarchical gender roles, but an acculturation gap was found in Portuguese mother-daughter dyads regarding obligations toward the family. A higher mother-daughter value consensus was related to higher affectual solidarity of daughters toward their mothers but not vice versa. Whereas affection and value consensus both predicted support provided by daughters to their mothers, affection mediated the relationship between consensual solidarity and received maternal support. With regard to mothers, only affection predicted provided support for daughters, whereas mothers’ perception of received support from their daughters was predicted by value consensus and, in the case of Luxembourgish mothers, by affection toward daughters.

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