39 research outputs found
Teaching with Memories: European Women's Histories in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms
Why Euzko-Gogoa? The Basque literary and intellectual identity in the diasporic cultural magazine Euzko-Gogoa 1950-1960
206 p.A magazine written only in the Basque language with the focus of maintaining alivea culture and language on the brink of extinction under the hands of a totalitariangovernment. A cultural work created by an exiled priest who was able to develop anetwork of fellow Basque intellectuals to save and rebuild their beloved motherlandthrough their language. This dissertation examines the imagined community createdin the cultural magazine Euzko-Gogoa published in Guatemala and Biarritz(Northern Basque Country) between 1950-1960.The War of 1936 and the subsequent Franco dictatorship depleted the Basquecultural initiatives promoted during the Spanish Second Republic. This projectanalyzes the reconstruction of the defeated Basque nation made in Euzko-Gogoa¿spages that helped maintain and rebuild a wounded nation. The dissertation will giveboth a historical and cultural background of the Basque Country and the magazinewhile also analyzing the publications and the result of its work.Through different forms of analysis such as cultural, national, andpostcolonial studies, it will demonstrate how Euzko-Gogoa not only created animagined community, but also a national consciousness that would create a bridgefor the next generation of Basques. This imagined community was created basedupon a traditional Basque nationalist ideology seen in the preindustrial BasqueCountry as a reference for the nation¿s future. As described throughout thedissertation, one will understand the differences of life lived in exile and theSouthern Basque Country and how an imagined community built in the pages ofEuzko-Gogoa conflicted with the reality of a nation.The William A. Douglas Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada Ren
Writing from the margins: the Crónicas of Ilse Losa
Esta tese examina as crónicas coligidas e não-coligidas da autora portuguesa de origens judia alemãs, Ilse Losa (1913-2006). Abrangendo um período de cinco décadas, de 1948 até aos
primeiros anos da década de 1990, as crónicas refletem não só a trajetória pessoal de integração
de Losa, mas também o contexto sociopolítico português enquanto este sofreu as
transformações profundas da segunda metade do século vinte. Tal como Losa, que, como
autora (mulher) de origens estrangeiras, representa para a sociedade e cultura portuguesas uma
identidade marginal a vários níveis, a crónica, como género que se localiza entre diferentes e
aparentemente contrastantes campos discursivos (como os da literatura, da história e do
jornalismo) tende a ser subvalorizada nos estudos literários portugueses. Como resultado, este
aspecto específico da obra da autora representa uma área da literatura portuguesa que, até ao
momento, tem sido duplamente negligenciado pela academia. A tese dedica minuciosa atenção
aos três volumes de crónicas losianas – Ida e Volta: À Procura de Babbitt (1960), Estas Searas
(1984) e À Flor do Tempo (1997); também explora arquivos que contêm textos que Losa
publicava regularmente em revistas e jornais mas que ainda não se encontram em coleções
editadas. O resultante retrato de “Ilse Losa, cronista” que se revela é o de alguém que estava
profunda, consistente e atrevidamente comprometida com questões de justiça social,
frequentemente contornando com destreza a censura do Estado Novo para conseguir expressar
as suas opiniões progressistas e portanto polémicas. Ao combinar dados quantitativos e
qualitativos do arquivo da família Losa com os de quatro estudos de caso (Vértice, Seara Nova,
Diário de Lisboa e Público), a tese, além de desenvolver uma impressão mais nítida da crónica
losiana ao longo das cinco décadas da sua produção, incorpora uma discussão e ilustração
prática da importância de uma abordagem transparente ao trabalho de arquivo.This thesis examines the collated and uncollated crónicas of Jewish-German-born author of
Portuguese literature, Ilse Losa (1913-2006). Spanning a period of five decades, from 1948 to
the early 1990s, the crónicas reflect not only Losa’s personal trajectory of increasing
integration in Portuguese society, but also the Portuguese socio-political context as this
underwent radical transformation throughout the latter half of the twentieth century. Just as
Losa herself, who, as a foreign-born, female writer, represents a multiply marginal figure in
Portuguese society and culture, the crónica, as a genre which sits between different, apparently
distinct discursive fields (such as those of literature and history, or literature and journalism)
has tended to be undervalued within Portuguese literary studies. As such, this particular aspect
of this particular author’s oeuvre represents an area of Portuguese literature which, so far, has
been doubly neglected by scholars. The thesis gives thorough attention to the three published
volumes containing Losian crónicas – Ida e Volta: À Procura de Babbitt (1960), Estas Searas
(1984) and À Flor do Tempo (1997) – as well as embarking on an exploration of archives
containing texts which Losa regularly published in periodicals and newspapers but which have
not been reproduced in anthologised collections. The impression of Losa’s cronista identity
which emerges is of someone thoroughly, consistently and boldly engaged with issues of social
justice, frequently and skilfully navigating Estado Novo censorship in order to express her
controversially progressive views. Combining quantitative and qualitative data from the Losa
family archive plus four case studies (Vértice, Seara Nova, Diário de Lisboa and Público),
beyond developing a fuller picture of the Losian crónica across the five decades of its
production, the thesis also incorporates a discussion and practical illustration of the need for a
transparent approach to archival work
Imaging and Imagining Palestine
Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political complexities of Palestine in this period. While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine. This book considers the specific archives, the work of individual photographers, methods for reading historical photography from the present and how we might begin the process of decolonising photography. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine presents a timely and much-needed critical evaluation of the role of photography in Palestine. Drawing together leading interdisciplinary specialists and engaging a range of innovative methodologies, the volume makes clear the ways in which photography reflects the shifting political, cultural and economic landscape of the British Mandate period, and experiences of modernity in Palestine. Actively problematising conventional understandings of production, circulation and the in/stability of the photographic document, Imaging and Imagining Palestine provides essential reading for decolonial studies of photography and visual culture studies of Palestine." - Chrisoula Lionis, author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first and much needed overview of photography during the British Mandate period. From well-known and accessible photographic archives to private family albums, it deals with the cultural and political relations of the period thinking about both the Western perceptions of Palestine as well as its modern social life. This book brings together an impressive array of material and analyses to form an interdisciplinary perspective that considers just how photography shapes our understanding of the past as well as the ways in which the past might be reclaimed." - Jack Persekian, Founding Director of Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine draws together a plethora of fresh approaches to the field of photography in Palestine. It considers Palestine as a central node in global photographic production and the ways in which photography shaped the modern imaging and imagining from within a fresh regional theoretical perspective." - Salwa Mikdadi, Director al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, New York University Abu Dhabi. Readership: Anyone interested in the Middle East, Palestinian history, history of photography, Middle Eastern visual culture, religious and Orientalist imaging, decolonising photography, cultural studies, and cultural histories
World Literatures
"Placing itself within the burgeoning field of world literary studies, the organising principle of this book is that of an open-ended dynamic, namely the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange.
As an adaptable comparative fulcrum for literary studies, the notion of the cosmopolitan-vernacular exchange accommodates also highly localised literatures. In this way, it redresses what has repeatedly been identified as a weakness of the world literature paradigm, namely the one-sided focus on literature that accumulates global prestige or makes it on the Euro-American book market.
How has the vernacular been defined historically? How is it inflected by gender? How are the poles of the vernacular and the cosmopolitan distributed spatially or stylistically in literary narratives? How are cosmopolitan domains of literature incorporated in local literary communities? What are the effects of translation on the encoding of vernacular and cosmopolitan values?
Ranging across a dozen languages and literature from five continents, these are some of the questions that the contributions attempt to address.