Simon Gikandi
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691140667
- eISBN:
- 9781400840113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691140667.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter moves beyond the critical debates raised in Chapter 1 to provide a more concrete narrative of the coexistence of taste and slavery as aesthetic objects and products of everyday life in ...
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This chapter moves beyond the critical debates raised in Chapter 1 to provide a more concrete narrative of the coexistence of taste and slavery as aesthetic objects and products of everyday life in the modern world. It explores the link between slavery, consumption, and the culture of taste, all-important conduits for understanding modern identity. With a particular emphasis on changing theories of taste in eighteenth-century Britain, it provides an analysis or reading of the troubled relation between race, ideologies of taste, and the culture of consumption. It examines how slavery enabled the moment of taste; led to fundamental transformations in the self-understanding of modern subjects; and, consequently, resulted in a redefinition of notions of freedom, selfhood, and representation.Less
This chapter moves beyond the critical debates raised in Chapter 1 to provide a more concrete narrative of the coexistence of taste and slavery as aesthetic objects and products of everyday life in the modern world. It explores the link between slavery, consumption, and the culture of taste, all-important conduits for understanding modern identity. With a particular emphasis on changing theories of taste in eighteenth-century Britain, it provides an analysis or reading of the troubled relation between race, ideologies of taste, and the culture of consumption. It examines how slavery enabled the moment of taste; led to fundamental transformations in the self-understanding of modern subjects; and, consequently, resulted in a redefinition of notions of freedom, selfhood, and representation.
Peter Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691151588
- eISBN:
- 9781400839698
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691151588.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter explores how the question of searches and seizures in the law, and the legal doctrines both protecting the individual and providing for his or her capture by social institutions, images ...
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This chapter explores how the question of searches and seizures in the law, and the legal doctrines both protecting the individual and providing for his or her capture by social institutions, images a kind of standoff between the self and knowledge of it. To the extent that individual identity is bound up with the notion of privacy, the issue of searches and seizures very much reflects central tenets of modern identity. There must be rules laid down to protect the individual's inner sense of identity against the state's need to know, classify, and inventory that identity. If courts often interpret this as a balancing act, attempting to draw lines and establish rules about where and what can be searched and seized and in what manner, fundamentally it represents a conflict and a clash, in which the internal sense of “inviolate personality” and the state's external need to know persons are at a standoff.Less
This chapter explores how the question of searches and seizures in the law, and the legal doctrines both protecting the individual and providing for his or her capture by social institutions, images a kind of standoff between the self and knowledge of it. To the extent that individual identity is bound up with the notion of privacy, the issue of searches and seizures very much reflects central tenets of modern identity. There must be rules laid down to protect the individual's inner sense of identity against the state's need to know, classify, and inventory that identity. If courts often interpret this as a balancing act, attempting to draw lines and establish rules about where and what can be searched and seized and in what manner, fundamentally it represents a conflict and a clash, in which the internal sense of “inviolate personality” and the state's external need to know persons are at a standoff.
Daniel B. Schwartz
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691142913
- eISBN:
- 9781400842261
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691142913.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This introductory chapter considers why the hallmark of modern Jewish identity is its resistance to—and, at the same time, obsession with—definition. Like battles over national identity in the modern ...
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This introductory chapter considers why the hallmark of modern Jewish identity is its resistance to—and, at the same time, obsession with—definition. Like battles over national identity in the modern state, clashes over the nature and limits of Jewishness have frequently taken the shape of controversies over the status—and stature—of marginal Jews past and present. The Jewish rehabilitation of historical heretics and apostates with a vexed relationship to Judaism has become so much a part of contemporary discourse that it is difficult to imagine secular Jewish culture without it. Yet this tendency has a beginning as well as a template in modern Jewish history, which the chapter introduces in the figure of Baruch (or Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677)—“the first great culture-hero of modern secular Jews,” and still the most oft-mentioned candidate for the title of first modern secular Jew.Less
This introductory chapter considers why the hallmark of modern Jewish identity is its resistance to—and, at the same time, obsession with—definition. Like battles over national identity in the modern state, clashes over the nature and limits of Jewishness have frequently taken the shape of controversies over the status—and stature—of marginal Jews past and present. The Jewish rehabilitation of historical heretics and apostates with a vexed relationship to Judaism has become so much a part of contemporary discourse that it is difficult to imagine secular Jewish culture without it. Yet this tendency has a beginning as well as a template in modern Jewish history, which the chapter introduces in the figure of Baruch (or Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677)—“the first great culture-hero of modern secular Jews,” and still the most oft-mentioned candidate for the title of first modern secular Jew.
