Philip V. Bohlman
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195178326
- eISBN:
- 9780199869992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178326.003.0008
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Central to the chapter’s survey of emerging Jewish popular-music genres is the role of the city as a new cultural context for Jewish music making by the turn of the century. Immigrants from rural ...
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Central to the chapter’s survey of emerging Jewish popular-music genres is the role of the city as a new cultural context for Jewish music making by the turn of the century. Immigrants from rural Eastern Europe, Jewish musicians entered all areas of the urban musical cultures of Vienna, Berlin, and other cities, where they performed for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences with enormous success. The city was also the site for mixing musical genres, creating new sounds in popular music and establishing new genres—for example, cabaret and Yiddish theater. The chapter analyzes numerous broadsides and hit songs such as Gustav Pick’s “Viennese Coachman’s Song.” Individual musicians, music publishers, and ensembles serve as a collective biography throughout the chapter.Less
Central to the chapter’s survey of emerging Jewish popular-music genres is the role of the city as a new cultural context for Jewish music making by the turn of the century. Immigrants from rural Eastern Europe, Jewish musicians entered all areas of the urban musical cultures of Vienna, Berlin, and other cities, where they performed for Jewish and non-Jewish audiences with enormous success. The city was also the site for mixing musical genres, creating new sounds in popular music and establishing new genres—for example, cabaret and Yiddish theater. The chapter analyzes numerous broadsides and hit songs such as Gustav Pick’s “Viennese Coachman’s Song.” Individual musicians, music publishers, and ensembles serve as a collective biography throughout the chapter.
Tarik Cyril Amar
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801453915
- eISBN:
- 9781501700842
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453915.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This book reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe's most important multiethnic borderland cities into a Soviet and ...
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This book reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe's most important multiethnic borderland cities into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Today, Lviv is the modern metropole of the western part of independent Ukraine and a center and symbol of Ukrainian national identity as well as nationalism. Over the last three centuries it has also been part of the Habsburg Empire, interwar Poland, a World War I Russian occupation regime, the Nazi Generalgouvernement, and, until 1991, the Soviet Union. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by great violence, massive population changes, and fundamental transformation. Under Habsburg and Polish rule up to World War II, Lviv was a predominantly Polish city as well as one of the major centers of European Jewish life. Immediately after World War II, Lviv underwent rapid Soviet modernization, bringing further extensive change. Over the postwar period, the city became preponderantly Ukrainian—ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, the book explains a striking paradox: Soviet rule, which came to Lviv in its most ruthless Stalinist shape and lasted for half a century, left behind the most Ukrainian version of the city in history. In reconstructing this dramatic and profound change, the book also illuminates the historical background to present-day identities and tensions within Ukraine.Less
This book reveals the local and transnational forces behind the twentieth-century transformation of one of East Central Europe's most important multiethnic borderland cities into a Soviet and Ukrainian urban center. Today, Lviv is the modern metropole of the western part of independent Ukraine and a center and symbol of Ukrainian national identity as well as nationalism. Over the last three centuries it has also been part of the Habsburg Empire, interwar Poland, a World War I Russian occupation regime, the Nazi Generalgouvernement, and, until 1991, the Soviet Union. Lviv's twentieth-century history was marked by great violence, massive population changes, and fundamental transformation. Under Habsburg and Polish rule up to World War II, Lviv was a predominantly Polish city as well as one of the major centers of European Jewish life. Immediately after World War II, Lviv underwent rapid Soviet modernization, bringing further extensive change. Over the postwar period, the city became preponderantly Ukrainian—ethnically, linguistically, and in terms of its residents' self-perception. Against this background, the book explains a striking paradox: Soviet rule, which came to Lviv in its most ruthless Stalinist shape and lasted for half a century, left behind the most Ukrainian version of the city in history. In reconstructing this dramatic and profound change, the book also illuminates the historical background to present-day identities and tensions within Ukraine.
OWEN WHITE
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208198
- eISBN:
- 9780191677946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208198.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter discusses how a widespread but important abstract interest in miscegenation in metropolitan France found a concrete expression in the treatment of mÉtis in West Africa. It analyses the ...
