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Copyright Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture ©Purdue University, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek Mar 2000

Copyright Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture ©Purdue University, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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American Irish Newsletter - February 2000, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec Feb 2000

American Irish Newsletter - February 2000, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Front Matter Feb 2000

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Full Issue Feb 2000

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Divergence Of Concepts, Gof Thomson, Erdmann Schmocker Feb 2000

Divergence Of Concepts, Gof Thomson, Erdmann Schmocker

Swiss American Historical Society Review

A non-for profit and tax-exempt (501, c 3) organization called the National Swiss American Center Foundation and registered in the State of Wisconsin is established. An interim Executive Board of seven members is formed, consisting of two members representing Green County, of two members representing the Swiss American Historical Society (SAHS), of one member each representing the University o/Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society, and an interim Director. The members of the Board are to take necessary steps such as initiating fund-raising, establishing the Foundation, creating an Advisory Board, and working out by-laws in close cooperation with their respective constituencies, …


Prefatory Note And Chronology, Leo Schelbert Feb 2000

Prefatory Note And Chronology, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Throughout 1999 the SAHS was involved in pursuing plans to establish a Swiss American Center in New Glarus, Wisconsin. Although the SAHS' involvement in the project has been terminated by the membership at the Annual Meeting of October 9, 1999 in Philadelphia, and although over eighty percent of the SAHS members polled agreed with that decision, it seems proper to present to the SAHS members a documentation of the events in the first issue of the SAHS Review of the year 2000, especially also of the steps taken by the SAHS representatives at the New Glarus meetings, E. Schmocker, the …


Initial Negotiations, Donald Tritt, Erdmann Schmocker, Leo Schelbert, R. Steven Wisdom, Kent Anderson Feb 2000

Initial Negotiations, Donald Tritt, Erdmann Schmocker, Leo Schelbert, R. Steven Wisdom, Kent Anderson

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Initiation of a Potential SAHS Swiss American Center (SAC) Project: From the Minutes of the SAHS Annual Meeting, held on October 10, 1998 at the Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D. C., Dr. Sabine. Jessner, Secretary: "Donald Tritt asked the members to consider the creation of a Swiss American Center to preserve and foster Swiss-American culture. He had literature on ethnic centers created by Americans of Danish, Norwegian, Irish, and other ethnic backgrounds. A Swiss Center might include museum exhibition space, meeting facilities, a library, and an archive. Discussion followed. This possibility met with enthusiastic response. Among those speaking in …


End Matter Feb 2000

End Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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The Separation, Erdmann Schmocker, Leo Schelbert, Donald Tritt Feb 2000

The Separation, Erdmann Schmocker, Leo Schelbert, Donald Tritt

Swiss American Historical Society Review

This is in response to your message dated 8-20-99 and faxed 8-26-99. After much thought and discussion we have come to the conclusion that a further involvement of the SAHS in the planning of a Swiss American Center to be located in New Glarus has to be suspended to enable the SAHS President to consult by mail the members of the SAHS Board of Advisors as well as the SAHS membership in order to reach a decision whether the SAHS can be a partner in that project as now pursued. The extensive discussions of the past months and especially also …


Masterpieces Of Classicism And Romanticism (Fall 2000) (Whitman College), Robert D. Tobin Jan 2000

Masterpieces Of Classicism And Romanticism (Fall 2000) (Whitman College), Robert D. Tobin

Syllabi

This course was taught by Robert Tobin at Whitman College. Professor Tobin worked at Whitman for 18 years as associate dean of the faculty and chair of the humanities, and was named Cushing Eells Professor of the Humanities.

"Masterpieces of Classicism and Romanticism is designed to give students a broad overview of European literature of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. Besides gaining familiarity with some of the authors of this period, students should learn to put the texts we read into their social and historical contexts and gain a basic familiarity with approaches to literary texts."


Colonial Violence And Trauma In The Works Of Michèle Lacrosil And Ken Bugul, Marie-Chantal Kalisa Jan 2000

Colonial Violence And Trauma In The Works Of Michèle Lacrosil And Ken Bugul, Marie-Chantal Kalisa

French Language and Literature Papers

To what extent can we say that both Lacrosil and Bugul rewrite Fanon? Through the study of Cajou and Ken, respectively the Guadeloupean and the Senegalese female protagonists, this article proposes a way to derive a specifically female perspective on colonial violence. The essay focuses on the two novels, Cajou and Le baobab fou, and examines the effect of colonial epistemological violence and its specific impact on the black female’s subjectivity. The protagonists Ken and Cajou revisit their initial trauma in a quest for knowledge of their historical heritage and engage in a dialogue with Frantz Fanon, representative of black …


Outing Hybridity: Polymorphism, Identity, And Desire In Monika Trent's Virgin Machine, Kathrin M. Bower Jan 2000

Outing Hybridity: Polymorphism, Identity, And Desire In Monika Trent's Virgin Machine, Kathrin M. Bower

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

Monika Treut's 1988 film, Virgin Machine, offers a playful, self-ironizing look at the construction of sexual identities, utilizing the techniques specific to the filmic medium to create cuts and bridges between concepts, characters, and locations. In its portrayal of the passage and passages of the story's central character, Dorothe Muller, the film takes the viewer on a voyage of self-exploration and self-discovery that moves from one harbor city, Hamburg, and ends in another, San Francisco. The move between harbor cities carries associations of commerce and exchange, arrivals and departures, as well as the potential for import and export of …