Margaret Litvin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691137803
- eISBN:
- 9781400840106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691137803.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This introductory chapter summarizes the journey of Shakespeare's Hamlet through the post-1952 Arab world and discusses this study's contributions to Arab politics and literary studies in general. ...
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This introductory chapter summarizes the journey of Shakespeare's Hamlet through the post-1952 Arab world and discusses this study's contributions to Arab politics and literary studies in general. Here, the chapter shows how the character Hamlet's central concern is the problem of historical agency. He asks what it means “to be” rather than “not to be” in a world where “the time is out of joint” and one's very existence as a historical actor is threatened. He thus encapsulates a debate coeval with and largely constitutive of modern Arab identity: the problem of self-determination and authenticity. Following Hamlet's Arab journey, the chapter attempts to clarify one of the most central and widely misunderstood preoccupations of modern Arab politics.Less
This introductory chapter summarizes the journey of Shakespeare's Hamlet through the post-1952 Arab world and discusses this study's contributions to Arab politics and literary studies in general. Here, the chapter shows how the character Hamlet's central concern is the problem of historical agency. He asks what it means “to be” rather than “not to be” in a world where “the time is out of joint” and one's very existence as a historical actor is threatened. He thus encapsulates a debate coeval with and largely constitutive of modern Arab identity: the problem of self-determination and authenticity. Following Hamlet's Arab journey, the chapter attempts to clarify one of the most central and widely misunderstood preoccupations of modern Arab politics.
Margaret Litvin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691137803
- eISBN:
- 9781400840106
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691137803.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter explains that much of what matters for Arab Hamlet appropriation in the postcolonial period—the international sources, the way they were absorbed, and the concerns they help express—was ...
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This chapter explains that much of what matters for Arab Hamlet appropriation in the postcolonial period—the international sources, the way they were absorbed, and the concerns they help express—was shaped by the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser's geopolitical and cultural priorities made a range of Hamlets available and conditioned how intellectuals received them. Beyond this, from the moment in 1954 when he declared to his people, “All of you are Gamal Abdel Nasser,” the Egyptian leader personally embodied his country's identity and acted out its drama of historical agency. Beyond Egypt's borders, he became (like his radio station) “the voice of the Arabs.”Less
This chapter explains that much of what matters for Arab Hamlet appropriation in the postcolonial period—the international sources, the way they were absorbed, and the concerns they help express—was shaped by the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser's geopolitical and cultural priorities made a range of Hamlets available and conditioned how intellectuals received them. Beyond this, from the moment in 1954 when he declared to his people, “All of you are Gamal Abdel Nasser,” the Egyptian leader personally embodied his country's identity and acted out its drama of historical agency. Beyond Egypt's borders, he became (like his radio station) “the voice of the Arabs.”
Nan M. Sussman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028832
- eISBN:
- 9789882207370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028832.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter examines the origins of the Hong Kong identity, starting with the indigenous inhabitants from southern China, and continuing through the nineteenth-century imposition of British ...
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This chapter examines the origins of the Hong Kong identity, starting with the indigenous inhabitants from southern China, and continuing through the nineteenth-century imposition of British sovereignty, modern identity, and finally the late twentieth-century handover to China. It notes that residents of Hong Kong have developed complex identities and learned how to negotiate these identities within the Hong Kong regional and global context. The large-scale movement of people from and back to Hong Kong allows us not only to understand the psychological consequences of Hong Kong return migration but also to illuminate an emerging worldwide phenomenon.Less
This chapter examines the origins of the Hong Kong identity, starting with the indigenous inhabitants from southern China, and continuing through the nineteenth-century imposition of British sovereignty, modern identity, and finally the late twentieth-century handover to China. It notes that residents of Hong Kong have developed complex identities and learned how to negotiate these identities within the Hong Kong regional and global context. The large-scale movement of people from and back to Hong Kong allows us not only to understand the psychological consequences of Hong Kong return migration but also to illuminate an emerging worldwide phenomenon.