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This chapter discusses how a widespread but important abstract interest in miscegenation in metropolitan France found a concrete expression in the treatment of mÉtis in West Africa. It analyses the work of a variety of writers and social scientists in the metropole from the mid-19th century on. It suggests that the characteristics ascribed to mÉtis usually reflected French fears of cultural and racial decline.Less
This chapter discusses how a widespread but important abstract interest in miscegenation in metropolitan France found a concrete expression in the treatment of mÉtis in West Africa. It analyses the work of a variety of writers and social scientists in the metropole from the mid-19th century on. It suggests that the characteristics ascribed to mÉtis usually reflected French fears of cultural and racial decline.
Robert Kubicek
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205654
- eISBN:
- 9780191676734
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205654.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, British and Irish Modern History
Technological changes, whatever their origins, have often been turned to imperial purposes. In line with this, this chapter argues that various technologies, especially when combined, enhanced the ...
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Technological changes, whatever their origins, have often been turned to imperial purposes. In line with this, this chapter argues that various technologies, especially when combined, enhanced the state's abilities to expand and dominate. They also affected the timing of the Imperial state's expansion, and featured significantly in the dynamics of commercial and industrial capitalism. In both the formal and informal British Empire, in temperate and tropical colonies, their transfer gave Imperial agents more scope for intervention. Technologies empowered the metropole but also, to some degree, strengthened the periphery. They also led diverse peoples to pursue the same material ends by employing similar techniques. Indigenous acquisition of expatriate tools might strengthen autonomy, but more often it paved the way for more pervasive alien influence. The intensified or ‘new’ imperialism has been seen as a product of a particular stage of finance capital, the rise of ethnic antagonisms fuelled by racist beliefs, and the geopolitical priorities of the ‘official mind’.Less
Technological changes, whatever their origins, have often been turned to imperial purposes. In line with this, this chapter argues that various technologies, especially when combined, enhanced the state's abilities to expand and dominate. They also affected the timing of the Imperial state's expansion, and featured significantly in the dynamics of commercial and industrial capitalism. In both the formal and informal British Empire, in temperate and tropical colonies, their transfer gave Imperial agents more scope for intervention. Technologies empowered the metropole but also, to some degree, strengthened the periphery. They also led diverse peoples to pursue the same material ends by employing similar techniques. Indigenous acquisition of expatriate tools might strengthen autonomy, but more often it paved the way for more pervasive alien influence. The intensified or ‘new’ imperialism has been seen as a product of a particular stage of finance capital, the rise of ethnic antagonisms fuelled by racist beliefs, and the geopolitical priorities of the ‘official mind’.
ANTHONY CLAYTON
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205647
- eISBN:
- 9780191676727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205647.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the Imperial defence of the British Empire. It is specifically devoted to the defence of the Empire before the Second World War and the revolution in technology that occurred ...
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This chapter examines the Imperial defence of the British Empire. It is specifically devoted to the defence of the Empire before the Second World War and the revolution in technology that occurred during and after the war. The Committee for Imperial defence, if not able to create an Imperial general staff, was able to co-ordinate preparatory work and to ensure standardization of equipment and training. All the Dominions agreed that the defence of the metropole was paramount. If the metropole fell, the Dominions could not long survive. The defence of both the metropole and Empire depended upon sea power. A discussion on foreign and defence policies to 1939, internal security 1918–1939, and defence and security after 1945 is presented as well.Less
This chapter examines the Imperial defence of the British Empire. It is specifically devoted to the defence of the Empire before the Second World War and the revolution in technology that occurred during and after the war. The Committee for Imperial defence, if not able to create an Imperial general staff, was able to co-ordinate preparatory work and to ensure standardization of equipment and training. All the Dominions agreed that the defence of the metropole was paramount. If the metropole fell, the Dominions could not long survive. The defence of both the metropole and Empire depended upon sea power. A discussion on foreign and defence policies to 1939, internal security 1918–1939, and defence and security after 1945 is presented as well.
Maite Conde
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520290983
- eISBN:
- 9780520964884
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520290983.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
A common focus of the international cinematic avant-garde during the 1920s was the power and excitement of cities, something that gave rise in both Europe and the United States to a genre of films ...
