JULIAN WRIGHT
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199264889
- eISBN:
- 9780191718380
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264889.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This book provides the conceptual framework for a rediscovery of regionalism in France. The occultation of regionalism persists today despite its reappearance in some academic fields. Where ...
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This book provides the conceptual framework for a rediscovery of regionalism in France. The occultation of regionalism persists today despite its reappearance in some academic fields. Where regionalism has reemerged as a subject worthy of study, two developments in particular have helped to shed light on it. The revival of ethnology in the late 1970s had a strong influence, inclining contemporary students of folklore to take greater account of their predecessors in the Belle Époque. The second development that has drawn new attention to Belle Époque regionalism has been the success of cultural history, and in particular one of its central paradigms, the ‘construction of identity’. This book looks at the occultation of regionalism in French history and the history of the French political thought, the political ideas of Jean Charles-Brun and the role of Fédération Régionaliste Française (FRF) which he founded in 1900, the link between regionalism and the right, and the association between regionalist movement and political eclecticism.Less
This book provides the conceptual framework for a rediscovery of regionalism in France. The occultation of regionalism persists today despite its reappearance in some academic fields. Where regionalism has reemerged as a subject worthy of study, two developments in particular have helped to shed light on it. The revival of ethnology in the late 1970s had a strong influence, inclining contemporary students of folklore to take greater account of their predecessors in the Belle Époque. The second development that has drawn new attention to Belle Époque regionalism has been the success of cultural history, and in particular one of its central paradigms, the ‘construction of identity’. This book looks at the occultation of regionalism in French history and the history of the French political thought, the political ideas of Jean Charles-Brun and the role of Fédération Régionaliste Française (FRF) which he founded in 1900, the link between regionalism and the right, and the association between regionalist movement and political eclecticism.
Daniel Hurewitz
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520249257
- eISBN:
- 9780520941694
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520249257.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
One of the iconic persons of Edendale, Los Angeles was Julian Eltinge, a film and vaudeville sensation. While he was hailed and adored as one of the best performers of his time, Eltinge lost his ...
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One of the iconic persons of Edendale, Los Angeles was Julian Eltinge, a film and vaudeville sensation. While he was hailed and adored as one of the best performers of his time, Eltinge lost his splendor as a star. Sixty years after his death, his name was not remembered, because Eltinge was a particular kind of performer; one whose performances made him a star in the 1910s, but whose mode of performance was scorned by the mid-century and largely forgotten at the century’s end. Eltinge was a spectacular female impersonator. This book is not only about Edendale and its communities. It discusses identities, such as those of the artists, the Communists, and the homosexuals. The book discusses the politicization of sexual identity, and the changing notions and practices of selfhood. It traces the intellectual developments and the application of those ideas in how people built individual lives and communities. The construction of identity emerged from complex interactions. The emergence of homosexual politics and identity politics was not only a creative product of many homosexuals; rather, it was shaped by the community that was re-imagining the relationship between emotions and politics. Los Angeles, captivated by the ties between vice, race, and politics, participated in that transformation, which led to a political world.Less
One of the iconic persons of Edendale, Los Angeles was Julian Eltinge, a film and vaudeville sensation. While he was hailed and adored as one of the best performers of his time, Eltinge lost his splendor as a star. Sixty years after his death, his name was not remembered, because Eltinge was a particular kind of performer; one whose performances made him a star in the 1910s, but whose mode of performance was scorned by the mid-century and largely forgotten at the century’s end. Eltinge was a spectacular female impersonator. This book is not only about Edendale and its communities. It discusses identities, such as those of the artists, the Communists, and the homosexuals. The book discusses the politicization of sexual identity, and the changing notions and practices of selfhood. It traces the intellectual developments and the application of those ideas in how people built individual lives and communities. The construction of identity emerged from complex interactions. The emergence of homosexual politics and identity politics was not only a creative product of many homosexuals; rather, it was shaped by the community that was re-imagining the relationship between emotions and politics. Los Angeles, captivated by the ties between vice, race, and politics, participated in that transformation, which led to a political world.
Tony Kushner
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076541
- eISBN:
- 9781781702512
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076541.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Religion
This book is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval times to the present and explores the construction of identities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in relation to the concept of ...
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This book is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval times to the present and explores the construction of identities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in relation to the concept of place. The introductory chapters provide a theoretical overview focusing on the nature of local studies. The book then moves into a chronological frame, starting with medieval Winchester, moving to early modern Portsmouth, and then it covers the evolution of Anglo-Jewry from emancipation to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the impact on identities resulting from the complex relationship between migration (including transmigration) and the settlement of minority groups. Drawing upon a range of approaches, including history, cultural and literary studies, geography, Jewish and ethnic and racial studies, the book uses extensive sources including novels, poems, art, travel literature, autobiographical writing, official documentation, newspapers and census data.Less
This book is a study of the history and memory of Anglo-Jewry from medieval times to the present and explores the construction of identities, both Jewish and non-Jewish, in relation to the concept of place. The introductory chapters provide a theoretical overview focusing on the nature of local studies. The book then moves into a chronological frame, starting with medieval Winchester, moving to early modern Portsmouth, and then it covers the evolution of Anglo-Jewry from emancipation to the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the impact on identities resulting from the complex relationship between migration (including transmigration) and the settlement of minority groups. Drawing upon a range of approaches, including history, cultural and literary studies, geography, Jewish and ethnic and racial studies, the book uses extensive sources including novels, poems, art, travel literature, autobiographical writing, official documentation, newspapers and census data.
Angelika Neuwirth
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198748496
- eISBN:
- 9780191811081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198748496.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Locating the qur’anic event in Late Antiquity, understood not as a historical epoch but an epistemic space, the chapter focuses on textual strategies rather than on the transfer of semantic knowledge ...
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Locating the qur’anic event in Late Antiquity, understood not as a historical epoch but an epistemic space, the chapter focuses on textual strategies rather than on the transfer of semantic knowledge or extra-textual circumstances. Qurʾanic speech oscillates between literal and ‘allegorical’ expression. Among the last mentioned, typology, hitherto widely neglected—although perhaps the most representative textual practice in the late antique culture of debate—appears a useful key to the question of the qur’anic community’s rapid development of a theology of its own and its attainment of social coherence. Sifting the changing modes of qur’anic typology—from the ‘simple’ mode of restaging biblical events and the mimesis of biblical figures via the more demanding pattern of promise and fulfilment to the daringly innovative mode: mythopoiesis—allows us to trace the successive stages of the first listeners’ construction of a communal identity of their own.Less
Locating the qur’anic event in Late Antiquity, understood not as a historical epoch but an epistemic space, the chapter focuses on textual strategies rather than on the transfer of semantic knowledge or extra-textual circumstances. Qurʾanic speech oscillates between literal and ‘allegorical’ expression. Among the last mentioned, typology, hitherto widely neglected—although perhaps the most representative textual practice in the late antique culture of debate—appears a useful key to the question of the qur’anic community’s rapid development of a theology of its own and its attainment of social coherence. Sifting the changing modes of qur’anic typology—from the ‘simple’ mode of restaging biblical events and the mimesis of biblical figures via the more demanding pattern of promise and fulfilment to the daringly innovative mode: mythopoiesis—allows us to trace the successive stages of the first listeners’ construction of a communal identity of their own.