Rachel Bowlby
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199566228
- eISBN:
- 9780191710407
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566228.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest ...
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More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest and parricide represented the fulfillment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex — child, mother, father — suited the nuclear families of the mid-20th century. But a century after the arrival of the psychoanalytic Oedipus, it might seem that modern lives are very much changed. Typical family formations and norms of sexual attachment are changing, while the conditions of sexual difference, both biologically and socially, have undergone far-reaching modifications. Today, it is possible to choose and live subjective stories that the first psychoanalytic patients could only dream of. Different troubles and enjoyments are speakable and unspeakable; different selves are rejected, discovered, or sought. Many kinds of hitherto unrepresented or unrepresentable identity have entered into the ordinary surrounding stories through which children and adults find their bearings in the world, while others have become obsolete. Biographical narratives that would previously have seemed unthinkable or incredible — ‘a likely story!’ — have acquired the straightforward plausibility of a likely story. This book takes two Freudian routes to think about some of the present entanglements of identity. First, it follows Freud in returning to Greek tragedies — Oedipus and others — which may now appear strikingly different in the light of today's issues of family and sexuality. And second, it re-examines Freud's own theories from these newer perspectives, drawing out different strands of his stories of how children develop and how people change (or don't). Both kinds of mythology, the classical and the theoretical, may now, in their difference, illuminate some of the forming stories of our contemporary world of serial families, multiple sexualities, and new reproductive technologies.Less
More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest and parricide represented the fulfillment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex — child, mother, father — suited the nuclear families of the mid-20th century. But a century after the arrival of the psychoanalytic Oedipus, it might seem that modern lives are very much changed. Typical family formations and norms of sexual attachment are changing, while the conditions of sexual difference, both biologically and socially, have undergone far-reaching modifications. Today, it is possible to choose and live subjective stories that the first psychoanalytic patients could only dream of. Different troubles and enjoyments are speakable and unspeakable; different selves are rejected, discovered, or sought. Many kinds of hitherto unrepresented or unrepresentable identity have entered into the ordinary surrounding stories through which children and adults find their bearings in the world, while others have become obsolete. Biographical narratives that would previously have seemed unthinkable or incredible — ‘a likely story!’ — have acquired the straightforward plausibility of a likely story. This book takes two Freudian routes to think about some of the present entanglements of identity. First, it follows Freud in returning to Greek tragedies — Oedipus and others — which may now appear strikingly different in the light of today's issues of family and sexuality. And second, it re-examines Freud's own theories from these newer perspectives, drawing out different strands of his stories of how children develop and how people change (or don't). Both kinds of mythology, the classical and the theoretical, may now, in their difference, illuminate some of the forming stories of our contemporary world of serial families, multiple sexualities, and new reproductive technologies.
Farah Karim-Cooper
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748619931
- eISBN:
- 9780748652204
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748619931.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics. The author analyses contemporary tracts that address the then-contentious ...
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This study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics. The author analyses contemporary tracts that address the then-contentious issue of cosmetic practice and identifies a ‘culture of cosmetics’, which finds its visual identity on the Renaissance stage. She also examines cosmetic recipes and their relationship to drama, as well as to the construction of early modern identities.Less
This study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics. The author analyses contemporary tracts that address the then-contentious issue of cosmetic practice and identifies a ‘culture of cosmetics’, which finds its visual identity on the Renaissance stage. She also examines cosmetic recipes and their relationship to drama, as well as to the construction of early modern identities.
John D. Caputo
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823239924
- eISBN:
- 9780823239962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239924.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
The fourth chapter discusses existing models for writing the history of forms of identity, in particular the work of Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, Peter and Christa Bürger and Jerrold Seigel. The ...