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A common focus of the international cinematic avant-garde during the 1920s was the power and excitement of cities, something that gave rise in both Europe and the United States to a genre of films known as "city symphonies." Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), André Sauvage's Études sur Paris (1928), Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929), and Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie Der Großstadt (1927) were examples of this genre. Such films inspired São Paulo: A sinfonia da metrópole, which is analyzed here. Made by Hungarian filmmakers, Rodolfo Lustig and Adalberto Kemeny, the Brazilian film typically documents a day in the life of São Paulo, exalting its urban dynamic as a sign of the city’s and country’s modernity. In examining São Paulo: A sinfonia da metrópole, this chapter shows that while it expresses the city’s speed brought by the experience of modernity, it also departs from its international inspirations to triumphantly project the discipline of labor, projected as a sign of order and progress, which is ultimately projected by the state.Less
A common focus of the international cinematic avant-garde during the 1920s was the power and excitement of cities, something that gave rise in both Europe and the United States to a genre of films known as "city symphonies." Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand's Manhatta (1921), André Sauvage's Études sur Paris (1928), Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929), and Walter Ruttmann’s Berlin: Die Sinfonie Der Großstadt (1927) were examples of this genre. Such films inspired São Paulo: A sinfonia da metrópole, which is analyzed here. Made by Hungarian filmmakers, Rodolfo Lustig and Adalberto Kemeny, the Brazilian film typically documents a day in the life of São Paulo, exalting its urban dynamic as a sign of the city’s and country’s modernity. In examining São Paulo: A sinfonia da metrópole, this chapter shows that while it expresses the city’s speed brought by the experience of modernity, it also departs from its international inspirations to triumphantly project the discipline of labor, projected as a sign of order and progress, which is ultimately projected by the state.
Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520205406
- eISBN:
- 9780520918085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520205406.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
This chapter examines how the colonies and metropole shared in the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion, and in what ways the colonial domain was distinct from the metropolitan one. It considers ...
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This chapter examines how the colonies and metropole shared in the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion, and in what ways the colonial domain was distinct from the metropolitan one. It considers different approaches to colonial studies and investigates how a grammar of difference was once continuously and vigilantly crafted as people in colonies refashioned and contested European claims to superiority. The chapter argues that scholars need to attend more directly to the tendency of colonial regimes to draw a stark dichotomy of colonizer and colonized without falling into a Manichaean conception.Less
This chapter examines how the colonies and metropole shared in the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion, and in what ways the colonial domain was distinct from the metropolitan one. It considers different approaches to colonial studies and investigates how a grammar of difference was once continuously and vigilantly crafted as people in colonies refashioned and contested European claims to superiority. The chapter argues that scholars need to attend more directly to the tendency of colonial regimes to draw a stark dichotomy of colonizer and colonized without falling into a Manichaean conception.
Kristen Stromberg Childers
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780195382839
- eISBN:
- 9780190494940
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382839.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Latin American History
Martinique and Guadeloupe voted to become overseas departments of France, or DOMs, in 1946, eschewing the trend toward national independence movements during the post-World War II years. For ...
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Martinique and Guadeloupe voted to become overseas departments of France, or DOMs, in 1946, eschewing the trend toward national independence movements during the post-World War II years. For Antilleans, this was the natural culmination of a centuries-long quest for equality with France and a means of overcoming the entrenched political and economic power of the white minority on the islands, the békés. Disappointment with departmentalization set in quickly, however, as the promised equality was slow in coming and Antillean contributions to the war went unrecognized. Champions of departmentalization such as Aimé Césaire argued that the “race-blind” Republic was far from universal and egalitarian. The French government struggled to stem unrest in a growing population in the Antilles through economic development, tourism, and immigration to the metropole where labor was in short supply. Antilleans fought against racial and gender stereotypes imposed on them by European French and sought to both stem the tide of white metropolitan workers arriving in the Antilles and make better lives for their families in France. Although departmentalization has been criticized as a weak alternative to national independence, the vote was overwhelmingly popular among Antilleans at the time, and such disappointment reflects more on the broken promises of assimilation rather than the misguided nature of the vote itself.Less
Martinique and Guadeloupe voted to become overseas departments of France, or DOMs, in 1946, eschewing the trend toward national independence movements during the post-World War II years. For Antilleans, this was the natural culmination of a centuries-long quest for equality with France and a means of overcoming the entrenched political and economic power of the white minority on the islands, the békés. Disappointment with departmentalization set in quickly, however, as the promised equality was slow in coming and Antillean contributions to the war went unrecognized. Champions of departmentalization such as Aimé Césaire argued that the “race-blind” Republic was far from universal and egalitarian. The French government struggled to stem unrest in a growing population in the Antilles through economic development, tourism, and immigration to the metropole where labor was in short supply. Antilleans fought against racial and gender stereotypes imposed on them by European French and sought to both stem the tide of white metropolitan workers arriving in the Antilles and make better lives for their families in France. Although departmentalization has been criticized as a weak alternative to national independence, the vote was overwhelmingly popular among Antilleans at the time, and such disappointment reflects more on the broken promises of assimilation rather than the misguided nature of the vote itself.
