14 research outputs found
The Civil War Gulf Blockade: The Unpublished Journal of a U.S. Navy Warrant Officer Aboard the USS Vincennes, 1861-1864
Get PDF“This paper attempts to (1) describe the unpublished journal of Nicholas Lynch, Warrant Officer (Sailmaker), U.S. Navy; (2) expand upon the most remarkable incident in the journal, the Affair at the Passes of the Mississippi River, a minor disaster for the Union navy in the first year of the war; (3) discuss the thoughts and moods of Sailmaker Lynch during the Union blockade from 1861 through 1864. The journal offers rare insights about naval warfare from the point of view of a sailor of the line. It also reveals that officers and crew were unable to maintain discipline and esprit de corps when faced with years of monotony and inaction on blockade duty aboard a sailing vessel.”—Introduction to article
This is Africa: Whiteness and Representations of the other recent Hollywood Films
Get PDFThis mini-dissertation interrogates racial representations in two recent Hollywood films, The Last King of Scotland (2006) and Blood Diamond (2006). Drawing heavily from Richard Dyer's key theories on the white heterosexual male image in film, I look specifically at representations of whiteness in both films' male protagonists: Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (Last King) and Danny Archer (Blood Diamond). Both men use the phrase, 'This is Africa' (TIA) in conversation with white foreigners to enunciate some supposedly enduring characteristics of Africa that mark its essential difference from what exists in a normative elsewhere that is never explicitly mentioned. Using Edward Said's 'strategic location' (1978:20) as a method of discourse analysis, I examine the narrative positions of both men as they appropriate TIA discourse. In doing so, I unpack TIA discourse to reveal its reflection of colonial discourse as well as the new knowledges it produces. This work is divided into four chapters. The first chapter focuses on the knowledge regime on which TIA discourse is anchored while the second chapter sketches a history of this knowledge regime through its representation on screen. The second chapter also describes how the socio-political context of time and space largely effect race representations in Hollywood films. Chapter 3 focuses on the narrative position of the white male heterosexual protagonist, Dr. Nicholas Garrigan as he articulates and appropriates TIA discourse in The Last King of Scotland (2006). Chapter 4 focuses on the same principles of Chapter 3, except with the white male heterosexual protagonist of Blood Diamond (2006), Danny Archer. The final chapter resubmits the theories of TIA discourse I put forth and concludes my intervention. [W]hen we desire to decolonize minds and imaginations, cultural studies' focus on popular culture can be and is a powerful site for interventions, challenge, and change... only if we start with a mind-set and a progressive politics that is fundamentally anticolonialist, that negates cultural imperialism in all its manifestations" (hooks 1994:4,6)
Char-ee-kar and service there with the 4th Goorkha Regiment (1879)
Get PDFAn episode of the First Anglo-Afghan War, 184
Char-ee-kar and service there with the 4th Goorkha Regiment (1879)
Get PDFAn episode of the First Anglo-Afghan War, 184
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Get PDFAn episode of the First Anglo-Afghan War, 1841
History of the Twelfth regiment, New Hampshire volunteers in the war of the rebellion
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