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The fourth chapter discusses existing models for writing the history of forms of identity, in particular the work of Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, Peter and Christa Bürger and Jerrold Seigel. The limits of their positions are discussed, but at the same time they all contribute to the project of a defamiliarizing history of forms of modern identity. Foucault's works is shown to be useful for the attention it gives to the practices through which identities are fashioned. Charles Taylor insists on the shared nature of these practices, and the ethical impulses which underpin them. He also points out that the practices underpinning modern identity have evolved historically and don't fit together to form a unified package. Peter and Christa Bürger remind us that male and female identities cannot be considered in isolation from each other, while Jerrold Seigel draws attention to the importance of giving an account of identity that includes what it feels like to live that identity from the inside. The chapter closes by showing how the prereflexive awareness to which Seigel's argument appeals must be radically rethought for it is inseparable from an involvement in the world that connects it to history and shared social practices.Less
The fourth chapter discusses existing models for writing the history of forms of identity, in particular the work of Michel Foucault, Charles Taylor, Peter and Christa Bürger and Jerrold Seigel. The limits of their positions are discussed, but at the same time they all contribute to the project of a defamiliarizing history of forms of modern identity. Foucault's works is shown to be useful for the attention it gives to the practices through which identities are fashioned. Charles Taylor insists on the shared nature of these practices, and the ethical impulses which underpin them. He also points out that the practices underpinning modern identity have evolved historically and don't fit together to form a unified package. Peter and Christa Bürger remind us that male and female identities cannot be considered in isolation from each other, while Jerrold Seigel draws attention to the importance of giving an account of identity that includes what it feels like to live that identity from the inside. The chapter closes by showing how the prereflexive awareness to which Seigel's argument appeals must be radically rethought for it is inseparable from an involvement in the world that connects it to history and shared social practices.
James Loeffler
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300137132
- eISBN:
- 9780300162943
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300137132.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Psychology of Music
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the Jews' search for modern identity through music, in the late Russian Empire. It explains that the first hints of a ...
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This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the Jews' search for modern identity through music, in the late Russian Empire. It explains that the first hints of a broader new relationship between Jews and music in eastern Europe appeared in mid-nineteenth-century Odessa, and that the fabled connection between Jews and music in Odessa was solidified through decades of Russian and Yiddish popular songs and the later writings of Isaac Babel, Alexander Kuprin, and others. The chapter also highlights the role of composer Anton Rubinstein in creating the conditions for the rise of Jewish musicians in Russian society.Less
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about the Jews' search for modern identity through music, in the late Russian Empire. It explains that the first hints of a broader new relationship between Jews and music in eastern Europe appeared in mid-nineteenth-century Odessa, and that the fabled connection between Jews and music in Odessa was solidified through decades of Russian and Yiddish popular songs and the later writings of Isaac Babel, Alexander Kuprin, and others. The chapter also highlights the role of composer Anton Rubinstein in creating the conditions for the rise of Jewish musicians in Russian society.
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520218451
- eISBN:
- 9780520922792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520218451.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter reconstructs the history of modern sectarian identity in Ottoman Mount Lebanon, which provided the stage on which cataclysmic violence in 1860 was enacted. It notes that the story begins ...
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This chapter reconstructs the history of modern sectarian identity in Ottoman Mount Lebanon, which provided the stage on which cataclysmic violence in 1860 was enacted. It notes that the story begins many years earlier, when local Lebanese society was opened to Ottoman and European discourses of reform which made religion the site of colonial encounter between a self-styled “Christian” West and what it saw as its perennial adversary, an “Islamic” Ottoman Empire. The chapter explains that this encounter profoundly altered the meaning of religion in the multiconfessional society of Mount Lebanon because it emphasized sectarian identity as the only viable marker of political reform and the only authentic basis for political claims. It further explains that the story is one of the symbiosis between indigenous traditions and practices and Ottoman modernization, which became paramount in reshaping the political self-definition of each community along religious lines.Less
This chapter reconstructs the history of modern sectarian identity in Ottoman Mount Lebanon, which provided the stage on which cataclysmic violence in 1860 was enacted. It notes that the story begins many years earlier, when local Lebanese society was opened to Ottoman and European discourses of reform which made religion the site of colonial encounter between a self-styled “Christian” West and what it saw as its perennial adversary, an “Islamic” Ottoman Empire. The chapter explains that this encounter profoundly altered the meaning of religion in the multiconfessional society of Mount Lebanon because it emphasized sectarian identity as the only viable marker of political reform and the only authentic basis for political claims. It further explains that the story is one of the symbiosis between indigenous traditions and practices and Ottoman modernization, which became paramount in reshaping the political self-definition of each community along religious lines.