Sean McMeekin
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300098471
- eISBN:
- 9780300130096
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300098471.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses Munzenberg's triumph at Brussels in 1927, at which point he moved permanently into a luxurious new apartment in one of Berlin's prestigious neighborhoods. His new place of ...
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This chapter discusses Munzenberg's triumph at Brussels in 1927, at which point he moved permanently into a luxurious new apartment in one of Berlin's prestigious neighborhoods. His new place of residence was populated mainly by retired military officers and government officials. Although the apartment Munzenberg most often stayed in before 1927 was in the relatively unfashionable working-class northeastern Berlin suburb of Pankow, he did not live badly and even employed a full-time chauffeur. When in Moscow, he and his bohemian wife and collaborator Babette Gross stayed in the elegant Hotel Metropole, and usually flew back and forth between Berlin and Moscow at cut-market rates with Dereluft, a special Lufthansa subsidiary co-owned with the Soviet government, which was used by Comintern VIPs. While traveling on IAH business in Europe, Munzenberg and his entourage often stayed in the most expensive hotel in town—at the Comintern's expense.Less
This chapter discusses Munzenberg's triumph at Brussels in 1927, at which point he moved permanently into a luxurious new apartment in one of Berlin's prestigious neighborhoods. His new place of residence was populated mainly by retired military officers and government officials. Although the apartment Munzenberg most often stayed in before 1927 was in the relatively unfashionable working-class northeastern Berlin suburb of Pankow, he did not live badly and even employed a full-time chauffeur. When in Moscow, he and his bohemian wife and collaborator Babette Gross stayed in the elegant Hotel Metropole, and usually flew back and forth between Berlin and Moscow at cut-market rates with Dereluft, a special Lufthansa subsidiary co-owned with the Soviet government, which was used by Comintern VIPs. While traveling on IAH business in Europe, Munzenberg and his entourage often stayed in the most expensive hotel in town—at the Comintern's expense.
David Sim
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451843
- eISBN:
- 9780801469688
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451843.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Irish question, and specifically, the governance of Ireland. Throughout the early nineteenth century, Americans of different political ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Irish question, and specifically, the governance of Ireland. Throughout the early nineteenth century, Americans of different political persuasions believed that Ireland would eventually achieve some form of national independence. This is because the proponents of Irish self-governance to back up their argument cite the prior existence of an Irish Parliament that had been bribed out of existence at the turn of the nineteenth century under a fraudulent Act of Union. They also identify widely-known figures, such as Edmund Burke and Henry Grattan, to support the contention that Ireland produced statesmen of substance who might populate another Irish Parliament to good effect. Moreover, observers of Anglo-Irish relations drew on Revolutionary-era connections between Ireland and colonial America to suggest a deep-rooted affinity between two provinces subject to the dictates of the London metropole.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Irish question, and specifically, the governance of Ireland. Throughout the early nineteenth century, Americans of different political persuasions believed that Ireland would eventually achieve some form of national independence. This is because the proponents of Irish self-governance to back up their argument cite the prior existence of an Irish Parliament that had been bribed out of existence at the turn of the nineteenth century under a fraudulent Act of Union. They also identify widely-known figures, such as Edmund Burke and Henry Grattan, to support the contention that Ireland produced statesmen of substance who might populate another Irish Parliament to good effect. Moreover, observers of Anglo-Irish relations drew on Revolutionary-era connections between Ireland and colonial America to suggest a deep-rooted affinity between two provinces subject to the dictates of the London metropole.
Sara Byala
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226030272
- eISBN:
- 9780226030449
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226030449.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
This chapter details the time period from Gubbins’ arrival in 1902 to the publication of his Three-Dimensional Thinking in 1924, tracing the arc of his intellectual breakdown and the concurrent birth ...
