scholarly journals ,,Ar iš balos tas gražumas mano prigimimo?” Mintys, kilusios skaitant tradicinei lietuvių valstiečių vyrų aprangai skirtą monografiją

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (29) 2020 ◽  
pp. 181-205
Author(s):  
Jonas Mardosa Mardosa
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Field Trips ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Final Version ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Mirror Mirror

‘Mirror, Mirror on the W all, Who’s the Fairest of them All?’ Thoughts on a Monograph about the Traditional Clothing of Lithuanian Peasant Men The author of the review discusses the debatable aspects of Vida Kulikauskienė’s monograph ‘Traditional Clothing of Lithuanian Peasant Men’. First, he highlights the value of the book. He notes that the book is the result of Kulikauskienė‘s longterm research into traditional peasant men’s clothing, and the reconstruction and creation of the Lithuanian national clothes in relation to it. Ethnographic fieldwork, which began in the 1960s, took place within the context of the preparation of the ‘Historical Ethnographic Atlas of Baltic National Clothes’. Until then, research into women’s traditional clothing, which had been carried out for several decades, and the well-established picture of their regional sets, contrasted with men’s clothing as depicted mostly in a variety of fragmentary literary texts. After a few years, the ethnographic information covering the entire territory of Lithuania began to appear in Kulikauskienė’s articles published in various local monographs. After supplementing the data gathered during the ethnographic field-trips with literary material, and researching in museums and archives, Kulikauskienė wrote and sucessfully defended her doctoral dissertation. At the same time, an introductory text for the ‘Historical Ethnographic Atlas of Baltic National Clothes’ was written, and maps were compiled. The atlas was published in Riga in 1985. Before that, Kulikauskienė published a series of articles on clothing, and wrote a manuscript for this monograph. The ethnologists Dr Irma Šidiškienė and Dr Dalia Bernotaitė-Beliauskienė took the initiative and prepared the final version of the manuscript, selected illustrations, and wrote footnotes and explanations.

Literary theorists in and beyond French academic space (1960–1970s)

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 1108-1123
Author(s):  
Lucile Dumont
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
French History ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Collective Strategy

This article demonstrates how social strategies deployed at the margins of French academic space to legitimize theoretical approaches to literary texts (semiology, semantics, structural analysis of narratives) in the 1960s and 1970s strongly relied on the interventions of their promoters beyond the academy. It specifically examines two strategies privileged by promoters of literary theory which allowed some of them to bypass several requirements for academic careers in taking advantage of the transformations of higher education, of the absence of stable and strong disciplinary frames, and of their own integration into the intellectual and literary fields. First, either through the alliance with literary avant-gardes or by the temporary constitution as one, the collective strategy of the literary avant-garde became a way to engage both politically and aesthetically. Second, the investment of transnational networks and internationalization allowed the critics and theorists to get around the national path to symbolic and academic consecration, and to reframe the modalities of their public engagement. Ultimately, this article offers an understanding of how, for aspirant or marginalized academics, interventions beyond the perimeter of the academic space have, at a certain point in French history, helped their acquisition of academic legitimacy.

Prison Religion and Prison Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-192
Author(s):  
Joshua Dubler ◽  
Vincent W. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Political ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Martin Luther King ◽  
The Church

Using trial records, court decisions, and ethnographic fieldwork, this chapter tracks how the disruptive religious practices of the prisoners’ rights era, including prison strikes, became the accommodating religious practices of America’s prisons today. In other words, it tells the story of the rise and fall of the collectivist prisoners’ religion of the 1960s and the subsequent ascendency of the depoliticized, accommodationist religious forms better suited to the controlled conditions of mass incarceration. Touching on a range of incarcerated people’s writings and rituals, including Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and his conversion to Islam, the Church of the New Song, and the black naturalist sect MOVE, the chapter explores how highlighting the politicizing force of prison and reclaiming the political-theological voices of prisoners might allow us to see new possibilities for justice beyond the prison. With an eye toward what has been repressed, the chapter concludes with the abolitionist promise of the new surge in prisoners’ political organizing.

