scholarly journals MONTENEGRO IN TRAVELOGUE BLACK LAMB AND GREY FALCON: A JOURNEY THROUGH YUGOSLAVIA, 1941) REBECCA WEST

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Rebecca West ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Ethnic Stereotypes ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Gerard Genette

The subject of this paper will be the presentation of Montenegro in the travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West. This travelogue will be analysed from the literary-historical, literary-theoretical and imagological perspectives. We will deal with the chronotope of Montenegro (Kolashin, Podgorica, Cetinje and Budva) and the national identity of the Montenegrin people from the viewpoint of a travelogue narrator that does not belong to that nation, as well as the creation of trans- national identities. We will also pay attention to the construction of ethnic stereotypes and their (non)duration in time. The paper will also include a comparison of characters and events depicted in the travelogue with historical figures and the events on which they are modelled. “The key assumption of the literary-historical approach to the travelogue discourse is finding its typical places, shaping specific rhetoric of the travelogue based on a few backings from the narratology to the history of mentality.” (Duda 1998, 92) The presentation of Montenegro in the travelogue Black Lamb and Grey Falcon will be based on Duda’s assumptions and Bakhtin’s perception of chronotope as “the essential interconnection of time and space relations” (Bakhtin 1989, 193). We will also take into account the views of Gerard Genette and Mieke Bal.

Locating the Tawa’if Courtesan-Dancer: Cinematic Constructions of Religion and Nation

2021 ◽  
pp. e20200014
Author(s):  
Sitara Thobani
Keyword(s):  
National Identities ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Dance Performance ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
Indian Identity ◽  
Indian Nation ◽  
Cinematic Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Artistic Performance

The development of the Hindi/Urdu cinema is intimately connected to the history of artistic performance in India in two important ways. Not only did hereditary music and dance practitioners play key roles in building this cinema, representations of these performers and their practices have been, and continue to be, the subject of Indian film narratives, genres, and tropes. I begin with this history in order to explore the Muslim religio-cultural and artistic inheritance that informs Hindi/Urdu cinema, as well as examine how this heritage has been incorporated into the cinematic narratives that help construct distinct gendered, religious, and national identities. My specific focus is on the figure of the tawa’if dancer, often equated with North Indian culture and nautch dance performance. Analyzing the ways in which traces of the tawa’if appear in two recent films, Dedh Ishqiya and Begum Jaan, I show how this figure is placed in a larger representational regime that sustains nationalist formations of contemporary Indian identity. As I demonstrate, even in the most blatant attempts to define the Indian nation as “Hindu,” the “Muslimness” of the tawa’if—and by extension the cinema she informed in ways both real and representational—is far from relinquished.

scholarly journals Ironia i nihilizm. Figura bibliotekarza w Posłuchaniu u Lucypera Józefa Sękowskiego

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Jarosław Ławski
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Absolute Power ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The subject matter of the present article is the image of library and librarian in a forgotten short story by a Polish-Russian writer Józef Julian Sękowski (1800−1858). Sękowski is known in Polish literature as a multi-talented orientalist and polyglot, who changed his national identity in 1832 and began to write only in Russian. In the history of Russian literature he is famous for Library for Reading and Fantastic Voyages of Baron Brambeus, an ironic-grotesque work, which was precursory in Russian prose. Until 1832 Sękowski was, however, a Polish writer. His last significant work was An Audience with Lucypher published in a Polish magazine Bałamut Petersburski (Petersburgian Philanderer) in 1832 and immediately translated into Russian by Sękowski himself under the title Bolszoj wychod u Satany (1833). The library and librarian presented by the author in this piece are a caricature illustration proving his nihilistic worldview. Sękowski is a master of irony and grotesquery, yet the world he creates is deprived of freedom and justice and a book in this world is merely a threat to absolute power.