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This chapter details the time period from Gubbins’ arrival in 1902 to the publication of his Three-Dimensional Thinking in 1924, tracing the arc of his intellectual breakdown and the concurrent birth of his novel manner of thought while highlighting the glimpses his story offers of South Africa along the way. It is posited here that Gubbins’ tale is at once unique and representative of larger processes evident in this era of South African history that have become obscured in hindsight. Specifically, the author asserts that it was the disconnect between Gubbins’ late-Victorian education and the realities of South Africa in the early decades of the twentieth century that caused the very disintegration from which three-dimensional thought sprung. In this chapter, both the nature and content of Gubbins’ intellectual collapse shed light on the interplay between metropole and colony in the years surrounding the Second South African War and World War I.Less
This chapter details the time period from Gubbins’ arrival in 1902 to the publication of his Three-Dimensional Thinking in 1924, tracing the arc of his intellectual breakdown and the concurrent birth of his novel manner of thought while highlighting the glimpses his story offers of South Africa along the way. It is posited here that Gubbins’ tale is at once unique and representative of larger processes evident in this era of South African history that have become obscured in hindsight. Specifically, the author asserts that it was the disconnect between Gubbins’ late-Victorian education and the realities of South Africa in the early decades of the twentieth century that caused the very disintegration from which three-dimensional thought sprung. In this chapter, both the nature and content of Gubbins’ intellectual collapse shed light on the interplay between metropole and colony in the years surrounding the Second South African War and World War I.
Elizabeth A. Foster
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804783804
- eISBN:
- 9780804786225
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804783804.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Chapter 3 examines the moment when French anticlericalism touched the colony, in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair. It details how the French laic laws of 1901, 1904, and 1905 affected Senegal’s
Chapter 3 examines the moment when French anticlericalism touched the colony, in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair. It details how the French laic laws of 1901, 1904, and 1905 affected Senegal’s
Elizabeth A. Foster
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804783804
- eISBN:
- 9780804786225
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804783804.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Chapter 4 further explores the theme of metropolitan demands on the colony by examining the difficult position of both Catholic missionaries and colonial administrators during the wide-reaching ...
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Chapter 4 further explores the theme of metropolitan demands on the colony by examining the difficult position of both Catholic missionaries and colonial administrators during the wide-reaching metropolitan effort to recruit African soldiers to fight for France in the First World War. Administrators resented the disorder provoked by recruitment and conscription, especially as time went on. Catholic missionaries harboredLess
Chapter 4 further explores the theme of metropolitan demands on the colony by examining the difficult position of both Catholic missionaries and colonial administrators during the wide-reaching metropolitan effort to recruit African soldiers to fight for France in the First World War. Administrators resented the disorder provoked by recruitment and conscription, especially as time went on. Catholic missionaries harbored
Elizabeth A. Foster
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804783804
- eISBN:
- 9780804786225
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804783804.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
Chapter 5 examines the conception, construction, and consecration of Dakar’s cathedral of the Souvenir Africain between 1910 and 1936. Catholic missionaries billed the project as a patriotic monument ...
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Chapter 5 examines the conception, construction, and consecration of Dakar’s cathedral of the Souvenir Africain between 1910 and 1936. Catholic missionaries billed the project as a patriotic monument to the French who had died colonizing Africa and, after the First World War, to the French and African troopsLess
Chapter 5 examines the conception, construction, and consecration of Dakar’s cathedral of the Souvenir Africain between 1910 and 1936. Catholic missionaries billed the project as a patriotic monument to the French who had died colonizing Africa and, after the First World War, to the French and African troops
David Seed
Susan Castillo (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311802
- eISBN:
- 9781846315084
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846315084
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel ...
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In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel writing’ include both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad. The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The chapters explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission of images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as ‘primitive’ or ‘wild’; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; and the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing.Less
In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel writing’ include both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad. The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The chapters explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission of images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as ‘primitive’ or ‘wild’; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; and the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing.
Pim Higginson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846316906
- eISBN:
- 9781846317040
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317040
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Himes emigrated to Paris; he struggled there, just as he had in the United ...