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520218451
- eISBN:
- 9780520922792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520218451.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter tells the story of the most sustained popular mobilization in nineteenth-century Mount Lebanon, recognizing from the outset that it is implicated in another tale of the unfolding of the ...
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This chapter tells the story of the most sustained popular mobilization in nineteenth-century Mount Lebanon, recognizing from the outset that it is implicated in another tale of the unfolding of the Tanzimat. It begins with a discussion of a crisis in local representation that was sparked by the revolt, by examining rebel demands and the Khazin reaction to the rebellion. The chapter elaborates on the implications of Shahin's movement for modern Ottoman subjecthood (and citizenship) by analyzing Ottoman responses to the rebellion. It aims to depict the overlapping social and religious layers and the limits inherent in modern sectarian identity.Less
This chapter tells the story of the most sustained popular mobilization in nineteenth-century Mount Lebanon, recognizing from the outset that it is implicated in another tale of the unfolding of the Tanzimat. It begins with a discussion of a crisis in local representation that was sparked by the revolt, by examining rebel demands and the Khazin reaction to the rebellion. The chapter elaborates on the implications of Shahin's movement for modern Ottoman subjecthood (and citizenship) by analyzing Ottoman responses to the rebellion. It aims to depict the overlapping social and religious layers and the limits inherent in modern sectarian identity.
Catherine Driscoll
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034249
- eISBN:
- 9780813038421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034249.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Fashion is modern. The gradual conversion of “fashion” into a field encompassing all clothing practices and thus all modern subjects opens a space in which we might ask about whether modernist ...
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Fashion is modern. The gradual conversion of “fashion” into a field encompassing all clothing practices and thus all modern subjects opens a space in which we might ask about whether modernist fashion exists. This chapter focuses on one of the fashion “breaks” of the modernist period, captured in Ernest Hemingway's image of the fashionable woman as an avant-garde artist and revolutionary leader. We could also call this image “Chanel.” The position of groundbreaking innovator in the field of women's fashion that is widely assigned to Chanel is one form of the modernist break. This chapter explores the modernism of both fashion and style through the figure of Chanel and demonstrates how expertly modernist commentary on these subjects foreshadows contemporary cultural studies. For a cultural studies approach to modernism, there is no question that the Chanel brand and “Coco Chanel” (her star status during her lifetime and her iconic status after it) together form a key figure in renovating relations between art, industry, leisure, consumer culture, and modern identity.Less
Fashion is modern. The gradual conversion of “fashion” into a field encompassing all clothing practices and thus all modern subjects opens a space in which we might ask about whether modernist fashion exists. This chapter focuses on one of the fashion “breaks” of the modernist period, captured in Ernest Hemingway's image of the fashionable woman as an avant-garde artist and revolutionary leader. We could also call this image “Chanel.” The position of groundbreaking innovator in the field of women's fashion that is widely assigned to Chanel is one form of the modernist break. This chapter explores the modernism of both fashion and style through the figure of Chanel and demonstrates how expertly modernist commentary on these subjects foreshadows contemporary cultural studies. For a cultural studies approach to modernism, there is no question that the Chanel brand and “Coco Chanel” (her star status during her lifetime and her iconic status after it) together form a key figure in renovating relations between art, industry, leisure, consumer culture, and modern identity.
James Loeffler
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300137132
- eISBN:
- 9780300162943
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300137132.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Psychology of Music
Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through ...
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Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through music, rather than politics or religion.Less
Drawing on a mass of unpublished writings and archival sources from prerevolutionary Russian conservatories, this book offers an account of the Jewish search for a modern identity in Russia through music, rather than politics or religion.
