MS-120: Naviglia-Woncheck World War II Letters Home: A Family Separated by War

The collection consists of 31 letters or postcards by service men to loved ones at home. Nearly all of the letters are from members of the Naviglia-Woncheck extended family including the four Naviglia brothers: Louis (14 letters), John (one letter), James (one letter), Joseph (7 letters), and “Check” Woncheck (5 letters) the brother-in-law of their sister Anne. The collection also includes one letter from PFC James Faulkner to his sister and one letter from Pvt. David R. Curry to his cousin, Frances Faulkner, a card address to Ford Peters, a war ration book, a Draft Classification Notice for William Thomas Woncheck, Anne’s husband, and an uniform name badge for Sgt Woncheck. Special Collections and College Archives Finding Aids are discovery tools used to describe and provide access to our holdings. Finding aids include historical and biographical information about each collection in addition to inventories of their content. More information about our collections can be found on our website http://www.gettysburg.edu/special_collections/collections/.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/findingaidsall/1109/thumbnail.jp

Manhattan Transference: Reader Itineraries in Modernist New York

John Dos Passos\u27 Manhattan Transfer (1925) follows dozens of characters through modern New York City. The novel is organized as a fragmented montage and, in this paper, I argue that transit functions as both a central theme and the structuring principle of the text. I compare Manhattan Transfer to works by Walt Whitman and William Dean Howells and draw upon spatial form theory to examine how experiences of urban transportation influence literary forms. Ultimately, I suggest that Manhattan Transfer\u27s modernist form offers readers itinerant ways of perceiving the complicated networks of which cities are made

Loving the Unlovable Body in Yamanaka\u27s Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre

Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s award-winning yet remarkably neglected Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre (1993) explores female adolescence and coming of age in a rich, polyphonic collection of verse novellas. “Loving the Unlovable Body” focuses on Yamanaka’s treatment of this transition as a fully embodied, fraught, and often painful experience by expicating the uses of several tropes used to express girls’ experiences of their bodies: eating, voice, eyes, fragmentation, and marking/naming. These metaphors contribute to the development of a complex range of possibilities from devastating to hopeful, presented in juxtaposition and interplay, for girls’ relationships to their culturally denigrated bodies and the consequences to their attempts at positive sense of self

In the shadow of the giant : the impact of the industrial city on identity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature.

The Industrial Era in America ushered in a time of unprecedented economic growth, yet unfortunately, the industrial-consumer culture created by this growth fostered a devaluation of the American individual during this time in history. This study looks at four novels written during this era--Steven Crane's Maggie, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Sherwood Anderson's Poor White, and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer--and discusses the ways in which the authors of these books highlight the devaluation of people in the Industrial Era through their depictions of urban life in these novels. In Maggie, Crane uses an impressionistic portrayal of New York City to reveal deep social contrasts that affect the value its inhabitants place on themselves and others around them. Dreiser's Sister Carrie shows how industrialism during the late nineteenth century spawned a crazed consumerism in American culture that encouraged people to ground their senses of significance in their social status and buying power. The growth of Bidwell, Ohio, into an industrial city in Anderson's Poor White illustrates the sense of confusion and displacement people experienced during industrialism, a confusion that came as a result of being alienated from things in which they once found their value and significance. Finally, in Manhattan Transfer, Dos Passos likens the industrial city to an unyielding machine and, by way of this analogy, shows the way in which the industrial city robbed people of individual significance by demanding conformity to the industrial system

Highlights in Jazz Concert 261- Highlights in Jazz 32nd Anniversary

Jack Kleinsinger presents Highlights in Jazz. The concert was held at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Thursday, February 10th, 2005 at 8:00 pm. Jack served as producer and master of ceremonies for the series of concerts. Artists for the concert include Jimmy Perey Heath, Albert Tootie Heath, Jeb Patton, Albert Heath, Kevin Mahogany, Paul West, and Surprise guest Corey Allen.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/kleinsinger/1220/thumbnail.jp

New York City Street Theater: Gender, Performance, and the Urban from Plessy to Brown

This dissertation investigates the ordinary, public performances of fictional female characters in novels set on the streets of Manhattan during the years of legal segregation in the United States. I examine a range of actions from bragging to racial passing, and I argue these ordinary performances are central to our ability to interpret race, gender, and class relations. I detect race, class, and gender-based impulses to segregate and exclude others that overlap with the motives guiding the national, legal edict to segregate people by race. These guiding inclinations, legible through the history of Manhattan\u27s grid, zoning laws, and the city officials\u27 treatment of the poor, for example, are also the tendencies directing fictional characters in the texts I explore. By considering fictional performances against the backdrop of actual history, I ask how and why both real and imagined people aim to squelch singularity or uniqueness in themselves or others. I argue that while some performances deaden the fictional actors, others suggest there are alternative modes of acting through which one might be empowered by abjection despite it

Highlights in Jazz Concert 262- Salute to Jimmy Cobb

Jack Kleinsinger presents Highlights in Jazz. The concert was held at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Thursday, March 10th, 2005 at 8:00 pm. Jack served as producer and master of ceremonies for the series of concerts. Artists for the concert include Clark Terry, Bill Charlap, Lou Donaldson, Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Mike LeDonne, Kenny Washington, Jimmy Cobb, Richard Wayans, Jon Webber, Houston Person, and surprise guest Rufus Reid.https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/kleinsinger/1221/thumbnail.jp