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This book follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Himes emigrated to Paris; he struggled there, just as he had in the United States. In 1957, his luck changed: the famous French Série noire brought out the first installment of his ‘Harlem’ crime series, La reine des pommes. Suddenly, he was a household name in France. Later, he would also have a significant influence on Francophone African writers; for them, Himes' blend of absurdist humour and violence offered an alternative to a high literary paradigm implanted during the colonial era. Likewise, his heterogeneous identity as American, black, and a writer of ‘French’ bestsellers modelled an escape from the centripetal pull of the Métropole. Starting with Abasse Ndione's depictions of Senegal's marijuana-smoking subculture in La Vie en spirale (1982) and ending with Mongo Beti's 2001 Branle-bas en noir et blanc, set in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Francophone African crime fiction rejected French criteria of literary success; it embraced a new postcolonial aesthetic that emphasized entertaining the reader while making a living.Less
This book follows the influence of African American author Chester Himes on Francophone African crime fiction. In 1953, Himes emigrated to Paris; he struggled there, just as he had in the United States. In 1957, his luck changed: the famous French Série noire brought out the first installment of his ‘Harlem’ crime series, La reine des pommes. Suddenly, he was a household name in France. Later, he would also have a significant influence on Francophone African writers; for them, Himes' blend of absurdist humour and violence offered an alternative to a high literary paradigm implanted during the colonial era. Likewise, his heterogeneous identity as American, black, and a writer of ‘French’ bestsellers modelled an escape from the centripetal pull of the Métropole. Starting with Abasse Ndione's depictions of Senegal's marijuana-smoking subculture in La Vie en spirale (1982) and ending with Mongo Beti's 2001 Branle-bas en noir et blanc, set in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Francophone African crime fiction rejected French criteria of literary success; it embraced a new postcolonial aesthetic that emphasized entertaining the reader while making a living.
Philippe M. F. Peycam
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231158503
- eISBN:
- 9780231528047
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231158503.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter recounts the pre-colonial to colonial environment of Vietnam under the French rule. Before the arrival of the French in 1859, Saigon had already become the political, commercial, and ...
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This chapter recounts the pre-colonial to colonial environment of Vietnam under the French rule. Before the arrival of the French in 1859, Saigon had already become the political, commercial, and cultural center of the region of Indochina, as it lay between the rural Cochinchina and the northern and central parts of Vietnam. By 1859, Saigon became the foundation of the new French expansionism in the Far East. Since then, French imperialism had shaped the character of the colonial city into three defining features the imposition of modern state apparatus; the introduction of the métropole's system of education; and the integration of Saigon into the world economy. By 1910, colonial Saigon was physically centralized to conduct administrative, economic, and military services, despite considerable delays due to improvisations and setbacks in the previous decades. The chapter discusses one of the major effects of French imperialism: Saigon as a space of heterogeneity.Less
This chapter recounts the pre-colonial to colonial environment of Vietnam under the French rule. Before the arrival of the French in 1859, Saigon had already become the political, commercial, and cultural center of the region of Indochina, as it lay between the rural Cochinchina and the northern and central parts of Vietnam. By 1859, Saigon became the foundation of the new French expansionism in the Far East. Since then, French imperialism had shaped the character of the colonial city into three defining features the imposition of modern state apparatus; the introduction of the métropole's system of education; and the integration of Saigon into the world economy. By 1910, colonial Saigon was physically centralized to conduct administrative, economic, and military services, despite considerable delays due to improvisations and setbacks in the previous decades. The chapter discusses one of the major effects of French imperialism: Saigon as a space of heterogeneity.
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814744437
- eISBN:
- 9780814708132
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814744437.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter traces the popular mobilizations of taxi dance halls as an American urban phenomenon, and thinks through the Filipino performing body within such a social formation. The taxi dance halls ...
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This chapter traces the popular mobilizations of taxi dance halls as an American urban phenomenon, and thinks through the Filipino performing body within such a social formation. The taxi dance halls were at peak popularity in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, when male patrons of various kinds eagerly came to pay to dance with (mostly white) women. Significantly, Filipino male patrons, who were students and migrant laborers, constituted a quarter of the patrons of the taxi dance halls, a demographic that can be attributed partially to the influx of imperial/colonial subjects into the metropole. This was an era rife with anti-Filipino sentiments, in which they were considered the “brown menace,” which soon became the basis for the Filipino Exclusion Act. The chapter analyzes the dance hall as a complex and prominent physical and cultural space of exchange between the native and immigrant communities.Less
This chapter traces the popular mobilizations of taxi dance halls as an American urban phenomenon, and thinks through the Filipino performing body within such a social formation. The taxi dance halls were at peak popularity in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, when male patrons of various kinds eagerly came to pay to dance with (mostly white) women. Significantly, Filipino male patrons, who were students and migrant laborers, constituted a quarter of the patrons of the taxi dance halls, a demographic that can be attributed partially to the influx of imperial/colonial subjects into the metropole. This was an era rife with anti-Filipino sentiments, in which they were considered the “brown menace,” which soon became the basis for the Filipino Exclusion Act. The chapter analyzes the dance hall as a complex and prominent physical and cultural space of exchange between the native and immigrant communities.