From the Serbian Fair to the Russian Museum: On the Ethnographic Relevance of the Gingerbread Collection from 1902

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-111
Author(s):  
A. A. Mikhaylova
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
History Of

Serbian fi gured gingerbreads owned by the Russian Museum of Ethnography are described, the history of the collection is provided, and its cultural meaning is evaluated. Ethnographic parallels are analyzed, and archaic examples are cited. The custom of baking gingerbread results from the commercialization of the agricultural tradition of baking ritual bread. In terms of cultural anthropology, the question may be raised whether the replacement of destroyed originals by plaster replicas preserves the information potential and ethnographic value of the collection. Its interpretation is relevant to national identity in new Balkan nations such as Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia. Another problem is if and how a craft shared by several peoples can be an ethnic marker. In terms of ethnographic museology in the globalizing world, the prospects of acquiring recent collections are discussed. The role of such collections in constructing new national identities may be considerable.

Muslim Integration and French Society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel D. Brown
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
North African ◽  
French Society ◽  
Migration History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Research

The subject of Muslim integration has been the focus of much policy development, media engagement, and everyday conversation in France. Because of the strong rhetoric about national identity—a national identity based on Republican ideals of universalism, equality, and French secularism (laïcité)—the question often becomes, “Can Muslims, as Muslims, integrate into French society and ‘be’ French?” In other contexts (e.g., the United States), religion may act as an aid in immigrants’ integration. In Europe, and France specifically, religion is viewed as an absolute hindrance to integration. Because of this, and thanks to a specific migration history of Muslims to France, the colonial grounding for the development of French nationality and secularism, and the French assimilationist model of integration, Muslims are often viewed as, at best, not able to integrate and, at worst, not willing to integrate into French society. The socioeconomic inequality between Muslim and non-Muslim French (as represented by life in the banlieues [suburbs]), the continued labeling of second- and third-generation North African Muslim youth as “immigrants,” the occurrence of terrorist attacks and radicalization on European soil, and the use of religious symbols (whether the head scarf or religious food practices) as symbols of intentional difference all add to the perception that Muslims are, and should be, the subject of integration efforts in France. While the discourse is often that Muslims have failed to integrate into French society through an acceptance and enactment of French values and policies, new research is suggesting that the “failed” integration of Muslims reveals a deeper failure of French Republican universalism, equality, and secularism.

scholarly journals The Role of Landscape Art in Cultural and National Identity: Chinese and European Comparisons

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Wen ◽  
Paul White
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Landscape Art ◽  
Political Role ◽  
History Of ◽  
Constant Feature ◽  
Definition Of

The depiction of landscape in art has played a major role in the creation of cultural identities in both China and Europe. Landscape depiction has a history of over 1000 years in China, whilst in Europe its evolution has been more recent. Landscape art (shan shui) has remained a constant feature of Chinese culture and has changed little in style and purpose since the Song dynasty. In Europe, landscape depictions have been significant in the modern determination of cultural and national identities and have served to educate consumers about their country. Consideration is given here to Holland, England, Norway, Finland and China, demonstrating how landscape depictions served to support a certain definition of Chinese culture but have played little political role there, whilst in Europe landscape art has been produced in a variety of contexts, including providing support for nationalism and the determination of national identity.

Die radikale Linke als Massenbewegung. Kommunisten in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg 1918–1933

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Marcel Bois
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Great Strength ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Regional History ◽  
The City

AbstractIn the mid-1990s, Klaus-Michael Mallmann published his study on 'Communists in the Weimar Republic'. His newly established social-historical approach on the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) has since been taken up by other historians. One of them is Christian Gotthardt, who recently published a book with the promising title 'The Radical Left as a Mass Movement'. Here he focuses on the regional history of the KPD in the city of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg. The great strength of his book is the detailed description of the local Communists' day-to-day work. However, when turning his attention to the turning points of KPD history, the problems associated with adopting Mallman's social-historical approach become obvious. For example this leads them both to reject the theory of 'Stalinisation'. The article shows that Gotthardt, as well as Mallmann, had come to questionable conclusions on the development of the KPD of the Weimar Republic by focusing on events outside of their context in time and space.

scholarly journals Latinitas in the Polish Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
National Identities ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Grand Duchy Of Lithuania ◽  
Grand Duchy

The volume contains articles concerning the influence of Latinitas in the territory now occupied by Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus’. The articles, all published in English, range from history to literature and to cultural history and the history of ideas. They analyze the issue of building an identity, either real or imagined, from different points of view. Among the most interesting topics are the classical origins of myths and ideas that have helped build the national identities of those that constituted the ethnic mosaic of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the role of Neo-Latin poetry, as a conveyor of Latinitas, in the development of national identities. Because of the significance of Latinitas for both common European cultural traditions and the national cultures, literatures and languages of Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine, it is to be hoped that the subject will continue to attract a good level of attention in the future.