scholarly journals Kilka uwag o związku książki artystycznej i literatury pięknej

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 149-161
Author(s):  
Paweł Bernacki
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Book Art ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Belles Lettres ◽  
Written Word ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
State Of Affairs

Some remarks on the link between artists’ books and belles-lettres The book art and literature seem to be closely linked. Almost from the very beginning of its existence the former was used to store, disseminate and highlight the values of the latter. This state of affairs began to change at the turn of the 20th century, when the great avant-gardes were increas­ingly emphasising the visual aspects of the written word and, consequently, of books. People were increasingly convinced about the autonomy and independence of books. This led to the emergence in the 1960s of amovement known as artists’ books, which considered books to be works of art in themselves, and consequently, to be more loosely connected with literature. This broad and not yet fully defined phenomenon encompasses awhole range of projects interpreting literary texts or inspired by them. By analysing works of artists like Renata Pacyna-Kruszyńska, Małgorzata Haras, Janusz and Jadwiga Tryzna Itry to demonstrate how authors of artists’ books interpret the writers’ works, using them as abasis for completely new, original and autonomous projects, and to show which direction contemporary book art may follow over the next few years.

Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-275
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
P Content ◽  
Key Players ◽  
Evangelical Movement ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Conservative Christians

Summary <p content-type="flush left">This revised doctoral dissertation (Tübingen) investigates the origins and beginnings of the evangelical movement within the Protestant Church in Germany. For Breitschwerdt, the origin of the evangelical movement goes back to a conflict between Luther and Erasmus with their different views on Scripture. The conflict continued and grew especially during the nineteenth century, when rationalism and theological liberalism entered the German theological faculties and conservative Christians opposed these liberal tendencies. Breitschwerdt gives special attention to the developments in the Protestant churches in Westfalen and Württemberg. The conflict continued during the twentieth century, this time focusing on Bultmann’s programme of demythologisation of Scripture. It finally led to the founding of the confessional movement ‘Kein anderes Evangelium’ (‘No other gospel’) in the 1960s, one of the key players of the German evangelical movement at the time.

Postcolonialism, Identity, and Location: Being White Australian in Asia

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 615-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Schech ◽  
Jane Haggis
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Settler Society

In this paper we explore the nature and degree to which Australian imaginings of self in Asia have altered since the 1960s. We do this in two ways. First, an analysis of Christopher Koch's two novels, The Year of Living Dangerously and Highways to a War, is used to establish the parameters of change in Australian imaginings of themselves in Asia. This analysis of literary texts, we argue, can be used to develop an analytical framework for considering Australian aid policies to Asia as cultural texts, and the extent to which such policies can be seen to be part of a redefinition of Australian settler society towards a postcolonial understanding of the ‘white self’. In the second part of the paper we offer a preliminary analysis of how Australian overseas-aid policies have begun to acknowledge the fact of Australia's geopolitical location. We argue that these cultural texts reveal a repositioning of Australian identity which remains caught within a terrain of whiteness.

Infrastructure between Statehood and Selfhood:

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-81
Author(s):  
Kenny Cupers ◽  
Prita Meier
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Network Infrastructure ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Highway Network ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

Focusing on the 1960s–70s project to build a trans-African highway network, Infrastructure between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway argues for the need to develop a more dialectical understanding of the relationship between people and infrastructure than current architectural and urban scholarship affords. As Kenny Cupers and Prita Meier describe, African leaders imagined infrastructure as a vehicle of Pan-African freedom, unity, and development, but the construction of the Trans-African Highway relied on expertise and funding from former colonial overlords. Based on archival research, visual analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork in Kenya, this article examines the highway's imaginaries of decolonization to show how infrastructure was both the business of statehood and a means of selfhood. From the automobile and the tarmac road to the aesthetics and practices of mobility these fostered, infrastructure was a vehicle for the production of subjectivity in postindependence Kenya. This new selfhood, future oriented and on the move, was both victim and agent of commodification.

scholarly journals Migrant Poetry – Anthropological Analysis on the Collection of Poems by Drago Trumbetaš

