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Recognizing A Collective Inheritance Through The History Of Women In Computing, Erika E. Smith
Recognizing A Collective Inheritance Through The History Of Women In Computing, Erika E. Smith
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In her article "Recognizing a Collective Inheritance through the History of Women in Computing" Erika E. Smith engages with the following question: how might we create the space for women in the history of computing that is deserved? Even with the proliferation of social, political, and historical engagement with feminist theory and computing technology, there remains a lack of scholarship on the topic of women in the history of computing. Given the dearth of historical accounts on the role of women in computing, the task of delving into such history becomes necessary, although difficult. Smith's objective is to examine a …
The Egyptian Enlightenment And Mann, Freud, And Freund, Rebecca C. Dolgoy
The Egyptian Enlightenment And Mann, Freud, And Freund, Rebecca C. Dolgoy
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In her article "The Egyptian Enlightenment and Mann, Freud, and Freund" Rebecca C. Dolgoy discusses various ways in which ancient Egypt is used in three works from the 1930s: Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism, and Karl Freund's film The Mummy. By showing the similarities and differences in how these works use Egypt, Dolgoy develops the concept that memory is the way in which the past is used. Dolgoy follows the structure of a cinematic shot casting: The Mummy as the long shot which both sets up the general Egyptomania characteristic of …