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War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men, And The Politics Of Mass Culture, Claire Potter
War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men, And The Politics Of Mass Culture, Claire Potter
Claire Potter
No abstract provided.
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.
The Problem Of The Color Line: Segregation, Politics, And Historical Writing, Claire Potter
The Problem Of The Color Line: Segregation, Politics, And Historical Writing, Claire Potter
Claire Potter
No abstract provided.
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.
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 …