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Banić Grubišić
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Temporary Workers ◽  
Guest Workers ◽  
Temporary Work ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Almost All

The subject of this paper is a thematic analysis of a bilingual collection of poems by Drago Trumbetaš entitled “Poems of guest-workers“ (“Gastarbeiter-Gedichte“). The poems in this collection were written during his stay in FR Germany from 1969 to 1980. Drago Trumbetaš (1937–2018) was a versatile Croatian self-taught artist and a member of the first wave of Yugoslav economic migrants who went to “temporary“ work in the developed countries of Western Europe in the 1960s. During his stay in FR Germany, Trumbetaš worked various low paid physical jobs and his artistic expression was strongly imbued with personal migrant experiences. Almost all artistic work of Trumbetaš (series of drawings, novels, plays and poetry) is devoted to depicting the life of Yugoslav gastarbeiters. After determining the prevailing topics on the collection of poems, an analysis of their meaning will be undertaken through the anthropological, sociological and historical literature on the phenomenon of “temporary workers abroad“. Poetry of Trumbetaš has been interpreted in the broader context of the “migrant poetry” development in FR Germany since the 1970s. Particular attention will be paid to analyzing the ways of poetic self-representation of migrant workers, the ways of articulating identity through poetry in a new and different cultural and social environment respectively. The problem of using literary texts written in the first person, which are therefore shaped by the subjective aspirations of individual authors, as relevant sources in ethnological and anthropological studies of migration is problematized in this paper.

scholarly journals Three Positivist Disputes in the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl-Göran Heidegren
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
Theory Of Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
May 1968 ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

The West German positivist dispute in the 1960s is well known and thoroughly studied. At about the same time positivist disputes also took place in two Scandinavian countries: one in Norway and one in Sweden. What did the front lines in the debate look like in the three countries? What was the outcome of the different disputes? The main focus in the article is on the Swedish case, but some comparative perspectives relating to the three disputes will also be presented. The Swedish positivist dispute originated with Gerard Radnitzky’s doctoral dissertation in theory of science, defended at the University of Gothenburg in May 1968, Contemporary Schools of Metascience (2 volumes). The dissertation caused a stir of controversy. It meant a challenge to the Swedish philsophical establishment because it leaned heavily on continental philosophers such as Karl-Otto Apel and Jürgen Habermas, who at the time were more or less unknown in Sweden. The controversy was continuated in the following years, most notably in the leftist journal Häften för kritiska studier (Notebooks for Critical Studies).

Two Themes in Bleak House (1962)

PMLA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-442
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Younisi ◽  
Sina Rahmani
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Margaret Atwood ◽  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Henry Fielding ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S

Surprise best seller fails to capture the triumph of azar nafisi's reading lolita in tehran (2003). This “memoir in books” recounting the cultural politics of postrevolutionary Iran—not exactly the subject matter that typically sends a book to the top of the literary charts—turned out to be “a bookseller's dream” (Burwell 143). It sold millions, was translated into thirty-two languages, and—perhaps most impressively—generated a critical lovefest that united neocon hawks like Bernard Lewis with progressive luminaries like Margaret Atwood. Far less surprising, however, was the familiar canard of “Oriental darkness” dominating the book's mainstream reception: the idea that non-Westerners have no literature of their own and know nothing about the Western canon. Many commentators refused to consider the radical possibility that Iranians may have already been acquainted with some canonical occidental texts. Nowhere to be found in this discussion was the name Ibrahim Younisi (1926-2012), whose fifty-year career in literary translation underscores that Iranians have long been avid readers and enthusiastic translators of world literature. Sadly, this ignorance is not limited to mainstream literary publications; John O. Jordan and Nirshan Perera's Global Dickens fails to mention that Charles Dickens's works have been in widespread circulation in Iran since the 1960s. Decades before Nafisi supposedly led her students to Western literary civilization, Younisi had translated not just Dickens but also Thomas Hardy, Henry Fielding, Shakespeare, and George Eliot. By the time of his death, Younisi's résumé included more than seventy translations, encompassing literary texts, criticism, memoir, and historical scholarship.

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