American Irish Newsletter - January 2000, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec Jan 2000

American Irish Newsletter - January 2000, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Inside Cover Jan 2000

Inside Cover

The Bridge

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Editorial Statement Jan 2000

Editorial Statement

The Bridge

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Front Cover Jan 2000

Front Cover

The Bridge

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The Kjems Family From Odder To Ashland, Magne Kjems Jan 2000

The Kjems Family From Odder To Ashland, Magne Kjems

The Bridge

My father, Simon Nielsen Kjems, was born on the farm of Kjemsgaard on 23 July 1849.2 At the age of twenty, he entered Askov Folk School and was educated to be a teacher in private and folk schools (friskolen og hajskolen). In 1874, father became a teacher in the private school on Odder Mark, a short distance from the village of Odder. The pupils were both farm children and the children of master artisans in Odder. I do not know . whether father built the school himself, but I know that he came to own it, and when he married …


Contents Jan 2000

Contents

The Bridge

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The Long Joumey To Oregon: An Emigrant Family From Odder, Kristian Tybjerg Jan 2000

The Long Joumey To Oregon: An Emigrant Family From Odder, Kristian Tybjerg

The Bridge

Late Thursday afternoon on 7 February 1889, the steamship SS Bravo of the C. K. Hansen Line sailed from the port of Copenhagen for Hull in England. It carried freight, cattle, and a few passengers -all emigrants to America. Among them was a family from Odder in Jutland, a shopkeeper named Corfix S0rensen, his wife, Kathrine, and their five youngest children, Godert, Vagn, Svend, Kamma, and Alrune. Had Corfix and Kathrine known what lay ahead for the rest of their lives in terms of hard work, deprivation, disappointments, and a nagging longing for home in the old country, they may …


Snow!, Enok Mortensen Jan 2000

Snow!, Enok Mortensen

The Bridge

The winter had been unusually mild. For many years, people had never seen anything like it. The old folks even thought that there was something wrong with such unusual weather. Coal dealers cursed and knocked on their barometers, but the temperature held above freezing and well into December no snow fell. In Grant Park, which Chicago had wrested from Lake Michigan, a faint sun kissed the faded grey lawn and warmed it enough so that fat wealthy women took out their yappy lap dogs. In long uneven rows the homeless lay in rags and stole a belated sleep well into …


Full Issue Jan 2000

Full Issue

The Bridge

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Inside Cover Jan 2000

Inside Cover

The Bridge

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Front Matter Jan 2000

Front Matter

The Bridge

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Editorial Statement Jan 2000

Editorial Statement

The Bridge

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In Memoriam, Arnold N. Bodtker Jan 2000

In Memoriam, Arnold N. Bodtker

The Bridge

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Restless Fanatic:Mogens Abraham Sommer, 1829-1901, Thorvald Hansen Jan 2000

Restless Fanatic:Mogens Abraham Sommer, 1829-1901, Thorvald Hansen

The Bridge

This account of the life and activities of a Danish religious fanatic who played a significant role in emigration has been prepared on the basis of materials available in this country. Further items are available in Denmark, but on the basis of what is known to be available, it is doubtful that this would make any appreciable difference. To my knowledge, this is the only English language story of his life.


Marcus Lee Hansen's Approach To The History Of Scandinavian Immigration, J.R. Christianson Jan 2000

Marcus Lee Hansen's Approach To The History Of Scandinavian Immigration, J.R. Christianson

The Bridge

Marcus Lee Hansen (1892-1938) has been called "the first serious student of the history of American immigration," and he was a very good one, but that was long ago.2 His major scholarship appeared after his death at the age of forty-five in 1938. Few authors have written about American immigration with Marcus Lee Hansen's literary grace and historical brilliance, but huge amounts of ethnic and immigration history have been written since his day. Old history often goes stale and out of print. What about Marcus Lee Hansen? Is there anything in his view of immigration that still speaks to us …


Gendered Communication Among Second Generation Danish Americans In The "Blair Church:" A Study In Progress, John Mark Nielsen Jan 2000

Gendered Communication Among Second Generation Danish Americans In The "Blair Church:" A Study In Progress, John Mark Nielsen

The Bridge

I am not nor do I pretend to be an expert on gendered communication or feminist criticism. I have, however, used Carol Gilligan's In A Different Voice and Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand in classes with good results.1 While students differ in their responses, these works are accessible to many and have inspired good discussion about how gender may affect decision-making and impact the way messages are sent and received. Additionally, I have found writings by Peggy McIntosh, Carol Smith-Rosenberg, and Barbara Welter helpful in exploring and thinking about the writings of American women writers of the pre-Civil War …


Time To Retire: Providing For Retirement On A Danish Farm In 1863, J.R. Christianson Jan 2000

Time To Retire: Providing For Retirement On A Danish Farm In 1863, J.R. Christianson

The Bridge

Peder S0rensen and Ane Mette were ready to retire, but the year was 1863, and the famous Danish welfare state was far in the future. So what did they do? It was a problem faced by the families of many Danish immigrants. When he was young, Peder S0rensen had come to the village of Lindeballe and bought a piece of land from the rich widow in Lindeballegaard. That was thirty-seven years ago. He and his first wife, Maren Sofie, built their farm on that piece of land, and they called it L0kkegaard.1 They had no children.


Reviews Jan 2000

Reviews

The Bridge

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