Ahmed Kanna
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816656301
- eISBN:
- 9781452946122
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816656301.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
This chapter discusses the South Asian experience within the Gulf, as well as the politics of inclusion and exclusion that deny the expatriates within the scope of a modern Emirati identity. The ...
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This chapter discusses the South Asian experience within the Gulf, as well as the politics of inclusion and exclusion that deny the expatriates within the scope of a modern Emirati identity. The South Asian diaspora had arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country’s oil boom, as their labor had made up for the lack of manpower in the state. However, in more recent times there came a desire for the elite class to establish themselves as the legitimate ruling class, and their efforts in doing so have alienated the South Asian identity from a chance at citizenship within a neoliberal regime. There is, however, a deeper undercurrent of fear that causes the divide and the complacency thereof between Emiratis and immigrants alike—that the promises of capitalism may fail them one day.Less
This chapter discusses the South Asian experience within the Gulf, as well as the politics of inclusion and exclusion that deny the expatriates within the scope of a modern Emirati identity. The South Asian diaspora had arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the country’s oil boom, as their labor had made up for the lack of manpower in the state. However, in more recent times there came a desire for the elite class to establish themselves as the legitimate ruling class, and their efforts in doing so have alienated the South Asian identity from a chance at citizenship within a neoliberal regime. There is, however, a deeper undercurrent of fear that causes the divide and the complacency thereof between Emiratis and immigrants alike—that the promises of capitalism may fail them one day.
James Loeffler
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300137132
- eISBN:
- 9780300162943
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300137132.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Psychology of Music
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of Jewish musicians in late Russian Empire. It considers the broader Jewish musical legacy in one of the most important ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of Jewish musicians in late Russian Empire. It considers the broader Jewish musical legacy in one of the most important Russian–Jewish cultural encounters of the twentieth century: the post-World War II friendship of composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. The chapter also discusses the lives of actual Russian Jewish musicians who looked past conventional politics and religion to culture as the foundation of modern Jewish identity.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the history of Jewish musicians in late Russian Empire. It considers the broader Jewish musical legacy in one of the most important Russian–Jewish cultural encounters of the twentieth century: the post-World War II friendship of composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. The chapter also discusses the lives of actual Russian Jewish musicians who looked past conventional politics and religion to culture as the foundation of modern Jewish identity.
Susan Martin-Marquez
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300125207
- eISBN:
- 9780300152524
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300125207.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This book explores from a new perspective the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Focusing on the nation's ...
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This book explores from a new perspective the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Focusing on the nation's Islamic-African legacy, the book disputes received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans. Instead, it argues, Spaniards have sometimes denied and sometimes embraced this legacy, and that vacillation has served to destabilize presumably fixed borders between Europe and the Muslim world and between Europe and Africa. The book analyzes a wealth of texts produced by Spaniards as well as by Africans and Afro-Spaniards from the early nineteenth century forward. It illuminates the complexities and disorientations of Spanish identity and shows how its evolution has important implications for current debates not only in Spanish culture but also in other countries involved in negotiating a modern identity.Less
This book explores from a new perspective the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Focusing on the nation's Islamic-African legacy, the book disputes received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans. Instead, it argues, Spaniards have sometimes denied and sometimes embraced this legacy, and that vacillation has served to destabilize presumably fixed borders between Europe and the Muslim world and between Europe and Africa. The book analyzes a wealth of texts produced by Spaniards as well as by Africans and Afro-Spaniards from the early nineteenth century forward. It illuminates the complexities and disorientations of Spanish identity and shows how its evolution has important implications for current debates not only in Spanish culture but also in other countries involved in negotiating a modern identity.
Nicholas F. Radel
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680764
- eISBN:
- 9781452948560
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680764.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, World Early Modern History
This chapter analyzes the connection of homoerotic desires and practices with social markers, as represented in John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck. Ford’s plays emphasize the ...
