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An American Generational Autobiography: Collective Identity In Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return, John Hazlett
An American Generational Autobiography: Collective Identity In Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return, John Hazlett
John D Hazlett
In the following chapter from Hazlett's book My Generation: Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics, the author argues that Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return pioneered a new form of autobiographical narrative--the generational autobiography. Cowley's text relies for its underlying ideas of collective identity on generational theory, Marxism, and Emersoniansm.
Intro. To Post-Traumatic Culture, Kirby Farrell
Intro. To Post-Traumatic Culture, Kirby Farrell
kirby farrell
This is the Introduction to my POST-TRAUMATIC CULTURE: INJURY AND INTERPRETATION IN THE 90s. It develops the premise that trauma is psychophysiogical: an injury that is also an interpretation of an injury. Its analyses show the idea of trauma functioning as a tool that all sorts of people use for a range of purposes.
Trapped By Fairies Gnomes And Elves: E.E. Cummings And The Struggle To Be Unique, Katherine Weiss
Trapped By Fairies Gnomes And Elves: E.E. Cummings And The Struggle To Be Unique, Katherine Weiss
Katherine Weiss
"America Represented By A Woman" – Negotiating Feminine And National Identity In Post-Revolutionary America, Michelle Navarre Cleary
"America Represented By A Woman" – Negotiating Feminine And National Identity In Post-Revolutionary America, Michelle Navarre Cleary
Michelle Navarre Cleary
Post-Revolutionary feminism peaked in the early 1790s when even thinkers as radical as Mary Wollstonecraft found a popular audience for their critiques of women's dependence upon and subordination to men. As the decade advanced, however, a backlash developed that characterized the feminine as a dangerous threat to the political order, denied women's authority outside the domestic sphere, and reasserted their dependence upon men. Through readings of two political cartoons by Paul Revere, a popular 1776 sermon by Samuel Sherwood, and Judith Sargent Murray’s “Story of Margaretta,” I argue that this backlash resulted, in part, from the frequent linking of feminine …
The Role Of The Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival In Creating Brazilian American Community, Adam Arenson
The Role Of The Nossa Senhora Aparecida Festival In Creating Brazilian American Community, Adam Arenson
Adam Arenson
Once a year, the Brazilians who live in the Boston area come together at St. Anthony Church in Cambridge to celebrate the festival of Nossa Senhora Aparecida (Our Lady who has Appeared), view the statue of the Virgin Mary that has brought miracles to the people of Brazil, and honor to this patroness. The festival, attended by hundreds, is primarily religious but also seems to have important cultural aspects. Is there a Brazilian community? If so, what role does this festival play? The researcher attended the festival in 1997, providing questionnaires in Portuguese and English, taking photographs, and arranging to …
Zora Neale Hurston And The Post-Modern Self In 'Dust Tracks On A Road', Pierre A. Walker
Zora Neale Hurston And The Post-Modern Self In 'Dust Tracks On A Road', Pierre A. Walker
Pierre Walker