O ensino de História: Algumas experiências

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Cordeiro
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
National Memory ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
History Teacher ◽  
Music Representations

This book reports some of the author's experiences as a History teacher and as a scholar of his teaching. The chapters present some didactic proposals, but also reports of courses given on the subject of history teaching, as well as the examination of some cultural products that can be mobilized to teaching this discipline. In this case, didactic experiences and suggestions are presented with some with some cultural objects, such as books by José J. Veiga, the film Forrest Gump and some songs of Brazilian popular music. Representations about the periodization of the history of Brazil and Brazilian national identity and about how the teaching of our discipline has contributed to the reaffirmation of the unified and dominant national memory are also studied. One of the chapters examines specifically how the annual celebration of some civic dates participates in the process of reaffirming that memory. The penultimate chapter offers suggestions on how to examine some controversial topics in basic education classes, in the context of the so-called “war of narratives”. Finally, the last text offers a synthesis of a study on the state of the discussions about History teaching in the 1980s and 1990s in São Paulo through an analysis that draws on the contributions of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and his concept of field.

Goethe, the Japanese National Identity through Cultural Exchange, 1889 to 1989

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-100
Author(s):  
Stefan Keppler-Tasaki ◽  
Seiko Tasaki
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Gottfried Benn ◽  
Mori Ogai ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nishida Kitaro ◽  
Source Materials

Abstract This is a study of the alleged “singular reception career”1 that Goethe experienced in Japan from 1889 to 1989, i. e., from the first translation of the Mignon song to the last issues of the Neo Faust manga series. In its path, we will highlight six areas of discourse which concern the most prominent historical figures resp. figurations involved here: (1) the distinct academic schools of thought aligned with the topic “Goethe in Japan” since Kimura Kinji <styled-content>,</styled-content> (2) the tentative Japanification of Goethe by Thomas Mann and Gottfried Benn, (3) the recognition of the (un-)German classical writer in the circle of the Japanese national author Mori Ōgai <styled-content></styled-content>, as well as Goethe’s rich resonances in (4) Japanese suicide ideals since the early days of Wertherism (Ueruteru-zumu <styled-content></styled-content>), (5) the Zen Buddhist theories of Nishida Kitarō <styled-content></styled-content> and D. T. Suzuki <styled-content></styled-content>, and lastly (6) works of popular culture by Kurosawa Akira <styled-content></styled-content> and Tezuka Osamu <styled-content></styled-content>. Critical appraisal of these source materials supports the thesis that the polite violence and interesting deceits of the discursive history of “Goethe, the Japanese” can mostly be traced back, other than to a form of speech in German-Japanese cultural diplomacy, to internal questions of Japanese national identity.

scholarly journals Identity and problematic affiliation in the Arab novel

2017 ◽  
Vol 223 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-166
Author(s):  
Dr. Taghreed Abdul Khalek Hadi
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Arab Societies ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

    The affiliation main point in the Arab novel value,  is  a variety of different  aspects and establishes a history of an entire people ,  they are the result of standard conditions, social and economic affected in Arab societies and pushed out towards the mixing or melt with other communities left on the impact of the problem in the national identity of the Arab individual .The research deal with the problem through the narrative texts raised the subject of discussion with the stand on homelands repellant models for their sons  because of the circumstances and the pressure, on the contrary homelands attracting entrants from last nationalities. The research concluded that the main reason to loss of the identity of belonging to the homelands is the lack of community awareness of the individual which promotes belonging to his land and its components.

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