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Words to the Wives The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity
This book looks at how the Yiddish press sought to create Jewish-American identities for immigrant women. Shelby Shapiro focuses on two women’s...
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German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present Controversies, Positions, Perspectives
This volume examines the topic of German-language nature writing in a broad historical context spanning more than two centuries. It brings together...
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Introduction
Significantly, the newspaper reader in this joke was clean-shaven, without the beard or sidecurls (peyes*) of observant, or frum,* Jewish males,...
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Sadomasochistic Attachments: Reverse Power and Erotic Stimulations
Drawing on the works of Jill Dolan, Sergio Benvenuto, Leo Bersani, Elizabeth Freeman, and Pat Califia, this chapter outlines the critical perceptions...
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These Factions and Schisms: Countering Absolutist Thought in Church and State
After the Dutch Republic signed a truce with Spain, political and religious tensions nearly destroyed the emerging nation. At its heart, the conflict...
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The New Black Legend: England’s Violent Colonial Competition with the Dutch
The predominance of African slave labor on plantations in English and Dutch colonies over the course of the seventeenth century highlights the...
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Conclusions
This closing chapter does not merely recap the main arguments and objectives of the book. In line with the book’s purpose to open up Yeats’s and...
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Defiant Dykes: New Women against Patriarchy
A specific group within D’Annunzio’s and Yeats’s drama includes revengeful, defiant women who turn their diminished position into power to revenge...
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Conclusion: Lear’s Shadow, Office Today
Distributions of power are primarily maintained not through force, but through culture. The ‘absorptive capacities’ of Auschwitz would not have been...
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Lear’s Redemption
In political office and masculinity, Lear suffers overlap** anxieties of impotence. As his daughters suggest: he has failed to know himself. This...
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Introduction: Dutch Industry and English Identity
Early modern England and the United Provinces experienced an emulative rivalry between the Spanish Armada and the Glorious Revolution. The English...
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“There’s Ways to Survive These Times … and I Think One Way Is the Shape the Telling Takes”: Hostile Environments and Hospitable Connections in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
With Autumn, the first instalment of Ali Smith’s seasonal quartet, arriving on the heels of the EU Referendum in 2016, Smith firmly situates her...
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Curating Hospitality: Toward a More Sensitive Perception of Vulnerability
This is a wide-ranging conversation between Anne-Gaëlle Saliot and philosophers Fabienne Brugère and Guillaume le Blanc, authors of the book La Fin...
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Between History and the Discord of Time: The Figure of the Migrant in A Seventh Man and Transit
This chapter offers a comparative analysis of the figuration of migratory movement in A Seventh Man (1975), a photo-essay reportage produced by the...
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Invasion and Replacement Fantasies: Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints and the French Far Right
This chapter engages critically with Jean Raspail’s best-selling novel The Camp of the Saints (1973), in which one million Indians invade Europe...
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“Resonance is Contact Ripple”: Media and Contemporary Poems of Mediterranean Migration
This chapter focuses on three volumes of poetry published in English between 2014 and 2016 that take up the crisis of migration in the Mediterranean...
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“A strangely familiar place”: Cinematic (Re)framings of the EU’s Easternmost Border
In the 2014 nonfiction film Evaporating Borders: A Story in Five Parts, filmmaker Iva Radivojević returns to the eastern Mediterranean island of...
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Migration and Experimentation: Introduction
In Ailbhe Darcy’s “Alphabet” (analyzed in this section by Ailbhe McDaid), the formal acceleration of the lines reflects the awareness of imminent...
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Reading the Politics of Exile: Matei Vișniec’s Mr. K Released
Visniec’s political exile in Paris provides an occasion to remember the brutality of the Stalinist regimes that the USSR implemented in the Soviet...
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Hassan Blasim’s God 99: Staying with Fragments, Designing Other Worlds
Publicised as Hassan Blasim’s “debut” novel, God 99 is presented by the narrator Hassan Owl, the author’s doppelgänger, as the draft of a blog...