Craig Bailey
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318818
- eISBN:
- 9781846318009
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318818.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
In the eighteenth century, London had the largest population of middle-class Irish men and women outside of Ireland, yet these migrants have remained historically invisible. The lack of sustained ...
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In the eighteenth century, London had the largest population of middle-class Irish men and women outside of Ireland, yet these migrants have remained historically invisible. The lack of sustained analysis of different migration flows into the city makes for an easy slippage into the assumption that because middle-class migrants were not segregated they must have assimilated, and were therefore no longer truly Irish. Scholars have mistaken the identities of middle-class migrants by making poverty the touchstone of Irishness and by presuming that visible characteristics such as Irish language, Irish accents and Irish names necessarily had negative meanings. Recent literature on the relationships between metropole and colony, which has broken down rigid dichotomies such as core and periphery, insiders and outsiders, and the assimilated and the segregated, provides a different approach. De-centring the metropolis within a global context offers ways to re-imagine the geographies of power from within, allowing for a reassessment of the city as a negotiated space rather than as a fortress heavily guarded by insiders who pulled all the strings. Moving beyond the idea of a singular, dominant metropolitan culture opens up new geographies in which middle-class Irish migrants can be located.Less
In the eighteenth century, London had the largest population of middle-class Irish men and women outside of Ireland, yet these migrants have remained historically invisible. The lack of sustained analysis of different migration flows into the city makes for an easy slippage into the assumption that because middle-class migrants were not segregated they must have assimilated, and were therefore no longer truly Irish. Scholars have mistaken the identities of middle-class migrants by making poverty the touchstone of Irishness and by presuming that visible characteristics such as Irish language, Irish accents and Irish names necessarily had negative meanings. Recent literature on the relationships between metropole and colony, which has broken down rigid dichotomies such as core and periphery, insiders and outsiders, and the assimilated and the segregated, provides a different approach. De-centring the metropolis within a global context offers ways to re-imagine the geographies of power from within, allowing for a reassessment of the city as a negotiated space rather than as a fortress heavily guarded by insiders who pulled all the strings. Moving beyond the idea of a singular, dominant metropolitan culture opens up new geographies in which middle-class Irish migrants can be located.
John Clifford Holt
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833275
- eISBN:
- 9780824869991
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833275.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter considers the impact that accompanied Thai, French, and then American interventions in terms of transformations of the religious culture beginning in the early decades of nineteenth ...
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This chapter considers the impact that accompanied Thai, French, and then American interventions in terms of transformations of the religious culture beginning in the early decades of nineteenth century through the end of the Second Indochina War in 1975. The colonial presence of the French, replete with alternative ideological conceptions of “nation” and “religion,” influenced some Lao religious sensibilities. Meanwhile, America's military intrusions into Laos, ostensibly in response to North Vietnamese incursions, contributed to a radical destabilization of the county that exacerbated deep political divisions within the Lao metropole. At the same time, it fostered a process of alienation within some of the highland “ethnic minority” communities of Laos, a process that had begun initially during the period of French colonialism.Less
This chapter considers the impact that accompanied Thai, French, and then American interventions in terms of transformations of the religious culture beginning in the early decades of nineteenth century through the end of the Second Indochina War in 1975. The colonial presence of the French, replete with alternative ideological conceptions of “nation” and “religion,” influenced some Lao religious sensibilities. Meanwhile, America's military intrusions into Laos, ostensibly in response to North Vietnamese incursions, contributed to a radical destabilization of the county that exacerbated deep political divisions within the Lao metropole. At the same time, it fostered a process of alienation within some of the highland “ethnic minority” communities of Laos, a process that had begun initially during the period of French colonialism.