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This chapter analyzes the connection of homoerotic desires and practices with social markers, as represented in John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck. Ford’s plays emphasize the sodomitical potential of all early modern male homosocial relations and interpret sex as a practice indexed by speech, claiming that status-based prohibitions on expressions of desire between men helped to arrange and distinguish between authorized and unauthorized homoeroticism in the early modern period. The chapter concludes with a discussion of Ford’s perception of a modern sexual identity who seeks to gain control of unauthorized expressions of sexual desires.Less
This chapter analyzes the connection of homoerotic desires and practices with social markers, as represented in John Ford’s The Lover’s Melancholy and Perkin Warbeck. Ford’s plays emphasize the sodomitical potential of all early modern male homosocial relations and interpret sex as a practice indexed by speech, claiming that status-based prohibitions on expressions of desire between men helped to arrange and distinguish between authorized and unauthorized homoeroticism in the early modern period. The chapter concludes with a discussion of Ford’s perception of a modern sexual identity who seeks to gain control of unauthorized expressions of sexual desires.
Pantelis Michelakis
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199239078
- eISBN:
- 9780191746840
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239078.003.0010
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter considers spatial configurations of Greek tragedy on screen. Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia, Jean–Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Antigone, Ivan Kavaleridze's Prometheus, and Toshio ...
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This chapter considers spatial configurations of Greek tragedy on screen. Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia, Jean–Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Antigone, Ivan Kavaleridze's Prometheus, and Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses provide the primary examples for how Greek tragedy is involved in a spatialization of debates around alienation, exile, and the shaping of modern identities. Being away from home is a prevalent trope in films of Greek tragedy. Lamenting the impossibility of returning home and searching anxiously for something that resembles home is another trope that casts travelling in search of identity as an experience which is not only alienating but also potentially empowering.Less
This chapter considers spatial configurations of Greek tragedy on screen. Michael Cacoyannis' Iphigenia, Jean–Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Antigone, Ivan Kavaleridze's Prometheus, and Toshio Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses provide the primary examples for how Greek tragedy is involved in a spatialization of debates around alienation, exile, and the shaping of modern identities. Being away from home is a prevalent trope in films of Greek tragedy. Lamenting the impossibility of returning home and searching anxiously for something that resembles home is another trope that casts travelling in search of identity as an experience which is not only alienating but also potentially empowering.
Matthias B. Lehmann
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804789653
- eISBN:
- 9780804792462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804789653.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
The book closes with an epilogue that takes as its point of departure the travelogue written by an emissary who visited Jewish communities in Yemen, India, and maritime Southeast Asia in the late ...
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The book closes with an epilogue that takes as its point of departure the travelogue written by an emissary who visited Jewish communities in Yemen, India, and maritime Southeast Asia in the late 1850s and 1860s. The traditional world view of the emissaries was increasingly challenged by the complexity of Jewish existence in this era of global connections, as the author of the travelogue learns when he interacts with the “black Jews” of Cochin, the Baghdadi-Jewish merchants of Bombay and Calcutta, or the assimilated Dutch and German Jews settled in Jakarta. The epilogue suggests that the emissaries and their philanthropic network increasingly operated in a globally interconnected Jewish public sphere, and that the pan-Judaism that they had been promoting since the eighteenth century in many ways paved the way for the modern pan-Jewish identities of late nineteenth-century Jewish internationalism (the Alliance Israélite Universelle) and nationalism (Zionism).Less
The book closes with an epilogue that takes as its point of departure the travelogue written by an emissary who visited Jewish communities in Yemen, India, and maritime Southeast Asia in the late 1850s and 1860s. The traditional world view of the emissaries was increasingly challenged by the complexity of Jewish existence in this era of global connections, as the author of the travelogue learns when he interacts with the “black Jews” of Cochin, the Baghdadi-Jewish merchants of Bombay and Calcutta, or the assimilated Dutch and German Jews settled in Jakarta. The epilogue suggests that the emissaries and their philanthropic network increasingly operated in a globally interconnected Jewish public sphere, and that the pan-Judaism that they had been promoting since the eighteenth century in many ways paved the way for the modern pan-Jewish identities of late nineteenth-century Jewish internationalism (the Alliance Israélite Universelle) and nationalism (Zionism).
